skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.com is owned by a single company(and other top level domains owned by other companies), why shouldn't more companies own other top level domains?

Also, in regards to gp, saying .com is for all commercial companies is the equivalent of saying all commercial companies have to be in business with Verisign.
> I'd also like a laptop with the keyboard in front and the trackpad behind, but apparently I'm a freak or something.

Like the Acer Aspire R7?

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/31/4380132/acer-aspire-r7-rev...
I Have This Great Idea for an App
It is subjective, we've papers on this area but the industry is yet to find something concrete. Most of us measure code quality by different apparatus, such as:
- code coverage
- average number of bugs per kloc
- no. of bugs/faults reports per day/hour/per kloc etc.
Having worked in the domain industry, and closely with many of the individuals currently bidding on these new tld's (and in some cases have already won ./something/) I can say this is just a land grab. No one has any idea what to do with .nike, .coke or .whatever, they're just after them because they dont want someone else to get them.
>Cyberattackers compromised a small number of employee log-in credentials

This bothers me. No one cares how many employee logins were stolen. It only takes one to cause a huge amount of damage. Is anyone reading this thinking "oh, it's okay, they didn't take too many employee logins"?
i think the reaction people are having is that it's more of a navel-gazing, wallowing piece - the focus is still on the "artistry" of the father's poetic ability, as opposed to the subject, who seems to be there to adorn as a backdrop.
Be happy you've got a segment like that. Here, media is quite one-sided.
The orange nearly killed my eyes. Apart from that, why do you use fake testimonials? I'm assuming that, since in the bottom you have a person, called "Antonina K. Director of Operations, TrustGuard". The lady on the picture is Sarah Parmenter: http://ios-blog.co.uk/featured-posts/sarah-parmenter-web-and...
Tesla actually doesn't seem to be bleeding money at all.

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/318498670...
Not "wants to". Did.

What the Coalition did with the NBN is a national disgrace.
Infinite scrolling doesnt break scrolling, it breaks backwards/forwards navigation.
> A `seq` is anything that implements `first` and `next`, it's a higher level abstraction than `cons` because it frees up `()` and `nil` from `car` and `cdr` [or `first` and `rest`].

See SERIES in Common Lisp. http://series.sourceforge.net

> At a higher level the abstraction facilitates differentiating a breadth first search tree from a depth first search tree as types of data structures

Typically used as CLOS libraries in Common Lisp.

> getting rid of `cons`

That's caused because Clojure is implemented in something else and doesn't go very deep.

Common Lisp goes deeper because it is it's own implementation language. Much of the implementations are written in Common Lisp itself (compiler, parts of the runtime, ...). On something like the MIT Lisp Machine even the garbage collector was written in Lisp.

Lisp is reflective building material + machineries + some pre-build stuff.

Clojure is more like pre-built stuff on top of some other infrastructure.
If the figure is 99.9% then I don't think it needs any such disclaimer; large-scale nuclear war is pretty improbable these days. It's only once you start getting to large numbers of 9s that these spectacular low-probability events begin to matter.
You could run it in an ESX bare-metal hypervisor, giving you most of the benefits of virtualization without a whole OS running "underneath".
Don't they all just work on published walk-up fares?

I must confess I've never used the app. I just read about it in the MSE email newsletter.

I grew up in London, and didn't often have reason to take a long distance train. I have a vague childhood memory of discovering that London and England weren't synonymous.
"Oh, let me write down that web address so I can type it into the address bar in my browser later"

said no one ever.
There's really just one justification, but it really is an interesting one: It gets the logical structure of the code in line with its lexical structure.

One reason this is neat is that it facilitates language extensibility to a radical degree. LISP has its macros, FORTH has its compiling words. Languages that allow infix syntax have tried to come up with something similar, but I haven't personally used one that I thought was particularly successful.
To us, maybe, but not to the layman. I work with a theatre company, and we use Artful.ly for ticketing, etc. I have to explain to so many people that it's artful.ly, not artfully.com. At this point, we just tell people to go to our site and buy the tickets from there.
The ebooks for volumes 1 and 2 are available on InformIT. Volume 3 is coming later this summer and volume 4 will be available in the fall. informit.com/knuth is up to date.
Were you aware that an exception handling service named Honeybadger already exists?[0]

0 - https://honeybadger.io
With "the debate" I referred to what is mentioned in the article of the two departments who disagreed about the best strategy.

I don't quite follow you. In the article it's made quite clear that people wanted the code to run faster because then they could get more work done. Yes there are conceivable scenarios in which faster code is not better, but the article made clear that it wasn't the case, so I think the speculation didn't add anything.
I'd love to see a comparison among the same sample set between Java8 & Scala as the next environment they're likely to use.

Scala has been "the next big thing" for a while now, but I'm just not convinced that the Java ecosystem is looking for a next thing at all.

To be clear: I absolutely agree that we can do better than Java, and though I prefer Clojure, Scala is certainly a step up. I'm just not convinced that the practical realities of its user base are enough to drive that change, which limits my willingness to move my organization in that direction.
HTML5 Breakout game inspired by Tron Legacy
The Technology section is completely off the mark and seems to be choosing servers and partners completely at random. Where are you pulling it from?
Keystok (https://keystok.com/), which uses JavaScript to encrypt/decrypt secrets in the browser, and also provides a REST API and client libraries to access the secrets programmatically, for deploying API keys to apps etc.

(I'm one of the developers. It's a commercial SaaS service.)
PHP Cases (Booleans)
Please understand this is a beta release, I've cut many corners left and right to just get it out as it is.
EBay urges users to change passwords
Never mind that .com itself (as a household term) is all of 15 years old. Not exactly a geological timescale.
Yes, same here. My favorite rule in writing is "kill your darlings". If what you're saying isn't interesting when said plainly, perhaps vocabulary isn't the problem.
I am wondering if we could use same technique for displaying graph charts in program comments. Let's hope the code points aren't overlapping.
So the politicians wanted to have their cake and eat it, no I get that perfectly. On the one hand they promise large future payouts to gullible public servants. And on the other hand they get to pander to the general public about how they've reduced the budget (or not increased it). Ridiculous.

For that matter, why is the city in the business of trying to make a profit out of peoples' pensions? And even then there was no accountability or repercussions for politicians that decided to dip their fingers into the pension investment pools.

And the last thing that I'd like to add in response. I think the reason why most people are shocked at this article, is because they've been conditioned and drilled with the thought that public servants are under-paid. But as you say, the public servants did this on "purpose" as a risk-mitigating process. If that's the case, then they need to stop yapping incessantly in the public sphere about how they're paid less in comparison to their private counterparts.
You couldn't come up with a less-lame name? And the "leave feedback" button being a mailing list subscription form?
I think it might just be the pictures that are fake, not the actual testimonials.
I agree that they are ridiculous, but something needs to be done about domain speculation and .com dominance. It's becoming too hard to create a new business when pretty much every domain is taken. Consumers don't respect non-.Coms (even .net), and it's far too cheap and easy to register .coms and speculate on them unproductively.
Do less tech savvy people primarily convey urls to one another verbally as opposed to sending a link? I mean I might have that conversation but, if I actually want them to checkout my site I am going to send them a link or at least write down the URL for them regardless of how simple it is.

I know if someone verbally tells me a URL I am not going to remember what it was, or even that I should go to it.
To ask about the specific case of "Show HN:" being removed from your
submission, the right place to do it is by emailing: hn@ycombinaor.com

I've never seen any official rules or guidelines regarding "Show HN:"
submissions, but there are differences in sorting between url-based
submissions and text-based submissions. Since text-based submissions
sink faster, I've seen some suggest using url-based submissions. On the
other hand, with a text-submission, you can specifically ask for what
you want (design help, content help, ...) and provide contact info.

From the following, it seems some changes may be afoot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7761378
> We do intend to add a few things, such as a "show" link in the top
bar for Show HNs
I was all in for Ubuntu on my home machines (Windows at work, of course), but OSX was a revelation. For core development stuff, Ubuntu is great-- I'm still a fan of Unity, apt-get, build-essential-- but as soon as I want/need to dabble in human-level tooling (basically anything with graphics), Linux falls down. The apps just aren't there, and if they are, they're not well maintained. Even the most actively developed Free apps just aren't as aesthetically pleasing in either the UI or in performance.

OSX makes me happy. The apps are considered and cared for by their makers, largely I believe, because they get paid for their time and ingenuity.

Libre works great for APIs, not so much for Ape-y eyes :).
I'm not sure that blatant testimonial fabrication and deception is really cutting corners.
The fact you have a quote from "Antonina K.
Director of Operations, TrustGuard" with a photo of "Sarah Parmenter, Owner of You Know Who" makes me think you made them up.

I wonder how many testimonials on the web are actually real?
Uncorrelated but perhaps relevant blog post I wrote this morning, on the value of time: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/if-youll-ever...

The only people who care about excellence are the excellent, and we almost never get to call the shots (we're bad at politics). Since the people evaluating our work are in no way qualified to assess excellence or even slightly-better-than-mediocre-goodness, most of our work is just a commodity, and the price is set by the winner's curse: schmucks who haven't learned (either by raising children, or by having people close to them get sick and die) how finite time is.

It's better to compete to excel than to compete to suffer, but the software/startup world is run by people who don't value excellence in the least, and who wouldn't be qualified to evaluate it even if they did. So that steers us toward "compete to suffer" dynamics, also known as "fish frying" (http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/).
database containing encrypted passwords

Does anyone know whether they used per-user salt?
But communists were happy with the story of 681 until someone finds out, by accident, the remaining of the first Bulgarian rulers, or something like that, and it shows that the Bulgars are not Slavs, for sure, and they try to shut up the historians. Then those communists, instead to narrate the correct history (Slavs were migrating to these lands, in some period foreigners come there called Bulgars etc) they kept it like it was they thought, "Bulgars were Slavs and they established out country etc". Even, today the history of Bulgaria starts with 681, in the schools. They have to correct it, but they are offended thus they don't mention in the history books that Bulgars are Turkics, thus they don't change it. It is like in the Star Wars movie where you find out your enemy is your father.
Exactly, use PyCharm for auto-identing and this is no longer an issue. For shells, you can use bpython or IPython to the same effect.
> No one cares how many employee logins were stolen.

Well that's not entirely true. First off, it indicates that the breach was relatively contained. Or at least EBay want's you to think that.

The smaller the number the less chance there is that the credentials were to more privileged employees. Not every employee is created the same. Not every employee has access to account data and not every employee could send customers corporate communications.

Now yes, the who they got is important over the how many, but the how many can be stated without giving too much away.
But you can edit your post before or even a while after sending it.
Google Anticipates Serving Ads To Thermostats, Refrigerators, Cars And More
Am I the only one trying to figure out when the intro video was made based on the HN frontpage it shows?
6-7pm seems very late to me, but I guess it depends what time you start at, and what time your kids go to sleep at. That wouldn't leave me much time with my kids. I usually stop work around 4:30 in order to have enough time with the kids before bedtime.
Previous Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7777182
We are in the process of automating the regression tests. Until that is complete there is a significant amount of manual testing still to do.

My point was that although this tool looks like it would help a lot, I have not found any way to import my current manual test descriptions, so I would have to copy & paste them in one by one (although I suppose I could automate that )

To the devs, it would be great to be able to import something like a simple CSV with my test descriptions.
It's very interesting to see the data for what technologies Java developers are "really interested" in:

Scala: 47%

Java 8: 35%

http://zeroturnaround.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/what-te...

Java developers seem really interested in Scala (more so than Java 8). I think the distinction which will come in when comparing technologies that developers want to use and are really interested in vs those that they will actually use given inertia of existing code and corporate adoption.
I actually thought this would integrate somehow to the service. So you're telling me this is completely unrelated to Honeybadger the company?
I don't have a wife or kids but this is a nice answer, thanks.
Show HN: Unfold – Discover Cities with Locals
I've been involved in some incredibly large front-end development projects and Middleman was core to our FED workflow. Its a fantastic tool.
I do the same but with Ansible.
Why would it require any sort of overhaul? This stuff is already largely paid for by taxes. Fines and fees are only a supplementary source of income.

The article uses Benton County, WA as an example, and states:

"Benton County collects just a fraction of all the fines and fees it's owed. But the county still collected $13 million in 2012 — making it one of the state's top revenue producers."

The county's most recent budget is over $100 million. Law enforcement in its various forms is around half of that. $13 million isn't trivial, but neither is it huge in context.

If you cut the fines, you'd have to increase tax revenue by a bit more than 10%. Again, not trivial, but not huge.

Consider that the money is already there and already being collected, it's just that you're disproportionately collecting it from poor people. Surely moving to a system that collects the money more evenly would make it easier, not harder, to obtain that money.
Mind-blown! I can't browse websites without it!

/s
Thats because we don't have a 'NO!' button.
Stone sinks
I'm going to assume Terry either found some moments of calm or changed up his meds.

Either way, nice so see him in the public eye without all the vitriol.
If you pay attention, his use of the word "nigger" is not directed at black people. The word may offend people but his way of relating to the world is different, you aren't understanding much if you assume he means things the same as you do.
> I wonder how many testimonials on the web are actually real?

88.231%, which is a bit higher than the number of made up statistics, coming in at 71.9231%.
Why we’re not wired to think scientifically (and what can be done about it)
I read the article, and your interpretation is wrong. Simply put, the Eskimo Diet != Fish Oil. There is simply no denying the efficacy of supplementing with EPA, DHA and Omega-3 fat, regardless of the source. If your concern is motivated by your ideological beliefs that you should not consume animal products then you should look into an algae based supplement.
My thoughts exactly. I'm a dev and I still stared at the demo for a while before I could tell what was Overlook and what was the site I was testing. Maybe this could be fixed by more specific/explanatory questions, but I think it definitely needs better visual cues as well.
Yeah, that's what I meant with LING (Erlang on xen).
Who decides what land is unused?
Interesting little tool, however, the "Built With" section was 100% incorrect/random for the few sites I checked.
Business Case for JavaScript and Node.js / JXcore
You cut a corner you shouldn't have.
You're just being silly.

The government shouldn't be doing things that private industry does already. In this case: there are fleets of buses running all over the Bay Area, run by companies like Bauer (which provides the shuttles for Google). They are on time, clean and well-maintained (and the drivers don't give you any attitude).
Or 5, or get up early and be done even earlier.
FWIW, "ebayinc.com" totally screams "phishing attempt" to me.
The Cost of VC Money: Loss of Control
It doesn't sound right, with this logic DNS would be useless.
Even if I use search engine to reach most websites, the domain name remains an effective way to distinguish legitimate websites from illegitimate ones.
Surely it could, but the problem with that strategy is that Android is of far, far greater strategic importance than Go. Rocking the boat on the former to boost the latter doesn't make any sense at all.
It all depends how much bandwidth you need for a given use case. For most use cases other than video, existing wireless technologies are sufficient and will only continue to improve as things like beam shaping and micro cells become more prevalent. Wireless is easier to deploy and as its use grows, more spectrum will likely open up. Free markets have the benefit of deploying scarce resources where they are most in demand. Implementing that spectrum is often as easy as a configuration change that can be deployed remotely.

The biggest advantage of a wired home broadband connection over a wireless one that I see is the ability to stream video. A wired connection has a lot of disadvantages: it's useless outside the home and the infrastructure is significantly more expensive. Wireless has signal and coverage issues for sure, but wireless is a much more competitive industry than wired access in no small part because it's cheaper to deploy.

I don't think it would be going out on a limb to say the HN audience is much wealthier and more technology-literate than the average citizen, and thus would be more likely to want multiple Internet connections and have more use cases such as running file servers, etc. I think the HN crowd overestimates what people use their Internet connections for; the average person uses their home broadband connection primarily to watch video. It's not a bad use case by any means; but I'm not sure the government needs to be building infrastructure that will be primarily used by video streaming companies. Traditional cellular wireless (which can use any mix of wireless, wired or satellite backhaul depending on the application) and Wi-Fi are flexible enough to cover the "access" part of Internet access; especially in an increasingly post-PC world.
One of my first "public" programs that I made was written in Turbo Pascal and was a read me style app for a demo group (I wasn't anywhere near capable of doing what the rest of the group could do - but at least I found a way to contribute) - I used a custom made font, had a scrolling buffer etc - always nice to take a stroll down memory lane.
Ok, I guess I didn't read closely enough - I need something that could relay notifications over the internet to a remote computer/browser, which in my case is a Windows PC so the iMessage desktop application doesn't help...
"Often, these government workers are also raising families and putting their kids through school. Without such a pension plan, this would not be possible and many (especially single parent) families of government working households would be stuck to a threshold close to the poverty line."

Please can you explain to me, honestly. Why would someone that has children or plans to willingly choose to take a pay cut in exchange for a big pension fund? Sounds very selfish, because it implies that these people want to struggle to pay for their children's upbringing and education just so that they could have a "cushy middle-class" retirement when the kids are out of the house. That is the quote and justification one of the posters below used when explaining why it's okay that they get huge pensions instead of using their salary to save up for retirement like the rest of society.
There's similar but still operational (as a shelter and meteorological observatory) building on Sniezka mountain on the polish-czech border. http://fotozikarto.blog.onet.pl/wp-content/blogs.dir/637788/...
Hah! That reminded me, I had a Longman Pocket English Dictionary when I was in Primary school that I absolutely adored. I used to read through random pages to learn words :)
"Come over to my house, the address is 2245 Azure Bluff."

"You mean 2245 Azure St."

"No 2245 Azure Bluff"

I don't see a different here. There's nothing special about .com. Plus, it's not going to scale anyways. Why not have arbitrary TLDs? There's no technical reason why this is an issue.
Doesn't really work, shows only a blank white window, no info visible on any of the sites I tried. Does the plugin work through www-proxy?
Assuming that it were orders of magnitude stronger, how could that possibly work, physically speaking? I see no way, unless the field was changing (rotating?) or the battery were moving to begin with.
Hot girl hates on real shit and couldn't be more spot on
Not to mention using someone's likeness to endorse your product without their permission. I would imagine that is actually illegal.
May 16, 11:17 PM. Top right corner ;)
Nice little app! Just a little honest observation though: Is anything in the tech section actually true?

I just checked my personal site and it came up with technologies I've never heard of. It also said I use 'bitpay' for payments
Same old story: Developers aren't interested in it if it isn't friendly to the old school OOP + MVC approach. If you give most professional developers something like Clojure, their first thought is "How do I architect a large application this way?" and they don't know the answer.

(This is speaking as someone who thinks Clojure is the best language on the planet right now...)
So what does it do? The text on the webpage doesn't actually say.