skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Stock price seems to be completely independent from actual performance; and even then, This is just a consequence of speculation, not any actual change in anything. Basic financials look tip-top. OpenStack infrastructure means you're probably not locked in.

Seems like a lot of work for something that may, incredibly hypothetically, be a bad thing. Based on a single news item, you're betting on not only a one-sided partnership, but one that somehow destroys your ability to use the company, in a bet that only makes sense to hedge against now if somehow in the future any of the things that make it easy to step away from a hypothetically-future-toxic-Rackspace are no longer true.

This is a good thing, not a bad one.
I mean they sit on a board responsible which is taking years to make Javascript a tractable language, and at this rate it looks like that is never going to happen.

Shumway has everything to do with EME not on a technical level, but on a business level because a superior Flash replacement games developers and other content providers found more dependable than the original Flash would put them in a stronger bargaining position vis-a-vis the other majors.

Good technical execution is Mozilla's strongest bargaining chip and if they fail at that they make themselves less relevant.
Yes and no.

A lot of younger people today are incapable of making strong or hard life choices. Even something as simple as deciding to go to a trade school instead of risk a liberal arts degree. Yet these folks know going into it what sorts of options they have in terms of majors, and they have to know they're staring down the barrel of questionable employment if they pursue a less lucrative education. Yet somehow they feel they don't need to make sacrifices. The same thing goes when it comes to budgeting. Netflix? Smart phones? Starbucks? These are part of the economic floor for a lot of people of recent generations. But in many ways they are luxuries. If you are having trouble making ends meet then you need to cut some of those things. You can get buy without a smartphone, although even just going with the cheapest option (low cost smartphone w/ a prepaid plan) saves a crapton of money compared to the average. I think a lot of people have no clue how much people of previous generations went without common conveniences on a routine basis just to keep the bills paid. Boomers weren't buying starbucks every morning and dining out every day, they were packing sack lunches and drinking coffee made from a can.

That said, there are still some really shitty things that Gen Y and the millenials have to deal with that boomers didn't.

Jobs are harder to get, they don't pay as well, and the cost of living is higher. These days even entry level jobs require a ton of leg work and paper work to fill, and they usually have restrictive hours and almost invariably crappy pay. Median home prices vs. median household income has been increasing considerably since the 1970s. Considering that owning a home has typically been a multi-decadal achievement for a lot of folks that increasing ratio ends up translating directly into a great many folks denied home ownership, and the many financial benefits that come with it.

And then you look at the college situation and wonder how anyone today manages. Increasingly college education is a prerequisite for many jobs, even jobs that do not require anything other than basic literacy skills. Compared to an era when high school dropouts could easily find work and where mere high school graduates could commonly find white collar jobs as long as they had the skills, today is a much different playing field. Add to that the fact that acquiring a useful college credential usually ends up costing tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt.

All of that makes for a very tight squeeze for many folks entering the work force today.

Yeah, a lot of people today make poor choices and they whine, but make no mistake, it's a legitimately tough situation they are in.
Weird problem i encountered while writing WordPress plugin
The Log: real-time data's unifying abstraction
Ok, now I'm curious: what is a good implementation? Also, whats wrong with ByteBuffers? I was under the impression that they are usually memory-mapped and should be 0-copy.
> I was in college in the 90s, boom years. Things went to shit a year after I was out.

Also, things started improving a few years after that, and the next 4 years were awesome. This crisis has been going on for 7 years.

Unemployed young people really have very little to hope for. When the economy improves, noone is going to hire a 32-year old who's hardly been employed in the past 6 years. They are going to hire the fresh 24-year-old who's just finished college. The first paycheck/job you get greatly influences the overall wealth you're going to earn over your life.
Bountysource Partners With Mastercoin to Launch Crypto S/W Bounty Program
An episode of the TRC podcast covered this, and came to a different conclusion than snopes.

http://www.trcpodcast.com/trc-219-can-men-and-women-be-frien...
I am not aware of many "two-bit hackers" compromising bank security.

Bank security systems are designed and administered by people of the same calibre who design and administer many startups, including crypto-currency products.

Do you think that an elite hacker cadre exists and those working in corporate environments suddenly are less effective?

Nonsense.
Left for America
When I try to submit links that were recently submitted, I land on the discussion page. I don't know why was this repost allowed(not to mention the sensationalized title).
Not sure I agree that it has been 20 years of straight recovery. In the late 2000s it was 2:1 with USD for a time.
See also: http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup (notes from Peter Thiel’s CS183)
And this is why "cloud" software will always be worse then regular software.

What happens when these "cloud" companies go out of business?

You're pretty much SOL if you can't find a replacement quick.

Don't ever rely on "cloud" software for critical infrastructure unless you own that cloud.

Everybody get CS6 and delay upgrading as long as you can.
OK, but nested functions are not allowed in standard C.
Perhaps don't read it as "raised" but "was given". Giving away 4% for $200M seems like a fairly slick deal for a company with no revenue(?) yet.

OTOH, in 2012 Twitter spent over $250M on staff and R&D. Pinterest is nearing(?) that size of application (perhaps more as Pinterest has more photos than Twitter had), although Twitter had many more employees then (I think 1500 or so compared to "140+" WP says for Pinterest). Billions is a hell of a lot to share some SMSes.
This is a fantastic read!

If you have previously done streaming using some streaming service and you can't immediately name the format it uses, chances are it is unacceptable and I won't let you use it for my speech.

..This might seem unfair--if a ticket is lost, it could be my fault. But my income is not large, and I cannot afford to assume this risk myself if the event offers me no income. The frustration I feel when I suffer such a loss is excruciating. It is better for me to decline to travel to a certain place than to take such a risk.

..DON'T make a hotel reservation until we have fully explored other options. If there is anyone who wants to offer a spare couch, I would much rather stay there than in a hotel (provided I have a door I can close, in order to have some privacy)... ... If you have found a person for me to stay with, please forward this section and the two following sections to that person.

..find out what temperature it can actually lower a room to, during the relevant
dates ..I like cats if they are friendly. ..Dogs that bark angrily and/or jump up on me frighten me .. .. find a host for me that has a friendly parrot.. ..DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally scarred and spend many decades feeling..

I do NOT use browsers, I use the SSH protocol.. .. If a hotel says "We have internet access.. .. What parameters does the user need to specify in order to talk with it?… … Don't rely on information from such a person--talk to someone who knows! .. their phone switchboard may not recognize the tones produced by modems..

When you need to tell me about a problem in a plan, please do not start with a long apology. That is unbearably boring. …If I am typing on my computer and it is time to do something else, please tell me. Don't wait for me to "finish working" first, because you would wait forever. I have to squeeze in answering mail at every possible opportunity, which includes whenever I have to wait. I wait by working. If instead of telling me there is no more need for me to wait, you wait for me to stop waiting for you, we will both wait forever -- or until I figure out what's happening. … Please don't try to pressure me to "relax" instead, and fall behind on
my work

I do not eat breakfast. Please do not ask me any questions about ..what I will do breakfast. ..Please just do not bring it up .. If there is a chance to see folk dancing… … If you want to give me data about airplane tickets, please send that info as plain ASCII text

What a beautiful crazy person RMS is.
I think if Italy got a few things worked out a bit better (the justice system, for one), that it'd be a good place to get good developers on the cheap. I know just as many bright people here in Padova as I did in San Francisco, and they work for a hell of a lot cheaper.
Although not geographically, Ireland definitely is part of the "Southern Europe" of the parent's comment; it was one of the countries hit by the recession the quickest and hardest.
I think you could put the "EICAR Test String" easily in a lot of databases, maybe as the answer to a security question, a special "delivery instruction"...

http://www.eicar.org/86-0-Intended-use.html

It's detected by almost any antivirus product, on my work computer the corporate antivirus immediately quarantines a file with this content.

X 5 O ! P % @ A P [ 4 \ P Z X 5 (...)
I think that this attitude is true for many technology companies. What makes Apple more criticized is the fact that at least 2 of their product lines - personal computers, and ios devices, are directly related to standards, infrastructures, and resources that are basic, mass used and supposed to be public and open.
Since we're being pedantic, it's Marchiori, not Marchioni :-)

Sergio Marchionne is the head of Fiat/Chrysler.
You think the British government is the "most guilty" institution in existence? Unless you cling to the idea that eradicated institutions (such as the Third Reich) don't count this seems more than a little harsh.
Spoiler alert: servers don't do that, and even if they did, the clients would have to do it too to save bandwidth.
StarNet launches 1Gbps Internet in Moldova for ~30$/month
I would actually pay 50€ or so for Pixelmator if it'd be available for Linux – but sadly it's not.

I'd think, though, that the Pixelmator devs could port it to Linux quite easily, as most of the code already works with OpenGL/OpenCL/etc. so they'd only have to port the Cocoa-based UI to QT.
The bank did not say you couldn't send money to Wikileaks. They simply would not allow the transaction to be processed via their mechanisms due to opaque clarification regarding the status of Wikileaks.

If you were a shareholder in a bank you would probably vote for ending payments to Wikileaks also to ensure that your investment is sound. Employees of the bank have a fiduciary and legal responsibility to ensure that any action they take places the needs of the shareholders above the needs of the stakeholders.

Unfortunate for Wikileaks but inevitable.

People seem to be under the mistaken impression that corporate entities must serve their explicit wishes rather than the entities own wishes. It's ludicrous when you think about it.
inception :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=743860
Personally I'm fine with redistribution of work. People should work less hours to make room for more people to be employed. When you see that 25% of the workforce is unemployed or employed only from time to time and the economy is stagnating, I take it as a good sign that the legal work hours should be reduced with 25% to make room for the rest of the workforce which is idling on welfare which in the end is taken from the ones who work.
> The first paycheck/job you get greatly influences the overall wealth you're going to earn over your life.

Bullshit. My first post-college job paid $550 per month. Deciding that this wasn't the best way to live my life I networked until I found a lead and then chased a CEO for two months by calling him 2-3 times a week until I got a job. And that was just the beginning, not some magical doorway into success.

> When the economy improves

That's a very dangerous assumption.
Who wants to start a hacker house?
Thanks, this is the kind of answer I was looking for. I'll have a read once I'm on a bigger screen.
The .asp extension actually tells you nothing other than that the .asp extension was used. On the balance of probabilities, it's likely the case that the site runs on ASP classic on a Windows server, but it could as easily have been moved to, say, the LAMP stack configured (using httpd.conf or .htaccess) to invoke PHP when files bearing the .asp extension are requested. It's not a common thing to do, but it can be the easiest way to solve the link rot problem.
> And that at 19 you're basically not fully cooked yet.

That's because you only started cooking at 15/16. If you had to be responsible at 12, you would be very very adult by the time you reach 17.
I’ve heard similar stories regarding developers and IT Services

Where the devs weren’t allowed access to the Production environment so would have to leave written instructions on how to deploy the software they’ve written. And convinced that IT Services weren’t reading their instructions they would write something really offensive in there and see if they complained

Possibly just a myth, but amusing all the same
What was the conclusion, for those of us who can't listen?
Essentially, for the benefits of anonymous transactions I need to -

[1]Change Fiat Money into Fiat CryptoCurrency

>> incurring a fee and absorbing risk

[2]Use a Third Party Application to Purchase Something

>> incurring a fee

[3]Change Fiat CryptoCurrency back to Fiat Money

>> incurring a fee and absorbing risk

>
>

[4]Hope that Steps 1 and 2 become so popular I no longer need 3.

[5]Wait on employers and clients paying me in volatile crpytocurrencies
Also on Windows, consider looking at Software Restriction Policies. For my host partition, I have things configured to deny execute for anything not in Windows (and excluding some temp/cache dirs). So if I step away for a minute and someone tries to download and run an exe, Windows should prevent it. Would also prevent me from drunkenly saving cute.jpg.exe to my desktop and running it.
It is wonderful isn't it?

My opinion as a biomedical engineer is that there is a lack of exposure of these real problems because, really, how many people know someone with Parkinsons? But when companies like this solve them in such an elegant way they can appear pretty cool and dare I say "sexy".

So its an obvious solution, but I wouldn't say its an obvious problem. The list of problems is probably huge and a forum for capable engineers and designers to browse and help solve them would be awesome.
>Actually, you could fit the entirety of the state of Washington in <50% of my phone's storage. I'm not seeing a problem.

Well, most people don't want to lose even 20% of their phone's storage in a single app, much less 50%.

And that's just for those satisfied to only have info for one state. What about people regularly travelling between 1-2 states?

That said, I question the OP storage math. At least with vector information, I know that something like Navigon's GPS/map app, can store the whole of US (including the smallest of towns and cities) in around 1GB.
According to the headers it returns it seems to be IIS 5 - which is quite impressively old (Windows 2000 era).

Of course, they could be faking that - but not sure why anyone would try.
Ehh...depends what you're doing.

99% of the time, I just need to crop an image to a certain size. GIMP is actually much better than photoshop for this particular exact task. Nice UI for resizing the selection box in place. Other simple tweaks - brightness/contrast etc - are handled perfectly competently.

It certainly isn't a drop-in replacement for the sort of magic 'proper' photoshoppers do. But for a semi-competent web-monkey like me, it suffices perfectly well on those occasions when imagemagick is too blunt an instrument.

Vector to bitmap conversion sucks, though. Seriously, if IM can do this without pixellating everything to buggery, why not GIMP?
When I had to go out to buy licenses a few months ago for an intern at our company and found out that it is no longer possible to buy the regular Adobe licenses for the latest products we solved this by using competitor products and open source projects to give us a patched together set of tools.

The money was not an issue, what was an issue is that I think that tools should not be shoehorned against all logic into a pay-to-play model, they should just work. Imagine your c compiler or your editor failing to work because some third party service is down. To me that is not an option.

I hope Adobe learns their lesson and re-instates the licensing model they used in the past and gets rid of their 'Creative Cloud' nonsense asap.

And if they don't then I hope some competitor will realize this is a huge opportunity and will jump into the gap opened up here.

Adobe is good, but they can be beaten, especially if they shoot themselves in the foot (repeatedly).
Same thing in Australia, its surprised me also it's not picked up on more. But after the likes of George Brandis' comments (essentially that Snowden was a crook yada yada), I'm starting to not be surprised. The other thing which I find depressing are comments along the lines of "Oh, everyone is doing it, its fine". I don't see that, I think its a damn scummy thing to be doing.
Spark Cluster on Google Compute Engine
Got any link where I can read about msft doing that?
Yes, but the issue people are taking is that the will of parliament/government was not absolute. England guaranteed they would do this, signed an international treaty, then refused to do it.

Like today with Ukraine. NATO's primary goal was to protect member nations territorial integrity against Russian incursion. Who here still believes NATO will do that, even if Russia just annexes the entirety of Ukraine and Poland ?

The big issue people are having here is that it's an instance of clearly the government not being in control. What use is democracy if the government isn't in control ? What use is NATO if it doesn't respond to territorial incursions ?
While it might not be believable it could give the companies and the people inside pushing for these things some positive reinforcement. It has to be very clear what is not acceptable and what will create good and bad press. They will most probably keep doing it in the dark, but at least everyone involved knows it's wrong and could endanger their business. That's a first step.
A buddy once had a client that decided their site needed to be in a different technology, "for browser compatibility". A quick remap later and the client was satisfied.
Actually Pixelmater doesn't have tons of NON obscure features, professionals (and image editing enthusiasts) use day in, day out.

We don't just crop, resize and apply some blur.
Well, they're not making any money yet, and to do so, they'll have to start selling something to someone.
ASK HN: How do you get movie recommendations?
I'm curious the different ways people find new movies to watch. Do you think there should be a nice app for that?
Top 5 Interesting Things About Our Solar System
Can we please ignore the W3C and start all over with a new "HTML" definition without all the vendor-specific and compatibility clutter, without loose parsing and redundant "featuritis" tags and attributes?

Build a (much simpler) GPL browser for this new "HTML" syntax and implement compatibility plugins for legacy browsers (perhaps server-side fallback solutions to simple HTML). Put the FSF and EFF in a strong position for future development to ensure we can keep this technology isolated from the corporate interests and patent trolls.

Any takers?
Avoiding Scope Creep in Large-Scale Development Projects
> Eventually, the competitor's product will become good enough, and the stampede away from Adobe will begin.

To prevent that is what patents are for.
Well, the goal is different. The TimesMachine is not specifically relevant to today's news. They would like now to easily provide insight on current subjects through old articles.

The format of the timesmachine might not be the best. It would be better to isolate articles and put them in a modern format.
Would you recommend Ally? How did you get an account? Can you transfer money to foreign accounts from the Web UI?
I think there's still room to innovate in the Erlang/Web space. Chicago Boss was a nice improvement because it ties so much different stuff together. It does have a few issues though, like not being very 'Erlangy' in places: it uses lots of parse transform magic. I think it's the right direction though, in that it's fairly general purpose.
If a national spy agency had a rule against spying on non-citizens, it would not be much of a spying agency, would it? Additionally, outside of specific treaties, why should one country have certain obligations to other countries' citizens?
Hmm, true. I had forgotten about veganism, sorry.
Make C++ Smart Pointers A Bit Smarter
Hacker Universalis
No. The reason people use text based formats is so that they could be read by humans without additional tools. Compression reduces the size but it's not reasonable to claim it works better then a binary format designed for light footprint.
With the vast majority of banks in the UK, a simple phone call with the two words "recover it" will suffice. They'll take care of the rest of the boring stuff.
Technical requests are usually handled by different people than catering and hospitality requests.

The people in charge catering and hospitality would not be expected to read the technical requests to do with electronic and sound systems, and vice versa.

The guy at the TRC podcast actually searched out their contracts, and the brown M&M clause isn't in the middle of technical requirements, but is in the hospitality section among requests of meals, beverages and dressing room requirements, and there's no mention that the concert would be cancelled if brown M&Ms were found.

So seems unlikely to be true, and just be the guy from Van Halen telling a fun story.
There's already an excellent alternative to After Effects - Nuke.

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke-product-family/nuk...

Unfortunately, it's a wee bit more expensive. But I wonder if we'll see a price drop soon...
Another reason for me to love Balanced, other than the fact they're the only processor who wanted to work with us - will be making good use of this feature for our storefronts platform!
I do not think drugging out several years of your life is kind of adventure and risk taking I will encourage in my kids. Anyway, your friend was lucky he was not caught. Military does not welcome people with criminal with open arm. It significantly lowers your chances to get in. In effect, it significantly lowers your chances to get any job anywhere.

There is middle ground between and afraid of everything. And I agree that some people tend to be on paranoid side, especially when it comes to physical risks or anything that resembles terrorism.

However, decisions that make or break your earning and quality of life for next dozens years are not the best place to start with risking.