skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Better productivity tips:

1. Use your todo app but don't obsess over it

2. Stop reading asinine commentary blogs
Function Space Raises Seed Funding from Nexus Venture Partners
HostGator and BlueHost Still Down
Still showing beta 2.
I couldn't figure out any way to navigate without using the mouse.
JQuery Cycle is used for the IE<9 version, which is a slideshow of screenshots taken from the piece. Everything else is done with d3 and jquery as mentioned. We have a custom framework for these dataview pieces, all other work is just based on the same style guide. As seen here: http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/
What tests? I doubt it's any of your business.
This looks really useful. I may take a stab at creating a Node.js encoder later today. If it can integrate nicely with Express and/or Restify and use content negotiation to allow the client to specify when it has support for Tamper then that would be a very useful piece of middleware.
I just had an ah ha moment, thank you for that. It looks to me like the trade off is deciding where to put business logic based on what needs to access it. The setup you describe sounds great as long as all access to it is through your ORM. I usually assume access from multiple applications is going to happen at some point.
Can you give a concrete example of what you mean?
It's kind of like that. The state of a particle in classical mechanics is a linear combination of some basis vectors which are not it's states as such. But the superposition in QM is the superpositions of states. The phase space in classical mechanics is not a vector space, but in QM it is. This is a fundamental difference because in QM you can take any number of states, make a linear combination a it will result in another perfectly valid state. Not so in classical mechanics. For example, consider a particle orbiting a point. If you take some position vectors as it moves and make a linear combination, the resulting vector will not be a possible position of a particle in this system. In QM, it would necessary be another possible state. This is a slightly sloppy example, but I hope you get the gist.
In addition to the other replies, which are also good reasons, remember that dns poisoning is a real thing. While running unbound[1] to check DNSSEC signatures HAS discovered invalid results, and you can bypass some (but not all[2]) of those problems if you bypass the bad (ISP/whatever) resolver.

There really isn't much of a performance hit by recursively resolving DNS - it all gets cached anyway.

[1] http://unbound.net/ (other servers may also work for this purpose)

[2] It protects against a resolver that lies, but race conditions (e.g. NSA/QUANTUM) are not affected. Hopefully, DNSSEC itself protects against poisoned results, regardless of the method.
Here is Marc Andreeseen's interesting take on why exec compensation maybe high:

Conventional theories of exec compensation being so high either (1) what market can bear or (2) board/mgmt agency problem out of control.
Alternate theory is exec comp so high as insurance policy against catastrophic visible public failure; exec firings can be career ending. From this standpoint, top exec especially at highly visible and controversial public co should demand a lot due to career risk of failure. Particularly since exec blowups at this level not always based on performance; can be lots of political juju, need for fall guy, etc.
Fourth theory, however, my personal favorite—exec comp so high as motivation/prize for best lower-level people to stay at big company. Versus leaving to go to increasingly attractive (1) venture-backed startups or (2) private-equity-backed buyouts. I.e. paying a few people at the top a huge amount of money keeps lots of lower level people on the hook due to enticing future payoff. My guess: exec comp levels go up from here, as end markets get larger, tech & market change happens faster, and jobs get more dangerous.
http://pmarcatweetsasblogposts.tumblr.com/post/73998948125/w...
Email Marketing Riddle: How many Sale Emails does it take to screw an Inbox?
Most DC's are now serving the latest page. Only exception I found is the one for the Nordic region, this still serves the beta release.
A company whose frontpage looks like Yahoo cca 2000? "Constant innovation", right. More like "very much constant, always playing catch-up, and moping over long-gone glory of the 90s."

To sum it up with Wikipedia-like markup: "Most accurate [citation-needed], most up-to-date [citation-needed], best for users [says-who]."
I don't know about everyone else, but for me "released" means I can download it from the official location - http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop and that is not the case yet.
Regarding the first bit, bubbles: executive pay isn't an asset. Executives are the asset. And given the enormous historical run-up in executive pay, it's not unreasonable to ask whether it will return to its earlier baseline.

It's different than the typical asset bubble in that most of the people setting executive pay are also executives. But it could still just as well be a bubble.
its here
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64....

Update: They have removed the file now.
Dark Patterns: The Crimes and Misdemeanors of Design
You mean the one with a terrible user interface who charge 25$ to regenerate a cert?

PKI is a scam and a racket.
what are the range of ip addresses like? are they just like

23.23.23.24
23.23.23.25
23.23.23.26
You are correct. They mentioned Heartbleed and the software that is responsible for it.
It's true... but I view this as a technology problem not a problem _in_principle_. After all we don't all need to be engineers and electricians to operate a refrigerator, or our automobiles, for example. Society has built up the infrastructure to support individuals owning cars. We aren't all forced to use buses.
If she actually carries out her role with a primary responsibility to Dropbox, as such roles and business practices are currently defined, then her primary concern will be liability.

And in terms of corporate liability with respect to extant surveillance practices, a consistent line of argument and arm-twisting has been to proffer immunity in return for cooperation. ("Give us the data, and you won't be liable, criminally nor civilly.")

So... I don't see her new role at Dropbox as particularly encouraging with respect to the privacy of Dropbox users' data. Her concern, per the above, will be to ensure that if and when Dropbox provides surveillance access, the corporation cannot be prosecuted nor sued for doing so.

If you want some context for this argument, just refer back to all the stink about telecommunications companies' liability/immunity that erupted particularly into the public dialog around 2007 - 2008. Look also at the deals that have been proposed for what access ISP's should be required to provide and what they would get in return. Etc.
Todos don't work because they suck at helping people plan and focus on what really matters.

I like some of the concepts taught in the 7 habits of highly effective, like:

- Instead of a todo list, use a weekly planner to get a higher level of perspective on your planning and achievements.

- List all your areas of responsibilities (husband, friend, brother, etc...) and set goals to make progress in these areas every week. This helps you lead a balanced life. No area go neglected for too long (like it is easy to do when you obsess over your business)

- Schedule the tasks that help you make progress towards your goals in your calendar, to prevent other less important things to get in the way. (First Things First)

I believe that some people on HN would benefit from the tool I developed http://weekplan.net which tries to use software to encourage a better planning behaviour. Please check it out if you are looking for an alternative to todolists or your own brain (please stop thinking you are ok with keeping it in your head. The day you dump everything you have got in your head into a system you trust, you will feel the relief and will never come back. Without a good external system to store your tasks, your brain is constantly reminding of what you need to do, and this is a waste).
Of course, in Java, this would look like (at best, using a third party thing):

ImmutableMap.builder().put("my key", 123).build();

Which hardly seems neater (especially in a more realistic case where you have more than one entry).
Tried to find some sort of release notes, best thing I could find was this:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes

If someone has a better link, please share!
this is another less painful explanation: http://betterexplained.com/articles/understanding-bayes-theo...
This feels to be like an appeal to magic. We are simply animals, many pets live long healthy lives on single sources. Soylent doesn't have to be magically perfect, it just has to be better than the mass manufactured foods we are currently eating.
Google’s Ngram Reader: Big Data Observes, and Makes, History
it still shows beta at the link given above
> They are solidly middle class

Not really. If you earn $120k a year (just over 6 figures) you're in the top 10% of income earners in the US. The fact that you think they're 'middle class' (and relatively speaking, I don't think you're wrong) is indicative of how bad the wealth gap has gotten.
I think the best way to learn a programming language is to learn it yourself. Imho, these kind of things don't work well with courses; they often restrict the way you think.

For Python, you can start from Learn Python the Hard Way (free) http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/

After you finish this, start working on a small project and learn other things on the way.

For mentor support; I think Stackoverflow is the perfect source to ask questions and get feedback (but remember to search before asking a question).
It switches back and forth. That's also why I have submitted the link before and then deleted it.
consider the time period studied as well. that 20 year period was incredibly business-friendly, so it should be no surprise that policy outcomes matched business values at large. i wrote a longer response here (http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/2379ny/study_revea...) but i know it won't get any views... would you mind giving me your feedback on that?
If your model is a list of enums where you know all the possible values, you can use SmallHash which encodes to the smallest possible string.

http://blog.vjeux.com/2009/javascript/smallhash-information-...
Google's DNS resolvers are 100% truthful?
You can cache the data. I mean just think about how Git works. You can sync the information at random intervals between peers, and you don't need a direct connection all the time. A well-designed P2P decentralized network solves all these problems. A can send to C through B, if A and C are not currently connected and so on.

In fact, these are solved problems, and implemented in e.g. Freenet as far as I know.
I'm sort of confused on pricing.

http://www.telerik.com/purchase.aspx

Is the pro widgets like the editor and tree view available at the $699 price point ?
I would bet it would be more likely related to '1'.

I know insurance rates went down across the board 1-2 years back. It's hard to get a car without traction control and ABS now, which makes a huge difference.

According to this study, vehicle stability control really does decrease crashes.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3217442/
According to 'dang, the original "drop Dropbox" story was the most-flagged submission in the entire HN database, by a factor of 3. This story is a mere subsidiary of that one. It's worth flagging as well. There are better places to advocate against Dropbox (which is banned for other reasons at my company) than on HN.
Pseudo-elements use two colons. A small number ("before", "after", "first-line", "first-letter") are grandfathered in as allowing either one or two, for backwards compat back to the days when there was no distinction between pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes in CSS.
I have 15 people on Dropbox for Business, so it's not so straightforward to migrate off, but it'll be done before our renewal deadline. Mostly because of this. The $2.5k/y was just an annoyance, but this is a matter of principles now.

We're currently evaluating BitTorrentSync and Owncloud. Any opinions about their relative merits for a 15-strong team that's half distributed, half local, and using this as a "shared drive" of sorts, are welcome!
Benchmarks comparing PourOver to Backbone would be nice. Anyone?
Only a sexist, racist can't see the Former Secretary of State under George W. Bush as anything more than a black woman.
I have never been in a shop where as a developer I was isolated from quality assurance or production. Fixing production issues was part of the job and insuring the fixes and original code got through QA was there too.

However I have also seen this branded as "soft skills". Something that seems to be yet another way to excuse many people for their lack of skills and reward them for doing other stuff. I have seen it used to keep really bad developers, if not reward them. It also tends to be a favorite term of those who cannot manage their team properly.
Title should be changed to:

Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) Beta 2

Edit: I see the updated title now.
I think the point he or she was trying to make is that you control your own happiness and shouldn't make that depend on things that are outside of your control.

I agree with that sentiment, it's the advice I generally give people who are in a bad situation. But if you look at it from the country's perspective it feels like avoiding the problem, and isn't a solution.
HN is among the worst places to discuss geopolitics; this is a current events story, far outside the guidelines of the site. Flagged.
First, Eich was taken down by crusading morons and now this? I don't agree with Eich's former donation (see how stupid that sounds when actually stated?), and I'm not a fan of Ms. Rice (oh noes, he's not a fan...) but no thanks, I'm passing on your political hate train.
ohhh yesss. DO is good for some locations like Southeast Asia but loving this upgrade for my London and Tokyo Linodes
Does Ubuntu still shill out personal data to Amazon?
It's fake: http://www.reddit.com/r/UkrainianConflict/comments/236zs3/fl...

Still - Russian invasion on Ukraine is outrageus and the world community should stop Russian aggression.
IMO, it sounds like the wrong remedy for the right diagnostic. I would never throw away the database because I'm duplicating information between ORM and domain classes. This seems more related to the particular constraints imposed by your codebase/architecture than the database.

Right now I'm writing a REST API that will be consumed by web and mobile apps. It would impractical to duplicate validation across all codebases. Rather, I'm leveraging the database checks to get form validation on all clients for free. The application layer is thin, adding a field amounts to adding one line and running a command.

I believe it boils down to which component rules the system: application or data layer.
Yup, and i expanded upon my thoughts [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7604201).

I'm honestly surprised so many people are shocked by this concept. I've rarely known people to eat great food, and overly healthy food, for 90% of meals which a healthy appreciation of the whole process.

Most people i know eat "real meals" on random dinners through the week, and everything else is just things getting in there way of doing what they want.

Plus, if Soylent ends up being what they are promising (100% perfect meal in each drink), then you're talking about a meal with zero negative aspects. If you're greedy, this lets you sort of eat of in reverse.. Rather than spending all week struggling to eat things you can tolerate so that you can eat something you like in a bit of excess (splurging), you can sort of go nuts with every "real food" meal (assuming most meals are Soylent).

There will be very little guilt in having a burger with bacon.. you've had 100% health food for the last 3 days. Go nuts with your burger!
"If I had found the right technical co-founder with the right chops at the right price and for the right piece of equity, I’d be telling a different story now."

"Of course, if I hired an agency....

Then there was the issue of ownership. By outsourcing development, I’d keep 100% of the company. This was good."

While other things, including one of his comments, suggests he just plain couldn't find anyone, I have to wonder if the above hints at one of the reasons why.

On the other hand, he seem clueful, he chose an agency that could get the job done, and worked closely with them every day (can't believe all the people who try to do this in a "fire and forget" approach). Is sensitive to e.g. the problem that none of the developers he's hired now have the sense of ownership of the code they'd have if they'd been there from the start. Etc.

A bottom line is that from what I've read in this blog post and his replies to comments, he sounds like a non-technical "product manager" I could very possibly work for, a rare thing in my experience.
At this point this is a link to beta 2 from March.
Tough to find another email eh? Excuses for Google all day. Man up, admit you have no principles.
Our constitutional lawyer president also doesn’t have a concern for the Constitution.

Disclaimer: voted for him 2008
I've always wondered how to scale this once you have thousands of active users?
Confused--can anyone clarify if this is a stable release or a beta release?

Thanks in advance
Do people actually use jigdo?
They never gave out personal information, they just covered your dash with ads and clicking them gave Canonical affiliate revenue. They routed the searches through their servers to prevent Amazon from associating searches and IPs when they go to the actual site.

And I (think?) this is the release where dash ads are default off.
I've never heard of them changing or blocking entries. They're on Wikileaks' list of censorship-avoiding DNS servers http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS And Google claims: Google Public DNS does not perform blocking or filtering of any kind. https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/intro?cs...
Safe meaning a safe choice - not commenting on the safety of the software although I've never had an issue personally.

Stable - yes, for me, Wordpress has been stable.

My issue is with complexity that the tool adds without a lot of upside.
> most companies now are doing Agile development ... you have this situation where the schema is continually evolving week by week

I haven't seen that level of churn in any of the agile places that I have worked and it is not an inevitable consequence of agile working. If you don't want schema churn, then don't do that.
This seems a little crazy. Just because someone who has different political views than me is on the board of a company whose product I use, doesn't mean I must support their political views. By that logic, I can never use a product made by a company who has a board member who doesn't have the same views as me.

And to the point that her political views will somehow cloud security at Dropbox: they probably brought her on to advise on how to deal with security requests by the government.

In any case, the idea that adding Rice to the board will somehow make Dropbox excitedly comply with all governments surveillance is preposterous.
LTS Stable release.
Breeze, RunKeeper’s New Step-Tracking App, Aims to Bridge Workouts
Thanks for mentioning this, I was confused about statements like "death from heart disease has become less prevalent" while the chart showed a horizontal line.
I will. As much as I love TeuxDeux's simplicity, I believe it's not under active development anymore.
I would stay the heck away from the collections and itertools modules to be honest. Raymond H. is an amazing coder, but he' s a madman.
I found the documentation on Prose a little terse - can it support markup site tools other than Jekyll?
Funny that there is a link in that post back to an original earlier post on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7360296

Interesting the team used GWT. I would like to see a post about how they found it, and if they would choose it again for a new project.
This has been my problem also. I've kinda solved it by dedicating one specific empty space in my place to working out (a room or what not), with the one mental rule that I'm not allowed to exit this area at all until I've finished my workout.
This Rolling, Transforming Droid Is the Stuff of Nightmares
These upgrades are impressive but they are a bit too late to the game. DO still has these advantages besides the cheap monthly price:

- DO has excellent and easy to understand API
- Step by step guides on setting up and running anything
- Minimal and simple

To entice me, it's no longer just a matter of price, DO has extra value added, largely due to their simplicity.
The design of the homepage suggests that, indeed, people actually use jigdo.
It's one thing to agree or disagree with her position at Dropbox but are you trying to argue against what she said on camera? "I heard she might..." is not the case here since she was a public face for quite a while and she defended removing Americans' liberties in favor of something closer to a police state.
From the site's welcome page:

"A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be."

I think we are well within the bounds here
Taxing solar energy is a really bad idea
It doesn't really solve the problem of similar colors, but clicking on the legend entries highlights the data on the graph.
Have you ever read the HN guidelines? I advise you to do so.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

I don't know if I qualify as a good hacker, but I sure find this interesting. And the fact that this is on the front page suggests that others do too.

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
EDIT: I have flagged the article too, after reading ajoc's link. You should still read the guidelines, because I (personally) am in doubt that your reason for flagging was 'legitimate'.
WTH? It's like we went on repeat. Hard to believe something like that is still happening in 2014.
If there are thousands of units built, but demand increases by tens of thousands, prices are not going to go down.

NYC is building at a much faster pace than SF, but according to the census on the order of 300,000 people moved into the city between 2010 and 2013. That is exerting huge demand pressure on prices even with the new buildings going up. The only way for prices to go down would have been adding housing stock for more than that increase - which didn't happen.
postgres can rollback everything except advancing sequences, and dropping the whole DB.
So this makes Lindode practically on par with DO's $20 plan. Up till now $20 plan at DO was better now its just the choice of the brand.

But here is one thing that DO provides and I think Linode too should, you get the choice to spin up a $5 instance anytime in your account for any small project or a test instance which you cannot on Linode.
I'll go on record as saying I flagged it too. There are plenty of other sites for this kind of thing.
Not all data center serve the latest page yet.
Ask HN: Why is Memristor revolution pending?
It has been a long time since first news about Memristor came. News about new research findings arrived at times but since long time it is not in news and it seems like it is a failed finding. Why is it not revolutionizing the memory market?