skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been building and iterating little toy CMSes for years, each one a little better.

Current version pros:

- SQLite makes deployment and backups a breeze. I can also copy the SQLite file to create two versions of the site: "draft" and "live". Hitting "publish" syncs them.

- From the developer's perspective, it's just a regular Python app, except you can insert user-editable elements into any template.

- From the user's perspective, you can edit stuff right in the page.

Works fairly well. Two big hurdles remain:

- I rely on medium-editor[1] for in-page WYSIWYG editing. It's the best open source solution I've seen, but it's still horrible. Generates crap HTML[2].

- For major layout changes, the developer has to create a new template with placeholders for content creators to fill in. Ideally, developers would create building blocks that creators could then drag and drop in to place.

[1] https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor

[2] https://twitter.com/etodd_/status/644898235836989440
I imagine their bounce rate will be very high if they continue doing this. Other news sites have done similar things such as make you participate in a survey before reading the article. In order for me to open this article before September 22, I would have to copy that link, paste it into an email to myself, open Mail on my phone, and open the link from my own email.
exactly! Guess they weren't George Carlin fans
I remember it very clearly because it was perhaps the only time that most techies were in support of Ashcroft's actions.
Mods, please DON'T change this title. The post would become completely non-sensical.
... and if you've read his book, the problem most certainly is him - and he knows it.
FreeBSD (4.7) was actually the first *nix I used. As a user operating system, I honestly might have been better served with a Linux distribution, but in retrospect FreeBSD still managed a lot of the end user aspects surprisingly well (Linux binary compatibility, NDIS driver wrappers, etc...).

I installed a FreeBSD (10) virtual machine this weekend to test a personal project, and a lot actually seems to have improved. I'm surprised they've already switched to Clang as a default compiler. Although, I think there are still some areas where FreeBSD might be a bit behind Linux.

I think what I still like about FreeBSD is that there seems to be a focus on simplicity and nothing seems to be added on a whim. Progress does seem to be a bit slower for certain things (kernel features, filesystem features, etc...), but as a whole a lot of the design decisions seem to be extremely well thought out.
Don't think I've ever heard or read anyone claim this, just that they live in a native wrapper.
Does anyone honestly believe that the government doesn't collect every single email, phone call, message, credit card transaction, etc. or have the capability to query a database to get it if needed?

You need to accept that the war is already lost. When you are doing something that needs to be protected, use end to end crypto. And buy things in cash
Odds Apple is paying them? Very high, right?
Believe it or not, some psychologists do use neuroscience. Source: I co-majored in neuroscience and psychology.

In any event, you're describing one of the root causes of the problem, but not the problem itself. It's like saying "A driver isn't responsible for making the car go forward - it's only the engine that provides the propulsion". "This bit of the brain lights up when you do X" is not the same as "Humans have this problem with X, and there are ways to get around it".

Put another way: neuroscience tells us that X happens in the brain when we see Y. Now what? This on it's own has nothing to say about something like police training.
Is the illustration really accurate for hidden services? If so, for what reason isn't the last hop encrypted too?
Torblog has a recent (Sep 2015) write up on how the great firewall detects and kills Tor connections/bridges hence the need for using Obfsproxy4 as a pluggable transport https://blog.torproject.org/blog/learning-more-about-gfws-ac...
more interestingly they will have to prove(confirm) that the dump that showed up is the real one, just in case someone pulls the parody defense.
This should almost be the title of the thread.
The title you're reading is what we changed it to.

The submitted title was "This story is exclusively on Apple News until Tuesday". We changed it to an exact quote from the article and put it in quotation marks.

p.s. Please don't use uppercase for emphasis: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I've been working remotely for The last 10 years. Today, pain is everywhere. My tip is: exercise regularly, many times during the day.
Around 2008 or so I seem to remember Kaspersky writing metadata to every file on the OS when scanning, requiring more frequent (and longer) drive defragging. Nowadays I just use Defender on Windows 8, EMET and browser common sense. Occasionally firing up a sandbox for testing programs. Having NoScript enabled alone helps a great deal in preventing many exploits.
I wish I could upvote this post multiple times.
Apple is implementing a content paywall at the device level.
Still waiting for someone to admit Stellarwind didn't just collect US meta-data. Yeah, like Google forgetting to drop the packet after the BSSID, right? Except NSA is data-mining every last drop of it. Why fuck the Constitution just a little, if you've got the packet, might as well go all the way.
Next airline hijacking will be by a hacker from halfway around the world
No it isn't accurate for hidden services. See https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en - hidden service communication some some level of encryption end to end (whether that is sufficient or requiring another layer - say TLS - is a matter of usecase and threat model).
It seems pretty harmless.
Is this the creepiest startup team page on the internet?
When I saw this was on Reddit a day or so ago, I thought thank goodness for HN and people not getting sucked into BS :(
Have you tried Scribe editor? https://github.com/guardian/scribe

I've found it has better HTML output than medium-editor (though still not perfect) and has a more flexible design, though it requires a bit more developer involvement to get up and running.
But then you don't have a nice REST API to integrate with different things anymore (authoring tools. exporting tools. frontends for devices that don't like meteor. ...)

IMHO tying itself to a single front-end technology would be the totally wrong thing to do.
The title for this is confusing, they are talking about detecting and attacking regular Tor connections not internal hidden services (like a DarkMarket). That illustration showing not encrypted is the exit node to a regular clearnet site.

The methods for attacking hidden services (DNM) are the same as any other site such as exploiting misconfiguration, exploiting unpatched software or finding new ones, and looking for pieces of opsec like the Czech guy who's darkmarket used some obscure Czech php framework which was identified by viewing the CSS. Every so often a research paper comes out too that identifies some new scheme of analysis of guard nodes/pattern matching/fingerprinting ect to identify hidden service IPs as noted in this Wooyun article. https://news.mit.edu/2015/tor-vulnerability-0729

Snowden docs also talked about QUANTUM which was some NSA/GCHQ scheme to try race conditions against relays to lure Tor users to their own relay farm for analysis detailed here https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/how_the_nsa_a...
I guess the real question will be if the reduced pageviews offset the increased ad impressions. As much as I also hate those popups (I often leave the page), I imagine they've done enough split testing to know that it at least helps their bottom line in the short term.
Url changed from http://www.hackernews.org/2015/09/20/john-mcafee-next-airlin..., which points to this.
IRAs are protected in most states as well.
Why not?

If a monopoly is allowed to choose, it can use its domination in one vertical to influence another vertical.

Anyway, I would prefer a Linux version of the iPhone SDK. I do not use neither Windows nor OSX normally.
This submission breaks the HN rule about not editorializing story titles. It also seems kind of mean.
That's encouraging!
Why I left the best job in the world to become a developer
Apple News isn't available in a lot of countries for whatever reason. So this not only means its inaccessible to non-iOS9 devices, but it's also inaccessible to, eg., all of New Zealand.
Launching on Product Hunt: A High Schooler's Experience
A Roth IRA is a wonderful savings and retirement account if you have creditors at your door: you can remove the contributions at any time penalty free.
The claim isn't that the drip regulator changes how medical devices are made, but that the company wants to change how medical devices are made -- that is, it wants to make them affordable and accessible for countries that don't have access to them.

Even the original headline ("Startup Shift Labs wants to change how medical devices are made") doesn't make the claim that the drip regulator is revolutionary or will change how devices are made.

Also, a relevant quote, italics mine:

> The primary market for DripAssist, however, isn’t U.S. hospitals, where nearly every bed has its own IV infusion pump. “If you think worldwide about the number of infusions that are done every day,” says Kolko, “The vast majority of them are done without a pump and that’s the market we’re targeting.”
Ironic that this is posted on Medium.com.

I expected an humorous article about Medium being the better WordPress. I think Medium might just be the better WordPress (for most, not all).
I sometimes see that with youtube videos that disallow embedding, but at least then, they have a link back to youtube to view the video.

Here there's nothing - no video title, no alternative link.
What a terrible service to your potential readers or viewers.
That's great. I appreciate them making such choice.

See also their charter: https://www.kickstarter.com/charter?ref=pbc_letter
Robber Barons understand technical debt too
Excellent reporting. We already knew that Jack Goldsmith, Jim Comey, and others saw John Yoo's legal analysis as flawed, which lead to the hospital room showdown -- see [1] for Comey's dramatic Senate testimony in 2007. Now it's revealed that the NSA was going beyond what was authorized, and collecting data on purely domestic calls.

Bush responded by saying this collection was authorized, and in fact had been all along. Reading between the lines, it may well have been this that led to the threat of a mass resignation that caused Bush to back down.

[Of course after a brief period of legal head-scratching they found theories to approve most if not all of the questionable activities. So while on the one hand the hospital confrontation was people dramatically standing up for the rule of law, on the other hand those same people are generally in favor of mass surveillance, just done in a lawful way. You can especially see this with Jim Comey, now running the FBI and spreading fear about how we need encryption back doors to keep intelligence agencies from "going dark".]

BTW Jack Goldsmith blogs about national security law at Lawfare [2]. I disagree with him on several core points but his analysis is very crisp and always worth reading.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...

[2] https://lawfareblog.com/
Theory: Apple wants to defeat Google by eliminating ads and making the purchase of the device the amortized payment for content.

Analysis: The problem with this strategy is that Apple is going to have to scale to all the content in the world, in foreign languages, on obscure or controversial topics on a million blogs. Super niche content will fade, starved of app revenue and have to rely on native IOS ad with unblockable ads for distribution.
Cyclist, a White House staffer, dies on charity ride after collision with a car
Why I left the best job in the world
Depends on the platform. For Apple devices and workstations it's a wrapped Safari web view, which is not affected by the bug, and does not crash.
AWS Outage Knocks Amazon, Netflix, Tinder and IMDb in MEGA Data Collapse
Torrents of popular newspaper and magazine articles may become popular soon.
Thanks. We changed the title.
Customer service WRT stupid customer
What the different between this with the original one?
I agree that these are all legitimate problems, but over time the wrappers themselves will eliminate a lot of them. There will always be "native" wrapped HTML apps that do a bad job of taking advantage of the platform. That's the case with any adapter platform that lets you code once and deploy everywhere (look at 90% of Java-based apps). But that doesn't mean that it will inherently be a bad idea.

Indeed, Electron already is starting to provide these kinds of facilities. For example, it allows you to load native node modules, and it provides some tools for integrating with the desktop envirionment (see https://github.com/atom/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/d...).

Side note:

> coördinators

I knew I wasn't the only one who loves this pretentious diaresis style. Stay strong, brother/sister/sibling. Stay strong.
You're assuming future production will always be higher than present day. No one can be sure of this.

The federal reserve can't even raise rates above zero today, let alone us assuming future productivity or production gains.
Wiring Up Superconducting Qubits
I'm in NZ, you can change your region to US to get the new Apple News
I'm pretty sure they only take a cut of ads sold through their iAd system and take 0% cut for ads sold directly by the publication.
They'd better be getting an extra cut for the exclusivity period, though. Otherwise that part would be pointless. They could just serve this page for only IOS9 devices based on user agent.
It took almost one year into building my business to realize that I actually had the option to not take on venture capital. That is how ingrained the idea of taking on capital and later either going public or getting acquired is in most startup circles. Bootstrapping almost felt like a non-option until I later heard about the prospect from several other (less-vocal) sources.

I think it's great that Kickstarter, a fairly young business with a prominent presence in the press, is showing yet another option that companies have outside of the common IPO/acquisition routes.
Alibaba's $105B Lockup Ends, Putting Focus on Yahoo Stake
Looking back at this Julian Sanchez article from 2013 [1] (after a Snowden leak related to the hospital conversation), he had already zeroed in on the issue.

"The interception of phone and e-mail content was clearly electronic surveillance, but it was (in theory) limited to targets within the scope of the AUMF (which allowed the president to “determine” who had “aided” the 9/11 perpetrators). The bulk collection of phone records was not limited, but it also wasn’t “electronic surveillance” as defined by FISA. The bulk collection of Internet metadata, however, was both plainly “electronic surveillance” and also too broad to shoehorn into the language of the AUMF."

So this latest story is just official confirmation.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/what-the-ashcroft...
I'm an Apple user, but I have no interest in Apple curated news via a dedicated app. I can't believe there's a significant market there.
Thats quite a gamble but not a bad bet to make in Silicon Valley especially with all the connections she has.
Just like we learn how to use cruise control in certain driving situations, I would expect drivers can learn how to rely on "Supercruise" in appropriate situations.

Specifically I think the most beneficial use-case would be the mind numbing highway stop-and-go crawl which millions contend with daily. If my car could follow the car in front of me with lane-keeping, it seems like that would be extremely useful. IMO, it's not a system that needs to be able to accelerate past even 25 mph before reverting to a more typical / unassisted speed adaptive cruise control. But IMO it must have an extremely snappy almost aggressively close follow distance, since the computer should have better reflexes. In traffic, if it's leaving even a car length, it would drive me crazy.

I would assume these systems are challenged by a lack of intuition around traffic flow, and the [in]ability to steal glances down the line of cars (I guess depending on how high-mounted the top camera is). If the only real input is "mm to next bumper @ 60Hz" can you do better than a human driver?

I think another key trick is in really nailing the "My Car" transition cue. I guess it could be some sort of touch sensor on the wheel, or a flick of a paddle shift, but I think the best input might be a tap on the gas pedal.
I've had a hard rule for a while: Don't go to Hackathons where the prizes are over $1000. This is why:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/victoria-walker-rod...

I was at that Hackathon. The prize was pretty cool; certainly the largest I had seen at a Hackathon. I'd done other AT&T hackathons ("won" some, "lost" most) so I figured it wouldn't turn into a giant marketing/PR stunt - Silly me! Not only was AT&T's local head of marketing there but they had a professional artist there to help the kids with their slide show and a reporter was brought in for the presentation/judging phase. Their presentation was well choreographed and polished (professional artwork, animations, well written copy). For everyone else the judging went a bit different. I wrote an app using Twillio rather than the AT&T texting API and the marketing head was fairly overt in her distain for not touting their API. A few more instances of that happened with a couple other entries. Honeslty it was the least professionally run event I've seen out of that camp. Since then I've limited my parcipitation to events that have Amazon gift cards and EC2/Sponsor API credit as prizes.

The kids that won were very nice, well behaived, etc. I hope they actually got the prize money for being part of AT&T's stunt.
Quora permanently lost me several years ago when they suddenly forced me to select five categories of interest before I could continue to the question I was interested in.

Forcing me to do something I have no interest in and will never make use of is a good way to alienate me.
So if medical devices are expensive to support marketing costs, why are Shift's marketing costs less?
Why expend additional effort to filter along meaningless axes to wind up with some unknown lesser number of applicants (which you might then want to shrink further) when you can already filter meaninglessly to end up with precisely the number of applications you want (by simply grabbing randomly and dropping the others on the floor)?
I'm guessing it's just a paucity of news agencies in the given country that have set up a feed in Apple News format; Apple doesn't want to flip the switch for a country until they have a good default selection of that country's local feeds to let people pick from.

I noticed that on the iOS9 beta, with my region set to Canada, the News app was unavailable, but on the springboard search view, the embedded news items were from (two) Canadian sources. So it seems like they're working on it.
I was in university when I first heard the word 'hackathon'. The CS club had reserved a student lounge on campus for 24 hours and donated a bunch of snacks and drinks. I don't think I made it through the whole 24 hours, but I sure loved the spirit and sense of community that event had. No prizes, no corporate sponsors. Just building cool stuff.

By the end of my time at university, they had already become a for-profit idea mill for big companies. Those things never felt quite right to me.

And then, a few years later, I was involved in planning and running a few of those corporate hackathons. Even helped run one at YC a few years ago.

I don't think I would ever go to a hackathon with a corporate sponsor again. After seeing it from the inside, I realize how true the old saying is: "If you're not paying for it you are the product."

I've thought about trying to run a hackathon that gets back to the roots of what I remember about hackathons. Just a bunch of people hacking away on a project for an unbearably long time, with whatever snacks and drinks I could afford to provide. I don't think hacker culture is dead. I think there are a lot of folks out there, like me, who remember the hackathons of 2008 - 2010 and would like to re-live it. I guess I should stop thinking about it and just do it!

What about you? Is that something you'd go to?
Inflation won't be an issue. The only costs going up are healthcare and college. College won't be an issue for you, and Medicare should fill the gap until the US makes it to single payer.
so unionize. corporations and capitalists are looking out for their own profit margins and bottom lines. it's time you guys start doing the same again. in university's management class that i took the prof basically said corporations that get unions usually deserve those unions. it seems like the economy needs it now. it's the only way that we're are going to survive a capitalist economy at perfect efficiency. where corporations and capitalists are taking out profits from employee's paychecks.
Can someone give a simple explanation on the difference between incorporating normally, incorporating as a non-profit, and incorporating as a "public benefit corporation"? I've tried to look it up but I'm getting conflicting information.
You could study the stuff listed in 2 years of school max. The rest of university (from my experience) is fluff designed to fill up four years so they can bring in more tuition dollars.

How many people would pay $1,100 for "Intro to Spanish" or "Society, Technology and Values" if it wasn't a requirement to get your CS degree?
How do we make text bold for emphasis? or should we just use UTF characters for that?
The curse of being an introvert – Part 2
I do hope people realize that fake meat is plant food and thus requires nutritional supplements (or an -extremely- varied diet) or it will cause serious health issues.

Meat has no such requirement. While it may not be good for you in the long term, you can survive purely on meat for decades.
Author here. This was written for Hackathon Hackers, a group of people who go to collegiate hackathons, to (1) critique what I perceive to be our community's focus on measuring success by $$$ and size instead of individual impact, and (2) express my displeasure with the way we've let corporations take over community events.

Especially re: @candu's and @detaro's comments, I agree that there are lots of community-supported meetups and spaces. However, I don't find that the collegiate community gives much, if any, weight to these sorts of events - there's a glorification of giant hackathon events that far outweighs anything else. I know where to look, but someone newer to the scene will only see the sort of event that I criticize. My hyperbolic title is a rhetorical device to counteract the marketing machine that MLH and hackathons have going :)
The fake meat stud is certainly interesting but I think we (Americans) could get pretty far, if not the whole way, by simply moderating meat consumption. For example, just tonight my group of 5 adults and 5 toddlers claimed they were satisfied with just 16oz of beef for all.

My sense is that meat does tend to be harder on the body and that vegetarians are healthier and live longer.
It's not an inertial reference frame, but I don't see anything wrong with choosing a reference frame where the earth is fixed, and noting that in such a reference frame, the sun does move around the earth, and can seen to go "past" the horizon?

I mean that's just the title, but still.
Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
Medicare + subsidized supplemental insurance from the ACA (due to less income in retirement years).
Please just write normally formatted sentences.
I have never build a Wordpress theme using jquery. What is he on about?