skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got a rejection for our project http://preply.com/en/
We reached break-even point, have impressive revenue stream, excellent cofounders. Probably, our current focus on local(Eastern-European) market which generates revenue for us was the main problem. Will keep going!
Yes, it will be ported to html. But this would need much time to finish.

There are mobile versions for this game, so you can try it on your phone: http://www.tapirgames.com/App/Rectangle-Pushers
One issue is that HTTPS is one more thing to manage (no, it's not a complex thing to manage, but it is something). It's too easy for certificates to expire; it's psychologically irksome to pay the CA tax. I've seen many, many SSL expirations over the course of my career; far more than there should be, of course. Somehow we've ended up with a business culture which can track the number of left-handed albino Eskimos in middle management positions, but can't track certificate expiration dates.

I don't know off the top of my head if it's possible to package two certs into one, so that one could have a certificate signed by one's own trusted root for one's own API client to trust, and a certificates signed by a CA for web browsers to trust, but that might make folks feel better about using it for an API endpoint: the own-trusted-root might have a different expiration period (risky), or an automatic renewal, or whatever. At the least it'd be self-managed to the point that the technical staff could handle it, rather than having to work through purchasing.
The world will move away from oil when the alternatives are more economical. Any other conclusion is magical thinking.
The thing that I don't understand about the way Agile development is treated is that it is often treated like a silver bullet. As the article points out agile has use cases where it is effective but many treat it as a "Waterfall Killer".
Had a good time trying it out. While it's still in early stages, I can't wait for when it's adopted more widely. However, like vdaniuk, I wish there was more information given.
One of the interesting things to me is what we do when a commodity switches from scarcity to abundance.

In particular, when I was a kid a big problem for me was information scarcity. I remember reading the cereal box over and over because it was the only thing to read at breakfast. I read everything in the newspaper because that's what I had. Library trips were a big deal.

Now, though, I have an elaborate series of tricks for managing information abundance. Inbox zero. Browser tab zero. Instapaper, Pinboard, Amazon wishlist, Netflix queue. And Leechblock, beloved Leechblock. I have two laptops, work and fun, and the main difference is that on the work one I can't access certain sorts of information.

What will be especially interesting to me is to see how kids who are growing up now end up handling this stuff. I expect they'll be much better than me at this.
we got it near 23PM on the 10th. Applied on a last day.
This article cements in my mind the issue: devs tend to take away from agile what they expect to find, rather than taking the time to understand the motivations and whole scope of activities.

Historically, most software development methodologies are excessively top-down, so people somehow still expect that from agile. Most devs are the sort that couldn't stand doing group projects in school, so the idea of organizing with teammates to produce something bigger and better than I could on my own is totally foreign.

If you don't explicitly name your development methodology, you still have one: you're practicing something called ad-hoc development. Unless you and your entire team are superheroes, there's an awful lot of knowledge being leaked away.

Here's the secret: software development isn't really about making computers work, it's about organizing knowledge. If your process focuses more on making the computers work than your institutional knowledge you're making a critical mistake.

Don't confuse some company's crappy engineering practices for agile just because they call them that. Stand ups are short. Period. If it feels like a "permanent PIP" your team could use some improvement. If it feels like a surveillance state it's probably not a very good implementation of agile.

Agile development is about making connections to your team members: individuals and interactions over process and tools. It sounds like the author's experience (as well as many other devs') is unfortunately in an organization that doesn't pay heed to that very first, most important agile principle.
Remove any feature, process or effort that does not directly contribute to the learning you seek.

This is a pretty darn good insight. The only "hard" part is to always be sure you know what you seek
Why not have both?

I find Intrepid Ibex, Gutsy Gibbon, Feisty Fawn, Hardy Heron, etc. to be quite sortable.
The first step would be to build a remotely-operated robot and have maids from cheaper places "telecommute".

Then I'm imagining the robots would slowly develop more semi-autonomy.

The challenge is to have the right VR on the other end so that the robot can be controlled intuitively.
In the case of SNI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication ) the attacker will see which virtual host you contacted (it's probably the same as the one seen in the DNS lookup).
Are you really making 10 year predictions? Do you believe in yourself?
The example was to show someone taking advantage of information asymmetry. You are now just arguing the analogy. Do you believe it is acceptable to take advantage of information asymmetry when getting goods or services from someone (including children)?
None of the other HN posts in the series were in all-CAPS. What gives?
The clicking of the physical page-turn buttons on my old Kindle Keyboard would keep my wife awake at night. No such problem with the pressure-sensitive buttons on my Voyage. I love the unit, despite the lame typography.
I'd love to see a comparison of front end tech and general quality of their html/css/js.
Usually companies like this can fail for a very long time. As long as someone is willing to pay, you can live with the slow development speed, the high number of bugs and the constant team changes.
It can do both, it's up to you.
Benchmarking Sins
Woah! I didn't know all my e-mails could use some gifs until now hahaha... Good job
The Social Media Megaphone Every Brand Forgets
This is probably a relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/932/

Campaign websites, especially at this point in the race, are as cheap and fast and possible. The tech that will win a presidency will be almost entirely behind the scenes--data collection, email segmenting, volunteer coordinating, etc.
Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system
Loved the film. Haven't read the book.
Alhayat.com hacked by yemen cyber army ( YCA )
alhayat.com hacked by yemen cyber army ( YCA )

YEMEN Cyber Army Hacked Al-Hayat pro-Saudi newspaper To Support Yemen Revolution
They Leave The Message to Saudi Dictators :
We Are Oppressed But Not Weak
We Are Waiting For You
Come With All Your Israeli and US Made Weapons!
The Message is Short But Clear : Prepare Your Hideaway
بکلمتین : جهزوا ملاجئکم

All Alhayat.com Users and Subscriber Leaked For Warning To all Pro-Saudi Or pan-Arabs
Accept Yemen Revolution and Join Us Against Your Dictators
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
http://pastebin.com/eKHDGgE6
http://paste.jabbim.cz/6800

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

http://www.reddit.com/r/hacked/comments/32ft98/alhayatcom_hacked_by_yemen_cyber_army/

Leaked information: http://www.quickleak.ir/xm6nMgPe

Mirrors:

http://zone-h.com/mirror/id/24038214
http://append-hc.com/mirror/id/145504
I agree. This felt like the first 25% of an essay, actually. Would love to read more from this author.
That is just profoundly wrong. In the 80s he stated that a country which was responsible for something like the Holocaust did not deserve to be re-unificated.
It seemed that he had his fair share of issues with his past, that is we he himself decided to come out with it.
Why I'm Not Sold on MongoDB
Seriously, if I need an external service for everything from text editing upward, why the heck would I even bother with this non-OS? Oh, right, I'm locked into it if I want to make native iOS apps and the like. That's really the only reason that remains.
Are there a "large number of people who think they prefer full justification"? Citation required. I think most people don't think about it.
While the colour is the main factor, the lux probably matters as well. Your article there specifically mentions eight lux, or twice the brightness of a night light. Would a faint light at four lux also have an affect? The articles don't seem clear.

I don't have a measurement handy for the lux on a kindle at the dimmest setting, nor can I find any details on if brighter lights have a more pronounced affect on melatonin suppression.

The thing is no matter what, this is still assuming that your preferred method of reading is the right one. Some people do not like the look of orange lights - personally I hate incandescents, and have been using CFLs and LEDs putting out white light for a long time now. Perhaps using said lighting directly inside the kindle looks particularly bad. Perhaps they assumed people want to stay awake while reading.

Making a design decision you don't agree with means they made a design decision you don't agree with - not that they don't care or are incompetent.
The bitter truth about long work hours. See the effects of overworking
All other alternatives are more economical when oil's externalities are priced in. Oil has been cheating, so can we fix that?
CVE assigned to a vulnerability in Boosted electricity-assisted skateboard
The term has been hijacked. It is useless. There is merit in the idea that it once encapsulated, but it has long since been co-opted to mean something almost completely the opposite of its original intention.
But that could happen by taxing the externalities of oil, ie. a carbon tax.
I think he's quoting (paraphrasing) a Saudi Arabian prince/king.
This would also raise prices on gas and petroleum products (such as lubricants, cosmetics, plastics) on Americans which probably isn't a good idea given the current state of affairs for the low and middle classes.
I've been in a lot of standups and that's never come up. (Yes, I know, the plural of anecdote is not data.)
Show HN: “Add a License Please” – GitHub Bot
> Carter put solar energy in the White House.

Carter put solar cells (PV) on the White House.
Reagan had them removed.

Obama recently installed them again, but it's a mere 10kW, IIRC.
The problem is that the market price of oil an coal don't reflect the long term costs of their use.

Renewable energy has all of its costs right up front. Fossil fuels have major deferred costs which allow the market to act without concern for the consequences.

Which is yet another reason that the market is dumb and should not be trusted with important decisions.
But this can be (and is) manipulated by government policy and social dynamics. The externalities of the fossil fuel energy binge are becoming increasingly impossible to ignore, which is depressing demand.
Many galleries in domes have the same property - if you ever go to a large concave concrete dam, you can use a similar phenomenon to talk to someone on the far side.
Computer people aren't known for doing things that are in their long-term self interest.
Marketing Your Tech Talent [video]
Why do you believe it is wrong?

Is this merely dueling anecdotes (plus vacri's accusation
of sexism, as if that were a real argument), or is there
actual data?

Because of the word "never"[0]. That means it is trivial to prove the statement to be false as I and others have plenty of examples that falsifies the statement.

[0]: M8 says: "some people claim that women never blame themselves" emphasis mine

Edit: And I didn't downvote any of you, someone who didn't care to say why did.
Show HN: Farmavore: Never wonder what you want to eat again; lunch delivered
Or just a robot arm with arbitrary dish-type manipulator to load & unload your dishwasher. Then it can take my usual pile-of-stuff on the countertop, and restack it nice and clean an hour later. Bonus if it can reach into my cupboards :)
Basecamp's revenue and efficiency is of course impressive, but I'm not sure a multiple like Atlassian's would apply. Investors could reasonably assume (or know, if they're privy to their plans) that Atlassian is planning to use those 1100 employees to go after a number of markets, whereas Basecamp has shown their preference for focus and managed growth.
Well, they've moved on a little. In 2009 their plan was to ask for compensation from countries like the US should their use of oil start to fall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/business/energy-environmen...
This is my first "work-from-home" job. Honestly, I don't see how I ever survived working in an office before this. Between massive gas expenditures, thousands of hours lost in commutes, and daily distractions, my productivity and happiness have increased 10-fold at least.

I can't go back to the office. I've been spoiled. :)
For the input word, generate all variants which are within edit distance of 2, generate their hashes, and check if any of those hashes are in the list of hashes generated from corpus.
10 Home Interior Twitter Channels to Follow
What exactly is wrong? Sure, he decided to come out with the truth about his past, but it was kind of late. I'm not sure I see the connection between my post and your reply.
Submitted late - still nothing here.
One thing about Agile that I don't see mentioned much is that it provides a way for bad managers to marginalize the effects of low performers among their groups, though at the expense of high performers.

Every company has "cowboy" programmers who break shit and ruin their coworkers' lives with massive 1am check-ins, and a lot Agile seems designed specifically to put up road blocks to prevent this from happening. Managers love it because it provides an escape from dealing with problem employees directly. Most of the vehemently anti-Agile people I've worked with were grossly overconfident in their abilities and difficult to work with, which I think supports this idea.

Unfortunately, the only way for this non-management technique to be effective is to do it dogmatically with no deviations (otherwise the cowboys will always have some excuse for why it shouldn't apply to them), and this is where things start pissing off the actual talent.
carbon tax - now!
All this adds another layer and increases latency and slows the site down.
That's not been true for a long time. The only "preferential creditor" in the UK now are employees, HMRC take their chances with all other debtors.
I think it's more aimed towards his tendency to go against the (left) mainstream of his day and start fights - he argued for a delayed or stopped reunification of West and East Germany, he often criticized people for not dealing with their Nazi past thoroughly enough (which bit him when he disclosed his own previously secret Nazi past just a few years ago), he always worked in politics (mostly supporting the SPD).

"Wenn es dann kracht,"

you can also translate as

"where there's a fight"

so there's a bit of a double-meaning here - "krachen" means that there's noise from his crushing nuts, but it can also mean that there's a conflict [1]

[1] http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/krachen "(umgangssprachlich für streiten)"
Although Peak Oil won't really happen if demand drops before we hit the supply peak. We might transition to renewables and eventually fusion and never actually experience the specific dynamic Peak Oil envisioned.
This matches my experience.

We recently brought on a couple of PM consultants who are deep into Agile as a methodology, and decided to give it a go -- it's been about six months now and productivity has basically ground to a halt as we spend more and more meeting time endlessly sorting tasks into different little arbitrary piles instead of actually making forward progress. It's made communication with the non-software part of the company much more difficult, because they keep getting hung up on the jargon; we have to slice up tasks arbitrarily to get them to fit into "sprints," which go out of date minutes after the morning standup when the first non-planned bug report lands. Sizing is frequently an exercise in post-facto book-cooking: 'How long will that bug take to fix?' is like asking 'How long is it going to take to answer 23 across in next Sunday's crossword puzzle?' It might be fifteen seconds, it might take all day; until I have a chance to look at the puzzle I'm just pulling numbers out of my ass. The short timeframes encourage everyone to twiddle around the edges of things instead of doing real feature development; the arbitrary milestones serve mostly to make everyone feel like they're constantly falling behind.

I've discussed this with a bunch of people. Everyone seems to agree that we're doing Agile wrong, but even the strongest proponents of the methodology seem to be in complete disagreement on what the "right" way to do it is, or how that would be an improvement over the way we were doing things before.

So yeah. Not a fan.
> Haven't we been moving away from oil for at least 40 years, since the U.S. oil crisis in the 1970's?

That crisis affected a bit more than just the U.S.
Watch This Guy Speak 9 Languages Like a Native
Easy options for this are plentiful.

[1] http://www.sikuli.org/
Even in Firefox, formatting looks broken.

We should add consistent rendering in a browser to the Rosetta tasks.
God, as in Jesus Christ, not in that "all roads lead to fulfillment" or "let us each follow our own path". Nothing worth having comes that way.

If you live according to a standard of truth with accountability on the inside, you will break out of that "hollowness". If you stay where you actions compromise your true values, because it's enjoyable or you don't believe you have accountability, you will stay "hollow" no matter your success or accomplishments.
Whether it's detrimental is unclear. Although there are exceptions, of course, it seems fair to say that, as a general rule, people with a lot of money tend to be better educated, more intelligent, and more hardworking than those with no money. Like I said, for them to have more access to speech has been true for the entirety of human history, and it hasn't been that bad.
And in our case the initial attempt was dropped on us with less than 2 week notice - it was also a radical restructuring of the site at the same time.
Frontiers of Computational Thinking: A SXSW Report
About the Python language
"permanent PIP" -- didn't got this part, can you explain?

that couldn't stand doing group projects in school

Hm, how did you found that about me? :-)
Hunting a JavaScript Heisenbug
It's absolutely ridiculous. And I don't get why this isn't upvoted more. There have been several much less serious cases been recently on the front page.

I guess HN voting is simply tilted all the way. (Note to myself: Need more fake accounts)
I don't believe it is acceptable for there to be information asymmetry in the first place. Arguing about what to do when it's there is about as fruitful as arguing about how hard you should be allowed to beat your slaves.
As an institutional trader with a CS & Geography background, I have been absolutely engrossed by this series, I even bought the authors book!
Right about the Kindle - still like my original with the keyboard best. All wrong about the Echo - best thing in my kitchen. Not sure where the connection to typography is. Bit of a whinger?
I was talking about 20 years ago, when spamming, like the domain-name extortion Erica was advocating, was restrained by norms of behavior that considered it antisocial. I don’t know enough about the private-violence extortion market to comment intelligently, but patent trolling isn’t competitive at all — except in very unusual circumstances, the extortion victims do not have the option of buying protection from you from a competing patent troll.
Yes, this! The graphical interaction is so much better than OSX and Linux IMO. But its not Unix, so everything is hard for developing.
> According to Wikipedia he never received any royalties for his mouse invention.

That's accurate. In recognition of his contributions Logitech Inc (the American branch) offered him and his institute space on their grounds.
"Productivity ground to a halt for six months"

My experience feels the same way. I am beginning to think Agile works for UI dev and small teams of inexperienced folks building relatively simple projects. If you have a large team building something complex, the constant meetings and tool updates destroy productivity. What's worse ... they destroy developer morale if you are actually a good dev IMHO.
Anybody else getting a Web Script Status 500 - Internal Error?
I suppose when you see this kind of thing so often it's possible for many people to become apathetic, conditioned to accept it; it becomes 'normal'.
Yeah, this nonsense isn't a problem of agile. It's a problem of people who don't know what they're doing, on both sides of the equation.

Which isn't to say that it's not a problem for agile -- it definitely is. I'd say that it's analogous to Gresham's law: when people can't tell the difference (until it's too late) bad "agile" drives out the good.
I'm assuming the author meant Performance Improvement Plan, which is business-speak for "we're going to fire you in a month."
hillaryclinton.com: Mail server: Gmail

Ironic given she's such an expert on running her own mail server...
Uruguayan anti-capitalist writer Eduardo Galeano dies at 74
Not quite. Carter's White House solar panels were thermal.

“a generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people; harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.”

During Reagan's administration, the panels were moved to Unity College in Maine where they heated water on the campus.
It needs to be more obvious than this... the average non-technical user isn't going to understand the ramifications of this verbage without training - even as minimal as that training may be.

- This app would like to transmit secured data over the internet.

- This app would like to transmit unsecured data over the internet. Transmitting unsecured data could result in it being intercepted by unauthorized third parties for unintended purposes such as monitoring or tracking of your communications or identity theft. This information could also be used to gain unauthorized access to your devices or accounts.

Of course, even if it is secured... it could still be used for such by anyone who can acquire the private key of the server, then you're pretty much hooped.

I guess ultimately, it just needs to warn the user that data is being communicated with the internet. It's probably being tracked and monitored by someone and probably not for the purpose the user intended. Use with caution.
Negotiating HTTP/2: ALPN and the TLS Handshake
...or just use steganography. Steganography in videos can be made to be invisible to the naked eye, and extremely robust - even to video compression. It's also difficult to detect, and even more difficult to remove/tamper with.

What the author of the article is proposing is actually a kind of steganography, albeit a rather crude one, and probably rather difficult to implement (since scene timings will be different for each episode, and you'll need to keep a separate log of exactly which timings correspond to each person you've distributed the file to), compared to running a video through a process that embeds a steganographically hidden id pattern at each keyframe.