skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite description regarding the effect of getting on the front page of HN was from a guy who ran mom and pop site. He said it was like running a small country store and having a busload full of old cantankerous seniors come in, criticize all the merchandise, complain about the free stuff, and then leave without purchasing anything. There was a lot of bustle and noise, but that was about it.
Literacy tool
You'd be surprised at how little space you can get away with. Get yourself a nice clear enclosure, and the external mess is very small.

Also, this is a great guide to options and actually making stuff.
http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/gcnc/
The idea is that you want to keep your plants away from the radiation, low pressure, and micrometeorites on the surface.
As I mentioned on a sibling post, I too got shingles at a younger age.

Just prior to rearing its ugly blisters, were you stressed physically, emotionally, and/or mentally? From my understanding shingles is able to come out when the immune system is weak/compromised, often times to due high stress levels. I know when my showed up I was extremely stressed.

I know a few others who have had shingles in their late 20's early 30's too. Not sure if it's becoming more prevalent or just more recognized/talked about but I think people should be more informed to recognize early symptoms so as to treat it ASAP.

For others reading, when my shingles showed up I recall a funny tingling sensation which after a few days turned into more of a burning sensation. You will only feel it on one side of your body. My singles came out around the S2 and S3 dermatomes (http://webpresencepartners.com/wp-content/uploads/cssmap/201...) on my right side. If hurt to sit, it hurt to stand, it hurt to move... but it went away after only a few days thank goodness! Shingles often starts presenting itself in one of two dermatomes. If you're not familiar with dermatomes I suggest you due a quick five minute search and read on them.

ADD: Good info: http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/shingles/n...
I agree.

> From the founder’s perspective this is a very sweet deal. “All the hard work is done,” they proclaim, “All the tech person has to do is build it.” Ultimately, the sole founder becomes increasingly frustrated when every potential tech lead they speak with says “no thanks”.

I can't tell you how many times I've said "no thanks"--though it was probably more along the lines of "hell no!" I love it when a "business" person approaches me with their Great Idea™ and they're like, "I have the program all figured out, all I need is someone to code it." My response: "Then learn how to code."

Right now I'm working on a project with a non-programmer co-founder and the only reasons I agreed to it was 1) he's a longtime friend and I trust him, 2) he has expertise that I lack in the domain space (chemistry), 3) it was my idea in the first place and I have control over the development/vision. It still doesn't feel nice to have the weight of ALL THE PROGRAMMING on your shoulders.
In terms of SEO it does wonders to the pagerank. The page continues to be placed on the first page of search results for few weeks after the viral influx of visitors.

The key is to ensure that relevant keywords are part of the anchor text i.e. the "Title" submitted to HN.
Bloomberg Business' new site design is beautifully bizarre
2 bits of feedback on your home page:

- you don't state on the page what your product is. Ok, it's "Deeply carved and finished by hand", "a custom work of art" and "A personal gift that leaves a lasting impression", but what is it? You need a big statement upfront that says "Pinegram lets you design and send a beautiful engraved wood postcard" or something (I'm not a copywriter). It was easier for me because your HN post is actually very descriptive.

- I was about to dismiss the product because I didn't like the shape of the board on the homepage (http://i.imgur.com/JSX4TG8.jpg), and it's only when scrolling back up and seeing the heart shaped one that I understood that you had different shapes available. You might want to do something about that, maybe use 2/3 different shapes in that options list.
> I want to make other planets livable so we can stop killing this one so much.

What (insufficient thought it might be) political support there is for efforts to stop killing this planet is based largely on the idea that "its the only one we have", so I'm not sure that really works.
I think it might be an issue with codecs which is why it works with some browsers and doesn't with others.
From what I understand, "you" was you-formal, and "thou" was you-familiar. (They weren't completely the same word)

However, IANAL (linguist)
There's more money than ever in the app market but only a few get rich
The claim is nothing more than propaganda. The DOJ knows the truth, and the people who are part of the technical community know the truth.

Saying this is just using false information to sway the public, and looking to badge things that are just tools as inherently evil tools, or tools only used for evil.

Disclaiming the lie is a good step - but I'd like to see the rebuttal coming from a more mainstream media source. Wired writing this article is preaching to the choir.
Cop who stole nude pics off arrested women’s phones gets no jail time
They claim other search tools are, "too slow, too hard to configure, or require too much software to be installed."

Something like OpenGrok (http://opengrok.github.io/OpenGrok/) seems fairly straightforward and only requires a servlet container beyond Java; 1 more piece of software than Hound.

Seems cool, but also that they reinvented the wheel instead of improving an existing project.
here is the article: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-28/yahoo-would...
Code examples from the rust book
Well it never meant "there are no bugs in open source code" over any length of time. It just means that if a project has enough eyeballs on it, bugs will be squashed quickly. But how many eyeballs is "enough"? Obviously OpenSSL didn't have enough. Does glibc?
Do you think my title(s) were "good"? What do you think could be done better as you review my posts and submissions? I don't often post...
heh, I basically made this site to justify my CNC expenses. I remember my first CNC, made from MDF and a hand saw. Wasn't pretty but it was fun making and using it.
Almost inevitably, there will be 3-4 people vying for their ideas to be implemented, sometimes conflicting with each other, sometimes conflicting with what's actually possible technically, and the sole dev guy will end up caught in the middle of all this - not unlike corp work, really. And yeah, they'll almost never see you as an actual CO-founder or equal in any way. I've seen that happen (equality) but more often than not, the situation you described.

If you can't "sell" something until every single pixel is perfect and it scales up to instagram levels on day one and everything else is in place because you "only get one shot at impressing person X (or... first customer)"... you're doing something wrong.
Sundance Premieres Sophisticated ‘Tangerine,’ Shot on iPhone 5s  – Variety
That's no error, it's a feature!
It's good you had the right perspective... I gave myself a little legroom emotionally and just prepped myself for nothing to happen.
>The ones that can execute often already are, and aren't wasting their time doing cofounder dating.

The same can be said about programmers, I guess. What a horrible attitude.

FYI: many startups fail because the founders don't have a clue that a business involves far more than writing code. Sometimes you need "people skills", and when you think you're God's gift to a business, you're probably lacking there.
Why We Banished the Hamburger Menu from Our iPhone App
I think what the OP implied is that things will always be used by criminals for other purposes than intended.
So if we legislate against those people, we also legislate against anyone who tells a joke online.
Funny. I always thought it is only politicians who think that this field is political.
Major fail during Juno blizzard caught on GoPro
Agreed. Apple shares are tanking worldwide. You have to really specifically cherry pick to make their mobile share look good. This is why they don't do pie charts during their product launches anymore.
Collations are encoding specific, eg: utf_general_ci works specifically on UTF8 values, that said, the collation does not determine the encoding, the encoding determines the potential collations.
You know, a lot of these calls are personally relevant too. Would you rather pick up the phone and wait on hold for 45 minutes to talk to someone at your gas company again after they already didn't fix your problem last week, or would you like to get a call asking how your service appointment went so you can say "Unresolved issues. Please escalate" and get a call later from someone who can actually fix it while their boss is watching?

For the record, I subscribe to the George Carlin definition of A Phone Call, "The brief exchange of a few vital pieces of information." I am with you, I honestly don't want to get phone calls from anyone for pretty much any reason.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=A+Phone+Call
No worries. I deleted my post before your reply came through because I didn't feel my example was good and I'm struggling to do better this early in the morning :D

In a lot of cases compose and |> will be similar due to operations that are commutative, but they are semantically different.
Facebook hawks auto-playing videos to lure ad dollars from small businesses
200M Users
You know what's kinda sad... Is that I wasn't thinking about sales when I wrote the post... But after I was like... Doh! I wondered if I had missed an opportunity.

But your perspective is a really healthy one. Publicity is good.
Highland, promises, async.js are all hacks. Best to use a language construct like await/yield, as in ES6, tamejs, and Iced CoffeeScript. These days noone should experience callback hell, it is a well-solved problem.
I totally agree! It also makes sense for countries that have their own character sets to use utf8 too (as they may borrow words, characters from other languages).

I was just pointing out that even if it was limited support, it wasn't a set of characters that MySQL came up with.
But short-term working is not a coverall solution IMO.

Indeed. A coverall solution would be a basic income for all permanent residents, coupled with a nationalized healthcare program. People want stable employment because freelancing is so risky without the benefit of any guaranteed regular paycheck or insurance. If the government actually provided a minimum subsistence income and insurance program for working adults, there would be much less incentive to get "married" to a corporation, and the labor market would be much more fluid, fungible and efficient as a result.
Could you give some examples of what you mean with "web ignorant"?
But the collation field specifies both the collation and the encoding?
AUDIO: 2015 MSP Pricing Strategies
You can get VS 2013 Community Edition for free (it is basically the Pro edition with a different name), for your personal use or for companies with less than 5 people.
> harvest its energy output

At most pi r_earth^2 / (4 pi d_earth_sun^2) = 1/2billion of its energy output. Unless we build a Dyson sphere or something.
Easiest way is probably to run a HEX() function on the column, and compare output.
It's funny because it's true. On all three points!
Prop 8? NSA ? Patents?

Can't be avoided these days.
The Counterfeiting Missionary and the Fake Pittsburgh Playboy
https://www.maxmind.com/en/minfraud-services
The State of Ello
Would you want your page to be in the results of a search query containing any/all the words in the title?

If yes, then the title is good.

Also, following the massive influx of visitors on "D-day" a secondary influx of visitors often follows. This is from mentions on twitter/fb/G+.

Combined together thats a LOT of eyeballs. The key is to be relevant when posting content on HN. As long as you share something that people find interesting, everyone wins.
Without deconstruction and pattern matching, language level tuples would be only sugar: "var x = (1, 2)" versus "var x = Tuple.Create(1,2)"

The real power of Tuples only comes with deconstruction and matching, such as "var (a,b) = GetSomething()" and "case (_, y)".

So these features would go hand in hand. Deconstruction and matching requires lang level tuples, and lang level tuples are pretty lame without deconstruction and pattern matching.
You grow them, just like the article says. I think this applies as much or even more to sales and/or bizdev than to technical co-founders.
Apple have their golden goose now, they just have to flog it. Like Microsoft did. Maybe they will continue to make new breakthroughs with the massive cash reserves they had, but it's hard to imagine they could top what they've already done.
Solar power is making progress all the time, so I fail to see how there are "massive problems". In fact, it seems like the massive problems are with fusion - after decades of government-backed research and very little progress.
According to this http://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-144377/zostavax-subq/detai... there is a [different?] shingles vaccine ZOSTAVAX available to older adults.

I assumed and thought the same as you, that once you got chicken pox then the vaccine for shingles is useless.

The link above states "This vaccine works by boosting the body's natural defense (immunity) against the zoster virus so that symptoms of shingles do not develop. It should not be used for treating active shingles, nerve pain caused by shingles, or for the prevention of chickenpox.

This vaccine should not be used in children."
I don't think that Facebook has responded to many demands for data from the Syrian/Burmese/Saudi governments. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
"You" was plural and/or formal, "thou" was the singular/informal form and so, per the list, "thou" was item #3 of the list of "words least likely to be replaced as the language evolves".
True. Let's say first was "personal computers"
Ask HN: When was the last time you lived 24 hours without the Internet?
It has recently occured to me that I didn't quite remember my last day "off" the Internet. It was maybe 4 years ago, I'm not so sure.

The answer to this question was the first step that lead me to a straight change of habits I'm applying to my daily life. The Internet is a blessing for all mankind, but the amount of time I spent hoarding knowledge was detrimental to actual projects and health. I could even call it an addiction.

So, out of curiosity, When was your last time you lived 16~24 hours in a row without the Internet? Do you even remember it?

EDIT: For some weird reason the thread got istantly pushed down from the front page. Anyway, thanks for participating in the conversation and sharing your experiences!
Yes, that's because companies that hire people as 1099 independent contractors also usually provide their equipment, train and direct them on how the work is to be performed, etc.

The litmus test for a 1099 is that "an individual is an independent contractor if the payer has the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not what will be done and how it will be done."

Companies frequently fail this test when hiring people as 1099.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...
SugarCRM to SuiteCRM Migration in Automated Mode
Ask HN: Is my unorthodox approach to server security a bad idea?
I've heard people say again and again that you shouldn't implement your own security algorithm, and I'd like to ask HN if I'm breaking this rule.

I'm creating a traditional client-server application with a twist: I want to encrypt all data on the client so that even an attacker who gains complete control over my server will be unable to access the users' data. That is, I want end-to-end encryption for my client-server application.

The client encrypts the user's data with a cryptographic key derived from the user's password, so it's important that the server not be able to figure out the password because that would allow the server to decrypt the user's data.
The client therefore uses Secure Remote Password protocol to avoid sending the password to the server. So far so good.

Now here's where my design gets a little unorthodox. The problem is that users in general are very bad at creating passwords - usually picking a password from the top 10,000 passwords list - which would make it pretty easy for an attacker who has access to the server to decrypt the user's data. Therefore I plan to generate a random set of characters and append them to the User ID field, so the user would need to log in with something like these credentials:

User ID: John-CPE4E38J
Password: snoopy

But before processing these credentials the login code moves the random characters to the password so the underlying SRP authentication library sees this:

User ID: John
Password: snoopy-CPE4E38J

In addition, the client offers to remember the User ID (ie. John-CPE4E38J) so that most of the time the user only has to remember their password.

What do you think of this approach? Am I breaking the do-not-implement-your-own-security-algorithm rule? Or is this a good way to strengthen the security of my application?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_protocol
The price points don't allow most of their customers to purchase the new versions so quickly.
> if you have a learning curve in what you do (the classic "employees can't be productive for the first n months), you probably don't actually know what you're doing

Either that or you have a crapload of self-imposed complexity.

That said, some roles really do have a major learning curve due to the amount of background domain knowledge required.
To expand on this a bit, while they went back to native threading, they didn't ditch any of the type system and library work designed to make message passing convenient and memory safe, which is (arguably) more fundamentally important for concurrency than M:N threading.
Who writes these headlines? 80% of the TOR traffic is not-child porn, so only 75% is? Shouldn't the headline mention how much of it is child porn(its close to 1%, from the article).
Ask HN: Google front-end interview – what sort of questions will I be asked?
Hi,

I have several years exp. doing front-end work and have a interview with Google coming up. Anybody here have experience interviewing with them and what type of questions they tend to focus on? Is it more so the fundamentals of front-end (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript) or algos. and data structures?

Thanks!
The ability to write (2, "hello") instead of Tuple.Create(2, "Hello"). But more importantly, syntax for deconstructing tuples will make tuples convenient for returning multiple values from a method. Eg.:
(var x, var y) = getPoint();
as shown in the aticle.
This was way before my time, but I was still aware of it as an Adams' fan
This is a definite. Traffic always increases sales of a product if the traffic is focused. Evidence suggests this since people shell out significant sums of money for Adwords for specific keyword terms.

As an anecdotal example I used $100 Adwords voucher to drive traffic to my movie torrent meta-search engine https://moviemagnet.net on specific keywords: 'movie torrents', 'torrents', and 'movie downloads'. The most successful visitors by bounce rate and time on the site was for the most focused keyword, 'movie torrents' by a significant margin.

I'd love to see some white papers on the affiliation between sales and focused marketing to tech-savvy consumers, not just casual internet users.
I thought I'd addressed that with "Likewise by the time you're scrounging around looking for technical cofounders, you're at meetups and startup weekends, and most capable technical folks never end up going to those".

I'm not at all saying everyone who is at every networking even is a total loser. Far from it. I've met some interesting folks at events over the years (cofounder dating, meetups, startup weekends, etc). But I also tend to meet a disproportionate number of "idea folks" who try to push NDAs before telling you about their next "big idea".

And on the tech side, there's usually a few tech god/wizard folks who can literally do almost anything with a few keystrokes, and other people who are just getting started, have a lynda.com or treehouse account, and want to hack away. It's not necessarily a bad attitude to have, but usually the skills aren't enough to execute enough to get traction.

I'm sometimes surprised at how far people get with so little, and those are the people I tend to want to work with or help out in some way - regardless of the industry/work/project. I like working with people who can get stuff done. It's just harder to do that at many networking events, because the people who are 'getting stuff done' usually don't have time for those events because they're getting stuff done.

Couldn't tell if you meant "horrible attitude" at me directly because of the comment or what.??
If the government was chosen by the people (as is in the case of Turkey), it is the nation's choice. Otherwise, there is little indication that the people of the nation choose different.

And it is not a political decision as the verdict came from the courts.
Probably about a year ago. But I was only checking the internet about 3 hours per week total back then. Now I can't get away from it.
This is the basic idea of a branding campaign. Lexus buys ads on the web where their target demographic hangs out just so people get used to seeing the logo next to things they enjoy. They don't really expect anyone to click on the banner let alone click on the banner and immediately buy a car.
I can recommend it. Downside is that you don't get C#. Upside is that you do get the engine source that you may freely modify, C++ and the surprisingly easy and powerful Blueprint.

If you insist on a scripting language I've heard there's adequate third party LUA integration now too.

It's so cheap, you can't afford not to at least give it a whirl to make up your mind yourself.
Having worked with attorneys (including some at the DOJ), I would advise you not to overestimate their understanding of technical concepts.
Usually it's an editor, not the author, who picks headlines. Some sites even A/B test their headlines to see which gets more clicks.
... to publicly review the case.
CREATE TABLE tbl_name (column_list)
[[DEFAULT] CHARACTER SET charset_name]
[COLLATE collation_name]]

Character set is specified separately from collation. It's like having a ford vs a ford headlight. The collation is a part of the character set.
His biggest mistake was not ending up in US. Russia has never (at least that we publicly know) assassinated anyone in US, or US in Russia for that matter.

From an evil dictator point view killing defectors in horrible ways does make sense. It is also imperative that everyone knows who did it but hopefully without there being a clear way of factually proving it.

This wasn't just simple revenge this was a message to other agents who might have thoughts about defecting.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8955663
Why is there no SaaS asset management service?
I'm looking to manage application software on about 50 Windows PCs to ensure that we have bought all the licenses we need.

Almost every company in the space has a 100 or 500 seat minimum. I've looked at Dell Kace, Express Metrics, Scalable, Snow Software, TrackIt, iQuate, and Front Range. All of these sites include Products, Services, and Partners in the top-level navigation but never Pricing.

All I want is a link to an installer I can get every person in the company to run, and then a web-based dashboard where I can see what they have installed. Remote install and uninstall would be great but is not essential. I want to be billed a small amount per user per month (a buck or two?).

I'd forgotten how much I hate enterprise software. Hasn't anyone come along to disrupt this space?
The Shadow Internet That's 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber (2014)