skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since Dr. Dobb's has some amount of brand recognition, would it be possible to capitalize on that? For example, maybe come out with a line of authoritative technical books that are Dr. Dobb's branded, that would end up having the same recognition as O'reilly's nutshell books? Then the website / magazine would end up functioning as a loss leader to promote the book series (or other ventures).
The empty catch block of BASIC.
I'm really enjoying Canva's Design School tutorials that simply and elegantly take complete beginners through the basics of good design with a series of hands-on exercises.

http://designschool.canva.com/tutorials/
Mental Health and Productivity Web App for College Students
You'd be extremely lucky to convert 10% of web vistors to paid subscribers.

Who here wouldn't pay quite a lot more than that not jus for Dr. Dobbs - but a much more independent (or obly beholden to its readership) Dr. Dobbs?

I sorry to say I wouldn't.

There is plenty of content on the web to read, so in that sense many content sites are fungibile.

See academic publishing for an area with similar issues.
I understand you're just showing how easy it is to find email/password combinations, but maybe it isn't the best idea to post an example link on how to do it?
Lifejacket helps college students manage to-do lists, calculate grades, track moods/feelings and anonymously share moods/feelings with their fellow classmates. Drawing on concepts from social emotional learning (SEL) and positive psychology, Lifejacket aims to help reduce stress and depression on college campuses, increase productivity, and spread happiness. Although you need to be a student at a currently limited number of universities, I'd really appreciate feedback! Thanks!
Isn't Ask Toolbar a sneak install [read fraudulent misrepresentation] with Adobe [PDF] Viewer?
Relevant: http://vanilla-js.com/.
Wow. I really hop they nail this landing (if not this timw then next time). A very interesting read, ill have to make a calendar entry tobkeep an eye on the news!
"Before Libscore, front-end developers only had Github star counts as a proxy for their library’s success."

Uhhh no. Before Libscore, we only had Wapanalyzer and BuiltWith and Alexa and Ghostry and countless other "crawl and aggregate stats data" services.

Cool idea and all, but kinda silly to make claims like this.
Apple Halts Sales in Russia as Ruble Craters
Ask HN: Did anyone get their myo and what do they think of it?
I just got my myo (https://www.thalmic.com/en/myo/) and was wondering what others have thought of it? So far, general calibration has been frustrating and there seems to be limited app integration atm.
Other than the obvious, some things worry me.

> We have confirmed that initial entry was made via a team member's compromised login details and not as the result of a vulnerability in the phpBB software.

> The attackers were able to obtain access to the phpBB.com and area51 databases, meaning that user information, including hashed salted passwords, was compromised. Additionally, all logins on area51 between Dec. 12th and Dec. 15th were logged in plaintext. While the hashing algorithm utilized in phpBB will make it difficult to obtain those passwords, you should not take any chances.

A bit of clarification should be given. The staff's login information was stolen, allowing someone to get a dump of the database containing user info. What kind of login information was stolen? Is this an shell account, was an SSH key stolen, was this an admin panel account?

Secondly, "all logins [...] were logged in plaintext". Does this mean the username and password were logged, the password hashes and sessions? What actual information was plaintext to the user?

It's great that groups are willing to own up to these kinds of events, but without specific information, it's hard to understand how broad a compromise we're talking.
FWIW, I've evaluated email clients from time to time, but haven't found anything I like enough to replace Gmail. I haven't tried Thunderbird for years because I don't want to use a client without conversation view, and Thunderbird doesn't seem to offer it as a core feature; I could try one of the extensions for it, but I'm suspicious it won't work well. Also, I'm not sure I want to start using a product that's been on life support for two years. However, I admit these are relatively small turnoffs, so perhaps I should give Thunderbird a spin some time...

Anyway, it's off topic.
Why Won’t America Go Metric?
Watching their example video I'm guessing they act as steerable "fins" where the working area of the fin is spread across a number of "vanes". Not clear if there are two degrees of freedom or just one for each one.

As the rocket travels through the air each one can be rotated on its axis perpendicular to the body of the rocket. If all are rotated the same way they would impart a spin, if two were rotated one way and other two rotated the opposite direction they would simply slow the rocket down. If two adjacent ones are counter rotated the provide drag on one side (imparting a pitch change).

I was thoroughly impressed when I saw the video, that is a really cool technique.
I don't really think it was an engine so much as a peripheral with some mediating libraries. I would do that plus write a C# interop to make it compatible with unity so you could make your die by the sword clone quickly.

What they were trying to make was basically a better wiimote, and a wiimote is essentially an arduino with a single accelerometer hooked up to it and a bluetooth receiver. I think without the budget restrictions of a wiimote you could probably use better/more responsive parts and then basically just mimic a wiimote with the wiimotion plus(which is just a single gyroscope) and call it a day. Or you could add several of each of those components and then average their output or do other clever math with their separate outputs. I think this would take a little more than a year if the person who was doing it knew what they were doing.

Then you need to make the game/demo which you would do in parallel with a team of 3-4 additional people.

"Even if you are able to donate a year of developer time, valued in the six figures"

See this is where misunderstandings with kickstarter begin. We assumed almost no risk in making Road Redemption. In addition to salary we get 100% of revenue less distribution. So not only did we get to draw salary during development, now we get all the sales revenue and we own the IP. It is a crazy good deal, nobody needs to donate anything.

It is basically like you get a bunch of VC money and also the VC's have no equity interest.

The problem comes in when someone who is unqualified tries to middleman the operation and takes a bunch of money but is totally incapable of doing what they said they would do. Now they both don't have enough money to actually get the shit done at cost, and don't want to give away all the equity. The biggest problem though is that they are unqualified to discern who is capable of doing the task because they don't know anything about how to actually do things. So they fritter away the money and then the project falls apart.
analytics.

content on 3rd party site->ad->your landing page.

analyze what happens. You can compare normal behavior - time on page, number of pages viewed etc occurring from normal organic traffic against traffic generated by the ad campaign. Did one site or group of sites send 90% of your clicks, but almost zero real traffic?
You had an entire fantasy about punishing Russia and it all revolving around Syria which isn't even supported by your own citations. Good day.
This is encouraging. I've wondered for several years why Mars when you've got places like Venus as potentially more interesting locations. Doing long term atmospheric existence there could teach us a lot about what we don't know about space travel and our ability to push ourselves. If I didn't have two bad discs and was 3 decades younger; I'd be asking where to sign up.

Edit: Reading further, "while the crewed version would be nearly 130 meters long, or twice the size of a Boeing 747.". NASA needs to get much bolder in their thinking. Two people isn't enough. You need at least the size of a submarine crew to make it work and that means an airship 5000 meters long.

Edit 2: "At this point, things get crazy.". Well, it wouldn't be worth it otherwise.
Inside Beijing's airpocalypse – a city made 'almost uninhabitable' by pollution
Humans May Be Causing the Sixth Great Extinction in Half a Billion Years
Adding to that: In Android Lollipop, One can't edit / delete local (phone-stored) contacts. They have to be synced to cloud in order to edit / delete them. If this is intentional, it is a sick dark UI pattern.
IMHO, it would do better with the Studio Ghibli treatment, than a live action movie.
Books vs. apps
Ask HN: How do I get started freelancing?
I'm interested in starting a freelance web development side business in my spare time, maybe even growing it into a full time business over time. How do I go about finding clients? How much should I charge? What do I need to know before I start? What tools should I use for contracts and invoicing, etc? What legal issues should I be aware of before starting?
“Shadowy” anti-net neutrality group submitted 56.5% of comments to FCC
"That would imply some classes spend upwards of 40% of their time logging kids in to an app?"

I have developed and support a language portfolio system - I was on site at a high school giving support for one period. I was shocked at how lax most of the students were (well... maybe not) but 25-30% of the students couldn't remember a username/password, even ones they created themselves. In a 45 minute period, 25 minutes were spent giving about a dozen or so students their username/password combos (I was doing manual resets on site to speed the process). It was insane, but I don't see many ways of making it better, short of tying in with edmodo or something similar (maybe clever? but I have no budget for this).
Google didn't go public until 2004.
They said this about IE5 and 6 too.
Awesome write up. I did a fair amount of POSIX threads based c code and a bit of Go as if it were compiled Python programming. This helps bridge the gap between arcane pthreads best practices and the much more terse Go channel methodology. Thanks for doing this so I can start wrapping my head around the finer points of goroutines, etc.
In practice you will do the same thing as unwinding the stack. You'll jump to the end of a function where you'll likely free some heap buffers on your way out and you'll return error status to the caller. What will likely happen next is the caller will bubble up the error: free buffers and report error status to their caller. It works out to pretty much the same thing as a modern C++ code base using RAII, just more manual.
Initially we did have some problems. Most of it was due to not being able to source enough current. We haven't seen any issues so far. Thanks for reminding me. I'll keep an eye out for that.
Wikidatan here. Here's a quick comparison of Freebase and Wikidata:

Topics / items:

- Freebase: 46,476,860 [1]

- Wikidata: 12,921,731 [2]

Facts / claims:

- Freebase: 2,696,141,481 [1]

- Wikidata: 50,457,200 as of 2014-11-10 [3]

Instances of person / human:

- Freebase: 3,391,533 [4]

- Wikidata: 2,638,614 [5]

License for data

- Freebase: CC-BY [6]

- Wikidata: CC0 [7]

Data on Paul Graham:

- Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/017cm9

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92650

Data on San Francisco:

- Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/0d6lp

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62

Data on Python:

- Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/05z1_

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28865

Data on APOE / Apolipoprotein E:

- Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/0byv2v

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14890468 (APOE), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q424728 (Apolipoprotein E)

See [8] and [9] for an introduction to Wikidata. I have no notable experience with Freebase, but I've been contributing to Wikidata for about 2 years and would be happy to answer any questions I can.

[1] http://www.freebase.com/

[2] https://www.wikidata.org

[3] http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/stats.php

[4] http://www.freebase.com/people/person?instances

[5] http://tools.wmflabs.org/autolist
/autolist1.html?q=claim[31:5]

[6] http://www.freebase.com/policies/tos

[7] See bottom of [2]

[8] Up and running with Wikidata: http://www.slideshare.net/_emw/up-and-running-with-wikidata

[9] Introducing Wikidata to the Linked Data Web: http://korrekt.org/papers/Wikidata-RDF-export-2014.pdf
“Snow Crash” Author Hired by Augmented-Reality Startup Magic Leap
Shoot. I guess I shouldn't post the advanced search I just tried. Let's just say I had 12,875 search results for a common CMS' configuration files ... it was scary how easy it was, actually, to filter the results down to what I was looking for. Github ought to put up a warning saying, "you have a wp-config.php file, you know this is public right? Here's how to use .gitignore" and a link, or something.
tl;dr

31000 scientists agreeing don't count because they don't agree with me.
Snapchat Acquired QR Scan.me for $50M and Vergence Eyeglass Cam for $15M
If you spent any time trying to get your website to load in under 1 second, removing jquery plugins is the first thing you do. Not only do you have to load the jquery, you need to load the plugins after you already have jquery which makes it even slower.
>>And what would that probe look like?

And more importantly why would anyone send anything to anywhere?

I never understand the argument people make about probes spreading across galaxies. If we assume they are at least as intelligent as we are, then purposelessly wandering in the universe would be least of their goals.

I can understand if probes have military goals. Like for example to evaluate threats to them. But like us here on earth, and with their technology would be carried out at a technical sophistication we have no remote capabilities of detecting currently.
Some quasi-journals have been moving in a "magazine-style" direction with broader-interest articles than a traditional journal, in order to fill some of the trade-magazine gap. Some more successfully than others.

A few that I sometimes read:

ACM Queue: http://queue.acm.org/. Online-only, free. Focus is largely on software engineering and some related areas (sysadmin, devops, architecture, reliability engineering, etc.). Probably the closest to a Dr. Dobbs style magazine of the ones I list here, with mostly industry authors.

Communications of the ACM: http://cacm.acm.org/. Most recent issue is free online; print subscription w/ digital back-issue access is $99/yr. Mix of academic and industry articles, leaning more academic, but written in a more accessible and concise style than a typical CS journal. The print version also includes some articles from online-only ACM publications (like Queue).

AI Magazine: http://www.aaai.org/Magazine/magazine.php. Issues >1 yr old are open-access online; new issues are subscription-only. Print+digital subscription is $145/yr. A bit like CACM, in being journal-ish but with an aim at more readable general-interest articles. Some insider-ish news/column type stuff as well (reports on conferences and workshops, etc.).

You may or may not be happy with any of those. The move towards a more magazine-style format is pretty new, and I think still being experimented with. I personally like glancing through and reading parts of CACM and AI Magazine, and less often Queue. I also know some people who like the general-audience IEEE magazines (IEEE Computer, IEEE Software, IEEE Micro, etc.), but I haven't read them enough to have an opinion.
With spread and fat arrows:

[...document.querySelectorAll('.foo')].forEach(node => node.classList.remove('bold'));
> When debugging ... I find myself jotting down elements of the stack trace on paper

Being self-taught, I cannot adequately convey my gratitude for this nugget of reality. Thank you a thousand times.
Im not a hacker/cracker or whatever but I am curious would it be illegal to use one of those usernames and passwords to see if it actually worked for an account?

edit: I know that it is not ethical and I am only slightly tempted to do it but is it actually illegal to use open source code in that way?
Ask HN: What is the best way to get started in Deep Learning?
Hi!! I want to study and understand Deep Learning.

Can you suggest some of the best resources to get started in it?

Also, it would be great if you could list the main topics/areas/ideas of DL, so that I would have the general framework for studying, and know what do I need to learn and in what order.

Im sure that would be useful for a lot of people here.
Sure thing, I'm not sure if the code on github is stable, but the client is https://github.com/B0bby/StudySniffer, and the server is https://github.com/UnrealAkama/SnifferServer.

If you have any questions, just reach out to my email. I'll be glad to help.
Yes, and it is surprisingly convenient.
In the case of bluetooth, you can either (1) request BLUETOOTH_ADMIN permission and enable BT yourself, or (2) ask Android to show an "Enable Bluetooth Dialog" (BluetoothAdapter.ACTION_REQUEST_ENABLE) which doesn't require that permission.

But #2 has been busted for a while
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=60002

They didn't fix it, and marked it obsolete. So I guess we need BLUETOOTH_ADMIN after all.
I did a survey of my classmates' study habits in medical school. Two of the habits most strongly associated with good performance were taking hand-written notes and reviewing them. The worst habit was typing in class. I heard Clay Shirky has even banned screens in his lectures because he found a "second hand smoking" effect: the person next to the person with the laptop had poorer performance.

I think a major part of handwritten notes is that it does force you to select what you're actually going to write down, and that is an inherently synthetic activity. Synthetic activities lead to more effective memory formation.
Closed data vs. Open data
It's a connotation thing. In certain cultures, "colonization" historically meant "invasion, oppression, slavery, and even genocide", as various "colonial" powers took up the "white man's burden". Here in Canada, "colonialism" is a term used by first nations groups to describe the continuation of racist institutions.

So yeah, it has that other meaning for a lot of folks, unfortunately. Kinda makes science fiction novels a bit confusing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8758074
Future police state... Ha! Crazy talk.

_glances at nest tstat_

_glances at dropcam_

Hmmm...
Decoding Floats
You are right. We should even go further and reset the whole interweb each time there is a disclosure, or at least randomize the DNS records of the affected servers.
It is the one site you know the users will come to. I would do the new web server at old address. Hacked machines should not be put back in service.
> his blog post contains what I think is the most detailed public description of the tech so far

Gizmodo would beg to differ: http://gizmodo.com/how-magic-leap-is-secretly-creating-a-new...
> there are other ways to grow a nest egg from $20k to $68k without gambling it

If you mean to do so quickly, and without taking some significant risk, I'll call.
I would recommend first seeing if it is worth your while. You may find that the freelancing rates you get will be much less than your day job, once you take into account the time and money you spend on attracting clients.

One way to do this is via a minimum viable product. E.g. print a flyer and offer a price that is reasonable to you, and post it to 1000 businesses, see what response you get.

IANAL, but you can probably worry about the contracts and invoicing once you get an order. In-fact start off with small jobs, send them a quote and just get them to pay in advance. Send an email invoice is probably good enough. Not sure what country you are in, but usually you can do a small amount of business without registering as long as you declare it on your tax return. But research this.
What Every CEO Needs to Know About Online Advertising
Library Bards – Gandalf (Parody of Shake It Off Taylor Swift)
well, any religion (and Santa Claus is just a rare nice one among religions' artifacts) is about being watched and recorded (btw, now that we can do it ourselves may be can do away with religions :). Picking up on the Elf is kind of strange. He is at least not going to condemn you to an eternity in a boiling cauldron what "merciful Gods" typically would do out of "pure love for you soul". Or may be this is exactly why they chose to pick on him :)
App actions can still count as "pageviews" in a comscore world. I'm not entirely sure of the specifics but I've heard of it being reported.
On the second video they show them gimbaling towards the rocket and down as well as rotating so I think they have at least 2 degrees of freedom to aide in control alongside the engine gimbal.
Approaches to do image management on the cloud
IP can cause weird behavior for mobile, since it changes all the time, especially if they hop onto/off of wifi. User agent is trivial to fake.
Ask HN: What tools and practises you use for capacity planning / metrics?
I'm interested to find out what tools (if any) people are using for capacity planning and metrics on growth.

(By growth I'm talking about Database, Disk, Performance and of course number of users etc...)

Are people just using spreadsheets with input from monitoring sources, or are there some fancier tools out there? (F/OSS please!)

Background:

I work for a web app company with 300~ servers and we need to be smarter with our capacity planning, some of our larger apps don't currently scale well horizontally and I'm interested to know when and where to target our efforts (i.e. redevelop parts of the apps vs just throwing money at hardware / virtual hardware upgrades).
> you have a 1 in 119, or 1 in 833 chance of the user having a cached copy

That statistics has assumptions on what's the most popular jQuery versions being used. It would make sense if there was real data to support that.
Beagle owner here, I owned quite a few revisions.

You can stack up to 4 caps to make it a product quickly.

However I'd prefer a SODIMM module for volume production instead of the connectors used on BBB.
This is surely obligatory:

http://www.chrisharding.net/wetherobots/comics/2007-12-17-Tr...