skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kramden would be my suggestion if you are in North Carolina, USA:
http://kramden.org/donate-a-computer/
The use of RC4 is odd as it's fairly broken[1]. Misconfiguration?

[1] http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/03/attack-of-we...
You might check in with OpenBSD, they're always trying to do a lot with very little, but I don't see any items on their want page that match your servers (http://www.openbsd.org/want.html).
Fully agreed. That sounds like very bad behavior.
What year is that quote from?
I guess my argument is:

It's OK for the standard library to satisfice or even constrain flag parsing, because programs that need "complicated flag parsing" are better served by something more sophisticated than flags anyways. Super-awesome flag libraries just trick programmers into building bad UX.

A lot of programs would also be better off if they reduced the numbers of flags they had, and made the "value" of those flags more sophisticated. In other words: taking some of the weight off the flag parser.

Most programs aren't tcpdump. Most programs don't have a lot of flags. But most programs that do have a lot of flags would probably be better off with something other than flags as their command line idiom. "tar" springs to mind.

It's hard for me to look at my zshrc and see all the aliases with their -fNqC's and -avz's and think "this is a good command line user experience". Many of these flaggy CLI programs have terrible UX.

There's maybe a "Gettysburg Address In Powerpoint"-style satire to be done of, say, awk commands expressed entirely in flags.
"Terraced houses? In a place with high housing demand?"

What's wrong with terraced housing? It is more suitable for high-density developments than detached or semi-detached housing. A mixed development of houses and flats brings in a variety of different households and people. This makes a place much more attractive to live in than a place with only one type of dwelling. Well-planned terraced housing doesn't have to lead to sprawl.

In the UK, families with growing children have an aversion to flat living. It may be irrational, but this attitude hasn't changed in decades and is unlikely to change in the future.
The "improving trauma care" can't explain why there have been declines in categories of crime across the board,[1] or why murder rates spiked almost as steeply from the 50s to the 90s (while trauma care was also improving) as they declined afterwards.[2]

Vehicle theft rates are less than a fourth what they were in 1990. Burglary less than half. Aggravated assault is down 40%. Vandalism has been cut in half. Fraud is less than a fourth of what it was in 1995. Most notably, homicide rates track really closely with violent crime rates overall.[2]

You can say BJS is biased and collecting terrible stats, but this would have to be a new bias, since we're comparing their stats to earlier results. And they at least try to cross check trends across different methodologies, and publicize their methods for critics to scrutinize. Their approach would make it likely they'd notice some obvious trend (that would only affect death rates) that was skewing their stats.[3]

Also, other data sources seem to confirm their findings, including those from local police.[4]

It could be that many factors are conspiring to distort these statistics, each one covering for the other. The amount of other factors that would have to be messing with the statistics simultaneously though make the trauma care hypothesis seem a likely target for occam's razor.

Crime rates absolutely did fall. Every criminologist and even several economists are scrambling to solve the puzzle, and no one has definitively succeeded. It's a real trend driving everyone to study it, and there's no "gotcha" explanation for it, it's going to be a product of several complex factors.

[1] http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=datool&surl=/arrests/index.c...
[2] http://www.krusekronicle.com/kruse_kronicle/2012/12/a-histor...
[3] https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/about/crime_measures.html
[4] http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/crime_prevention/crime_sta...
I'm in California. Used computers are used to prop up open doors ;-)
Thing is that you can compress - flags as long as they don't take a argument.

Meaning that you can do things like ls -ltr to get ls in long format, time sorted and reversed.
It's a Unix GUI, not the Unix GUI.
Unix now refers to a family of operating systems -- not a single OS.

Thinking of Unix as a specific OS and a specific trademark in 2015 is just odd since the majority of people using various forms of Unix today were not even born when the distinction was even relevant.

And just as with other families, the peculiarities of a single member does not automatically apply to the entire family.
I don't think anyone involved in SRS can be taken seriously enough to be cited as an authority on anything. Yikes
Misconfiguration. All RC4 ciphersuites are explicitly forbidden by RFC, and considered a severe vuln by CVE. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7465
Texts (http://texts.io) is a WYSIWYM editor for Markdown.
Deploying Ruby on Rails applications with ansible
Reddit can't clean itself up, which is actually the primary reason why it's looking into alternative business models outside of advertising (Reddit TV, RedditMade, Reddit Coin), since advertisers may not be willing to sponsor a website with such material.

The fact that all of those models have failed miserably is a separate issue.
car talk - http://www.npr.org/podcasts/510208/car-talk

Stuff you missed in history - http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/

60 seconds science - http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/60-second-science/
Cause and Effect: The New Statistical Test Can Tease Them Apart
On the contrary, good satire is often founded upon deep insights.
War had this massive technological increase in violence from about 1850 to the lats 20th century. That explains pretty much it all to my satisfaction.

The thing that is missed by these critiques of Pinker seem to be that Determinist genetic theories, which caused much of the "Hemoclysm" held sway for a long time, really until the advent of DNA.So once a better tool came on line, the justification for the violence faded. Of course, this has been uneven; so we have Rwanda. To me that's sort of the exception that proves the rule. It's tribal and unmodern violence.

I think all that's required to see how far we've come it so read Kipling - especially "My Boy Jack". There's also a stage play and a "movie" of the stage play. The horror of the end implication of the Edwardian sense of manly military honor is brought into sharp relief.
I've gotten to to PennApps multiple times and the only hackathon I've ever won is a Codeday, so this scenario that you're constructing is blatantly false. I'm assuming they look for people that will attract big sponsors to their hackathon, and the idea makes a lot of sense. Hackathons can't expand indefinitely, and the idea of having some consistency still makes more sense to me than random selection, which leads to situations where you're not accepted to a single hackathon in an entire semester. Unless you have a better idea, perhaps you should not mock this one?
I'm actually super curious, how many computationally heavy science folks are writing code in Lisp? Seems much more elegant than, say, Matlab.
Great! It's working: http://git.io/hvlF
How long can this hack survive? :)
Naked *people! There are tons of sexual subreddits that have no women but whatever you like. Gay, trans, pony, dragon/car, your choice.
I was reminded of Freenet as well. The USK scheme for allowing content to be updated is rather clever.
> There are no doctors blogging about "10x doctors"

There are still 10x equivalents though. For instance, a PhD MD that chairs a department at a major hospital, publishes significant research, participates in NIH or similar organisations, and still sees patients is going to be a very different sort of professional than your local GP.

It's the notion that 10x applies only to NCLOC production that needs rethinking, so you're in the ballpark in that respect.
مشاهدة مباراة ريال مدريد وليفانتي
Rendering a SceneKit scene to video output
I wonder if they strategically waited to do this at SXSW, or if they just saw abuse reach a critical point.
XRI[1] was a nice effort to solve this issue.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_resource_identifier
How many digits of Pi do you really need to know?
The UK middle and upper classes are doing fine (although the castle development sector has slumped this century). The UK poor on the other hand, yes, they fail to extract enough welfare in order to keep up with the new middle class of landlords.
It's probably more practical to drop the pretense that this or any government 'regulation' is a sensible basis for a strong, free, and useful internet.
I find the white backgrounds in Material obnoxious. It's as if Google's designers work in well-lit offices and don't test this stuff in dark environments where a white background hurts to look at. Light backgrounds also waste power with AMOLED screens.

I can understand why Google wasn't inclined to include a full theme engine on Android and ask to app developers to support that, however it seems to me that having a system-wide light-mode and dark-mode would be a great feature for devices centered around mobility and therefore not always used in well-lit offices.
It is hard to quantify programmer productivity objectively, but most of us know subjectively when we are productive and when we are not and the difference that can make. If at my baseline I am 1x, at my peak productivity I can easily see myself being at 5-15x. (How this works and how to induce this boost is a separate discussion). I believe others experience what I am talking about. From here it isn't a far leap to think that another developer may just work at that pace naturally all the time.

I think this is the basis for the 10x developer mythos. Whether there is a great variation or Notch just recorded himself on days when he felt really productive (or the fact of recording himself made him productive) remains debatable.

Then again, I have seen my share of the 1/10x programmers, so it is possible that it is all relative. In either case, like you said, programming a computer is only a part of the job for most people. Gathering requirements, building a product, selling it, supporting it, marketing, all factor in. Otherwise, you might say that all a car mechanic ever does is change the oil.
That ignores the utility of license plates for closing crimes. E.g. there was a day when I was in elementary school, my siblings and I had been picked up by my father, and he was about to make a left turn at a T that was also the crossing of a very dangerous road, one manned by a professional crossing guard vs. the student ones for suburban roads. A jerk blew right through it, almost ran down the crossing guard who threw her stop sign at him (I think she may have hit his vehicle), and my father was perfectly placed to make a fast left turn and follow the guy long enough to get his license plate. And he was busted based on my father's report.

I don't see any way to square a RFID scheme with the need, or at least desire, to make such identifications.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9172111
We all have a super power or two (or none or, sometimes more than two ...).

Do you not think what you wrote is just liberal dogma? I think there probably are people with few things going for them. Possibly removed from you socially due to the various filters that act on our lives.
Ask HN: Help me choose the best offer (startup vs. spinoff)
Hello HN and happy Sunday,

I joined a startup two years ago as the very first non-founding engineer (right after the seed round of about 1.5M). I took a salary cut for a bit less than 2% of the company (ISOs with the usual 4 years vesting schedule). Now, two years later, I'm halfway through the vesting, we got a pretty big series A, and now my salary is market level-ish (170k) and I currently have about 1.2% of the company (after the A dilution). The last 409 valuation is around 40M.

Through recruiters (the serious kind) I got in touch with a Fortune 500 company who is building an internal spinoff, nice and interesting project. They offer me same salary and RSUs of the backing company for a floating value of 600-800k, with allocation over 3 years (30%,30%,40%).

I don't know what to do. I like my current company a lot, but I feel like this opportunity might be pretty good to put some eggs in another basket.

What would you do? Has something like this ever happened to you?
If they use either a proxy or a service like Cloudflare, they can get some of the benefits of SSL/TLS (like preventing MITM attacks at the last-mile such as this one), while still using Tumblr to host their blog.
Handwriting and Personality
My experience with agile/scrum is that it puts a more important bounding function on the product/biz side, where they place demands. The most effective scrum meetings I've seen have been where the biz side presents its desires, then the engineers give them actual level of effort, then the biz side decides _right then_ that they didn't care as much about this feature or that. That's an incredible improvement over documents whizzing this way and that, meetings, spreadsheets with LoE. Instead, just a quick meeting of minds.

"I want the blue button very, very badly."
"no problem. it will take three of us the entire scrum"
"my goodness, I didn't want it that much. Ok, punted."
Thanks for the link but the author, Ed Yong, http://edyong.flavors.me, is wrong.
That wasp has probably 10(0) 000's of tiny cells and is as big as some large single-cell creatures.
How to generate a double-precision floating-point number in [0, 1] uniformly
Justine Musk on Extreme Success
> And Mr Buffet's investment company has beaten wall street for decades.

Buffett himself says that you the average joe should invest in an index fund.
Pinker is wordy, no doubt. If we're down in the noise of "probability vs expectation" then it seems thin gruel indeed.
No doubt there are downsides, however moving around, or leaving parents' apartment is aparently quite difficult anyway with the astronomical rents in London.

Regarding the investors, I am not sure how a reasonable rent increase along the inflation rate would suck; the fundamental building, maintenance and operating costs should also move with inflation. I have a little real estate myself and when I bought, my financial plan did not rely on a crazy rent spike 10 years down the road.

The current low interest rates push so much investment into real estate, while space for construction is limited in many places. How would you fix this situation?
75% of alexa's top 1 million have RC4 enabled [1]. It will take a lot of evangelizing to finally get rid of it.

[1] https://securitypitfalls.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/february-2...
Building an Optimising Compiler for Dart (2014)
But which doctor will give you better care? And which doctor will save more lives, or improve them in a meaningful way? Those are different jobs. Is a security researcher more or less productive than a programmer on a team of 10?
2012: the full interview is here: http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-wit...

The complete quote:

Binstock: One thing about jazz aficionados is that they take deep pleasure in knowing the history of jazz.

Kay: Yes! Classical music is like that, too. But pop culture holds a disdain for history. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future — it's living in the present. I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. They have no idea where [their culture came from] — and the Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

Edit to add some context:

Kay: Go to a blog, go to any Wiki, and find one that's WYSIWYG like Microsoft Word is. Word was done in 1984. HyperCard was 1989. Find me Web pages that are even as good as HyperCard. The Web was done after that, but it was done by people who had no imagination. They were just trying to satisfy an immediate need. There's nothing wrong with that, except that when you have something like the Industrial Revolution squared, you wind up setting de facto standards — in this case, really bad de facto standards. Because what you definitely don't want in a Web browser is any features.
Based on my own experiences with /r/programming and /r/startups, HN is very reasoned, respectful, and lacking in fanaticism in comparison. I think a lot of that has to do with the expectations that the moderators have established and their enforcement thereof. Though I don't necessarily agree with the mostly invisible way in which they do, I've never ran a site this big, so I don't really have the background necessary to argue on what is most effective.

Yes, it's not perfect, but nothing is, and that's not a good enough reason to give up on trying.
More like the people who use it will not tolerate advertising beyond a certain point and they know it.
page 10 of the slides says:

> kill yourself now

That's totally inappropriate no matter how funny you think you are.
Pretty sure you only get Meerkat messages if you install the app or enter/comment-on the streams. That might reasonably be an 'opt-in', depending on the descriptions offered at each step.

I'm following a lot of people who've announced Meerkat streams, and I've watched a Meerkat stream via the web – but I've not received any unsolicited messages.
Vancouver may be underbuilding, but the point I am trying to make is that the amount you have to build to have a notable impact on price is probably a lot more than people think. I brought up Vancouver because I know that HN is very SF-oriented and there is extremely little development, and so people may be lured into thinking that's the only issue. In Vancouver I feel there's quite a bit of development, but the city faces the same issues. Similarly we see cities such as NYC and London where development is constant not being able to lower prices. It's not likely to be a problem that can be solved purely by the market providing supply. Supply is necessary but there are many other variables.

Houston's endless sprawl is not technically emulatable for many cities and the design of the city is undesirable to many. I'm not sure it's an example that people would choose to follow.
"Once we have the SHA1 name of a file we can safely request this file from any server and don’t need to bother with security."

I don't understand this statement. Dispensing with encryption makes the request and returned content susceptible to passive observation. Saying that this approach is resistant to active manipulation assumes the existence of some kind of web of trust between hashed documents. At some point you're going to have to click on a hash without knowing its provenance. How do you know you're not being phished?
I've seen this done in Cloud Foundry, for these reasons.

Objects with identity, like a buildpack, are given a UUID. That UUID is stable, but the hash changes on disk depending on the exact file uploaded (because you can replace buildpacks).

File paths include both UUID and hash.
If you like Song Exploder, a friend of mine and I started a music production podcast where we dissect one song each week that you might also like: http://songaweek.net/
but those 10x equivalents are specialized, and there's absolutely a place for your local GP. Whereas every company is falling over themselves to hire the 10x programmer.

A local GP is what you want for tracking your longitudinal health and being a personal interaction with the health care system for you. Not someone chairing a department & publishing research
Most places that has kept its code "up to date" seems to run on the 85 standard with some newer stuff that was added in 89. End-ifs and such wasn't part of the language until then. The companies that hasn't put that much love into their COBOL code usually runs some home brewed version of a earlier standard.
I think when most people talk about agile, or any specific instantiation of it, all they mean is "we're going to not-do-waterfall, and then intuit the rest, while attaching names from some methodology book to whatever results."
Try the apps out and use them for a while. You will soon know what is wrong.

But sometimes, it's just about timing and luck. As an example, articles on HN often get reposted. And the amount of up-votes they receive can vary a lot. Some times front news articles are re-posts from last month that didn't receive any up-votes.
Really? I ran archlinux for 6 years on a mac. At the beginning it was annoying to configure everything.. especially the non-standard stuff like the VPN in my university. But then, after a few years everything worked just fine out-of-the-box. The trickiest thing was to get the boot loader and the partition right. Sometimes hibernate was a bit tricky too, mostly because if you don't configure it right you need to restart the laptop, which is annoying. But other than that, it was totally fine.
> There are no doctors blogging about "10x doctors" for example.

Sure there are. Unlike programming where most of it is unique, and that stuff that's not is widely dismissed as "crud" (create update delete), with Dr's almost all of their work is routine.

Except when it's not, and when you have difficult cases you most DEFINITELY have 10x Dr's.

Have you never heard stories of patients going from Dr. to Dr. trying to figure out what's wrong with them, until they find that one genius Dr. who finally figures it out?

And regarding blogging, that's what the entire series of columns on NYT called "Think like a Doctor" is!
As much as Meerkat's spam tactics downgrade my level of sympathy, I still think this is pretty awful behavior on Twitter's part. The list of people I follow is, essentially, personal information about me and them, contributed by me. I shouldn't be prevented from accessing my own information with the app or service of my choice; it shouldn't be part of a corporate fiefdom.

Still waiting for the first attempt to test the legal waters on scraping Twitter.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=cause%20and%20effect%20test&so...
Quick Heal Total Security 2015 Crack and Product Key Download
Modern OpenGL: OpenGL from Zero to Hero (2014)
Why not? If I have $1 to invest, I can choose either and want to know which will give me a better return after X time. Should I go broad, or sector-specific? Which has more risk? Reward?
I haven't tried it yet, but there's this: http://scholarlymarkdown.com/
Or at least, on other peoples' subdomains.
Nice post.

Use of pure color in a graph makes me sad, though. This colorblind guy had to crack open a paint program and match up RGB values. A few dotted/dashed lines go a long way (and I suspect, for more than just colorblind folks, too).
Well, I listen to many podcasts already mentioned, but these two also deserve a strong recommendation:

* Startups For the Rest of Us - "The podcast that helps developers be awesome at launching software products" - http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/

One episode per week, like clockwork. Typically ~30 minutes long. Actionable stuff. Whenever I get a new episode of this podcast it instantly goes to top of listening queue. Also, I listen to it 1x speed, because I don't want to miss anything.

* This Developer's Life - "Stories About Developers and Their Lives" - http://thisdeveloperslife.com/

One episode per forever, extremely uneven schedule. Typically ~60 minutes long or so. Sort of This American Life, but - as you already figured out - with the developer angle.