skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use linode, amazon ec2, and bigscoots.com. Linode is very stable at a reasonable price. ec2 is very flexible and reasonably reliable but a bit more expensive. bigscoots.com is a great value, very fast and reliable with excellent service. It's nice to have options.
For this feature, there will also be an option to enable plugins for websites that have them hidden such as Pandora. And in addition it will be possible to whitelist/blacklist websites.
each GOOG investor will lose value (voting power) because of this transaction

Even though these new shares are non-voting shares?
You're still likely to get into an accident while driving/biking with headphones on, mainstream or not...
It does, though not with the same UI as the Java plugin: http://i.imgur.com/xHrRX.png

Clicking the puzzle piece shows a menu to "always allow" or to "enable all Flash applets on this page" (and a few other things).

I can see a more obtrusive/apparent UI being implemented if Firefox makes click-to-Flash default.
Each owner of GOOG will have exactly as many votes after this "dividend". They will not be negatively affected. New employees and acquisitions will be negatively affected by receiving stock sans voting rights, though.
Can anyone recommend the best book or books to learn about the Amazon cloud stuff? I do better with books than online docs, and am coming from a VPS background.
Yes.

Preferences > Under the Hood > Privacy > Content Settings > Plug-ins > Click to play

Or you can search for "Flash" or "Click to play" to find the setting.
Email is awesome. It's resilient, reliable, fast, flexible, open, and well documented. Stop fixing it.
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Thanks for that, which was new to me. It seemed to do what I had in mind.

I raised this a few months ago, but commenters thought I wanted to solve a different problem, such as a tool to check a regex against a group of strings that I would supply myself:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297788
Congrats Denny! It's clear that you and your team have put in mountains of work with some amazing attention to detail. How much of the development did you end up contributing?
Ask HN: how much are startups paying to senior software engineers?
How much they are paying (total comp, excluding equity) to senior developers in the Silicon Valley?
> You seem to think of employees as nothing but bricks in the road to your own personal success. This attitude ensures I have no interest in ever working with you and it has nothing to do with the topic of this post.

You've extrapolated far beyond what is reasonable.
disagree. Linux on the desktop is here and awesome. At jacobsparts.com we use linux exclusively on our desktops and half our staff is on the computers all day long. I use it on all my laptops, desktops, and servers. Never used any windows since XP and couldn't be happier.
It can be a communication device.

But when you look down at it to check time it is just a time-piece (like the old days).
As a 2002 graduate, it pains me to see this. More so, when they are saying that they will cut the TA funding. I got through college because of my TA scholarship, and I still have fond memories of teaching the undergraduates. Some of them are still friends.

We also did some nice research in my Masters, a lot of concepts(Grid/cloud) which we are currently using in our Startup.

In any case, I just hope the department and the University come through this with their reputation intact.
Thanks! I'm sure they existed, I just haven't seen a lot of it yet. Also, that is really cool about Dicken's
So you mounted a hard drive and copied some folders from the command line. Big deal.

Besides, if you could mount the drive without using any password, it doesn't seem like it was encrypted at all.
The odd thing is, I know what github is, I use it, I've done my little share of git... But I have absolutely no idea what "CS" means. Can someone shed a light on that? (Talk about illiterate, huh?)
I'm not defending PHP. I'm not saying it makes sense. I'm just saying that's what's happening.
Should the U.S. legalize hard drugs?
Origin partners review
Origin Partners Lie and Provide an Inferior Product.
Why your first hire should be a designer and not a developer
I commented on the unusability of the site that was linked to. Mr. Knuth's site is perfectly readable because he's using regular html which renders just fine on a modern mobile browser. Meanwhile I have no idea what is going on on the parent page, except that it's unreadable. Another person shared a similar screenshot in another comment.

You may dislike my snarky little hashtag on Twitter and that's fine. I was not being snarky here on HN in my comment. I was making a perfectly valid criticism about usability.
Also a good point. What does computer science have to do with github? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science
> a truly open, federated web.

Keep in mind, we're talking about a single website (among many) with a proprietary, non-open, non-free codebase, so the contrast shouldn't be surprising.

If we were talking about a similar-but-open-source service like Identi.ca, this would play out very differently.
To novices and the weak of heart? Sure. I've yet to
find a greater source of technical depth regarding
JavaScript.

I agree with you about the usefulness of comp.lang.javascript, but I disagree regarding David Mark's contribution to education. I had to killfile him years ago, mostly due to his use of sockpuppets. Here are just two of his Reddit sockpuppets that I made note of years ago when I still visited Proggit:

http://www.reddit.com/user/DeathFromAbove2

http://www.reddit.com/user/joesixpack3
Thanks for the precision.
And indeed, I second that question!
Citation needed. Apple has admitted that the malware exists. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5244

Not to mention that this JVM update’s description, immediately visible if you show updates before installing them, directly mentions the Flashback malware. Not exactly my definition of pretending it isn’t out there.

Also suspect: implication that competitors are less likely to “gloss over” their own products’ vulnerabilities to whatever extent Apple may be.
Very nicely designed.

Regarding the table of contents, it took a while to realize the text was clickable. Also I would prefer the arrows to show what they go to. For example "up next: Checking Status"

I don't know whether that would break the design, but it makes it more usable in a motivating sort of way, "oh boy committing is next!"

All in all, I agree with the learn by doing, so very nice job and thanks for all the good work!
Yes, this is completely obnoxious.

> I’m hoping that you don’t save all of your files on your desktop like my dad does.

> recent @swarthmore grad.

Dude, get over yourself. Don't present an opportunity to toot your own horn as 'helping' someone.
I don't get people who enjoy matte finished screens. The perceived difference in color due to the polarizing effects of the finish is pretty noticeable, in my experience.
Sorry, but no. I've been on dozens of Basecamp projects and the only way anyone reliably uses it is if they rely on the email notifications.
I'm not seeing the connection between Github and computer science literacy.

Maybe the next article can be, "Using a screw driver, for the diesel engine illiterate."
And what benefit do you imagine that conferring?
Is Canada Creating its own BitCoin?
I don’t know why, but note that they had to at least issue a JVM upgrade to get the feature/protection noted in the linked article:

> "This update also configures the Java web plug-in to disable the automatic execution of Java applets. Users may re-enable automatic execution of Java applets using the Java Preferences application. If the Java web plug-in detects that no applets have been run for an extended period of time it will again disable Java applets."

Personally I don’t know why anyone would want one update and not the other. Isn’t it part of the Apple experience to just entrust all this stuff to them?
> The screen has a matte finish. Yes!!!!!! I sneer in the general direction of all non-matte-finish screens.

Really?

You have made your compromises, they have made theirs. Everyone has different needs, personally I'm fine with only 800 high as I'm working in a terminal most of the time. If you are a graphic designer, then it's probably not for you. Each to their own.
The article says PayDragon is available in NYC, but when I downloaded the app to my Android device, the nearest establishment showed ~6000mi away.
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Considering that "m" is half the known keyboard shortcuts (I'm ignoring ? as it represents a recursion I'm unwilling to face right now), that is odd indeed.
This reminds me a lot of Mitch Kapor's pet project, Chandler. It was really buggy but I guess after years of development, it finally stabilized. Any "note" can be morphed into a task, calendar event, or email. http://chandlerproject.org/
What Do You Need to Know to Teach Your Child Elementary Mathematics?
5 finger shoes
You either see Israel as an intentionally aggressive religiously driven racist (different license plates, voting laws, roads, id cards, laws) nuclear state with a colorful history of terrorism, espionage, invasions,
spying, and assassination convictions in multiple countries, or you choose to ignore all of history and blindly support it. Either way, please stop acting surprised when people claim Israels' foreign policy is antagonistic, as if her detractors are mistaken and fabricating... as if Chomsky and Kofi Anaan are liars...
I'm not the only one who tried o/
Adobe WebKit Hackathon Summary
Concurrency is not Parallelism (it's better)
True only if the "designer" knows about usability.
I believe this title is how the Google Wave introduction began
or 0x10c in DCPU16 ;)
Boeing is Developing a Secure Android Phone for the U.S. Government
From talking to deberg (matt debergalis) on #meteor, ddp stands for distributed data protocol and in his words "is a combination of remote method invocation and attribute pub sub, tied together in a way that [allows] latency compensation on the client by simulating server methods"
> I prefer direct node creation patterns via `createElement` et al

Which is exactly what many template engines do.

> It seems that you've turned a blind eye

Yup. Might have something to do with this:

I believe jQuery [...] has been sufficiently debunked [...] dissected to show that there's nothing proficient or maintainable inside

a community of inept imbeciles

Shut up, idiot. You know better. (at another developer)

Or more recently: Who the hell is "we"? I own this dump. ;)
Can someone get on crunching numbers so I can get a pie chart on how many users disabled the right-click, how many people never right-clicked (hey, maybe a tutorial-like tooltip bubble that says "Right-click me!" ?), trends in right-click usage over time and separated by geo localisation? That should be trivial to do, I'm sure.
I would politely suggest that he just did. To the most important and selective audience imaginable.
Thank you! It's much appreciated.
Agree to Disagree
Oh man, bad memories. I used to get so frustrated with Internet Explorer* for doing this about 7 years ago. I was young then, 12 or 13, and had just gotten Flash for my birthday. I know it had to be 2004 or 2005 because the version was Flash MX 2004. I was young enough and it was long enough ago that I think I was using Internet Explorer primarily, and got terrible frustrated when they started using this default click-to-play behavior on my Flash creations. How dare they! It took me long enough to figure out how to embed them (I remember I tried using the <img src="" /> tag with a .swf file. HAHA!)

It was something to do with an "ActiveX control," I don't remember anymore. But you should have seen how angry it made 13-year-old-me, because my loud, annoying Flash creations had to be allowed their obnoxiousness by every user. Anyway, the point is I approve. :)

* I'm pretty sure it was IE, could be remembering wrong.
When I see tools like this, I'm jealous of the people who actually get to put them to good use. I program for a living, but at my current job I would be shocked if anyone even knew what tmux was ... heck, even SSH. At home I do use some very "cutting edge" tools, but still can't picture myself being in a scenario, anytime soon, where Wemux solves a problem of mine. I wish I could see myself in that scenario, though. So, who uses these tools and are you hiring? :)
What Github needs is a virtual octocat assistant that helps you with common tasks.

"It looks like you're looking for Github brand image resources.
- Have you tried right-clicking on the Github logo?"
Why not link to the original (much more descriptive) article? http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2012/04/visualizing-oce...
Interesting. I've thought about this very problem before. In fact, I even started building a solution. Most of my emails, like the OPs, ended up as todos, so it makes sense to skip the email part. The idea is that you have buckets of todos, and other people can assign todos directly to you, at which point they show up in your bucket, etc.

The project never grew past MVP, but lately I've been using Asana and it seems to be very close to what I was envisioning. I wonder if they're aiming to be an email replacement down the road. I could certainly see it happening, and they're already on the right path. There's no way they're planning on changing the world [1] with just a todo list app :)

[1] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/facebook-...

> "We think it will be as impactful on the world as Facebook was." - Dustin Moskovitz (fb/asana)
I probably wasn't as clear as I could've been. Obviously we already have Basecamp. That would only be one component and not every feature makes the cut.

I really truly believe that some form of project management can and will replace email and it can become integrated into our lives like Facebook my biggest qualm with project management is the project part. People aren't always necessarily working on projects but we sure do work with groups and keeping track of what's going on in all those groups is tough. I haven't seen anything that does it the way I feel it should yet. I'm not talking socially either. I'm talking about a tool that'll let you see what your family is up to or what your church group is doing etc. Yeah, I just described Facebook but the difference will be in how it lends itself to being used. Like if Facebook and Bascamp had a baby.
There are a few ways to solve this; the simplest might be to replace the OS with a library (a libos) linked into the JVM that implements whatever the JVM needs from an OS API in terms of what a specific VM offers. This is the idea of the MIT Exokernel Operating System, XOK.

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/exo/
Eh, that would get annoying if it was the default behavior. I like to think I have self-control and know how to run Chrome without eating up my RAM or CPU. I don't need this sort of moderation. I don't think most do. I think I would hate it if JS stopped running in the background.

Flash files are worth silencing by default because you don't usually come to the website for them. They're largely unwanted web rodents.
Or CSS3?
I don't understand why big breakage is OK.

Did they break their published APIs? They've only ever published a handful of frankly useless API calls. If it was someone just scraping unpublished routines, that's hardly Google's fault.
Thanks :) That slipped through.
C# - Why is this F# code so slow?
Email has some major problems but I'm not sure helping me file manually is a solution I'm looking for. But I'll be interested in trying Rockit out.

What I am really looking forward to is http://fluent.io
So you're that <1% with their JS turned off. We knew you were out there somewhere.
A great example of technology disrupting existing practices in a very niche area. How do spy agencies recruit today for clandestine operations with so many people on or were on Facebook. Isn't that a lot of people who can blow an operators cover, or find the information on Facebook someone?
If only the illegal drug users in the US saw it the same way, the cartels would be out of business. Maybe a solution to stop the violence?
Efficiency of purely functional programming
Chrome does it somewhat unobtrusively by sticking an icon in the URL bar: http://cl.ly/3I1q3k0X0R1I2G2X1p1S

Works great.
This is actually something that Microsoft Outlook does reasonably well (and it has existed for quite a long time). You can mail around tasks, meeting requests, etc., and they can be automatically added to the recipients' task lists or calendars. Unfortunately, everyone in the organization has to be forced to use Outlook for this kind of stuff to work seamlessly.
Steve Jobs alone is more of a counter culture figure, with the ashram in India, and the drug use, and the whole garage story.

Zuckerberg was a kid from freakin' Harvard and Phillips Exeter. I think the Harvard thing alone disqualifies him from being a counter cultural figure, especially since he has always seemed squeaky clean and fairly intelligent.

As far as the nerds "winning" -- I thought that was the way of the world. Napoleon wasn't some giant, neither was Bill Gates. The idea that the jock's best years are in high school is a pretty well-known trope at this point, often used to comedic effect in movies like Revenge of the Nerds -- or TV shows like Married with Children.

Well-off kids doing well for themselves is hardly unusual or counter cultural -- it's more like that's what we would expect with the advantages afforded to them.
Previous discussion about cryptography implemented in Javascript:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935220

It links here:

http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
If you read Pitman's paper, you can read that his critique is not so much about theoretical issues of interaction of dynamic binding, but about practical issues. Pitman was somebody who wrote and used lots of Lisp code which was used by users (for example Macsyma). Dynamic binding was a side issue - practical compilability a much bigger issue.
The latest game describe sounds a lot like the Myst series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst_(series)
By encrypting the data before turning into a URL neither the server, nor anyone who obtains that URL would be able to read the message without knowing the password.
Fetchnotes: Simple, Cloud-Based Note-Taking Service
> The prime difference here is that most browsers do not throw markup errors or halt execution upon a bad tag; they're extremely lenient. Conversely, direct parser access via JavaScript can throw a host of errors and halt execution (as I noted with IE).

In practice, this just isn't really a problem. The situations in which it can happen are specific and limited enough that I don't know if you got really unlucky sometime or if you're exaggerating for effect, but I've been writing JavaScript since the '90s and have never found this to be much of an issue — particularly since libraries can easily smooth over it.

And if you think innerHTML can throw errors, you should check out the DOM API. The set of valid inputs to the DOM API is far more limited than for innerHTML. document.createElement("oh no") will throw an error in every browser around.
You don't like Israel, fine. To what in my post do you object? How do I act surprised?

BTW, the _government_ of Israel has never been religiously driven, rather it has always been security conscious. The racism, nuclear deterrent, invasions, and assassinations are all a result of security policy (what do you call terrorism?). Condemning countries for espionage/spying (twice!) is kinda strange - all countries engage in espionage. The most egregious, in both this respect and invasions is the US. Do you perchance live on land stolen from Mexico or the American Natives? Enjoying a standard of living dependent on world wide projection of military power? Even if you don't, I think Israel receives a disproportionate amount of criticism for the amount of evil it does.
I agree on all parts - a clickable 'up next' link on the top right, and also a clickable 'previously you learned' link on the top left. Wording should change to fit the layout, of course.

Also some sort of hint that the ToC is clickable, I didn't realize that at first either.

Also, it strikes me that the entire guide should be put on GitHub - did I miss somewhere where it says it is?

All in all this is a great resource along the lines of http://hginit.com/ - which is useful, because the mostly brain-dead students at my university tend to take FOREVER to learn DVCSs. I can't tell you how many times I've had to explain that you really only need to 'git clone' once unless you are checking to make sure you got everything 'right' with the push.

Now instead I'll just point people at this.
It seems that he process lots of his own photographs.
Let us think - how is an engineering department taught by mostly non Engineers? Odd I know, but rumor has it CISE does it. Not so with EE/ECE. BTW, CISE instructors are welcome to join EE/ECE - most of their research is done together already anyway. But hey, who cares about figuring out all of the details, lets just make this a sensation like all the other BS news.
Slight off topic, but I am always puzzled how most conference rooms fail to have a large clock at the back of the room such that a speaker can easily see how they are tracking for time.

If not at the back of the room, a large display at the foot of the stage facing the speaker - the way TED talks display the time to the speaker.

If meeting rooms can remember to embed projectors and speakers in a room, putting a clock on the back wall can't be that difficult.
Kinda like how ezcrypt works? https://ezcrypt.it/
I use right click, slight move the right, left click to go back. A lot quicker than mousing all the way up to the back button, and the four and five button mice never seemed to have caught on.
CISE professors will be able to join EE/ECE.
This is cool!

I think you should implement the hash-based encryption key support from Zerobin, though. That way you could send around the message or the message and the key, as you choose.
It's amazing what reduced market share and influence, and the rise of mobile, Google and Apple does to a company's behavior.
From pg, not long ago, the essay "Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas":

http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

"2. Replace Email

"Email was not designed to be used the way we use it now. Email is not a messaging protocol. It's a todo list. Or rather, my inbox is a todo list, and email is the way things get onto it. But it is a disastrously bad todo list."
Very nice, though I would appreciate a clear "Next" button somewhere, and the table of content seems empty.
Just hold onto your wallet.
The other big problem with email is it’s still never encrypted.

If anyone wants to experiment with such things, please contact me (alanhogan.com/contact), and we can trade public keys. Our experiences will inform a related blog post I am working on.
Why would you want a pastebin app to encrypt your stuff for you? A pastebin is a place where you just post something for random folks to view. It's like imgur for text. Yeah, there's ezcrypt, but I honestly don't see the point.

If you want to password-protect your paste, you are free to pass it through GPG before posting it. Much better security than trusting a third party's JS library which may have been modified in transit or even contain a back door.
Unfortunately mosh didn't place nice with wemux, but I used it today for several hours. Rogue mode was nice.

Thanks zolrath.
Hey! Been missing the rails meetups because we've been working hard for launch for the past few weeks. Hope all is well with your venture!
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