skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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- Cloud computing platforms (e.g. Amazon Web Services)

- Linux servers

- Ember.js or other Javascript frameworks

- Web analytics

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Android is open, they just download the code. iOS devices are sold locked and jail broken by those interested using the normal means...it doesn't happen a lot more often here than in the states.
Neat! Naive question: is this just API glue for third party payment platforms (Paypal, Square, etc), or would it be theoretically possible to, say, hook up a payment system directly to my bank account (or to a corporate bank account)?
INTERN Mountain View/San Francisco/Remote

- company: www.treasuredata.com

- job: Developer marketing for www.fluentd.org

- why: Fluentd is gaining traction: it is part of Kubernetes (Docker orchestration software), used at hundreds (at least) of companies.

- how: Email me at kiyoto@treasure-data.com with the following information

1. Samples of your best writing/blog.

2. Your GitHub account if you are a programmer (this is neither necessary nor sufficient)

3. Tell me something that you marketed really well to the developers in the past: how you marketed, why it became popular, etc. It does not have to be software!
All of which will be fully pluggable with a "batteries included but removable" design, just like we did with sandboxing and storage.
I'd like to see a "community as a service" product like this, but positioned as "free hackernews-style hosting." Just let people build their own HN-style communities and promote them.
I'd rather live in a inefficient but non-homogenized world than one where everyone has the same viewpoint on most things but things are done efficiently.

To me the situation proposed in the article sounds like something out of a dystopian novel.

Furthermore, how would you pick one culture to standardize upon? English is only the de facto language of the world because of forced colonialization by the British, and USD is the de facto currency of international transactions only because of the excessive economic and military power that the US wields.
Yes, all of this was designed with overlayfs in mind. I am waiting anxiously for Linux Kernel 3.18 to land, this is a huge step forward for Linux and years in the making.
Docker isn't claiming that Rocket doesn't welcome the notion of portability. They are saying that it would be a shame if portability was lost in the world of multiple container, distributed applications.
I never stated a disagreement with you or the article... I specifically stated that I agree with you on the topic.
I think this is blocked in China so WeChat can have the market. This is what you must know about the China market: it is closed to foreigners.
We have pretty much agreed upon the English language.

Most people did not agree on it, but were pushed towards it due to economic dominance. Non-native speakers may still resent their disadvantage and would not call it an "agreement".
While I'm excited to see Google Fiber push into Austin, I've been very happy with my 110 mbps down / 11 mbps up from local company Grande: http://mygrande.com/internet/compare. Austin is lucky to have actual competition among cable and ISP providers, unlike many other cities.
Unsurprisingly, I think you're wrong!

An unspoken assumption in your essay seems to be that people can only have one cultural identity, which is plainly incorrect.

There is also no definition given of what it means for a culture to 'die'. I'll offer that it's when there's nobody left who follows any of that particular culture's elements. And it's when we break it down by element, that I really think your argument doesn't hold together.

Take language for example. Clearly it's a central part of cultural identity, whether used for inclusiveness or as a shibboleth. What you're basically saying is that it's important that I stop speaking a particular language. Why? Being able to speak a language other than English gives me a broader understanding of language generally, and improves my English. Why should it be important for me to stop?

Or take another fundamental of culture: music. I listen to Scottish music and sing Gaelic songs. Why is it important for me to stop doing this? More generally, what exactly is the One True Music that we should all be listening to, to the exclusion of all others?

I think I'll leave it there, lest this turn into a massive rant ;-)
DailyJS JavaScript Developer Survey 2014 results
This sounds interesting, but would make a much better HN post if you went into technical detail. The more the better.
> No, it is usually incorrect...

If either the username does not exist, or the password does not match the existing username, then "incorrect username or password" is correct by logic. It might be incorrect if assuming xor meaning, because both could be wrong -- username and password.

The parent's point also was that the service can not identify which one is wrong. Was it the username if the password did not match but matches any other account?

> No, that's highly unlikely.

Why should it be unlikely to mistype the username? Misspellings happen. Some people check what they entered, some don't. People confuse their usernames when they have many. One username might be someone else's on another service. Etc.

> If the password doesn't match, just say so.

Which is wrong if the error lies with the username, not the password, and the mistyped username happens to exist.
Location: Mississauga, ON (Toronto)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C, C#, Rails, OpenCV, PCB design
Résumé/CV: http://www.asfarley.com/resume.pdf
Email: alexander.s.farley@gmail.com

Interests: vehicular traffic tracking and turn identification. text mining. food services automation. aerospace systems testing/v&v.
How is this different from Evernote? I use Evernote for this exact purpose using their notebooks and tags. The UI looks to be based on it as well.
ES6 and JavaScript in Harmony: An Overview of New Language Features
Here's the original: https://web.archive.org/web/20141201195306/https://blog.dock...
Pretty good chance we live in the same building. I've called our building rep a couple of times to try and pressure them into turning up the speeds, but no luck so far.
Repo for the server-side element: https://github.com/mozilla-services/loop-server
It still [1] strikes me to see these new projects were people didn't add/publish docker containers as an option to the Install steps for this new technologies

I guess adding it would make it much simpler for people to play with new technology without ever worrying about the N steps they need to take and the repeated initial frustration of not getting pass the installation process due to weird incompatibilities just to test something new...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8588602
Define "life".
To create jobs, the stock market needs a little inefficiency
All of the problems you mention are problems created by the writer, director, producers, etc., and have nothing to do with bad science. They can, and frequently do, show up in every genre of film. One of my favorite films is Big Trouble in Little China (as an example) and I'm sure there are all kinds of issues about the film itself, but I still love the film. Ditto Blade Runner, Brazil, Contact, etc.

Disclaimer: I'm not a scientist by profession.
I am sure that different memory controllers and CPU specific of optimizations of Intel vs AMD play a small role as well.
Ask HN: To degree, or not to degree? (Info. Security)
First off, excuse my silly attempt at a modified Shakespearean soliloquy in the title.

I'm going to get straight to the point and try to be as concise as possible to avoid ambiguity and "TL;DR"'s.

I've clocked up 17 years of existence, and have a bit of a dilemma with regards to pathways into a career in information security (I understand it's a diverse field with many different roles) - academia has NEVER appealed to me and I hate the notion of studying for a further 3-5 years at university once I've finished school to obtain a paper qualification only to have to enroll on a graduate programme to get me up to scratch to a company's desired level.

Having studied Physics/Maths at school - I decided to self-teach myself programming with Python to begin with and set up a Linux virtual machine to muck about in and explore.

I also managed to land myself a part-time job involving UNIX scripting alongside a security researcher at a small company and am thoroughly enjoying it as well as improving my knowledge in other areas such as network security, web applications etc...

Which leads me to my title question - the company I'm working with may offer to keep me on and provide me with basic training (a sort of early graduate scheme) & encouraging me to take certifications from the likes of CompTIA, Cisco etc. - is it worth it for me to avoid university/getting a degree to pursue a job which I thoroughly love with the risk of potentially affected long-term propects (many employers are requiring a degree to get you past the HR filter).

In the UK (where I live) - with increasing amounts of people pursuing university, the value of a degree seems to be declining & topped with a three-fold increase in tuition fees it seems to be looking like a an increasingly unattractive option.
I like Mozilla's new strategy of partnering with popular open source projects, e.g. Tor, now this. It's a good strategy because Mozilla's proprietary competitors, namely Google, might have trouble fully integrating and partnering with open source initiatives. Further, the decision makers of open source projects are presumably far more interested in partnering with Mozilla than Google.

There is a lot of value for Mozilla to extract from open source, and as long as it remains an open source company itself, it will have a "leg up" on its competitors, and a much easier time in negotiations with open source stakeholders. I suspect we'll see more integrations of large, popular open source projects into the Mozilla browser.
This looks like a good solution for larger companies, but (someone correct me if I'm wrong) it likely won't be a good fit for a fast moving startup. The last thing you want to worry about when developing a product is PCI compliance and other security measures. Platforms like Braintree and Stripe allow you to bypass most of this as CC and Bank info never really touch or pass through your own servers.
Perhaps misleading was the wrong word, but as you said it yourself, saying that would lead to a user experience that is much worse than a simple "Bad experience", which is exactly my point.
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https://appear.in/ works really well! :)
If by easier you mean "doesn't require vast amounts of capital" then yah.
@stephane from Kill Bill.

Kill Bill can 'talk' to payment gateways but can also go straight to payment processors, providing the plugin has been written (and we are working on that).
I think it's also related to policy-makers...

These days too many of them are a bit intimidated by the mere presence and aura of people in uniform, intel people, cops etc...Years ago, many of them had served in the military or a had a very good understanding of what they can really do (not what they claim they can do) how they worked/the types of people behind them(JFK, Churchill etc) so were rightly sceptical of their claims. I mean, has anyone ever met a cop/spook/politician who didn't want more power to do X, more money to do Y, more people, more secrecy etc?

One of the main problems for intel agencies is that they are merely one conduit to policy-makers, amongst many these days. Ultimately it is those policy-makers who need to (and increasingly are incapable of) using this information for strategic decision-making...Tactically it is easy to say "arrest/shoot that guy," because they get kudos and less blame if some thing goes wrong. Strategically it is harder to say "don't shoot that guy, keep him alive and in 5 years we can negotiate with him." It took the British a long time to learn how to do this in Northern Ireland, and it was only when they did that they managed to start to move towards peace with the IRA. I'm not sure would that be possibly in the bloggy, politically polarised, short-term, tabloid, Sky/Fox News type of world we live in these days.

After all, even if they did predict the rise of ISIS, Boston, it is the policy-maker who must decide what action to take. Difficult when:

a) There are sooo many warnings coming across their desk

b) Limited resources

C) Not many real policy instruments available. For example, the US public would not have been up for attacking for acting on intel available about ISIS 18 months ago, thus that policy option was thus not available.
There are really two costs for installing fiber. The cost to drag it past your house, which is expensive, probably over 1000. And the cost to bring it from your curb to your house. I've heard 500 for that, but it could around 300. Or google could just think of it as an advertising cost.
It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that those fighting corruption are so often tarred and feathered and hung up as examples?

Just take a look at Aaron Swartz, Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden.
Why don't we see more startups in the fiber-to-the-premises realm? Is cost really that high and difficult to obtain? HN has led me to believe that a good idea with motivated founders will get funded, no matter what. And I can't think of a better time to enter this market.
(In Chrome, this page works in my desktop, but doesn't work in my notebook.)

It's a little difficult to start drawing. Perhaps the initial page should have an example preloaded, like x/2+Frac(x).
Likely not even close. Just about every single washing machine, refrigerator, microwave, digital stove, etc, runs a variant of an open source operating system called Tron, or the more common ITron variant.

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

Tron has been around since the mid 80s I believe and Linux was first released in the early 90s.
> precision of motion of a stepper motor is several magnitudes higher than a simple DC motor

Depends on whether we're talking about open-loop control or closed-loop control. A stepper motor can only move in half-jumps or full-jumps. The size of the jump is intrinsic to the motor, and can be reduced with a gearbox. If we're doing closed-loop control of a DC motor, the resolution is limited by the feedback encoder, which typically has a resolution a magnitude or two higher than a stepper motor's.
I mentioned exactly those what I think "some way to narrow it down" is, mainly new websites with significantly less users, websites where its common to have your username known in public, and even websites that allow you to query their APIs for username data.
San Francisco, CA and Vancouver, BC

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We've started talking about some of what our team is up to:

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You may need to make that clearer to some of the people that are due to be building your plugins: reading http://weaveblog.com/2014/11/13/life-and-docker-networking/, I get the feeling that they're not thrilled about it.
How are you exporting the zone with things as they are?
Indeed, this is basically offensive to me (a non-American). It's like saying "it's important that old people die so we can turn them into food". It might be more efficient, but disregards everything that people hold dear that can't be quantified.

I'm also not going to engage in this discussion with the biggest cultural empire in the world. I'm sure very few Americans are aware of this, but a lot of folks see American culture as predatory, and homogenization coming from them is basically synonymous with assimilation.
SEATTLE, WA.

A little startup that could... drag the supply chain management to the 21st century.

Producing and distributing manufactured goods is about half the GDP of the US, but for all that size this industry is still stuck in the middle-of-last-century technology - the straightjacket of ERP for data storage compounded by looseness of paper/fax/phone for catalog distribution or ordering.

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You can't do syntax highlighting in Evernote. If you do syntax highlighting with another tool, then copy into Evernote, you won't be able to edit it again. That's the main reason I couldn't use Evernote for programming notes.

Quiver's code cells use the ACE editor (http://ace.c9.io/), which is a real code editor with syntax highlighting support for over 110 languages, 20+ themes, auto indent and outdent, etc.
How did you export the zone from DNSimple?
I think a 40% price premium would be reasonable.
This doesn't really work that well, I realize - when users mistype their e-mail, they get their registration sent to some random address, and they get zero feedback on what went wrong. From their perspective, the registration worked and they just got no e-mail. Bad experience.
You can still delegate PCI to your payment provider (via tokenization). SafeKiddo[0] just launched using Kill Bill + Braintree.

[0] https://www.safekiddo.com/
> but were pushed towards it due to economic dominance

Or perhaps English is good at some things that are especially useful these days? This was posted on HN a while back:

http://garrett.damore.org/2014/10/your-language-sucks.html

...the author proposes that certain languages are easier to represent electronically. I'd certainly like to see more thought and investigation along these lines.

I think ascribing the entire thing to coercion is premature. Do you have any corroborating evidence for that position?

EDIT: After writing this, it occurs to me that British colonialism was coercive in many (most?) aspects. That being said, English has been growing as a lingua franca (hah!) since the British empire has waned, so we need a mechanism more complex than coercion to explain the growing popularity of English.
I don't agree with the author's premise wrt to usernames.

Often, you will login with a username, but the password recovery form will only accept an email. You might be able to correlate these two if you have a lot of data from other, external attacks, but unless if I noticed correlation between recovered passwords and account break-ins, I wouldn't worry about this.

There's a security tradeoff, but sometimes security must be risked in the name of functionality, or you'll have a lame product. Or, you can have both security and functionality, but to the detriment of UX.

Take leaderboards for example. If you have a leaderboard for your app/game, you'll expose user's username (and thus, sign-in name, as is often the case). You could mitigate this by: having a separate login name (ala steam), or using an email (which exposes people to the recovery exploit), but it doesn't make the UX any better.

In the end, I'd say trying to protect against username/email guessing attacks is probably unnecessary. There are better ways to approach security.
Yes this appears to be the main thing at play right now. A small number of serious node hackers are contributing to io.js. This could be big, but it's too early for me to tell.
Can anyone expand on what this means: "This attack is volumetric in nature." (?)
So this feature has landed in Firefox 34, but you might not be able to use it yet, because apparently the WebRTC initiator infrastructure that Mozilla uses (Loop) has been rate limited to include only a random 10% of users [1].

If you want to try Talk, and you're eager to 'help' Mozilla stress-test Loop a bit:

1. Go to about:config and set loop.throttled to false

2. Restart Firefox

3. Go to the right 'hamburger' menu, click customize and add Talk to the menu. If Talk doesn't show up, you might need to do a 'Restore defaults' first

I just tried it, and it works wonderfully, even on mobile and in an older Firefox version. The noise cancellation is not on par with Skype however.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Loop/Load_Handling
Yeah glibgil I hope that everything ends up back in Docker. I don't really like having so many different approaches to solving the same thing.
I think that definition here is: subjective well being.
Reference? I couldn't find anything about it, and have been watching Netflix through them for at least three years now.
Twitter Spam – the real reason you’re seeing Favorites on your Timeline
> excessive economic and military power that the US wields.

What makes it excessive? How much economic and military power is proper?
It's worth noting that Pale Moon is actually slower than Firefox stable: http://portableapps.com/node/39509

It's also incompatible with many extensions.