skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would personally be totally fine with a backup solution which is orders of magnitude slower and several times as expensive in the rare restore case if it meant that the typical "write only for long periods of time" scenario was significantly cheaper. My personal backups are not something I'd ever need to restore in a hurry.

The one big downside to the "cheap backup, expensive restore" approach is that it discourages testing your restore.
You're looking at it wrong. Nobody gives the candidate a suitcase packed with dollar bills, not usually anyhow. The money is spent on ads, materials, events, etc. Now, if I spend money on expressing my point of view that X is true, and the candidate Y happens to make the point that X is true centerpiece of his campaign, can you prohibit me from expressing my point of view? I never gave a dime to Y, I may not even have met Y once, but we happen to agree on point X. That is the question which Supreme Court is deciding - can my freedom of speech be restricted if it benefits some politician? I say if you value your freedom of speech, you can answer anything but "NO!". Otherwise, you'd be able only speak about nonsense things like celebrity gossip and lolcats - as soon as you get to serious things, there would be a politician whose view aligns with yours or is opposite to yours, and as soon as that happens, your speech would be either contributing to her campaign or to her opponent's, and you'll be banned from speaking on the grounds of the limits to campaign contributions.

>>> would also strike down laws preventing public servants from engaging in certain forms of political activity

This is not the same. While everybody has right to free speech, nobody has right to be a public servant. So once the person resigns from his public servant position, she has full right to speak her mind. But while occupying that position, certain restrictions - taken voluntarily as condition for this assignment - may apply as long as you want to keep that position. You have the full right to make face tattoos and avoid bathing, but if you join customer service in a bank, they may not accept you unless you look and smell in a way that don't make their clients faint. And if you are being appointed the head of the IRS, it's better that you avoid political campaigning as long as you are in that post. Not that it is easy to achieve, as it turns out, but we should at least try. When we are employed, we give up certain freedoms - freedom to choose where we are, what we do, what we say, to some measure, etc. - in exchange for money. Not all employment requires this, but some do, and it's nothing out for the ordinary. We are not employees of the Congress, however - on the contrary, the Congress are employees of the citizens.
It's not free money; it's money in return for a promise of goods once the business has started up, with the risk that the business might never get to that point.

I don't see why only certain types of businesses should use Kickstarter. The only times where it's upsetting to me are when people who already have more than enough money to take risks, instead turn to crowdfunding to convince others to.
I just got the email. I don't use Facebook either but they also said three of my "friends" on Facebook are using it. It's definitely spam to get more users.
Explaining a joke is like disecting a frog, you understand it better but the frog is dead.
I agree, but the world is not absolutes. You can be a programmer that makes a fine living and do gymnastics 16 hours per week.

Do what you enjoy enough that you don't mind doing it 30 hours per week, and do what you love the rest of the time is pretty solid as well.
Sure there is – hiring an advising consultant. You ask him for advice on improving your accounting, or improving teamwork, or analyzing a certain market. Then the consultant examines the situation and tells you his ideas and his advice for implementing them.

You can’t buy individual ideas because it is hard to distinguish between good and bad ideas to buy without hearing the idea itself (which would make the idea unnecessary to buy). The best method for deciding what idea to buy is who thought of it and what their qualifications are. And if you are going to buy ideas based on who makes them, you might as well just hire the person themself (as an employee or a consultant) – it would be more efficient, and the law makes those kind of relationships the most convenient.
I'm writing "D3.js in Action" for diving deep into D3
I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with the JavaScript infoviz library D3. I've been writing a book for Manning that attempts to do a deep dive into D3, which went on Early Access last week, and I just found out it's doing really well. Some people think that D3 is just a charting library, but it actually lets you also create dynamic mapping applications, network visualizations, and complex web interactivity. For someone like me, who's been working with D3 for a couple years, I just assumed everyone was using it, and so while D3.js in Action gives a solid introduction to the library, it also tries to explain the more complicated functionality that goes into all the cool examples you see on d3js.org and elsewhere.

Early Access means you get the chapters as I finish them, so the first three chapters are up and the next three chapters are being edited as we speak. I'm right in the middle of a chapter on "Geospatial Information Visualization" that shows you how to make vector maps, slippy maps and globes with D3, which is some of the most exciting but also complicated functionality.

You can see it at:
http://www.manning.com/meeks/
And you can get 50% off with the code 'hnmeeks'
As a more than casual android gamer I'm not sure I would call the graphics ps3 quality. Perhaps on a small screen some of these games look nice (like modern combat series and nova) but when playing on a tv at 1080p the lack of definition of textures and overall quality is very aparent.

mobile games are much closer to ps2. Gta3 was released for ps2 and now runs on android. My experience with gta3 wasn't a smooth one, although maybe a galaxy s5 would have a more consistent/smoother experience.

I feel like we have a ways before we get to true ps3 graphics. But I also agree not to discredit mobile games. For the price (about $140) and all the other benefits you recieve from the streaming video offerings, doesn't seem like a bad deal to me.
I imagine certain data was cherry-picked to tow the party line

There isn't any evidence of that. The far more interesting possibility is that the data suggested that they do what they did, but that the data was wrong. An examination of how and why that might be the case would be fascinating.

As opposed to saying "typical Ballmer!"
Considering the fact that Ubuntu breaks sometimes on laptops, a online storage for backing up important files had been a good service for me. Now that it will be down, I have to configure some 3rd party software in order to get the automatic backup process. On a brighter side, I feel the Ubuntu on my laptop is getting more and more stable(no breaking for past few month in fact), so online backup may not seem that necessary now for me.
No - Mashape is a marketplace to signup for APIs. You can call APIs through the mashape but you don't get the middleware control layer or detailed alerts/analytics.
Take a look at Bittorrent Sync. It's free and unlimited (as it's peer to peer), and means your data isn't accessible to some arbitrary company.
They are more vulnerable to a dictionary attack for a given password length. The theory is that memorability (and ease of typing) decays more slowly with respect to the entropy contained in an xkcd style password than in a jumble of random characters.
Email address length FAQ
CarbonHire.com – DB Details
They sent me an email, I dont know even unsubscribe page is not working, surprise to me I can see all DB details over here. Tears in my eyes on seeing these details are exposed to public.

<code>
<?php
02
03 define('CRONJOB', TRUE);
04 include("index.php");
05
06 $email = isset($_GET['email']) ? $_GET['email'] : "";
07 $hash = md5("carbon".$email);
08 setcookie("guid", $hash, time() + (10 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60), "/", "carbonhire.com");
09 //print_r($_COOKIE);
10 header("Location: http://hastrk1.com/serve?action=click&publisher_id=59998&site_id=47256&offer_id=274954", true, 302);
11
12 $link = mysql_connect('geniushire-real-1.cbuqrrbjabbr.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com', 'geniushire', ';kcvGayqe05t4!?');
13 if (!$link) {
14 die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
15 }
16
17 mysql_select_db("geniushire_real_new", $link) or die('Could not select database.');$sql = "UPDATE gh_central SET cookie_id = '".$hash."' WHERE email = '".$email."'";
18 if($email != ""){
19 $sql = "UPDATE gh_central SET cookie_id = '".$hash."' WHERE email = '".$email."'";
20 $r = mysql_query($sql);
21 }
22 ?>

</code>
Original original article: http://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2014/april/2/08-ilegale-bitcoin...
Fortunately, the internet is large and adds a huge number of new domains daily such that whitelisting is so disruptive to everyday browsing it's rather difficult (e.g. Amazon cloud front CDN makes new domains with one click and you couldn't block the base domain with breaking several major websites)
A Strategy for “Mensch Ärgere Dich Nicht”
We store more than just tweets :)
Never understood the fixation with the start menu. You start up metro and you are greeted with all those tiles- that is the new Start Menu. Why is that so confusing?
They sent me an email, I dont know even unsubscribe page is not working, surprise to me I can see all DB details over here. Tears in my eyes on seeing these details are exposed to public.

<code>
<?php
02
03 define('CRONJOB', TRUE);
04 include("index.php");
05
06 $email = isset($_GET['email']) ? $_GET['email'] : "";
07 $hash = md5("carbon".$email);
08 setcookie("guid", $hash, time() + (10 * 365 * 24 * 60 * 60), "/", "carbonhire.com");
09 //print_r($_COOKIE);
10 header("Location: http://hastrk1.com/serve?action=click&publisher_id=59998&sit..., true, 302);
11
12 $link = mysql_connect('geniushire-real-1.cbuqrrbjabbr.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com', 'geniushire', ';kcvGayqe05t4!?');
13 if (!$link) {
14 die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
15 }
16
17 mysql_select_db("geniushire_real_new", $link) or die('Could not select database.');$sql = "UPDATE gh_central SET cookie_id = '".$hash."' WHERE email = '".$email."'";
18 if($email != ""){
19 $sql = "UPDATE gh_central SET cookie_id = '".$hash."' WHERE email = '".$email."'";
20 $r = mysql_query($sql);
21 }
22 ?>

</code>
I see their faq says:

Will people know how much I donate or who I donate to?
No. That’s confidential

I do wonder what happens when they get hacked. Also, it would be nice if they added American Indian College Fund to their education list http://www.collegefund.org
Except they've added all that metro crap to the already cluttered start menu. Their UI team is still a long way from acknowledging the failure of integrating metro with the desktop; and windows 8 will continue to be a mess until they do.
Thanks for chiming in Zach.
Amazon TV shares name with online porn site
I linked to the entire blog instead of this specific post:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/SUSPICIOUS-MINDS

Please, can a moderator correct this?
Thanks.
> Any female engineers in San Diego...

It means San Diego.
I believe it's part of the naming/code in Bootstrap, so as long as that has been around.
>"But as a professional, with deadlines and money involved. Wouldn't google be best?"

I actually meant to say something about this in my original post.

There's definitely something to be said for going straight for a solution if you write code for a living.

Though, I'd be hesitant to say Google is best without a qualifier. It's a great tool and incredible reference, but you'd have to think about the value and potential liability of a developer who is committing Googled code he/she doesn't fully understand.
It's not confusing. It's unnecessary
and difficult to navigate with a mouse.
The Gadgets Marketplace For Makers, Ramps Up
Having the right idea at the right time is one of the main differences between billionaire programmers and 9-5 salaried programmers.
My favorite optimization: replaced 10,000 lines of code that marshaled structures in a Broadcom driver for transmission to the embedded processor, with a single template of ~20 lines.
When API Documentation Is So Bad that It’s Good
node-webkit is amazing, but is it really suited for an IDE? I don't see how you could launch a node-webkit application as fast as Sublime Text for example.
The boards are a little out of my price range at the moment. But definitely wanted to support this project, so I have backed "Buy us a Beer" at $5.
Runscope is a bit different in that it focuses more on API Testing, APItools focused on monitoring the live traffic to the APIs and controlling it with programmable middleware.

There's a bit overlap but it's definitely worth checking out both!
I miss those. We should bring that back. Now there is github with tons of sources but very few explanatory paragraphs to help understand the reasoning behind the design or implementation. I've seen a number of devops blogs where there are posts with snippets of command lines and config files explaining how to get some software set up in difficult configurations, but it would be interesting to see development blogs with the same kind of depth including links to github source. I'm working on some ideas for something like that. Hopefully I'll really get started on it soon.
I agree, however some user-loved UX paradigms hold you back from moving the product forward (Faster buggy problem) and listening to your users complain about nostalgia slowly makes you less competitive once some other company launches a better, newer UX.

That being said, nothing is an excuse for a bad or confusing UX pattern -- and Windows 8 had plenty of those on TOP of removing the start button, making people less forgiving of its removal.
> they were wrong to do that then

Why was that wrong in a pre-mobile world? In many cases, using the entire width of the window would be a big mistake. For example, in a typical blog layout, you might have a main content column and a narrower sidebar column. If you expanded these to fill the entire width of the window, you could end up with lines of text that are, say, 1600 pixels wide. Which would be bad for usability and accessibility.[1]

[1]http://webaim.org/techniques/textlayout/#column_width
Certainly not by definition, although they may tend to be. The truth can be very good pr.
makes me wonder,what kind of A/B testing they did before launching W8 at first place, or ModernUI was supposed to replce it, or was it just because some executive decided people did not need a start menu anymore.

Any input on that?
I have a love/hate relationship with the darn things. While I try to avoid them, I had to use one just a couple days ago. So, to answer your question, a couple of days ago. But I know lot's of people who love them and when present I see them being used by others with high frequency.

Other than it being loosely related to the technology of money and shopping, what does your question have to do with, "A Revolution in Money"? Specifically, what does the recency of an individual's interaction with a self-checkout machine have to do with the article?
For me, there's no sense of order to the tiles - it's like walking into a cluttered room. Sure - you'd get used to where things were, but the initial reaction for me was of shock.
We monitor traffic in and out closely and we have multiple IPs out of the back. However, if you're doing heavy production usage there is an on premise version coming.
"kerning"... but (meta) if you read it in an improperly kerned font it probably looking like "keming"
Loser spammers leak MySQL credentials
The main complaint I think is the context switch. You go from desktop-world to metro-land and back again.

I think the new update will go a LONG way to reduce (or eliminate) these problems. The other major enhancement in my opinion is they made the taskbar accessible from metro apps.
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- Local sales account executive (SF): http://bit.ly/1dNDLrq
What if this could handle steam in-home streaming?
Its not so much confusing as it is useless and annoying. It's just a really inefficient and wasteful design for a desktop OS. Basically, most windows users really liked the windows 7 start menu, and they replaced it with something that has no tangible upside and a lot of downsides.
I'm another enthusiastic vote for TextSecure; those guys work on TextSecure because they love the core problem of doing secure comms right, and it vividly shows in their architecture and the way they write about it.
I was actually impressed that they included the comparison chart, even though they didn't win every single category. Comparisons were the first question on my mind and they answered it without my having to go off page. Very sneaky of them, now people won't be so inclined to find independent comparisons that might be off-putting.
I remember when people were switching from Windows Vista to Windows 7. Want to know what they missed the most? The sidebar widgets. There were all sorts of guides on how to get sidebar.exe running in W7.

The basic premise of W8, if you ignore all the window-management stuff, is that they put your sidebar widgets inside your start menu, and made that your desktop (thus also obviating desktop shortcuts.) They may have implemented it horribly, but if the W8 start screen was the desktop--if your taskbar and windows displayed on top of it--I think it'd be the perfect UX for a desktop.
Ah, the old Costanza maneuver.
RealPlayer Cloud on Amazon Fire TV
I try to avoid using Javascript whenever possible, though that has nothing to do with Brendan Eich. And just to clarify, my hypothetical was in response to one specific argument. I didn't say that I personally was joining those calling to boycott Firefox. I honestly don't know how I feel, because it's not a simple matter. But I object to those who argue that it is a simple matter.
And there are scenarios where you want to reimplement TCP, after thoroughly understanding TCP.

Yes, precisely; thorough understanding, then have a whack at only picking pieces of TCP you want. In my (limited) experience, I've almost always seen people with less knowledge of network programming than I have (!) try to reimplement most of TCP on top of UDP once they realize UDP was not what they wanted.
Also very annoying to be thrown out of your app when you just want to run a calculator or something small. Even more annoying when that calculator has to run full screen (or you have to waste time snapping it to some side).
Really makes me wonder why some of these existing clients don't just implement the OTR stuff that is already pretty standardized on desktop clients.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging

edit: looks like Xabber and ChatSecure both support it on Android.
When using a touchscreen on a 13" ultrabook, the Win 8 start menu actually makes a lot of sense.
Though I've never used an Apple product, I adore folklore.org. So many great tales of engineering. When I hear the word "hacker," these people come to mind. A shame they didn't play a larger role in the company's direction (see "Diagnostic Port"[1]).

[1]: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
And we've finally jumped the shark.
I don't really know what you're trying to say. I'm not talking about one person or one organization.
I agree. There's no lost functionality with the new screen, except not being able to see your desktop while you're in the Start screen. Let's think about what you can do in the traditional start menu:

- search for and browse for applications and settings (you can do this in the start screen)

- have quick access to favorite programs (this is what tiles are for)

- have quick access to settings shortcuts, like "Devices and Printers" (you can search for these)

- shut down/standby/power commands (these have been moved to a charm, but will return in 8.1 Update 1)

The only thing that has been changed, that people might not like, is the design, the layout, and possibly the change in UX getting from the start screen to a given action. But as far as I can see, every action you'd want to do on the start screen is just as accessible as it was in Windows 7.

To me, pressing the Start key on my keyboard and typing the first few letters of literally anything I want to do on my system is the most important UX component of Windows 8 & 8.1. Windows Vista introduced it, Windows 7 improved it, and now 8 and 8.1 made it shinier and faster. It's amazing to me how many people I see trying to use their computers without taking advantage of this functionality.

Of course, I might have just forgotten something. But it seems like people are mostly just complaining because it's different, regardless of whether it's actually worse.
Nothing to argue with there. I was primarily pointing out that this company is addressing a problem that doesn't really exist in the first place. Financing for consumer purchases is readily available, and if you have bad credit you probably shouldn't be leasing a Mac for "less than your monthly cell phone bill" (nor should you likely have a cell phone bill over $60 per month...)
True, while metro is really quite nice on a tablet, it is downright terrible with a mouse. I think this could be relieved by scaling down all the tiles on a mouse-and-keyboard setup.

But to me, thats an entirely different concern. It's frustrating that most users, of any platform, will simply scream and give up whenever there's a change in their routine.
Why Aren't We Reading Turing?
I couldn't help but notice another hellbanned user with a variation on contulluipeste's username here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7517159
Doesn't this article seem to contradict itself? It cites superforecasters' amazing ability, then talks about how better forecasting is the result of averaging the noise from a crowd of diverse opinions...
My guess is the same user testing MS always does: ask the suits if they like it.
Let me compare how simple my life is compared to the life of my ancestors:

I have a toothache - I simply go to the dentist.

I need food - I simply go to a shop

I need water - i simply turn on a tap.

The "complexity" of my modern, urban life is the cost of having my life already very very simple.

Yes the noise of my daily life feels more complex, but there is a great deal of signal if I chose my perspective correctly.
Id rather have the security of having some sort of job placement or something that puts me leaps and bounds above other job applicants to any company I wish to work for. There's always time for side projects on the weekend.
Adam Curtis – Suspicious Minds: Why no one trusts People in Authority
My father-in-law resorted to navigating to Program Files to launch programs. Clearly there are some serious usability to discoverability problems if a normal user can figure that out but can't figure out the start menu.