skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks - that's an interesting article, although the key quote from the original paper doesn't really help make the case:

> The only thing that can be said with any certainty, is that not doing any technical debt maintenance does impact them negatively. But there isn’t a lot of difference from that point on. This is slightly controversial, and could be unrelated altogether.

Judging by the lack of activity on this thread, and the above article, I think I could effectively argue that technical debt either doesn't exist (outside the minds of developers), or that it's 'a thing', but just not that important.

This isn't what I was hoping to see...
Malicious != illegal. There are many activities that might be technically legal, but definitely are malicious.
Great project! Will follow this and share the GitHub link.
Scrap the mystery: High-tech vision for Google barge crumbles in a heap
Indeed, will do so as well. THANKS! :)
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I don't use Emacs, but this is great. Nice work.
That's very possible, but I doubt anyone would make something new using it. As far as I know, it's used only in cases when switching is too difficult.
I don't understand the desire to get a tattoo, it seems that everybody that is my age and younger has one. I only know a handful of people that don't.

Often when people talk to me about their tattoos I feel they are trying to externalise their identity. Does that make it the equivalent of a "look at me, I need attention"?
Regarding buried goods - it depends on the truck. I don't know about the US, but in the UK curtain-sided lorries aren't uncommon, making it relatively easy to access pretty much ever part of the trailer.
How the Internet of things changes business models
Socrates was sentenced to death and chose to accept the judgment of the law and drink the poison himself rather than escape (or, I guess, force an executioner to become more directly involved). That hardly counts as suicide.
I'd say the Liberarian (capital L) paradise is premised on the existence of easily transferred information about vendors and customers, and people having both the education and agency to make the best use of the free market.

I mean pointing at failed states as examples of a libertarian state, is like pointing at the corrupt Italian city-states at an example of republicanism. Just because no good examples exist during this time period, doesn't mean no good examples can possible exist.
Why not just say EPS on your home page instead of AI or PDF?
It's certainly not generally down for everyone. I've not seen any oddities in IPN for a few years, and can confirm notifications have gone through over the past few days.

It's important to be careful about jumping to drastic conclusions when debugging a connection like this.

E.g., from the OP:

> I called Paypal Technical Support to verify exactly what we were seeing. Sure enough, they had received other calls today about this exact issue. Other vendors were not receiving IPNs for their orders. The ticket for this "critical bug" was created today.

> The problem with that fact is that our customer's order was from 9 days ago. For at least 9 days (we are going through all of our partial orders now to see the full extent of this bug), Paypal was not sending IPNs to merchants and did not know.

This doesn't actually follow logically. The tech support rep mentioned getting other calls about IPNs not going through does not mean NO other IPNs were going through. Likewise, if Tindie has actually not gotten any IPNs for 9 days, that doesn't indicate anything about the other millions of PayPal merchants.

This reminds me a bit of customers who call in a panic that "your entire website is broken!", and after a bit of discussion it becomes clear that their internet connection is down.

The same stream of events could be caused by lots of things, including minor configuration changes on Tindie's end.
A nation's intelligence apparatus spying on its legislature is straight-up, full-on reign-of-terror status stuff.

First off, I'm not particularly happy that ordinary citizens, residents, and visitors to the US (ALL of whom have constitutional protections against illegal search) are subject to pervasive surveillance.

But the fact that it extends to lawmakers and other public officials[1] outside the scope of officially sanctioned lawful investigations (which are both allowable and sadly necessary) is absolutely terrifying. This takes everything straight to reign-of-terror status.

You see, because of a few fundamental facts of life.

I expect my politicians are dirty. They're mixed up in all sorts of things (sometimes it even comes out, see today's news on the former governor and first lady of the Commonwealth of Virginia).

And particularly increasingly of late, I Don't Trust the Other Side. And I rather suspect that The Other Side doesn't trust My Side (whom, quite frankly, I don't much trust these days either, but in a battle of ever so slightly lesser evils, liars, and incompetence, I've chosen to generally align myself).
Putting what appears to increasingly be an independent intelligence apparatus answerable to neither the Courts, the Legislature, or even, I'm beginning to suspect, the Executive, we're reaching a position in which an Organ of the State has exceptionally deep knowledge of virtually all others, and not inconsiderable powers to act or cause others to act on it.

The actions of the CIA strike me as treason. I feel it's well past the stage of calling for metaphorical heads for actions such as this.

More: http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2cb6nf/a_nation...
Data locally == secure : not so much. Do you carry your machine through customs? Do you leave it on your desk at night? Do you leave it in your home (not locked in a safe)? More nightmarish... violence and threats can be applied to individuals with relatively low risk.

Data held on individual responsibility is not secure. To secure it you need an auditable monitored secured database at an alarmed secured location.

Now, bad men may still be able to get at data held by organizations or communes (as sysadmins and security guards are just as worried about car bombs as you and me), but it becomes risky in the way that nabbing someone, extracting their passwords, copying their data, shooting them and burning down their house is not. This is why individuals have long chosen to deposit valuables with trusted third parties rather than keeping it under their beds despite the marginal cost of doing so.

Excel spreadsheets are fundamentally hard to debug, in the sense of understanding the organization of the code is very hard (see GOTO considered harmful), this normally doesn't impact people because spreadsheets tend to be relatively simple, but the problem is that as they become useful and important they tend to become heavily used and more and more complex.

[[EDIT - I just reread this and realized I wrote it as a first person/personal set of statements, and I had no intention of aiming it at any person (especially not the parent author) and so I rewrote it to be impersonal and hopefully not inflammatory or unpleasant]].
The Joy of Giving: Why I Developed A Platform And Let People Use It Freely
Its based on CeroWRT/OpenWRT, see here: https://github.com/EFForg/OpenWireless

Hopefully any interesting new features or fixes will get pushed upstream.
I used a fake FB account to sign up and get stellar. This is in fact no protection at all and they should just drop the requirement.
Indeed, no knowledge can be gained from the outside world. Those parts of the world run on magic and stinky cheese.
I've been there as a child, if I'd have known that, I probably wouldn't have gone.
I did that to a ISP provided router. The company wouldn't enable port forwarding for games. So I did it myself.

Why do those routers have open telnet interfaces.
Geography's a factor. It's not just SF, it's Oakland too, and there's a ton of commuting between them on BART on a daily basis due to the cost of living difference. They're separated by water so with BART (an underwater subway) you avoid bridge traffic. Also parking in SF and real estate in general is at a premium due to it being on the head of a peninsula.

SF alone might rank lower. Muni is certainly not "popular" with the population.. it's much less reliable than BART. My terribly anecdotal impression is a lot of people bike or take cabs within SF if at all possible.
Generally its best if an existing utilities company, like power, can be included as a partner. And then you can use existing power line infrastructure to guide the optical cables.
It Depends !

Ok, to be more specific:

Do you prefer wrangling bits and bytes or people?

Do you like your current company? Is there an appealing career track for you?

Do you like being challenged technically? Or would you just prefer to earn a comfortable salary?

My observation is that once you get settled into the management track it is hard to go back to development. Even if you do side projects, that doesn't really put you back on the tech track.
If you're into operating systems design I defiantly recommend buying and reading through http://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Rochester-Inside-Story-iSerie....

The i OS is very different than UNIX and this book was quite enlightening to me. Some of the stuff done is quite visionary. The hardware micro-architecture has fundamentally changed four times, but the upper OS and users doesn't care.
Wow no idea why someone would need that, I have to work with an AS/400 and let me tell you it's no fun !
Fixed with:

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I have no problems with getting emails by a search warrant from an overseas server. Drug trafficking is global, so should the law enforcement be. I know, I am addressing this particular case, I am not saying "go" on a general basis. But I cases like this, with a search warrant, that turns up during an ongoing investigation, I really have no problem.

By the way, in Norway, blood samples are taken from murderers. 23% of all murderers had thc in their veins.
4 protection rings of x86 are mostly not usable for anything, as they apply to descriptors, not memory page (there is only single user/supervisor bit in page table entry). The whole 286 descriptor based memory protection model is mostly unusable for C-and-separate-processes multitasking model (and has relatively significant overhead).
From my experience every developer I know who ended up early as a manager, where not really happy with that. Most of them had the impression of being taken apart of technical challenges, and wasting their time in endless meetings.
Google has been running docker for years? I kind of doubt that ;)
AI and PDF compatibility will both be present in the product we launch with - which is what the website is trying to describe to interested potential users. The beta will also get these features very soon, so I don't see the problem?

We can't expect users to keep checking back on the website to see if we've added any new features that we always knew were going to be in the finished product but hadn't listed, just because they weren't finished yet, surely?
I Dare You To Watch This Entire Video
I would 100% support (and pay premium for) a community fiber in SF instead of paying Comcast or allies.
> [..]and Brennan’s apology were “positive first steps,”[..]

Business as usual. I guess prison is out of the question because TERRORISTS^Wdo you wanna make the eagle cry?
Humans have many beliefs. Facts are not beliefs. Beliefs are not facts. The nature of life after death, if there is one, is a fact. Our multitude of beliefs about it do not change there being or not life our death, just as our very existence is not a matter of belief. We are or we're not. Just because we have epistemic limitations, that doesn't mean that the ontology of life, before and after death, is influenced by that, or is an illusion.

I hope you'd agree with me when I say that love is more natural to human beings than fear. That peace is more desirable than troubling. I believe that no matter what religion or belief system one's in at the time, for whatever reasons, seeking love and peace and cultivating them among people around, will set them on the right path. Anything else is like me, a simple worker, saying to another one that he'll be fired because he done whatever. It's not my decision, although I can have that belief. Or delusion.
Please make a plugin for xiki.org
A common approach is to incorporate a municipally owned subsidiary that hires the appropriate expertise. That's how the electric and plumbing networks were built in many towns, for example. A number have since been sold off (turned into privatized utility companies), but some are still city-owned. Other cities have gone for a pooled model, where the each city owns their utilities, but rather than administer them directly, pays into a nonprofit organization that provides the service/maintenance, thereby gaining some economy of scale (e.g. http://www.ncpublicpower.com).
I can’t find the original source but I remember reading an article about a VMS cluster that was moved piecemeal between two towns in Belgium without any downtime. Individual machines went down during the move obviously, but the cluster as a whole was able to stay up.
Because COBOL is alive and well. It's not interesting, but it's far from dead.

A friend of mine works on a COBOL system that's responsible for calculating pension payments for former government employees. COBOL is good enough for this application, since it's basically just a glorified pile of if-statements.

Rewriting everything in the hot-new-language-of-the-year would almost certainly introduce bugs, so instead of screwing up people's pension checks every couple of years, they just pay a my friend to know COBOL and to keep the rules up to date.

There's still enough of a community behind COBOL that there's really no reason not to do this. COBOL compilers continue to be maintained, and even the language itself is getting updated (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#COBOL_2014).
That they are attempting this now might also be a sign that they expect Argentina's economy to take a nose dive.
There are several good reasons to use KeePassX over Keepass, even with the current status of Alpha 6 in the KeePassX 2 series.

* KeePassX has a consistent UI across Windows, OS X, Linux
* It's a small, portable binary. I've had good luck running the Windows and Linux binaries off of USD drives.
* Alpha 5 and Alpha 6 have been really stable. I started using Alpha 5 and haven't had a need to look back.

I've been recommending KeePassX as the go-to password manager for Windows, OS X, and Linux over Keepass.
Excluding outright poisons (which none of the narcotics are), everything is ok in moderation. Trouble is, many things are too enticing to keep using moderately.
I see the value in this but can you make a section to match nomads with other nomads because I like to work and travel but do not like to go alone.
Clustering on VMS is mostly about marketing and integration, VMS cluster is essentially only about shared filesystem and same effect can be had by means of NFS and some kind of centralized management on Unix (even across different Unix OSes). It does not do any magic like process migration and intra-cluster shared memory.

From technical standpoint interesting feature is sane approach to asynchronous IO and IPC (think libevent in kernel).
That doesn't seem like a genuine question.

As for your factual claim, the post has been sitting near the top of the front page for 16 hours now.
He can kill time now by reading it.
Free markets require respect for private property. China is a place where private property has only been respected by the law less than a decade ago, where the State owns all the land and you can only lease it, and even then you can get beaten to death if you refuse to accept an expropriation.

You can't just say "deregulated == free markets".

A free market economy is a market-based economy where prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand and are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium without intervention by government policy.

This does not exist in China. China is a corporatist state, not a laissez-faire economy.
Berlin has a floating pool build from an old ship. https://www.google.com/search?q=ARENA+BADESCHIFF&tbm=isch
I can imagine that they want to have some initial implementation before they let the public see it. They have a fairly good idea of what they want with it and want to make sure it goes in that direction before they let the public comment/commit.

That's just my theory anyway.
They want to specifically target the non-Windows 5% of users. Targeting the rest 95% of market doesn't make any business sense, apparently.
You are entitled to believe whatever you believe. But you cannot assert that your belief system is unique because of proof that depends on that same belief.
Ooh thanks. Fixed.
Some of the talks also have the slides posted on the Mill website (in .pptx format, I think).
Obviously you are not an economist or historian (I'm neither). "Why can't our government print their own money?" pretty much gives away that you haven't put in any effort to learn how banking, money or a central bank works.

All the examples you mention don't hold up. Not even in their own time, much less in a modern time where we need private finance.

"Cryptocurrency" is a new kind of knee-jerk reaction to "everything perceived to be wrong with money". There's a reason why conspiracy nuts flock to cryptocurrencies in droves. Turns out that ordinary people get screwed over with bitcoins far more easily than with the "evil" fiat currencies. Also there is no reason why you can't have a sort of reserve-banking, or even monetary expansion in a bitcoin-based economy. They just don't do it yet, because Bitcoins at the present moment have negligible impact on the real economy (which might change).
An example usage of this service is baking comments directly into your static sites via a build tool like Gulp or Grunt.

Explained in more details here: http://hawksworx.com/blog/adding-a-static-comments-system-to...
The Web Now Has a Search Engine Just For Data Visualisations
If you think you suck at maths, you might want to go through the Kahn academy videos. It will refresh anything you did cover and should fill a lot of gaps (of stuff you did but never understood properly). It will then make tackling CS level maths a lot easier.
Hidden message in TrueCrypt.org website?
Even if the thrust from reactionless drive would be higher, it cannot be higher than the pressure produced by the photons on the solar cell, which you use to power the drive. If the developers claim that it does, then you have basically infinite energy.
Complete guide to CSS selectors Pt2
"The first part of this claim is correct: it is in fact true that when it comes to gender, English is a highly malleable language, and it doesn’t have the gendering problems that plague some other languages."

Typical feminist rant. Why not offend a bunch of (more ancient) cultures to express a personal opinion as if it was an ultimate truth.

"...members of gender and sexual minorities..." - get a ridiculously disproportionate amount of attention.
It's not a violation from the reference frame of the rf - just yours.
Show HN: Personalisation engine for Magento
Hi, we are working on a product called Egero and have put an overview video on www.egero.co. I am looking for feedback about the concept and whether this would be useful? Thanks
Read the parent post of my comment.
Our service supports 10 languages and every user has received an email about the shutdown in its configured language.
Apart from the "discrimination part", the problem is deeper.

> I went to sleep crying[..]

Why? Why literally cry over an account on some random site? My advise would be for her to go find some people to actually go out with, have fun and live her life.

As for the discrimination part, I could never understood why users are getting so bitchy. Everyone forgets that a service (site, "app", whatever) -and especially a free one- is not (and must not) governed by democracy (hint: that's for real life problems).

> I will not be silenced. After years of struggling with my body through depression, anxiety and self harm, I WILL NOT let a website tell me that my body is censor worthy simply because it is a fat body with cellulite and rolls. END SIZE DISCRIMINATION ON INSTAGRAM.

Another advice: seek help. Either from friends that accept you, or by a professional.

I would also expect a more sane approach from a sociology student who supposedly studies social behavior.

[edit]: n-iiiiice. Link deleted. /me likes the fact that the link was not upped for discussion but only to get positive feedback.
VMS was awesome to work with. Highly interactive and intuitive. I still prefer *nix, but my time on VMS was reasonably pleasant.

Mainframe, not so much - imagine programming in a webform's text box where the endpoint might have gone away by the time you submit.
Ugh, i remember working on an AS 400 at school. I hated that and if i'm not mistaking, there wasn't support no more, when we had to learn it :-s

I suppose those jobs earn well (think of AS 400 as watching the Matrix in code (black screen, green letters) and Neo is losing the fight )
Btw, I made something that's supposed to make this process easier (and done from the command line, har har): https://github.com/aktau/github-release

Also written in Go, of course...
I worked on AS/400 for quite a while. Really enjoyed it.

Updating old RPG terminal based code to Java web based stuff was interesting. Simple CRUD interfaces port easily.

And once you're running Java stuff on OS/400 it's also easy to port to the linux environment. And from there is just an argument over databases to bye-bye proprietary hardware.
A look back: Bram Cohen vs. Linus Torvalds (2007)
If you've not listened to it, this podcast is probably going to be of interest to you - http://www.imore.com/debug-29-jeff-mcleman-porting-kernels

(An interview with Jeff McLeman who worked at DEC, he discusses VMS/Alpha/NT kernel work)
In logos I agree but in normal writing it always looks like unwanted emphasis too me.

I think there's a cultural difference here, USAian papers kept up the many founts with underlining, etc thing long after it had become unfashionable in the UK.

The norm is the norm - whatever you're used to.

...which is what my previous post was supposed to highlighting. Somebody took it personally :-(
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Still waiting on the email confirmation :(

Never got the plaintext recovery code.
You can't really spoof IP address if you want any kind of two-way interaction
You should use Projectile: https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile . Projectile allows you to Grep a project under VCS easily.

And use Helm with it like this: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-intro.html#sec-28
borg+container, they are not fan of hypervisor, thus guess they are not fan of openstack as well.
How is this different from Lifebalance from the 90ies?

http://www.llamagraphics.com/products
Someone please fund EFF and make this a weekly event. If there is a chance of fixing the law, the cost of documenting its flaws is miniscule compared to the millions in damages done.
Paul Buchheit – The Technology (Talk at Startup School Europe 2014)
I remember this - I thought it was on el reg, but worse, it was theinq :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20031219162954/http://www.theinq...
Like most things you have to bear in mind the time context - VAX/VMS had robust clustering of a solid multi-user, OS pre-1990. That was before Linux, the first release of SunOS and before Windows had networking.
Malware must die – these people work for your good
Or they simply live on the other side of the world
As others have stated, there was a heavy dose of sarcasm to my comment; I felt that HN would be the sort of place where "/s" weren't necessary but I guess not.