skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The instinct of an organization to cover its ass is indeed much more general than in matters of sexist behavior. I don't however agree that this instinct constitutes a duty to its shareholders. Bear in mind that shareholders are only one of an organizations stakeholders and it has duties to all of them. Employees too are stakeholders and if we assume for the moment that there was some unfortunate behavior covering it up is not good for existing employees. The community in which the organization operates is a stakeholder and coverups can be very contrary to community interests. Etc et.

For those interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stakeholder_theory
It does greylisting by default. Greylisting is awesome at cutting down spam, but we recently noticed that it was preventing a major mail provider from getting through, among others, because it seems that this major provider doesn't use the same IP twice (at least sometimes).

If ignoring email coming from a major provider isn't an option (it isn't.), then what are your options?
I've never noticed the "a" was missing until now, but I've intuitively always pronounced it as one word, like "coda-cademy"
It sounds like Australia's geographical relationship to Antarctica at the beginning of the Eocene contributed to Antarctica's temperate climate at the time. From Wikipedia[1}:

At the beginning of the period, Australia and Antarctica remained connected, and warm equatorial currents mixed with colder Antarctic waters, distributing the heat around the planet and keeping global temperatures high, but when Australia split from the southern continent around 45 Ma, the warm equatorial currents were routed away from Antarctica. An isolated cold water channel developed between the two continents. The Antarctic region cooled down, and the ocean surrounding Antarctica began to freeze, sending cold water and icefloes north, reinforcing the cooling.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene#Palaeogeography
Fat metabolism in animals altered to prevent most common type of heart disease
I've not got round to Promotion yet. I'm really enjoying RMQ though and would be hard to move away from it!
Amid rumors of a buyout and reports of cash crunch, is Square all boxed in?
Why has nobody just made a Docker image that anyone can download and use for free? Or even just a Dockerfile. That way it's a text file and people can contribute and improve the setup.

Just my two cents.

Edit: Looks like my idea is far from original<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7634677 >
This Story Perfectly Captures Why You Don't Miss Deadlines At Apple
Getting started with Dart in WebStorm
Do you have any evidence for this? It seems unlikely to me...
This is cool, but it doesn't actually help you with mass surveillance unless the other side of your conversation is doing that too. What point running your own email server if your friend is on hotmail?

Also, even if you both run your own MTAs STARTTLS does not help much except to reduce the scope of the passive-only surveillance dragnet, because the configuration does not require signed certificates.

Finally, if both parties are technical enough to run their own email servers, um, why not just use GPG?

From a technical point of view, I put this squarely in "fun, but a boondoggle" territory.
The Star bicycle [0] was around in the 1880s, a bicycle with the small wheel in the front so as to make it more difficult to go over the front (a common problem). It's difficult, due to the ratcheting pedal mechanism, but it can be wheelied. The Eagle [1], which used conventional pedals (well, conventional compared to the state-of-the-art at that time), can easily wheelie. In fact, my experience has been that one needs to be a little careful not to fall off the back. (Source: member of The Wheelmen [2], an antique bicycle club, since a kid. Have ridden both Eagles and Stars, as well as other death-traps of the day.)

Point being, there were bicycles before the "safety" that could be wheelied and probably were (I'm confident there's a picture somewhere, period or modern, but a quick search didn't find anything). So I'm skeptical that Canary was the first to ride a bicycle on its back wheel.

Now, that's not to say that Canary wasn't an impressive rider. I've put thousands of miles on bicycles from that era, and not only are they difficult to ride well, they're so dangerous that there's no way they could be sold today (EDIT: come to think of it, everyone I know that has put any serious miles on highwheelers has been seriously hurt at some point, including myself. The 1886 Columbia I currently own I bought from my uncle after it nearly killed him.). Riding down the Capital steps on a highwheeler? Not on my most bold and daring of days. The pictures from the article demonstrate that the man knew his way around a highwheeler. But I doubt he was the first person to ever raise the front of wheel of a bicycle.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Star_Bicycle
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Bicycle_Manufacturing_Com...
[2] http://www.thewheelmen.org/
If you've ever watched someone pass -- you'd know how true this is.

Tens of thousands of times over, they've desensitized us to the most intimate and intense of experiences. Yet when it happens right in front of you, to someone you truly love and have shared your life with, it completely consumes and destroys you.

There's nothing you've ever seen on the screen that can possibly compare to it.
The Universim – a next generation planet management god game
This is because CodeAcademy (with the a) already existed (using the domain codeacademy.org). They changed their name to "The Starter League" in Sept 2012 [1].

[1] - http://www.builtinchicago.org/blog/code-academy-evolves-star...
I disagree. Dropbox's customer base are techies, and techies tend to dislike Rice's politics. You're right in that Dropbox would get some backlash for letting Rice go, but I doubt much of its current or future customer base would be upset.
It looks great, modern and slick. Somebody else mentioned the fact that you guys are coming out with something that'll take users out of the console. Can you elaborate on that?
Working harder than everyone else does not simply make something "the least bad". It also makes them "the best".
It's a pretty good rehash, but yeah, it's a rehash of Distributed Systems 101. In particular, the idea that changes can be propagated eventually but still in order is almost as old as computers, but don't say it too loud. For some reason that seems to bring out the knives in the dark.
That'd be a nice feature. If there's interest in First Draft, I have a desktop version based on nodewebkit that I can release.

Right now, it can export your file to Google Docs, and from there you can save locally.
Creating New Websites From Scratch Vs Templates 
The main difference between a website built from scratch and a template is time. Pre-built websites can be tweaked and put online in hours, whereas custom websites require more specialization. Professional website design can be measured by function, style and relevance. Of course, it is possible to find website templates that look the part, but they usually don’t meet all the metrics of good website design.

You don’t have to understand coding to see the difference between good website design and templates. The most complex elements of web design take place under the surface, but the final product should be simple. A well designed and planned out website can boost your company’s sales, improve customer retention and bring a new perspective to your brand. Be sure that your website is as stylish as it is relevant and functional by having it created from scratch.
Homesteading near Wheatland? Can you give a bit more detail on that?

Do you mean, they just purchased a farm? Or do you mean like the actual US Homestead Act, making a farm out of nothing?
I couldn't explain it better if I tried.

The message is: we cannot just take "design patterns" from one language and shove them into another. All a "design pattern" is, is standard way to mitigate a lack of abstraction. If the language itself had a way to, say, create singletons (for instance, by having a singleton keyword), the need for that particular pattern would disappear.

Likewise, design patterns for javascript should be based around the points where the abstraction is lacking. Therefore, they'll be likely very different.
Since you're listening... I've emailed you guys before about a bug I found while working through your ruby module and hit radio silence at your contact@codecademy.com address.

Got a more appropriate area for bug reports?
As luck would have it, immediately after seeing this I got spammed by a web design co-operative: http://www.niftythinking.co.uk/
Interesting perspective. There is quite a bit of research on the subject and most people typically have a dominant trait. Although, everyone can express behaviors in any of the types at any time, we typically "default" to a single one (sometimes two).

Have you taken a DiSC assessment? I find they are accurate for me and the people I work with who have taken them - anecdotal I know.
Nice. I've finally jumped onto the lens bandwagon myself, out of necessity.
Shitty stereos on the 80s. Brands 'mimicked' themselves to get extra profit since consumers signaled off of the logo, the chrome and heft not the sound.
Missing from this press release, though not from the journal paper, is the unstable effect of ocean currents on water temperatures. The fact that the oceans have a straight shot around Antarctica at the moment generates a huge ocean current which blocks water from warmer latitudes making it south. Antarctica and South America were connected as recently as 30 MYa, blocking the circumpolar current and allowing water in the southern oceans to be much more mixed.
doing armlinux for a living, these sub-100 devices pop up daily nowadays, I was thinking yesterday probably it's a good idea to set up a small site to list all of them.

the primary ones are :
TI AM335x(beaglebone), Freescale iMX6, Allwinner A20. all the three have SATA, HDMI, Android,etc
Material Points To Nanoscale Electronics Possibilities
A temperature sensor for BBQ smokers.

Simple thermocouple with an Adafruit breakout board (MAX31855), and an existing Python driver.

Also serves up a Nodejs static page that polls for a new temperature every 5 seconds.

I'm struggling to find the time to get this going, but it's working okay right now. https://github.com/CanadaJ/heat-of-my-meat-node
Ask HN: Don't want to steal an idea, but don't need 4 non-technical cofounders
Basically here's the situation: I met this guy randomly at the bank, we discussed some business ideas we were each pursuing. He has an idea which I think is great, but requires a real web app - right now he has a website built with GoDaddy's website builder tools. That's about as far as he's gotten with the idea. No users, no working product yet.

I had a meeting with him where I told him that I had a ton of ideas for the business and I think I could build him the real web app he needs. I also found out more about how far he's gotten with the idea. He has 3 cofounders besides himself: 1 guy is in school for computer stuff, but not really ready for prime time yet. The other three (including the CEO who I talked to) are all undergrad business major types who work as tellers at a bank.

So HN, what is the smart AND ethical play here? I have the ability to execute this idea entirely by myself. These guys have zero ability to execute - no one on their team has any experience with web development, entrepreneurship, user acquisition, or anything.

I obviously don't want to just steal someone's idea, but I also don't want to split a company 5 ways when I'm the only one who is bringing any execution. What is a fair way to handle this? Even if the CEO drops the others and we split 50/50, I still feel like I'm bringing way more value than he is. I understand he could be valuable in non-tech ways, but I have no way to verify that until I see him in action. How can I structure a deal so that we both get what we really deserve out of it?

I know consulting a lawyer to set up a fair contract is key, and I plan to. Just wanted to hear if anyone else out there had any similar experiences and get some general feedback on ethics from a community of people who probably often hear business ideas they could execute better than the inventors.
Well, I bet that there are corners of Wyoming that are that un-dense. Maybe most of the state outside of the I-80 strip?
Link: http://help.codecademy.com/customer/portal/emails/new?custom...
Not that its your fault but your fonts look terrible on Win 7 on Chrome.
Indeed. Lack of MLB.tv makes this a non-starter for me. We don't have cable TV, but I love to watch baseball. MLB.tv lets me watch just about anything I want all year.

Our Roku is basically an MLB.tv machine.
That's exactly what we're saying (I am part of the team that works on underdog.io). The status quo is a complete mess.
David Einhorn and Greenlight Capital Bet Against Tech
You're spot on. Sports are the single thing that there really is no easy way to watch without traditional cable/satellite.

Once they finally come around, it will be much easier to convince people to cut the cord.
I can't seem to get basic auth working. I know basic is "bad" form, but we have APIs we still expose them selves via it and that would be very nice to support.

I tried both Authorization: Basic [hash] header as well as the even worse http://username:password@site.com/api and neither worked.
I understand what you're saying in general, but have no idea why you think it's a reply to what I said. I didn't say anything about asking questions. I talked about honoring preferences. Explaining why you have some preferences (about what questions you'd like asked) you'd like honored would seem to reinforce my point, rather than deny it.
Very possible the ARM and x86/x86-64 backends are very different in compilation speed, for example.
The assumption here is that business cycle busts are caused by the inevitable collapse of companies that weren't sincere about creating a sustainable business in the first place. There are plenty of anecdotes to color in this story, but I don't believe it's the main driver of business cycles.

EDIT: Admittedly, I'm in a filter bubble of sincerity, since it's one of the main things we look for in YC founders.
Are you implying that if a company does something we dislike, we should just shut-up and mind our own business? What's up with the general theme on ycombinator of defending these people? Is everyone here a fan of Rice, or do you simply have no moral principals you think are worth protesting over?

Be condescending and label them as slactivists all you want. This protest is a proportional response to a perceived mis-step by a company. Would you take them more seriously if they had torches and pitchforks?
It depends. If you are installing CyanogenMod on your phone, then installing GApps is not very legal. However, Cyanogen team has been working with Google to get devices like the OnePlus One certified by Google and preloading them with fully legal GApps package.
Because all the companies producing the several parts involved did absolutely no r&d and they got information on how to produce all those batteries, cpus, glass, radios, sensors, etc from aliens.

Every company does r&d and manage just fine with non obscene profits on each product. Apple and Samsung create artificial scarcity with lawsuits. They probably spend more on legal than r&d.
Read my post again. It covers that issue. Perhaps more concisely than you are used to, but it is in there.
The German car I bought in Canada shows fuel consumption in L/100km. I've never seen km/L before.
> I dislike mocks. I've never seen the point in testing code against an entirely fictional representation of the most complicated and slow part of the system, just because it happens to be more convenient.

You aren't testing code against an entirely fictional representation of the system, you are testing one piece of code in isolation, and using a fictional representation of another piece of the system to eliminate variables.

Unit testing is about verifying that individual components do their job correctly -- when doing it, you literally don't care what other pieces of code would do, because that's out of scope of the unit test.

Testing that the whole system works together is system/integration testing, and is a different thing. You don't use mocks for system testing, only unit testing.

> If an app is worth writing, and worth writing tests for, do it justice and test the whole shooting match.

Yes, that's what system/integration testing is for.

That doesn't mean you shouldn't have code that is amenable to proper unit testing.
Thank you Bob! I've been reading through your book and applying the patterns to both work (web applications) and my hobby game projects. The way you describe the patterns, especially the component pattern, made it clear exactly how to apply it to my projects. This is an awesome resource.
> We might even get there soon.

I don't think the country, as a whole, will, but I do believe the more liberal areas will get there much quicker (as we're already seeing).

I live in Indiana, the only state where one cannot buy alcohol on a Sunday. I don't think marijuana is gonna be legal here anytime in the near future.
>You can't just go out and beat all that at once, and offer the same product but cheaper.

I think they just did. LG and Samsung have been doing remarkably well off with off the shelf components and I think this entire comment undervalues the cost of distribution and marketing that gets rolled into the cost of the phone.

Hasn't it always been apple's defense that most end users don't care about specs. So I find most of this comment inconclusive at best.
I found this sentence interesting -

I surmised that Viktor serves a large segment of the East
Coast and personally takes in $24,000 to $32,000 per month
after all his other costs are covered.

Let's say he takes in an average of $30,000 per month. Does $360,000 annually sound like quite a small amount of money for running a highly illegal business that serves a large chunk of the East Coast?

Small-to-medium sized business owners, Wall Street traders, quants and very good engineers make that much money with none of the associated risk.
I would love if Google did this, but I see two significant problems.

1. Who stores my private key? Google? Chrome? Both seem troublesome

2. "Also, Google wouldn’t be able to scan and index the text of your e-mails. That’s a problem if you need to search for old emails not stored on your own machine. It could be a real issue for Google’s business model as well, which involves scanning the text of emails in order to place contextual advertising."

Unclear that Google would give up arguably their greatest personal data asset (better than search, imo), which of course is the key to their whole business model.
I used to track AAPL when I was interning at a financial services firm last summer, and I can assure you that their profit margin is around 20%. Since AAPL is publicly traded, this information is publicly available so anyone can verify it. I'm not sure where you get the idea that their profit margin is 70%.

According to Yahoo Finance (which is a pretty good resource for non-professionals), the profit margin is currently 21%.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL+Key+Statistics
Our long term plan is to make for less wading and more pleasant strolling.

If you (or anyone) notice an excellent-for-HN post that has fallen through the cracks, please let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. We're thinking of starting a search-and-rescue program for the tragically overlooked.
CBS says you shouldn't report sexual harassment
I guess I'm going to err on the side of hope, so for me it seems wired does have some sort of inside information. Not very much, apparently.

But a pre-product announcement from Google doesn't mean much, since they work on so many products. If they do decide to push it to "beta" (ha ha) I'll happily use it.

Either way, I would hope public key crypto does become more mainstream, especially in email.
Show HN: Simple file sharing tool written in python using flask
A Map of Every Nuke-Scale Asteroid Strike From the Last Decade
Naturally, they are returned in a uniform manner. To get any rotation (for edge differentiation) would require the ability to handle the cards (which he did not have) or the ability to convince someone to rotate cards (which is what it is alleged they did).

Additionally, Phil Ivey is an astonishingly good poker player (20M+ club, 8 braclets), but is known more as a degen on other games.
Codecademy (YC S11) hits 24 million students and launches a redesign
And audio, and camera... Etc.
Sounds cool! Lots of questions:

Do you need to worry about buying special coffee? That page seems to imply regular coffee has toxins?

Also where do you buy grassfed butter?

Do you really have to use a blender? That would definitely sap any potential time savings for me.
Matrix Diagonalization and the Fibonacci Numbers
Netflix and Hulu are Not Killing Cable
> Does hosting your own email truly isolate you from government surveillance?

Not by itself, no; the government can still get to you by getting access to the machine you host it on, or the switch the mail flows through on its way in and out from the outside world. Hosting your own just reduces the number of third parties the government can try to shake down to get access to your data.
MLB, NBA, and NHL all have streaming service for live games. They are still subject to blackouts though, which is crazy.
How to Build a Killer Node.js Client for Your REST API [video]
I think there's a lot of low hanging fruit for hackers to make improvements to agriculture.
My economically ignorant analysis: Every link in the chain demands a large danger premium. The cellular nature of the black market prevents him from sucking up all the profits himself: he has no way to influence the business models of those between him and the eventual user. Except by starting his own distribution chain, which is more risk than any sensible person would take on, even by drug dealing standards. Ever seen breaking bad?
Hi zds thank you for making codeacademy I've learnt a lot, started building, contributing to hackdays and generally taken my first step forward. No feedback right now just thanks.
This is what happens when you piss-off such a large number of people. Suddenly end-to-end encrypted e-mail not only becomes a differentiator but something that could get regular <gender neutral grand parent> excited.

For the hundredth time Thank you Snowden!
True, always the last 10% consume as much effort as the 90%
donatj, I would expect that both of those would work, but I can check into adding this as a feature. A lot of times this is actually an issue with CORS. The API would need to add a CORS header for freeboard.io. Or if the API supports JSONP, you can overcome this without a CORS header.
This looks awesome - I have been wishing for a resource exactly like this for a while now. With my first game under my belt I learned the hard way how difficult game programming can be. I need some high level advice and this looks perfect.

Thanks!
Can you elaborate? I am a user, and I don't understand what you mean by that.
Too bad there's no first-party app for hardware-accelerated 1080p/DD5.1 streaming on Windows like there is for Netflix and Hulu...
Hidden Options: A Workaround
I'm pretty sure when they realize how much they pay they never return.
Hard Books Are Overrated
> I've seen XML configurability used as an extension point for code that would otherwise be closed.

Take a step back, and think why that 'extension point' had to be closed to begin with. You're probably going to find either an architectural flaw, or a problem with your tooling that should not have required this sort of thing in the first place.

Also disturbing is that you are using XML to add a degree of expressiveness missing from whatever tooling you are using.