skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't even make sense because the modern usage is almost exclusively a pejorative term that is only used for some subset of white men. If you look through urban dictionary or YouTube, you'd be have to scroll a pretty long time to see any other usage. Saying that women are discriminated against because they can't be called bros is like saying white people are discrimated against because they can't be called racial slurs for African Americans.
True, but that is just performing the same data mocking that the ADB method uses. It really doesn't change my statement.
I'm amused by the fact that your drop-down menu doesn't include Amazon's original market: books.
"This will do you no good. They are using a hijacked PBX. There is no way possible they are going to make it that easy to find them."

Yup. But more likely the caller is using SIP. Which is easy to manipulate to one needs. Quickly too. PBX's, when hacked (and they are hacked regularly), are being used to sell calls. And most PBX's rely on service from carriers. Carriers usually set the CID info (they'll set it to what you want - but it takes time). But with SIP it's a different story. I could call you sitting in Russia and you'd think I was down the street.

And it gets worse too. Cause most carriers (ATT, Earthlink, Verizaon, Windstream, XO, etc, etc) got lazy and greedy and are now using SIP to host 800 service. And all the carriers are getting hacked DAILY.

So reporting the number is a waste of time. If the carrier traced it (and they won't) they'd probably trace it back to their own service.

So it's buyer beware really. I trust email more than phone calls.

PS: I didn't mean to imply these guys are from Russia. They could be (a lot of shit has it's roots in that country - since its mob rule basically), but PLENTY of Americans are scamming too.
I agree with your general feeling that Oil has had a positive ROI, but I doubt it is very high after all the cleanup is paid for.
Yup, establishments shouldn't even serve liquids in inadequate containers. Either the customer should provide their own travel mug (such as a zojirushi or thermos nissan mug) or they should provide much safer disposable mugs. The crap cups that McDonalds offers are simply not up to the task.

If necessary, they can do the same thing as SF does with the bag fee:

-- coffee in your own mug costs like 69 to 99 cents.
-- coffee in a disposable mug that is adequately safe costs 99 cents plus the cost of the safe mug.

TBH, even for situations where safety isn't a concern, I'd love to see the bag fee concept extended to pretty much everywhere where disposable containers are used.
It used to be that phishing emails were easily sniffed out due to the poor grammar. It was always immediately clear that they were coming from non-native speakers and, hence, obviously not the product of the major bank, etc. they claimed to represent. And, I always thought, "Good grief, if these guys would only hire native English speakers to write their crap (or simply copy a legit e-mail) and take a couple of other similarly easy steps, they'd be in business in a big way".

It all pointed to the fact that there'd be a day when their increased sophistication, coupled with their boldness, would make it nearly impossible for the average person to sniff them out. And, beyond that, even seasoned tech folks would someday be vulnerable. That day is fast approaching.

The good guys are losing and we need a completely new model for dealing with this stuff. "Protecting" access to information has long been an untenable goal, and any new model must make it such that everyone's personal information could be completely public without that fact exposing them to any risk. It's nuts that we all walk around with just a few bits of info which, if gleaned by a bad guy, could completely destroy us. It's also nuts that we walk around with a couple of numbers that we are routinely encouraged to give out to a myriad of people/systems, but if they ever once fell into the wrong hands, could be a gold mine for a scammer.

We also need more international cooperation combined with super-stiff penalties, as there is currently no downside risk for these guys. The current model is esentially: Try. If it doesn't work or the fraudster is discovered, then try again.
When I was looking for jobs as a new CS grad a friend who works at the FBI sent me a job description for their computer scientist role. IIRC the starting salary was $45-50k. By comparison I was getting offers from big tech companies for $90k not including signing bonus and stock options.
Apart from working out which .tex file corresponds to which piece of text, the files are tricky to read because they contain both english and russian strings delimited by some kind of macro.

Any hints on editing this?
That may be why the temperature was set the way it was initially, but a big part of the court case was that they had had many instances of people burning themselves on the coffee and had decided it was cheaper to settle repeatedly.
Spontaneous Dance Combustion 
Amazing shirtless guy does spontaneous dance whenever he gets a chance. Bollywood Swag!
If I'm interested in reverse engineering, but at a higher abstraction than this book - let's say there is a game client communicating with server and I want to understand what the format of the packet is (ie. application level rather than all the way down) - does the question make any sense? And where could I find material for it?
I think the article makes a good case for retaining tort law, but when it comes to people's health and safety, a public health system, combined with government lead scheme to enforce product safety through the criminal courts would be a better answer to some of the problems.

If the government proactively monitored product safety and responded to complaints, it would be able to shut down dangerous practices (and doctors consistently making bad decisions) before problems happen, and also engage in education so that businesses that aren't aware that their products could be dangerous can fix the problems.

If a someone is injured, it is reasonable for the government to pay for this to support the public, because otherwise getting the financial support the unlucky injured person needs depends on being able to afford a lengthy legal battle, and also on the business being unable to pay. In addition, some decisions are a trade-off (especially for doctors); for example, getting an X-ray might increase your chances of cancer, but might also detect a very rare disease; a doctor might reasonably decide, in the patient's best interest, that given the symptoms, the increased risk of cancer is not worth the miniscule risk of not detecting the disease. If the patient is then severely injured by the disease, should the doctor have to pay out? If the patient gets support from the government either way, then the question doesn't need to be answered. It is likely that malpractice suits encourage doctors to minimise the risk that the patient can prove a tort, rather than to act in the best interests of the patient - it is very hard to prove that a particular X-ray contributed to cancer later in life.

This is also fairer to businesses, because when a certain decision is unsafe relative to other practices but has a low probability of resulting in a lawsuit, most small or medium sized business engaging in the risky practice may never actually have the bad outcome happen, purely due to luck. If the government prosecutes unsafe practices, rather than the civil courts award punitive damages when unsafe practices lead to a bad outcome, businesses are discouraged or prevented from 'playing the lottery', and the desired public policy outcome of fewer unsafe practices is more directly achieved. Likewise, businesses that play it safe by industry standards but, through bad luck, have a bad outcome are not over-punished for being unlucky (this applies especially to doctors making necessary trade-offs).
Oops, personal oversight! Thanks, added it in.
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Freebird! ... I mean FreeBSD!
Site down? Fall back to S3
Kaspersky reports the URL as a phishing site.

"The requested URL cannot be provided

URL:

http://amazon.frankjwu.com/

Blocked by Web Anti-Virus

Reason: phishing URL

Click here if you believe that the web page has been blocked mistakenly.

Detection method: heuristic analysis"
"In late 2005 it acquired NetNewsWire and hired me."
"I shipped NetNewsWire Lite 4.0 on the Mac App Store, and a couple months later sold NetNewsWire to Black Pixel..."

How do you sell a product after it has been acquired by another company? Did he somehow retain independent ownership of the Lite version?
Funny. I'd always thought of it as also denoting a chronological sequence. For instance, here, originally a bedroom which later fell into use as an office.

Not sure why I've had that impression, but it seems (if I recall) that its usage typically supports that implication.
What exactly did he loose by having his brain dissected postmortem?
The writing here is very nice. I wish my writing carried itself as well. Beyond the style and structure, the tone of the article is remarkable and lovely. Cynicism wrapped in love and hope and nostalgia.

Nice work.
Idea Sunday
Continuing the tradition for the second sunday of the month...
GitHub Down with a 503
Large Public Datasets
Edit: Perhaps if you wanted to compare the average for all of Europe to estimates of European Early Modern Humans that might be reasonable, however that's not what you did.

They where discovered in Europe, but the current theory is they did not originate in Europe note the direct link from that Wikipedia page: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Cro-Magno...

"The term "Cro-Magnon" soon came to be used in a general sense to describe the oldest modern people in Europe. ... However, analyses based on more current data[8] concerning the migrations of early humans have contributed to a refined definition of this expression. Current scientific literature prefers the term "European Early Modern Humans" (or EEMH), instead of "Cro-Magnon". The oldest definitely dated EEMH specimen is the Grotta del Cavallo tooth dated in 2011 to at least 43,000 years old."

Note: "the term 'Cro-Magnon,' which has no formal taxonomic status" current evidence suggests they where effectively genetically identical to modern humans. Their diet was simply better leading to larger growth vs any significant DNA differences.
It's worth noting that modern day China still has quite a bit of affirmative action. College entrance exam scores, for example, give bonus points to ethnic minorities.
Well there was some mention of the cups not being fit for purpose and the temperature not being the standard which are valid points, but I do not think it is fitting to stress or mention the severity of the injuries (as many people here are doing) when debating the issue at hand. How severe the injuries are is immaterial to any negligence on the part of McDonalds. That is just logic. To illustrate: I could buy a "harmless" marshmallow from a sweet shop and then kill myself with it, by using it to block my airway.
The guy who made Banished contracted his way through the lengthy (something like 4 years) development. Functionally it cost him a lot of money and effort over time, but he did not need the extra overhead of a publisher (unless you consider Steam a sort of pseudo-publisher, which it is).

Money is just a thing we use to get other people who don't like us enough to work for us for free to do things for us. There are ways to get resources to make development possible beyond saving up a ton of cash (which carries a lot of risk in and of itself).
I was waiting for this post :)

They are investigating: https://twitter.com/githubstatus
It's called the Insurance Effect. People are willing to pay more for flat rate, which includes "carrying" high volume users, to insure against bill shock if their usage patterns change. Humans are bad at estimating bandwidth use, and pricing that removes that requirement has real value.
The site is way impressive. I recently produce a resume using it. One of the best features I didn't see mentioned was the fact that it either stores everything locally or in such a way that a local cookie identifies you uniquely to the server, even if you are not logged in. So if your computer happens to shutdown during editing, or if you close the tab, or whatever, returning to the website will drop you in right where you left off. The only complaint I had was the delay on auto-updating, but the manual updating was more then sufficient.
:( Well, I'm planning on open-sourcing it after I clean up the code, so you could check it out then.
I was waiting for this post :)

Let's see who the Saturday team is!
For anyone reading this at the time of this post, GitHub is down.
Sell something you own. Offer a service to a neighbor. Tutor someone. Pan Handle. Busk.
Wireshark, Deep Packet Inspection and similar might be terms you can look after to find out more. RFCs are what you need to understand the protocols (if they are public standards)
This is a part of what's wrong with modern western culture. Statements must be filtered not by truth, but by how comfortable they make us feel. If someone is made to feel like they're not special, they become instantly offended.

It reminds me of the research that was done a couple of decades ago now, about IQs among various ethnic groups in the US. This research was considered highly controversial and inappropriate, especially once it started showing there were in fact differences between those groups (though to the chagrin of the white supremacists, people of East Asian origin seemed to slightly outperform the Europeans). Now, to be sure, some of those involved did try to misuse these results, but the outrage went far beyond that.

It may seem obvious now, but these results ended up causing researchers to ask even more interesting questions. We know now that IQ is as much a measure of modernity as intelligence. It is definitely dependent on the environment of both the person taking the test, as the person writing it. People taking the same tests 100 years ago would have scored significantly lower, but it is not because they were less intelligent than we are.

These results also sometimes point out that some communities are in fact disadvantaged in their ability to achieve in the context of the modern world. However, no one likes to be confronted with the need for change since it's easier to become offended and sweep any existing issues under the rug.

I feel as a culture, we still have a lot of growing up to do.
Oh damn. The Github team is in for a rude awakening...
Yeah seems so.. https://status.github.com/
Thats what the link above goes to
Can you give another example other than Minecraft? Saying Minecraft was successful because it was self-distributed is about as useful as saying Zuckerberg is successful because he dropped out of school.
Random somewhat on-topic question. How does one measure ones technical capability to keep up services that are more available and dependent than third party solutions? I mean obviously starting out, almost everybody can benefit from doing a lot of stuff not in-house, but at some point you'd be able to do better yourselves. But then maybe for certain services from certain providers, raw technical capability never catches up?

How do you know when that point is? Is there even data out there on how frequently big providers go down? (Not just Github, but stuff like aws, etc)
Right in the middle of a major push to production. Awesome.
I was wondering why my `bower install` was failing... :/
It seems (to me) like if statically typed, compiled languages are your bag, and you want to create web applications, Go is the right choice.

I recently finished the MVP for a weekend side project in Go, and I had a lot of fun (coming from a Node.js/Ruby background). I finally understood the draw of static typing (the compiler saved me a ton of time), but I didn't feel limited by the type system, nor encumbered by the syntax. The performance boost was also quite nice (not even optimized, and it still made the equivalent Node implementation's performance look mediocre by comparison). It's hard to imagine needing even more performance, since the Node version still would have been "good enough", and needing it so badly that it'd be worth muddling through C++ to get it (especially given the stark contrast of managing concurrency in Go vs C++).
Haha, I wonder how many of us came here because we couldn't push or pull commits, so just taking a HN reading break... and boom the top post is about Github!
Yep. All metrics down and exception rate is up gentlemen: http://imgur.com/Ncm5Rrx . I just noticed when SQLMap install was hung and every tarball/zip download on their site also leads to Github , oy vey!
I hope he publishes a print version of the finished book, like Miran Lipovača did with Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! If someone releases a free book that has immense value to me, I'm more than willing to support them by buying a wonderful print version. There's something wonderful about having the ergonomics of a print book, combined with the ability to copy and paste and follow links from a PDF...
you are really the early bird.
so... you agree with me? I don't get your point.
It's too bad git requires a central server.
I was setting up a new repo, and then everything stopped working. Lucky timing, I guess.
The security at a vacuum train station will need to be comparable to an airport, maybe more so, because the tube will be highly expensive and very publicly visible. (Assume for the sake of amusement that airport security has something to do with preventing actual threats.) You can probably put these stations closer to cities than airports, but that only cuts out 30 minutes of the 3+ hour lead time you need for international flights, because most of the lead time is spent inside the actual airport dealing with security, baggage, etc.
But "being at an unsafe temperature" is not integral to coffee being coffee(or good). A marshmallow is not being served in an unnecessarily(and unconventionally) unsafe way. If you bought a superheated marshmallow you could get hurt too.
Google is testing a stunning Gmail overhaul
all the overachieving engineers working on a saturday...
At least webhooks are becoming faster..!
Curious, which chart lib is GitHub using for those charts?
Reminds me of the classic bumbling quote: "Why don't they just host GitHub where they host the status page?"
The fact that 700ish burns in a few years compared against 10ish million cups of coffee a day is a statistical anomaly that doesn't require the intervention of the legal system?

I still disagree with the ruling in that case. They still brew the coffee at the same temperature but now with lawyer safe "Caution: Hot stuff is hot!" markings on the cups. As if anyone with functioning brain cells wasn't aware of this.

Yes, 700 people manage to burn themselves in a few years and meanwhile 3.5 billion in a single year don't have any problem and the problem is obviously with the company selling the coffee instead of the 700 people who mis-handled a cup of scalding hot liquid. Give me a damn break.
Why have they gone down so often in the past few months? Is this another DDOS?

I've personally wondered about their stack but I imagine that has little to do with that--mostly Ruby though right?
Ouch, bad time for GitHub to go down. Here is Google's cache:

http://cl.ly/2i150V3c450i
It's odd that in all of what is essentially the fallout from 9/11--two wars, subversion of American rights, spying on Americans, torture, rendition, massive security/surveillance state, etc.--no one seems to have ever seriously asked "why do these people want to kill us".

Beyond the quotable but facile "they hate us for our freedom" line, there hasn't been much real discussion of this sort.

And, here, as we parse the latest round of bills, legal interpretations, infringed freedoms, etc., there is still no such earnest discussion about why we find ourselves in this position in the first place. It's just assumed that this is somehow where we "should" find ourselves, and the only question is how much further we should go in our response to our inevitable position.

EDIT: At this point, I would go beyond the question of why these people want to kill us and ask who and how many are there who actually do want to kill us?
Tempted to deploy via rsync on my laptop
I find this totally hilarious. The NSA can come out and say whatever the hell they want and everyone just buys it because they don't have a choice. What are we going to do, go look at their data logs to make sure they're not lying? Oh no we don't record the contents of your calls. What a bunch of bullshit. You think any spying has stopped since Snowden revealed that NSA is looking up your ass when you're dropping one? This is hilarious because it's so absurd.
I have never heard of a protester getting maced or beaten at a protest where the protesters are armed. Maybe Occupy needs to learn a lesson from those "rednecks."

It is a lesson that cuts in both directions: In addition to obviously raising the stakes for police who might be tempted to provoke unarmed demonstrators, committing a crime while armed is going to get you much more serious charges, so one thing you can infer is that armed protesters are going to be more careful of their behavior.
and right when I wanted to clone something. damn.
You can do anything in Rails/Django and some "sprinkled" JavaScript! The question is how many lines of code it will take you. The whole premise of Meteor is to give developers some fairly powerful features (reactivity, latency compensation, realtime syncing) with minimal lines of code. You can write these things with any other frameworks (or wire together libraries): the problem is in the writing/wiring part.

You're also ignoring the fact that Meteor has only been around for something like 2 years? Rails has been around for 9! Don't make the mistake of conflating inherent problem with problems that can be mitigated with more work. To give you an example, server-side rendering is on the roadmap for Meteor.

Let's also ignore for a moment that "sprinkled" JavaScript is just euphemism for writing your own little scripts with jQuery and praying they don't need to be expanded to do more things.
It also helps when you base the game on one that's already very popular, Game Dev Story[1].

[1] http://itunes.apple.com/app/id396085661
I'm wondering if this will give bitbucket a boost in unique visits.
I highly recommend watching a documentary called Hot Coffee (http://www.hotcoffeethemovie.com/Default.asp). It goes into details about how corporate lobbying eroded consumer rights.
Importantly, the posted version would let you play the game until your software (in the game) was ready to sell and then it would put up a shamer message about how you couldn't make money because everyone was pirating your game.
How is this a useful comment? Everybody knows that Git is distributed. Everytime Github's down, somebody feels the urge to remind everybody else about that.

Github's not only Git. Lots of services integrate with Github. Stuff like continuous integration, continuous deployment. If your system is built on those things, Github being down will prevent you from deploying.

What's the alternative, replicate everything in-house/self hosted? Should startup stop using third party service providers?
When Github appears down, I come to HN to find out if it's affecting everyone :p
They make calls to d3 in the chart snippet, so I assume it's that. Here's the relevant code from application.js: http://pastebin.com/ApL9SxXs
There's also support for latex in plots via matplotlib[1].

[1]:http://matplotlib.org/users/usetex.html
Is in progress is different from has occurred in the past. Also, the bar for a warrant is much lower than 51% probability of having committed a crime.
It's Sunday morning here. There are countries on the other side of GMT also :)