skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this young man who has given up a very comfortable life to live in exile in Russia is being selfish. /s

To me his comment was meant in the sense that he doesn't regret what he has done even if that means Guantanamo. He's staying in Russia and not volunteering to hand himself in to the USG but if worst comes to worst he has no regrets about what he has done.
That would have played a role. No doubt.
Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, it is a SaaS application we are trying to market :) However, I do see your point in how crafting a sales letter can give a better result for other industries.
I would say they're already imploded and will become an even worse oligopoly. One of the companies will come on top in that struggle.
I've never understood why people like this framework so much. It's not that flexible. If you want to customize your API in specific ways ( ordering, nested resources, validation ), then you will undoubtedly just write your own CBV(s).

After writing your own CBV(s) for awhile, you will either love that solution or hate it and look for something more flexible and out-of-the-box.

For many of the things that Django REST framework version 3 is attempting to solve there is already an awesome alternative to it and TastyPie called Conduit. I highly recommend people give it a shot, since it's pretty modular. It also presents a different alternative to Function and Class-Based views:

http://django-conduit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Thanks for taking the time to dig that up! I haven't been able to conclusively determine the units in the NIH study, but we should be careful about normalization. I don't think these are comparable as they stand:

BLS Government Death Rate: 2/(100k full-time equiv workers over 1 year)

NIH LEO Homicide Rate: 5.6/(100k census LEOS over 11 years)

Instead, we should include all causes of death for LEOs (because the NIH did so for government workers) and then divide by 11 so that both figures represent deaths over the same number of worker-years. This makes law enforcement look even safer. In fact, it makes it look safer than deskwork. This is either due to a methodological difference or due to the fact that LEOs tend to be young and healthy compared to deskworkers. In any case I think the conclusion "law enforcement is not a comparatively dangerous occupation" is correct.

BLS Government Death Rate: 2/(100k full-time-equiv workers over 1 year)

NIH LEO Death Rate: 11.8/11 = 1.07/(100k census workers over 1 year)
Unexplained Russian Crater Discovered
Oh. Ocaml again. Well, I'll chirp on the opposite side of discusion. The syntax is completely <->:%^&#$^ $% %^&*% up. Unreadable. Yes, it maybe somewhat pleasant to write code in such syntax, but readability sucks. Just like perl. Also ugly as perl as well. When do you people learn the lessons from C, Python and Haskell? That _readability_ is _the most important thing_ for any language. Now about design. Ocaml allows a mix of imperative+functional+oop! Which means that there are uncountably many ways to screw up the design, and only a few to get it right. And each OCaml primadonna developer thinks that his way is the right way. And the rest can't read his code. Fuck that.

To CEO of Esper. Interesting. How many decades of experience do you have? How many projects you've successfully shipped? How many of these there using this approach of using non-mainstream languages?
Thanks for the advice. That's what I actually plan on doing from the looks of it. Only problem will be organizing the leads since current host webmail (bluehost) doesn't really have good CRM. But other than that, I think it will suffice.
More generally — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_pigeon

My personal favourite — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

> Project Pigeon was American behaviorist B.F. Skinner's attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile.
Fancy, Google's stock box now has after hours charting.

https://www.google.com/search?q=goog
Entrepreneurs, You Are The Placebo
Blaming statements suck regardless of who's at fault (to blame) or who knows the facts about the situation. Unless everyone involved is totally Zen, which is highly unlikely, you are going to get this sort of behavior. The only thing I've been able to come to over the last few years dealing with this is that it only takes ONE person being rational to help a whole lot of others who aren't get settled down enough to talk about it. I think they are called diplomats! :)

We both agree this is wrong, and that's where we have commonality. I hear you about the blaming being laid about. It sucks on top of already a sucky situation.
It would be interesting to know how much removing the background color from the Adwords ads above the organic results effected profits.

I find myself clicking adwords ads frequently since the change. They practically look identical. I imagine it was a nice boost to revenue.
Iphone 6 sapphire crystal not indestructible after all
> Anyway, it's an ad company!

Can this meme die soon? Google is an ad company in the same way the New York Times is an ad company. Sure, that's ultimately where the money comes from, but there'd be no ad revenue if search, maps, mail etc weren't all among the very best available and that's a very real and very big engineering problem. Just like if the NYT stopped during journalism, their ads would stop generating revenue.
Please, explain to me what difference the Glass Steagall act will make when commercial banks can issue paper that will be bought by deposit banks?

Oh, were you just repeating an Occupy Wall Street meme?
Linus Torvalds Guided Tour of His Home Office [video]
Actually Halo started at Apple[1].

[1]: http://kotaku.com/5796019/when-halo-was-on-the-mac-and-was-a...
Anyone have any experience with minimak [1]? It seems like the 4 key layout would be much easier to handle within Vim than most other alternative keyboard layouts.

1 - http://www.minimak.org/
Thank you David! I would like more information about this so I might shoot you an email if you don't mind. I've never heard of SendGrid, but just checked it out, it looks similar to MailChimp, but then again, they might have different solutions. Will have to research this more.
Not new:

http://dcid.me/texts/attacking-log-analysis-tools.html

It had a similar vuln many years ago.
Just because it's news doesn't mean it belongs here. I'm guessing it was flagged off.

As is this, for being meta noise :/
Amazon needs extra capacity at peak times, are you saying they don't use AWS for that?
I also recommend restless(from the author of Tastypie): https://github.com/toastdriven/restless

Really dead-simple to use and just plain fun.
Many countries did it before, including Ukraine:

"However, Ukrainian officials later admitted that it was indeed their military that shot down the airliner."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
Survivorship Bias and Startups
Do you happen to know the reason? Are more ads being served in countries with lower prices? Or is it due to competition?
> The Ukraine Defense Ministries claim it was shot down by a BUK missile, which the separatists do have, and it would reach.

Unless I'm mistaken from the description, it takes 3 vehicles, each serving a separate purpose, to utilize the BUK missile system - with a complex series of operations and coordination between all the components (that can only be done by trained operators).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buk_missile_system

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/17/world/europe/malaysia-airlines...

The evidence against the anti-Kiev militia seems to only show the missile vehicle component. And it's unknown if it was even fully operational (aside from being drive-able on the roads).

> We also have this interesting translation of Ukraine rebel leader’s VKontakte (Facebook) post regarding another downed airplane

If my understanding is correct (from his other posts), the original info/report came from a post on their social site, where someone saw a plane coming down and assumed it must have been a military plane shut down by their side - and promoted it as such.
Thanks for your comment, I will keep this in mind.
Wow, I remember this story. I asked a question about your sons development if the therapy went well and you responded, and I find myself pondering what the outcome is every now and then. Just wanted to say all the best and keep us updated.
No one said it was "just" Amazon's excess capacity. However, they do use it...so it is way of not paying for their excess capacity, just like everyone else's use is.
I took the GRE and pretty much skipped the written portion of it.

Before taking the test, they emailed me and asked me if I needed accommodations, to which I brought up the keyboard layout issue. They, however, wouldn't let me bring my own keyboard or change they keyboard layout. Typing in Dvorak does have it's disadvantages...
https://www.google.com/search?q=goog#nfpr=1&q=googl
Microsoft layoff e-mail typifies inhuman corporate insensitivity
Omega: The Last Python Web Framework
Awesome app! Stupeflix nailed it once again!
Thank you :-) I was scratching my head about it for a while...
Malaysian Airlines Crash Domain Names Already Being Registered
Communicating about an appealing topic shouldn't be so detrimental.
IBM and the Apollo Missions
Direct link to the filing if you are interested: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/0001288776140...
I do think people understand that, and I think it's one of the reasons Glass seems like it's a failing product. People are drawing the line at wearing a heads-up mobile camera controlled by an advertising company.
Great stuff. I really love React. Especially stuff like server-side prerendering of the DOM is extremely cool.
The Thought Process Behind Airbnb's New Logo
It seems like any user can simply flag a "news" story once and it instantly disappears forever. What is the rationale for censoring stories that happen to contain current events and MANY users are posting and have MANY upvotes? The thing that made news.ycombinator.com was the seemingly perfect mix of stories from a vast range of topics including some news stories, great programming links, great advice, tech breakthroughs, and god forbid, a occasional NSA story.
Where can discussions about off-topic decision-making be viewed?
Here is a problem:

/dev/random and /dev/urandom have security attributes: ownership and permission. The newly proposed syscall makes no security checks whatsoever to protect the entropy resource: it punches a hole through these perms, effectively.
While it's certainly off-topic, it might be better to heavily penalize this kind of current-event/disaster news such that it can only rarely float to the top (and I'm not trying to fetishize it here), instead of getting flagged out.
What's the security case for locking down /dev/random?
A Dot Does a Lot
Malaysian Airlines MH17 Boeng 777 Crashes In Ukraine | July-17th-2014
It doesn't matter if there is an imbalance in the traffic flow. Verizon is being paid to deliver requested packets over IP. That's all they have to do. Singling out Netflix is pointless. If Netflix were replaced with 1000 video streaming sites with the same aggregate traffic volume who would they blame for all the data their customers are pulling in? Verizon desperately wants to avoid being a humble ISP with no way to pull the strings the way do with their telco service. That's why they're playing this game.
In Weird Ideas That Work Bob Sutton recommends rewarding both success and failure and punishing inaction. That seems more in line with technology development as a sector and with Silicon Valley in general.

Comparing major technology development contributors to sports stars makes no sense whatsoever. The two domains have almost no relation apart from large amounts of money being involved.
Awesome. Thanks, Theo!
Flask-Restless has quickly become my favorite REST framework:
http://flask-restless.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Why does the first graph clearly show that the peak is right around 2018?
I don't understand why the top comments are so negative. Product Hunt is an exceptional startup which has a great fresh perspective for discovering new products and a community of people around this.

Its early days for Product Hunt and while specific criticism is great (X should be improved because a, b and c. I think you guys could try m, n or o), the general whining is in poor form. Almost peanut gallery level. We are better than this in HN :)

Product Hunt lets builders like us get a few "non-cynical" eyeballs. Look at the examples he mentions, what's not to love:

<quoting Ryan>

- Notifyr (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/notifyr) was made by a 17 year old in the Netherlands. It's the 5th most upvoted product right now

- Instanerd (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/instanerd) was made by Alex in Skopje, Macedonia as a small side project. It received over 160 upvotes and ~5x the number of comments than the average submission.

</end quote>
You may want to put this under the Show Category
But that assumes a world where everyone uses Node :)
Well, Google now owns DoubleClick, so yes we are all using search and web browsers and phones made by a bigger, better, DoubleClick.
EDITED: per Wikipedia it's more complicated (see ADDED below), assuming as speculated elsewhere in this thread that they used visual means for air search, or I would note another albeit unlinked radar system:

"The Buk missile system was designed to surpass the 2K12 Kub in all parameters and its designers including its chief designer Ardalion Rastov visited Egypt in 1971 to see Kub [SA-6, very effective in the Kom Kippur War 2 years later] in operation. Both the Kub and Buk used self-propelled launchers developed by Ardalion Rastov. As a result of this visit the developers came to the conclusion that each Buk transporter erector launcher (TEL) should have its own fire control radar rather than being reliant on one central radar for the whole system as in Kub. The result of this move from TEL to transporter erector launcher and radar (TELAR) was a system able to engage multiple targets from multiple directions at the same time."

If they have a vector to feed the fire control radar, and it then succeeds in acquiring the target, I would expect it to work. Our anti-radiation missiles, plus the system's missiles until the most recent one having semi-active homing (fire control radar must paint the target), put a premium on this sort of arrangement.

ADDED: I too am just learning these fine details; further down, as quoted by powertower in reply to this posting, the above ideal wasn't implemented in full, there's a normal 2-1 ratio of TELARs to TELs. And think about the implications of the TELARs being obviously more expensive: the normal ratio is unlikely to be always observed, the maintenance demands of TELARs and a high TELAR to TEL ratio is going to be higher, etc. etc.
Continued erosion of the CPC number (down 2% Q2Q, 6% y/y) so for those who haven't been following this like I have here are the last fourteen quarters:

Paid Clicks	Cost Per Click	Paid Distribution
Q-2-Q	Y-A-Q	Q-2-Q	Y-A-Q	In $M
2011Q1	18	4	8	-1	337
2011Q2	18	-2	6	12	355
2011Q3	13	28	-5	5	383
2011Q4	17	34	-8	-8	442
2012Q1	7	39	-6	-12	468
2012Q2	1	42	1	-16	507
2012Q3	6	33	-3	-15	556
2012Q4	9	24	-2	-6	634
2013Q1	3	20	-4	-4	680
2013Q2	4	23	-2	-6	706
2013Q3	8	26	-4	-8	755
2013Q4	13	31	-2	-11	824
2014Q1	1	26	0	-9	845
2014Q2	2	25	-2	-6	893

Cost per click is the money that Google gets per click, it keeps going down suggesting to me that the "value" of this advertising is going down. Paid Clicks are clicks on Google ads which are up impressively but my observation is that there are a lot more of them in places than before. And lastly Google is paying nearly $900M/quarter (that is a 3.6B% annual run rate) to "buy" traffic to their properties. From that I conclude that Google's "specialness" is losing its luster, and that results from other services are "good enough". Doing this same math on Bing results and you will see that Microsoft is capturing the lion share of the value that Google is losing here. (and while Blekko is a search engine, we figured out earlier that you couldn't buy traffic against a competitor willing to spend billions a quarter) The other observation is that this realistically, this can't go on. Eventually Bing will be getting equal CPC with Google, and at that point trying to buy traffic or force the use of a particular browser that will only go to one search engine reliably, will make you less competitive than the more efficient guy down the street. I can't wait :-)
Since when does New York State have their own currency?
Hapi.js – web framework crossed version 6.2.0
US Copyright Office: Aereo not a cable company under Copyright Act
You can donate to the Internet Archive here: http://archive.org/donate/
If only we have a government body that did something about stuff like this... o wait FCC... o wait :(
Saying that it might be rational for someone to change their flight to a different carrier is a long way from 'insisting' that they don't fly. What a ridiculous straw man argument.
I built this 8 years ago based on a comment on Slashdot:

http://passwordchart.com/

It still gets a few hundred hits per day. I haven't used it in years myself.
Ask HN: Is making one-page websites for apps a pain?
Recently, the bottleneck for releasing products for me has been making the website for each of the apps. The best solution out there right now is buying templates but I'm never sure if I like it enough to shell out $15 instantly. I am wondering if others feel similarly.
Yes please. Also would you publish some technical details about how this video stabilization works?
IAB Explores Alternatives To Cookies
React server side rendering doesn't require Node. Works just fine with Java 8's Nashorn too.
It's not "additional" traffic if it is within the limits that the Verizon customer paid for (which they did). Verizon just sold something they weren't willing to provide.
Very impressive management of the situation. This story is pretty incredible and really exciting for the ability of researchers at different institutions to somewhat effectively collaborate.
It's logical, there is no longer a need to copy Metro GUI to Android now - Google is already doing it for them.
Microsoft is killing its Android smartphones after just four months
Google Compute Engine Autoscaler
Three Epigraphs about Learning Mathematics
Then I would say "Microsoft is the productivity and platform company in a mobile-first and cloud-first world" or even better "Microsoft is the productivity and platform company but now it's a mobile-first and cloud-first world". I think they're going to lead the desktop for a while longer. I like the second statement because it recognizes their strengths and weaknesses in one sentence and gives direction.

Here's where I stand:

- Windows: Bullish [1]

- Office: Neutral [2]

- XBox (gaming): Bullish

- Azure: Bullish (surprisingly [3])

- Phones: Bearish

- Tablets: Bearish

- Everything else: Meh

[1] With the recognition that while Windows dominates desktop operating systems, the number of desktops sold is being eroded by tablets and phones. Enterprises will continue to use and upgrade Windows.

[2] Still the de facto standard in the enterprise.

[3] I initially predicted that Azure would fail, but I've been impressed that they're willing to embrace ALL users (for some value of all) with platforms, frameworks and languages that aren't proprietary Microsoft.
Firehose: Free Live chat with anyone who visits your website
This is a disturbing trend by IBs flexing their legal might against their (former) software engineers. Before automated trading systems there were traders who carried their strategies around in their heads. On the surface it appears to be a game of scale because these strategies and systems are so costly if a trader walked off with a strategy it was one less bonus check they would have to pay. But if an engineer walks off with the design of a trading system and some strategies, then the firm might have to come up with some new strategies which is a costly affair indeed. Given the extreme nature of modern cybercrime laws to thwart terrorism and safeguard our economic infrastructure should they be used against ex-employees to safeguard intellectual property? Perhaps an interesting legal debate given the stakes.
Watching/knowing and doing nothing about it makes them complicit. On top of that, that is the prime thing that they swear to do! To protect those that can't help themselves, and what do they go and do? That's right, they don't out the bad cops that prey on the helpless.

And it will never change so long as people like you absolve the shameful individuals that stand by and do nothing as innocents are harmed.
Very interesting, for the 4 key, k and cntrl-d are really the only keys that would impact my vim usage much.

For heavy vim/emacs (I use evil/emacs) making sure your esc/meta/control keys are large and cleanly accessible is probably a better investment. I resisted even remapping capslock for years but now I'm even working on using control-[ instead of esc (it's universal but may not be the optimum trade for the esc).

Thanks though, I'll put this away for later.
Can someone knowledgable explain why we can't manipulate viruses to patch our genome? I don't know why that doesn't work, I just know enough to realize it would be an enormously useful thing.
My guess is that the clicks are worth less these days for two reasons:

1) The ads are now displayed so prominently that everybody has to notice them. Earlier, they where less prominent and more clearly marked as ads. So there is probably a shift in demographics. Less dedicated buyers and more people who just stumble upon the ad.

2) On tablets and phones people might a) misclick more and b) surf more without the intend to buy.
I use the Natural. I bought a Sculpt, but took it back because of the top row of keys being so small, and a couple of other gripes. I bought another Natural, but I always ponder the Kinesis line. Besides the unknown experience, the price is also a factor.
This. It'd just be silly to use a slow CSPRNG for that.

With this, entropy pool depletion is not really that much of a concern; "urandom reads" from getrandom(2) will have at least one good seed.
You should update the copyright date at the bottom.
Why was the previous thread about this killed? I know it's off topic for HN, but it is pretty major fucking news.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8049325

edit

honestly, if you're flagging this story, you may as well turn in your human card

edit2 so this has stirred up something since I'm watching my karma flutter up and down like a butterfly's wings.
In order for you to "push" as you're calling it, the server that you're "pushing" data to has to ACCEPT your connection attempt.

If it doesn't accept the connection your push goes nowhere. Imagine the webserver is down or the port is blocked. In that case the TCP session doesn't get initiated and you're unable to send the data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#C...

EDIT: Considering that most consumer ISPs don't allow their customers to run servers (Google Fiber is an exception) it would be very very difficult for someone to successfully "push" data to consumers. And that's only if I'm willing to accept your definition of push, which I'm not.
Not all thought is political thought. However bad this situation may be, it cannot result in a "no-thought zone" as asserted in the headline. Ignoring what is real in this way makes Bloomberg come across as primarily interested in advancing a conservative political agenda and only secondarily interested in reporting facts.
But CPC erosion is more likely due to higher % of searches from mobile devices. As Google's ads team works furiously to improve mobile ads, this will likely only go up. (Except that right now growth in the sheer number of mobile ads is outpacing the growth in monetization of those ads.)
It's on topic with the Wayback Machine involvement.