skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got fed off and stopped using Ubuntu 5 years ago, I see that our have not changed. I don't think Ubuntu is a good representation of Linux. I personally like OpenSuSE.
> They expect work to be fun, and if it’s not fun, they refuse to do it.

That is a big difference and a good way to sum it up.

Unfortunately, lots of jobs are both needed and full of drudgery.
I agree with what people have already said, but I think there's one more point to add: people usually over-estimate how funny their own comments are. We have a tendency to think, "This idea of mine is hilarious! And different! Surely this witticism is the exception." And we are usually wrong. When you have N people all doing that, there's a lot of noise.

I try to gently point this out to people who complain when their attempt at humor has been downvoted by the community. It's not that we don't like humor. We just don't like banal attempts at humor, which becomes noise. Or, put in a less charitable fashion, "You're not as funny as you think you are."
Would it be different? How much would it cost to find someone to pick up and take over support for RHEL4, for instance?
Google was the most active buyer of European tech companies in Q1 2014
That's interesting. Is this connected to the smoking ban or has it always been like this?

(Of course, I'm assuming that Spain has a smoking ban. May be wrong!)
Alt+` does this, right next to Alt+Tab, within a single application. So if you wanted to pick a particular window, and you have five apps with three windows each open, instead of pressing Alt+Tab ceil~14 times, you press Alt+Tab until you have the app you want (possibly zero times) then Alt+`, potentially saving 12 or more keypresses.
Blogging about a problem and giving your solution is not a shameless plug. What would you prefer, an article which describes a bunch of security problems and doesn't tell you how they can be resolved?
Marketing, Creativity and Learning to Sell with Tim Conley
Cache poisoning seems to be a problem.
> understand the implementation of every function

Rather: remember three things that make up the majority of Array iterators' callback functions' signatures:

Element, Index, Array.

Shared by: .map, .every, .forEach, .filter, and probably some that I am forgetting. The exception I think is just .reduce[Right], which by definition requires its previous return value, so you have (retVal, elem, i, arr).

Quite literally, if you remember .map callback, you remember .every callback :)

Javascript deserves shtick for its truly bad parts (with, arguments, ...) and some missing parts, but .map and its friends aren't it.
Yes, compared to other mobile ad networks this is bad. People aren't rocketing up the install lists by having their $10 a day budgets not being filled.

> We chose to run the ads on apps from the following categories: Photo & Video, Social Networking, Entertainment, Games, Food & Drink and Utilities.

Those are some of the very largest targets you can have. Apple was unable to provide enough impressions to meet $10 a day.
Ask HN: GUI for users to modify webpage?
So i'm doing a webpage, and i want to create something like an "admin" page for users to be able to create posts for the "news" section.
Is there a tool for this?
Also, i'm sure that what i'm asking has a name... if anybody knows, thanks in advance.
Very nice. Do you have a NetFlix API key or have you used some other source of info for them?
Losening your grip just as the axe hits the wood also works for normal axes. Makes chopping a lot easier on the wrist.
IOW, the suggested "total values" in the article could not in fact be realized by any market participant, and, thus, they aren't real values.
> Meanwhile, Singapore is small, but sits athwart what has been, for hundreds of years, one of the busiest trading lanes on the planet.

You might want to revise that sentence. Singapore was nothing 100 years ago.

Wikipedia:
Singapore ceased to be part of the British Empire when it merged with Malaysia in 1963. Singapore lost its hinterland and was no longer the administrative or economic capital of the Malay Peninsula. The processing in Singapore of raw materials extracted in the Peninsula was drastically reduced due to the absence of a common market between Singapore and the Peninsular states.[5]

Since Singapore's full independence in 1965, it has had to compete with other ports in the region to attract shipping and trade at its port. It has done so by developing an export-oriented economy based on value-added manufacturing. It obtains raw or partially manufactured products from regional and global markets and exports value-added products back to these markets through market access agreements such as World Trade Organization directives and free trade agreements.[5]

By the 1980s, maritime trading activity had ceased in the vicinity of the Singapore River except in the form of passenger transport, as other terminals and harbours took over this role. Keppel Harbour is now home to three container terminals. Other terminals were built in Jurong and Pasir Panjang as well as in Sembawang in the north. Today, the port operations in Singapore are handled by two players: PSA International (formerly the Port of Singapore Authority) and Jurong Port, which collectively operate six container terminals and three general-purpose terminals around Singapore.

In the 1990s the Port became more well-known and overtook Yokohama, and eventually became the busiest port in terms of shipping tonnage
Hi! I have plans to develop Raindrop into a big business. And soon it will be very tight integration with the browser (including custom page "New Tab"). Therefore, your bookmarks will always be on hand in a browser, or mobile device.
I'll be insanely grateful if you make a note in Mashable!

Rustem M.
Um...who do you think raised these Gen X, Y and Z people? Perhaps they were raised badly?
Perhaps a better question is what companies have been sued that could have gone to arbitration instead?

Most of the EULAs I've seen involved in these sorts of clickthroughs hold the manufacturers blameless, and render lawsuits moot, as they contain an arbitration clause[1].

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitration_clause
I'm surprised to see that my questions were down-voted, and that a religious tirade ensued. I was just curious who Mark 8 was. The comment I was replying to mentioned Mark 8 with the assumption that everybody knew who that was... Sometimes religious people are so indoctrinated that they think they live in a [theology book]-centric universe. I'm sorry I crossed you, Mark 8.
I never knew about those but I like proverbs better, simply because of how short they are and how one can easily connect with them.
The public standard shouldn't include the secret values, but rather identify the (verifiable) process for generating the public values, in order to assure people that they were not created from secret values.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_up_my_sleeve_number

(Or, of course, you could just not publish RNG standards based on public-key crypto ;-)
I think I know what you are targeting at, but I really don't think so.

You can have a separation of presentation and content while still targeting a specific medium, the separation doesn't automatically mean that the content is fitting for every medium.

And the elements used here show that pretty clearly. When just regarding HTML and ignoring CSS, you can see its elements that are made for other mediums than paper. It is Hyper Text after all, not Text.

And when just regarding CSS, you have all those elements that are of no use on paper, like position: fixed.

Or just think of the issue in responsive design of wanting to have another, shorter text for mobile devices. There, even the content alone is not fitting for the medium, regardless of the presentation.
a way to follow post that you like,so you can go back on them to post or follow the discussion under the post.
I didn't mean to sound snob though sorry if it came through like that, I would definitely recommend to read them either in Spanish or English, however you can enjoy them the most. It's just that you'll have to accept that some thing just get lost in translation, I mean, even if your mother tongue is Spanish, you'll miss things.
Coding, committing, pushing. Pick two (when drinking).
And that's when I'd say: "Drinking may cost you your job, no matter what profession"
Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
The Internet river is mighty narrow in New Zealand though :-)
Agreed. The thing is that after they have put the price to 50 USD it incentivises indie developers to test it out, which intern results in a higher fill rate for the apps. I think this is just a start, maybe there is a lot more.

Just a question is the CPA also really bad compared to the other ad networks?
It's refreshing to click on a headline in the form of a question and have the article explain why it's the right question to be asking, and not just following Betteridge's Law. I lived in New Zealand for about 5 or 6 years, and I saw huge numbers of people just living on welfare because they could - that's probably got a lot to do with low GDP. Normally, I would see that as a bad thing, but I think New Zealand's relative lack of corruption and the friendly disposition of almost everyone illustrates there is more to life than productivity, and the results of the atmosphere and culture speak for themselves. As fiscally conservative as I may be, I had to admire that. Additionally, I hate frivolous lawsuits, and having the government compensate you so readily for injuries really seemed to reduce the way people would resort to "just sue them". Perhaps there's moral hazard and I'm not smart enough to know how one would quantify that, but again - I had to admire that.
3D printing: The shape of things to come?
This looks dangerous to me. I grew up in the mountains, and consider them my home. (The kind of place where the nearest walmart is an hour and a half drive away, and everyone shares their elk kills and logs and chops their own wood)

One of the most dangerous things an axe can do is go sideways on you on the hit, that sideways rebound or if the log falls away follow through can mean an axe in the foot or leg for someone who has been chopping for a few hours and is tired.

Also, proper drying of logs before splitting can't always be done, and that log look very dry and doesn't look knotty.

Honestly when I chop wood I keep three tools near, the normal sliceaxe, a skinny thin and fast one for easy stuff, a larger wedge with splitter arms (http://www.thehulltruth.com/attachments/dockside-chat/282042...) and a normal handless wedge and hammer for the really hard stuff.

Just thought I'd share a little bit of info from a guy who spent many hours in his youth chopping logs. If I was getting paid, I did sometimes cheat and use a gas powered splitter... if you have two people working it the throughput can be much higher than two people splitting normally.
"The crux of the problem, of course, is that the word "meet" in English only applies to people."

Says who? The last time I met with danger, I won! ;-)
Crate.io – Big Data SQL in real time
print.css = "Hi, I need you to continue to support this increasingly smaller edge case, to make this rapidly dwindling user base happy about something that should not, under any circumstances, be happening in 2014."

Supporting the printing of pages is inefficient and wasteful. It's the IE6 argument all over again. There are more meaningful ways of both storing and distributing information digitally.

Even for atacrawl's scenario - we should be building systems that make these types of documents easier to fill out digitally than on paper. I don't know about you guys, but when I have to fill out a paper form, I get frustrated because of the near-universal poor design.

Printing should be dead. Why are we keeping it on life support?
>Unfortunately, lots of jobs are both needed and full of drudgery.

I get the feeling millennials are calling that bluff:
"If it's so needed, why won't they hire me for it/why doesn't it pay more?'
I have been using Linux for a solid few years. I stopped using Ubuntu because I wanted more control and I like new technology. Now I am learning Android Development. I have less time, patience and require stability. I am thinking about switching from Fedora 20 to Kubuntu 14.04 for sake of stability.

Will it save me time and headache, it involves in getting things fixed on cutting-edge Linux and getting them to work, if I switch to Kubuntu?
Added! I updated it to fit the style of the others a little better.
The Next Three Billion
Thank you. I read many comments to find an explanation.
downandout doesn't use Yahoo so it only makes sense that nobody uses Yahoo.

I find this attitude everywhere with young technology people. The belief in a One True Brand.
Clearly false: In Switzerland, even though one likely posses a gun, one is more likely to use a rope to commit suicide.

While we, being simple humans, may project feeling upon an inanimate object, it's a mistake to assume a god's eye view, objectivity, or universal reality.

Bringing it back around: Are you suicidal? We're here to help. ;)
It doesn't look very seamless. If you had a Loom account, you don't automatically get a Dropbox account. You have to make a dropbox account and then link the account to "import" your photos. I guess you can put your photos into Dropbox's "Carousel" but none of this happens automatically.
With the advent of cryptocurrencies, we're finally in a place someone can pay me to use a portion of my infrastructure for enabling their anonymity. I'm willing to contribute to the cause as long as it's worth my while.

Your infrastructure will immediately be used to download or upload child pornography. If you're exceptionally unlucky, the FBI will come knocking and, if you're unable to provide them with a useful honeypot, you may risk legal consequences. If you're unable to prove your innocence (the request for the CP did come from your IP address, after all) then you may be very screwed.

I invite the community to toss around ideas about how to protect against this. I hypothesize that it's an unsolvable problem: if you enable strong anonymity, that anonymity will immediately be used for child porn.

One way to combat this would be to have some kind of credentialing, where you are able to generate credentials for the anonymous party to use. Assuming your infrastructure is set up as a Tor hidden service, then it's possible for them to use your infrastructure anonymously, and then you can revoke the credentials for individual violators.

However, under that scheme, your IP address(es) are shared by every user. 4chan will immediately ban all of them as soon as it becomes clear you're a proxy, for example.

It may still be worth exploring, but it needs some thought. Tor itself still doesn't have "endpoint bridges," that is, endpoints which aren't publicly listed. Meaning it's very easy to ban all of Tor, as far as I know.
Remote Teams, A Discussion with Founders of Zapier, Screenhero and iDoneThis
I've been using Scrivener to organize materials for research projects:
http://literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php

It has a steep learning curve, but only because it's so powerful and extensible.
> You don't need the `return` keyword in Rust, if the last expression in a function body (or any other body, we'll see more of this later) is not finished with a semicolon, then it is the return value. So `foo` will always return "world". The `return` keyword still exists so we can do early returns. You can replace `"world"` with `return "world";` and it will have the same effect.

Is this a bit brittle for a language which is expected to have applications in safety/security-critical coding? It's not hard to imagine side-effecting last expressions with discarded return values being turned into (effective) return statements by an omitted semicolon. Maybe the type system or other bits of the language would prevent this?
At least 12 Nepalese guides killed in worst-ever Everest accident
>If you look at all world's countries in terms of GDP per capita[1] and economic freedom[2], the countries with higher GDPs per capita have higher degrees of economic freedom, and conversely the countries with the lowest degrees of economic freedom have lower GDPs per capita.

Actually, in the top 20 list we can see Qatar, Brunei and Kuweit(basically rich due to oil), Singapore (where the state owns most infrastructure, from telcos to the "media company", cars are heavily taxed, as in $100,000 for a 10 year licence to drive one, and the state subsidies the citizen's housing), Norway, Denmark and Sweden (which, by Us standards are "socialist"), and other not quite the role models of a "free market".

Also, in the index for "economic freedom", the US is 18th and 12th (in the two different rankings), below Bahrain and Chile -- seems that "economic freedom" is shortcode for "rich corporations are allowed to do whatever they like, including corrupting local power elites".

In any case, they hardly make the case for the "free market".
We've appreciated how unique we are for a pretty long time. Seeing quadrillions of other planets in the sky really makes you rethink that :-)
SHA256 is an instance of SHA2. Presumably you didn't mean that SHA512 was bad, or, better, SHA512/256.

ECDSA, ECDH, and ECIES (which we don't see a lot of) all require a curve. Saying "ECDH is good" isn't helpful if you can't safely choose a curve to run them over.

ECDSA has another problem: it has a hard randomness requirement. If you repeat the per-message nonce, leak bits of the message nonce, or even fail to fill the modulus for the message nonce, you set up a condition where attackers can recover your private key. DJB is trying to push ECDSA into disfavor, replacing it with deterministic signatures.

One-time pads are awful and should be avoided at all costs. Virtually every computer program developed by generalist programmers that claimed to be a "one-time pad" was instead a crappy stream cipher.

Shamir splitting is fine, although that's a strange thing to have in your "regular use" bag.
Also, I say this as a designer.

This article criticizes a derivative work's typography? We're really looking at a site's print.css and kicking up a fuss because it's not up to snuff?

"Here, let me print out this Daring Fireball article and mail it to my buddy in New Mexico" ?

Get the actual fuck out of here.
Was the previous reddit ad system opensource like their site is ?
Given its comparative geographical isolation, it makes sense for NZ to invest in it's digital economy.

NZ has its own competitive advantages:

(1) An educated population;
(2) An English-speaking population (yes, this is an advantage. Regardless of the rise of the East, English is still the international language of business.)

But, clearly, it has certain disadvantages. Geographical isolation is one of those. It is difficult to close your trade deficit efficiently if your manufacturers are pummelled by shipping costs (and expensive labour costs). It's products are almost always going to be more expensive than it's competitors.

So, what should NZ do?

An obvious solution would be to invest in intangible exports (that's the technical terms for non-physical exports); exports that will bring money and jobs into NZ without having to saddle the costs of shipping.

This is what has happened in most of the west. But in most of Europe, we have invested in financial intangibles rather than digital intangibles. That's gone okay (hmm, okay might be a stretch). But it is unlikely to be the right move for NZ because it hasn't got an established financial center nor access to the Euro markets. (Actually with the rise of the China, which is geographically close to NZ, it might have a go at snapping up some of the renmimbi trade).

What does a country do with a highly educated workforce that needs to export intangibles? Software is the obvious solution.

Invest in Computer Science education at school, write an attractive set of tax laws for digital start-ups, and invest in high-tech infrastructure (i.e, be the first country to roll-out 5G).

In fact, the more I think about the it, the more this makes sense. As NZ is a comparatively small country with few concentrated geographical centres, it could roll-out super-fast broadband, 5G, etc, on the cheap.

Anyways, just a few thoughts.
Hey thanks! Probably the first time I've been quoted anywhere!
Given the size of the universe[1], believing there's only one planet hosting biologically evolved organisms, falls a bit short IMHO.

That said, it won't change anything knowing there's no one else out there. Actually it would be a little bit frustrating because it would mean that there's nothing more to discover... Biologists might feel limited on this planet alone.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size.2C_age.2C_content...
This is interesting to me because my brother and I (both in our later twenties), ended up taking two different paths. I knew what I wanted to do since high school (software engineering), unwaveringly pursued my 4-year degree with solid scholarships, got a good job the day after I graduated, and bought a house at 25 with a decent down-payment.

My brother, on the other hand, did not have that kind of luck. He tinkered around in college, then joined the Navy. After a couple years, he was discharged early (but honorably) due to panic attacks while attempting one of their most difficult programs. Now he's back at my parents' house as he pursues his degree in environmental science (the closest thing he could think of that matched his interests) at a community college. My family noticed he seemed a bit depressed as his 25th birthday approached last month. Turns out he was pretty upset that at 25, he hadn't gotten anywhere in life.

I feel sorry for him because he's compared to me. I am not a better person. I just have a more studious, middle-of-the-road demeanor, and I know what I want to pursue. There was no moment where I was like, "Man, I need to settle down and pick a career." It just happened, and I was blessed enough to have had a straight path to the "American dream."

My brother isn't in that stage of emerging adulthood by choice. He wants to be viewed as a respectable adult. It's just that he was not gifted with well-defined, lucrative goals, and he doesn't want to do something he hates simply for a good paycheck. I wouldn't have either. It just worked out better for me, and now I look like I have my shit together.
Did you know that you can configure Dropbox to only sync certain folders? It's called "Selective Sync" in the settings. Just uncheck your photos folder, and it will keep all your files in the cloud and not on your drive. You can still get to them from Dropbox's web interface.
Bah, living the dream. Have you figured out how to make exceptional neapolitan pies yet? I'm a regular at Paulie Gee's and would love to be able to make pizza like that.
>> ...parse an integer out of a string in base-10 by default

> It does.

Not quite: in some browsers (IE), a string starting with '0' gets interpreted as octal. So parseInt('041') === 33 in IE.

Guess how I found out about that.
"How do I get someone to do the coding for free and not give away my idea?"
Not specific to programming - With excellence comes understanding. With understanding comes excellence. Practice both.
Show me you algorithm and I will remain puzzled,
but show me your data structure and I will be enlightened.

-- Old programming proverb

You should totally read codelesscode too - http://thecodelesscode.com/
Well, from the looks of it, Mars was suited for life a long time ago. We still don't know if it had any intelligent life...
Deprecated is a synonym for correct.