skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couchbase rakes in $60 million to improve upon its NoSQL technology
Eclipse Luna and JDK8
> ...but you soon realise that all you are funding is for the guy in charge to do as he pleases, regardless of what the majority of members want.

Can you support this claim, please? As far as I can see, they publish everything that they do.

The way I see it, a political organisation needs strong leadership, because a unified voice is what gives it clout. If members want something else, then they should organise elsewhere and get it done. I don't want to donate to an organisation that dilutes its impact by being pulled in fifty directions by its members. I want it to do one thing well.

To me, what's most important is that the ORG openly (and accurately) states what it is doing with members' money. Are you claiming that they are corrupt in some way, that they aren't doing what they say they're doing, or that they are accurately reporting what they're doing but you disagree with it?

> You fund his ever increasing life style and he complains on your behalf.

Please quantify this. ORG publishes annual financial reports. Is this not enough for you to state exactly how the founder's lifestyle is inappropriate?
This is a good example of how adding a restriction can give you freedom.
Miracle of the Sun – Fátima 1917 – 100,000 People Gathered
Something to think about on the subject of terrorism, by David Foster Wallace:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/11/just-ask...
Again the article is out of date, it's now parsed from the URL if you don't specify a CN_match (which you can still do if you need to).
Interesting point about catching up on work in the subsequent quarter. This sort of thing is why I thought the impact of weather was overstated, but I thought that the catchup would have happened during the same quarter. If it takes just a little bit longer then that would skew things a lot.

Also, I love how I can ask this question and get a ton of quality answers in quick succession.
If they're smart, it feels like the shady groups would try to push for adoption of something like BitMessage to stop this kind of side-channel information leakage.
How We’ve Reached More People by Guest Blogging
You can always send a PR to the original sender PR branch.
I've made very stupid hires - one jerk cost me my largest customer.

However, I've hired people who needed a first IT job and didn't have a good resume. One in particular was working in furniture rental store, and after working well for my company for a few years, he went on to bigger and better things and is earning probably 80k.

Hiring people that need a leg-up can be a good thing for this world.

I would square the two ideas("hire carefully", "hire good people that need help") by immediately firing anybody that displays any sort of ethical lapse. All my 'bad' employees showed signs of ethical problems long before they did their damage.
Those numbers do brighten my outlook, but while our economy has added 9 million more workers our population has grown by almost 12 million.

Isn't it appropriate to be looking at the employment-population ratios instead of the number of workers? This chart (of the employment-population ratio) doesn't paint such a rosy picture:

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS12300000
Nobody reads the Android bug DB. https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list?sort=-stars "New" means "Unreviewed."
We started all this for an early Skype seed investor; he was overwhelmed with pitching a lot of different companies to investors and losing track of it.

So we put a simple presentation behind a Facebook login, and that was it for starters. Later connected it to a CRM; added LinkedIn, AngelList.

Started signing on customers and growing it based on their feedback, mostly manual work. Finally we built a whole automated SaaS solution around this, and added some nicer style to it plus a lot of background checks on the leads themselves and their behaviour.

You can see an example of a lead view here : http://datascreens.pitchxo.com/lead_info.png

Hope you like it!
It's not "doesn't work due to noscript", it's "doesn't work because it requires javascript". The blame is on javascript, which degrades the web most of the time.
Progesterone should be familiar, no? Just like everyone is supposed to learn about bolshevism in school, so I was a bit surprised by these.
Aside from a shibboleth, I think there might be other ways to tell men and woman apart.
A Better Way to Request App Ratings
On the note of "Empirically, it seems like the more you need from other people in the startup community (advice, introductions, feedback, funding), the more of a popularity contest it feels like."

In the must read book called, "Winning Through Intimidation" by Robert Ringer, he postulates that...

"The result you get in a negotiation is inversely proportionate to how intimidated you are by the other person."

His solution is what we call Takeaway Selling...where you remove the opportunity to do business with you...creating an environment where they stop thinking about WHY they should work with you (or invest) and focus on how to get you to let them work with you in the first place. (Much like pinterest did so successfully with their beta invitations.)
Yeah, I found the notion of a commit being "history worthy" kind of silly. If that's how it happened, then it's history! It's not a value judgement.
Physicist Says We Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest with Three 1,000-Foot Walls
Pharrell Williams Newry appearance cancelled
I guess the question is how much value it provides to your business. If it helps you to raise hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, the pricing is cheap!
I suspect that she hasn't given it much thought at all and just lumped all internet media together. I suspect if you told her ISIS was spreading their messages by using paper leaflets she would brand the post office as a 'safe haven' for terrorists too.
Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex in the speech draft.

Pretty much `they` have won and we - the 99% - have lost. Queue the downvotes ;)
And if more people were willing to use NoScript, forcing web designers to not make javascript a mandatory part of their content delivery, we'd all get a much more secure and private internet.

But since those web designers probably monetize their content through the same ad networks we're trying to block it seems like a catch 22.
Windows wars? The Android and Chrome OS Alliance
Show HN: fail2web, a fail2ban GUI
https://github.com/Sean-Der/fail2web

fail2ban is one the most under appreciated tools on small to medium Unix servers. I was first introduced to it when administering some web facing Asterisk servers (FreePBX) and was quickly impressed with its effectiveness/simplicity.

However, one of the issues I ran into was that people in the field were really frustrated by it on a day to day basis. They were accidentally getting themselves banned, and instead of unbanning themselves they would just turn fail2ban off all together. Some people didn't feel comfortable using fail2ban-client and others just felt like it took to much time.

And so fail2web was born! Fail2web gives you basic fail2ban administration abilities. You can manage bannedIPs, fail regexes and a few other per jail settings, with a lot more stuff planned in the future.

While building this I also ended up building a Go library that abstract aways fail2ban communication (https://github.com/Sean-Der/fail2go) which is used by the REST server that powers fail2web (https://github.com/Sean-Der/fail2rest). The fail2rest server could also be used for other cool projects, I am in the process of using it to distribute bans across multiple servers and using it for health checks.

The tech stack for this project also was a lot of fun using. For this project I am communicating with a long running Python process that exposes information via a socket that gives pickled output so I used the awesome library (https://github.com/kisielk/og-rek) I also had a lot of fun building the frontend in angularjs, angular-ui with browserify. In the end I was happy with all the tools I picked.

thanks!
> So there's no real loss of information in that sense

It is in reality. Try to git bisect a bug. (Yes, I read the part about the bisect in the post. But thanks, I'd rather search the bug in several 10-line patches than in one 1000+).
I agree. It is extremely hard to select the correct technology. So, sometimes it is even more valuable to learn, what has not work (even if it looked nice from the description), than what has worked.
I love how this article was written today and is already out of date.
17 Year-Old Spaniard Finds ‘Silly Bugs’ On Google And eBay
Non Native: 69%. Took Iter as a non word. Been using that too much as a name in programming I guess. Been too trigger happy on the 'f' key with a few words I did know though.
> I would love to have an in-depth conversation about the origins of stereotypes and how they relate to real-world examples, but HN is too politically correct to make an attempt.

The problem is the large amount of bad research and evidence that gets thrown around in such a discussion. Tons of biotruth folks come out of the woodwork and there are quite few people who don't argue in good faith whatsoever. That has nothing to do with "politically correct" slant, which HN does NOT have, btw.
I was surprised it was on the list, but for the opposite reason. The others could be excused as technical or niche vocabulary, but bolshevism was critical to the third-most influential (for English speakers) historical event of the 20th century.
Click on the o's.
Would strategically placed wind turbines work instead?
I sympathize and share the author's dislike of this particular business model, however, I am fairly certain the Huffpo staffer addressed didn't read past the first paragraph.
There's an argument that bisect is only useful if every commit is broken. If, as is often the case with my history, most commits don't compile, maybe there's an argument for squashing?
I second that. The first thing that comes to my mind when I hear the word golem is the pokémon...
related
http://testyourvocab.com/
Ask HN: Stricter Submission Guidelines? 
It seems like websites create accounts that then just keep posting their content (mostly kinda unrelated to what HN is about anyway, just to get some clicks). I am not trying to pick on anyone in particular at all, but here are some examples -
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=WealthyGorilla -> account created 1 day ago, posted 9 links (all very thin content, IMHO) all from the same website.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ventureblend -> account created 9 days ago, 6 links, all from same website (again, IMHO, thin content).
Is it possible to enforce stricter submission guidelines or am I completely imagining up a problem that doesn't exist?
Again, an implementation is just a more detailed specification. I can say "make me a cake", or I could provide a high level theory on cake baking so my cake gets made, or a detailed recipe, or I can describe all the movements needed exactly. Which one is declarative?

There are many levels in describing what one wants, that there is somehow a magical sharp line where it becomes "how" is not reasonable.
Imposter syndrome involves a competent individual who significantly underestimates his or her competence. It has nothing to do with the complexity of an undertaking, or how confident one is relative to others.

Are there founders who exhibit imposter syndrome? I'm sure there are. But can every instance of founder insecurity be attributed to this? Absolutely not.

It might not be the politically correct thing to state, but there are lots of founders who have good reasons to be insecure. They have no domain expertise. They are trying to start a business with little to no capital. And so on and so forth.

Telling these folks that they're merely suffering from imposter syndrome does them a disservice.
What else could it be? If it's happening on multiple versions from multiple vendors including Google themselves, what else could be to blame?
I find the official phrase 'counter-terrorism' quite fitting in this context.
This was a very brave post. Not because anyone will have a problem with your insecurities,(no decent person would take issue), but rather because it means you have made a MASSIVE step in the direction of being much more secure.

The fact that you are no longer afraid tells me that you are no longer insecure.
Official Get Out of Work for the US vs. Germany World Cup Game.
That depends. For scrolling, yes. For moving the cursor, I find I need a lot less muscle use on my trackpad than my mouse.
But "gems" is a word - as in "gemstones".
But Urs also said, paraphrasing this time, that once you get into petabytes of information everything pretty much becomes streaming analytics.

Since I would assume that any non-trivial service that Google provides is in that petabyte neighborhood it explains why he would say that Google isn't using MR anymore.
That's not helpful, he doesn't have a cert for www.sslscoop.org, so the link is http; but if you try https://www.sslscoop.org/ you get a cert error, because the IP(s) are running https, but for a different name.

By the time the server can return the redirect you propose, the user agent must have already accepted the non-matching certificate.
Hopefully they will now that it's trending on HN.
HighCharts [1] and HighStock [2] (which I use extensively on my SaaS app [3] - the home page shows a real screenshot) definitely allow gaps in the data. I can only warmly recommend both! (not affiliated with them in any way, they just do a great job).

[1] http://www.highcharts.com/demo/spline-irregular-time

[2] http://www.highcharts.com/products/highstock

[3] https://www.wisecashhq.com/
It'd be nice if they added a way to spawn Android Auto on your device's display. Then, you could mount it to your handlebars and have a glanceable voice-activated UI while riding as well.
Marketing to Kids Safely and Legally: Back to School With COPPA
That's a common misconception. If I loose a leg, the driver will probably never be able to pay the sum, go through personal bankruptcy and leave me with a nice sum I sued for, but no actual money.
The only change is that the lowest end model that previously did not have a rear camera now includes the same rear camera that the higher end models have had for two years.

The iPod Touch camera is an okay camera, but it has significantly more noise, less color accuracy, is much worse in low-light situations. If you are taking pictures in great light, it's fine, but it is like smartphone cameras from several generations ago.
I think we are the alternate universe. Bush's win over Gore in 2000 was so ridiculous that a half-assed intervention by time-traveling experimental historians almost seems like a reasonable explanation.

It is interesting, and sad, to think of how much may have ended up hanging on a couple of hundred Florida voters. Of course, it may be wrong to think that a Gore presidency would have been all that different.
The vocab test is "do you know this word?". It doesn't ask you to demonstrate that you know the word. So in reality this is words people claim to know, or have heard before, not words people actually know the definition for and can use in a sentence.
There are a great many things on the command line (less elsewhere, but still some) that don't handle spaces in filenames well.

You are probably right that this is a technological fault rather than a problem with spaces themselves, but IMnsHO until we are not regularly using spaces as list item separators using them with the items being listed is asking for issues.
Sites that do that eventually get their submission privileges revoked. (i.e. all submissions are autokilled, respective of the destination url)

If you have showdead on, here's a blatant example: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=TheSurge
Hospitals Spy on Your Purchases to Spot Bad Habits
Google officially unveils Android TV at Google I/O
OrbitalBoard new release
Github integration (in addition to Basecamp existing one), better accessibility, better help.
It's hard to trace products through the entire chain of production, but yes, in Sweden it's quite hard to buy products and services produced without the union setting the wages (there are no minimum wages set by law, only unions, and the union negotiates wages also for non-union employees). It might be under the headline "Scandinavian model" of that econ textbook.
The Samsung has a nicer screen and heart rate monitor. The battery is smaller, but I imagine I'll have the 360 before I care.

I get the vibe that Googlers prefer the LG. Samsung isn't exactly the most inspiring company, but I think I'll go that way for the more retina screen and HRM.
Non native, 67%.
Dual wielding a claymore and scimitar, the kevlar armored biped golem paladin sped his humvee at mach 3 onto the the dreadnought powered by a massive solenoid to retrieve the codec which unlocks the secrets of Bolshevism.

Because why not.
It IS "doesn't work due to noscript". Browsers come with Javascript. Websites use Javascript. The owner of the site wrote the site using Javascript because browsers support Javascript by default. You specifically turned off Javascript, even though it's a default part of the web.

You broke your experience. If you turn off your car's engine and the brakes and steering stop working, that's not the engine's fault, it's yours.
the class of people who own the world and control all the assets may finally begin to see the error of their ways

Their ways? Arianna Huffington didn't cause the current epidemic of narcissism making people willing to write for free to stroke their ego as he aptly noted. She also didn't inherit HuffPo so all that talk about socialism and inheritance tax is just more signalling on the author's part. Which is why they chose him.

If some street hustler challenges you to a game of three card monte you don't need to bother to play, just hand him the money, not because you're going to lose but because you owe him for the insight: he selected you.[1]

He owes them an article on cancer, I believe.

[1] http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/05/dove.html
> Do you wear an ID around your neck? Do you walk into an establishment, introduce yourself, tell the keeper where you came from, when was the last time you visited, check in with an inter-business tracking device, and then ask them to forget all that?

Don't worry, there's a startup that's "fixing" that[0].

Nomi uses the MAC address of your phone to identify the brick-and-mortar venues you visit. It's opt-out for consumers, and the only way to opt-out is to register your MAC address with them[1].

[0] http://getnomi.com/

[1] http://nomi.com/privacy/
Wow--in some jurisdictions the whole process of getting a warrant is done remotely anyway:

> Recent technological advances similar to those discussed here have, in addition, made the process of obtaining a warrant itself more efficient. See McNeely, 569 U. S., at ___ (slip op., at 11–12); id., at ___ (ROBERTS, C. J., concurring in part and dissenting in part) (slip op., at 8) (describing jurisdiction where “police officers can e-mail warrant requests to judges’ iPads [and] judges have signed such warrants and e-mailed them back to officers in less than 15 minutes”).
Finally got around to creating an account in order to weigh in on this. My wife took sign language in college and told me that most signs can be repeated back and forth for emphasis. However, the sign for hungry is sort of a vertical cupped hand, like holding a banana in front of your throat, with a downward motion. Repeating this up and down means horny, for reasons that should be clear from the gesture. There is a lot of the visual equivalent of onomatopoeia...
I believe Android Wear does gesture detection, so if you make your wrist horizontal it will wake the screen.
And if we were willing to block HTML, we wouldn't need color monitors.

Welcome to 2014.
Explain Ruby
I'm failing to see how this differs from http://www.cacert.org/, though perhaps this would be more strict on participation?
Similarly, how could you pass judgement on the court with such an incredible lack of understanding of how it operates? Judges and juries shouldn't need to understand every aspect of every possible topic which could come before them; that's absolutely ridiculous! Their domain of expertise is the /law/, something of which you are no doubt as ignorant as they are of technology.
A good taxi driver will recognize that if there is a major event in an hour, it's better to avoid some routes, even though Google maps might still be showing them as perfectly clear. They won't be in 30 minutes.
Cables and outlet splitters everywhere.
missing: decentralized market-place (where doctors and hospitals auto-compete for patients, driving down cost and improving QoS)
Empirical only, of course it isn't a perfect natural experiment as there is no control group. We can't know what the regulated prices would have been.
In World War II bombings targeted civilians, and were designed in such a way to inflict firestorms and terror. By body count alone drones and IEDs are quite tame.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Bombers-Bombed-Allied-1940-1945/dp...
Warning: spoilers ahead

For anyone not familiar with this reference, there is a scene where a German officer realizes that the other officers he is speaking with are actually Americans in disguise. He notices because the American indicated he would like three drinks with his three middle fingers[0]. Germans typically indicate the number three with their thumb, pointer, and middle finger[1].

[0] http://i.imgur.com/8PxwF9D.jpg

[1] http://i.imgur.com/q7HTVZY.jpg
Ah thanks, that's what I wanted to know. It's nice to know there's a procedure for this, and I hope the workaround isn't too straightforward for anyone looking to abuse the system.

Do you know if the submission privilege revoking is done automatically or by a moderator?
Personally if I was getting data from HTTP in PHP the last thing I would ever do is use file_get_contents. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

It's generally advised to set allow_url_include to off which would make this code not work. Also if you're mention curl in your technical article about code you should ask yourself why your code isn't using the curl integration in the language you're using.

Putting a "You are doing it wrong" in your title is just asking for people to point out everything that is wrong with it.
Well we've always been at war with eastasia...
The Do Not Track movement says Do Not Make Money.

The entire movement is pissing against the wind. Tracking is how these companies make money. This is their motivation system. A "low" of current online physics is "tracking makes money".

As such, it's a waste of energy. Change physics first.
> Terrorism is the indiscriminate targeting of civilians.

Source? Debating the definitions of words is often silly, but I think it's worth pointing out that 1) the definition of "terrorism" isn't broadly agreed upon, and 2) the definition you're using is more narrow than peoples'. The definition that searching google gives is "the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims", which drone attacks certainly fit into.

More generally, it seems that condemning vague things like "torture" and "terrorism" accomplishes very little, because people will simply use different definitions of the terms to skirt the condemnation. So we have to condemn specific things that are wrong, like waterboarding and drone strikes.