skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's funny. The normal technique for telling the Wayback Machine not to archive would result in the message "Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt.". How do you get "excluded" this way?
He is missing the middle generation - he jumps straight from the 70s (mainframe) to the 90s (Internet) while missing the people like me who grew up with 8-bit systems in the 80s.
DISH Network to Begin Accepting Bitcoin
I don't think this is news or worth even discussing if it isn't a proper peer reviewed neutral study. Rather this is more a PR exercise.
me rikey
Whither Truecrypt?
On occasion, me, when I want to get an idea of a webpage's weight.
Lived in Brasilia for about a decade. Hated the way the city was planned. Everyone needed cars, only a handful of local commerce close to you, no real downtown, everything spread out so people ended driving everywhere, and public transport was only for the poor who lived in surrounding cities, so the busses sucked big time (same thing with subway, was built to take workers in and out of the city, only run until 9 p.m. or earlier).
Indeed. In fact it's just a tad below what passes for state-of-art proprietary "analysis" for clients in that industry. You'll never, ever see error bars in those graphs, for instance; nor any non-hand-waving rationale for the implicit fungibility assumptions behind most (if not all) of their claims about "potential" ---like the notorious "~$30+ bn mobile market opportunity / print is overspent" one in slide 15, which blithely assumes that the value of user engagement with ads per unit of time spent ought to be the same regardless of the medium: be it a tiny smartphone screen in the middle of a stressful subway commute, or a full-page glossy magazine ad with enclosed perfume sample on a weekend evening.

Apart from the satiric element of such analytic uselessness though, I like these reports for what they reveal about the industry's collective anxieties and fixations ---tablet tablet tablet, social social social, ads ads ads, data data data, china china china. Cf for instance, in slide 90, this eye-opening jewel:

Biggest Re-Imagination of All = People Enabled With Mobile Devices + Sensors Uploading Troves of Findable & Sharable Data

If that is their "biggest re-imagination of all", then as you say there is no hope, indeed.
Anyone know if a group is organizing to take on dev for Truecrypt?
It may be that people who drink diet soda consider it a treat, so they doesn't indulge in other fattening treats. The people who drink plain water might succumb more easily to temptation.

But we don't know it this is the case, because the people who did the study probably just run to publish it the minute they got the results.
There's a Wikipedia page for the forest [0] and the man (Jadav Payeng) too [1].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molai_forest

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadav_Payeng
I'm sitting in my mom's attic as I type this. I pretty much sit here all day. And yes, I'm happy. Thanks for asking.

If Jamie is happier working a job, then fine. But was he born wanting to get a job? How much came from him and how much came from his parents placing unrealistic expectations on him?

Do you honestly believe that low-skilled workers are being kept from doing more mentally demanding work because they can't find anyone to take over their low-skilled jobs?
However it is customary to include a photo, date of birth, and marital status on your CV.
data:,alert('hi')
Why do we need the single quote after the # sign? I don't understand why and would like to know.
No, your git repository is not a backup. It's a record of the history of your project, but it's not sufficient as a backup.

You could see pushing as making a backup, but even that wouldn't backup the exact state of your repository (private branches, configuration, reflog, rerere, etc..).

If an object gets corrupt, it's almost impossible to fix it, unless you have a copy of that object somewhere.

That's why it's still important to make backups of your repository.
Finally, cake.
>Are you claiming that there is no circumstance in which Sun exercising control over what software could be run on the hardware of its customers could lead to an antitrust violation?

No, I'm claiming that under the circustances that you (or the OP) described in the previous comment it wouldn't lead to an antitrust violation.

I can't talk for "under ANY circustances".

>That seems implausible

Well, the low allows it and companies have been doing it for ages, e.g with game consoles.
diet teas – AKA laxatives.

headline should read "diet soda + laxatives" beats water for weight loss
Lived in Rio for long time and always go there to visit. Agree with you, Niemeyer stuff is just out of place, and some just look like badly aged sci-fi. Here in Sao Paulo there's this little mall on the first floor of one of his buildings, and none of the stores have bathrooms. I was told by an architect that Niemeyer, being a communist, wanted bathrooms to be collective. So you have to go up a flight of stairs and pee in this dark, dungeon-like cave that nobody uses anyway.
Does Airbnb hosting beggar your neighbor?
Ask: Anyone own an e-bicycle?
I'd like to hear how they are, if they are worth it.
How would they know? Without tracking race (self-identified or otherwise) as a reference point for other data, countries could have a terrible problem discriminating against people based on the color of their skin and no one would know.
I had fun with this; definitely a good mini game to learn more about XSS, although it's a pitty that you can cheat-pass a level simply by appending '/record' to the end of the URL. (Granted it's just a game)

I.e. https://xss-game.appspot.com/level1/record allows you to go straight onto level 2.

Anywhoo, HackThisSite is similar & worth checking out (albeit it covers a wider range of web app security issues)
> There may also be some interesting exploration of what's possible with a headphone-based wearable. Plenty of room in that particular fashion accessory...much more so than in a watch.

Let's look at this from a different angle... What if Apple already has a super cool headphone based wearable tech.

Maybe Apple RND came up with something like "Google Glass minus the visor" a while back. That something could well look like a chunky set of headphones, right?

Now let's take a look at the current wearables market... The high profile items are things like Glass, Pebble, Samsung Gear. And they're almost all painfully uncool (outside of Sillicon Valley, anyway).

If Apple were going to launch its chunky iHeadphones, it would know that it'd be up against the "dork factor." So it would make sense to spend some cash to negate that. If so, purchasing the coolest headphone manufacturer you can find, and tying their brand to your upcoming tech, makes a lot of sense.
SpaceX received a subsidy from Elon Musk. The financial case for the company wasn't clear at the start - it was only because they had significant financial backing for the initial development period that they could get to where they are now. They may now be profitable, but if you'd tried to make a case a decade ago for funding you'd get nowhere. There are all sorts of high-capital technology developments that simply aren't immediately profitable or low risk enough for VC funding. Why should we as a society rely on the whims of a few wealthy people? This kind of technology, should it be realised, has a value to everyone.
The study was funded by The American Beverage Association so I'd assume it was a bit like having a hammer and looking for nails
People choose whether or not to go into a field for both reasons which are intrinsic to the nature of the field and also reasons which are related to the mutable, hmmm, socioeconomic conditions? surrounding the field.

Example: I grew up on a farm and love farming. The moment I had some free cash I bought a couple of acres to engage in hobby farming. I would never, ever consider becoming a farmer professionally, because farming is a terrible job. In bad years you rely on crop insurance and loans to get by, and in good years you make enough money to cover your costs and keep going. You're squeezed in all directions by megafarms who sometimes have legitimately lower costs and sometimes just want to drop prices to drive everyone else out, real estate developers who can pay more than you for new land, and middle men who use their mass to pay producers less and charge consumers more. You'll work eighty, ninety hours a week for the pay of a McDonald's employee, without the chance of a "big score" like a startup founder.

None of these are intrinsic to the actual act of farming.

So what is the reason why the composition of the hiring pool for software engineers does not match the composition of the population as a whole? If it for reasons intrinsic to the nature of the job, that's one thing, but if it's for stupid reasons, like an unappealing culture (eg, white dude-bro culture) or lack of early access to computers and programming, well, we can fix that.

If we can fix that, and bring in all the people who are currently excluded from software engineering for stupid reasons, we could potentially double the number of software engineers.

Doubling the number of software engineers should be an obvious good.
This is amazing. "...I knew I had to make the planet greener." Yes! I love how he saw a problem and just set out to solve it because he knew no one else would. He's a real hacker.
Yes, a string-literal type would be very helpful. In my Leaf language I have literal types. I think they offer some good optimiation abilities.
What are you talking about? Here in HN people are aware of and interested in a bunch of different subjects. Plus, unlike the liberal arts/artist crowd, they have tachnical knowledge and are usually more rational about their opinions and conclusions. So one person says he hadn't heard of Wright in the middle of many more people commenting the article, and you say hackers need to look more at the arts?
ruby
http://unroller.rubyforge.org/
python
https://docs.python.org/2/library/trace.html
perl
http://search.cpan.org/~mjd/Devel-Trace-0.10/Trace.pm
It's only a matter of time: Brawndo, it's what plants crave.

http://www.avclub.com/article/emidiocracyems-brawndo-is-now-...
Interesting. My experience in the US has very much been the latter. What do you typically wear with it? I definitely think it says different things with slacks and a sport coat then jeans and a hoodie.
How many competitors does Aereo have?
I have been trying out alternatives for more than 1 year and I feel nothing good & reliable exists for Windows (other than BitLocker - need to upgrade to enterprise/utimate/pro). The feature set of Truecrypt was pretty neat.

I doubt there'll be a good alternative anytime soon. I'm guessing the data is sensitive enough that you don't want to experiment with tools that aren't widely adopted.
Yesterday my Windows XP virtual machine killed itself after a Software Update related to Malware Protection Center.

I will try to reinstall it today, and have VS 2008 running inside.
Skylon isn't only for small payloads. It's closer to "Thunderbird Two" in the size of payload pods.
Does anyone have an actual link to the study? I love a good ad-hominem as much as the next guy, but being able to read the actual thing might be useful. As far as I can tell, every single link on livescience.com leads to livescience.com, which is hardly enlightening...
John Wamsley is another colourful character with a very hands-on approach to conservation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wamsley

http://www.abc.net.au/site-archive/rural/legends/stories/7_1...
Currently, the total wealth of the US is somewhere around $100 Trillion. If we abandoned income tax for wealth tax (say 10% flat tax), everyone would get a check for ~$30,000 to ~$35,000, a year (2014). This would stimulate GDP growth and thereby increase future national wealth.

The challenge, of course, would be the logistics of taxing wealth over income. But, we'd be reducing the operational cost and size of government significantly, so we could afford the additional logistical costs.
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Awesome free extension Griddify solves the grid issue in Photoshop 
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For anyone who has never done XSS attacks before, you may find these learning resources helpful.

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-site_Scripting_(XSS)

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_Filter_Evasion_Cheat_She...

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/XSS_(Cross_Site_Scripting)_P...
_why's site updated
I think your colleague is talking about the PAUSE instruction (which is also known as REP NOP, since they encode to the same bytes). It's a special instruction that hints to the processor that it's in a spin-loop waiting on a synchronisation variable to change. It's used in tight wait loops like this:

wait_loop:
pause
cmp eax, sync_var
jne wait_loop

The PAUSE instruction introduces a small delay to synchronise the spin loop to the memory bus frequency. This is a power savings, since the value of sync_var, as seen from the perspective of this code, can't change faster than that. Also, because the CPU can execute much faster than the memory bus, it prevents many memory requests from piling up while in the loop (because of out-of-order execution; those requests will have to be unrolled when the loop exits), making the loop faster to exit. Because of Hyperthreading, the pause also gives another thread a brief opportunity to execute on the same core.

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/m/d/4/1/d/8/1...

Intel does, however, recommend other approaches to dealing with tight loops like this. See here:

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/long-duration-spin...
How about this: The modal shows up when you move the mouse out of the viewport (e.g. via the top edge), but then the modal closes immediately once the mouse cursor enters the viewport again. So, as long as (and only when) the mouse is above/outside the viewport, the modal is displayed.

Also, the modal doesn't have any buttons or fields. It's just displayed for informative purposes, e.g. to inform the user about a site update, or to point out a site feature.

I think that could work.
I'm baffled. How does the need for public financing make a project "loose before the match even beings"? The project needs public financing because private investors wouldn't shoulder the risk.

Most significant leaps of technological innovation in the history of civilization required public support. And as we move on the leaps will become harder and riskier still which means even less willingness of the private investors to put up the money. So brace yourself :P
Most states which were controlled by a communist party did not see themselves as communist states, but rather as socialist states on the way to communism. (State) socialism was/is seen as a form of bootstraping mode to communism but communism itself is mostly state-less in marxist theories.
No, but getting across NYC on the subway is probably the fastest way to do it.
No. It's a plane that can go into low orbit. You need an additional booster to bring stuff into high orbits. For smaller satellites, this study concludes that it is economical to recover that booster.

"power units that work like jet engines at low altitudes and slow speeds, but then transition to full rocket mode at high altitudes"

and

"Skylon itself is designed only to go a few hundred km above the Earth, so it would need an additional "upper-stage" module to push the satellite into its final, 36,000km-high orbit."
I think the real answer to this one is not really. Most of the possible attacks are either unrealistic or only possible if you're doing something stupid to begin with.

That said, there is still no excuse to trust user input. Always protect against XSS like you always protect against SQL injection.
Seconded. I wrote up a little piece about my visit to Fallingwater and why it particularly fascinates me, as a software engineer:

http://www.zerobanana.com/essays/fallingwater/

(Kentucky Knob is also really interesting, and so close that it's certainly worth visiting both if you're in the area.)
This is great to hear, thank you for posting this, and a huge thanks to the other posters who backed this up with data.

One question - how did you choose which books to read to your children?
...and that BitLocker isn't.
I love the commodore one!
Just as an arbitrary data point, I've biked from Hollywood to Santa Monica. It's doable, and with a fraction of the effort spent on building and maintaining infrastructure for cars the bike-ride might even be pleasant. Re: New york, I have not biked there, but the new bike rental program seems to indicate that biking there is becoming more friendly.
White House and Nasa gear up for National Day of Civic Hacking
Not quite on topic, but back in 2004, I switched from sugar soda to diet soda and lost 40 lbs. I didn't make any other changes at the time, and I did and do continue to drink a lot of soda. So the idea that some people have that diet soda cannot aid in weight loss is silly. Next time you see a fat person at the store with 4 12 packs of sugared Mountain Dew, imagine them 40 lbs lighter with 4 12 packs of diet Dr Pepper. That was me.
This is a pretty confusing case, hard to make much of it, LavaBit 2 is of course a possibility. But while we're making these theories, I wanna sound my wild theory: Considering that: (1) TrueCrypt authors go to great to keep their identities hidden, and (2) it turns out TrueCrypt is not free/open software -- TrueCrypt is actually a project by some spooky 3-letter agency.

But anyway, thoughts on alternatives? CiskCryptor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiskCryptor) sounds like a nice one, it's FLOSS. Thoughts on it?
Would be interesting to compare that to repositories created in the last 2 years or something. It might have quite a different distribution as some old projects probably have kept the vcs they started out with.
If you are ordered not to communicate something, you are ordered not to communicate it. Doing a "I'm not not telling you something, ha ha" might work on the playground, but not in real life.
So you work at Google but you're having trouble grasping simple mathematics? OK then. Let's break it down:

X is an over-represented group of Googlers threatening their diversity. Let's say it's males.
Y is, let's say, women.
Z is the total number of current Googlers.

In this case, 0.7Z = X and 0.3Z = Y. (70% men, 30% women).

Still with me?

If Google were to continue hiring X at the current rate (i.e., 70% of all candidates hired), then the diversity of Z will not change with respect to X and Y.

Therefore, in order to achieve the desired balance, Y must be >> X, be that through hiring (i.e., hire more Y than X) or firing (fire more X than Y). Rinse and repeat for other over- and under-represented groups at Google. I'm not sure why this concept is lost on you.
I take my hat off to you a-priori
A recording of the talk can be found here: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/invokedynamic
Porn may be messing with your head
"If people listen to rap music enough, they start to emulate the language, treatment and other thought patterns being drilled into their brains (it's voluntary brainwash/ thought programming really)."

You made me login to say answer to this.

No we don't and that's a ridiculous statement. There's rappers who objectify women but that doesn't makes us more sexist than any other guy and you can't just generalize rap like that.

On related news, Battlefield and metal fans are starting to kill people because they can't like something and can't think for themselves.
I don't know about the message, but you can ask for your site to be removed from the Wayback Machine.
I stand corrected. Wikipedia says 15000kg (doesn't say at what altitude however).
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As mentioned in the article, there's an exhibit right now at NYC's MoMA on Wright's ideas about the city: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1448

I saw it last week, and it's really great. They have the scale model he built there along with a lot of his drawings. A lot of fascinating ideas in there. I just wish I could locate some of his writings on the subject without dropping $200-$300 on an out of print copy of a portion of his autobiography or papers. :(
I can see how this might work. For example on a 'slow carb diet' a can of diet soda per day is permitted. It has no sugar and people may consider it a treat - i.e. it's better to have that and stave off cravings than to have a chocolate bar.
Don't take your website security for granted. Make sure to test your systems capabilities to mitigate DDoS attacks.
My first blog post – Set up a local dev LEMP stack using Vagrant
Don't take this the wrong way, but there are certain qualities that go together with a team that uses SVN vs Git. I can tell a lot about you just by watch VCS you use.
I just don't quite understand the panic about microsoft not supporting XP anymore. It's not like that was a surprise announcement or even that the deadline was just met. It was April 8th....and TrueCrypt just now shut down in panic? ...Because XP support stopped??? WTF is going on?

It's not even like support means anything, other than that they will no longer improve or fix it, i.e., there's still time to migrate away as XP degrades. It says nothing about whether XP is secure in and of itself.

This whole incident is about as weird as weird gets.

I saw a post that suggested it might be a canary, i.e., an event that must be interpreted as a certain action having taken place...a negative message....an absence of an indication that everything is ok. But that also seems odd since I am not quite sure that if TrueCrypt people were who we all want to believe they were, would suggest using bitLocker. bitLocker??? Alone that suggestion smells like rotten fish just by its association with MS and the US government.

You should put money on the fact that it really was someone associated with certain ever increasingly fascist governments of, likely the USA or Israel, that compromised TrueCrypt in a way that set off an "auto-destruct" sequence. It's probably a reaction to the Snowden compromise, with increased funding and efforts to regain domination that he exposed by becoming even more totalitarian through an "Operation Kristallnacht" sprint against civilian institutions.
Machines v. Lawyers
How Much Time the World Spends Looking at Screens, Visualized