skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's right. CloudFlare doesn't have traffic limits.

But if a site gets a lot of traffic it's likely a business, and businesses have additional requirements. So, the paid plans become attractive (e.g. getting the WAF protection, or better DDoS protection, or mobile optimization, or SSL) and so people upgrade.
Download my "iBeacon Bible 2.0"
Apple probably cutting prices because upcoming back to school. They just did a price cut on their Macbook Air line as well.
Cool but a rather restrictive license.
Hubot plugin that pushes World Cup goals to a chat room
Personally I don't think bandwidth is an artificial limit, or that it's unreasonable to require an upgrade after a certain cap. A site with 100,000 daily visitors will be able to afford at least the business tier.
Probably just long enough for them to make a too-polite-to-be-ironic "thank you for using our development environment" blog post where they shut it down and shunt what's left to a private API for the apps they're currently trying to acquire.
How to test system commands in go-lang?
it sounds to me that the jvm is not kept running and you are paying a startup cost each time.

Transpiling a bucket load of any language in a warm jvm will be less than 2-3 seconds, and could easily be done on page refresh.

to give you some perspective, we have massive closure apps, first compilation on my (very powerful) desktop takes a minute 30 seconds or so (advanced optimizations and several other extremely stringent flags along with quite a few compiler plugins we wrote) keeping the jvm warm, and compiling with these same flags + plugins, the time comes down to under 5 seconds.
Vomitarium doesn't mean what you think it does - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium#Misinterpretation_o...
This was actually posted already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7907070
Oh definitely! I like the fact that my top results aren't always dominated by eHow, Wikipedia, WikiAnswers, and Yahoo Answers now.

It's the denial about false positives that is frustrating. If you're going to build in logic to penalize link farming, then one would hope you'd make an attempt at identifying malicious link schemes. By categorically denying the possibility even exists, it leaves most people assuming such an attempt hasn't been made.
JetBrains MPS 3.1 released – Diagram notations, improved code generation
Sure, but why treat a customer like a mobile phone customer who has to worry about what plan they are on to figure out how much they are spending?

It makes more sense to have flat pricing and to have feature that entice businesses to upgrade.
Matthew Green
https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/47872127131675852...
Check out CEO compensation for Fortune 500
https://my.infocaptor.com/dash/mt.php?pa=ceo_compensation_20...
If AT&T hates it, it must be a good idea.
Seems the SEO community might need to build a new b2b around punishing the blackhat SEO folks that attack their clients. SEO can go fight amongst itself to the death.
This update doesn't change anything, really, it just reverses the effect; before, you were paying SEO black-hats to create links to your site, which should result in elevating your search rank, but now, you will be paying SEO black-hats to create links to competitors' sites, sinking them in the search results, and relatively elevating your search rank.

The only thing search engines can do to stop SEO spam is to avoid giving any weight to spammy links.
I think its more likely the author is slightly unstable and has gotten pissed off at the public discussion around it
Bletchley Park: No longer the world's best kept secret
Suicidal Software Developer
Good answers, thanks.
The TrueCrypt developer(s) may be under a government gag order and this may just be their way of letting us know without saying "The Government can crack TrueCrypt, it is not fit for purpose anymore"

This may be another Lavabit situation.
Homeopathy "works" because most illnesses are self-limiting. For example, homeopathics appear to treat the common cold successfully, with the caveat that they take about a week or two to take effect.
You can create a disposable chroot debootstrap and use "xhost +" on the host to let Steam run. This is what I do every time I need something that require Java on my desktop.
TFS Project Rename coming soon
I'm sure that together you'll do VPN really well.

Now you have me looking forward to the CloudFlare blog post
where they describe the custom/customized hardware they've
put together for the VPN nodes. That will be some interesting
reading...
With a technology used in production in a lot of places, does responsible disclosure apply here? Did the author (OP?) notify Docker and/or the Linux kernel team before distributing this for public consumption?
> How do you use it though, you'll need to eventually sell all your facebook friends to use it as well since you like it so much. You'll have to convince them why forcing to send you a picture to see what you send them is better for them.

I disagree on me personally, but that is because i try to keep my social circle, especially those who i'd use this app with, very small. I try to keep my FB friends below 10 (though, i have been debating letting everyone in, but only listening/posting to ~10).

This is abnormal for the common person today.

Fwiw, the only problem i have with this App, is that it destroys natural image conversation. Now that we've (friend s and i) used it heavily for a day (we'll see if i think the same after a week), we still enjoy it but we cannot converse beyond 1 reaction. This feels quite limited, and makes the "idle-chat" style picture convo less supported.
Any cryptocurrency of value seems to have to fall back to undesirable bureaucratic policies or be devalued by having its own ideology turned back upon itself.

The human cycles spent in monitoring and securing value will put a major drag on the ability of the currency to stabilize its value. Stable value gives currency utility. Utility gives a currency adoption. Adoption gives a currency value.
Algae can switch quantum coherence on and off
I can see 3 possible scenarios:
1) Gov gave him "An Offer He Can't Refuse".
2) It's not him. He is either dead or in prison.
3) He is an asshole or mentally unstable.
Ask HN: shrturl.co has stopped. Whats the alternative
I want to modify & see different messaging on my site http://teamgum.com. I was relying to shorturl.co but it unfortunately closed or sold. Please share some alternatives
That's the largest amount that I've heard of. It was from someone who begged at the Goodwood intersection near Libertas a few years ago over the December period.

A survey was done last year and it found that on average white beggars earn about R172 a day. But it's not uncommon in busy areas to net over R1000 in spots especially if there are a lot of tourists.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/White-beggars-make-R1...
Could Matt do that - sure. Would he do that straight away, faster than the results can be captured, or does he have constant monitoring of his page - I doubt it. Still - nobody even tried as far as I can tell.
The lawyers made a compelling case that the law allows for the actions taken by the course, so the judge followed it. That's how the court system works.
Have you thought about a subtle markdown support like a syntax highlighter? Vim does this for example. Bold things get displayed bold with there stars, headings get bold and colored (red in my case). It allows to read the markdown source and have the effect of formatting at the same time.
s/paracetamol/acetaminophen for US readers, who wouldn't know what paracetamol is. (Both names for the same drug)
The fact that others are worse off does not in any way help the horrible predicament these chickens are in.
You can certainly keep on using it, and the license probably allows you to modify it on our own for internal existing projects. So it will be around for a little while.

But why try to keep the dead horse alive? TC is really weirdly written, as a GUI app that has a command-line stapled onto it, instead of the other way around. (Last time I built it for a headless machine, I still needed wxWidgets.) Especially with the specter, even unlikely, that some unknown person may possibly rise up to claim ownership of the project someday.

We should understand TC because we're using it, but we should think about the next thing.
I don't know. I'm sure tons of spammers already target Matt's site (they all hate him). Google probably already has some kind of special exception for him.
Points 1 and 2 are only valid because the Celery database backend implementation uses generic SQLAlchemy. Chances are, if you are using a relational database, it's PostgreSQL. And it does have an asynchronous notification system (LISTEN, NOTIFY), and this system allows you to specify which channel to listen/notify on.

With the psycopg2 module, you can use this mechanism together with select(), so your worker thread(s) don't have to poll at all. They even have an example in the documentation.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/sql-notify.ht...

http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/advanced.html#async-notify
> The data you present is sufficient to prove this. Correlation does not equal causation.

As long as google keep the ranking details secret (i.e. always, with good reason) then absolute proof is hard.

You're right that "Correlation does not equal causation" but it don't discount correlation entirely either. This evidence is enough to treat the claims that negative SEO does not happen with extreme scepticism. The burden of proof has moved.

Given that there are penalties for some links, what is the mechanism that makes negative SEO non-existent? And how do you prove that this mechanism is infallible.
These are new models at new price points. It's Apple attempting to be "budget"
No, spell check is not enough. You need total surveillance everywhere, even when writing in your browser. That still seemed to be one of the holes: Who surveils what you write but don't post? No more, the solution is “Poetica”. Another beautiful name lost to sinister practice and totalitarianism.
There was a similar case a few years ago with Yahoo vs France, iirc France prevailed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/04/news/04iht-yahoo.2.t.html
Anyone want to quickly take a edit over parts that I'm writing? https://poetica.com/drafts/ae8308ac0c06d059a4fd9f06
... and a misleading name to make it complete.
I think this is best handled by local government. They can organize this better than individuals. They can provide the professional support and care that is necessary. The city I live in provides homeless people with a place to sleep, they provide them with warm meals, a place to shower and wash clothes. They also provide clean syringes and anti-conception, they provide books and newspapers to read, facilities to exercise. Maybe most important, they provide advice and counselling and give people a way to get things back on track, if they want to take it.

The national government provides them with monthly income (welfare). Which I will agree isn't much, but should cover the absolute basic necessities, especially combined with all the other help available. The local government also helps people to actually receive this money, to prevent the bureaucratic nonsense of homeless people needing to supply an address to apply for welfare.

To accomplish all of this, we pay a relatively high tax. But many people still give quite a bit of money to their favorite charities.

Of course, all of this requires the homeless person to cooperate. The system handles most of cases quite well, there aren't many beggars around, despite being a popular tourist destination. The groups who are not covered fall mainly in the categories: criminals, drug addicts, people with psychological problems, homeless by choice or lifestyle. For each of these groups I feel giving them money is a bad idea, but I hope they all find the help they need.

So no, I don't give money personally to beggars on the street. Yes, I happily pay tax and support charitable organisations.
You could just as likely be looking at it backwards.

Could it just be a 300% increase due to 1000% increase in testing?

It's not really surprising; our brains are profoundly good at finding patterns, even when there are none.
Apparently this is already fixed in Docker 1.0:

Its fixed in docker 1.0 since CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH is no longer available.

Other FS-related threats to container based VMM's that have been discussed:

- subvolume related FS operations (snapshots etc)
- FS ioctl's that accept FS-handles as well (XFS)
- CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH also defeats chroot and other
bind-mount containers (privileged LXC)
- CAP_MKNOD might be a problem too (still available in docker 1.0) depending on the drivers available in the kernel

Source: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/565
What's the use case? Do you need to know exactly when the task is done? Does it vary in duration significantly? Can you split the call into two - one to start it, another to check the status given an ID?
having just bought the $1299 model last year, glad to see they're trying to offer a cheaper model. Lowest used to be $1199 a few years back - another $100 to $1299 (essentially $1400 with tax) was a big hit to take. Yes, $200 is just $200 - these new $1099 ones aren't free, but... this may make the difference between someone getting a new one vs not.

1.4ghz seems awfully slow, but... I suspect for a lot of what many people do - email, youtube, Facebook, a bit of iTunes music, this will be more than fine. But maybe not. I'd rather people not have a horribly bad experience on something too underpowered for the software. That said, they pushed out the retina mbp a couple years ago(?) and that experience was not all that great (imo) - laggy window drag, etc.
Too bad Hackintoshes are illegal, could get a lot more hardware for that kind of money.
About the only useful part of this response is: I feel for you. I understand what you're going through, and I'm going to try and convince you to stick with it.

The rest of this: well, take it or leave it.

Sounds like you've managed to coincide two bad things in one go: a bad place in your career, and a bad place in your relationship. You've ended up with a double-whammy, so it's hit you hard.

From (limited) experience, I'd say let the relationship thing sort itself out. I know how it feels now: and it'll take 6 months before you wake up and go through the day, and then realise that you didn't think about it all day. That's when you know you're over it. Until then, just accept it. There are no shortcuts.

Meanwhile, focus on the job. It's the thing you CAN change. If you don't like it, change it. Maybe, even if it's "ok"... change it anyway. You need something that will distract, excite and occupy you for the next 6 months.

That's what I did anyway (also from the UK, also sporting a beard and feeding a cat). Change the career if you need to, because it's easier. Go and do something that makes you happy, for short-term (and long-term) happiness. The rest will sort itself out.

just my 2p
Prismic looks great, but a bit too complex for my use case. In addition, the intuitiveness of Poetica UI looked appealing to me as I'm working with not very tech-knowledgeable users.

I'm definitely looking forward to reading your post, though.
Thanks for the fantastic feedback, jcr. Don't worry about being harsh - it's where we all learn :)

I'll definitely address your decisions. Was following a someone else's advice about putting it together quickly and getting it up and running but clearly it's not worked out yet. Haven't had a single conversion!
Yeah, he gave the world a bunch of work for free. Total asshole, man!!1 Fuck him right in the ear!!

Srsly: TC always had a weird license and we accepted it because the rest of the product (seemed to) work so well. He doesn't owe anyone anything.
To add to the WW2 examples - The German Bf-109 wasn't the best fighter of the war by most standards, yet it got flown by arguably the best fighter pilots in history (thanks to the insane Luftwaffe policy of keeping the best pilots on the front line in perpetuity), and so is responsible for more aerial victories than any other aircraft.

Also small, also cheap, and the Germans built scads of them. You could really see the difference in training and experience, however, toward the end of the war, where badly trained German pilots were thoroughly outclassed by their Allied opponents.
That drive has a bit of an issue that even if it worked, it would probably destroy it's destination in a annihilating blast of gamma radiation on arrival.
I think there are two issues at play.

1) Google massively discounted exact match domains, so if you were ranking well before because of an EMD, don't expect to now.

2) Negative SEO has always been a possibility, but a lot of sites aren't helping themselves either.

For like a decade now, there have been plenty of shady link networks where you could get millions of links. It would not be difficult to get millions of spam links with the same anchor text and make it look like Blue Widgets was spamming.

It's not important whether a link is spammy or not, it matters if it's helping you rank better, is being discounted, or if it's penalizing you.

It is possible that those links existed before the Google updates and were helping blue widgets.com rank better. Then Google discounted the spammy links and the EMD, and now the site isn't ranking.

It's also possible that Google is penalizing those links.

In the end, spam links don't come with a great big attribution of how they got there, who put them there, and what the intent is.

A link is a vote. Just like votes, you can stuff the ballot box or you can make it look like your competitor is stuffing the ballot box.

In the end nobody is entitled to rank well on Google search for any reason at all. They could order by rand() tomorrow and you're up a creek.
Lovely stuff. Back in my undergrad degree, the professor who taught basic fluid mechanics loved to use the Magnus effect as an example. I think his explanation would have been much improved by some FEA like we see here.

COMSOL's a cool package, incidentally. It makes FEA much easier for people who don't have much experience of it, but do know a fair bit about the physical phenomena they're trying to model. I had a few gripes with the system back when I used it for modelling thermal degradation in motors, but overall it was very impressive.
Agree 100%. No benefit, no penalty
> And the OP should bolster his case by naming names instead of hiding behind being afraid that he might become the target of exactly such an attack. I would say that would be easily resolved if the proof was strong enough.

In a perfect world, yes, that would be the case but we don't live in a perfect world. I think the OP is perfectly within their rights to not paint a bullseye on their back with zero assurance that google will protect them.
Swapbill embedded cryptocurrency preview and request for feedback
Being forced to start from scratch seems a real shame. TrueCrypt as it is, is a reasonably stable and mature piece of technology. Far better to swap out the broken/substandard bits than start solving a fundamentally hard problem all over again from step one.

There is no guarantee that a rewrite would be better than the original. And it will take man-years worth of effort to get even to where TrueCrypt is right now.
Comparing this on the store page[1] this is a significant jump down from the $1,299 iMac in CPU, graphics and hard drive space. Seems like the Mac is taking a page from the iPhone line and selling last year's model as a cheaper option.

[1] http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/imac
As a recent employee of Google, Google's build system is the one tool I miss the most. No other available tool outside of google even comes close.
Inform your Congressman: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Eh in reality any decision or assumption is no more then us putting ourselves in the developers shoes based on the few communications that have took place.

We likely won't know what happened for several years after, if we ever learn at all.
> When I crawled geocities and re-hosted it under reocities.com

I'm really scared of finding my old homepage there. Dorkiness level off the charts...

Do you know if Fortunecity was ever re-hosted in a similar fashion? I had a Diablo 1 clan page there somewhere.
No, they don't. You're allowed to inspect the source code for any reason, but the license does not allow redistribution or modification. TrueCrypt is not open source or free software.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a bit heavier than that if technically identical: the coins cease to exist until 51% of miners come together again to declare that they should exist again. At which time they also might agree to pay themselves any amount of Dogecoin or flood the market.

I bring this up purely because "ban is lifted" sounds like a much more achievable thing than I believed was possible. While 51% of people might agree to blacklist some obviously illegitimate coins that harm the value of the market... it doesn't implicitly mean that they would come together again even if irrefutable evidence proved their original belief wrong.
Or maybe he just figured that taking money would mean that people would make assumptions about services rendered for that payment.

Sometimes it is better to not be associated with certain sources of funding if you want to keep your reputation clean and not being the subject of 'sold out' claims even if that isn't the case.
Java Build Tools: Ant vs. Maven vs. Gradle
So fork it anyway and call it something else. According to the license[1], this is permitted.

1. https://www.ohloh.net/licenses/TrueCrypt_Collective_License (see section III)
To celebrate, they just sent this marketing email to all of our "serviceX-alert@" addresses:

Subject: We are joining the SolarWinds family
Body: Pingdom is moving forward quickly. We can’t wait to show you all the ideas we have for taking monitoring to the next level.

But, wait, our "serviceX-alert@" emails are all hooked up to PagerDuty so that any -alert email == SMS/call the engineer on duty.

So, right, basically all of our PagerDuty alerts are going off right now, due to a damn marketing email.

They've done this crap of sending marketing emails to alert addresses instead of just user addresses before (I know they are separate in the system; our serviceX-alert emails are not on the "Users" page), but we figured it was a one-time fluke and surely they would realize their mistake.

Guess not.

This just builds on my already huge frustration with their UI--other than just being generally confusing, if you have failed pings, you don't get the HTTP logs ("Root Cause analysis") for all of them, you only get the HTTP logs for the magical 1st one from when the incident triggered.

Oh, and if you make a duplicate alarm, for the sole purpose of seeing the latest HTTP logs from your server, surprise, the 1st failed log won't have them--you first have to make your new alert pass, and then fail, and then now you'll be granted access to the magical Root Cause analysis logs.

Suggestions for competitors?
I'd say integration and control are N+1 optimization, not 0+1 invention.

Things like new forms of quantum logic/algorithms, artificial atoms, metamaterials, even subvocal tools (moving us from graphical user interfaces towards thought-based user interfaces), are more 0+1 to me.
As a mobile developer I've not had any issues with Google Wallet till now, I am surprised about this.
It is true that Postgres supports Pub/Sub but unfortunately the Celery broker driver does not take advantage of this. It would be great if we could get support for it. Nevertheless, just because it has pub/sub doesn't mean it's a full AMQP implementation. Also, there's the fact that most amqp solutions are in memory, wheres a database is on disk... also has it's costs.
As a dutchy, the first thing my wife and I do as we cross any border, is go to have a decent meal. True story.
MIT Engineer: Energy-independence for average homeowner isn't possible
You could always go the Arduino route

http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/MouseKeyboard