skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a year into the fountain pen habit, and have an absurd collection at this point.

My daily carry is a Pilot Vanishing Point (EF or a custom-ground 0.6mm italic) and a Sailor Sapporo Mini (hard fine). Those are about $175 and $200 retail, respectively.

Note that I didn't pay anywhere near that, as I've been buying, trading, repairing, and selling pens since shortly after I started. In total, I'm slightly in the black at the moment.

I recommend Reddit's /r/fountainpens - there is an IRC server listed in the sidebar, and it's surprisingly active.
My main problem is with the title of the story. Ideas are not cheap. Bad ideas are cheap. Good ideas that are obvious have probably been acted on by thousands already. Therefore only the non-obvious ones are left and you will only be able to find them by exhaustive searching through many bad ideas.

Most of the people here are probably more interested in startup ideas and not story ideas.

And you can not just rattle off 100 random ideas every day and expect that they will become better over time. In order to train yourself to make better ideas that way, you need to actually make a business out of each idea and see if it worked. And given the huge cost of starting a business, you cannot train yourself to make better business ideas this way.
Most people tend not to write enough to make it a worthwhile skill to maintain.
The two ways these "media people" on YouTube get money are exactly the same two ways that most "tech sector" people get money -- advertising or direct payment. In this case, the customer gets to choose which they prefer. What you're suggesting is exactly equivalent to software piracy or unauthorized access to computer services.
I have yet to find diagramming software that lets me express myself faster than a couple of quick doodles on a piece of paper.

I find myself loathing to explain something with a "simple" chart that can take 5 minutes to draw by hand but far more on a computer.
Well if someone breaks into my home I want to send surveillance video to the police immediately so they can be looking for the perps.
The Pilot Kakuno is about the same price.
The cost of an SoC is almost insensitive to the size of the CPU core. Only RAM and Flash matter.

I'm not joking, here's an STM32F103VGT6 (Arm Cortex M3--not even an A-series which you normally use to run Linux).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:STM32F103VGT6-HD.jpg

Note that this is a little flash heavy (1MB) but pretty mainstream with RAM (96KB).

The RAM and flash absolutely DWARF the core. You could double the size of the core (32 to 64 bit), and that would still be true.

The writing is on the wall for 32-bit on anything running a "real" operating system.
I bought a copy of Write Now! and it improved my handwriting considerably. After going through it (it's essentially a workbook) I was kind of pissed at the absurdity that was the cursive that I learned in grade school.
This seems like an equally propaganda-laden piece intended to influence Western attitudes towards the Russian government.

Anecdotally, I was in Russia about a year ago and did not sense any resentment towards my Western-ness.
I founded a startup with my wife 4 years ago. We're now at Series B from top tier investors (Sequoia, Lightspeed) and it has never been an issue for us. I think the fact that we complemented each other so well was actually a plus.

I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. We actually worried about it quite a bit so I understand got concerns.
There is definitely an opportunity here. Several things you will need to consider:

1. Documented chain of custody for the evidence. For it to hold up in court everybody that touches any evidence must be logged.

2. There is a process that police departments utilize when handling computer data in terms of photos or videos. Most big cities and states have large computer forensics departments that handle this type of evidence specifically. To hold up in court, they need to be able to prove the data is not only real, but original and unaltered.

3. There should be a way to verify the photo/video belongs to the crime being investigated. For example, let's say several homes are broken into in my neighborhood. I have a home surveillance system, but really dislike my one neighbor. I decide to take a few stills from my home surveillance system of my neighbor walking by my yard, and submit them as potential evidence in the case.

4. I realize this is early on, but as the site stands now, I would never submit anything through it. How do I know I can trust the site, how do I know my evidence got to the detective investigating the case. As law enforcement (which I am not) how do I know the data is secure, how do I know it is real, etc...

Like I said, there is a good opportunity here. But there is also a ton of case law that makes implementing what would appear to be a simple solution much more difficult.
Docker and the PID 1 zombie reaping problem
This isn't unique to Russia.

Anyone who was in the US around 2003 will know how warped people there were when the war in Iraq was starting: https://youtu.be/DJ3RrqBqk14?t=3m34s

The same is true for just about every country, the UK when you start mentioning every genocide and famine they started (there were a rather lot of them), the French when you mention how much they screwed up Africa and Indochina, the Turks when you mention the Armenian genocide, etc.

Hopefully we will use the clear example of another country slowly going insane to stop the same thing happening here. But somehow I doubt it, because we are special.
Do you think uploading straight to a department's S3 bucket would address any of the audit/security concerns? http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UsingHTTPPOST... I'm looking into https://aws.amazon.com/cloudtrail/
What an awful article. "colleges doing such a rotten job of teaching them skills."? right, this is why Google and Facebook nick those with a Computer Science degree and pay them bucket loads of money. Try getting into those companies without a degree lol

The author goes on complaining that iPhone and Android development is missing in computer science departments. Right, problems are solved using an app rolls eyes. Computer Science is "Foundations". Language and Tools change daily but foundations rarely.. think algorithms, data structures etc.. this is what these degrees teach and how to apply them to solve problems. Yes it's fkin hard and takes years of practice to be good at it. But this is what makes Computer Science/Engineering majors a hot commodity!
Ask HN: How do you define the word “protocol”?
I an having trouble finding a definition for this word, which is super weird, as it is ubiquitous. Some have ranged from "procedure to call subprogram" to the broad "a system of communication".

How would you describe what a protocol is to someone not in the industry?

I know what a protocol is, but I want to know if there is a set of requirements or commonalities between all protocols and what are the "requirements".
I like luculent, it's quite thin and you can stuff lots of texts in a small terminal, very useful if your laptop is small, and underscore is also thick.
I think the CompSci folks that are dissatisfied with their employer and are comfortable with their skills are already doing stuff on the side. Today, sharpening your skills & earning extra $$$ through side projects is a no brainer. The wealth of online how-to articles and distribution channels has lowered the barriers to entry.

Of course if one is well looked after their employer financially and personally then there is really no need to do this. Makes you wonder why so many people out there are dissatisfied with their employers eh ;-)
I'm new - and there are about a half dozen people I know there that have been playing for less than six months.
http://mherman.org/blog/2015/07/02/handling-user-authenticat...
BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade
So now I have to find out how to disable WebRTC or just STUN to avoid my true public ip address leaking (while on VPN).
http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/ apparently covers all of the above.
>Easy fix: make half the team women, the other half men.

not easy fix. because sexual competition knows no bounds. If I want my genes to have the best chances of seeding mars, I best get more than 1 mate. Therefore so long as there is a chance of procreating there will be tensions/competition.

IMO the "easy" fix is to remove the possibility of sexual competition via castration of the whole crew. Easy, but no one would want to do it.
What do you mean by "an email template for my CV?"
This makes me kind of sad. I hope he is able to stop partying and use his money, influence, skills, and talent toward the development of another revolutionary game.

On the other hand... Notch if you're listening, please invite me to your next party - sounds amazing!
I've an epson wifi printer and every time it gets a different ip windows can't find it anymore.

I used to have it on a dns reserved ip but damned new telco router doesn't have that option since I upgrades to fiber.

Every time the epson setup wants to restart the whole computer to start the detection and it is so annoying, I just let any other airprint device do the thing.
I was amazed that Facebook succeeded. I thought Myspace had the college student market covered.
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Define clean login? I'm not aware of such a spec.

In fact, the author of the change, Lennart Poettering, says nothing about wanting to have a login, much less a 'clean' one. They have login functionality already. He only mentions that the way su provides the user a shell as the super-user is 'very unclear' and 'weakly defined', and thus the tool has a 'broken concept'.

The reason this was even written was a bug that systemd introduced. As i'm sure you're well aware, $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is an environment variable used by the XDG base directory specification to specify a directory that the user's applications can write state to, and is destroyed on termination of the session. The pam_systemd plugin apparently fails to do this because it tries to create a new session when they're already running in a session.

Oh hey, look. There's a PAM module that handles setting this variable, too. https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/raring/libpam-xdg-s...

As i'm also sure you're aware, 'su' is not intended to be a login program. That's what login is for. What Poettering was confused about is defined by the source code for su, in su-common.c of util-linux:

"Run a shell with the real and effective UID and GID and groups of USER, default `root'."

And that seems to be what 'su' does. Hmm.... yeah, this is definitely a very unclear and weakly defined concept. I can see now why Poettering had to implement a new tool for systemd to fix a bug with pamd_systemd not being able to create a session, and the user not knowing how to use the xdg-support pam plugin. Stupid UNIX!

As to another user's comment about how 'su' works: if you use it without the login-simulation feature, it only changes HOME and SHELL (and USER and LOGNAME if not becoming superuser). With login-simulation, it changes HOME, SHELL, USER, LOGNAME, PATH, leaves TERM alone, and deletes all other environment variables.

This is seen as a bug, which I can understand, if you're running 'su' in a complicated new system with new features which need special care to support. In such a case one would normally patch the application to include support and not reinvent the wheel, but that requires working with other people, which isn't really systemd's strong suit.
I am not sure learning how to read cursive is very hard and teaching that may still be a good thing to do. Learning how to write it seems the difficult part though considering most people who do not know how to write cursive can read it just fine.

Note: Some cursive is much easier to read than others
According to his Google plus profile, Slava pestov is now at apple. https://plus.google.com/+SlavaPestov/about
Factor replaced lisp for me as my language on a pedestal. Still autohotkey + c++ for getting stuff done on windows...
Even if local "hidden" variables are ruled out. Local obfuscated variables are not. Ie. reality is a morphism of what is a physical construction way more complex than our physical perceptions. Anyhow, great article, thanks.
Health Buzz: Why Worrywarts and Over-Thinkers Are More Creative
The softwear that changes all the rules
> A restaurant that kicks you out after 800 calories.

That strikes me as being a rather brilliant idea actually. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone made a ton of money from that one.
Sorry, got busy just after posting. Here's a GitHub issue: https://github.com/Polytonic/Glitter/issues/8
I would love to echo that point. Living in SF is depressing because you're stuck with a hard choice:

1. Live in a nice place
or
2. Have money to do things in your free time

If you choose 1. you sit in your nice home alone and bored
if you choose 2. you have to either have the mental fortitude to deal with cramped quarters, loud smelly neighbors, the tenderloin, OR ride the train for 2-3 hours daily (live in the surrounding area).

Maybe live in portland? Seemed like a nice healthy place, albeit the weather may exacerbate your conditions.
Example:

https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Code+Pro

Ew.
Due to the way the theme is configured, I had to set it to that resolution to get everything at the right ratio. Even if you manually resized it to 1/5th of the original size, the aliasing would still not be present.

I've tried using the Cairo package in R with ggplot2 before on Windows, atleast. It's better, but not perfect.

EDIT: I am wrong; see comment reply to other parent.
What Son Goku Teaches Us About Crowdfunding
The existence of government surveillance can't be disproven by a scientist in a lab with some test subjects. EHS has repeatedly been found to be the result of the nocebo effect.

Attempting to discourage views that have been repeatedly invalidated by science is clearly more reasonable than shunning every untestable (or difficult to test) but plausible supposition.
So if we check miod's closet, would we not find current being kept alive on a next68k?
Since BBC decided to talk about propaganda, I will call them out on their own coverage of civilian deaths from the war in Eastern Ukraine.

When civilians were killed in Kiev controlled areas BBC described their deaths as result of rebel activity. When however civilians were killed in rebel controlled areas, they were described as having died from shelling without perpetrators being accused but the fact that it was a rebel area highlighted. A lot more people fall into the second category than the first. Even in straight forward cases of deaths resulting from air strikes against cities, BBC did not assign blame to the government.

It was so bad, I have been tempted to go over every BBC story about the war in Eastern Ukraine and analyze for the language it used to discuss the causes of civilian casualties. Maybe I will.

EDIT: It appears I am not the only one to have noticed this particular bias of BBC. Alan Dix, a professor at Birmingham University, goes at length with examples about this issue at the BBC[1].

[1] http://alandix.com/blog/2015/02/13/lies-damned-lies-and-the-...
This Is Not a Monad Tutorial
For a context: I am a native Russian speaker, I read "Eugene Onegin" in original and in Charles Johnston's translation, which was done more than 10 years after the article was written. I have not read Nabokov's or Arndt's translation, apart from the fragments in the article, but from what I understand, Johnston's translation is closer in spirit to Arndt's, trying to preserve Pushkin's iambic stanzas, sacrificing precise literal meaning here and there.

From this limited experience I have to say that I very much prefer Johnston's (or - supposedly - Arndt's) translation to Nabokov's. It is very close to the original and - most of the time - precise _enough_, and it recreates this unbelievable feeling of the "flying" verse one experiences reading Pushkin in Russian.

To get a feeling what I am talking about, try to read aloud few verses from Johnston's translation

http://lib.ru/LITRA/PUSHKIN/ENGLISH/onegin_j.txt

Side note: I also enjoy poetry in English, in particular William Blake, Robert Burns, John Keats, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson; but it took me a while to get accustomed to an approximate rhyming as opposed to the perfect rhyming that was used almost exclusively in classical Russian poetry, including Pushkin. Johnston's translation follows that too.
Given the fact that it is extremely easy to conjure ideas out of thin air, the better way would be to look for executable solutions to valuable problems.
I think you may still run into some issues, but to be honest, if you are looking to make a business out of this, I would find and talk extensively to law enforcement and/or the state's attorney office in your area. I am neither. I did work for several years alongside law enforcement and have been to more crime scenes than I care to recount. I know from that experience that even what appears to be the simplest of tasks involved heavy documentation, logging, and chain of custody procedures. For data, such as photos and videos, they must eliminate or significantly reduce any chances of a file's metadata being altered. A good defense attorney simply has to put doubt in a jury's mind. They can do that by showing the video/photo could have come from a different date, a different location, etc...

I think it may be easier to refer to more as a crime tip submission site. However, with that approach you are competing with Crimestoppers which already accepts photos and videos from tipsters. Again, IANAL, but I believe those submissions fall into something similar to a polygraph. Where if you submit a photo/video to the site, the police can use it to build a case, but cannot use it in court.

Depending on where you are located, I do know a few crime scene investigators and computer forensic investigators that I may be able to put you in contact with and who could better answer your questions.

See:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/lab/forensic-science-communicat...
This article hits the nail on the head, but twice-a-day is extreme and not realistic for my position leading a development team. I found the mute button & fiddling with notification settings to be the middle ground. I do the same as you, turned off the red dot for all but mentions and it took away so much anxiety. I check in whenever I have time or take a break from programming. It's a nice balance.
My grandmother forced my left handed mother to do everything with her right hand, including write. Now she writes with either hand :)
I find it interesting that people complain about Haskell's monadic IO, and yet nodejs event-driven IO is arguably the same idea but without the syntactic sugar.
Quake (actually Quake III) is still alive today in the form of http://quakelive.com which is free-to-play.

I think the time is ripe for Arena FPS to make a return to the mainstream (with updated graphics). Toxikk which is still Early-access seems very promising in this regard (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B28oQvaL7Mg).
My wife gets a migraine within about 5 minutes of having any non-organic dairy products. We don't know if it's growth hormones, anti-biotics or what, but it is 100% reproducible. Same thing with non-organic corn, onions, green beans and others. So maybe not a net plus for most of us, but a huge difference for her.
Can’t you just export a vector file and then let whatever other renderer (e.g. a browser) handle the antialiasing?

Edit: I don’t think I understand your complaint. The graphics in the original article are antialiased. Are you just saying their antialiasing algorithm isn’t as good?

Here’s what your version (on the left) looks like when rescaled (using Preview on OS X to rescale) to about the same size as theirs; the two seem roughly comparable:
http://i.imgur.com/LWCeAPj.png

(I think the reason for the difference in apparent line/font weight in my picture there is that Preview properly downscales in a linear (not gamma-encoded) color space, whereas most vector antialiasing/rasterizing algorithms, including both Quartz and Cairo AFAIK, work in a gamma-encoded space). If you had generated the image at the same original size, I suspect it would look extremely similar to the one in the blog post.
I would really like to see an auto-reply feature similar to email out-of-office. Something you can set like "Back in 20 mins", "Coding until 4, PM if urgent only". Would mute the notifications maintaining your productivity, and your peers would still be in the loop instead of being ignored. Does anyone know if this can be done with a bot?
"If the chips enforce this" -- at this point, you're talking about hardware that is only really usable in one country. Yes, the US market is large and important, but it's not the only one.

This is why things are done in firmware, so the factory can configure particular runs of boards for legal sale in whatever country they're attempting to manufacture to sell in that day. Now, for the sake of it being cheaper, many devices may have just one big firmware blob: this is more common in devices like wifi routers than other things (e.g. cell phones).

I am a researcher in RF-related technology: my personal views are that the radio firmware should be kept separate from the rest of the software running on the device (fairly similar to what many phones do with a separate baseband), with the ability to upgrade the radio bits being restricted to a) the manufacturer and b) users that the FCC has approved to make such modifications -- this would provide a sane way to certify groups who can make these changes, both for research purposes and for the OEMs that are integrating the RF capabilities into some larger consumer device.

In addition, there's many times where we've purchased hardware and performed modifications in-house to the control software, specifically because we DO have a license from the FCC to do things outside of what would be allowed for normal consumers. Forcing special hardware runs for things that aren't locked down and can be used by the couple hundred groups (if that) in the country who do this sort of thing is going to be even more prohibitively expensive.

Finally, I'm extremely aware of the thought processes that would lead manufacturers to lock everything down if they're forced to lock anything down, and this could be mostly worked around by making the manufacturer of the RF hardware (who typically isn't the company selling you a device) responsible for those protections. They won't have any desire or ability to touch the other parts of a device, so they won't really be technically able to lock them down in the best case scenario. This gives a lot of freedom for the higher-level software to be kept in a state where it's easy for users to modify.
I think your analogy is pretty good. I usually have a few loose g2s with me in case I run out of fountain pen ink in class. I find that gel pens sometimes make globs of ink, and that the lines aren't as nice as my FPs, but the writing experience is similar.

I do like the solid weight and feel of my fountain pens though, which is often lacking in rollerballs. The weight of the pen is the only thing that holds it against the paper the way I write, so light pens can be annoying.
I just use my finger on my tablet. The app recognizes my skewed lines and transforms them into regular forms and connections. Then I can easily export to SVG and finish it up on the computer.
http://www.skynnykitchen.com/ is the execution I know of in this space. There's actually a lot of movement in the gimmicky restaurant space (there's successful franchises that are ONLY cupcakes, ONLY grilled cheese or ONLY milkshakes - it's totally absurd). LA's restaurant culture could have been written by Dr Seuss.
I also know how to read Old Church Slavonic, but I'm not going insist that people learn it to read old Slavic documents...
Indeed, many times how you understand a comment says more about you than the writer.
More astroturfing from Comcast/time warner, et al?