skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a pair of OXO kitchen shears and it goes through the clam shells very easily. They combine good leverage, very sharp blades, and just a bit of serration. With any other tool I've struggled as you have, but these make it pretty straightforward to open them.
It's apocryphal [0], but I'm reminded of Thomas Jefferson's quote:

"I am a great believer in luck -- the harder I work, the more I have of it."

[0]: http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/i-am...
Are you sure you understand how pension funds work?

> politicians decided they could siphon money from it in exchange for IOUs

No funds have been "siphoned" out of Social Security. It's not a bank account. When contributions exceed payments, the excess is invested in US Treasurys. When payments exceed contributions, those assets are sold to make up the difference.

> instead of being full of the earnings from past contributions, it's full of IOUs from the Treasury

Is your argument that instead of purchasing Treasurys, some other asset should have been used? Like what, municipal bonds? Corporate bonds? Real estate? Gold?

How do companies and other countries manage their pension funds? Do they not invest in IOUs of governments or corporations?
Ask HN: What do you use to organize your knowledge?
What are the tools, tricks, systems you use to record things you learn? Notebooks, text files, software or cloud apps? Do you have any custom, inventive ways to maintain your personal knowledge base?
Direct buying and selling requires ::effort::, thinking, spending on expertise, and salespeople. Dumping ads into a network that quotes absurd numbers and promises everything requires pressing a button and going to get coffee.

This.

Online advertsing is a micro-transactions model. With print and Tv you have a single touch-point with the publisher or network, and they have a single-pipe-channel to N users. With online, the content is de-fragmented into individual sales units on an individual users screen. Each pixel of real-estate is de-bundled and needs to be bought/sold/negotiated. That is a massive amount of cognitive overhead on the business side. And, on the creative side...there is way too much variation/uncertainty about the context to fully tailor the creative elements to each user/context (way too expensive). This explains the huge "value add" of reducing complexity. If you can sell remnants with a 1-click solution, you just saved somebody some pain. And that guy/gal has a budget and needs to make numbers...so you can negotiate a cut.
yeah, and it's just a total coincidence that AT&T's upgrades that they've been "planning all along" are only in the cities that google announces Fibre in.
While the original phrase was FUBARed, the common use of "foo" and "bar" as placeholder variables has lead to programmers using foobar instead. Of course foo and bar come from FUBAR, just using 3 letters for each.
We're aiming for a project where all commits receive public scrutiny. This includes how the project is governed.

We're discussing contributing guidelines here:

https://github.com/clearcrypt/clearcrypt/pull/2

Initial code PR with a ChaCha20 implementation here:

https://github.com/clearcrypt/clearcrypt/pull/3
If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend The Four Pillars of Investing by Bernstein. Goes into a bit more depth than his newer books, but it's still very readable.
U-Verse is "triple play" so he probably had phone(s), TV(s), and Internet.
Hmm. Makes sense, I guess. Served a useful purpose. Thanks for the info. :) Also, shame on my high school journalism teacher for not having pointed that out.
Depends how you define token? They have about 5 million subscribers on FTTH. Supposedly passing 18M houses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_FiOS#Stable_footprint_....

Note: I was focused on them being technical leaders. Which they were. I make no endorsement of their business practices. Also they were not the first to FTTH in the US or not the world, just the first big mover in the US.
So no, data is not rented, thanks for acknowledging that.
I'm due to get fibre installed later this month. Can't wait to go from 10mbit/0.8mbit ADSL to 100/50.
'Breakfree’ Will Cure You Of Your Cell Phone Addiction; Much Needed
be around smart people

Can't stress that enough. It made a huge difference for me during university.
My friend calls these Bootstrap driven, template looking designs 'IKEA websites'... I think it's a very accurate metaphor in many different ways.
The Function Object
Oh cool, I'm sure the article is not really relevant anymore today since our profession must have collectively learned how to do large projects. Oh wait[1].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/25/obama-appoints-...
Again, my statement was focused on the technical side. They were ahead a bit there. I am not endorsing their business or policts although they did indirectly pay my bills for a few years.

I actually think part of the problem is that no one in the bay area seems to know about FiOS because it doesn't exist here. They do offer the service to 15% or so of US household, but not me, or other folks by the bay.
I've learned to not hold my breath when companies talk about releasing stuff (e.g. an API), especially when they say they're "working hard" on it...
There are issues with Glusterfs, specifically that it's userspace and uses FUSE, small IO kills performance due to context switches.
$1.9M assuming you start at 25 with 15% on a $100K salary ($15K stashed away) and retire at 65. I'm assuming real returns of 5%.

You have a point. That is not even safe retirement money today and definitely not in 40 years time.
Hi, I'm on the board of the Online News Association, participant of Hacks & Hackers in LA, attendee of IRE_NICAR... I am more than happy to help connect you to people on NY or elsewhere. The news industry, like other industries, needs engaged developers. Happy to chat: @webjournalist

UPDATE: I think you and I met at SXSW... I introduced you to a couple of people. We never heard from you. Happy to reconnect again.
That's what I was wondering ty
Got it. Apparently I tried with a very short sentence! Thanks!
Natural language interfaces can be very frustrating when they (inevitably) don't recognize (or worse, misinterpret) your input... I'd rather have commands that are easy to remember (i.e. simple and consist).
One Mad Scientist’s Bid to Build Cancer-Causing Nanorobots
It's Not About the Result
ARM tests: Intel flops on Android compatibility, Windows power
Brain 1.0
Great, can Google Fiber take a serious look at our market in Australia: the current chumps running the country seem to be taking backward steps with the previous government's (admittedly ambitious) plans for a National Broadband Network every day.
This is stll ridiculous pricing. I pay something like 120 a month for tv, hbo included, and 30 mbps internet. Unless he has every station on earth, he's being overcharged,
I did not ask a question - I wanted the poll to clarify what architectural changes were to be made in order for the minimap feature to exist. :-)
Could mitigate that with the heater job running at a nice level of 19 or so. Will keep the CPU under load, but server tasks will run with only a slight degradation.
Sonic Boom: How digital technology is transforming our relationship with sound
Where are you located? If possible, pick a lawyer who is used to working with tech startups. Such lawyers will sometimes do free "office hours", which is a good opportunity for you to "interview" the lawyer.
Sorry, you lost me at "Doesn't work in Firefox". d3 is compatible with Firefox, and so it JavaScript and SVG. So what's breaking here?

Edit: Dove into the code. Looks like Chrome and IE improperly implement the DOM spec for insertBefore(). insertBefore requires two arguments: newChild and refChild [0] Only one is being passed in these examples.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=964212
I remember I bought a book probably one or two years ago and it was available on Amazon (but it was sold by BD behind) and directly by BD and BD was cheaper.
Scaling your customers from dozens to thousands
Show HN: My first Ember app, get great meeting times between timezones
The "Gradle DSL" and Groovy's grammar are the same thing, mixed together in one Antlr file, and probably the largest programming language grammar I've ever seen. Here it is for Groovy 1.8, the version that shipped the paren-less parameters that Gradle uses:

http://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/eclipse/trunk/base/org.codeha...
I keep getting this error, in Firefox and Chrome:

<Error> <Code>AccessDenied</Code> <Message>Access Denied</Message> <RequestId>3CB1F41D7DFDC794</RequestId> <HostId> wHCPzEYPDsmkMJX+YIgjU40YPrGYytHrk5B44dApi7663NkQQI0RKx9A/6EX7Iph </HostId> </Error>
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Given that the FAA just had problems in the last week with what seems to be a software upgrade, the temporal context is particularly relevant.
In an alternate universe where Linus Torvalds did not exist, I think one of the other free Unix clones would have gained more traction and filled that niche in the ecosystem. It would be interesting to peek into the universe where FreeBSD really struck it big. (And I'd also like to see the universe where Gnu HURD took over, although that seems a lot less likely.)
Pressing the button
Reasons why a numpad on a laptop is a bad idea
Valve takes the same approach.
When you mentioned Jordan Mechner, memories of me and my father playing Prince of Persia came into my mind :) It is arguably one of the best games ever!

Also a point that is to be noted is, back then every game developer was a kind of indie.
OO is still oversold in my opinion. Functional programming may be an up and coming star, but OO dominates industry still.
What users ask for is not necessarily what they want. A good designer listens to what users say, but doesn't follow them to the letter.

('Twas the night before Christmas variation on this topic: http://www.daclarke.org/Humour/sware-engr.html)
Just out of curiosity, which bootcamps did these candidates come from?
I dug into this a bit. A good metric by which to measure exciting (and very controversial) papers like the one referenced by that link is to see whether the papers have been replicated by others in well-regarded journals.

While the principal author of that article published an equally-controversial paper in 2005, follow-up studies suggest that there are no newly-generated egg cells in mammals [1]. I think it's fair to say, again, that stem cells don't play a role in maturation of adult egg cells.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23630252
Well deserved, Linus is a revolutionary (along with the people that backed him up).

Linux and git have radically changed the face of technology.
$5-20B. And the many x86 unix clones... not so much.
What's the difference? Was Linux technically superior? Freedom? Community? GNU?
Interesting questions indeed.
Here is what I did. I got a recommendation from someone I trust who has run (and sold) a few successful businesses. This was years before I started my current venture. Reached out and ask the attorney to read my employment contracts every few years. It only ever took an hour or two of his time for each one and built trust on both sides. (you would be amazed the stuff in employment contracts btw... it's always worth the couple hundred bucks to have them looked over.)

When my partner and I were hashing out our operating agreement it was an easy call to make and the trust was already established. I guess this is not very helpful to your situation since you are already in it but I'd suggest going to someone you trust and asking for a personal recommendation. Someone with experience like ejain said is a good idea as well.
Do that same thing with a TV: http://www.hometime.com/Hometime_4.0/video/VideoCollectorPag...

Hidden bathroom TV, behind the mirror.
Actually, "FUBARed" means "fucked up beyond all recognitioned" and it makes about as much sense as "foobared". If you're going to nitpick, nitpick right. :-)
This article worried me - because I'm ~19 and hadn't even considered not going to college. This is despite being directly in the discussed demographic. I have pretty conclusive evidence that I'm hiring material to some of these companies and have conceived of, planned, and built user-facing multiple technical projects independently.

However, I've never thought of skipping out on college. I live in a very affluent area and even the academically worst-off seniors usually end up going to decent 4-year programs.

The idea that so many people similar to me at my age would miss college for a startup or similar experience worries me because it makes me think that the community I've grown up with has distorted my perception of the opportunities available to me. It's time to take a long reevaluation of my plans, I think.
OBox – Tor powered anonymity
Is this what you're looking for? thlorenz.github.io/browserify-markdown-editor/
XSS in the Open | GitHub: `echo $_GET`
Indeed it is. Perhaps I wasn't articulate enough; I disagree with the notion that the Japanese are "deadly afraid of commitment and responsibility."
I said nothing about an impl, I mean

wget -vv http://localhost:8080/bigbin.bin --header="Range:bytes=1000-20000" -O test.out
curl -vvv http://localhost:8080/bigbin.bin --header "Range: bytes=1000-200000" -o test.out

Both of these got 350MB/s +

for impl, it isn't terribly difficult

In [2]: from requests import Request, Session
In [3]: s = Session()
In [8]: req = Request('GET', 'http://localhost:8080/bigbin.bin', headers = { 'Range' : 'bytes=1000-2000000' } )
In [9]: prepped = s.prepare_request(req)
In [10]: %timeit resp = s.send(prepped)
1 loops, best of 3: 238 ms per loop

All of these are faster than what he outlined. So there is some _other_ issue going on. His hand rolled http request is faster but not for the reason he thinks. Crack out some wireshark, not some code.
I throw every random information in an Evernote notebook. For more complex stuff, like what are my priorities this month, I draw a mindmap using MindNode. Also, I've got in a habit of reviewing all my important notes and trim them every month.

Finally, I put all the interesting web articles in Pocket, because I search them later.

I tried to make flashcards in Anki for random stuff, but it didn't work out.
I just visited my sister in Australia and much worse than the speed was the bandwidth caps. Instead of unlimited, she bought credit for a specific amount of data. Is that how it works all over?
Using D3 adds a lot more power, but this approach seems far more complicated than Framer (which integrates with Photoshop and Sketch).

http://www.framerjs.com/start/
A reasonable article on how cable companies can respond.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/why-co...

tl;dr: by using more spectrum in the coax cable can get pretty fast... So pressure from Google should get them to crank up the speed sooner than later.
FUSE is overridden more and more with the introduction of gfapi. Qemu and Samba can now both "talk" it, so you don't need FUSE for that any more, for example.

The native client still uses it though and this is unlikely to change too soon, afaik.

The performance hit is disputable, there aren't really better alternatives. Most distributed filesystems out there are using FUSE too (XtreemFS, MooseFS) and I am not touching Lustre.

There are issues with everything, your dismissing it like that is not really fair or constructive.
It might not be exactly what you're looking for, but check out some of the listings here https://source.opennews.org/en-US/jobs/ or here http://www.newsnerdjobs.com/
It makes copy/paste programming so much more difficult...
Many of us go our own way for maximum flexibility. You'd be surprised how easy it is to write a modern live editor as long you are given the right tools for font rendering and extracting font metrics. The hard part is achieving the liveness, though.
When the bubble bursts, then it'll be thanks to tight monetary policy, ironically. Sweden is now experiencing monetary-policy driven deflation, and hopefully I don't have to explain why that's a bad thing for a population with high household debt.
> customers don't need that kind of speed.

Sure they don't, they also don't need bluray or terabyte hdds either... Should be rephrased to 'We hope customers don't realize they can use that type of speed.'
If you can get what you need to done who cares?
You can't learn everything.

I don't know Ruby. I don't know Node. I probably never will and I don't care. Because I can do the same type of things with Python and JS. Time is limited and I don't have it for learning redundant ways of doing the same thing (unless someone is paying me... that's different).

You should learn Git though. That's important.
This[0] was upvoted a lot on HN when it appeared. A friend of mine has already had good results. Also read the discussion[1] and you will find other nice resources.

[0]: http://www.mysliderule.com/web-dev

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7501516
And there are people renting phones - yes, phones, really cheap ones too, those with only the 12 buttons and no other functions - for over $50 a month, from their telephone companies. These customers are mostly elderlies. It was just sickening.

(Worked at a call center)
Indeed - I would say this is probably the most important thing. I spent the first three years of my career in an Office Space BigCorp environment with colleagues and managers who were - well, I don't want to say stupid, but not terribly motivated, or intellectually curious, or particularly invested in the quality of their work. Emerging from that environment into one full of extraordinarily sharp and ambitious people who had spent years honing their craft and investing in themselves, and having to suddenly perform on their level, was a shock and an extremely unpleasant lesson in opportunity costs.
As much as I have problems with the current govt. here in NZ. We're getting Fibre to the Home rolled out and it seems to be working. My suburb (admittedly one of the nicest in the country...) has got it already and it's pretty great. We just had two of the biggest ISP's announce unlimited fibre for $110 per month with a phone line, ~$80 Naked.

Things are getting better here slowly, can't believe how retarded the liberal party is over the NBN.
There isn't a doubt in my mind that if someone came along and said what the actual grand structure and meaning of reality is, most people on the Internet would dismiss it as college stoner thoughts out of hand.
I was wondering the same thing. I'm not much of a gamer these days, but back when I played a lot of LMCTF, it was all about latency (and the offhand grapple). Have game engines gotten so much worse that bandwidth is now an issue, or is this just artistic license?
I`m starting to work on a marketing tool which will be a combination of displaying popups like Bounce Exchange(http://bounceexchange.com/) and Tweetganic(http://www.tweetganic.com/) or http://snip.ly/.

Currently Social Media Management tools like Hootsuite provide a link shortner so it's relatively easier for them to integrate a service like http://snip.ly/ however they don't.

The product I'm thinking to create will allow anyone to manage, split test their pop ups and promote themselves using a service like snip.ly. An analytics module will accompany the product so all the data can be meaningfully used to enhance the campaigns.

Hope I was able to clearly explain my idea. Would detail out some more if anyone is interested.
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With DRBD you are stuck with 2 nodes and OCFS2 has given me nothing but head aches, at least in trying to getting it to work in CentOS 6. Apparently Oracle is "forcing" people to use their RHEL clone or at least their kernel to get OFCS2.
When I had to use DRBD I went with CLVM.

Having said that, starting with v3.4.0 gfapi can be used if your Qemu supports it (it's the case with CentOS 6.4+ or Ubuntu 14.04), therefore bypassing the FUSE layer. This should give you an improved performance.
Three Graphs About Trying and Failing
Stellar Releases New Powerful Data Recovery Utility for Windows
Recover lost or deleted files in seconds. Recently, the updated version 6.0 is released to address many data loss circumstances like files recovery from encrypted hard drives and similar.

Please go ahead and share your feedback about the same.
Eminem has spoken about how much he enjoys playing with words. One of the techniques he's mentioned is taking two words that don't rhyme and bending the sound of each about half way towards each other.
it's all good!
Is there reliable data on the dongle market share?

My anecdotal evidence speaks against Intuit's GoPayment. Every. Single. Transaction I tried with Intuit's dongle on day one was classified as fraud and required sending a fax to someone at Intuit with things such as "copy of invoice", "copy of business agreement between two parties", and "copy of physical credit card imprint" (mind you, for a digital dongle). I'm sure most of merchants who have a need for dongle are excited to maintain such extensive documentation per each transaction, but the Intuit dongle is collecting dust for now, even though I'm probably counted as an active user on their platform, as my account is not killed and is active.
Other than being fun; I can't quite see the benefit of making my shell more verbose. I'm sure I am not the only one who can get by with the regular commands through mnemonics.

And to further my point; if this was such a good idea, then why has nobody aliased 'ls' to list, 'cp' to copy, (etc.)? Or, while we're at it, 'list files', or 'list files in current directory'. Maybe someone has and I just didn't meet them yet.

I do see the point of a programming language to be a bit more verbose, since it makes sharing between humans easier, as understanding old codebases – but even there, people are split (Java is too verbose! Ruby is natural! Lisp is too much abbreviated! etc.). But using a shell, issuing commands, is fundamentally different to programming, in my opinion. Consider the analogy of a crane (just to avoid cars for once), what would you prefer: Waving your finger around in thin air, or using levers? And before you answer that: while the former seems way more cool, it doesn't work well. Getting rid of mechanical controls has been tried experimentally by the Air force (I read that back in the 90's; sorry no link to a source now): They were able to interpret commands from the pilots brainwaves, but manual control was consistently faster. We humans just evolved this way: Thinking of moving a plane into particular direction is slower than moving your hand accordingly to yank a stick – it seems to have a higher more mental load for us. Do you picture your arm moving your mouse? I bet you "just do".

But I digress; though the fundamentals in play are the same. My fingers are fast; why should I slow down the whole thing by making them type more?

Of course, a shell using of single-letter commands would be equally useless to an overly verbose shell. The sweet spot, in the end, might be a personal preference and dependent of daily usage and experience. In my case, that's a bit more than the POSIX command set, and – to exaggerate a bit – not writing essays on the command line.
Exactly... I was talking about cat'ing the JAR file to a shell script. It's a pretty simple ant or maven task. (Or just 'cat script.sh myjar.jar > executable')

I don't know if this works on Windows or not... Never tried - it's been a long time since I've used Windows. And even then, if I needed to do command line work, I would install Cygwin. I don't know why it wouldn't work with batch files though. Do they get a reference to their own name as an argument?
Mostly these type of software provide a policy system where you can set a rule so after every x days you'll be forced to change your passwords.

However, automating this process for 3rd party apps would require to connect to the apps in a way that it allows the product to change passwords of your other accounts.

I'm not even sure if 3rd party apps provide you the API to change password etc from another product. If that can be done then this product is very feasible.