skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Detect the loop and reject the URL. I'd rather twitter protect me from ever clicking on an infinitely-redirecting link, although browsers tend to handle that case fairly gracefully.
That sort of information is likely classified. In any case I'm not sure how useful such information would be. They go through an insane amount of training that almost certainly would increase their survival rate in an average firefight, but the Navy doesn't spend ~$500k training a SEAL to send them into average firefights. They undertake some of the most dangerous missions in the US military.
BTW: I just posted the link to this HN post on Facebook. This worked. However, if anybody else tries to share my Facebook-post it get's blocked, because the excerpt contains the string "laut.fm". Hilarious.
Did Patents create the American Rose? (Hint: they did not)
Any addicted Springpad users on HackerNews?
As a vegetarian for over 10 years, I can say that this isn't surprising to me. There are all sorts of people who hop around different health trends to fix issues that they have in their lives, and many of them end up participating in a vegetarian diet at some point. You also have a group of people who falsely claim to be vegetarian (just to have something else to say about themselves, or due to a poor understanding of the diet). Then you have the clique vegetarians who needed an identity and social circle to settle into. Lastly, you have a lot of people who try out a vegetarian diet with a strong predisposition that they will suffer negative health consequences from the transition. These ones leave the diet a few days or so later because something is going terribly wrong with them. In short, there tend to be more factors to consider for those involved in a vegetarian diet. With people who eat meat (who I have nothing against), it tends to just be that that's what you've always done, what your parents before you did, and so on.
Oh, yeah. The word itself is pretty close to a dealbreaker for me.
> The "interpreter-based threads" provided by Perl are not the
> fast, lightweight system for multitasking that one might expect
> or hope for. Threads are implemented in a way that make them
> easy to misuse. Few people know how to use them correctly or
> will be able to provide help.

That's too bad; I know that threads were very unstable and buggy, but I wish they had been improved them instead of considering them "to have been mistakes".

Also on the unfortunate side, CGI.pm has been deprecated and will need to be installed from CPAN.

On a happier note, IO::Socket::IP has been added; which finally gives Perl built-in IPV4/IPv6 parity (i.e. one module that can do the jobs of both IO::Socket::INET and IO::Socket::INET6).
OAuth.io PHP SDK
Total Searches: 75954

I wish I could see my oldest.

I also wish someone would create a script which would search through my searches (!) and infer what my interests are, over time, and display them on a horizontal timeline.
Lubos Motl has written a pretty harsh takedown:

http://motls.blogspot.no/2014/05/constructor-theory-deutsch-...
Just curious why you guys got addicted :)
we really do need this type of summary for so much content that is online. well played.
For people without stable incomes or a large starting balance to serve as a buffer, bank accounts can be incredibly expensive, and confusing.

If you can easily maintain a few thousand dollars in positive balance, the weird rules around NSF and overdraft fees never really impact you. If you are living paycheck to paycheck, however, a single overdraft can wipe you out.

Here's a few articles that look at why low income individuals may choose to avoid banks:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/10/the-h...

http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/ritecheck-12
Amazing. Thanks for this.
Generally yes. Some Credit Unions may be willing to open an account without the same level of documentation, but opening a bank account can be a real hassle.
Drawille – Drawing in terminal with unicode braille characters
I guess Polish language requirement also makes clear that compensation will be "Polish" as well... So no need for a "North American" to apply.
New in Firefox Nightly: Experimenting with context menus
Interesting note: there are now two apps in the Google Play Store under Spotify Ltd. The first one -- Spotify, is the existing app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.mo...

It has the package name 'com.spotify.mobile.android.ui'.

The new one is 'Spotify Music,' which appears to be brand new. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.mu...

It has the package name 'com.spotify.music.'

To me, this indicates that the signing keys for the Android app were also stolen during the breach.
This is what I'm hoping to do with a software background going to more traditional engineering.

It's just a little offputting when people talk about the tools they (have) to use -- When I first started, I would never have expected Excel to be so prominent, and Matlab so absent.
Uh, so what are we afraid of here?

Do you honestly believe that if the NSA decided they wanted your browser history, the encryption used by Chrome or Firefox would stymie them for too long?

I guess I'm just not really clear on what folks are worried about happening with these history data. Is the concern that the data could be leaked, revealing potentially privacy-compromising information? Or that Google might mine it in an attempt to make a buck off of your metadata? Or that the government might use it to identify you as a potential political dissident?

Personally, I find the Google search history to be useful, though less useful lately since DDG is my primary search engine now. I don't quite get the knee-jerk "this is creepy" outrage and fear I see from some folks about this feature.
Given that they are only urging Android users to update, it looks like this isn't a new version, but rather a hotfix for some issue that only existed in the Android app.
Luckily, the radio guy seems to be doing relatively well, although he's still got issues to deal with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams_%28voice-over_arti...
E-Book Printer Blurb Buys Graphicly; Will Shut Down Comic E-Publishing Platform
Granted, but a lot of niceness in PowerShell comes from the fact that you're not just piping around objects. As in, you don't need special commands to handle certain sorts of output (though there are things liks Stop-Service, Stop-Process, etc.) because you can just as well call the appropriate methods.
He works for Treasure Data. This post, while providing some information, is most likely a shill for their NoSQL platform.

If not, I genuinely hope the rest of the NoSQL crowd isn't so incredibly ignorant about what a RDBMS is capable of, nor posses such a strong aversion to what would be a very straightforward normalized schema.
Ask HN: How to bandwidth test a gigabit connection?
I've purchased a gigabit broadband connection at home, marketed as '1Gbit/s'. It is very fast, but I am unable to determine how fast. Is there a way to independently verify a connection like this? Preferably with a neutral third-party.

Mainstream testing services like Speedtest.net give wildly different results, which are rarely more than a couple hundred Mbit/s (many Speedtest.net servers have less than a 1Gbit/s available). I considered iperf but my servers are capped at 100Mbit/s so this is pointless.

Anyone else with gigabit connections out there able to fact-check your ISP's marketing department? If yes, how do you do it? I don't need to see perfect results but I expect to see better than 800Mbit/s consistently.
Median CEO pay crosses $10 million in 2013
Right. This is the correct way to do it, with natural language related to the ad.
I think you'll find that VLOOKUP is not used that much by people deeply invested in the modelling field. It is dangerous in the same way as referring to cell addresses in macros. (This is where named ranges are particularly useful)

As soon as the structure of your lookup table changes, your VLOOKUP formulas risk being invalidated. After being burned a bunch of times, I've switched to INDEX or a INDEX/MATCH to accomplish the same sort of thing. With INDEX/MATCH, you are required to be explicit in selecting both the range of the data and of the key.
It may sounds trite, but there is a solution: very strong family structures. Where I live, homelessness is essentially unheard of. Yes, many people live in dirt-floor huts, but they live together, often as large extended-family units. The lone vagabond sleeping in a box in a random city alley just doesn't happen. No family would let it happen...
I'm having trouble understanding what is needed. The 'shell' in PowerShell is an interface to an operating system interface, .NET. While Microsoft's implementations of C#, &rest can call PowerShell scripts and cmdlets, it's a bit kludgey compared to calling the API directly. Other than effort, there is nothing preventing creation of a library with equivalent function in any language, and the effort is what killed IronRuby and IronPython as continuously developed projects...and they didn't use powershell.

Can you provide an example?
This is the truth about homelessness - and it's what most people fail to understand, so put people who are homeless in a drug addict / drunk / crazy box so that they don't have to think about them as people.
The link to the "non-store" download page which we tell everyone about is: http://continuum.io/downloads.

Yes, we are a company and do sell things, but our commitment to open source is backed by many, many years of significant contributions to the community. We give as much away as we can, and sell to those who need more.

While you certainly buy more from us, Anaconda itself will always be free as long as we can continue to make it.
Have you tried giving Bitbucket a try? They provide unlimited private repositories for free. Its not as easy to use as GitHub but it does the job.
Lawrence Lessig Invites You Hack Money Out of Politics, May 31–June 1 in SF
Snapchat for ... Marketing?
This likely helps the problem, yes. It might not fix the underlying issues, but at least the unfortunate person's personal problems aren't compounded by losing a stable place to stay.
Reminder: Level-up your JS with Chrome Devtools
You need to imagine the personal torment that occurs when a person becomes homeless. It is not a quick process. It takes time, perhaps years of struggle just on the brink before a series of setbacks collapses the person's shallow safety net. During this time, a person will be a shamed, emotional wreak, whose every waking moment is a panic. Now, imagine being in this situation. Not just casually. Really imagine the loss of support from everyone you know, including your family. Now, that prior non-homeless life is a memory of struggle and failure. You can get by here on the streets. You're alive, on the streets, and that is an incredible success in itself. Would you want to return to that non-homeless life that you failed?
Very nice use of the Marvel API.
Maybe black or homeless people only exist as symbols, and not people. This can't be about Patrick helping Leo, but has to be about society helping the abandoned.

I'm usually really critical about the tone-deafness when it comes to tech people and poverty, but I'm not sure what there is to criticize about a friendship between two people that has been so obviously mutually beneficial. Instead of being a symbol of middle-class people reaching out to marginal minorities without society bothering to strengthen the 'safety net' or attempting to mitigate the effects of racism in society, it can be a example of how intercultural friendships can greatly improve your quality of life.
PowerShell is cool, but it requires learning PowerShell. Why should there be an entirely separate learning process to be able to work normally on just one OS?
But the problem here is not that he does not have money - the $ 10k belong to him. It's just that he needs to open up a bank-account to access that money.

The potential for sex (your analogy)/money is there but the conditions to "release it" aren't met.

Or to use your analogy: he has someone willing to have sex with him, but that person doesn't want to do it on the street - this person just wants to have sex in a proper bed.
It's an effective way to start an iaas business. Plus it's backed by a major company. Was worried last December when i bought one, now i'm happy with it (they fixed network problems a long time ago).

Ah, i'm not related to them.
What?!?

Git forces you to check out a copy in order to be fully functional. Are you saying they're working without version control? Why?
Microsoft trolls Samsung's new Galaxy terminal at Heathrow Airport
>ultimately, they both weren't able to normalize back into society.

It's been 8 months.

>Leo doesn't want a bank account for non-rational reasons.

You're making an assumption based on what you think of Leo. Have you met him?
You were excited in 1996-Feb-29 when 5.002 was released?

Not everyone on hn is in their early twenties, i suppose.
I have only ever see Fx being used to abbreviate the words "Effects" and "Framework". Never for Firefox. However, Wikipedia confirms that people do use it for Firefox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX
CNN runs bogus story saying asteroid has 1 in 2.04 odds of destroying Earth
I assume that you are talking about 50+ demographics, I can share one anecdote. My father-in-law is in his early 60s and he was recently laid off from his job. He was working with RPG /AS400 stuff. He was never in management path and always been individual contributor (even though he started when he was 40 being an immigrant in the US starting from scratch).

He strongly believes that they laid him off due to his age. Sure, he was not doing any extra wonders but was getting things done. However, he was telling us for almost a year that his days are probably numbered because new management wants fresh face.

Right now, he is almost done with unemployment and trying to get back in the market. There certainly are jobs in RPG/AS400 areas but his resume clearly shows his age and he is not getting even a single call. I advised him to only show the last 10 years of work and then see what happens.
How to Get Someone to Do Something You Need That Isn't Important to Him
Luckily, none of the sort. We'd like to hire people who think and think independently. There's no such thing as you've mentioned here. Good point about the wording, though, haven't thought it's used like this.
Their definition of "Intellectual Property" didn't change, but it didn't matter given the ways in which the term was used.
Ask HN: Looking for a co-founder in Leeds, UK (Web)
I'm looking for a developer local to Leeds, UK preferably with experience in .NET C#, Knockout JS (vanilla JS will do), MS SQL.

I'm in a position where I need to get a minimum viable product and would like another creative spirit to come onboard and share the load / bounce ideas off.

The project is a real-time web platform built with C# and .NET with a Knockout frontend.

Reply in the comments with a Skype name if you're interested.
What about a p2p (torrent?) app?
(I'm assuming you don't mean a terminal emulator, but a command-line shell when you say »unix compatible terminal«.)

The team that developed PowerShell actually wanted to do just that. They didn't, because Unix was built mostly around text files, so tools that work with text files are a good way to manage such a system. Windows however, is not, so Unix tools are a particularly poor way of managing Windows.

That's also why PowerShell treats file system, registry, WMI, etc. as first-class constructs, because it has to to be effective.
Cross-platform: Dropbox, Sublime Text, Toodledo, Balsamiq Mockups, Pinboard, Newsblur
OSX: Alfred 2, Dash, Pixelmator, Clearview
Win: ExpanDrive
Other: Linode, Dreamhost (legacy)

Funny enough, my home machine is Windows and I spend far more money on productivity tools for my work (OSX) machine. I'm not counting Steam.
Forget Robots. We’ll Soon Be Fusing Technology With Living Matter
I am a donor at a large center performing these procedures and work with the physician and lab staff. The purpose of the blender is to make the fecal material into a slurry, after that it is filter through paper to remove food particles. The filter paper allows the bacteria to pass through. The resultant liquid is given to the patient (enema, NG tube, pill).
Softlayer was ahead of amazon by about 6 months. They just didn't use the term cloud. Or in the founder's terms "We knew it was awesome, but we didn't have a name for it".

(Disclaimer: pre-merger employee)
Or someone got hold of the crypto keys they use to sign all comms to the dl server and they embed the key in the apk
Ouster at Rap Genius Over Comments on Shooting Manifesto
Why JavaScript is hard
The hackers would also have to have control of Spotify's Google developer account.
Not to be insensitive, but any social worker could have told you all this. It's a pretty well established fact that the single biggest challenge in getting the long-term homeless back on their feet is not resources, it's repairing the damage done to their psyche.

For a greatly simplified explanation, consider that studies show positive emotions have a huge impact on psychological resilience, and homeless people do not have significant amounts of positive emotional reinforcement - though they do have plenty of adverse and stressful life experiences. Children who grow up in negative, impoverished, or homeless situations are found to become developmentally stunted, though some of the effects can be reversed in quality foster care.
Scientific American used to be a respected publication.
iPhones and iPads Hacked, Held For Ransom
I think all the data should be available.
> (PAR2 or PAR3 if I can find an open implementation)

You should have no problem finding an open implementation [0] [1]

An other alternative is zfec [2], which has the advantage that you can choose the level of redundancy you want. It's also much faster.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
[1] https://github.com/BlackIkeEagle/par2cmdline
[2]
It's a stiff cable!
Rap Genius' Mahbod Moghadam Resigns After Annotating Killer's Manifesto
If he'd got this one guy out of homelessness I'd call that a success. But apparently he didn't manage that?
No, I'm not creeped out by it. Largely of course because I have it turned off.

I am however shocked by the fact that so many people are okay with it being legal for any company to collect such data from people we all know full well do not understand the consequences. So called opt-in is by far not sufficient permission for this. That should come with a signed contract that includes penalty clauses that could in extremis bankrupt the company and jail it's owners.

A contract that can only be signed by consenting adults. Google now stalks your children and sells their data. Are you really okay with that?

It's ironic that it's called "history", because we obviously haven't learned anything from it.
> Is there an element of exploitation here from the media?

Media outlets rationalize this with the, probably justified, view that both parties, as well as society at large are benefiting.

Leo very probably wouldn't have gotten close to $10,000 had there been no coverage of his story. You can't blame them for not knowing that he wouldn't be able to take the money.

As for society, we get to have this conversation and some people hopefully get a more nuanced understanding of the problem of homelessness.

You seem to want to change the narrative towards the healthcare system and it's "huge barrier to entry" by saying it's getting swept under the rug. That's an admirable position, but that's a completely different story.

How would it look if they started with Leo still being homeless, then segued arbitrarily into editorializing over health care? People would accuse them of having an agenda, and rightfully so.
It absolutely does. Not only when you initially setup the device, but the first time you launch the G+ app (if you do that), too.
The Problem with Logging (2008)
Yeah, really bad. The "unwanted" strikes me as completely unjustified: that it had to compete for extremely scarce post-Vietnam War '70s defense dollars is hardly remarkable, and there seems to be little excuse, the author's bio says he's "been reporting, reviewing and ranting about consumer electronics for 30 years", which should make him about my age, i.e. if wasn't politically etc. aware in part of the '70s, they were very recent history. Even the time line as quoted in the work is inconsistent:

"By the early 1970s, several competing GPS ideas emerged, and the battling projects caused military paralysis until a serendipitous four-hour weekend meeting in November 1972...."

Now, maybe it's just because I definately lived through that period, but I kinda thought 1972 was part of "the early 1970s".... Very sloppy writing.
I'll have a soylent and vodka.
> Git forces you to check out a copy in order to be fully functional. Are you saying they're working without version control?

You can use git for version control without a full repository copy -- you can git clone with limited depth, for instance.
How will a bank manager be able to tell if a book deserves to be financed or not? And will the bank take a loss if the book doesn't sell?

Crowdfunding is a lousy way to fund a book. Backers in general are willing to fund printing costs on finished books, and that's it. They will not pay a writer in advance so he can spend the next year writing a book. So either he's taking a job, or dipping into his savings. And he will at least have to pay for the cover design and other marketing materials in advance, because visuals are crucial in a crowdfunding campaign. Then, he spends at least six weeks preparing and running the campaign, during which he will probably have no time to write. After that, he has to deal with publishing and fulfillment issues, but after all that... well, he probably breaks even. But he will have some excess inventory left that he can sell directly or ship to distributors at a deep discount to try to make some profit.
Hmm those are cheap, at $5 the old aerospace approach of a parallel/series high reliability network sounds like the cheapest way to prevent slow leaks. Draw 4 valves with two in series and two strings in parallel and no failure mode of any individual valve either stuck open or stuck closed can cause an overall mission fail. Another way to deal with slow leaks is a small intentional air leak on the top of the liquor bottle and trust your weight scale feedback because the output flow rate will be lower but how much lower will depend on the intentional air leak. So 10% of incoming air leaks out, well, thats OK if it prevents slow dribble.

WRT to quality valves if you have a slow leak in the air input valve, even just a drip per minute, you'll slowly drain the bottle while it sits there. A more complicated arrangement with more valves can vent the bottle when its not supposed to be pumping which helps.

Your scale idea is excellent and I've seen it done. If you're sufficiently motivated its a great platform to play with PID controllers or at least PD (not I) control theory.

For a literature search I've seen this kind of machine in make magazine maybe in the 00s or at least a couple years ago and in some 80s era home computer magazines. It fell out of favor in the 90s or maybe I wasn't paying attention.

Advanced systems put a slight vacuum on the delivery hose to prevent dribbling although there's obvious cross contamination fears. From memory this was part of the reason the "tip the whole bottle with a R/C servo" guy took that approach, side from being visually more stunning. I remember that guy writing about an air traffic control issue where you can't have the neck of two bottles in the same airspace simultaneously, so extra delay timing is critical, can't immediately drop one bottle at the same instant one is lifting up.

I also recall reading about a design involving "hit the wine-in-a-box button with a servo horn" although that had variable flow rate problems and splashing issues, which might be worked around.