skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I have. It seemed objectively better, but I started using NetBeans first, and it's what we all use at work. The workflows and keyboard shortcuts are ingrained enough at this point that switching doesn't really seem worth it right now.
I think the tabbed navigation on: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/ is going to confuse some users. Some people will never see the SMS pricing even though they are looking for it. Banner blindness is a real problem and applies not only to ads but to navigational stuff as well.
>Her music is ultimately popular because people like it.

It is so simple, yet I'm always amazed about how uncomfortable this can be for some people.
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You may be correct regarding a Hollywood lifestyle, but I think there's a bit of confirmation bias here. There's only a relatively small number of elderly celebs who are still active in the public eye, and those actors who have suffered the typical problems of aging get little attention until the inevitable obituary.
Ask HN: Do you have a subscription box site you're looking to sell?
I'm interested in buying or partnering with a subscription box site. I'm only looking for currently active sites. Let me know if you are interested.
Firm Inefficiency
Thanks, I appreciate the honest and direct answer. If we're looking to replace a bash hack now (which works but isn't the prettiest), would you recommend diving into Fig or waiting until Docker becomes Figgier?
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There are USB condoms built exactly for the scenario you describe.

http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms
Well, I tell you to write utf-8 text files, following a well known coding standard for your language (which is PEP-8 for Python) and show me the git repository with your code. I don't care which text editor _you_ use, which git client, or which Python interpreter. If you want to use XCode you can go ahead. You like web guis instead of bash, no problem. No need to learn my tool chain.
Can you give some examples of people who have EMBAs and are widely considered successful? Were they successful before the EMBA?
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If trailers are to films as screenshots are to software, then demos are to software as what exactly are to films?

I think your argument is defunct, and I don't think it's bad to expect a demo, no matter how expensive or inexpensive a bit of software may be.
I worked for this same company, and wholeheartedly agree. This type of product is a non-starter. Companies like Legit.co, Trustcloud, and Scaffold have all tried this and failed.

Furthermore, there's really not much value in the scale you're giving. It's scary. If someone is 95% trustworthy, should I trust them? Or is that last 5% the axe murderer portion?

Overall, I can't see any target market for this. Companies would build their own, and consumers don't want to take complicated 3rd party trust into their own hands.
San Francisco Mime Troupe calls for the city to embrace the new tech immigrants
This App Puts Congress In Your Pocket
An open letter from FreshBooks founder Mike McDerment
I am trying to get ranked high on Google and to ultimately get a little money to keep the site going.
That's a great idea! We've already built an integration with QuickBooks Online. And, we're working on integrations with Xero and ZenPayroll. We can add Wave to the list.
https://github.com/BrendanBenshoof/P2PDNS/raw/master/P3DNS.p...
Guiding towards short and simple writing forms the mind towards only being able to express short and simple thoughts. Whereas in reality, long, nuanced, and complex solutions are required to accommodate the many actors in many situations.
A Next Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform
Another reason software sucks is that developers are sometimes so incredibly bad at communicating their ideas (which impacts documentation, development planning (especially in the age of distributed open source projects), and even code quality [in terms of naming, commenting, etc]).

"I don’t have much involvement in portable, but I definitely had a hand in neutering the RAND and egd interfaces. Contrary to some commentary, we didn’t neuter these interfaces because we didn’t know what they were. We neutered them because we know precisely what they are. They’re fucking stupid."

uh... okay; thanks for the enlightenment.

I'm sure this post makes more sense to people who are intimately familiar with whatever it is that is being talked about in the first place, but to the rest of us it might as well be written in Klingon.
It does seem low, but Office 365 Home and Personal (not Business!) subscribers are buying it themselves rather than using licenses purchased for them by an organization. The vast majority of those 1.1 billion users are undoubtedly not personally paying for the software and are instead part of volume license deals.
> However, in terms of the implementation itself, they still have a way to go before they match keybase.

Care to explain how? They're the team behind onename.io and clearly seem to have just as strong an implementation.
>Why did you enroll?

In hindsight, it was a mistake. I should have listened to one 'lone' dissent voice from a Wharton EMBA graduate who had said that I most probably be disappointed with the program if I am expecting to meet intellectually smart people, interested in learning, interested in startups/business growth and that program will impart any "significantly" new business knowledge or insights.

>Why did you quit?

Finally, I realized that by quitting, I can save enough money by not paying rest of the tuition and put it toward my business. Previously, I kept going because I kept getting convinced from classmates and other EMBA acquaintance that things will get better but by 2/3rd of the way I pretty much figured if things haven't improved by now they never will.

I believe I had mis-impression of what program will offer and how it may help my career and things I want to do. A better job by the programs of selling and poor judgement on my part to buy most things I heard.
Fortran77 though. pretty limited set of organizational tools to work with there. Procs and Modules is it, I think (though I'm no expert). Many of the patterns we're used to using for code organization just wouldn't be available.

So how you would deal with a really big if statement without having more sophisticated tools? The business logic must have had a very large number of conditional branches. Even if you encapsulate the instructions of each branch in their own proc, it still doesn't change the fact that you're going to have a large number of conditions.

This isn't particularly a solved problem even in modern languages. We can use all kinds of layers of abstraction to make individual units of code smaller, but it's sort of an illusion. Splatting your business logic across a dozen or more files/modules/classes whatever might make it easier to look at in a text editor but it doesn't make it easier to develop or test. If you've got complex business logic you're going to have a complex program.
Compared to the terrible crimes of denying holocaust or denying communist atrocities or drawing a swastika. Or the terrible - well pretty much every law in UK (libel, knife carry, mandatory decryption).

I am an European, but we have a long way to go towards sanity. And with obesity declared a disability I feel like we are moving away from it.
The coursework isn't valuable, the imprimatur is. What is your opinion of the opportunities the degree will create?
A bunch of different sources, including some bank databases. We also have to update it regularly.
Most people write code into text files (instead of into a DB for instance), therefore I expect you to edit text files. Most people use git, therefore I expect you to use git. These are skills you need to learn to call yourself a software developer in my eyes. If you can code but are not able to edit text files, that is bad (e.g., I had a friend who was so much into Eclipse he wasn't able to edit a very simple README.md without making an Eclipse project first).

I completely agree that there is no common denominator when it comes to build scripts. There are so many variations out there. But I think if I know make, automake, CMake and Ant I'm fine with many projects and some more when I ask the authors nicely to provide me either of these.
Gee, I thought the opposite. This kind of site is interesting-- thank you to the folks who put it up-- but perhaps it is formulaic. In any event, as a non-color person I can never seem to get something that strikes me as quite good. Nothing bad, maybe, but nothing too good. It obviously could just be me but .. I'm all that I've got.

Whereas at Kuler I easily find schemes that were contributed by folks who are color folks and that hit my eye as really quite good. Maybe it'll be something called "Summer Raspberries" and darn it, it looks just like that, very summery, and just what I am looking for. (And often the schemes don't fit into a formula, that I can see.)
This is what is worrying me the most.

Why can something even repeatedly ask for permission? (My iPhone was asking me every 5 seconds the other day due to a faulty cable.) Even if there's a reason for that, why isn't there a "don't ask again" button?

Why doesn't such a thing need a pin code or iCloud password entry?

Why isn't services like file_relay or pcap a setting deep inside the Advanced section of Settings.app that requires password entry on enabling and features a warning message?

These things are advanced features. Few use them, why not make it a little more difficult?

Why can't I opt-out of Apples access to my files? Sure, I can say "No" when they ask at the store, but I could say no as well in the Settings app.

It's easier to enable packet capture than complete the Provisioning Profile process when releasing an app update to App Store.

These are the things Apple should be answering instead of the vague support note entry they published today.
Not quite reversal since it doesn't negate the vertical motion, but yeah. Definitely the most significant of the three burns.

Though it's not quite that simple. Based on the trajectory of last week's launch, they're actually going to use a much steeper trajectory during the first stage launch. The result is that the first stage uses significantly less propellant to make that first burn (since its downrange velocity is much smaller), but it cuts into the payload capacity quite a bit by forcing the second stage to do more work.
Fig works in production, but it's not our focus. We wrote a blog post on it a while back - it's Orchard-specific, but covers what you need to think about, especially in the "Configuring for deployment" section:

https://www.orchardup.com/blog/develop-and-deploy-an-app-wit...
The USPS already has the infrastructure to do it and its over a century old. I'm not even questioning your service, I just know that you have no control in the USPS segment of the package's chain-of-custody.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...
So they purposely gamed their own reviews to be negative in order to put off the notion they don't game reviews?
The world's most secure OS may have a serious problem
Very cool tool! Regarding the rank graph: I would also like an alternative display, where you show a time line on the x-axis.
iPhone 5c growth outperformed the iPhone 5s last quarter
There are a lot of reasons to get an MBA - to the extent the intelligence of your fellow students matters, I thought I'd chime in with my observations. I've had the opportunity to interact with quite a few students from HBS, Wharton, Sloan, Stanford, and other reputable schools. My impression is that among the top 3 - HBS, Wharton, Stanford, 1/3rd of the students are would I would consider to be pretty intelligent. Another 1/3rd are okay in terms of intelligence, while another 1/3rd leave you wondering if they got in through massive donations from their parents. This ratio declines rapidly (away from intelligence) as you move down the rankings (as early as the #4 spot), at least from what I have observed.

Again, intelligence isn't everything, so I don't mean to say you should make your decision based on that. Just offering my observations in case they are at all helpful. Also, I should mention that this is all for the normal MBA programs - haven't had enough interaction with EMBA students to make a judgment.
Which basically sums up the setup for the film Galaxy Quest, which lampoons the Star Trek cast archetypes masterfully.
Ask HN: What do you drink while developing?
Red Bull for me.
cheez, we have a RESTful API that drives our site and mobile apps. But data security is a top priority for us and we have not yet built the authorization systems to open up access beyond our own clients.

That said, an API is high on our list and we want to make it as easy as possible for our users to enter time in whatever ways make sense for their workflows.

Thanks for checking us out!
Looks very polished for a MVP, well done!

I do not have a Facebook profile, so the potential employers that run an "internet background check" will not trust me much.

Does that mean that I am not trustworthy? What I am getting at is that there are multiple levels of real and artificial trust. Being socially engaged on Facebook shows just that: you are are socially engaged and have lots of friends: you are probably a real person. Scammers can be very sociable people too, yet only their closest friends can hope to trust them, for the rest it's a facade: keeping up appearances. Buying followers to increase their Klout score.

Let's say this gets big. Do you expect attacks on your system and algo's to inflate the trust ranking? Would people leave fake reviews for themselves? Would people link up fake or stolen craigslist profiles?

If you happen to get the snowball rolling and the demand gets very high, do you think companies will form to cater to that demand? Scammers could create profiles that score well, and sell them priced according to their Trust Score. A luxury problem to have, but what is your view on this?

Finally how do you deal with people sending you e-mail or letters complaining their score is too low, or that your algo's are unfair, or that they didn't create that public profile, or want to remove a negative review? There seems quite a lot of (legal) hassle involved in the user problems that arise with such an application.
Harvard has an EMBA program? Must be a new program! A few years ago when I was researching, only top institution that didn't have EMBA program was Harvard and MIT just had launched their EMBA program.
Dwarf fortress will crush your CPU because it isn't, and likely never will be, multithreaded.
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To be honest, it seems like a bit of overkill to pay $20 and ship a HDD to a 3rd party to have it destroyed. Wiping it in software, running it through a strong electromagnet and drilling a few holes in the platters or just beating the crap out of the drive is perfectly ok for destroying the data unless you're some top-secret government agency or whatever
to be blunt: openssl is a festering heap maintained by a bunch of hacks. They let critical security bugs sit in their queue for 4 years while they sat on them [1]. They also actively worked to disable automated testing with malloc tooling; while obviously that won't catch all bugs, every bit helps. Finally, it contained rafts of code that, bluntly, my boss would probably fire me for checking in.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBbhXBDmwU#t=620
I've always found it peculiar that Americans have to pay to receive SMS's or incoming calls.
Oh, I'd absolutely recommend diving into Fig. We'll have a lot of Fig users to transition over once it happens, and want to make sure it's a smooth (i.e. documented) process.
API will be really great to integrates with Desktop apps. The app is very clean and usefull, well done!
Phone tethering makes it really easy; I'm having a lot of fun spending my afternoons coding in the park. Otherwise, if you're away from any connectivity and you're working on something local, I highly recommend the Stack Exchange data dump[1] along with Samuel Lai's excellent Stackdump[2]. I worked without internet for 2 weeks using this setup (+ offline documentation) with great success. (Warning: Stackdump copies the SE XML data into a local database, which currently takes 7 hours on my Haswell i7 and requires extra disk space. Prepare ahead of time!)

[1]: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

[2]: http://stackapps.com/questions/3610/stackdump-an-offline-bro...
I hate the new logo with a passion. Why keep the place icon in the bottom on of the F and have the swirl behind it if the whole point of this was to take check-in's out of the app? It's saying you're doing one thing and then doing the opposite of that thing.
I saw "Ghostbusters" as well, but the joke's on you. All that crazy stuff they believed turned out to be true (in the movie).
Against the Frictionless Interface An Interview with Lori Emerson
I am note sure. I think everyone wants to find out. They might be able to move the container to a diff type of a box but I am not sure.
"But wait, you say. That'd be all fine and dandy if Netflix was etched in stone, but it's not! They add and remove stuff all the time! That's right, which is why most OCAs take a 7.5TB update. Every. Freaking. Day.

"If you had to take a 7.5TB update on your home internet, you would be screwed. According to Ookla's Net Index, the average download speed in the United States is 18.6Mbps. So with an average connection, that 7.5TB would take you about 40 days to chew through.

"Fortunately, data centers tend to have a little more speed to work with. A firehose, compared to your bendy straw. So Netflix recommends a much shorter 10-hour span (from 2AM to noon, local time) where these boxes can soak up their updates with 1.2Gbps connections. That is to say, 'Google Fiber speeds.'"

Source: TFA.
A minimum viable feature, nice. Interesting way to test out whether a new feature is needed or not. Then you pave the cow paths. I love this idea.
I thought it was a volunteer project maintained by like 2 guys who also had full time jobs? Bit of a harsh criticism, no?
I didn't know that F.L. Bauer was against recursion :-) In 1996 I participated in a summer school where he attended the talks we gave (mine was about Petri nets). Funny to see him mentioned here as a figure of history.
openssl didn't ship to end users; it's the software that goes to end users that should bear liability
I get Y-combinators' roots and purpose, but blatant advertising on HN is annoying and off-putting.

And this example is vastly different then the "Hey look at the cool thing I made! p.s. I am selling it too."
Everyone in the class is extremely smart and motivated. So much so that coming back to work will means having to deal with not-so-intelligent colleagues

I couldn't help but think of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_the... when I read this.
I find children love to copy and build on other people's works. That's how many of us, maybe even all of us learn as children. It's unfortunate some parents don't teach children the difference between studying and replicating other people's work and plagiarism. A simple credit to the original author would have been ample, but then it probably would have meant no e-celebrity for the little girl.
Couldn't this have been easily prevented if they had done proper journalism in the first place?

Instead all these "news" outlets(including BoingBoing) mindlessly linked to an untrue story and have potentially ruined a man's career. All for some ad dollars.

RIP journalism.

EDIT:
I love that cflas.org lists more than 10 sources that immediately discredits the claims by this young girl. Obviously, not a single person at any of these "news organizations"(BoingBoing, CBS, etc.) could have been bothered to do any research to fact check this story. Absolutely incredible.
wait what you have pay for incoming SMSs in the US? what if you are being spammed? that is crazy.
This is pretty blogspammy, the better source that is linked to in the article is http://www.cflas.org/was-lionfish-research-hijacked-by-12-ye....
Just happened to me, in fact.
This is my first post on Medium where I tried to explain why we decided to start Countable. I'd love your thoughts. Thanks.
Mocking JavaScript with Sinon, Mocha and Chai – test doubles explained
Modernizing Computer Science Education
Also missing:

Anything related to domain names ie
- registration
- aftermarket sales etc.

And also:
- Web hosting
- Blogging

I guess it also comes down to what you call
a "business model".
A Commitment To Net Neutrality with Twitch (YC S07) and Namecheap
An extremely good argument. There are tasks for which all people involved developed a very specific development chain which has nothing to do with anything that existed before. I have not found a way to deal with that yet and decided to simply avoid it (e.g. having the choice between a $25 Python coding hour and a $50 iPhone coding hour I'd choose the Python task!)

But it's not really a problem, actually. Often these people who work in these environments don't understand what freedom of mind is anyway (like try to tell an Apple guy what a FOSS OS would do good for them). The need to implement the whole Unix philosophy and all it's tools didn't stop the Java world from avoiding Linux and BSD which already has the Unix philosophy and tools available. They wanted to develop everything themselves again (and sometimes did a brilliant job!) because that's how they are. I don't like that. I am lazy and don't want to develop what is actually already there and I am not so smart. All my tools would suck compared what already exists. So I am actually quite happy not to work in the Java world even though that's what I studied in university. When git came out I learned how to use it (so much that I would be able to write my own git now), although in school we always used SVN. Now I can happily merge, rebase and cherry-pick and can focus on coding because everybody uses git. Learning git even made my coding better because I learned some great things about software development there.

(This now became more of a novel than a response to your text. Sorry!)
They even have to pay for incoming SMS?

I understand the justification of paying for incoming calls, since they don't have separate prefix codes for mobile (which means that the caller does not know they're calling a mobile, and therefore you cannot put the charge on the caller), but incoming SMS, where you don't even get a choice over whether you want to receive it? "Peculiar" is putting that very nicely...
I think gdilla's point isn't that the splitting of checkins is a bad idea, it's that they should have spun out a new app with this new stuff, and kept the check-in game in the original app.

There's a lot of merit to this IMO. Foursquare the brand is completely and 100% associated with checking in to places. It seems silly to break the checkin feature into a completely new app, under a completely new brand, while trying to convince everyone that Foursquare is no longer Foursquare but is stilled called Foursquare.

IMO the better move was to keep Foursquare around but launch a separately-branded app for the discoverability.
Doesn’t open on Yosemite beta 4.

Sad days. Hopefully soon.
This project has been underway for a long time, so it's cool to see that they have support for the "Python, Java, PHP, and Go Google App Engine platforms."
Yep, it's a pain in some regards. But my job is already like a long holiday. And I get paid for it. No iPhone developer can say this (I suppose). ;)
Matching funds is a new thing we're trying at Beacon and so far we're really happy with how it's going. Happy to chat if anyone has any questions!
FreshBooks is a great service. I been happily giving them $30 each month for years.

Before them, I generated invoices from Quickbooks and mailed/emailed them out. It sucked, so I was always behind which meant delays in getting paid.

FreshBooks has been a godsend.