skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much is just hosting this service costing you? I can't see any method of payment, do you have plans to monetize it?

Great MVP by the way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS7hkwbKmBM
The reason the US is commonly brought into this is because of misunderstanding of the circumstances and general suspicion.

First off, sexual assault and rape laws are very different in Sweden, and the crimes he has allegedly committed wouldn't be translated as assault or rape in most countries. Though that doesn't necessarily mean he didn't do something bad to someone that requires legal recourse; what currently stands are accusations of crime under Sweden's legal code.

More importantly, suspicion arises because the Swedish prosecutor's office initially withdrew the rape charge and warrant for Assange's arrest, and weeks later the charge was brought back. Some time after that, a European arrest warrant was issued. Some are suspicious that this was due to pressure from the US government, as they would like to see Assange in prison, but I'm not going to give my opinion.

Also, Assange has yet to be charged. I'm not sure how this works in Sweden, but it seems in this case that they don't want to charge Assange until after a second round of questioning. That is what the extradition is for.
Roles are much more muddled tbetween the agencies these days. FBI is now all over the world, NSA looks at the homeland too. I don't think it's part of a conscious effort, but more from a business/prestige standpoint. IE, every group wants all their own in house capabilities, to do everything. also, I'm much more comfortable with the FBI than the NSA. FBI seems to have a more grounded approach in what the could and should be doing, whereas the NSA seems more entrepreneurial, if that makes any sense to you.
The web application course is taught by Steve Huffman (creator of Reddit) and the first lesson is actually to write a "Hello World" script and publish it on App Engine.

For anyone new to Python, I highly recommend Udacity. It's still a little unbelievable to me that it's free.

*edit: I should have mentioned that this course uses app engine throughout it's entirety. Not just the first lesson :)
I didn't put any judgement in my post except to call it trash, which is what it is. Trash collectors are certainly honorable, but they collect trash
Stephen Pinker from MIT has written some fascinating books on this very subject
Hmm... so many different places to set background images for. Wonder when I'll be able to set a background image for my browser and have that apply as default for any website that doesn't override it. Is that possible with an extension?
I'm sure people at Microsoft didn't plan for that to freeze and they were pissed that it did but note that when apple product sees the light of the day, it's already the final product not a beta product as this was. And as far as I am reading, people seem to be impressed by it a lot.

Now you can always argue why Microsoft chose it to demo it now in its beta form but that is anybody's guess.
I think one approach would be to use RNGs in a slightly different way. Instead of a 'random walk' of various API calls, define a possible outcome category, and choose a random number to be the quantity of that outcome.

So for the bounded queue problem, set the outcome category to be "elements in queue". Say you get 3, 12, and 7 as your first three random numbers. Then the first three test cases would be "get the load to 3 elements", "get the capacity to 12 elements", "get the capacity to 7 elements".
I understand, but it's the UK who are allowing the extradition, which, he, Assange, clearly disagrees with.
It's funny you should say this. I practically did the same thing, from a different perspective.

I ran my own little IRC server when I was a teenager, and one day I noticed a lot of my friends were being disconnected from the server. After some more investigation, it seemed like they were actually being disconnected completely from the Internet. Bit odd.

Upon more investigation, I found an acquaintance had something like 10,000 bots (spybot/rxbot) going through my server (yes, a simple /list could have sufficed...) and when I looked at the topic of his channels, and noticed they consisted primarily of commands to control to the botnet. "startkeylogger" sort of thing.

A few more pokes, I realised it was Norton Antivirus that was listening to port 6667 for any "bad" commands, and then disconnecting the user from the internet. I thought this was hilarious, and went to Efnet, tried it in a large channel and watched 400 people disconnect. Then I felt quite bad, so I emailed Norton, and received no reply.

Something like two years later, I notice the same exploit on the main page of Slashdot, and chaos ensured. It did make me feel pretty cool, "ha! I knew something before all you big uber leet haxxors!" :]

Sadly, my acquaintance didn't mature like the rest of us and decided to use his knowledge and skills to do naughty things, and the FBI got him. Good riddance.
I. Will. Reply. Like. This. To. Seek. Attention.
Does anyone know if all webcams have the activity light hardwired in-line with the webcam itself. I have always wondered if the light is a definitive indicator whether the cam is on, or if the light can be deactivated. Sorry, I guess this only applies to non-Mac, mostly Win, machines as something so plebeian as an indicator light would never make it into a Mac.
Ask HN: Easy Screen-sharing for code interviews?
The start-up I'm working at is currently hiring, so we plan on conducting some remote coding interviews. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a simple screen-sharing website that would be good for looking at the same piece of code?
http://www.codinghorror.com is full of gems. Also http://www.joelonsoftware.com has some excellent stuff (albeit a bit more management suited).
I tend toward #2.
Also, "The answer to that question cannot possibly violate the privacy of any individual."

It would violate privacy if they were monitoring all web/phone/mail traffic which would effectively bring the number to all american citizens and revealing that would violate everyones individual privacy. Maybe.
UVA = U.VA. = U. of VA. = the University of Virgina.
The ones I saw, they do not only do that when a demo fails. Almost every single part of a demo runs on a different machine. That minimizes the risk that your demo, by a series of minute deviations from the script, ends up in uncharted waters (this is especially true in alpha or beta software). It introduces a risk of inconsistencies between scene cuts. Those you can minimize by making sure that the 'scenes' at cut points aren't too complex, and by rehearsing, rehearsing, rehearsing.
Certainly there was a time when the USA seemed to be the the leaders of this kind of innovation. We're leaders of a different kind now.

The video for the 15 story hotel they built super quickly seems to show an innovative design that is also very high quality-- probably higher quality than alternatives.

The construction is impressively earth quake resistant. The air purification system, if I understood what was happening, was also innovative. The 4 pane glass windows seems cool, and since they are sealed, there's no need to clean the blinds.

Certainly China can bring more cheap labor to a project than the USA can. But this company seems to be re-thinking things in ways that the USA could emulate-- for instance, building floors offsite (including laying down the floor tile) and then trucking them to the site for assembly.

Walt Disney experimented with modular assembly back in the day, and certainly a lot of other US companies have tried it to varying degrees. This company seems to have fully embraced it in a way that the US-- despite having a head start it seems-- has not. Not sure why that is, as offsite construction of major components seems advantageous to me.
Language isn't an invention, it's co-evolved with Homo Sapiens.

I highly recommend The Symbolic Species for the current state of the art in language origin theories. http://www.amazon.com/The-Symbolic-Species-Co-Evolution-Lang...
Pinerly.com takes pitch decks to the next level in 3d
Moreso, there aren't any specifications released with the announcement as far as I know.

Before anyone says 'specs don't matter anymore! End-users don't care!' — knowing nothing about a device is far worse.
I mostly disagree with this article. Disclaimer: I live in NYC and not the valley, but I think this just makes my point stronger.

Ideas are a dime a dozen. Many can be great. Execution is what separates the wheat from the chaff. And most of the time, the Minimum Viable Product has become cheaper to produce and iterate, than ever. So the startup costs are minimal.

I would actually say the opposite. People live lives, companies create products. You will have MANY ideas in your life. Make sure to maximize your chances of succeeding in your first venture. If you do, and then you exit, you will have connections, a reputation, a track record, lots of money, and you will be able to own the crap out of your next companies and do whatever you want.

That probably means your first venture shouldn't be the next Google or Facebook, so that you can bear giving away equity in it to people and give them responsibilities. Investors, mentors, coders, designers, marketers, etc. People who do things better than you in their respective fields. If you are reluctant to give up equity, your first startup will be hobbled in its resources, you will have to wear many hats and wear yourself thin. Why do it?

Companies create products. People live lives. Enjoy yours while you are young. Create a group around you that is passionate. What was that Aesop's fable? Oh yes:

http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/milowinter/13.htm

I think that the individualistic culture in the USA has produced some amazing things, but the power of groups is just beginning. The open source movement is a great example, but as people get better tools to organize themselves, groups will become more and more efficient.

The nice thing about groups is that they can do more. An individual is just a group with one person. If set up right, larger groups are also not as fragile, if one member leaves or decides to take a break. They have more connections, they have more resources to grow.

In short: you will have plenty of ideas. Don't make your first one into something that you will take responsibility for and take on the risk all by yourself. Rather than letting it consume your life, land your first success. You will always be able to own and enjoy your next ideas, and have more OPTIONS to execute them how you want.
Sticking with koush's DeskSMS for now. Support the indie devs!
If MS pulls this off well (and that is a big "if"), it may convert me from the iPad. Right now, I have an iPad and a MB Air. I'm missing having a workhorse (MB Pro), but I don't want three devices and I really like the casual aspects of the iPad.
I wouldn't say you want to memorize the presentation.

In fact I think the more you write out for yourself, write on your slides, or try to memorize, the more difficult the presentation becomes.

The practice is more about stumbling a bunch of times. I hate when I repeat the same word or phrase within a few sentences of each other. If I notice that I say the same thing twice on one slide, maybe I'll stand there for a second and think of a new way. The next time I practice through I might use a 3rd way, but at least I'm not repeating.

I only really memorize maybe the first two sentences I'm going to stay just to get the ball rolling smoothly, and maybe a final sentence so my exit is clean.
In Europe, 'populist' is basically the lowbrow version of 'demagogue'.
You may not interact with them usually but that doesn't mean they can't stop you. They do it before you pass them. I've had it happen in both the US and Canada.
Great theme !

Please add support to django framework.

http://www.djangoproject.com
As time goes on, the number has certainly decreased. Look at how popular rss ands sites like reddit are.

In fact, in terms of my actual daily "rotation" of sites, there are exactly 3: Reddit, HN, and Gmail.

I absolutely want to visit less sites. Stack-Exchange as a product for me would have significantly more value to me as an integrated network, rather than the current mish-mash of partitioned off sites. Let me search all questions, let all questions (in tags I don't have filtered, and of subject areas I've added) appear in my questions list.
Fundamental Attribution Error is a very real thing that definitely applies to SV startup culture.

To put it in simpler terms, luck is a far more important factor than skill in determining whether any given entrepreneur or startup succeeds.

Unfortunately he had to add a bunch of nonsense commentary like the Bret Taylor stuff, but his main premise is certainly accurate.

It also applies to VC's and Angels. They are praised when they get in early on companies that end up making a fortune. Some of them are surely great investors - others are just blindly throwing darts and end up getting insanely lucky. Good luck trying to explain to that TechCrunch.
The relationship between language and thought is unclear. To be polarising, psychologists believe that language influences thought/culture and linguists believe that thought/culture influences language. There are evidence to support both conclusions, but most of the debate in popular media focuses on examples that are severely misinterpreted. For example, if Language A does not distinguish green and blue, it does not necessarily mean that the speakers of Language A cannot distinguish them, but only that Language A does not distinguish them linguistically. A more concrete example: many languages, such as Chinese, lack linguistic tense (e.g. past, present, future)—using instead aspectual markers (e.g. perfective, imperfective)—, but this does not mean that Chinese speakers cannot understand temporal relations (nor that they could not still express such notions linguistically). Similarly, Russian has separate words for light blue and dark blue, but English speakers can still express these two distinct shades despite not having two separate, distinct words. In short, one has to be extremely cautious about making such broad generalisations without fully understanding the empirical data and, ideally, linguistic theory. See the debate in the Economist between Boroditsky and Liberman for more on this topic: http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/190
Wow. You can choose between light and dark. This is not a theme, but rather a background you can change. That's it. Want to change the opacity of the overlay? Too bad. Want to customize colors? Too bad. Want a scroll bar that you can see and is not just a gray blob on the side? Too bad.
Furthermore, Assange specifically asked the prosecutors office if we was free to leave the country and they said yes.
>The goal of all of those entities I listed is to make money.

No its not.You obviously know enough about this topic, yet you make this dubious claim. The goal is to be in the black to not go in the red. That's a very specific accounting goal, look it up.

> The point is to note the fact that there's A LOT more profit in big tech than in big finance.

Please dude. Apple isn't taking that "LOT more profit" and subdividing it among its employees, yeah ? Whereas when you run a tiny hedge fund and take in a tiny $7m, that turns into a tiny $2m windfall for you personally. Lot easier to do if you have the skills, and certainly a lot more lucrative.
Chinese forced to patch, use firewalls for net banking
Ecuador is not a part of the EU (obviously) so that would not matter, would it?
+1, work events get into my phone through an Exchange account. This would be wonderfully useful!
If you really want to enforce something like this, REQUIRE a valid passport. If they produce an Iranian one, then don't sell it.

Yes! It makes me wonder if the Apple store employee used to be an ignorant TSA worker.
Julian's situation seems very weird to me, given the stories about how secretive he was, how he kept in hiding, etc. At the same time, he was very clearly and publicly the face of wikileaks.

Why did he not simply remain anonymous? All that Wikileaks has done could be done without having a public figurehead, right?

Being public seems to have been the tactical error. (or was he trying to be anonymous, but got outed at some point and then given that he couldn't be anonymous anymore he decided to embrace it?)
It still has the largest installed base, but Android is already shipping about as many devices as Windows one every year, and it's growing much faster than Windows devices. There are estimates for 5 billion smartphones in a few years. So there is a lot of room for growth for Android.

My point is that Windows won't have the largest ecosystem for long. Plus, it's not the "most exciting" ecosystem right now to developers. Most developers will develop for iOS first for years to come, and also Android. It remains to be seen how they will embrace Metro.
As you admit, you just made a mistake in an assertion about unsigned arithmetic. You're not very convincing! ;)
Um, thanks? They say UVa actually, but yeah I can see how not everyone would see UVA and know what it was.
William Wulf is a seriously big deal in my book.
Smart suggestion. There is a grain of truth in what the article says, but it's a little confused.

The article is also conflating two things: the (unknown) internal state of the system, which could live in a very high-dimensional space, and the system inputs, which move the internal state around in a not-understood way, but which you at least get to choose directly.

The cases the article examines use an internal state of a number, inputs of +1 or -1, and the system dynamics:

state(t) = state(t-1) + input(t)

(E.g., "state" is "number of open files".) The CLT does apply in this case, but it's clear that this is a very narrow case.

I'm not aware of convergence results that hold in any generality here. There are concepts from control theory of observability and controllability (where can the internal state go, and how can you read it out). And there are the concepts from nonlinear dynamics of attractors.
Fujitsu cracks 923 bit pairing-crypto in ~5 months
Not sure if you saw my edit above, but Ecuador has an extradition treaty with the EU, which includes Sweden.
I'll add that by all accounts she was beloved and was doing what was widely considered a great job. NOBODY was openly complaining, it was very sudden.
Introducing Redpomo: manage Redmine issues and timetracks from CLI
The problem is not whether a validator spits several errors or not, HTML validators are tools designed to point out stuff that is not conforming to the specs. It's stuff that you should avoid, not that will necessarily break your application on any web browser.

Why should you avoid it? Because, basically, if it's explicitly forbidden, or not covered by spec, you can't be sure of what will happen in all (or newer) browser implementations. If there's no defined behavior for some code, any behavior is correct.

Also, it's not like you have to go an extra mile in order to follow the specs here.
And how many people were killed by those two accidents ..........
er, i guess i should have linked here: http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2012/20...
I would not use a website for this purpose. I would use a real-time code collaboration tool such as gobby (open-source, cross-platform). Even better, setting up a sobby server can also give your crew a chance to play with code as a team.
Stanford and Piazza Add Peer Collaboration to 'iOS App Development' Course
Still, a policy agreed on in the UN would legitimize laws being created in the member countries. When criticized, they would point at the UN.
Rush to build the tallest structure in the world? What could possibly go wrong?

This thing has all the makings of the soon to be longest freestanding structure in the world.
So much for hiring "geniuses"...
Assange stayed in Sweden for 5 weeks to be interrogated and only left Sweden after asking permission to do so from the Swedish Prosecutor.

Saying this is all about avoid accusations of sexual assault seems to contradict the actual facts.
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That's a neat variation on the old PING +++ATH0 trick.
My mistake. In any event, this has nothing to do with the US government.
But doesn't your programming language change how you think about problems? Does a Lisp expert think the same way as a Java expert? Our spoken language is not something that was designed but is an artefact of thousands of years of social interaction. Of course most of the time it doesn't matter, but sometimes it does.
SaneBox[1] has been a game changer for me on this front. I had to change the way I deal with email a bit to conform to their recommended practices, but since then email hasn't been a problem for me at all.

[1] https://www.sanebox.com/
When I paste text into a textarea or input fields using the mouse, your models don't update.
Are you kidding? The book is 15 years old. I did enjoy it very much in 1997, though.
Open Source, Android Push Evolution of Mobile Cloud Apps
I'm a loyal lastpass user, but this is the first that I'm hearing about this. After reading their detailed documentation ( http://helpdesk.lastpass.com/lastpass-credit-monitoring/ ) I think it sounds pretty damn cool.

10 bucks a month is a bit, but the features seem like it might be worth it. The free tier providing alerts for things like address changes, new accounts and etc also seems very helpful--and geared towards the security minded people that Lastpass already attracts.

I agree that credit check sites are notoriously scammy, but this actually seems like a good additional to a good service.
Square! Path! For God's sake you can kind of throw Spotify in there!
Thought so!
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Thank you for your response, Roshan. Bloc.io sounds like what I'm ultimately going to need to do. I'd been considering just taking a course locally but had reservations about finding something that fit my schedule and was taught by someone I felt knew what they were talking about.
"When Jack Dorsey left to found Square, he made the biggest miste.... wait no, when Dave Morin left Facebook to start Path he made the biggest mist..... shit"
The woman who tried to buy the iPad is a US citizen. The guy should have asked for an ID. Now it's just an embarrassment for Apple.
It is hard to read this story without thinking about the massive scale of "we just built this building, but we're going to tear it down because it is a deathtrap" demolitions that are happening in Beijing and the other populous cities in China that are still growing at obscene rates: http://www.zerohedge.com/article/china-proudly-demolishing-b...
Totally off-topic but: I wish you'd comment more often here.
join.me is a great & free service.
If you want to refer to a populist pejoratively, you call them a demagogue.
Yes, but what you're providing is _not_ the Google Knowledge graph. You should not claim that you are.
They've had a feature for a long time where you can mark which tags you want to see and which you don't.
While I too would like to make derogatory remarks about unions, regulations, hippies, and the rest of our society that seem to make a living off of inhibiting progress ...

The truth of the matter is that this is bullshit. The "hotel in 2 weeks" story already appeared on HN and was thoroughly discredited. This doesn't seem much more plausible.

In the end, if you want the building to stand for more than a year or two, it will take a certain amount of engineering, effort, and time to do it. The Empire State Building took more than a year to build. That sounds about right for any skyscraper, even with our more advanced tech.