skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should/shouldn't is hard to say. But the fact that they are bundled with browsers is absolutely amazing, not for the professional developer, but for the amateur. The fact that you can start messing with a website with almost no additional effort and with no additional software is amazing. IMO, it's what makes the web one of the environments with the least friction to start programming in. Visible results, full-featured programming (via JS), and readily available tools.

Once you start getting into complex frameworks and what have you, you start needing additional tooling, more knowledge, etc, but that's fine. The point is to start tinkering, you only need a browser. To start doing a little more than tinkering, you need a browser and a text editor (not like Sublime, like Notepad; on day 0 you don't care that much about syntax highlighting). Both of these come out-of-the-box on any computer.
Awesome library, but I'm a bit worried that they chose to implement their own crypto(mostly ECDSA), instead of using an existing implementation known to be correct.
Yes. Bandwidth and additional HDD space are used. But web browsers data footprint is small. Installed FireFox consumes ~68.1MB of disk space. Which is microscopic in the days of TB Hard Drives.
I was jhust on an airplane trip and watced with some amusement my aisle-mate fumbling with a new surface pro.

When first using it on his lap, the screen kept flopping around as the kickstand slid off his legs--he eventually used the back of the seat in front of him to prop it up a bit.

Then when the tray came down, he clearly could not get a comfortable typing angle.

At some point, he dispensed with the keyboad and used it as a tablet with the kickstand on the tray, and that looked like a pretty good set up.

I asked him if he liked it near the end of the flight, and alas he said he plans to dispense with tablets all together and go back to laptops.
You know there are other countries other than the US right? How come all the top shared articles are only from the US?
Massive increase to OneDrive storage plans: 1 TB for Office 365 subscribers
Meritocracy != Buddyocracy?
I did funemployment for 3 months, too (11 months, if you consider part time work). This is a great post on it.

OP really hit the nail on the head -- one of the hardest parts of the time off is not having work-related goals and being OK with it. When you're employed it's easy to spend time imagining what you'd do with your time off. When you have this long stretch of time off, it's hard not to think about work. I was ashamed anytime my mind would drift to worrying about "what work will I do next?". In the end I think this is natural and OK, but it's important to fight the urges.

However, I don't agree that you should have 0 goals. You should have personal goals, just not work/career related goals (and OP kind of means this).

All of those non-work things you told yourself you want to do? Now is the time to do them. Travel the world, go backpacking for weeks in the woods, live out of your car, read too many books, appreciate art, volunteer. Take chances and explore.

The single biggest question you come to terms with in your time off will be "Who am I?".

You'll realize that since childhood you've always been working towards career/life goals. Get good grades in K-12, do well on SATs, get into a good college, choose a good major in school and work hard to learn, get internships, get that perfect job, work your way up the ladder in that job, get married, buy a house, have kids, make more money so your kids can repeat this cycle.

When you take the time off without goals in the typical "life flow" you'll have moments of existential crisis because you're not doing what you're "supposed" to be doing. These are important times. Learn to embrace the feeling. Smile and remind yourself that you're not doing what you're "supposed" to be doing because you're doing whatever the hell you want to do.

Just don't squander your unhinged time. Spend it wisely exploring the world and yourself.

When you get back to the "real world" you'll never see it the same again :)
Maybe these:

https://github.com/ReshNesh/pixlserv

https://github.com/emicklei/karina
Fuck everything, we're doing five (simultaneous) lasers.
Lead Developer to update Backbone app with AngularJS in New York City
"8. Do not carry a cellphone or Crackberry 24/7"

What year are we in?!
That's a lot of commas.

On a more serious note, I think more information about the service would be nice. My personal interest would be in enterprise sales. Is this within the realm of possibility for you guys?
Well, it is better, since SSH doesn't come with a default password, and you can disable the use of passwords in SSHD.
There's a half truth there, a lot of young people think they are a lot smarter than they really are. They have false confidence that goes with not knowing what they don't know.
I'm confused as to why they'd add in this fine print if they really wanted fresh talent from outside their network:

This program is open only to ThoughtSpot's friends and families. For an individual to qualify as ThoughtSpot's friend/family, he/she must be connected to a ThoughtSpot employee on LinkedIn at the time of making a referral. Recruiters and ThoughtSpot employees are not eligible.
If you did that, how would people know to follow you on Twitter?
The sad part is that they not just doing it in this case but also in the IRS case. Why they are not being called on it for both by the same groups is not reassuring when it comes to fixing this behemoth
Change is bad unless it’s great: Lessons from user revolts
> I have a couple side projects I'd like to work on. That's not right. I wouldn't like to work on them. I would like to have worked on them.

A classic book is, of course, something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Chrome 37 (the current dev channel) enables high-dpi support on Windows out-of-the-box (which might fix the issues you had with win8 mode -- at least, it seems to work for me).
You are aware that this is the hosted solution? You can get NodeBB at GitHub if you want it to host yourself.
What you're describing is essentially a data version what the Iridium network provides. Iridium is a constellation of 66 satellites at 450 miles up. Unfortunately, when Iridium was launched, forward thinking wasn't part of the plan -- data is stuck at around ancient dialup modem speeds.

There were plans for similar services, such as Teledesic, which went nowhere. I guess that enough land-based internet covers the majority of the target market, so there isn't enough market left over to justify the cost of a high speed satellite data provider. Remember, in LEO orbit, the satellites have to be replaced after about 5 years or so (atmospheric drag, and they run out of booster fuel).

Lower cost to launch via Space-x reusable rockets may change the cost equations though.
I do like generators for one reason - setting up a Gruntfile with all the details you want can be tedious (in addition to all the dependencies in your package.json), not to mention setting up stuff like Bower.

That's a bunch of wasted time setting up boilerplate. Generators tend to not be perfect, since we as developers can get opinionated, but I'm fine with tweaking from the boilerplate to get the results I want, which takes less time than setting everything up from scratch.
What if it turns out that diversity isn't nearly as important as raw talent? I would be surprised if it were. I'm waiting for all the successful startups running diversity seminars from day one.
Project Livewire: Harley-Davidson unveils its first electric motorcycle
Then you have another problem: battery drainage, which may or may not be a problem depending on location.
Here's a paper from NASA's (budget-axed) Mars Laser Communications Demonstration. They estimate 10-100 Mbps bandwidth, on a 5 W laser system (300 W pulsed, but only drawing 5 W from the PSU).

http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/38254/1/04... and also

http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/38024/1/04...

context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Telecommunications_Orbite...

There's a much more interesting paper somewhere that designs a system for interstellar lasers..

edit: I can't find what I'm thinking of, but this optical SETI experiment is relevant. It looked at 577 nearby stars (<50 parsecs = 163 light years), and claims it could detect a 50 kW (!!) optical laser pointed from one of them (presumably at a negligible bitrate).

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112479
Pretty much - call that antenna gain, it's much cheaper to put bigger and better hardware on the ground. Recall though that the signal still goes through a TDRSS satellite, which also has a bigger dish.
Pranking is a lot more of a niche now than it ever was, but it's still alive. For some unholy reason PLA is still around: http://www.phonelosers.org/

My favorite pranks were on confs with other loser kids from IRC, usually calling up either a business support line and trolling them with unsolveable product bugs, or something more esoteric, like calling up a sexual assault line and asking what counted as sexual assault, or an STD prevention hotline asking about strange maladies. Invariably someone else would hop on the line and make the whole thing into a soap opera for the poor abused call center monkey.

If there's not that many pranks anymore it's probably because kids are finding new ways to deal with boredom.
Haptics Footwear – This product probably deserves accolades
Oh, I'm not saying that at all. I'm simply saying that excuses are not valid. If you want to ride, ride. Don't make weak excuses.
This should be a separate tool. An add-on, or whatever, but it shouldn't be bundled with the browser. If you think about it, it doesn't make much sense.

Do you see audio mixing/mastering or video editing software being bundled with media players? Or do you see word processors/TeX IDEs bundled with PDF viewers? No, because you wanted to play your Black Sabbath .mp3, or read a .pdf scientific paper.

If you wanted to record your Black Sabbath tribute band and produce the recording, you'd get a digital audio workstation. If you wanted to write your own scientific paper, you'd get a TeX bundle. If you wanted to develop web apps, you'd want to download an IDE. Not use a web browser.

A vast, vast majority of people downloading Firefox wants to just look at damn web pages. The ones who want to make them are welcome to get dedicated software. Developers of that separate program for web dev could then go crazy and add a lot of features that wouldn't be possible so easily if it was bundled in a browser. Everyone wins.

So why this? No one is being done a favor by bundling a web IDE with a browser. A bullshit token reason like "it's easier for novices" will not qualify.
Mostly I'm pondering if this would be useful for them in the (very unlikely) case that they get into a situation where they can't dial 911 (need to be quiet or otherwise don't want to draw attention to themselves). But, as others point out, actually remembering the app exists when you need it may be problemmatic. And even so they would then have to find it on screen 27, past all the 2048, angry bird, and flappy bird games and things.
Always glad to see more things happening in this space, but most devs already BYOIDE and would probably just like better integration with their existing tools:

http://remotedebug.org/
Yup. Except straight cash still needs someone to physically collect it which leaves a point of failure in the crime and a good place for authorities to catch the bad guys. Bitcoin removes that.
A very cool idea and a great layout! You should include the UK in your list also.
Yeah, how dare modern users want to be able to read right to left and top to bottom, as we've been doing for thousands of years. These young hipster types, they know what's up! Disrupting organization of hierarchies is the new Snapchat! In the future, we're all going to evolve Cookie Monster eyes to be able to coordinate these masonry messes.
Wow, I am a big fan of following your passions but wonder if you will regret that time spent playing "Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball" when you could have been doing something more full filling.
Rise of the collaboration KPI
I'd rather have features than have them removed. Considering the dynamic nature, jitting, etc, most of the runtime needed for development is already there. Might as well throw a UI on it.
I think you're overestimating how much Minecraft is about combat/survival/etc. Most of what I hear about Minecraft sure makes it sound like it's largely about playing with your virtual legos, alone or with your friends, which is not so far off from one of the things some people love SL for - building crazy places to hang out with your friends, in crazy costumes.
This is a pretty good run-down. I'm somewhat in the same boat, so it's nice to see this breakdown.
A. I don't see how "the government" is behind botnets.

B. You don't need many machines to create DDoS attacks because of reflection/amplification.

C. You can rent machines without having to use a botnet.
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Simple log messages for Node.js
This is neat. I use a similar tool on VS 2013 [0]. MS launched it very recently. It's called Bing code search. Pretty nifty, Although it's lot advanced but I hope tools like this grow to be better and comparable to this one. Anyone using vs 2013, do check this out.

[0] http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-...
How small copy changes can make a big (revenue) difference
Vandalize your GitHub wall with Git-Art
Bitcoin is only pseudoanonymous. At some point, the 'bad actor' has to access 'legitimate' banking institutions to exchange the Bitcoins to fiat and that is the weakest link. It requires reporting to relevant tax or other authorities based on arbitrary (and secret) amounts, but targets money laundering, drug trade, gamlbing, etc.

I suppose if I had to throw a potentially disruptive idea out there, you could create a database of 'blacklisted addresses.' Let's say when Bitlocker came out, you entered that address into a database and it was verified as being associated with this scam, well it is trivial to track those coins between addresses and every address it enters is blacklisted until it enters a mixer or exchange, at which point you have a potentially complicit corporation that you could actually target with the subpoena or other legal action for discovery of IPs, login, etc.
It sounds like OP just wanted to play video games. I've been there in my life, so I can relate. However, it's a tragic use of time that could be spent exploring the world.

I did 3 months backpacking in America's best national parks. There were so many amazing experiences I'll never forget. But most of all, the feeling of freedom.

My life will never be the same after doing that. Of course, it's changed for the better.

You absolutely should backpack the rockies! In Colorado alone, you could spend 3 months. Flat tops, ouray, sand dunes, rocky mountain nat'l park, Aspen, San Juans etc. etc. But don't forget that Canada has Rockies, too. Jasper national park is high on my bucket list this summer.
Don’t Overwhelm Yourself Trying to Learn Too Much
I think the Pinteresque tiling home page might work if the information density were to be increased by quite a lot. What bothers me most is how you can only see the name of the board and the two/three most recent comments. What does that provide in terms of information? Not much IMO.

The forum itself just seems like the same 90's forum from yesteryear with a new glossy coating. Once you've gotten used to the Reddit/HN way to manage content you simply can't go back to that.
Wouldn't that depend on the choice of bar? There's a big difference between a nightclub at midnight and a gastropub during lunch time, especially since the latter will tend to also serve a selection of non alcoholic drinks.

People checking you out would also be a problem you could just as easily encounter at starbucks or indeed in the office.
S.O.R.S – a medical simulation game inspired by real science
Is there any open source JS library for this kind of movement tracking?
Microsoft did it before:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/02/17/intr...

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/a1166718-a2d9-...
Echoes of ludic life as defined by Bob Black in the Abolition of Work. http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm
His book "How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets" is a great read: entertaining and very insightful. (http://www.amazon.com/How-Get-Rich-Greatest-Entrepreneurs-eb...)
Is there a way for you to submit your information to Microsoft ? I heard the Surface Pro team loves feedback & does their best to listen to users.
Beautiful, but I can't really understand where this is. Does it take into account my location?
The about us states:

Next Steps
We are just starting on NewsScale. We are currently focused on taking our service to the rest of the world. We have only covered the US, India and Ethiopia so far. Japan and Russia are next on our list.
I think that I read somewhere that AGI wouldn't kill us all for the sake of killing us all - it would always be byproduct of something it will do.
Keeping bad recruiters away from our GitHub accounts one picture at a time.
> That rings true. I have a couple side projects I'd like to work on. That's not right. I wouldn't like to work on them. I would like to have worked on them. But the actual process of working on them isn't fun to me

Ya, I seem to get into moods where I'll obsessively work on something then turn around and then lose the urge part way through. It is always that second 90% that bores me. ;)
There is also a billion people living one-single-error away from starvation. The fact that we value their lives below the emotional well being of rich people that feel bad about the state of the environment (but aren't willing to give up any of their comforts for the sake of it) tells a lot of who we are and why we ended up with such a list in the first place.
Lotus, a web framework for Ruby
I think it would be troublesome if we developed a machine with zero "EQ" and an "IQ" that's higher than ours, with the ability to continuosly get higher at that. Seems like we are only trying to develop a machine with a high "IQ" and i don't think that warrants it having any kind of "EQ".

Why would they kill us? I think it's hard to predict what kind conclusions would a machine with an "IQ" over a 1000 draw but with an "EQ" equal to zero seems it would certainly lack empathy to other beings(artificial or natural).
I usually updated the firebird page before the big update but it bacame useless and painfull to the the page updates after the redesign

For example befora i could do releases for beta and stable versions but after i had just kind of worthless tags
also i had svn branches for each kind of relases

http://freecode.com/projects/firebird

I guess in time also sourforge will die , almost all open source development is moved to github these days
It should be just as secure: not revealing the AES key you use to encrypt data is about the same as not revealing the seed of the random number generator you use to randomly generate ids.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817934
Impressive logic there! The example at the end (click the white square) was correct for this browser. Well done.
Arguably we already have hostile AI: bureaucracy.

It doesn't even have to be automated, but it increasingly is. It ends up producing harmful outcomes that can't be readily ascribed to the moral choices of individual humans within it.

Or consider that hostile is a transitive verb: hostile towards whom? The military already have automated systems connected to fire control without a human in the loop, although at the moment these are limited to missile defence systems. Consider the possibility of plugging the NSA's metadata based system for calling people terrorists into an automated airstrike or assassination system.
Debate could be had as to whether you should be allowed to modify your GitHub history like this. Personally, I think its a good thing.
The two are not mutually exclusive. You can be overconfident and ask for help. I mean - I'm an expert on what I know, not what I don't know, ya know?
You sorta got into this with your last line, but why Google and Facebook? Are they simply only the names of companies you know off the top of your head? In other words, why wasn't Microsoft or Apple on the list? Or another great company?

>Not really a great GPA, Not well versed with the DS/Algorithms, really poor at Topcoder,Codeforces Hackathons.

Right, well, that's going to be a little more difficult then. I didn't see this the first time reading through.
Massive increase to Onedrive storage plans
I was on funemplyment for 2 years while I drove from Alaska to Argentina - it changed my life and gave me the perspective I needed to understand my place in the world. For me, work is a means to live the life I want to live, it's not my life.

Up here in the Yukon, tons of my friends are funemployed, doing all the things one never seems to find time for - knitting, a big vegetable garden, hunting, fishing, building a log cabin, etc. etc. It's hard to imagine where there is time for work!
Who Says Behemoths Can’t Dance? Agile 170Gbps DDoS Mitigation Appliance
I saw his poetry reading last year. He was quite a character.
It's certainly possible that it is of similar size. For it to be meaningful, I would want it to be overwhelmingly likely that it was the original.
Where are you? That sounds incredible.

I have 2 dogs, a wife and a new baby. I can lend you them for 3-4 years if you want ;) Nah, it's awesome. Thanks, and enjoy your new friend - great move!
All the reviews I've read & all the posts I've seen said the digitizer they went with on the SP3 is far superior.
Haha thanks man, i'll get off your lawn now.

I don't feel old at all, honestly!!!! - I know I'm still a yoot basically, I have so much to learn. It was only meant in relation to the context given (the article)
The unbearable bureaucracy of Wikipedia
In general I agree.

I only ever asked language familiarity questions if either, A. The job is explicitly frontend and we need someone already well informed (Javascript has a lot of gotchas, and HTML and CSS can be complex; backend experience doesn't directly translate), or B. It's about a technology (not just language) on the person's resume. If you put down you know X, you better expect questions about X. The questions were generally prefaced with asking the person how well they felt they knew the tech, too; it was as much a "does this person know what they say they know" as much as it was a "does this person know X".

Reference type in Java isn't some esoteric library knowledge, either. It's not "tell me everything that implements the List interface" or something else as equally useless. If you want to build any sort of caching mechanism, you -really- ought to know about it, and if you're claiming great Java knowledge, and want to be in charge of delivering a Java product, it's reasonable to expect you to be familiar at least to when you might need to go read the Javadocs on those classes.

If you were a junior programmer who just coded tasks as they were handed to you, and had code reviews, and you don't know it (and you admit that), that's not the kind of question I'd expect you to know. And if you don't claim to have much experience with Java, obviously asking you a Java question is silly; I'd ask you something about what you do use.
From Entrepreneur to CEO and Beyond
It will never be the future until I have a flying car, sorry.
The democratization of the web gives people who have been consumers the ability to be creators. The tools of creation belong in everyone's hands.
At first I thought OpenRoss was a new competitor to GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick, but it's just a Twisted plugin. The title should be changed.