skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could we admit some nuance here?

When we want to stigmatize people who plan too heavily for the future, we call it "overengineering." When we want to stigmatize people who plan not enough for the future, we do whatever you're doing above. The line between those two failure modes is relatively narrow and not at all obvious. There aren't simple heuristics that will infallibly put us onto the line, and acting like this is all black and white doesn't help anyone.
That's due to an extremely complex (albeit easy to exploit) SWF reflection attack.

JSONP itself, though yucky, should still be safe from XSS given a /-star-star-/ prefix and a validated callback parameter.
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Still looks broken to me. I see Roboto, 18px, 200 weight, which is really hard to read. 14px 300 looks much better to me.
Calling functional programming declarative seems like a bit of a stretch to me. I understand the reasoning. Still, when I read the headline I was imagining something pretty different.

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The language looks pretty good. I think for most programmers some kind of vanilla ML would work well.
I have a hard time understanding why people wouldn't want to know what's in store for the future. Even if it's unavoidable, there's still lots you can do in terms of making best use of the time remaining to you.
Oh crap. Now we've done it. This thing is going to encounter an alien race of machines, get smart, and come back and hold the earth hostage while looking for it's long lost creator!
Very interesting! As an avid photographer and advisor to a stock photo company, this is a great concept.

Where are you sourcing the photos from? And what do you believe your target audience would be?

Getting emails from CreativeMarket, for example, is not only a source of inspiration every day but also makes me think about redesigning the blog for the site, or maybe even swapping out icons or fonts.

I don't pay for the newsletter, but I can pay for the creative assets if I'm interested.

Have you thought of sending just teasers for free on a regular basis? Then if the user wants the photos they can pay the fee? I'd use it if it was like that.
Hi there.
I think there is always a room for criticism. As a designer i have the tendency to listen for what the Dev side have to say and what other aspects i can draw from and use.

Thanks for the comment :)
Cheers.
The article suggests a 32 character length limit on callback parameters. Unfortunately this looks to be too short - from examining log files it appears jQuery often uses callbacks of 40 or even 44 characters.
Knuth argues that programming is a form of writing. I agree. Therefore, you should organize code like a book or article, since those are forms of writing that have benefitted from centuries of use and refinement.

Even books and articles on complex subjects are fairly light on structure.
People adapt fine. If you put leg irons on someone and tell them to pick cotton all day, chances are they'll adapt to that fine. That doesn't make it okay.
No resistance, just trying to get some input on how to do this stage of the process properly. In particular, I've been reading a lot of feedback on competitors' products.

I talk to people, but I need to talk to more.
I had a think about it over the day, and decided that what you're proposing would bring power to users, and be an improvement. Focus on content rather than presentation, power to the users, less layers. Thanks for a considered reply.
Congrats! Looks good!

Small issue: you're calling Google fonts over HTTP, but your site uses HTTPS, so Chrome is blocking the request. This leads to your fonts rendering in the default (Times New Roman here).

[blocked] The page at 'https://www.pennywhale.com/' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from 'http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,700': this content should also be loaded over HTTPS.
I'm working on SAPpack, which is a Password manager tailored for SAP Consultants and developers http://www.sappack.com/
it helps you connect to everything SAP securely and easily with no setup.

Plus I have my side project, which is called http://mynativemap.com/
It's basically a list of Google maps in local languages, Because I hate when Google maps automatically chooses the language to use, So this forces the variable in the URL.
This makes me concerned about the future of the internet.

I get it why big companies want to stifle innovation and competition, but its just plain wrong.
I think just changing the font-weight from 200 to 300 makes it a lot better. http://i.imgur.com/9XucxQh.png
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The people using the software are being paid roughly €2,500 to €5,000 a month, so obviously Munich can't afford €2.5 to €5 a month or whatever Microsoft Office would cost them....

(Average gross salary in Germany was €3,391 in 3Q2013 so the cost of employing someone would be higher than that.)
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Very detailed results. It's interesting how poorly digital ocean did for consistency of IO. Amazon, Rackspace and Softlayer seemed to fare best in many categories ahead of Azure, GCE, digital ocean etc. GCE database IO performance seemed particularly poor. Amazon seems to be far ahead of the rest for internal network throughput and latency.
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Hi there Shaunxcode - Check out my response earlier ;)

"Hi mzarate - In the first draft, the comments were inside the "Y-Meter" - I do too check out the comments first to see the buzz around the article. Later it was overload with information right at the beginning. Thanks :)"
The Secret of Monkey Island is probably my favorite game of all time.

I remember saving for the better part of a year to buy the ridiculously expensive 512K expansion module for my Amiga 500, basically just for being able to play it. The moment the memorable intro music started playing I knew it was worth it.

All the games from Maniac Mansion up to Grim Fandango are absolute classics, some of the fondest memories I have of video games.
I do believe that's the point.

Big companies like Netflix benefit from their 'peering' deals. Sure costs go up, but they also create a walled garden to keep out any upstart competition.
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Not a fan of the Y-meter on first glance. Maybe I would like it more after getting used to it.

- One thing that I think would improve it is putting the starting point in the bottom left corner. It's weird to have that half segment on the bottom.

- I want to see the exact number of points, not a fuzzy visual cue. The first visit each day I am going to look at every story on the front page, and subsequent visits are generally to look at replies to comments I've made. Prioritizing past "here are the stories on the front page" is useless to me.

- From http://hilapeleg.io/media/mockup_720x1981.png I get the impression that the new layout is much brighter than the old. I generally prefer off-white to full-white. It feels easier on the eyes. But without seeing the actual layout its hard to tell which I like more.

- Does this redesign come with comment hiding? This one feature is infinitely more important than an improved visual look.
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> To get out of the sun's gravitational influence (not exactly your criteria), it needs to travel 100000 times the sun-earth distance

There is no cut-off point. What's special about that distance?
The vast majority of free/open source software is available for Windows, and that includes things as horrendously unusable as GIMP.
Probably not HN's main interest, but Arrillaga is basically the main reason Stanford has sports teams (in particular, funding the football team)- he's basically funded everything they have around that, to say nothing of his other contributions to the school. And amusingly enough, If Silicon Valley has such a thing as a "power couple", Marc Andressen (the new world) and Laura Arillaga (scion of the old world, professor at the GSB) are it.
Not to mention that Chromebooks are one of the most heavy handed uses of DRM in the wild without even native apps with an App Store like iOS or Windows RT has.

A Google sign in is needed even to login and the only native apps are Google's own. How is this different or better than Palladium?

They also include the WideVine DRM that they acquired and use for Netflix which is not compatible with desktop Linux which is still forced to use a Silverlight port.

The only redeeming feature is that you can jump through hoops and install Linux(while suffering through an annoying prompt at every boot), which can be done on any Windows PC anyway, but >95% of Chromebook buyers are going to be locked in.

IE, Chrome and Safari teaming up to implement HTML5 DRM forced Firefox(which can't afford to be bundled in with every Java, Flash and Acrobat update/install like Chrome is) to follow suit.

And they only recently stopped parsing e-mail in Google Apps for Schools(which they give away for free) and Business(paid) to build ad profiles to show in other Google properties after they couldn't continue telling the lies they were telling to the public in federal court.

They also have a program where they track Android and iOS users to detect when they enter a store for ads tracking.

Which part of all this is about the open internet again?
Show HN: Kadira Alerts – Performance related alerts for Meteor Apps
Ah, didn't know that. I'm a non-NYC dweller and thought it was a separate borough.
I never feel like any HN redesign is actually needed [1]. Although well presented (as is usually the case for unsolicited redesigns), it fails at acknowledging the primary audience of the website (hackers), and disrupts the information hierarchy (emphasizing the score at the title's expense, harming the connection between an article and its comments…).

On a side note, I'm always concerned with self-proclaimed "UX experts" who, by using an ultra-thin font, make it really hard to access the core content of the Web: text.

[1] http://jgthms.com/why-hn-doesnt-need-a-redesign.html
The need for early diagnosis is important for research purposes - by the time we can see the affects of alzheimers, the damage has already been done. If we can develop an earlier diagnostic test, we can do earlier intervention in clinical trials of treatments.

Yes, there's no treatment now, but progress like this will lead to an actual treatment.
If your only positive payoff point from cycling is "win the Tour de France", yes, you are almost certainly better off doing something else.

OTOH, if more modest acheivements would justify the investment of time and money and winning the Tour de France would be a crowning, but not necessary to justify the effort, acheivement, sure, start cycling...
Show HN: MapCam lets you call anywhere in the world with your browser
"Old stuff"? No, necessarily, but the stable stuff, yes.
I'm currently running Chrome 35.0.1916.153 on Ubuntu 14.04 with XFCE and clicking once in the address bar highlights everything all. Don't know why mine is acting different than yours, maybe they changed that since you last tried it.
Do Standardized Tests Matter?
Sounds great, thanks for posting the details.
The SPEC CPU 2006 estimate comment is a legal requirement for any public results that cannot be guaranteed to be repeatable (which will never be the case in a virtualized, multi-tenant cloud environment). The results provided are based on the mean from multiple iterations on multiple instances from each service. If you were to run it on these same instances your results should be similar. The post also provides standard deviation analysis for all SPEC CPU runs on a given instance type to demonstrate the type of results variability you might expect.
That sounds a lot like the uniqueness types in languages Clean or Mercury for that matter. So is Mars a functional language with a linear/affine type or is there more to it. Wish Clean enjoyed more eyeballs than it does.
Yes, all languages change over time, butrust is still in its infancy and things have not yet settled. You really don't see the difference?
This looks useful - I'm inclined to sign up. Two things:

1. You may want to look at the CSS on your T&C page: http://weeklysnaps.com/terms. I'm seeing very light text on a light background, and it's difficult to read.

2. Are you capturing and keeping track of the original license for each photo in a way that's visible to your customers?

Your T&C says "[Photos have] been curated from other sites which claim CC0 or Public Domain status of the photo files."

Photo licensing is very important for commercial projects, and if the status of a photo changes later, it's important to have timestamped documentation of the license status.

Since there's no mention that you're indemnifying your clients against future claims the photos are licensed, it's probably in your best interest to include documentation of the photo's stated license (screenshots, source links, etc) with each download pack in case any disputes arise.

That'd protect both you and your clients in the event a big photo licensor (Getty, etc) starts sending nastygrams claiming the photos are licensed. Based on past experience, the probability of an issue like this is high, so it's best to cover your bases from the beginning.

Hope this helps!
Some countries have a list of "approved" names, and it's very hard to register a name not in it, for example in Argentina, every province has a list of approved names, and you have to write a letter with the etymology of the name for it to get approved:

http://www.planetamama.com.ar/nota/ley-nombres-como-registra...

Law:

http://www.sdh.gba.gov.ar/comunicacion/normativanacyprov/pue...
Of course all hardware clocks should be set UTC, but there's a lot of benefit from using the locale to understand what's going on in relation to the human viewing the log.

If i'm a human waking up at 3AM and I look at the logs for this server, the first thing i'm going to think is "is the time on this server the same as where I am?" followed by "how long ago did these events occur in relation to me?" The easiest way for any human to do this is to compare timezones. If you condition yourself to know the UTC difference of every time zone, then this works automatically, but [i'd argue] most humans are better at estimating timezone difference from other timezones, such as how California and New York are 3 hours difference, and New York and London is 5 hours difference.

In terms of correlating log events across the globe, you really, really want a log parser and correlating tool. They make your life easier and reduce time and complication during events. Splunk, Loggly, Graylog, Logstash, ELSA, etc. Don't look at your logs by hand. You'll be sitting there all day with 6 split windows looking at mysql, nginx, app logs, kernel logs, mail logs, security logs, blah blah blah, just on one server. When you horizontally scale your app, whether it's 2 or 2,000 servers, you need something to parse and correlate your logs so you can say "show me all logs from 11:00PM to 2:00AM from Web Cluster B", you get to save 10 minutes on your outage, and you don't miss anything.
There's a very long multi-year thread at a website called Nuclear Phynance about this. Nobody seemed to have the faintest clue although amusingly some of the more outlandish suggestions were later (laughingly) cited by an insider in an interview.

One decent general idea was that RenTec was willing to entertain purely statistical signals with no intuition to back them up (or, alternatively, unintuitive signals which you can explain in plain language but sound stupid).

There was an intesting quote from Simons about how astronomers are the best suited hires because they are used to making measurements/hypotheses purely from observation, without the chance to do controlled experiments. It was also noted that they seemed to employ a lot of NLP specialists, although consensus was that this was down to pattern recognition rather than anything to do with language.

The best suggestion (or at least the best sounding one) was that they were doing hidden-markov models which took into accound second and third order effects. And then there's always just the 'best execution' argument (doing basic market making but engineering better systems than anyone else).

However information on them is so scarce I sometimes wonder if most of what we hear is pure myth.
Can anybody make an attempt at explaining the content of "Axiomatic Characterization of Ordinary Differential Cohomology" further than the article did?

I don't know any algebraic topology; the idea of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology_%28mathematics%29

looks extremely clever to me but I can see where this subject matter would start to get challenging to explain.
Well, I've been reading the competitor's press releases mainly and reviews of their product on the internet. Since I've never done this before, I just don't know how much of their frustrations I can count as a form of validation. :-)
Ah, very interesting perspective, thanks for clarifying.
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At the very least, earlier diagnosis will help the ongoing research into the disease. Even if it doesn't directly benefit this generation of patients, their study may lead to new treatments for the next generation.
The fallacy with this logic is that software developer turnover is high. So in many cases someone other than you will be maintaining software you wrote. At least when using open source there is often some sort of community of developers that you can turn to whether through Github, Stack Overflow, Google Groups, etc... if you get stuck and have no history with the code.
Well, I'm not going to have a compact answer for you, but to do so you need to develop some kind of self-reference. (Like Godel!) If you like thinking about this sort of thing, Raymond Smullyan has a lot of great writing - I'd recommend eg Forever Undecided or To Mock a Mockingbird for a more informal treatment, or First-Order Logic for a formal one.
> stacks and queues (both array and linked-list based)

If you don't drop context that's a perfectly reasonable thing to say.
Sensitivity is the true positive rate, specificity is the true negative rate.

From the body of the paper, for their chosen test, their False Positive Rate appears to be 21.2% (100% - 68.8%) and their False Negative Rate appears to be 5.1% (100% - 94.9%). For this type of test, its the false negative rate that we'll really worry about.
I was going to make a comment about the text. I didn't even bother reading most of what was written because it was difficult to read on an iPhone. There's a very good reason people hated iOS 7's thin fonts and Apple reverted it back. And even their font had more contrast with their white backgrounds.
A redesign on mobile would be a more useful exercise. The way the comments get smaller and smaller when nested makes HN almost unusable on my Nexus 4.

Mobile first!
In my time working for financial firms (~4 years), I can tell you that there are a lot of proprietary applications being developed with web technologies.
This could be really useful for non-python webapps.

Gtk and other libraries for stuff like Sound haven't caught up to the virtualenv age + getting them to work can involve ugly hacks.
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Adventure game fans still have lots of options these days; I feel like space sim fans on the other hand, have been largely neglected since the days of TIE Fighter.
At the same time, it's not like Google is arguing against net neutrality either. For a large company like Google, some services (like, say, Youtube, which is bandwidth-intensive) may have a lot to gain from a "fast lane," but that company may also have a lot of smaller services that do not stand to gain as much. I do not think Google will see net neutrality policies as equally impacting all of its products, but as an issue that affects different products in different ways. Likewise, a "fast lane" costs money, and I suspect it will cost more money for a larger, high-bandwidth product, so for Google the concern will be whether or not pricing works in its favor.
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This is quite possibly the worst advice.
I might prefer a filling circle instead of just a box that is hollow all the time. To be honest the number system works just fine, perhaps change the up arrow to another symbol once the number of up votes passes a threshold, or comment level does
Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a PDF resume
I hate writing resumes. It's a chore. There is very little creativity involved in most cases. So, why not make it easier?

Either convert your LinkedIn profile or manually enter the data. Either way, you'll have multiple themes to choose from.

I'd love to hear your feedback (good or bad, you won't hurt my feelings) ;). It's still in beta, so I'm sure there are a few bugs.

www.resumebeacon.com
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+1 I like these suggestions given that I was expecting the exact things :)
This isn't to criticize your design itself, but I've always suspected HN was designed to be less than aesthetically appealing for a reason: to prevent a culture of focusing on appearances. HN that looks sexy (for example, I noticed you increased the padding between items in the navigation) isn't HN, the way Cambridge with good weather isn't Cambridge.
That's pretty much it. Just two different approaches to the same thing. I use docker-osx (https://github.com/noplay/docker-osx) instead of boot2loader. Didn't run into any weird virtualization issues with it.

The format for the fig.yml file is even very similar to that of your VagrantFile (https://gist.github.com/ChrisChares/66916dd6dc0d5828520a)
To be fair, python + anything that needs compiling on windows adds complications.

If I had a bunch of money to invest I pay to:

- Get non-virtualenv libraries moved to virtualenv.

- Get non virtualenv libraries working in windows.
Is there some kind of private-sector/public-sector "who built silicon valley" battle going on right now? See [1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8001224

EDIT: may just be coincidence, but they're pretty close together.
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Best practices differ from context to context. MIT switched from Scheme to Python because a large segment of students in 6.001 were not necessarily going into computer science and were there as because of a common core curriculum. Does it really make sense to teach such people to write language interpreters in an introductory course?

But every place isn't MIT, nor is every course a common core requirement for a college or department with diverse majors. Does a civil engineering student really need to implement lazy evaluation?

Felleisen's paper and subsequent book as well as the work of the PLT group show the current state of Scheme as a pedagogical language.

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/ff...

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/

http://racket-lang.org/learning.html
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> given a /-star-star-/ prefix and a validated callback parameter.

I think that is the "waiting to happen" part of my initial comment.