skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The landing page looks very nice. Do you see your main competition as Reddit (and the vast amount of subreddits) or topic specific forums? In either case what would be your point of differentiation? Right now it looks to me kind of like a "reddit with modern css"
Joseph Smith, Jr. was someone though. I'm not saying he was smart or anything, just that he wrote the Book of Mormon, and LDS follow such a book.
What's the threat model here? That a potential attacker knows more about your application? Then what?
On the other hand, studies also show that "radical collocation" can increase software development productivity. This study from the University of Michigan claims that productivity was doubled when developers worked together in specially designed "war rooms" that allowed for both spontaneous meetings and moments of solitude:
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/220879336_How_does_r...

This quote summarizes the results well:

"Although the teammates were not looking forward to working in close quarters, over time they realized the benefits of having people at hand, both for coordination, problem solving and learning. They adapted to the distractions of radical collocation, both by removing themselves to nearby hotelling areas when they needed privacy, and by zoning out, made possible because of the distance between people in the larger rooms."

It feels productive to enter a flow-like state for several hours debugging a problem, but it's probably more productive if a teammate notices and provides the solution in minutes. Nevertheless, stretches of uninterrupted focus are often essential.
This is basically how homeopathy become popular in the first place. It worked better than what was currently available in regular medicine because it didn't work at all.
Just to repeat my comment from a previous post,
The hack license and medallion fields appear to be unsalted one way hashes.
Believe me, we're currently evaluating you guys and other solutions, especially if Pingdom's being acquired.
Dang nabbit! I love eating here.
A year ago someone contacted me about depression. Here is my response. Hopefully it will be helpful.

http://pastebin.com/McPTg0Qg
Can we rename this link? Its been proved that talking about this encourages it. "Depressed" would be less harmful.
Actually, John Roberts is Platform Lead. John Graham-Cumming's very modest title is "programmer":

http://blog.jgc.org/2012/02/programmer.html
It did, indirectly as a whole generation of developers has been exposed to it... And they made the games you know today.
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Simplicity? My grandma doesn't want to buy an "external display", she would truly have no idea where to even start to do that. And then after she's got the Mac mini, the external display, and the cable to connect the display (assuming she was able to find the right one,) someone then has to set it up for her.

Compare that to an iMac. Go to the Apple store, drop $1k, take it home, plug in the power cable, and she's on Facebook in minutes.

That's the friction that iMac removes. If the customer has to leave the electronics store with multiple boxes from several different companies, and has the ability to buy the "wrong thing" (DVI instead of HDMI, etc.), it's probably a sign that the process can be simplified.
> There is no direct attacking going on.

I don't think we're going to agree on this.
Awesome. I'm reasonably sure that current tech won't power it enough to get rid of the battery (which by the way, is the primary reason hearing aids are so big to begin with), but... even an alternator-style body heat-powered generator would be nice.

I do wonder how it would work in winter, though.
>Anyone using my GPL-licensed code in their projects must release their subsequent projects under the GPL as well.

Yes, GPL's reason for existing is to grant and preserve rights to end users, which is something it can only do if granting those rights to end users is a condition within the licence.

>These projects were licensed under the terms of the GPL, therefore my ongoing contributions are also licensed under the GPL.

He can also licence his code contributions under any other licence he so chooses alongside with GPL (aka dual licencing), which is something he is either unaware of (which I doubt), or wilfully chooses to ignore here.

>If I could, I’d re-license these projects under a more permission license like MIT, but I’m not permitted to do so by the license under which I received them.

Indeed, he is not allowed to re-licence other people's code, quelle surprise! Again he can offer his own code contributions under MIT or any other licence if he so wishes.
uhm, given the very high percentage of Native Americans serving in the military, I would except one hell of a back lash if any group tried this.
I do appreciate your perspective RogerL. And I do appreciate the fact that we're taking about "cool" robotics that are primarily intended to cause pain, suffering and death. Sometimes at a large scale.

The political reality of the USA right now is that we've got a huge military industrial complex, and it ain't going away anytime soon. One way or the other, we're going to be building weapon systems for air superiority and other uses.

Whether or not that is all a good idea is a discussion for another day. I think that over the last two decades, the USA could have been using more "soft power" to better accomplish our long-term strategic goals than with the precision guided munitions that seemed to be the preferred solution.

Anyway...

At this point, I'd just like to (A) see a better value for my tax dollar. And (B) I'd like to see our military prepared properly for the next war rather than the last one.

With regards to (A), on the cheap vs. expensive scale, I strongly think that we have erred on the side of expensive with regards to the F-35 (and the F-22). I think the Super Hornet (F/A-18E) is expensive enough as it is. Sure, the Navy bought it first, so of course the Air Force doesn't want it...

As far as (B) goes, with all the sabre-rattling we get from Russia and China, realistically speaking, we're not going to be another shooting war with either of them. I'd rather we have more weapon systems that can deal better with the threats we currently have, and will face next. I don't see how the F-35 can really help with that either, in part because the cost means we can't deploy them in the numbers we really ought to.

I realize that automation right now is not up to what a pilot can do, but it is rapidly improving. I'd rather we have a base platform that can accept upgrades easily as they become available, and that can be deployed in numbers to be effective.
That's one thing another thing is that just because my blog is non-commercial doesn't mean it shouldn't rank. I monetized it recently and would like to continue making some cash off it (to cover costs and as an incentive and excuse to continue doing this). On top of that, I like to write, the more people read my shit, the more I'm excited to write.

What sucks about this entire dilemma is that we're all looking at "lost revenue", no one is looking at "quality content going down the drain". Good search results disappear and are replaced by someone who has a ton of cash backing them whose content is meant to convert and monetize, make cash off the user and nothing else.

At least in my case, I want people to primarily read my stuff.

And it seems ridiculous to me that someone would say, "Who cares if people read your blog, it's not as if you're making any money off it!"

Can you imagine some of the most popular devs that have non-monetized blogs all of a sudden disappearing from google search with their insights and answers? Among others, there's Jeff Atwood and Scott Hanselman both of whom rank well but have non-monetized sites.
Systems thinking
Ah, I understand what you are saying. The problem is that, I truly don't believe in gods or spirits anymore. Without gods and spirits, what is the point of religion? I consider myself to be a secular humanist.

How Religion Poisons Everything is "slanted" in a way to be sure, but I actually agree with the arguments presented in the book. What do I stand to gain from studying other religions closely?
How do you verify that the vote placed on the computer is actually counted for the correct party?

If you can verify that, how do you protect the secrecy of the ballot?
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It takes a certain mentality to turn frustration into the kind of rant you can read above. Into blaming some abstract common denominator in your environment instead of blaming yourself, (part of) your immediate environment or luck. Into making statements exactly as ridiculously wrong as those he alludes to.

And to top it off, it's completely devoid of factual correctness. It's just repeating the same boring urban legends about Dutch food quality.

I have a Croatian friend in The Netherlands that's a meat lover to the bone. He doesn't complain about the quality of the meat for sale: he simply finds and buys good stuff.

If you want to see some real dangerously bad quality meat for sale, you have to go to one of the countries where those checking and ensuring the quality of the food can be bribed.
additional pictures: http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/20140618_653963.html
Actually the graphics are way past obsolescence and now in thoroughly classic territory - I believe they are now an asset to this game !
That's what I get for applying the US lens to Europe. . . .

But, the regulations are very similar. So, where your site states,
"Lots of outdoor space and fresh air"
"Encouragement of normal animal behaviour"
I wonder if that is translated the same as the United States:
"Provide access to the outdoors so that animals can exercise their natural behaviors"
"Support animal health and welfare"

If it is, I really wonder if they're being applied the same, or if yours are as open for interpretation as ours. My experience with US organic farming is dairy and chicken. I work with farmers quite a bit through the extension office of my college employer. The organic farmers in my area practice (in my opinion) very loose organic practices.

For example, access to outdoors was available, but in an enclosed area (run for chickens, small pasture for cattle). This, by no means allowed the animals to "exercise their natural behaviors," and yet was within the legal definition of organic, and allowed them to sell their products to grocery stores and markets as 'certified organic'.

The health and welfare laws mentioned in the second portion apply to all farmers, regardless of organic certification or not.

Is the interpretation similar in Europe?
Previous discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7910168
> Are you really trying to pretend that you don't care if people read your blog even though you link to it here all the time?

I checked to see if you have a point here, I submitted exactly one link out of the last 30 or so to my own site, the rest have been posted by others. If we go back 60 links that's approximately 300 days and there are still only 2 links, and both of these were in response to HN content, either articles or comment threads.

Suggest you re-read my original comment and then take your own nick as advice.
I did Google it, and I found this http://premieroffshore.com/move-puerto-rico-pay-zero-capital...

Which seems to support your idea! "Capital gains are sourced to your place of residence."

Any dividend income would be taxable, since you have to file an IRS return for all ex-PR income, but it looks like not the CG.

Quite a loophole - thanks for prompting the research.

EDIT: There are some quite long-term residency requirements to avoid CG on things you owned before moving to PR though. I don't think it'd work in the year timeframe you asked about.
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I suppose open plan has some advantages, like it is more hip (makes for great "we are a family" pictures), and the "team building" might make people less likely to leave their jobs. Just guessing - in any case there might be effects that offset the lower productivity.

Otoh I was floored to read today that Amazon apparently has lots of dogs in their offices because it is supposedly good for the atmosphere, lower stress levels and whatnot. I heard Google has lots of office dogs, too. I hope this is not a case of pseudoscientific superstition, because for me office dogs would be an absolute deal breaker. If most offices start adding dogs because of some shaky research results I'll be in trouble :-(
This app lets you say ‘yo’ to your buddies. That’s it.
OP is a generally good post. Two minor comments.

Open plan has the advantages of being familiar, allowing more people to fit into the same space, and being more egalitarian. I.e., since offices are viewed as status symbols, providing them to developers and not to other groups could have a significant negative impact on morale among non-developers.

Open-plan seems egalitarian, but it's not. It's the opposite. If you're a manager and your boss is on another floor, you don't have to worry about what's on your screen, how often you go to the bathroom, and people coming up behind you (only interns will do that) when you're obviously not receptive. It's subordinates who end up feeling like caged animals.

When you work in an open-plan office, power relationships are shoved in your face 8 hours per day. If you're the rare sadistic middle manager who enjoys watching people squirm, you can do "the Boss Walk" all day and enjoy it. Everyone else (even decent managers) is miserable. If I were a manager, I wouldn't want this: I don't want people to feel threatened and anxious (or a need to change what's on their screen) every time I walk by their desk on the way to take a piss.

That the engineers at your company are more productive, or more in tune with the needs of the business because of the constant natural interaction with their coworkers.

I worked for an R&D think-tank during a summer internship. Everyone had an office, but at 3:00 there was "tea" and people got together for snacks and board games for an hour. They naturally ended up having this kind of conversation.

There are better ways to achieve this. Open-plan offices may populate the social graph, but they flood it with antagonistic edges. What the fuck good is that? None.
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Why is it possible to destroy an entire enterprise by compromising an Amazon account? Where the fuck is their 2FA? What about a cooling off period before committing changes like deleting all of your storage? Amazon's infrastructure seems to be built without essential safeguards.
I'm not talking about pinging the moon, I'm talking about maintaining a link with a maneuvering spacecraft in moon orbit.
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> complaints over the app are a muted form of natural selection.

that's not true. we uninstall and don't use the app. Remember Facebook •Camera? That has exited the gene pool.

> Also, did ed209 honestly claim artists churn out iterations of what came before, just like facebook churning out cloneware?

Yes. Just search for art movements, whether from 14th century Renaissance to 1950's pop art. Tell me artists were not "influenced" by other art being produced at the time.
The first Swift hackathon ever?
There's no technical limit on the number of SANs. However, as you speculated, there is a practical limit. Our tests show that after about 40 SANs you start to get a performance impact. So that limits the number of domains per cert to ~20 (since we include 2 SANs per domain, root.com & *.root.com).

Answer to the free question: SNI + IPv6. Hopefully one more reason for people to adopt IPv6. And limited IPv4 space is a much bigger factor for us than the CA cost.
Here's another quote: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

My experience, anecdotal as it is, is that an open space per team is the most effective. This being science, when has the truth ever been precisely one end of the spectrum or the other? I'm naturally skeptical of pundits, advocating science, who point out that developers with their own office perform better than developer who share an open space with the call center and then claim that this demonstrates that private offices are the best solution.

The key quote from the article is "quieter and more private".

Maybe in the days when The Architect wrote a design doc and The Engineers went into their offices for six months, then a private office was a great way to get to the "Oh fuck this thing will never work" moment faster.

In contrast most teams I work with collaborate at the feature level: engineers work on the same feature, implementing different pieces together, before moving on to the next feature. We have other teams where individual developers take a feature and go off and work on it for a few days. The "individuals" are "faster" claiming work is complete, but the "teams" are faster at producing work that is accepted.

I should also add that while the team environment works for most engineers, we have some that absolutely require a private space, and we try to accommodate them. Individuals work differently and when we find someone good we try to make the environment work for them.

YMMV.
Why did militaries not use camouflage before WWI?
Gamespy mentions it here: http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/x-com-ufo-defense/1216654p3.html

Wikipedia claims that the difficulty didn't reset until after the first Battlescape mission, which might explain things.

Aha! http://www.ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Known_Bugs#Difficul...

It was only on the DOS version, the windows version did not have the bug; perhaps you played the windows version?
IIRC it reset the difficulty on loading a savegame, so if you started a game and played for a couple of hours it would be at that difficulty.
Show HN: Blink a USB LED if your git repo has uncommitted changes
Negative SEO has been around for years, the mainstream SEO community have only just realised it.

It's going to be at-least another year until the exact methods are discovered though because of the reasons I detailed here:

http://www.sudorank.com/rand-fishkin-wont-ever-see-negative-...

Until then people's businesses will be burned and Google won't really do much about it, always slow to react!
>That said, not everybody is enthusiastic about uploading their country’s secrets onto the cloud. The opposition party, the leftist Central Party, is against it, just as it opposes electronic voting — insisting both initiatives pose too many potential security risks.

>But Kotka says all the data will be encrypted and impossible to access or erase without authorization. “You would have to bring the whole Internet down,” he explains, describing it as “untouchable.”

Whenever valid privacy and security concerns are raised with government IT systems (e-voting, centralised health care records, etc), this seems to be the kneejerk reaction: "No, it's all encrypted, you don't need to worry about it."

As a result, it's seems to be completely impossible to have a real discussion of the problems. In this case, this statement does nothing to answer the concerns, and yet it seems it placated the reporter.
Here's a thread on the Synology forums on how to check if your NAS has been infected and how to remove the malware:

http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=80857&p=3...
An Incremental Approach to Content Management Using Git
LATE EDIT: It's sheeps not goats, rockets being thrown off a crane onto a tank.
Making it illegal where? Worldwide? This is a ridiculous idea.
Of course it's a different level of difficulty. People seem to overwhelmingly prefer to work on easy, shallow projects as opposed to hard, meaningful ones.
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Thanks, I will take a look at the Pythonic way of doing these things. Celery does look a lot more industrial-grade than most of the Ruby solutions so my curiosity is piqued.
I've been there. Go get help now. And when the worst is over, you might have to make some different choices.

I struggled for longer than I thought, I believe that I only recently truly emerged from depression, long after I first considered myself healed.

Light, exercise, socialization and time to unwind are critical for me. I used to "work hard, party hard" and then crash. I learnt that I need
* Regular exercise, preferably outside
* Decent exposure to sunlight, a bright full-spectrum lamp in winter
* The right amount of social interaction, not so much that it drains me, but enough that I do not feel lonely

And I learnt the hard way that a job which does not allow me to do the above on a regular basis (for example by requiring frequent and extended trips) is dangerous.
Exposed office plan. Cheap office plan.

I really like Cheap Office plan actually. For all the ra-ra Kumbayah BS around open office plans, the fact that they are cheaper in the short run is why Cheap Office PLans (tm) are popular with management.
That's quite a price premium to pay for 5 minutes extra work!
Massachusetts to open area the size of Rhode Island to offshore wind power
Would you trust a full-disk encryption scheme running on top of a JVM? I sure wouldn't.
The road is diverted so that people driving on the road can no longer see the sign.....
What happens if I write an article about how shit McDonalds is, like really bad and post information about the mistreatment of animals, or the horrible practices that they follow and in this article I link to them. I mean I'm writing this article so that people stay away from McDonalds because I feel its damaging to their health. Would a link to there website on that article be illegal?

p.s. Just an example, I love Mcdonalds.
Wish the videos were more than just screen captures of the terminal, but regardless, this seems really nice and a good way to abstract away some of the boilerplate.
I think that's one thing that gets missed in these discussions: software development is different from, say, accounting or administration or whatever.

I get huge value out of being right beside the people that can answer the questions I have, and I know that they get value being near me. Putting walls between people and enforcing no-interruption work inhibits communication and makes it much easier to get blocked.

At our office, I actively encourage every new hire to interrupt me and ask a question when they get stuck. (I actually get kind of annoyed when they don't). Lots of people, especially more junior devs, will sit down at a problem and really get lost for a day trying to figure it all out themselves. I'd way rather be interrupted for a 15 minute explanation of some bit of code than have them lose a day.
"This method works 100% of the time"

How many sites did you try this on? One?

In your existing setup, how many competitors could you take out now before Google notices the pattern you've adopted? Take a look at the footprint:

* Site suddenly acquires a new batch of incoming links

* Same site is reported for being a recipient of a paid-for links scheme

* Reporter uses the email address of (your email address here) -- I love the dichotomy of blackhats despising/hating Google, yet reaching out over and over again pretending to be a good citizen.

How many times and variations of that can you come up with before standing out? And when the pattern emerges, Google are in a position to re-address the balance.

This switch Google has done from inaction to penalty for spammy links has changed the spamming game. No positive benefit from spamming is a good thing. Spammers can only create negative damage with their existing setup, until they out themselves by being trackable/detectable.
YouTube is Strong Arming Indie Record Labels to Join Music Pass
Kind of interesting they didn't mention graphlab at all.
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