skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an ad. I'll bite, though.

#1 The Internal Job: the real mistake was in having production credentials (i.e., the keys to the generators) inside the codebase. The keys should have been generated when the software was deployed. Hardcoded information should be kept to a minimum, or ideally eliminated altogether.

#2 Breaching the Version Control Process: there's not really enough information here to figure out the actual issue. Someone changed a version number, and that caused a bug to reappear? That sounds like #ifdefs or similar, where setting a version number can cause code to be included or excluded. Don't do that: tag your versions in your VCS, and eliminate dead code ruthlessly. If you really need to get it back, you can always use your VCS to restore a particular versions' code.

#3 Exposing from the Cloud: git's great; GitHub's great; not knowing to keep your repos private is…not so great. Also, pretty damned easy to avoid. Any private VCS would work here, to include git repos on a filesystem.

RhodeCode might be neat; it might not be. No doubt it could possibly provide for a lot of stuff out of the box. At the end of the day, though, you can't replace smart people executing well-designed processes with software; software is only good for replacing drones executing dumb processes.
Depends on what you're doing, I guess. Networking can be useful if success requires knowing/talking with other people. More generally, I've found more opportunities at events like this than I have anywhere else.

From a health perspective, it's also nice to get out and have some human contact once in a while. I do my best work when I'm not even at a computer.
I doubt you can put a price on what's a reasonable price to pay for 1 minute of time with a member of your family. Is asking someone from your family to go with you to the gas station to fill out the tank while you chat about your day a reasonable way to spend time together?

This market mentality doesn't (shouldn't?) apply to social relationships because it leads to stupid decisions (like to give your CC number to a stranger). Next thing you're weighting how much your family time is really worth vs. making another buck.
Empirically speaking, aid is almost completely useless[0], no matter who administers it. So whether he gives it all to the "appropriate organization" or "wastes" some of it on an aid trip is ultimately irrelevant.

[0] Easterly's book is great if you're interested in the stats: http://www.amazon.com/The-Elusive-Quest-Growth-Misadventures...
I was mostly lampooning the way you reduced an idea that is taken seriously enough to be a DOE research project to I'm aware of claims that uranium can be extracted from seawater.

I haven't tried to figure it out very carefully, but I imagine the cost estimates include production, deployment and collection of the harvester material, and that the degradation of the material is factored in (it wouldn't be all that surprising if the estimates treated it as disposable after 1 or few uses, because that is an easy way to make a conservative estimate).
What I find most amazing is when bright Ivy League graduates go and do manual labour, like building a school, in a poor country with massive unemployment. It's not exactly playing to comparative advantage.
I recognise Sanea's story from all the spam about it that I received. Searching in my inbox reveals 6 of them in lists mostly about programming languages.

I wonder if they're what inspired Nicholas Schmidle to write about this.
Felons barred from constructing Apple’s campus
This article has a few links but REALLY is lacking this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giving_What_We_Can https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/

And interesting bunch of people where you pledge to donate X% of your pre-tax income to charity for life.
The founder, Toby Ord capped his income to 18,000 British Pounds:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby_Ord
I've found networking events to be somewhat pointless unless there is someone attending the event who knows of you by reputation and wants to introduce you to other people. In other words, I've found it to be somewhat pointless to attend an event at which I know no one.

On the other hand, networking in the course of day-to-day work can be invaluable. I call this "making friends at work". I've gotten my last several jobs through friendships that have endured past the shared work environment.
​Apache Spark's success: Overhyped or preordained?
Networking definitely has real value. I see two main advantages. One, some of the people you meet can help you on the spot (i.e. they fill a need you presently had). Second, adding smart, talented people to your network raises the chance that when you next need someone to fill a role, or someone asks you if you do, you not only have someone, but you have someone good.

However, don't get carried away. The scene is huge and not every event is worth going to. In addition, going to events is only a compliment to the real work.
I keep my Model 100 handy at work, just in case:

http://www.realms.org/pics/IMG_20150406_080041.jpg
He's probably taking the tax deductions for the donations, so it's not the same as donating an additional 50% "from the remaining money" (as some of it comes out of what would have been taxes). I didn't see it explicitly one way or the other in the article, though, so he could be donating 50% while still paying taxes on the full 100%.
Most founders are doing fine from health perspective I think. But being a founder, my objective with these events would be to benefit my startup somehow. But except making contacts with other founders (who most likely will never be your customers) I have never seen any value sadly.
Thanks a lot for your comment! I truly appreciate it. Color coding is definitely on the list, but for glassdoor rating I have no clue how to pick it up. Thanks again for the tips and the support.
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One can criticizing people for taking the trips isn't the same as criticizing charities for offering them.
I wanted to play with new toys, so here's a little app that lets you build and synchronize a playlist with other people. Open the page in a few more tabs/computers for more fun. Thanks for playing :)

Limitations: It relies on HTML5 audio, so it probably only works well on Chrom{e,ium}, Firefox, Safari, Opera, etc. Content comes from YouTube, so Firefox might have trouble with AAC when WebM is unavailable. Mobile devices are remote control only.

http://jam.now.im/c/Hacker-News (hacker jam!)

http://jam.now.im/c/Hacker-News?mode=auto (play old stuff if there are no requests)

http://jam.now.im/c/Hacker-News?mode=rc (remote control only, with no audio)

Replace `Hacker-News` with your channel name.
I've found the best technical networking is done at the obscurer meetups, where the people are more into the tech than the money.
The money he earns has to come from somewhere - what benefits a hedge fund is not likely to benefit the 'disposable populations' [for lack of a better term] that one of the fund's traders is supporting.
In other words, if your hedge fund makes money by betting against the 3rd World, then half of your salary is only going to go so far for karmic rebalancing.
FSF, Apache, Python Software Foundation, Canonical, basically everyone who's serious about OSS requires a CLA.

The main exception I can think of is Debian. I'm not sure what the history is there or why their lawyers came to a different conclusion than everyone else.

(Disclaimer: I am the DataStax founder but I am not involved in the drivers team or their CLA.)
Somehow I thought this was going to be a walk-into-a-bar joke, like

An American banker, a Saudi billionaire, and a financial implosion walk into a bar. Bartender takes one look at the implosion and says "You suck. I'm not serving you." Banker says, "Don't worry, he'll be gone in a sec but we're regulars."
The problem is you never know who's the mediocre startup wannabe and who's the connection who's gonna help you score seed funding, a round investment, a big client or your much-needed-but-you-dont-know-it-yet pivot.

Sure, 99% people you meet will not help your startup grow - but you go out for these events for the 1% which. As a tip - it's crucial to __prepare__:

- Always check in advance who is attending
- Spot people who are relevant to what you're doing
- Actively take steps to meet those people and engage with them
- Come with an agenda - ask yourself "what is my end goal interacting with this person".

If you just randomly come to events unprepared you usually gain much less than if you prepare just 20 minutes in advance. I'm always baffled at how many people come unprepared and have no idea who attends the events they come to and why.
> The above guidelines do not apply if you are a member of a government and have obtained a warrant with respect to your laws.

One does not obtain a warrant and then write software in order to execute it, any more than police obtain warrants and then purchase their breaching equipment, firearms & so forth. Rather, one writes software which is used after obtaining a warrant.

And there are plenty of actions for which the government doesn't need to obtain a warrant (I might wish these were fewer, but oddly enough I am not a dictator and consequently cannot make my wishes law).
Just a quick comment. I noticed on the home page when playing with the form for calculating a quote. The total values at the bottom of the form don't display > 4 digits. At least not using Chrome.
As an introduction, here's an episode of Econtalk with the author: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/02/easterly_on_gro.htm...
Learning to program: 3 years later
Since he's in the financial business, I'm wondering why he isn't leveraging the effect of "money makes more money" before donating. Isn't it better to invest that money first, before donating it?

Take for example Bill Gates. If he had donated all his "surplus" money instead of building a business, he wouldn't have been able to donate the amount that he has; the amount wouldn't even be of the same order.
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That's not true. There are hundreds of thousands of different aid project, it would be miraculous if all were entirely ineffective. E.g. you'd have to be crazily skeptical to suggest that the programs recommended by GiveWell aren't of positive expected value; there's just so much evidence to the contrary. In terms of the link between aid and economic growth - aid is just such a small part of developing countries' economies that you simply can't peer through the statistical fog; it's such a weak signal, and there are so few data points ,that it's not surprising that we can't detect a correlation. A nice even handed discussion is given by Owen Barder of the Centre for Global Development: http://cf.owen.org/wp-content/uploads/Can-Aid-Work-Owen-Bard...
At the moment it's always 35% of the viewport (-56px of the header) leaving more space for the actual content. May I ask what is your screen resolution?

I really like it on iPad and generally in vertical form factor, but the 99.9% of users are pure ol' horizontal desktop..
Mysql-cli: MySQL client with auto-completion and syntax highlighting (kickstarter)
Ofcourse it has value. Meeting anyone has some value to it. But all these incubators encourage such networking events. I would honestly consider replacing them all with 'Go-make-your-product' event somehow. Wouldn't that be significantly more beneficial?
Dead Aid is also a great book on why Aid to Africa is usually in vain.

[1]http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Aid-Working-Better-Africa/dp/0374...
Uber kind of seemed over valued to me compared to the likes of SpaceX, DropBox etc. Is it really worth that much?
It wasn't, but you could have had multiple issuers of currency. Not that it ever got big enough to flex that part of the protocol.
You certainly could have chosen a path in life where you made a lot of money then donated it more efficiently. I know lots of developers who put hours into whatever games they enjoy. Leveling up that WoW character to level 70.

Most of us could be doing a lot more.
Frankly, I'd prefer less anonymization in my search results. It's always annoying to me when I type in some programming related but generic sounding query, and the first programming result is at the bottom of the page.

Google should know me better than that by now.
Per the admendment:

>Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime; whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

It clearly does not abolish slavery nor involuntary servitude but instead limits it to being the punishment for a crime.

I see people everywhere saying slavery was abolished as if the entire latter 80% of Section 1 did not exist. I see government resources saying the same.

Let me make it clear.

Slavery was not abolished. The 13th amendment made slavery constitutional (within a defined scope).
Yes exactly, I find dev meetups more interesting.
> They also want the public to understand the ethical issues surrounding the technique, which could be used to cure genetic diseases, but also to enhance qualities like beauty or intelligence. The latter is a path that many ethicists believe should never be taken.

In many ways we are already selecting for those traits and have been for countless generations, so assuming we had a well-understood and safe method for artificially selecting for them then there should be no ethical quandaries beyond "but, that's cheating!" There are no scorekeepers of the universe, nobody's going to give us karmic demerits for finding a shortcut. The only risks are scientific, like the obvious potential loss of diversity of the gene pool as we converge on certain universal traits.

From another perspective, what if we could identify genes which bring the value of a trait below the baseline? For example, imagine we could identify the gene which would cause someone's teeth to be so bad as to require braces to correct later in life, but it would still be a largely superficial genetic change largely related to "beauty". Should some people be made to suffer or "earn" straight teeth while others are born with it? Why should this be true of any traits?
Human beings are not absolutely focused, money-seeking, rational economic actors.
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maybe I am a bit odd, but a a lot of these seem really viable.

Servitude-As-A-Service seems particularly viable. We are in an economic state where indentured servitude sounds like a decent deal.
Every company that runs on AWS is dependent upon SAN (eg, EBS). I imagine it's similar for other cloud services.

Just because you've never seen one or had to deal with one directly does not mean you're not dependent on one.
I am the creator of the kickstarter. I'll be happy to answer any questions.

I created pgcli (http://pgcli.com) for Postgres a few months back.
Business Users Want Your API Too, Not Just Developers
Voluntary in the same way every mugging is voluntary.
There are some layout issues in latest Firefox: http://f.cl.ly/items/0G2V1T222i2T3w1O0V3N/Screen%20Shot%2020...
The fact that the EU considered Turkey was hypocritical, they've been occupying half of Cyprus for over 60 years now.

Sadly it no longer seems that there is much hope for Turkey, in the 90's and early 2000's they seemed to make so much progress but now they seem to be just fine with devolving and going completely away from the path that Ataturk set for them after the fall of the Ottoman empire.

What people seem to forget is that the majority of their population is very rural, uneducated and really in opposite with western and European values and their power base since the latest regime change just been growing, the "Islamist" opposition you speak off is not an opposition any more it's the ruling party.

They seem to be much more of a mix between Iran and Russia in their form of government than a the disorganized EU nation like Greece or Italy they were in the 90's and It's a shame.
Turkey could have offered a huge boost to the Eurozone they on a steady path to become one of the largest individual economies in the world.
This is a really tricky issue; there are lots of competing considerations either way. (e.g. the return you get from your money; but your donated money also generates a 'social return', which can be much higher than what you get in a bank. And you'll learn more about how to do good later on; but the world is also getting richer so there might be fewer outstanding opportunities in the future. Etc etc.) There's a summary of blogposts on the topic here: http://www.effective-altruism.com/ea/4e/giving_now_vs_later_...
Building a more relevant food recommendation system
A sneak peek at ApacheCon's Spark forum
Both tend to have diminishing returns when shooting in he dark.

Also, I prefer to meet new people through my existing network through intros and friend of friends rather than startup network events.
Vox Media acquires OpBandit
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This isn't theory, it is a concrete example of content creators who make content and make a living with absolutely zero advertisement. If you need yet another example, LWN ( http://lwn.net ) runs mostly on subscriptions, instead of ads (90% of their revenue is subscriptions).

People won't pay for bad/terrible content, that is the hard truth.
defunkt (https://github.com/defunkt), feross (https://github.com/feross), holman (https://github.com/holman), samaaron (https://github.com/samaaron), & indirect (https://github.com/indirect) among others all doing cool stuff (and are cool people).
this is going to change my life, thank you.
>What do you think about the right to a fair trial? Or the right to a speedy trial?

Those are limitations put on the use of power by government when dealing with justice, which not even close to being the same as thing as saying you a "human right" for that government to provide you with a service like internet access.
Positioning yourself as a freelancer
Git turns 10
Isn't this one listed in 86LIST04.LST?

That list is still easy to find via Google? I believe it is bundled with the Ralph Brown interrupt list.

What "doesn't feel right to me" is Google's treatment of Usenet archives.

It should still be possible to download these messages in their original plain text format, in bulk using only the internet... i.e., without using the www and all the cruft that comes with it.
> Meeting new people definitely has value and their ability as an entrepreneur is no measure of how useful they can be to your own business.

The problem is that people have different incentives. Some people want to build a great product, and some people want to get VC funding and sell for tons of money. Silicon Valley has taught me that these two incentives are surprisingly not aligned.

With the low barrier to entry for tech products and the millions of VC funding being thrown around, the amount of "wantrepreneurs" has been steadily increasing, and therefore it's reasonable to be cautious about networking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbMVj9XSUo (Running emacs in neovim)

This is pretty fun. It's using the new terminal emulator within Neovim which is mentioned in this newsletter.
Thank you for making a useful and relevant point.

I would, however, like to point out that the same reasoning probably does not apply to Chelsea Manning. She has already attracted more media attention than any website or twitter feed could possibly achieve. The media will intensely follow any "newsworthy" occurrence with her for the remainder of her life, and her jailers know that. Furthermore, the fact that there have been credible accusations of intentional violations of her human rights during the first several months of her captivity (and that the news media are aware of this) must be something that her current jailers are aware of.
This kind of environment bears no relation to the workforce. Further, a lot of people learned their programming skills in the classroom and then went on to succeed at work without any hackathons.
There is a "load loop" on Google Chrome 41.0.2272.118 while trying to save a blank note, besides that, this is a great ideia
Serious question: do they count government money as VC money? Haven't they received a considerable amount of money through NASA?
Pivotal Data Roadshow: A View from the Road
I talked about this on HN a few years ago, but my friends and I planned to be this guy. In college we talked about all the money we'd make and how much we'd be able to donate. We all had a job offers for $32 - 42k/year. That was amazing! We were living on less than $1k/month in college. We had plans to give away 20%, 30%, or 50% of our income. We would barely even notice. Some of us even managed to do it for a few years. The world got to us, though. You start to notice that the coworkers that dress nicer and go to happy hour get promotions. One guy married a social worker and had four kids. One guy got tired of living in a studio apartment in New Jersey. One guy became a junior high science teacher. Twenty years later, I suspect that our average charitable contribution is down to around 5% of our income.

It is really hard to be counter-cultural like Mr. Wage. Especially when your plan requires you to remain completely immersed in the culture. It feels like there's a constant friction to overcome--like every choice takes a bit more willpower than it should. I think this is part of the reason that truly counter-cultural people and movements tend to segregate themselves from the rest of the world.

I don't mean to degrade Mr. Wage and his project. I hope this works out for him, but it's a very difficult road.
Looks like University at Buffalo (USA). Maybe farther than you want to swim.
> In many ways we are already selecting for those traits and have been for countless generations, so assuming we had a well-understood and safe method for artificially selecting for them then there should be no ethical quandaries beyond "but, that's cheating!"

Or creating a permanent underclass from those who were unfortunate to have parents who couldn't or wouldn't give them the enhancements - and for that to carry forwards as jobs, and the wealth to advance your children, increasingly go to those who have been modified.

In effect, if you found something and it really worked, you might well lock a large portion of the population out of any realistic chance of meaningfully participating in the future.

(Though I suppose one might argue that this is the case now, with education and good environments going primarily to the wealthy. The difference would be in the degree to which the path was locked in.)
Not really true. For some reason it seems instinctual to take nude pictures once you pass a threshold of trust and competence with technology. In my experience, this is pretty common across political strata -- insofar as the gap exists, it's more of a generational thing, where older people are less likely to be comfortable with technology, and therefore don't trust it with anything they want to keep private (these same people are usually nervous about online banking, etc., too).
“Unacceptable TLS Certificate.” I see this error on a lot of websites posted as links on HN these days. It saddens me a bit that there are still http-only sites out there…
I have one 27" monitor that I could attach to my laptop, but right now it functions as a privacy screen from people walking by my office.

I'm just used to a 15" screen with multiple workspaces.

At home, my iMac has a second screen, but I can take it or leave it. I usually just keep a browser open on that one.
SpaceX is still (though I expect their success will create new markets) relatively niche. It's a very high-priced product (though lower than predecessors), but it's not like you and I are sending things into space just yet.

I'm curious why you think the market for Dropbox is larger than the market for Uber?
It isn't such a frictionless service though, you still need to find and hand off your keys and pass them off to whoever may be filling your tank and then do the same when receiving them. Which probably consumes all of 5 minutes on its own.