skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been attached to the Blender community since 1998 or so (had it running on Irix at one point, and still have one of the original manuals).

The slight rise of it, but mainly the consolidation of Maya, 3DS Max and Softimage all under the Autodesk roof has been curious to watch. (It's a more extreme variant of the stagnation resulting from Adobe's now dominance of DTP, especially after effectively killing Freehand). What was a space in the mid 90s where software would cost tens of thousands per seat has experienced massive decline, despite the growth in consumers of end product. Those historically high barriers to entry protected the VFX studios of the era, granting them a degree of stability they haven't had since about 2000.

There's a lesson in there somewhere, but I have no idea what it is.
A solid example of such a custom element would be a <code-block> element: https://twitter.com/simevidas/status/450272769948016642
I would propose that a substantial argument was made in this post: You're mentioning that most of the games in the stores would be BS, lacking creativity, just hunting for in-app-purchases, etc. Now, if you're enjoying a creative idea, it wouldn't be totally out of scope to care, if it would be viable for anyone to come up with it. "[B]ut couldn't be bothered" didn't sound like this to me at all. Free software is a nice thing, but it just doesn't pay, unless it's just a hobby. If you would want someone to invest in original ideas, I'm afraid, it's not the best long term strategy to go for free clones.
Granted, but I'm saying that's not necessarily a bad thing.
> Are you saying you fail to sympathize with them because those people are poor?

These people aren't in trouble because they're poor.

They're in trouble because they're criminals, mentally unstable, deadbeat dads, lazy, or just plain stupid.

They're the worst we have to offer as a society. Because they're the worst, it's very difficult to sympathize with them.

That said, debtor prisons are barbaric and they're barbaric even when applied to the worst elements. Even though these people are scum, they should not be treated this way!
To answer that you will have to define "trustworthy". I'm personally leaning toward trusting the curves proposed by Dan Bernstein [1], since he clearly explains the reasons for choosing the specific parameters and they're demonstrably valid.

[1]: http://cr.yp.to/ecdh.html
But is there any real externality to society, or are you proposing to tax it out of existence just to maintain the philosophical purity of the markets?
NYT => paywall (maybe a weak one but there nevertheless and I don't read rather than working around it).

Also I suspect (note I have read the NYT piece) that this is an equally original piece and the Michael Lewis with a book to sell has done similar interviews (or other PR such as press releases) with as many relevant publications as possible.
Eyeballing Performance
They enabled WebGL precisely because of this - they wanted to stay relevant. Their browser domination is long gone. DirectX however is still very dominant outside the browser, but it deteriorates pretty quickly. Valve is preparing a very serious blow for them with Steam Machines and recent push for Linux gaming. That, together with OpenGL everywhere on mobile outside MS systems will break DirectX domination for good.
Crosstool-ng is nice, but if you have even a mildly out of the ordinary arch/libc/kernel version/etc combination it is still a massive pain in the ass. Typically I'd rather build the kernel on device overnight instead of spend manhours getting crosstool-ng to work as I want so that I can build on beefy hardware.

It tends to only be worth it if you are going to be using it more than a few times.
Yes, I found it weird that the book is not on this list, but clearly the author is geared towards python - although web development might be the only area where Ruby outshines Python.
Remote Volumes with Docker
Consume volumes from a remote docker host
1. Consider this a very expensive lesson for you. Loss prevention isn't easy. It's why I stopped using Ebay and do local direct (CL, gumtree, leboncoin, etc.) sale.

2. FBI cybercrimes division will eventually want to hear from you but the fraud was small potatoes compared to what they are up against. Your local PD is right, this is out of there league. Most likely this is across county, state, and international borders.
I am really planning on giving her more attention. My mind is blocked in my startup, so it is very difficult for me to disconnect and be 100% with her whenever we are spending time together.

And regarding my venture: I can not let my baby go. I must do anything I can to save it. It is a part of me.
>What makes you think the bank account's details you have that the (presumably) stolen funds were sent to are those of the actual criminal? //

Did he say that? I thought he was just saying as he had the account number then the bank could easily stop that money; the implication being that someone trying to retrieve the money could be traced.
No offense, but that sounds like terrible advice. Please consult a lawyer or accountant with questions, but corporations do not magically and universally shield your side business from incurring debts you have to pay. (And your business credit cards would almost certainly be personally guaranteed -- who would give a credit card to a business with no credit history?)
> All of these might seem like subtle changes, but they make a dramatic difference in the mental exercise of the gameplay.
To call these clones makes as much sense to me as calling them all clones of the classic '15-puzzle'.

There's a continuum of changes. If Threes is '1', and 2048 is '2', then 15 puzzle is 9 or 10. There the only commonality is the 4x4 grid and the idea of moving a tile into an empty space.
POLL: Where is Malaysian Airlines Flight 370?
Not necessarily. Try running basic descriptive statistics on terabyte scale data.
I've played both games. The only difference I see (in term of game mechanics) is that 2048 have no "3" tiles but only power-of-2.
And that's why you don't consider money payed with CC an immediate part of the balance.

Unless you can swallow the loss.

As an example, some airlines require that you present the Credit Card used in the purchase upon check-in.
Whatever may be the case. (I'm neither playing Threes!, nor 2048, but I'm caring for development and original ideas.) I was just mentioning that their argument wouldn't have been just "'invested more time' automatically equals 'better'".
It would be interesting to know if C++ support is on the table.
It's got to be said that most of the wealth created in the last 50 years or so has been in either financial or software engineering.

Musk is a bit of a throw-back right to the 19th and 20th centuries in this regard. Humanity could do with more folks like him if we're to see real progress in our life-time.
The Jobs With the Highest Obesity Rates
Ask HN: How do I go back to old HN interface?
Amazon’s Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is not designed to handle sudden spikes. Customers need to request AWS to pre-warm the ELB to get it ready to handle the expected load. This requires a subscription to AWS support. GCE’s Load Balancer doesn’t require pre-warming. It scales instantly to support spiky traffic. Compute Engine Load Balancing hits 1 million+ requests per second with no pre-warming.
Highfive Blog: My Move From Apple To A Startup
Yes, even if it's just the basics.

You have to structure your stuff good, so most of it can be automated. Doing this later can be a real PITA.
Flappy Bird is the same concept as "helicopter game", and others, but the gameplay is novel to the extent that it's maddeningly difficult. And the pipe design is a blatant Mario ripoff. A rule banning derivative games could have easily caught Flappy Bird in its filter.
YouTube is blocked in China...
I am thankful to Woz for giving us Apple. And thankful to Musk for a promising future in the industries he is venturing in.
Not sure how you came to that conclusion. Humans generate voice data, which are then translated to a time series of frequencies for analysis.

Comment data on this site alone would be a pretty big task to analyze.
The Builder pattern and the Spring framework
What's the advantage of doing it the C++ way?
The non-minified source is pretty self-explanatory. It modifies a lot of the standard javascript functions. My favorite is the document.write(element) is modified to surround the element with <marquee> and <blink> tags and then write that to the DOM.
Maybe you misunderstood what I was asking. I know MongoDB can scale out to very large sizes, but it becomes more of a effort to scale it out correctly ( 3 config servers and all shards replicated ). My question is can I just turn a dial at rack space and now I have my seven servers all provisioned and configured correctly, since that take the dead simple single node MongoDB deployment and extends it to the sharded replicated cluster.
I have dealt with this exact scenario in our photography ecommerce product (http://nextproof.com). Ours just happened to have an extra 0 on the end. We almost lost our merchant account because of all the chargebacks. (I'm thinking of writing an ebook on the topic)

Through some social engineering, I was even able to get the name and location of the checking account owner and get him on the phone. I was actually quite close to visiting and beating the crap out of him. Turns out he was just some poor rube from Arkansas who answered a craigslist ad. In the end he was actually more of a victim than me (basically had his identity stolen, credit ruined).

Law enforcement at all levels were completely unhelpful (I dealt with CA police, AR police, and feds). Once I located the bank and got them on the phone, they at least were able to freeze the checking account (I believe they are required by law to do this once fraud/cybercrime is reported). That's really only a temporary fix though.

Any time you're doing payment aggregation or money transfers, you have to do as much verification as possible. We learned that the fraudulent charges had very predictable patterns (international cards, fake websites, very specific range of charge amounts, etc.). At a small scale, you should just manually verify all accounts, require phone/address verification, and more. I've seen some bitcoin startups that even require you to submit a photograph of your card + ID via WebRTC. This is what you should do right away. Once fraudsters realize they have to do work, they will move on to the next target. Our chargeback rate is now near zero and never fraud-related.

At scale, you can have in-house people write code to detect fraud patterns. There are also startups like Sift Science with APIs.

Hope that helps.
Where this quote came from?
Fascinating idea: insane society-scale bureaucracies make puzzle solvers out of everyone.

Sokoloff was Russian, born and raised in a city on the Volga River. He had an explanation for why so many of his countrymen wound up in high-frequency trading. The old Soviet educational system channeled people into math and science. And the Soviet-controlled economy was horrible and complicated but riddled with loopholes, an environment that left those who mastered it well prepared for Wall Street in the early 21st century.
Why You Should Never Use Object == Object in Java
I liked Moskos "Cop In The Hood", as a quick easy read; a lot of the rest of what I've read are cop blog posts or policy papers.

Two good example of problematic management techniques:

* All-car patrols, where police officers are either locked into their squad cars or, if out of the car and not eating lunch, in some kind of scuffle, so that their only contact with the locals is bad.

* Triage coverage, where units from all around the city are swung to hotspot areas in the city (in Chicago, for instance, alternately the west side or the south side), so nobody puts down roots with the community.

There are others.

A theme to all the recommendations I've heard is that they cost money. It costs money to allocate patrols so that officers can take the time to be on foot and retain the same neighborhood coverage they had before. It costs a lot of money to allocate enough officers to simultaneously and permanently cover the hotspot neighborhoods.
News is a special case; it implicitly claims to be factual. That it often fails to live up to that claim doesn't put news in the same category as entertainment programming, which makes no such claim to begin with.

> ...how are we supposed to process something which appears to be a depiction of sex?

I grant the result of such processing isn't likely to be all that accurate to reality. I do not grant that the result of such processing is immutable even in the face of compelling new experience.

Between lack of information and a natural tendency to confabulate, young children often form bizarre ideas about how copulation actually works, to the extent they think about it at all, which they rarely do because their glands aren't yet giving them a reason to take an interest. When, years later, copulation becomes a pressing concern, they seek out whatever information is available, on which basis they revise their understanding of the subject. The result is a gradually increasing congruence between the understanding and the reality, which in most cases culminates in a successful first sexual experience.

Sure, in the intermediate, i.e., pre-experiential, stages of this investigation, porn probably does give a kid some bogus ideas about how things work. On the other hand, so could a kid's best friend who lives next door, who's picked up a farrago of half-understood bogosity from his older brother in college. In either case, once the matter proceeds from the theoretical stage to the practical, everything that's gone before tends to get revised in a hurry. I've yet to see anyone posit a way in which pornography is somehow magically exempt from that process.
My personal backup plan for family photos and non-work stuff:

Keep 2 copies on 2 external HD's. 1 gets backed up twice a year and put into a safe deposit box at the bank. One gets backed up once a month and put stored in filing cabinet in our house. I will also make backups onto DVD occasionally.

In addition to these local backups, I run a daily job to backup to an FTP & dropbox.
Spam Battle Report 2014: The good: Spam has declined.Bad? Almost is malicious
I've contemplated the idea of taking soundtracks from movies and comparing them to a user's favorite tracks.

It wouldn't provide accurate prediction of the best pick movie to watch, but it might come up with an indirect, quality pick that might otherwise never been seen.
Ask HN: is there still a country without web censorship?
During my recent trip in Turkey, I've had the opportunity to first-hand experience what a "hard, in plain sight censorship" is. YouTube home page was showing a government's statement and Twitter was not even reachable. There are of course a lot of different kind of censorships (Italy is blocking thousands of websites for any reason a judge might think of, U.K. is censoring porn, and so on and so forth).

I'm not sure about the situation in the US (DMCA, COPPA, and the likes) but at this point I wonder: is there any place left on earth with no censorship and/or any filters at all? And if the answer is (most likely) "no", what can we deduce for the future to come on this matter?
On the Practical Exploitability of Dual EC in TLS Implementations
From the rules page:

"Access to game servers where they can test their bot and compete against other bots"

Does this mean that teams will be able to run their bot an unlimited number of times against other bots before the actual competition?

I'm wondering whether neural network/genetic algorithm approaches will be feasible given the testing infrastructure.
The actual Michael Lewis article (linked above) is 10,000 words. It's not (the expected) fluff piece for PR purposes. More reminiscent of how books used to be serialized/published in the press before going to print.

Definitely worth reading.

The piece here is fine for promting discussion but the info in the original work would make that discussion better. Its simple to Delete your cookies and/or just use incognito if the NYT is being a PITA.
It's a well put together list and a very useful website. You've done great work pulling together a whole lot of courses and it's good to see them finally being tied together into specific paths. Would you consider adding projects or additional materials to the learning paths? I've found that's what our students get the most value out of with in the project I've been working on (the odin project -- http://theodinproject.com) because it gives the students a tangible result that unites the things they've learned and they can add it to their portfolios. Often the MOOCs still hold your hand a bit too much to be a complete solution. Happy to discuss -- erik@theodinproject.com
More and more desktops have touch screens now. For the last couple of years this has been a trend. Also, some desktop OS's support touch quite well. So you better update your terminology, since desktop does touch.

Whilst the new UI is a little bit of an improvement on touch devices, it still kind of sucks. The main problem is the poor scrolling performance of FF though.
Sorry, not judging; I couldn't help but notice the irony. That's all. :)
Fair point, though the audience for the pranks was more the people they were trying to sell advertising space to.
I'm in the process of setting up a DVR for my family and I've observed that very few (if any) support GNU\Linux. They all advertise to have "web clients", but all these require ActiveX controls. They do "support" Firefox through IE Tab and Mac through plugins, but that's it.

So 1) use caution if you're a non-Windows user, and 2) I'd be interested to hear of a good system that does support GNU\Linux.
If Marc Benioff Carried a Rabbit’s Foot, Would You?
Eminent domain hits the skids when it takes property from someone that is living there and pays them the market price for someone who wants to sell to someone who wants to stay. Those are different prices indeed.
Got anything to back up your statement?

Everything fight I've seen between two willing participants (not bullying) is that it isn't really very dangerous. I'm 36 and I still love to spar. I do it with boxing headgear, a mouthpiece and gloves now, but when I was young my friends and I always used to fight for fun with no gear. Sometimes it was fists only. Sometimes grappling, kicks, punches. Sometimes it was with hockey sticks. The worst that ever happened was a few bloody knuckles, busted lips or black eyes. When friends or brothers are fighting you know that you should stop if you punch someone in the throat or drop them in any other manner.
I'm cautiously optimistic about Web Components. It's good to add well-defined interfaces to browser Javascript, and there's a certain logic to using the DOM. The DOM is central, it's queryable, and it itself can gain from expressiveness.

Like Addy points out ("not a silver bullet") performance, security, and accessibility are not a given, and those are why I'm cautious. Security-wise, the document is already hard to lock down, and so it makes me a little worried to increase the surface area with application-level extensions. Cautiously optimistic.

What really remains to be seen is whether this reduces or increases complexity. This really depends on how well it works to declare data in the document and then interact with that data via the JS. For instance, one of Polymer's example components was an Ajax call, which I suppose you can fire from the script. Is that really better than putting the ajax parameters in the code? Does it encourage "globals"-like behavior, where hidden dependencies crop up? Are there life-cycle behaviors to the Ajax component that might trigger the request at surprising or frustrating times?

If you're a Web Components advocate and you're feeling agitated, knock me down here. Fence-sitters are the worst when you're trying to get market-share for an idea, so sorry about that. It looks like Web Components are happening, though, so I'm sure I'll get to wait and see.
The bigger issue (at least to me) is that Dropbox, and every other application granted Dropbox access, has access to your encrypted 1Password datafile. It's why I don't use cloud services to sync my 1Password file.
I enjoyed that course a lot; I took it in its first run soon after I started teaching myself programming. My only complaint with the course was that, for me anyway, it left a lot of mystery in terms of answering how it's all actually working. There were a lot of pieces, such as Django boilerplate code and using Google App Engine, where they showed you how to use them in a specific manner, but never really explained how they were working behind the scenes. So I felt like there was a lot of magic, and that my understanding didn't run particularly deep in some key areas. That said, the course covered a huge amount of ground and I'm sure they had to be judicious with what got covered. And I greatly enjoyed it. But I would have liked if they went with a bit more of a ground-up approach, explaining how a server worked and how data gets passed into the app, and then how that translated into Django's operation, etc...
IMHO he should still talk to an attorney.

If he provided financial services without a proper license, he might be in a world of hurt.
Careful with how you word this. Rescorla isn't an "outside expert"; he's been at the center of TLS standards for almost a decade now (he's also the author of SSLDump, which is/was a very useful tool). It's not hard to see why Rescorla would get roped into this: he's a standards sherpa. If you want to get some oddball extension you need for your internal systems specified, so that other systems might interoperate with yours, Rescorla is naturally the person you'd turn to.

Rescorla's name on an Internet draft is hardly an endorsement from Rescorla. I'm not sure that's how you're supposed to read any Internet standard; it happens to often be true, but it isn't always true. Sometimes those things get written with their authors holding their noses.
As someone who's left the beginner stages recently, I found OOP stuff to be mostly intuitive and easily to relate to real world examples. Steve Job's explanation at the below link galvanized it.

The only difficult part was some of the implementation. Function calls on "self" took a while to get used to.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/steve-jobs-in-1994-...
ESolver
Help desk management
Will love to see learning path for Big data.
Market First
Maybe OT, but what's PKRNG?
We are discussing side projects in the context of taking a 9-5 job because of constant startup burnout from grinding. I am not arguing against side projects. Your comment was a cheap shot, offtopic strawman, who is going to disagree with your statement? No one.
A super quick, simple illustration of the difference, which comes down to the fact that delegation is differential, whereas composition is complete:

https://gist.github.com/getify/9895188

For a bit more "real world" of a scenario, you can also compare the `LoginController` / `AuthController` mechanism here, first shown with inheritance+composition, and then shown with simpler OLOO-style delegation:

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%...
Neuroscience disagrees with you - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/23/27/9185.full. Porn itself isn't to blame - it's human physiology/response to porn. It is extremely addictive and I have first hand seen and experienced the depth of depravity and damage, spiritual, mental and physical that a consumer of pornography can commit against his or her own self.

The ones who say "it isn't addictive" are most of the times so far down the rabbit hole of porn, they aren't even aware of its impact - it's just "normal" to them.
Very cool analysis of the new chip. If I were Intel I would be more than a little concerned about what Apple is up to here. Would be very interesting to see what Cyclone can do in a proper laptop/desktop with more RAM.