skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some comments:

Add the cursors for more OS. For example, the in a Win8 screenshot the cursors look wrong.

Add more file formats to download. Now the only option is jpg that is not good for very crispy artificial images like screenshots. The letters get some noise due to the compression. At least add png (and gif (I don't hate gif.)).

What about a blinking caret or a spinning hourglass?

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I don't think that there is a very big market for this. It's nice to have something like this with a link to your main page to get some visibility. Anyway, do you have any idea about using the same code and changing the details to create something that appeal to more general public?

For example, can you write "Star that Photo" that allows someone to add stars of different colors? (I think it's a bad idea, but it has more public.) Emoticons? Funny eyes?What do people want to add to photos/images?
I can't see why they are any exception from politics, budgets, old systems, problems finding smart recruits, empire building, and lack of leadership, management and direction. We see them as something they are not. I think they are probably not far removed from the department of motor vehicle IT department and I sure don't fear them folks and the business analysts and help desks.
Pretty decent piece of stealth marketing! Catchy blog posting about a fragile goods shipping hack, raises brand awareness for a company, it's products and its mission.
Anyone who cant spend a few minutes in their EDA tool of choice to create a symbol or footprint and instead chooses to pay $29 here should not have a job (or a hobby) making electronics.
Even before the arrival of social media, the mass media was feeding people stories about the world which made it look far more dangerous than it actually was. So media isn't the reason.

The reason is that the majority political philosophy in the US has shifted from libertarianism/classical liberalism to progressivism. The libertarian point of view is that people generally should be free to go about their own business in the manner they see fit. The progressive point of view is that we have a collective responsibility to police the wrongdoing of other people and fix it, using state power if necessary.

In the video where the guy goes off at the mother for leaving her kid in the car, you can see the progressive power dynamic in play immediately. The guy thinks she's doing something wrong so he gets involved. (Who is he? Doesn't matter. It's everyone's job to right wrongs.) It takes maybe 15 seconds before someone mentions the police, because the only way such intrusive activism works is when a higher power (can be state, law, society, science, God, whatever) is used to identify and enforce a definition of what's right. Even though the activist doesn't explicitly threaten to call the cops, during the confrontation they are mentioned constantly because the threat of state power is the only reason the mother even has to give this guy the time of day.

If you want to go a level deeper and ask why this political shift has occurred, it's likely that one contributing factor is urbanization which been underway in the US for some time--historically densely populated cities tend to be more authoritarian than rural areas because a crazy person can do more damage in a dense city (you don't see mass shootings happening in cornfields).
I am confused about why you guys haven't already hired Peter Cawley, Vyacheslav Egorov, and/or Thomas Fransham.
I would love to read about your experience with Lua. I always thought lua is for some limited things.
I'd bet you could find similar improvements to occupant safety if car drivers and passengers wore helmets, and racing style harnesses. Would it be reasonable to mandate them?
15-20€/month gets you 1-3GB of traffic from a cheaper operator like 1&1. "Premium" operators like Vodafone start at around 30€/month for 1GB. Whether you find that reasonable depends on what you compare it to (I'm used to 10€/month without traffic limits), but either way those traffic limits are nowhere near enough to replace free Wi-Fi for work purposes.
The shift toward more laws, police incidents, and over-regulation of ordinary parental duties isn't isolated, nor is it surprising. The US is a country that has been on the path of abandoning individual liberty in favor of paternalistic, authoritarian statism for decades. The real irony is that people are expressing dismay about issues and outcomes such as this, while in the same breath supporting piles and piles of evermore invasive laws that dictate how others should live their lives. When you replace the state as the primary actor in so many areas that were once the role of parents and community members, you get the state handling things the most common way it knows how: by force and criminalization.
Only on amd64.
Bad management, basically, that's his complaint. I believe the issues with the Berlin startup scene lie somewhere else, though are related: a lot of the startups are started by former elitarian management students, often from WHU, that started companies because it was the fancy thing to do and a get-a-Porsche/Tesla-quickly scheme. A lot of the founded companies are therefore not original, but e-commerce or local copies of international startups. Rocket is a horrible role-model to follow, yet followed by a lot of people with similar backgrounds - the beforementioned WHU absolvents.

Other cities are different in that respect: Munich has its engineering and IT tradition, hence a lot of founders have a rather technical background; Hamburg has quite a gaming industry, so in a way far more interesting as well.

There is some interesting stuff going on in Berlin, yet what is desperately needed are nerds founding companies instead of MBA graduates doing it because their peers do it as well.
ALPHA3, I even dont know how I got this version!
snapeda altium export comes in the form of .LIA (protel ascii), which is a pretty simple to follow text-based format. Not much to opensauce here.
In my experience the value of "business relationships" is not positive but actually negative. A business relationship cannot be easily transferred to another entity. The word relationship is the key here. Any relationship requires work from both parties.

So, I would be very careful to give away equity for this 'promise'...
Friction, no. Risks though...
I do think it would be better to have the name at least reflect that class of applications, maybe "searchignore" like someone else suggested. There may be overlap but it's hard to predict all the types of applications people are using that need ignore functionality and something as simple as backing things up with rsync would seem like an example where someone could well want considerably different ignores.
For people who like LuaJIT's FFI, there is this library that brings that same style to PUC Lua:

https://github.com/jmckaskill/luaffi

It isn't terribly fast though.
Some context: These events date back to 2006. Prior to the financial crisis. There've been major changes to the industry and SEC regulations since. Wall Street still has bad actors and has a lot to fix but short selling looks very different today.

The SEC added multiple rule amendments to Regulation SHO over the past 10 years to address fails to deliver and restrict abusive short selling. The SEC claims high double digit declines in FTD rates. Naked shorting feels like it has dropped off the radar compared to something like Reg NMS. Knight Capital had many problems and no longer exists.

The link story involves a penny-cap mobile chipmaker company suddenly merging with an online travel agency...This company then does a 1-1000 reverse stock split...Around the same time, a clearing agency freezes the company's stock, hinting at potential violations of federal/state law.

For those not familiar with equities, these events are bad. The stock is likely going down. Shareholders will lose money whether or not naked short selling took place.

Knight Cap may have engaged in fraud here, I don’t know, but this guy for sure bought a bad stock.

Wiki on Regulation SHO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling#Regulation...

SEC Short Sales website has rules, info and data (warning gov site and painfully dry reading): https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/shortsales.shtml
This is superb. An excellent and hilarious summary of Berlin's pluses and minuses.
Pardon me but, can you elaborate? What do you mean by "Heisenberg is remembered for his theorem on quantum observation being necessarily incomplete"?

And how does that make him a "perspective-seeker"?
> It is better to use a different passphrase for each key but it is also less convenient unless you're using a password manager (personally, I'm using KeePass)

If you are going to use a password manager to store them there's no point in using different passphrases.
What sort of thing do you want to read?
I have tagged posts on my blog: http://daurnimator.com/tagged/lua but that's probably mostly library release annoucements.
The buy box prefers FBA sellers over FBM because customers prefer FBA sellers over FBM.

It also takes into account length of time as a seller, feedback, valid tracking, and other things that customers want.

If you want the lowest price, you can easily choose that one. But most people do not, and it's silly to expect Amazon to cater to the minority at the expense of the majority.
"If you can make it in New York you can make it anywhere" sounds good as a song lyric but it isn't really true for NYC and probably isn't true for Berlin. When you have a hostile environment usually you are selecting for something weird (ability to navigate beaurocracy, early monetization) rather than some ideal attribute that is beneficial everywhere.
Because democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. It's very easy to get people worked up and crusading (e.g., wolf-mode) about "think of the children" type causes. Then you get representatives who play on this and keep on passing more and more draconian laws.

The rational part of the population is bigger than people often realize it's just that they don't yell as loudly.
> This is just one more of those nutty things which are particular to America but which doesn't really generally happen in the rest of the west.

I'd second this. A while ago there was an interesting television reportage on German Tv about this phenomenon.
They showed things like people who called the police when their neighbors kids played on the street or parents monitoring their kids kindergarten via online webcams.
Quite irritating stuff.
Certainly, not every American is like this but the program was done by a serious public broadcaster so I guess there is something to it.

It's on youtube (in German language, obvs)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOkBI65TRjY
My problem with google fonts is not how to pair them but how differently they appear on different OS/browser combinations.

Something like Lato can look great but its relative weight on OSX Safari vs. Chome Windows is so different that I just don't think it can be used in production.
Some of the biggest disagreements between my wife and I occurred as a result of her have this British definition of class and me having the American one. She told me early on, she wanted a "middle class" life. I thought, "Oh, that's easy!" But she really meant she wanted to live like a doctor or lawyer. I've been busting my ass ever since I figured out what she actually meant.
If you use fail2ban make sure to pin the right key to the right host. Otherwise ssh will try all the keys and get you banned from your own host. The easiest way is to use the ~/.ssh/config:

Host myhost
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/myhost
Sham surgery is a thing (there have been some interesting studies looking at the efficacy of knee surgery compared with sham surgery for a variety of common knee issues...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_pAdg8Y70Y
Race condition in a radiation therapy machine killed 3 patients
keyword is was. no one is excited about making innovative windows apps, it's a way to get your thing out to everyone but with all the traditional blocks(users have to find and install, different configurations might mess up your app etc)
http://pastebin.com/fgPhGaxz
China begins operating world’s largest radio telescope
Wouldn't it be easier to move the startups to Eastern Europe?
People much smarter than me have been wrong about the placebo effect in the past, but I think it's pretty unlikely that a placebo effect will result in the restoration of function after a traumatic spinal cord injury...

This procedure clearly needs to be tested against "doing nothing" (but it's impossible to blind against that, obviously). You only need to blind a study when you are testing against a placebo.
My two cents:

* Health insurance: When you're employed, your employer pays roughly half of your insurance premium. As a freelancer, you have to pay 100 % yourself. Currently, the minimum rate for a freelancer is about 350 € / month, which is still very reasonable in my opinion. Also, as a freelancer you can deduce a portion of this from your taxes.

* Venture capital: From my experience this is mostly true, as there are many people that try to appear as if they have very good connections and money, but in the end they offer pre-seed level investments for double-digit equity. A few of the international VCs have offices in Berlin now though, so my advice would be to stay away from the impostors and go to firms that have actual credibility and a history of funding successful startups.

* Public funding: There are some programs to help people start companies that can provide you with up to 100 T€ in capital (most notably EXIST), and there are various federal programs that provide money as well (e.g. the IBB).

* Visa: In my experience, Berlin has a very liberal visa policy for foreigners, so it's not very difficult to get a freelancer / business founder visa for three years without many strings attached (I have several friends that got one immediately when going to the Ausländerbehörde). So, compared to e.g. the US the process is still infinitely easier I'd say and the cost is near zero (60 € in fees I think).

* Loans to companies: As everywhere in the world, banks won't give you a credit without securing it appropriately. In Germany you can start a Limited (UG) with a risk capital as low as 1 €, so of course your bank will ask for additional security as otherwise you could just use the money and let the company go bankrupt afterwards. I'd be surprised if US banks were any different in this respect.

* Letters arriving in your mailbox: This is a scam that relies on your company being publicly listed in the company register (Handelsregister). Currently the register court already warns you about this when you register a new company. There is a legal effort to stop these people as well, but it's difficult since most of them just use an officially looking letterhead with an eagle on it, which is not per se illegal though it is misleading of course. Again, some common sense will help to not fall for this.

* Meeting investors at meetups / events: Forget about those, as they attract many impostors and people that will just waste your time. Probably not much different in SF or elsewhere. Knowing the right people will help here, but this of course takes time.

* Success: I agree that it's very hard to succeed with a startup in Germany, and there are very few big success stories in the startup scene here so far.

* Job market: Mostly true, although there are more and more well-paying jobs available as more established startups and companies come to Berlin. Six-digit salaries for good senior developers are not unheard of, though most people probably make much less. That said, the income distribution in Germany is not as steep as e.g. in the US, and the war for talent isn't as fierce, which means that salaries are lower as well.
I agree. Most clients don't worry about technical details. "People don’t want a drill,they want a hole."

Add the documentation for the unusual parts in case some moron has to continue with the project six months later, and imagine that the moron is you, so be careful.

Somewhat related: "Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice" http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro... (I don't like the title, but I like the article.)
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If you are going to set this up, sit down and spend an hour thinking about your backup and recovery strategy first. I'm familiar with an organization that did a POC for 2FA using them and had a surprisingly high failure rate.
I have no idea why people say that... I've started two companies and been involved in a few more and the only time I felt the government was holding me back was the first time I hired someone. That's... quite a lot of forms and strange institutions I had never heard of before.

But that's a process and when you've done it once it's just copy&paste for every n+1. Or you get an accountant to do it for you, which is apparently 50Euros/employee/year for all the paperwork.

Other than that it takes about half a day to register a business. Despite what people say, you'll always get by without /any/ paperwork if you don't have employees or revenue.

If there's anything missing in Berlin I'd say it's a really good university. Today's Silicon Valley survives on its symbiosis with Stanford. Before that, XeroX and a few other labs were probably nurturing, plus the hippie spirit of the 60ies that encouraged people to hang out and "do cool stuff".

Berlin does't have that industrial base because it was isolated for 40 years, causing large companies (i. e. Siemens) to leave. It's creating a good community but it's missing the exceptional people that can catalyze real innovation.
The paper concludes that there is a 28% reduction in risk of child death when using a restraint system vs just a seat belt (95% CI) and a 21% reduction in risk of death even if the system is misused. How is that "no difference"?
Downvoting behavior.

Read the heavily greyed comments and turn on showing dead comments. Sometimes there is humour in there!

Karma-sensitive people will adjust their behaviour and stop being funny though, amplifying the effect
Functionality is a better measure of productivity than lines of code. The functionality is impressive. The code appears to be written in a Java style, which increases the line count versus a more Pythonic style.
> How much less secure is it to not use a passphrase on a key?

It's better to think about specific attack scenarios. If your keys get exfiltrated because of some local exploit (like a browser vulnerability, a malware download or physical access) then the attacker has access to your servers.
Being quotable would put Wilde above Joyce, which I don't think is right.
Did you try clicking on that link? There's some referrer detection. I think the author doesn't think much of HN.
the same holds for keys with passphrases; the attacking process just has to wait until you enter it.
Products similar to this do exist including "intervention services"... presumably for more than $1 though http://customcritical.fedex.com/us/services/secure/monitorin...
Not all. What you said is verifiably true.

However, the failure of the Saudi state has come from within, when the House of Saud was infected by the expansion of Wahhabism in the Islamic world, where two previous states lead by the House of Saud failed, and a third, today's Saudi Arabia (formed in 1932) is also heading towards ruin, but doing so entirely under their own power and leadership.

The failure of the Indian state is due to British rule for over 100 years in which India's own culture was heavily distorted through the lens of colonialism efforts; in addition, Pakistan leaving and declaring its own Islamic government has also not helped India heal from this. The current state of India is due to outside influences.

Bad things happen due to the extreme poverty in India all the time, but the very specific things said in the article are all distortions of Indian culture that are no longer practiced, even in the most backwards towns.

What the NYT did is no different than if today's Saudi Arabia had stopped it's anti-humanitarian efforts and chose to transition into a modern government instead, and you claimed they still killed gays, non-muslims, and whoever else for non-crimes.

India obviously has only taken the first steps in becoming a modern nation, but what the NYT did is not helping India at all.

In short, the NYT is going to have to prove it. Photos, videos, whatever. This is no different than any other editorial hearsay otherwise. If they had actually found human rights violations in the scale and severity implied in the article, the NYT would be running this as front page news, and world governments would be pressuring India to fix this.
sounds like a great way to get a morass of code spaghetti as quick as possible. "what does this module do?" "i dunno but it makes the webpage load really quickly without me having to optimise!" "why is it 2 years old?" "because when i replace it with anything else, load times jump by a factor of 2 across the board and i dunno why"
Capcom's Streetfighter rootkit capcom.sys signed by a still valid Symantec cert
I loved Space Quest, but when I saw Hero's Quest sitting on the shelf in the shop, I picked it up, examined it, and then put it back. I didn't know it, and if it wasn't good it was a waste of around $80. So it sat there for months, nobody bought it, until eventually the shop discounted it.

My father came home one night, paper bag in hand. Handing it to me, he said "I've got something for you, it was cheap." I took a look, thought "MEH!" but put it in the Amiga just to please him.

Six hours later, I realised I should head to bed, but just one more monster! One more puzzle! I couldn't stop, I think I finally got to bed around 2am. Woke up the next morning, it was the weekend so no school, computer on, and away I went for the whole day. Finished it the next day, and then restarted it as a different class.

Even now, I still get asked about that game from time-to-time. I don't have it anymore, but YouTube does - he loves the cleaning montage at the castle, particularly the music.

I never managed to get into the sequel, but since someone's done a remake (linked to further down the forum) think I might load it up on my iMac and give it a play.

One of my all-time favourite games, Hero's Quest.
Don’t lose your prospective customers
As I am an Indian and as someone who actually is interested about customs and traditions, it is usual for a daughter-in-law to wash the feet of the husband's parents BUT NO in terms of drinking it. But please READ the following to have a complete understanding so there is no misunderstandings.

Washing somebodies feet is a mark of respect in the Indian tradition, followed which a couple of DROPS is just sprinkled on the head as a sign of humility. Its is common is very traditional families to wash the feet of the elders as a mark of respect daily. Ofcourse, the feet is cleaned prior to this. No one washes dirty feet.

Among Hindus, we do bath the deity (its another misconception to call it an idol) with water and the water is only sprinkled on people as the water is considered holy. After which the deity is bathed in honey, milk, fruit juice as offerings, which is actually consumed by people as prasad (a devotional offering made to God). Sometimes, if there is nothing special, even water is offered. The point I am trying to stress is that the water for bathing is different from that of offering. The deity is kept in a clean places.

That being said, people ignorant of the customs do commit mistakes. There are many misconceptions among Indians on various matters especially in rural areas. But drinking the water that she used to wash is not heard of.
It's like plugging leaks on a sponge boat. You don't know that a. there isn't several lists, or b. they won't add it somewhere else with a future update or even c. they won't just steganographically insert it into other innocuous traffic to counter packet sniffing and hardware firewalls. Once you stop trusting the OS maker, you can't trust the OS.