skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is possible the OpenSSH funding, since it is done through the OpenBSD Foundation, could, at the Foundation's discretion, go toward LibreSSL, since it's the same group.
Dr. Tol was appointed to both the Copenhagen Consensus and the IPCC, is an accomplished and respected economist, and very often is a voice of reason for both sides of the debate.

I hope you can appreciate the meta-irony of declaring a blog post "ranty" to invalidate its findings and then going on to accuse the parent of proving a point about partisan ideology.
I'm impressed, clearly a great deal of work was put into this. Just the tip of the iceberg here...

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* Every address, also known as a Serval Identity (SID), is a 256-bit public key in the Elliptic Curve crypto system used by the Serval Mesh (app for Android).

* Every node device may have one address (Serval Identity (SID)) or many, which it creates itself using random key generation. The large size of the key space means that the probability of two devices having the same address remains negligible, even if the mesh grows to billions of devices.

* The payload of every MDP packet may be clear text, signed, or encrypted and signed. The encryption key is the public key (address) of the recipient, and the signing key is the private key of the sender.

* MDP is an OSI Level 3 (Network) layer, and may be carried over any wireless or wired data link, whether over a shared medium (eg, CSMA/CA used in Wi-Fi) or a dedicated medium (eg, AX.25 packet radio, serial cable).
One of the hints says you can use onError()

I'm sure that's where most people are getting it from.
That is a good point about using contractors being more flexible, but that advantage holds across all age groups. Another good point on the increased health care costs.
I love http://flightphp.com/
Interesting... rather than being an interactive circuit simulator as I expected, this is an engine for emulating circuits composed of 7400-series logic chips, 555 timers, etc., defined at compile time. It includes definitions for several games built this way, such as Pong. Cool project, but not very well described.
Space X Live : Dragon V2 Unveil
Baby names, is this the new wave of data journalism?
If Amazon saw that there was a need for editorial services, which I'm sure they would, they'd find a way to provide it and make it work. If nothing else, Amazon is an incredibly adaptable company.

As you hint at, it could even be an opt-in service. If you have an editor that you like, you could use that service (which could be anyone) instead of Amazon's.
What Rambling in Meetings Says about Your Team
It looks like WinArchiver can mount 7z and other archive formats. There's not much documentation about it. It does not say if it supports mounting encrypted archives. It does not say if it supports write-access either. The 7z format is normally solid, so unless you're accessing files at the beginning of the archive, it could be pretty slow anyway.
When control reaches there we know something went wrong within the zone that's sending the response, so it's nice to send a HTTP 500 error back.

However it could be that some data has already been sent back, in which case writeHead would throw. If that happens there isn't much more we can do.
I am wondering if the market is big enough for a service like this. With Google killing price comparison sites and increasing market barriers for smaller online shops, it seems like the big players are owning their niche and are the only way for their customers to get the items they sell.

On the other hand: These are arguments, why it would be a good idea to focus on tooling and CTV instead of reach through SEO. Interesting to see how it works out, best wishes!
Programmer Engineer?
Title says it all. It seems confusing doesn't it? This is my new job title when I graduate. I've been working as a software engineer intern for the past 2 years at a large corporate company in Massachusetts. I received my job offer and to my surprise, the title is Programmer Engineer. HR says the internal title is Software Engineer. So what am I? What should I put on my resume?

Now wait, can't I just ask HR about this? Yeah... but I want your take on it.

To me it seems a bit convoluted since I don't engineer programmers. Would it make sense to refer to my position as Software Engineer when I apply elsewhere down the road? Any thoughts?
A site I had used to get over 2000 visitors a day from Google, now it gets 20 to 30 a day. All the rest is going to Google ads and to a few sites that are brands and just so happened to advertise on Google.

First, I don't trust any "assurances" from Googlers that Search isn't rigged. They are many subtle ways to easily shift traffic to certain sites as Larry Page and Sergey wrote in the original pagerank paper.

Second, Google is a one trick pony, desperate to show growth to justify their super high PE.

Third, Google, IMHO, is penalizing sites left and right to force them to advertise. Lost traffic? Advertise to get targeted traffic.

Long term, short term...blah blah blah...makes no sense when Google slaps 40 ads on a a page and no organic links above fold. How is that good for the long term?
This is really no different than what non-computer people go through when they assume that a "computer guy" that they know is a jack of all trades and an expert in all areas and aspects of computing. (Simply because they know so little so they have no way to assess competence.).

But even with respect to sub specialties (say computer security) there is the tendency to think that someone who knows more than you knows everything.

It's really difficult to pick a good professional for all situations. And unfortunately simply relying on other's opinion (which seems to be the obvious way, referrals) may not work either. [1]

[1] Specifically, for law, part of what an attorney advises on is protection against future things that might happen. [2] If a friend recommends an attorney that they were happy with and they have only been in business a short time how do you know that things will be find years later? Additionally, there is a great deal of bedside manner and likability with any professional that can cloud judgement. (Happens with medicine as well.)

[2] Not to mention the entirely separate concept of to much protection against a super unlikely occurrence may impede a business.
Great theories, good list of facts, but there aren't too many facts to begin with. Any ideas to add?
> Google already does this, by its measure of "useful" (to you).

The point was that they've been successfully more aggressively penalized, to the point where many of these sites are now no longer showing up more.

> If you don't like it, you can search those sites directly. For example search for "ehow:how to ask a girl out"
was that so hard?

That defeats the primary purpose of using a general search engine - namely to get ranked results across a large number of sites.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing how the OpenSSL problem will deal with their own legacy code, compared to how the OpenBSD developers have handled it.

It seems that own of the only ways of dealing with the OpenSSL code is to strip out the code for a large number of, should we say "less used platforms". Is the OpenSSL developers willing to drop support for 16 bit Windows or OpenVMS?
AltSchool Programming Challenge
Beautiful Losers: Kelvin’s Vortex Atoms
Househappy is hiring a Sr Ruby Engineer (PDX)
I hope so! I thought it was pretty interesting to look at the data backwards like this.
British Council propaganda films from 1940s
I watched this video a while back (and I don't think this is the first time it has been on HN). What is astonishing is Professor Bob Spence does not seem to make any typos during the half hour long video. It is good to see renewed interest in APL. I am still waiting for an APL interpreter on a tablet to take advantage of virtual keyboards to deal with the APL glyphs. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/APL...
Discrete Math You Need to Know [video]
This works also, and doesn't require a hosted file: https://xss-game.appspot.com/level6/frame#data:text/plain,al...
Personally I think two healthy forks of OpenSSL is far, far better than one. I also think that the OpenBSD team is going to take some time before it reaches it's goals, and more importantly before it's in a stable enough point where people can start working on porting their version to other platforms.

I don't think it makes sense to leave OpenSSL to wither while that happens, especially since it's an actively used product.

That being said I'm far, far more confident in the OpenBSD team than I am the OpenSSL one.
Baby names were heavily discussed in Freakonomics as indicators of a variety of things. An interesting read if you like this sort of data. Relevant content: http://freakonomics.com/tag/baby-names/
Can we agree to use the plural "their" for ambiguous sex third-person possessive? "His" is sexist, but so is "her", which is distracting on top of that because it isn't conventional.
Google has always said that advertising does not affect search results. This is one way Google distinguished themselves from other search engines back in the day.

There are sometimes quite a lot of ads on the search results page these days, but they are still clearly distinguished, and I haven't heard anything about that policy changing.
No response is complete without a reference to the Koch brothers, indeed.
Interesting. Given all of the complaints about the big providers, the chart suggests to me that they're doing an OK job? Perhaps Google is trying to get out in front of the arrival of throttling?

Also, as a cynical person, I compared SF to Washington DC expecting to see that DC was perfect and SF was not. Instead they looked quite comparable. In fact, I couldn't really find any major metro in which cable performed poorly (NYC wasn't wonderful).
Looks promising, congrats. Do you only support Amazon at this point?

You might want to look into Two Tap, we'd be happy to get in touch. twotap.com
Citing examples of Communist states is a bit disingenuous when we're talking about Communism which is stateless by definition.
Evernote's slow push toward the social ecosystem has been worrying me. It's fundamentally a mind-dump / journal to me, and I have absolutely zero desire to share notes straight from the program itself. The fact that I could send out personal journal entries to Facebook worries me, even though it's not likely...I just don't like the functionality being there to begin with.

I'll definitely be looking into this.
Linux Foundation and tech cos finally committing money to stop next Heartbleed
Interestingly, the article makes clear that it's easier to predict "her" age than "his" age given their name.
Where do Eureka moments come from?
"None of us can get access to your personal data because we are using IndexedDB and localStorage. In fact all your information will be stored only on client side."

Does this mean it's useless for multiple devices or sharing between people? I find these to be the most useful features of evernote. I make notes on my phone to look at later on my computer or share shopping lists with my wife.
By default, no. Word splitting only happens when you request it: ${=words}. It reminds me of ,@list in Lisp, which is a warm and fuzzy feeling.
Data-Gathering Drones Both High And Low
Custom Clojure Evaluation Keybindings in Emacs
I actually used something similar to this (but not as sophisticated) at a previous startup to generate recommendations of people to invite to the app because the app's target demographic was women ages 20-40.

http://jwegan.com/growth-hacking/hacking-mobile-invites-with...
I'll give it a try. I wish there would be more open-source applications supporting encryption that I could put on my own web server, preferably with well-defined APIs so that mobile app developers could create apps on top of them. I would love to have my own RSS reader, my own pinboard.in, my own Dropbox. Owncloud and Synology apps (not open-source but close in spirit) are the examples of things I am looking for.
I don't think that the EOL of XP has much do with it because they could simple air gap their Windows XP installation to continue development in a secure fashion.

Unless, of course, something more shadowy is going on.
Just in case you need to check on something like this in the future -- github commits are separated by branch, so there is a chance he was working on a branch for which you didn't get a report. It is also possible he didn't push his commits to a remote repository at all, in which case you wouldn't have seen his work. This is generally not a good idea b/c if you lose your laptop, you've lost your code, but I'm just pointing out what 'could' have been happening. He could have been endlessly typing a single comment over and over

#All work and no play make Jack a dull boy

and committing to a 'shining' branch.

Did he admit to not working, or were you past a point where communication was possible between you two?
The idea that those espousing animal and plant "husbandry" (to use the more archaic term) are all extremists is why I stopped calling myself an environmentalist and now prefer the term ecologist. Unfortunately, my insistence on recycling (or better yet reusing) still drives my wife and kids nuts.
"One reason is the bi-partisan political consensus in Delaware to keep the Delaware corporation statute modern and up-to-date, and to rely on Delaware's corporate law specialists for advice in how to do this."

"The other major reason corporations choose to incorporate in Delaware is the quality of Delaware courts and judges. Delaware has a special court, the Court of Chancery, to rule on corporate law disputes without juries."

according to http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/brandywine-to-broad...

I guess they kind of specialise in doing the corporate stuff efficiently.
Would be interesting to apply it to a group of friends. Since they're likely to be similar ages, you should be able to get an improved guess from combining the distributions for all of their names.
Some kinds of trees can certainly grow fast enough, especially if it's a multi-year curriculum that gets revisited regularly.

Empress trees grow 10-15 feet in a year.

A weeping willow will grow about 5.5 feet in a year.
"If in doubt, go to Orrick. I've heard nothing but praise for them"

Which attorney in particular?

I am sorry if you take this the wrong way but I don't think a statement like that is helpful.

First you said "I heard". So it's not your personal experience with any attorney at Orrick that has helped you and not even the experience of a close friend or acquaintance that you know (at least by the way you've phrased this). In law this would be hearsay evidence?

Anyway all this does is build a legend of a firm that while may be suited for a startup it may also not be.

As far as "support for LDN2SFO" that's nice but that is marketing and (I'm guessing) pro bono work. All else equal I guess you keep that in mind. But all else (pricing, the particular attorney) is rarely equal.

By the way I would feel (almost) the same way if someone said "Grellas has a great reputation here on HN and has been generous in supporting HN so I would choose Grellas".
So, looking at the examples again and going back to this:

> What we're doing is make it unnecessary to add error handlers everywhere and still get caught by surprising failure modes. If the zone catches an error it cleans up (closes resources, cancel operations when that makes sense) and then routes the error to the zone's result callback so you can handle it in once place.

I'm really unclear on how the zone library is doing the magical interception of errors. In the curl example you don't put error handlers on things. But clearly something must be. Does a library (say, one that came from npm and not the core library) have to be zone-aware to function correctly with zones? What does using zones mixed with libraries that aren't zone-aware look like? How much complexity does it add to the library to make it zone aware?
Ask HN: Can we fix the interview process for engineers?
As the interviewee, I don't find some of the questions I've been asked to be especially enlightening when it comes to my abilities as an engineer. Obviously I am biased, because I think there is a better way to display my skills, so I'd like to get some input from people on the other side of the table.

I propose that there it is very hard to know whether a candidate is a good fit for your company the way things are currently done; that is, with questions generated by the interviewer. Instead, wouldn't it be better to spend more time discussing the work that the candidate has done in the past and how that could apply to your company? The idea is that any engineer worth their salt can learn new ideas and technologies readily and that past experiences are a better indicator of an applicant's talents than algorithm questions and one-hour hack sessions.

Maybe there is a way to let the interviewee construct the interview in a way that showcases their talents.

Thoughts?
Hi! I'm Claudia Gold, the author. Happy to answer any questions you might have. :)
Actually if I'm giving someone a donation, charity, then whether they are or are not a dick is a perfectly valid part of the decision. And to me how you run a project is as important as the quality of the final result.
It's not just the court costs. They will also try to paint you as less than competent and trying to play the gender card. To try to salvage their own reputation, they'll publicly trash yours. Make sure it's worth it to you before you go down this road.

Note well: I am not justifying what such a company will do. I am merely saying that they almost certainly will do this.
American held captive in Egyptian prisons leaks video
Writers, including critically acclaimed ones, can't produce their art without a legit publishing house making sure that their books are readable.

There is a long chain of people in publishing working to ensure you maintain that perception, so I guess that's on them, but everyone knows they're awful distributors and most of the value they create comes from elsewhere in the 'creative' process.
Virgin Galactic signs spaceflight deal with US authority
Sorry, I may not have been clear enough. What didn't make sense to me is why there would be a profit motive for ignoring or not valuing "indie" sites.
Don't be disingenuous. NYC has a density of 27k people per square mile. Farms in Idaho do not factor into the discussion about cities.
The odin project, learn web development for free, open course
Basically, this is the website we wish we'd had when we were learning on our own. So we stitched together a curriculum from the best resources we could find online and here it is.
Regalii (S2013) Eases Money Transfer To Latin America
(I dont mean to nitpick one paragraph, but: )

> "One Wednesday morning this spring, after staff at Washio had gathered for their daily “stand-up” meeting—a ritual suggested in the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, a 2001 work-­processes manual that advocates keeping employees on their toes by having them give status updates literally on their feet"

What an absurdly overwritten way of saying 'at their morning meeting'.
TempleOS is God's temple. God always gets His way.
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The combination of the SSA babynames data, which is very cool and deep on its own, with the SSA actuarial data is pretty neat, partly because I hadn't known about the actuarial data set...but when I saw that the OP had tried to calculate surviving persons of a given name and birth year, I assumed that they just used the SSA's death database...from until at least 2010, the SSA had a list of every SSA person who has died and also, when they were born, and also, their social security numbers. Since the SSN, until relatively recently, was indicative of what state the SSN-holder was actually born...well, that, combined with the babynames-per-state data, could get you very granular calculations...I'm sure the SSA's actuarial table gets it pretty much within an acceptable margin of error, but who knows, maybe some awkwardly named people were doomed to a shorter lifespan? (I'm only half joking, I think)
From Monolith to Rocketship: Upgrading Chorus to Rails 3.2 and Ruby 2.1
Call your congress critter, form a PAC, and elected one of your own. If you are in a gerrymandered district, join the party that controls that district, and primary the congress critter out.
The Wizard of Oz was released in 1939, so it makes sense that the median age for Dorothy's is around 75 years of age.

I wonder what other pop culture events influenced naming trends.
I've been very, very slowly building something similar to this for a long, long time and this is looks like it's 3x as awesome as the goal I had set for myself in my head.
It's only distracting because you're not used to it. Solution: get used to it.
Where are you getting the 98% figure for belief that humans contribute significantly to climate change? Can you provide a citation? What exactly does 'significant' mean? Can you provide a citation for this?
From the Quartz article linked:

"If it was after technology alone, BBVA could have built a platform in a few months for half a million dollars, [banking consultant Serge Milman] says."

I know this was probably hyperbole of the cuff, but it seems rather unlikely that any bank, institutions that are non-tech focused, could develop the same tech as a tech startup like Simple or Mint in a few months for a half million bucks. Pretty classic "ignorant of the true cost and complexity of software" attitude.
I don't think replacing one sexist thing with another is progress.
Time to drop TrueCrypt (at least for Dropbox)
Show HN: Super simple Angular form errors directives (better than ngMessages)
Shotgun clause is very typical, that's what they used here I suspect.
A software project that actually delivers code possesses the potential to generate income in a way that residential homes do not. In that respect, granting loans on flimsy pretexts to software projects is better than to non-owner-occupied homes. If it pleases you, imagine loans to anything else that this crowd works with on a daily basis. Don't let the analogy distract you from the core thesis pointing out the perverse incentive structures raised around residential loans leading to undesirable policy outcomes.

I'm very hard-pressed to come up with any other business where 4-5 figure sums of USD cash can lock in 6-7 figure values of assets, at preferential interest rates, over very long payment terms, with only consumer-grade credit ranking and formulaic "comparable value" asset analysis for loan approval. If you've ever owned a business for any length of time sufficient to talk with your business banker about credit terms, you'll immediately recognize the extreme disparity between those terms and normal business loans and lines of credit terms. It is indefensible to pledge taxpayer financial support to real estate businesses via these loan vehicles.
Sorry if this is a little off topic: I used to use Google Analytics but decided I wanted more control and something lighter weight (for client side web requests). I switched over to AWStats which is easy to set up and the generated reports contain enough data so I know what parts of my web sites are getting the most action.

Can't a big site like 4chan simply do it themselves?
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Nope, I doubt we could all agree on that.
Thanks! I had it my head for 6 months and finally decided to build it, glad I'm not the only one who wanted it.