skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just in case anyone is still reading this--I failed to point this out better (or rather, GitHub fails to make it clear that you can even provide them), but there's a prebuilt binary here: https://github.com/drvink/electroportis/releases

Enjoy!
Shoot, the US chased Arbenz out of Guatemala going on 60 years ago with nothing much more than radio.
For design I agree. For verification, software techniques are often used and systemverilog has a lot of growing up to do.
No problem; I finally had time to open it up on my laptop, and it works fine in Chrome and Safari. I understand not doing any major updates for mobile/tablet users, but if would be nice to at least be able to see something :)
It's not a very good letter. I don't think most "brogrammers" are ignorant and unaware of Grace Hopper or maintain that girls can't code. Rather, they create and celebrate a workplace culture that no women (and only certain men) should be expected to tolerate.

Klout advertising for programmers to "bro up" isn't saying "yo, us men are better than women", it's saying "let us hang around like it's a fraternity, have some beer, ogle some sexual imagery and make crude jokes". (On the plus side, there's some camaraderie there for those who do fit into the culture, I guess.)
Okay, so it's 5th edition Unix running on a PDP-11 emulator. Slightly less interesting than a Unix running directly, but fun nevertheless.
Oh dear, the children are downvoting you. This is the inevitable consequence of an educational system where copying and pasting from the web counts as original work. These people actually believe that copying is being creative.
We use Cloudformation to define everything in our stack. The AutoScalingGroup resource has an attribute called UpdatePolicy that describes how instances with the new AMI are deployed into the existing autoscaling group.

As long as there is enough difference between the current number of instances in service and the maximum size of the ASG, existing instances won't be terminated until the new instances are passing healthchecks and the load balancer is sending them traffic. If the maximum has been reached, enough existing instances will be killed to provide room for the next batch of new instances.
Luckily, IMDB also shows Metacritic ratings next to their own user ratings. I take those into account before I make my decisions on what I'm going to rent/stream.

Far too often do you find a movie (usually a somewhat recent release) that's just flat out terrible despite having a > 7 score on IMDB (and usually a Metacritic score in the 30's or 40's)
"unlimited pipe"

Ha! Sorry can't read statements like that without laughing/cringing. We all lost our "unlimited pipe" years ago .. in fact I'd argue we never had it in the first place only that the technology prevented us from hitting our limits in the early days.
Shouldn't git add -A be used as default instead of git add . ?
Looks like it has to do with the fade in we do on page load. I'll try to see if I can do a quick fix because it's kind of a silly reason for it not to work. :-)
I don't see how that tells anything about culture of tech/startup sector at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQu3EcPRxRA

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All this happened here in the UK as well with iPlayer back in 2008:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7336940.stm

(Earlier reference in 2007: http://www.out-law.com/page-8384)

"Simon Gunter, from ISP Tiscali, said the BBC should contribute to the cost. He said the BBC did not understand the issues involved."

Can't find how it was settled, not at all IIRC.
It's not being used as a club to hit men; it's being used as a club to hit misogynistic idiots who feel big when they make other people who happen to be women feel small.
That sounds like maybe a failing for these particular managers? I guess every company is different, but it sounds like your managers may be failing to delegate properly, and you end up with a corporate structure where every step up the pyramid means doing what all the previous levels do, plus more. Often that has pretty detrimental effects from failure to properly delegate, but it doesn't have to be that way. That might be a trap that managers who were engineers have to work harder at to not fall into.
SRP is very simple. If two different people want to change a class for two different reasons, then pull those reasons into two different classes.

That is the SRP.

Example: A class that analyzes a data stream and prints a report. The data analysis will interest one group of people. The format of the report will interest another, different, group. The first group will ask for changes to the algorithms. The second will ask for changes to the format. The principle says to separate those two concerns.

This goes all the way back to David Parnas and the separation of concerns. His papers that describe it are freely available on the web. I suggest that they be studied, because they are full of wisdom and insight.
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What killed me was the financial incentives of the OpenSSL devs were directly opposed to cleaning it up. If you make money through consulting to fix it up on an ad hoc basis then having an impenetrable mess that everyone uses by default and you happen to be the one major expert in is very good for your earning potential.

What's worse is it seems like the incentives didn't line up to motivate a clean up, but they didn't convert that potential into actual cash either. Lose-lose.
There are many times when that isn't doable. Fortunately, you can swear off ever committing plaintext secrets to a repo. I use git-crypt:

https://github.com/AGWA/git-crypt
> I don't know how the business model works exactly, but I would imagine that paying people to narrate would be fairly expensive.

They sell premium memberships now that allow for things like offline listening and better playlist management.
Did I just read "buy an umbrella which will, amongst other things, track you; don't worry, it's for a Good Thing, honestly?"
"They’re detail-oriented, analytical and trained in systematic problem-solving. Engineers’ basic qualities make them good candidates for the top."

There's a significant element missing in this line of thought and it involves emotions/people. By this reasoning, a robot might also make a damn good CEO.
The irony is that they wanted to bury the movie on imdb, but they did such a good job that it is becoming a famous case study.
As an easier alternative to set up, you can require SSL client certificates.
I prefer the IMdB's ratings system over, say, meta-site Rotten Tomatoes.

At Rotten Tomatoes they rated Seth Rogen-vehicle "Neighbors" as 100%, last I checked. Meaning only: no reviewer at that point had said it was awful. And yet, I saw it and it was awful.

At IMdB, I can see that it rates as 7.6/10.0, and also that teenager voters loved it (9.0/10.0), where older viewers hated it (5.0/10.0). Far more useful information.

Gunday (the film of the parent article) gets fairer treatment from the IMdB's top 1000 users, who rate it 4.9/10.0
Do you have any interesting examples that you've found?
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great game so far from the demo
Maybe a solution could be weighting the vote according to the user history: a user leaving a single vote on a single movie shouldn't be as influential as an user that voted on a wider range of movies over time
Yep, it worked. Took a lot of playing about with it and this:

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/1931

but finally got it building on 12.04LTS
> FFS drones are basicly RC planes....

Ahem. It's a bit of a stretch to call Reapers and Predators RC planes. Not to mentioned UAV spacecraft[1, 2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37

[2] http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/unmanned-air-force-space-plane-l...
Every few months? That's not what he said.
"critical data"

There is no critical data in a grade school, like my kids school which uses GAE, and presumably will use this workforce automation stuff that appears to live on top of GAE. Even in high school or university, there just isn't "critical data".

Also classrooms don't rely on much other than the roof and HVAC. In practice, when the internet is down, the kids just do something else.
I'd give this comment 10 upvotes if I could.
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It's underscored by one of the quotes used to end the piece off:

Less impressed, Sharkey said the U.S. still has time to
rethink its drone future. “Don’t go to the next step.
Don’t make them fully autonomous. That will proliferate
just as quickly and then you are really going to be sunk.”

And the opening premise of the article is not only that armed UAV technology is spreading, but that the reader should somehow be concerned that the US is unable to stop it. It speaks about what options are available to US policy makers to govern the spread of the technology, correctly answering 'none' but not once mentioning that the US never had any ability to govern the spread of UAV technology. Especially because it was not the originator of it.

The rest of the article is ok, particularly the quotes attributed to Singer (an excellent writer on the subject), Sam Brennan and Mary Commings and the maps showing which countries are using or developing armed and unarmed UAVs. I just feel it's let down by the editorial slant and US-centric focus.
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I have a huge issue with low contrast text due to my eyes. Many sites I will simply not spend time on.
>> Water and electricity are quite cheap (in first world terms). There's an incentive not to be grossly wasteful with either

Interesting. I know that Americans use the most water, by far, compared to other countries, but do they also use the most internet?

The people who use 1TB/month on their home cable internet remind me of people like Lance Armstrong who spend $1,600 on their water bill in Austin.
Please kill the term "Brogrammers" with fire.
pants and search engines have pretty different customer expectations re: aesthetics
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For more information on the war, read the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Pakistani_War_of_1971
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Yes, but you had better be 100% sure that your escaping function is completely reliable, and the server hasn't introduced some new syntax since you wrote it that you aren't escaping properly.

I would trust parameters much more (although I have used proper escaping in the past).
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The content of this article is practically a transcript of this 2 minute 9 seconds long video on the "Google Webmasters" (official) Youtube channel, linked in the article; where Matt Cutts answers user asked questions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC5FDzUh0P4

I personally, generally like transcripts and texts more than videos - but this video/clip was so short that I found it easier to just watch that instead.
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And Google+ will overrun facebook...
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Sadly for too many user space applications that are better served with safer languages, having native compilers available, that tend to be ignored by many.
This is awesome. The source code is very short and concise. Thanks for sharing.
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A super EMP weapon?

http://www.infowars.com/russian-strategic-bombers-on-west-coast-did-they-take-down-los-angeles-air-traffic-control-systems/
I don't think they wanted to bury the movie. I think they wanted a mass showing of anger to demonstrate their power, to themselves and others. They want people to know who's doing it and why.
Absolute beginners.

Our advice box is something for people who want to learn more, it's not essential enough to be below the command before the output.
It's not that the rating is inaccurate... it's that a huge population of people that don't usually rate movies on IMDB has suddenly entered the rating pool. Maybe the solution is to have country-specific ratings, so that my ratings are averaged with the ratings of my peers, rather than the ratings of people in entirely different cultures.
Found this a really useful introduction to Git, thanks!
The issue he is referring to is the 'age cliff'.

When one child came in, the proportion of children to workers suddenly dropped. That was very useful for productivity, as people were working not caring for children.

The other side of that coin is the age cliff.

This is not a decline in population, so much as a change in the proportion of workers to old people. Note that because of the nature of work, 50 year olds in China are often at the end of their practical working life, because the work is hard and they are disabled.

The problem is similar to the baby boomers in America, suddenly, a smaller number of workers must support larger number of non-working old. However, it is much worse because the shift in birth rates was much sharper.

This is a problem for the next decade or so. However, like all these things, it does not necessarily mean the apocalypse. China has built up great wealth and interests overseas, and the government (which will end up carrying much of this cost) controls many of these interests. You would be looking at a shift from an economy that primarily produces, to an economy that primarily consumes, like the US.
Stereotypical guesses are the last thing I would like to see on Hacker News. There are good as well as bad movies all over the world.
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Yep. I pay for every spam text I receive. (Thankfully it's rare.)
As a Korean, the most surprising part of this article was that there was no mention of KakaoTalk. (But Naver was mentioned.)

KakaoTalk is literally the reason why people buy smartphones here. Seriously.
On second reading I see your point. I thought I was being sardonic but that didn't come across.

But I stand by the comment none the less. China has set its own precedent, and I see little reason to predict they will break with tradition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
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Well, interestingly, the problem here isn't quite that people are giving the movie false reviews. They might genuinely hate when this sort of thing happens -- bitter fights over terminology aren't particularly rare. The "problem" here is that they care more about the movie than do the general population of movie-watchers; if everyone on earth had to watch Gunday and rate it on imdb, all of these people might honestly rate it 1, but they would all be swamped by reviews from people who thought it was decent (and that group would likely be swamped by other 1-star reviews from people who didn't speak the language, but try not to focus on them).

It's similar to the problem of an author's "best" or most notable works getting lower crowd-sourced reviews than their average work. What happens there is that generally people only bother to read, and subsequently review, books that they think there's a good chance they'll like. If you're a mediocre author putting out filler in your genre, your 6th, average, book will get pretty good reviews because everyone who bought it knew what they were getting. If your 7th book happens to be excellent, hype will induce a lot of people who don't like your genre to buy it and see what everyone's talking about -- and they'll take it out on you in their reviews afterwards.
Barbra Streisand is in it.
There is another Portable VirtualBox distribution[1] that normally does not install any service or driver. Only if you want to use a "Bridge Network" you need to install the drivers. I usually work with "NAT" option and in that case you don't need to install anything.

[1] http://portableappz.blogspot.com/2012/08/virtualbox-4120-801...
This is what I was thinking when reading the article. IIRC, east Pakistan was getting massacred (literally) until India stepped in and essentially beat West Pakistan.
This looks like it has potential. If you scroll quite some distance down the kickstarter page and find the "bgeditor" youtube video, you can actually infer a lot about the project.
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They're increasing barriers to entry, as they do in every maturing industry.
A better phrase would have been "not entirely open-source".
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Heck, I can have an armed drone next month. Buy a quadrotor coptor, an Arduino kit, a camera and a GPS chip. Some software and anybody can deliver a charge to a location and make a Youtube video of the whole thing.

Its way past technology outpacing our ability to react. The brave new world is here, with such wonders in it.
It is a stretch, but not a huge one. UAV tech used in the military has a high degree of variation. They use everything from custom made [1] UAVs with a lawn mower engine on up to full jet powered aircraft to the spacecraft you've linked to. The lower end aircraft are the more portable ones (can be carried into a region) and really aren't much more complex than a hobbyists RC plane. Primary difference being the sensor package and hopefully a more secure communication and control system than the typical hobbyist RC aircraft would use.

[1] EDIT: I suppose, really, all of them are custom and not COTS, yet. I meant one-off, low production UAVs with a specific application in mind. Their design standards are far lower (because of cost) and have no real maintenance plan (again, because of cost). They just need cameras in the sky in a specific area, and sending another aircraft (like Predator) out may not be feasible (cost, time, risk).
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As lnanek2 said below Kickstarter and Tindie are serving 2 different markets. Kickstarter allows projects that require things like tooling to be crowdfunded prior to launch. You cannot supply a plastic spoon product to customers before you have the spoons.
As a student I had to use Moodle in several courses. I, and I think most of my year, hated it with passion. Yet we had no place to send feedback to. A bunch of undergrads bitching about crappy UX - no one will listen to them. Maybe let's make the next a bit harder, so that those undergrads shut up and know their place. Damn, no one listen to our feedback about more serious issues. High-schoolers are even less likely to speak up. They deal with what they get, without a feeling things could be different.

So maybe you had very little negative feedback because there were no channels available for your students to express such feedback?

Moodle is a broken, confusing and aesthetically unpleasant piece of software, with only one upside - it's self-hosted.
More information at https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/launching-feedback-channel...
Armed drones could be a very cheap, effective part of any such strategy.
I don't think so, Inno Setup supports silent installs, this has never been a deal breaker for me.
> Japanese manufacturers were notoriously absent from these stores, except for the Camera section where Sony and Canon were widely represented.

...meanwhile, in Japan, 'who are Samsung?' 'Didn't know they made phones...'
I have looked at a number of web scraping products and my largest client uses one of the established products pretty extensively. Your front page is very focused on using site searches as the starting point. Are there more full blown features available?

I note that the pricing page mentions an API but doesn't give much of a sense of what features are available programmatically.
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Found the bug. I did a maintenance update of jQuery on April 29th and they removed a (bad) $.browser method we used for some reason. Reverted and deploying so it should work on iOS from now on. Give it 5 minutes for the soft restart to kick in.
I'm not sure I understand the relationship of this Chanos article from 2 years ago to the posted article, whcich details comments from the Nomura Group, which, as far as I can tell, has no relationship to Chanos.

I also disagree with some of Chanos' points regarding rent. At least in Beijing, rent is quite expensive, and unaffordable for most Chinese. Unmarried people live with multiple roommates in places that, to the American eye, look like slums. Rents in Beijing went up an average of 20% last year (although we talked my landlord down to 10%, I think). Now it might be that rents as a proportion of the owner's income is not worth the hassle, thay could very well be. But rents in Beijing are not affordable.

Regarding vacancies, the common wisdom among expats in Beijing is that the reason is that people consider apartments to lose value if it is rented. That might be related to the reputation of Chinese renters; I have heard from a number of sources that renters in China often trash the place, although I have no way to verify that.

Anyway, if the point of the parent post is to say that this article is incorrect because some cried wolf two years ago, I strongly disagree. 20% rent increase per year (or even 10%) is not sustainable. Nor is that exponential curve in the article sustainable. The crash may or may not have happened, and may or may not happen in the future, but the current situation cannot continue forever.
The sad thing is, that conflict of interest exists for nearly every open-source project out there. The only real way to make money from creating open source is to do consulting based on your expertise, or an"open-core" model like nginx. Both of these become less profitable as the quality of the open-source code increases.
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That was also what I thought. But in the end he suggests porting a 6th edition unix and a few other things. I did a quick google search but I found nothing suggesting that anybody picked up this task.
Isn't that movie not even out yet? I always wait for the reviews once the movie is actually out.
If robots performed to the calibre of hyper-rational beings like Jeff Bezos, then you would be right - robots would make damn good CEOs!
And if you noticed slowdowns due to traffic shaping and your ISP with their government-enforced monopoly said, "We're racketeering. It's going to add another $9/month on your bill." of course you'd pay it. You'd have no choice.

Building more capacity and offering better service doesn't really enter into the picture in most American cities.
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Definitely "first world problems", but great suggestions.
Also the range of their votes.

If someone only gives 10s or 1s to everything, their vote of 10, should probably have less weight, than someone who distributes their votes more evenly.
Yes, the focus (at this point) is on finding a search box on the target site and executing a search there. The first version of the API is still being developed but would be a pretty similar mapping of the current feature set. Notable power of the API: paging indefinitely through the search results, searching multiple sites at once, clustering of multiple instances on VPSs, queueing of searches to pop the results back later, POST and GET requests (so you could bookmark searches).

Edit: for the API, also considering a feature to disable AJAX support for scraping per each request. Much time is spent in DOM parsing and timeouts for unknown async requests on target sites.