skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, from my memories most of the cars in the cartoon Transformers had little in comparison to real-life cars. I viewed them as more generic truck, generic sports car, and the like. Sure, some of them matched fairly well to real cars but for the most part they did not. Plus I guess it depends on how many American style cars made it into foreign markets.

I agree that if one lived in a country that didn't have deserts with small mountains it might be difficult to relate, but there are many areas of the world that appear much the same as the American southwest. Especially in the generic way it was portrayed in the show. Although, there's a point in there about the style of housing as I'm sure that varies quite a bit.

In the end, since it was a toy line intended to enter the American market, you are probably more correct in that than I am.

The modern movies don't count because what you describe is Michael Bay, not Transformers. The themes you describe in the movies is similar themes in just about every movie Michael Bay directed. A large number of the vehicles are GM cars, due to money I'm sure, but I would say the lineup of vehicles is more diverse than how you describe them in the cartoons.

As for your last bit, if you are stating that in lines of marketing to sell toys, I agree. If it is propaganda to benefit government something or other programs, I fail to see how you've supported that thought even though that seems to be what you are trying to say.

Am I misunderstanding?
So, their product is imagemagick? :-)
Magnetic localization for perching (and charging) UAVs on powerlines
Ah right. I have to admit I was so astounded this was omitted in C++11 (with some really dumb rationale, iirc) that I keep forgetting it wasn't.

And nope, that's not me. I go by stormbrew on freenode as well and haven't been in a C++ focused channel since the late 90s on efnet. :)
I wonder what the rationale was for him to be placed into solitary confinement.
First paragraph:

Intellectual Ventures (IV) is seeking a major new investment to expand its controversial patent trolling operations but, unlike on past occasions, Apple is not coming along for the ride.
Ask HN: Should you divide the dev team to multiple offices?
TLDR; We don't like doing full remote. We prefer one office of devs but are thinking about opening a second office to more easily bring on developers.

I run a local focused startup called UpOut. We run a local membership product that gets you free tickets to try different events/experiences in your city.

As we expand, we REQUIRE one remote community manager in each city we operate in. When metros are small, the community manager will work from home and we will run sales and support from headquarters. As metros expand, we will hire local sales and support staff creating a new "headquarters".

At some point soon, we'll be adding our first "headquarters" outside of our SF location. Given the challenges with hiring developers in this area (we currently have 3), we wonder if it'd be a smart idea to hire in other areas of the US. What are the challenges you can see?
Über in German has had both a physical and abstract sense for a long time, like 16th century long time. While English usage is a bit looser, it's not as completely unfounded as you make it sound. Wikipedia actually covers usage better than I would have expected:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Cber#In_German
I'm saying that it's invalid to measure mainstream economics by looking at major crises and asking "how many of these did they foresee". A meaningful analysis would have to consider whether they foresaw and prevented any crises.

I don't see how the Nobel Memorial Prize is relevant to that point. If I had to guess, I'd say they got it jointly because developing the theory and giving it a formal definition was an import precursor to testing it empirically, and that seeing whether or not it holds in a given market is useful for analysis. Remember that this is a prize for science.
Honestly, my problem with Uber has nothing to do with surge pricing and everything to do with the fact that they've completely circumvented all the normal regulations surrounding cabs when realistically they're a cab company in everything but name.

Really, though, it's on the municipalities to modernize their anachronistic taxi regulations to properly handle services like Uber.
> ...unlike on past occasions, Apple is not coming along for the ride.

What's misleading about that? Did you read the article?
Guided meditation
Social Progress Index 2014
Errata security modified their original post to say that yes they are extractable. And a moderator properly fixed the title after the article was changed to reflect the retraction:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7561399
A similar thing happened to me when I made public a previously private repo on Amazon and forgot to scrub it for AWS key. Luckily I got an email from Amazon within 24 hours of the instances being started, and as such my bill was just $360, which in any case they waived off.
You might want to check your Github repos.
hijacking your session with lastpass wouldn't do someone any good, as they still wouldn't have access to anything. All they could attempt to get back is encrypted data. Your encryption key is never available.
I find my daily intelligence is highest in the early morning 6:30 am but productivity peaks at about 9:30 am.

Anything in the afternoon is a steady decline and by evening I should just do something that doesn't involve sitting in front of the glowing box. Trying to push yourself too hard results in overall productivity loss.
There is not a constant sum of guilt for the two parties; hust because one party is more guilty, it doesn't make the other party less guilty.
This would have been great to prevent the "mob ruling" on, say, Reddit during the 2013 Boston Marathon. Very cool.
The problem with profitless startups
I had no problem explaining it to my non-technical family members. The way I described it is that the server would return whatever happened to be there.
Ivan Sutherland's SketchPad (1962): A vision of what computing could be
A demonstration of the fantastic SketchPad demo by Ivan Sutherland, demonstrating one of the earliest computer graphics programs, of unparalleled vision and ambition even today.
http://aws.amazon.com/datasets
There's still a use case for non-sending accounts. Compared to email Twitter is a nicer way to receive promotional info. Senders are forced the keep their messages short, and there's no management time needed on the receivers part. I wish email headers would have a promotional & auto-delete/expire date tag for emails (of course it wouldn't work as companies would ignore it...).
I haven't. If I have time, I would like to write a blog post explaining what bugs I have found and changes I have made. If I do, I hope I can get the relevant people to see it.
It's slightly more complicated than that.
Hopefully the federal prison where he sat in solitary for months hasn’t beaten the zeal out of Weev.

I doubt it. When I went away for hacking, mine was a camp, but I made 2 products in couple weeks right when I got out. It'll be interesting to see him hit the ground running (on a full system) and too see what he'll make...I coded on a (new at the time) iPhone 4 ;)
Neuromorphic Computing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromorphic_engineering
Totally agree that it's a weak class. I'd love it if `IsList` were a subclass of `Foldable`!
Heavens no! I'd much rather have a good summary than dive into documents written for domain specialists by other domain specialists.

For legal documents, research studies, academic papers and the like the cognitive load associated with wading through the original usually by far outweighs the marginal return.

The caveat is, of course, that one must be careful with one's choice of summariser.
Can You Solve This? (GAME)
17. Animals being used as part of medical therapy, 1956
The problem is that the limited licenses exist for a good reason: roads are a limited resource 100% subsidized by the tax payer. Unless a city implements global pay-per-mile and pay-per-second fees for parking, idling, and driving, the city is subsidizing all businesses that operate on its roads.

Normally this doesnt' cause a problem because most folks using the roads are using them in roughly even proportion. Cabbies throw that out the window - they idle and meander around the densest and highest-value parts of town, which are of course places where roads are the scarcest resource. They exploit that subsidized, scarce resource far beyond any other user, creating congestion.

So, to control this tragedy-of-the-commons scenario, cities limit and tax cabbies heavily.

Uber dodges that completely by claiming they're a car service, when in reality they straddle the terrain between car-service and taxis. Uber drivers absolutely do meander congested areas hunting for fares.
You are probably better at detecting bots than you think. The same way you can recognise phishing and spam due to spelling or syntax errors. If I get a new follower and the only contact they've made with me is via Twitter, and their tweets are totally odd or cryptic, they aren't adding to my experience so away they go.

I've only had one false positive I know of and it was one of my wife's friends. She had a profile picture of her teenage daughters and no tweet history. I thought 'what the hell is a teenage girl doing following me - guaranteed spammer' only to find out who it was the next day. I unblocked and no offense was taken and no harm done.

Still, I guess I'm a bit stricter than average and this is something that most people don't care about.
Having grown with safe languages back when C was a UNIX only thing I always consider that FUD from C people.

Back then, C optimizers were not better than Object Pascal/Modula-2 ones and similar languages. It was all down to profiling and switching off bounds checking in specific code sections.

Of course, with time compilers got better, while at the same time safer languages lost to UNIX widespread into the industry creating this idea in younger generations only C can have fast code.
This is awesome, looking forward to the progress and contributing!
Just for clarification, is it a different guy entirely, or is he just exposing a much darker side?
Any true audiophile will notice the warmer sound of proper laser-trimmed resistors
I actually don't know. Arbor could have had its dev team hunt for a fix for the bug, but that would have been silly; no way did it make sense for them to take ownership of a custom fork of the most complicated kernel subsystem. So we worked around the problem instead.
>Many people seem surprised that we, a tech-savvy startup, would be moving to an "old" technology.

Who is this "many?"
The problem is that it's worth a relatively small amount of money to each of a huge number of people. We don't have a good way to pool funds for maintaining open source software in such a situation.

Crowdfunding seems to be the obvious solution. But I asked in a previous Heartbleed discussion whether people would be willing to try it for OpenSSL, and got no response.

Someone else commented that maybe Google will take over OpenSSL, or at least become a major contributor to it. It probably is in their interests to make sure this doesn't happen again -- maybe it's worth a large enough amount of money to them to justify dedicating a couple of engineers to it for a couple of years, which is what it seems to need.
So for Judging the hiring process at the company of a person based on a essay is naïve., then why was the essay posted? I would presume that was the point of posting the essay, no?

His profile page https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek has a link to his amazon reading list which maps to http://www.amazon.com/lm/R2EN4JTQOCHNBA/ref=cm_lm_pthnk_view...
I made a basketball management simulation video game: http://basketball-gm.com/

My original motivation was for fun and learning, but now I have several hundred people playing every day (average 1 hr each) and it's making $600/month in ads.

Problem is, I don't know how to take it to the next level. I think my main issues are no marketing knowledge and a complete lack of connections in the video game and sports industries. I think this could be much bigger if I could somehow overcome those deficits.

Longer version of this post: http://basketball-gm.com/pitch

Email me if you're interested in what I'm doing: jdscheff@gmail.com
Even with haskell, someone could sneak in a performUnsafeIO call if you aren't careful. Of course this is trivial to detect with compiler flags etc.
Not quite as astounding as omitting make_unique :P No matter, C++14 is going to be here very soon. Both of the open source compilers are almost there, and I've read the standard will be final once the Ts are crossed.
I have a few contracts for about 50k yeah. Want to work together? What do you do? Email me: m [at] (e|v|e|o) [dawt] ~(o|r|g)~ (sorry spam bots are getting ridiculous).
Sounds like you have to be a sycophant to work for him.
My favorite Steve story.
SMB giftcard platform Instagift adds Bitcoin support
Contributing!? Really? That would be awesome. I have not worked with others via Github before and would be very interested in doing so.
This is why PostgreSQL is awesome. You can freely mix relational with non-relational (object) storage depending on your needs.
Probably because he's pissed a lot of people off with his trolling in the past, so they figure he might not be safe for one reason or another? I mean he's pretty much a white supremacist.

Edit: downvoter want to explain themself? I'm not lying, go read up on weev. I've known him from IRC for years and he is most definitely racist/bigoted, that doesn't make the CFAA charge right, it just explains why they put him in solitary.
Say, would weev be allowed to leave the USA?

If yes, I would immediately do so if I were him.
It goes to show that janky case law and deep pockets and make a person's world very bad. I will agree Weev approach didn't help his case very much either.
Ask HN: Lost – Please Help (Side Project)
I'm a regular user here that's currently (somewhat) happily employed.

I also have a side project that makes between $800 and $2000 / month (varies by season), and I've been talking with a company about a possible acquisition of this, and hiring me. We are decently far along in the process.

I'm completely lost on what to expect / what makes sense / what to watch out for (I don't live in any big 'tech' areas, and feel a little out of touch). Have any of you been through something similar, and have any pointers? I can discuss privately if you need more details (see my email in my profile).

edit: Hacker News is throttling my replies - they're coming, just slowly...
Actual article is here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2014/04/is-there-... but Scott's blog has the comment section
Repeated TLS reconnections do not necessarily invoke the entire key exchange.
>> "Let it be a reminder that you can go to jail for pointing out another party's negligence."

Let it be a reminder that you can go to jail for exploiting another party's negligence.
I really like this idea, for quite some time I've been toying with the idea of creating a way to collect and organize all news (social/online newspapers/etc) into one stream by topic so things like "Aaron Swartz", "Ukraine Conflict", "BP Oil Spill", "Heartbleed", "Goto fail bug", etc and then arrange them on a timeline. The thought being to create an order of events and maybe even support connecting articles that link together so that you can see where (and when) a story broke and watch it unfold. Possibly even couple it with a summary engine so you can get quick bullet points about one subject across multiple sources. There would have to be a way to rank a sites credibility (Maybe through voting, maybe through an algorithm, maybe a little of both) but yeah. I really like what you have here so far as it seems to be in a similar vein.
Yes. MTG even caved to the pressure by removing Demon and Devil cards from the game for quite a few years.

Pokemon's opposition was less religious, but still there, some complainers even likened it to promoting slavery in how a trainer owns and treats their monsters.
#iLobsterIt: new life for your Flickr and Instagram photos
A sociopath in the right job.
Power to the people.
This is sort of an aside, but I noticed this quote from weev: "I say this is the duty of all decent citizens left." I hope he is not implying that he is a decent citizen.
Defending against costly litigation and employment law claims - warranted or otherwise - costs a lot more in legal fees and reputational damage than a couple of months severance pay. And even if they do find themselves in the dock, an employee being shown to have turned down a couple of nonspecific, nondiscriminatory financial incentives to leave certainly weakens any allegations of protracted mistreatment. Anyone know what strings are attached to this offer?
He has it made, expect a multimillion settlement on the dime of the US taxpayer.
The fact that Angular, Ember and Meteor are all missing from this list is inexcusable. How the hell does someone put this shit out?
There goes the job market.
I did. The title of the article is what is misleading, as if Apple chose to not fund IV for the first time.
My heart is ok, but my eyes are bleeding
When I read stuff like this I try reeeeal hard to not immediately dismiss it as @hipsterhacker stereotypes, but weird groupthink like this shocks me.

Keeping data that is by it's nature relational in a relational database is, to my mind, obvious. That it isn't for startups that are building their entire business on data foundations (because it's OLD!) is genuinely mind-boggling to me. I guess I'm the one that's old now.
Silly java code
Heartbleed Update
C's second biggest mistake, IMO, is NUL-terminated strings. The combination of these two mistakes is much worse than either of them alone. Since you don't know where a string ends without scanning it, and nothing prevents you from writing off the end of the allocated space, the familiar 'strcpy' etc. are loaded guns with hair triggers.
Thank you, this was fairly enlightening. So the Mozilla Foundation keeps all liability at arms-length, and could revoke the corporation's formal license to work on the product, should they prove to mismanage it.

Why don't more open-source projects copy this business model?
"He would still be convicted of some of the computer hacking charges in other states."

That's hardly a sure bet. The prosecutors would have to convince a completely different jury that a crime had been committed, and that different group of jurors could be far more skeptical.
You should be aware that pixilating or blurring screenshots are likely not sufficient to ensure that the contents are unrecoverable.
I don't see how his response was unreasonable.
I don't know your specific metrics, but one way to consider it is to forget about money for a minute. If you were to use one of those metrics to judge how successful your users were, which would it be?

Intercom.io is a brilliant example of this. They could have priced a million different ways, but they chose to charge by active users on their customer's apps. Now I don't even care about the price, I'll be happy to be doing so well each time I go up one of their price bands!

"We think getting your whole team on Intercom is a good thing. And we think talking to your customers is a good thing too. So we won’t tax you for either. We charge you more as your user base grows. Our interests are aligned."
We're a YC startup in California (Palo Alto) using .NET. We also use other more hip things, but .NET is the majority of our server side stack. We wanted something mature and solid that banks would use for a transaction system. Something that would let us hire great talent and not compete with all our startup buddies over RoR and node.js rockstars. Something that supported a nice mix of functional and imperative programming techniques. C#/.NET fits the bill pretty nicely.
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Nice idea here.

- Help Me Out

I'm trying to bootstrap a software product (see profile) and would love to get a marketing advice on how to, well, market the thing.

- I Can Help With

Anything .NET. Close to 10 years of experience with everything starting from backend high-performance services to front-end with ASP.NET MVC to APIs and everything in between.
Main discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7573317 (70 comments)
I second this, it sounds like a good way to do it. A monthly thread where people can post projects they'd like help on and a way to get in touch if you're willing to help.
Full dockets and documents here:

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/index.html?id=2416572
In general, there is no requirement for any severance in the U.S. It can be negotiated for, and in certain specific cases laws may require either notice or severance.
That's the hope. Reddit is great at what it does, but that system needs to have something to reign it in. Generally a very simple fact-check has done the job when we have been "reporting" on Twitter (@grasswire and @grasswirefacts), so we are trying to expose more people to that process and democratize it.
I couldn't agree more. A few years back I wrote integrations for various Micros/Aloha POS systems, and it was painful. The industry as a whole seems to be stuck in the 90's.
I would strongly recommend to focus on your strengths as your friend suggested. Working on your weaknesses will only drive you toward areas you are not naturally suited for, which is a reliable recipe for mediocrity.

As for what you might be suited for, certainly, follow your excitement. Copywriting does not require you to use your muscle memory to project confidence, you can get the same effect by iterating over your wording. And it scales to boot!

Finally, you might actually have better social skills than you think, but might not be among people who value what comes natural to you.

I have found that to be common among people who value substance over talk: Talkers will be put off by your truthful analysis and define it as poor social skills because your insights make them uncomfortable. They might also consider you rude for not listening, while they simply have nothing of interest to say to you.

People of substance will be delighted by your insights, and be interesting enough to make you want to listen to them.
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javascript Date object handle leap year by default
Does this mean that bodyshops like Infy,tcs,WP, get two for the price of one ?

Lets say ole Raj went to some CS diploma mill in Bangalore. Then got a job at some Infy offshore hub where he learned PL/SQL and how to script in SAP land. Next, fell in love with the sexy girl in a nearby cube. After sweating bullets and pleading ( maybe a few cows were traded in the background), the families approved of the love marriage. Next, the husband bags a H1 via Infy to work in the IT dept at Cisco. Sexy hubby gets ez H1 and a job in IT at Marvel. Bingo! They can afford a 2br in Santa Clara. In fact, now the parents can visit for big chunks of time rather comfortably. Meanwhile, Infy has better margins and the American worker has slipped further into the abyss .
Testing with Jenkins, Ansible and Docker
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7557284
> the Court didn't conclude that he wasn't guilty

Part of their justification for vacating based on venue was that a proper venue very likely would have resulted in different charges or verdict.