skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
clearly the likelihood of harm to the OP is significant, but what's also clear is that many others are at risk.
A frustrating dilemma indeed--a kind of damage caused through the fb platform, that presents the biggest risk to those without fb accounts, and the most obvious means of prevision is...to sign up for fb.

always enjoyed Mr Shaw's writing on technical subjects; deep practical wisdom, complete contempt for empty authority, and very dry humor--to wit (from the OP):
"Imagine if this person decided to start [p]osting offensive messages pretending to be me. [W]ell honestly I doubt this guy could do that better than me, but the point is, they could invent some form of slander that would ruin my book sales."
Airline passenger space wars are shifting to the human rights front
Show HN: Simple messaging solution for apps
It's just an example. I would never say anything is never a good idea... there just needs to be specific conditions that would require it.

Hypothetically simple scenario could be running WP as user management, and i18n translations, for a single page application.

For the most part, I can imagine a node.js application layer that simply interfaces with wordpress api in the back. WP can be upgraded as and when needed, and the frontend application isn't tied down by clumsy php templating. A separate api with oauth and token authorization could be layered on top for mobile applications.

This is looking towards making wp more open to developers in other ecosystems (an area which is considerably lacking other places like .Net. Umbraco? Sharepoint? ew)
In the acquisition space it's a common practice to get data valuations. I've seen individual customer records valued as high as $23 a record. Given the volume of customer data, even at the lowest possible, pennies on the dollar valuations it will easily exceed $5,000.
Google should penalize sites that do that exactly the way they are penalizing sites with banners telling visitors to get their app. If you want your content on the web and have the benefits of it being on the web (searchable, linkable, etc) put it on the web. If you want it "exclusively on Apple News", put it there. But you shouldn't get to have your cake and eat it too.
I do not see what is creepy about the whole page. Rather it is great art work I see.
I think there's almost no chance that the percentage of iOS users blocking ads is enough to meaningfully impact Wired's overall revenue from that story. Even given that ad blocking apps have been top sellers, it's still only available on iOS 9, which has been out less than a week. So surely revenue from all web users (without an ad blocker) outweigh the (presumably) tiny amount of ad revenue Wired will earn from Apple News. And even if all that were false, why would Wired alone give in so readily to what's basically bullying? It's just not a credible theory.

Way more likely is that Apple is paying them a nice chunk of cash for the exclusivity to help market their News app. Same thing they did with HBO Now for the Apple TV, and with various albums for the iTunes Store and Apple Music.
> it's still too dry and rubbery to fool anyone

"Dry and rubbery" is all the chicken I ever experienced until moving to the Bay Area and getting way more into food. At the top segment of the market sure, it's going to be many decades before people plow into a SynthSteak™ with the same verve that they would a dry-aged porterhouse. But I think you underestimate what many people are willing to put up with as their daily protein source.
Indexing Googles source code
This brings up the question of how chess engine size is related to playing ability. I couldn't find an online comparison, does one exist?

As a corollary, does anything similar exist for go? People trying to write the smallest go engine?
Additional fun fact: Publishers can't opt out of having their RSS feeds included in Apple News without signing up for an Apple ID. I wonder if that means Apple News will ignore robots.txt.
> There is a reason why the US creditscore system forces you to take on debt to build you credit score (just think about how absurd that notion is)

To be clear, the US credit score system forces you to take on credit limits, not actual debt.
The timescale is July 16, meaning (I think) that trials like Bristol in UK will be driving on public roads first?

Is there a comprehensive overview?
I wouldn't exactly call this a look-alike...
Permission espionage and peer-to-peer spying
The problem with this strategy is it's main assumption: that people want the content so much to switch the device / pay for it.
Management usually don't WANT unions. But in many cases, they can't stop them from forming, so they have to deal with them.
Pinterest is probably the worst offender for that. You get progressively blocked the more you try to read.
It's not quite what you're asking for but there's a really interesting series of books called the "Cross-Time Engineer" [1] which is a thinly veiled thought experiment of how to reboot civilization from a medieval time period with modern knowledge.

I recommend the series as it's absolutely fantastic from an engineering perspective, but also kind of horrifying from a culture one.

1 - http://www.amazon.com/Leo-A.-Frankowski/e/B000API2VY/ref=dp_...
The threat of unionizing is often enough to secure the demands of workers in some cases. Basically, whether you're in one or not, unions are good for wage-workers (in the short term).
I can't say for Android, but alarm is usually quite sucky on iOS as well. I've set it up to be recurring though, and I haven't had these annoying issues for months.

If you're a developer and have the time and effort required, you could always root/jailbreak your phone and fix the issues you have for yourself.

EDIT: it is also likely that people have already solved it, or made tools that can solve it. I know people are already running cronjobs on their iPhones, there's even an scheduling automation app and so on.
> If you file a proper DMCA request than the provider must, ASAP, take the content down

You are very confused about the nature of DMCA. The provider that receives a DMCA copyright infringement notification is not mandated to do anything at all by the DMCA. Having complied with the notice however gives the provider immunity from a potential copyright infringement lawsuit from the copyright holder - that is the purpose of DMCA.

About 30% of DMCA notices are defective, and Google for example complies with less than 70% of the notices it receives.
Money Transfer Startups: race against time?
>One thing I'm absolutely flabbergasted about is that we as a community have spent the last 10 years trying to get everyone to serve valid semantic markup, only to throw it all away. This tastes just as vile as using tables everywhere.

Using a DOM manipulation engine does not disqualify the developer from producing perfectly semantic markup.
I recently used the "rest-client" gem for a pet project of mine (https://github.com/YellowApple/tldrb, if anyone's curious). Works quite well for simple use cases.
I would rather make less money than have part of my paycheck forcibly removed and given to politician-types so they can defend other losers' jobs against competition because they have 'seniority'.
They're attempting to sue AWS and Godaddy? When Viacom sued YouTube claiming YouTube was hosting copyright infringing material, YouTube won. I hope that Ashley Madison (represented by this Kronenberger Rosenfeld group) loses this case and has to pay full legal fees of all parties they're suing, which should be hefty.
Yup, PGP source code, and I think it had checksums on the lines too to avoid errors. Didn't the book with the EFF's DES-cracking project (source included) get published the same way?
Rails Assets is down
A dwindling number of people can do all the work nowadays. And the productivity is not going to decline any time soon. Unions are not going to help unless they lobby for a 20hr working week, guaranteed basic income or something in that vein.
Risk-weighted Capital: Whose Model is it anyway?
Epson+7900+Driver+Printer+Download+|+Printers+Driver
"websites are free to create their own apps"

The users may accept to install a few apps (Apple/Google/… News), but not one for each website.
DynamoDb never promised 10 nines of availability, so it's a bit silly to hold them to that.
Show HN: Ruby on Bales, another command-line app framework for Ruby
Penalize the site or the story? Should Google keep it out of search until it shows up on the "greater" web or are you advocating punishing the whole site because they have some content exclusively walled for a certain amount of time?
What would a positive result have even looked like? "We found evidence of time travelers, but it's probably just a sign our model is bad?" or "We discovered people from the future hiding perfectly from us, until this (presumably well-known in this future) paper was published that revealed them?"

If it's inconceivable that there could be a positive result, it's not science. It's fodder for publicity.
The trees inherit #4078c0 from "a" on chrome. The lollipops are #333 inherited from "body". I see exactly that on linux, I have GNU unifont installed. I guess since Mac's are using colorful bitmap emoticons they simply disregard the color property.

edit:

> weird or no emoji support.

I think Apple's emoji support is the weird one. It's a font glyph, it should respect the color property.
Also this one https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimMeta/comments/3jke2s/re...
in photoshop this where keyboard shortcuts come into play. master-photoshoppers look like competitive starcraft players in that regard.

same with excel btw.
Here is the thing

I don't know if a war on ads is coming. I mean, the Browser Sexurity Handbook details how 3rd party cookie policies are pretty schitzophrenic across browsers already (MSIE requires a privacy policy, Safari requires a "visit" to a domain which can be accomplished by POSTing into an iframe, Firefox does something else, and Chrome thankfully just works).

But regardless, we should be moving past ads and to deals. Past eyeballs and to saving people time. Past destination sites and to tools that help people. Past building online personas and to improving real world experience. Ads means "here please click maybe you'll like this and eventually pay money for something." It's not the best we can do.

Before the web, people used to have more real connections in real life. Look at pictures from before 1990 - people were out and knew others from their neighborhood! Now they compulsively check their phones every time they emit a sound because of some notification, and verbal communication has devolved into kthanxbai lol... and the lol is almost never an actual laugh. Think about it.
I may be wrong, but I believe the first dump only contained a month or so worth of transactions and the numbers were obfuscated. So likely not enough for credit fraud.
This is a much better announcement, both from a perspective of the improvements provided and how it was messaged. The first one made it sound like the whole point of this was to be easier for the consumer. Obviously, the consumers didn't take to it, given that it switches things up significantly for people who are happy with the current system. With this latest post, they're a lot more upfront with the fact that this decision is driven by better alignment with the economics of their business. That's not the pill many people want to swallow, but at least it's honest and logical.
That's worse than arresting a kid for a clock you think is a bomb.

Also, whenever this kind of thing happens, people claim that "someone didn't feel safe". I don't believe it for a second. When you have to lie to justify something that tells you that you're in the wrong.
HP-Middle East and Me, a STAND OFF
so you'd rather fuck yourself out of spite?
Why should research showing that 'alternative medicine' is ineffective be published in a medical journal?

It provided a method and showed the negative results. Next time you are in discussion with someone who claims that time travelers are possible, you can now refer to this research.

Even if the first two journals rejected it, it sounds like the "third physics journal geared more toward the philosophy of physics" should have been a good fit.
I will check out that book, thanks. But the history of the web shows how an open network killed the content silos of AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, etc. Yes, now things seem to be swinging back, perhaps due to the popularity of mobile apps and poor user experience of the mobile web.
> I, being born a woman was violently beaten and robbed in a project/problem.

That's a weird auto-generated comment[1]. I wonder how much of it is random selection and how much is seeded text. What were the units that combined to form this?

[1] "Ask HN: Pure client-side PadMapper would be great as jobs? What a senior Rails dev?" post).
Those bits of interest have become more mainstream and the same content can be found in more detail elsewhere. 10-20 yrs ago Wired was often the first place to get that information (or at least the first without digging).
We can use existing REST methodology to serve coffee from coffee pots. Send a POST request to the coffee pot with parameters for the required type of coffee. The server on the coffee pot responds with 200 OK if it can process the request and makes the coffee. 500 if there was a problem.

WHEN method is unnecessary, use GET to retrieve status.

"418 I'm a teapot" is also unncessary, just use 500.

What a short sighted protocol.
You certainly do not get all the benefits. In particular you miss out on the shared "UI vocabulary" that comes from building on a common toolkit. This vocabulary means that users already know how to use your app, because you follow the platform conventions. Build on web technologies, and you are left either ignoring the conventions entirely and producing something very alien, or trying to recreate them from scratch and falling into the uncanny valley.

For example, look at Atom. I can type Command-Z on my keyboard to Undo, but it's non-native-feeling in lots of ways:

1. The menu bar doesn't highlight to register that I typed a key equivalent

2. The Undo text doesn't change to e.g. "Undo Typing," telling me what I will Undo

3. The menu item doesn't properly disable when there is nothing to Undo

4. The menu item doesn't respect my settings in Keyboard preferences

etc. etc. And that's just one feature - but it's every feature.

Needless to say, that stuff comes for free or with very low friction natively.

Qt is a bad representative of the native experience, because Qt is non-native everywhere except on Linux, which doesn't have strong UI conventions to begin with. Qt apps definitely feel alien on the Mac.
Windows security is pretty good when running as a normal user and having UAC turned on on its full level and binaries validation.

Yes, those things should be turned on by default. It is hard to educate generations used to work as root.

When people discuss UNIX security they tend to forget that worms were first targeted at them.

Also data matters more than system binaries, so it is enough to p0wn an application and suddenly $HOME is open to the world.

Then new GNU/Linux generations also seem very found of "curl ... | sh". Again opening $HOME to the world.

I also doubt everyone reads their emacs, vi, ..... packages. Again opening $HOME to the world.

UNIX does have a better security model configuration out of the box, but is just as unsafe for the regular users that just dump stuff into their PCs.
>as we can much better tweak nutritional content of meat, when we construct it ourselves

Hmm, I heard something vaguely familiar not so long ago... Have people already forgotten trans-fats?

To call meat, let alone nutrition, complex is an understatement that borders on comical. To think the first hundred iterations of artificial meat will be anything short of carcinogenic strikes me as an opinion ill-informed by history.
Absolutely. It's all relative anyways; doing better in absolute terms is less important than doing better relative to parasitic morons like those protected and enriched by unions.
I would buy a software which memorizes my programming habits and makes proposals while coding
> Starting flat and changing it later will just lead to more pain and damage to the team cohesion and structure.

I totally agree with this. My company started with just 4 employees, and now that we have over 15. Three years later, we still struggle with defining management roles, because the original employees (including me!) have had many, sometimes overlapping roles dues to the small size. Now, it's difficult to really define roles and responsibilities because we are historically used to working free from any management from others.
U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Afghan Allies’ Abuse of Boys
There is http://rebuildingcivilization.com/ but it's still a little sparse in content.
Is this happening so often that it's no longer even news? No appearance on the front page.

People always talk about how you should just use AWS because its cheaper than having "ops" people... but the ops load of AWS is higher than other services. (it seems AWS fans think the only alternative is renting a cage in a datacenter.)

AWS's terrible uptime is the reason I don't use it, the baroque and proprietary APIs are also too much.
I agree -- this seems a real BS lawsuit. But Avid Life Media (owner of Ashley Madison) is not part of it.
Let the unions form all they want. As long as the boss doesn't negotiate with them, how do they have any power?

Or is there some legal protection that says you can't fire people who refuse to work (ie strike) if and only if they are in a union?

Of course, the boss would have to have a reputation / commitment to acting that way, so that people don't try.
The End of Retirement: When you can’t afford to stop working
> Why I design software, I want to want to live in it
> Show HN: Solving the problem of what you read the Web
> Think Apple Would Dare To Be Upset About Aaron Swartz's life
A Firing at the Los Angeles Times Focuses Discontent
I think IRC is slowly dying, unfortunately, going the way of the plaintext mailing list and moving to things like Slack.

Does anyone know if there's a site that espouses the benefits of text/plain? If it doesn't exist, I think I should build it (read: push on to the unfinished projects array)
JRebel is awesome and well worth the price ($365/yr). Especially when iterating on a complex and messy JSF UI it really saves time on repackage/deploy cycles.
Const is a pretty good example, the closest I can think to emulating it in es5 is something like:

Object.defineProperty(this, 'five', {
enumerable: true,
writable: false,
value: 5,
configurable: false
});

If in global scope, 'five' will look like a const.

WeakMap and WeakSet have polyfills with minor caveats.

I guess you're defining language features as not "syntactic sugar" if they can't be absolutely 100% polyfilled.
Does this apply to stuff like React? I'm not quite sure where I'd be losing if I use React in my apps.
Is having a "sizeable" prize pot really that important for a hackathon? And I have a hard time seeing how the hackathon could provide the value that I'd be willing to spend $100 on as a student using that model (obviously, since it would only use $12.50).
Well, their definition of "collect" is only when agents actually search everything they've vacuumed up.

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/wordgames#collect
The thing is, it can get worse, at the moment the USA isn't "bad by default" unlike the UK, Egypt, Iran, China, New Zealand. The constitution of the United States still hampers the progress towards the totalitarian surveillance state some people seem to want to create.

China, UK, etc, all lack any "protection" from government simply saying "it's legal because we say it is". GCHQ don't need permission because the UK government was able to simply say "we have the right, because we're the government", the same is true in most countries.

As for end to end crypto, all that does in the age of PRISM, is flag everything you do as "possible target" and increase the level of attention you receive from such mass surveillance machinery. Sad but true. Your communication may be protected but you are not.
"Meet the Superstar Architect Transforming NYC’s Skyline" sounds like an ad, anyway. That's not time-critical information. The fluff news in "Dwell", "Food and Wine", and "Drive" sections of many major newspapers are now generated by Demand Media and others of that ilk. This may be a non-problem.

When we start seeing articles about presidential debates, wars, and other major events handled that way, it's time to pay attention.
I used to have yccombinator.com (interestingly it looks like somebody else picked it up after I let it expire) after noticing that there are quite a few places on the net that think that is the right name.
> the dependency on PHP can turn many developers away from using it

That's interesting, as most people claim PHP and the army of developers that come with it, is a major factor in WP's domination of the CMS market. If WP had initially been developed in Python, perl or anything not named PHP would it be the dominating force it is today? (Honest question, I don't presume to have the answer)

I'm a PHP developer, I hate working with WP but this whole article had me scratching my head asking "what? why?".

This isn't 'fixing' wordpress, the author is essentially building a spec for a new/different CMS that isn't dependant on WP. There's lots of those not named Wordpress.
In-Use Emissions Testing of Light-Duty Diesel Vehicles in the United States [pdf]
It's as timeless as the concept of using Markov Chains to generate a fake Hacker News site.

Source: http://namuol.github.io/phaker-news/
- A dynamic checklist of things I have to do in order to optimize my website.
- A list of my competitors (e.g. similar websites)
- A graphic overview showing which pages are optimized and how well.
- An option to embed a code which does a simple traffic analysis (how many users visiting my sites daily, where do they come from etc.)
- Social media tools
- Extra paid features
- Customizable widgets screen
- Progress report
Then I can only hope that it takes a long time for that trend in student perception to get over to my side of the big pond... Yes, some people get more excited for the more business-oriented stuff, but it's an even distribution and different people like different things.
>I think IRC is slowly dying, unfortunately, going the way of the plaintext mailing list and moving to things like Slack.

No way :D.

irc.freenode.org is booming and the live stream of conversations with strangers is far more interesting than the limits of 140 characters and Slack teams limited to company.

Here are some wonderful IRC channels on irc.freenode.org

##security - There are spooks in this channel! (800 people)

#RubyOnRails - People fixing each others rails code (500 people)

#DN - Community for UX (40 people)

and more!

I've been enjoying IRC as much as Meetup now.
Tools That Screenleap’s Distributed Team Uses to Stay Connected and Productive
Sure, but that beautiful markup only exists inside the Developer Tools of modern browsers, and only thanks to several megabytes of scripts that waste my time, data, and battery.

Good luck loading that page with whatever the most popular browser is in 2040, or on archive.org if the original website has long disappeared.
I was just looking into this today and I found GADDAG: (http://ericsink.com/downloads/faster-scrabble-gordon.pdf), which claims to be faster than DAWG.
This is indeed a recipe for iron gall ink. Different parts of trees were used in different locations, but gall nuts were common around the mediterranean, hence the name. It is, as you say, easy to make, but it can ruin a good fountain pen due to its corrosiveness.
YourMechanic (YC W12) is looking for creative writers and content editors
Works with Opera 32 as well.
Mastering the filesystem in Node.js
This or mealworms. Test tube beef will be made from serum albumin from slaughtered cows.