skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of countries around the world have decided to not give a shit about human rights at one point or another.

Most of them only get as far as terrorising their own populations.

The reason to be worried more about the US doing this than with most nations is that most nations don't have the technological edge to cause the level of unprecedented chaos that the US currently has.

The politics on it's own is nowhere near as big a problem as the politics plus the technology.
Awesome work guys. I have been using the beta since the early days and I think this is the only cross platform editor which works really well.
I already do to an extent but come on, you can't tell me you use a completely unique password for EACH of the HUNDREDS of sites that use passwords? That just seems ridiculous, or maybe it's just me...
I'll most likely end up being the same way. I'm slow to switch editors, but every time I hear news about SublimeText I'll launch it and get closer to just making the switch - and by extension, paying.

Compare that to the 7 day trial of Coda 2. Nowhere near enough time to evaluate an editor, let alone wait for the next bugfix if you run into any issues.
Good point regarding text-based steganography. I've had a greater interest in hiding within binary files, though, because they tend to be larger and have highly varied contents. Also, it's very common to share images over email and other means, so doing so wouldn't inherently raise suspicion.
What? It's not like they are sending the transactions by post anymore. This is a colossal screw up and 2 weeks is unacceptable. I wouldn't stand for 2 weeks of downtime on my shitty little hosted website, 2 weeks from a bank would send me to the moon.
Convincing Twitter Bot (Python Script)
Among other interesting insights:

* a machine that crashed once is 100 times more likely to crash again; the more it crashes, the more it's prone to fail again.

* overclocking significantly reduces reliability. One CPU vendor (AMD or Intel, but unspecified) is much worse in this regard, too.

* conversely, underclocking improves reliability.

* branded computers are more reliable than beige boxes.

* laptops are more reliable than desktops.
Interesting, but the obvious weak point is the browser environment itself. How can the code doing the steganography be sure it hasn't been interfered with?
WIPO Quietly Signs An Agreement To Give Hollywood Their Own Special Copyright
That's definitely possible. I just have a hard time giving any company involved (airline or aggregator) the benefit of the doubt...
Do The Math: Ruthless Extrapolation
Hacker news has a format for this
Show HN: Zurker.in - An alternative Social Networking site

and I don't believe it's gaining popularity like Pinterest.
The project name smells too much related to Zuckerberg
I would recommend the ruby test plugin which is really great:
https://github.com/maltize/sublime-text-2-ruby-tests

and Rails Nav:
https://github.com/noklesta/SublimeRailsNav which gives you a pretty neat way navigating your app. Much like the common vi plugins.
These headphones are the standard issue Apple headphones but we could release a higher quality headphone with the same magnetic cord. As for the weight, the magnets are so small they make it only slightly heavier, about the weight of a quarter. From our testing there is not much difference. The magnets secure the split cable under your chin so they stay in place while running.
Readability pukes all over this page.
I love ST2, Vim, and iTerm. On my Mac. I just setup a global key ⌥-t to bring iTerm to front. Not ideally, but good enough for me for now.
From the article:

Tuts+ Premium is the only Envato service that operates with cleartext passwords, and it was a known internal issue for us, with a plan currently in progress to upgrade away from the current plugin.
Being client side JavaScript, you could save it locally and run it as a file:// URL if that is a concern.
Still storing clear text passwords in 2012, how the hell do these people have businesses? I mean, I learned about this stuff at age 12 while learning PHP on my own, how hard can it be?

Getting hacked happens, even to the best but come on, how many times will we have to read blog posts like this one before people wake up? How hard can it be to hash and salt your passwords?

Glad I wasn't one of their customers (and never will be) but it's frustrating how we can't trust anyone with anything these days.
IPad Affects Shunt Settings
1Password (https://agilebits.com/onepassword) is your friend
I'm not 100% certain on this but I think you could hide your email on your profile already.
I love reading things like this and it sounds like you live a very balanced life. Honestly, this sounds like a pretty ideal schedule.

Any advice for someone that still has a day job? I don't have kids but do try to spend a good amount of time with my SO.
i really hoped that he would get a fix in for customizable/better matching brackets indicators before release :( those underlines are just impossible to see, and the alternative plugins that do this are not as good as SynWeb component-based editors or NP++ (scintilla)

http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/19331-better-or-custom...
That is a good point. We do not recommend using these with those models as the magnets would cause problems.
Surely in this day and age, it really needs to be at least cloned to the cloud.

People almost expect web-based / cloud stuff now with mobile devices and multiple places they will want access to their notes.

I'm still trying to work out how you are going to differentiate with the likes of Evernote and co though.
http://ryancarson.com/post/25580650719/7-dos-and-donts-for-f... some more info in there for you mate.
Still, this not being priority number one for them (before even making this service public!) means I will never do business with them. It says a lot about how they value their customers.
The money will be spent on funding a full-time development sprint to v1. This includes the funding of sub-contractors assigned to building specific components. And a meager salary for myself, enough to pay bills so I can focus on this full time without distraction.

To clarify, the idea and product direction are already mature. Thanks for the feedback - hopefully I can win you over once v1 is available.
Mars Rover Landing "7 Minutes of Terror"
Short answer: Blogs.

Long answer: Blogging. Seriously. Write about interesting topics related to your startup. Start to pique people's interest in your product. That's where the best (and free) traffic comes from.
We could easily introduce a high quality version. It sounds like that is what you guys want, so that is what we will do!
Is there some joke I'm missing out on? Why does this belong here?
"plan currently in progress" - A bit late, don't you think?
The sad thing is, it's completely trivial and non-disruptive to switch to from a cleartext database to a hashed+salted one.
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There are quite a few ways to automate that. Lastpass, Keepass, KeepassX, 1Password, ...
Over here they tend to deliberately keep them open (and will encourage you to leave 5 pounds in there to do so), presumably to inflate their statistics.
Seems like a lot of moving parts
Why Johnny Can't Add Without a Calculator
It sounds like Paste and Indent is what you're after: Command+Shift+V, or some users prefer to just bind this to Command+V, a la TextMate.
I just tried Sublime 2 and I must admit I don't "get it." It seems like a basic editor with several features which Notepad++ already had.

Specifically for programming I cannot see why you would use this as opposed to something like Visual Studio with its context aware auto-complete (massive productivity increase).

But then again I also don't get why someone would use Vim or Emacs when you have GUI based tools available (even freely). Even for non-Windows programming Eclipse exists and has a decent (if slow) context aware auto-complete for many languages.

The only justification I've ever heard for people's continued use of tools like this boil down to either "I know the shortcut keys" or "I don't have to use the mouse."

Which to me is odd within its self as very little of my programming efficiency is lost mousing around, and a lot more lost having to jump around code blocks because auto-complete didn't magically know what an object's members were...
For the same reason PHP gets so much hate - both are tools with valid uses, but because they make hard things easier for people, that means that people who have no idea what they're doing can do very bad things.

Hating on a tool is ridiculous.
Pointing out how flexible Haskell's type system is just proves how inflexible type systems generally are. It doesn't really demonstrate that most type systems are useful.
So far numbers I've seen seem to acknowledge a failure rate of SSDs in the same ballpark as spinning rust but it's only been slightly over a year that most SSDs are actually reliable. Many, many old models were absolutely terrible. Hence I think it may be difficult yet to draw reliable conclusions.
I'm confused about the Compatibility section. Do these headphones not work in non-Apple devices? If so, why? I wasn't aware that there were proprietary specs for headphones. I use the standard Apple headphones in other devices all of the time without issue. What is different about this product?
Question: I'm an Emacs user, and haven't checked out ST or ST2. Is it comparable in terms of flexibility++?
As far as I was aware there was a patch like that available for the ZMQ 3.0 but was nixed for 3.1, same with a patch to deal with the issue of 1000 clients on an XREP socket, where the first 999 disappear and thus don't need to have their messages processed and should just be dropped on the XREP socket... that was added in 3.0 and then reverted in 3.1.

I've worked around a lot of issues in ZeroMQ with retries, heartbeats, and stuff like that, but it just feels kludgy and like I am writing code that should be part of the library. I've looked at adding the functionality myself from the old patchsets that were available and neither were straight forward to implement. The code (at least ZeroMQ) is somewhat of a mess and difficult to follow/understand and I am saying that as a C++ programmer working on large enterprise applications.
Sounds like he wants union work, then, with the benefits (such as complete wage transparency and information clarify) but also the detriments (lobsters in a pot pulling each other down, impossible to exceed the boundaries of a position).

I don't want union work. When I hear people whine and bitch because they think they're worth as much as other employees...I don't know but it really makes me dislike them. I despise that mentality. Someone else negotiated better than you -- suck it up, crybaby.
If you can secure the patent, sounds like licensing might be the way to go here. Competing on the quality of the headphone is an entirely different (and expensive) problem, crowded with a ton of established companies. And if the headphones you produce aren't of decent quality, my hunch is that people won't buy them b/c sound is going to trump the inconvenience of tangled wires.
Funny, I suspect that SSDs have much higher real-world failure rates. (My personal, limited, anecdotal evidence is that my 64 GB Crucial M4 SSD lasted about a year as the root drive in a busy Linux desktop, while I have a stack of about a dozen hard drives that have been retired due to being too small or too slow while still working fine.)

Lack of moving parts is great, but flash allows a finite number of write cycles.
This is one of the most informative sales articles I've read on Hacker News. Great job Wade! I love hearing the nitty gritty of the early sales process. I mentioned this on the comments section of the blog, but I'd love to hear about how you guys are planning on creating a scalable and repeatable sales process as well.
Salt the password with characters from the url. Maybe your password is P4ssw0rd, so your HN password is Py4csosw0rd. I've been using this scheme for years, works great!
been using it for the past few months, simply amazing and joyful. props for the great work!
I cross-posted this to reddit, cos I like it there too:

http://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/vmo71/envoy_a_simple...
Looks like it works well if you wrap them right away, but I can envision it being worse than no magnets if you just toss them in your bag.
How Banks are Fighting Back against Credit Unions
5 Changes Your IT Department Should Make to Adapt to the Cloud
> the fact that's it's not so appealing puts some people off but also rewards those working hard at it

Right... why would you want to only reward your users who work hard? That's idiotic.

Why wouldn't you want to make the site easy to use, with high-quality data, for everyone? When that really wouldn't be that hard to do.

When I was apartment-hunting, over the course of weeks, I literally learned how to recognize particularly spammy brokers by the formatting of their headlines, so I wouldn't click on them... (Four asterisks at beginning and end? Ignore. All-caps with a strange abbreviation for bedroom? Ignore. Etc.) This is a skill I deeply wish I hadn't had to learn. It's ridiculous.
I am surprised nobody mentioned EverNote: feature rich, API/apps/development community, multiple platforms, file sync, freemium model. I did consider using it long time ago them but turns out excel file is enough for me...

Maybe develop great evernote app to solve single but tough problem first?
Uh ok Facebook.com email address scraping issue
lol i cant be the only one that thought of this scraping issue aspect this morning can i?
what the hell is this? A long demented rant!!
Of course. And the way I'd like to do that is by decentralizing the data. Empowering the users to sync notes on their own terms (ie- your Mindfolder can reside in your Dropbox, SkyDrive, etc).

So that in itself touches upon the major differentiator from Evernote and other 'cloud note' providers . Not everyone wants their most deepest desires & ideas in the cloud.
I love you

edit: if anyone is curious,

Preferences > Key Bindings > Default [edit: should use User as noted below]

ctrl+f paste, and change

{ "keys": ["super+v"], "command": "paste" },
{ "keys": ["super+shift+v"], "command": "paste_and_indent" },

to

{ "keys": ["super+shift+v"], "command": "paste" },
{ "keys": ["super+v"], "command": "paste_and_indent" },
Too bad CPU temperature was not part of the collection of data used in the study.
The Yammer contract
As an Intellij user (and Emacs way before that) I'm trying to give this a chance, but I see no way to click-navigate through source code. Am I missing something? I tried installing SublimeCodeIntel, and that lets me (occasionally) navigate to symbols in the current file. But I don't seem to be able to click through to symbols defined in other files/classes. Am I missing something fundamental, or is this strictly the domain of the IDEs?
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This is one of those start ups when you say, "wow, what took so long" With all of the credit card reward programs out there, it was only a matter of time until this came along. Everyone loves points, but sometimes consumers need to put on bifocals to read the terms and conditions and when the best times/places to use their card. Wallaby is basically going to do that for them on one card. This is amazing.
Hey Ryan,

I'm just curious how you handle spending quality time with your employees. I've worked at companies where the CEO is never around, and when you do meet with him, it's in meetings that feel rushed and they are always looking at their watch for the next meeting. Frankly, it's disrespectful and it does negatively impact the morale of the team.

I'm in the CEO role right now, and I'm realizing a lot of meetings that we schedule are frankly worthless. We'd be better off canceling them and spending time working on stuff with the team.

As a side note, I enjoyed watching some of the making of the Boeing 777 (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3551731641323350192). Then-CEO Alan Mulally is often in meetings with the employees and not trying to control every thing. It's pretty refreshing.
The headphones will work in non-Apple devices. The compatibility is for the attached mic/remote. The microphone will most likely work in other devices but the remote probably will not.
Am I the only one that can use the Apple provided slider, slide it to the top, then wrap my headphones neatly and put them into a pocket in my bag and have them come out the same way they went in?

I haven't had issues with tangled headphones for years now...
White House Wants To Hear From You Concerning Strategy For IP Enforcement
wazoox: thanks. Do you recall the source(s) for those numbers?
A basic terminal is 100% feasible under the plugin API... see http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/api_reference.html#sublime... ... although to capture keystrokes, you'd need to bind a keystroke to every single key with every single combination of modifiers.

EDIT: Some insane person seems to have done this: https://github.com/wuub/SublimePTY
What is this d2.js? I'm finding nothing about it on Google or Github...
Speedy Upgrade to Firefox for Android
I think the answer depends on your startup. Social startups have a nice advantage in usually having a viral mechanism. Anything that's sufficiently better than what's already out there will often be something that people want to tell their friends/colleagues about. That's reliable, but from what I've seen word-of-mouth does take a bit longer than most people would expect. There's countless ways, but none can guarantee large volumes of traffic unless you have a similarly large budget. This is part of what makes starting a startup so difficult.
No. The titles may give that impression but the content is useful. He shares useful links and details. For example his explanation for using trello vs other products in a previous post. Let's also remember the hacker news community includes many people who have never done a startup and keen to get as much knowledge as possible before they eventually do it. Ryan's content is far more useful to them than the latest news on JS.
He can't hear you. He's at the gym.
Genius use of Pinterest by UNIQLO. Keep scrolling down.
Get LastPass (it's free and totally safe since it's client-side encrypted), but if you don't want that you can just use SuperGenPass.

http://lastpass.com/
http://supergenpass.com/
He can go to bed at 10 pm and wake up at 5 am? I go to bed at 10 and wake up still extremely tired at 7 am...
It's fine to put magnets like this on hard drives. They are not strong enough to do any damage, especially given the space between the platters and the magnet that the case of the drive and iPod ensure. (Credit cards with high-coercivity magstripes are similarly immune.)
I love mornings. I don't need to wake up that early
As a regular author for Tuts+ I am absolutely FUMING with them.
dripton: I hear you, but note that I'm not interested in write-cycle limits nor MTBF stats obtained in a lab setting; I'd just like to know the real-world rate of hardware failure of SSDs.
Can I just say I love the pricing model. It's paid software, with an unenforced 'trial period'. Relying on coders who use a text editor all day and appreciate good software and want to compensate someone for their good software. +1 humans.
The hard drive itself contains comparatively huge neodymium permanent magnets. Those tiny magnets on the headphones will not affect the hard drive.
Totally agree and in addition to that, Tell your story, tell stories about your startup, product, people, bear etc..
They are currently patent-pending. We are working with a manufacturer who already produce headphones. They make a range of models from cheap, average quality headphones to expensive high quality models. We can incorporate this design into all of them.
I've used Highcharts (http://www.highcharts.com/) for a couple of projects and they have been very nice.
Code Browser v4 coming up
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/understanding-hash-fun...
The ISP can still track what domain you're going to if you use https.
How much does the just the headphone cord weigh (i.e. without the ear buds or the jack)? I would guess it's less than a quarter, so that you're more than doubling the cord weight, but I don't know. It's the proportional change in cord weight which is important.
Wallaby Combines All Your Credit Cards Into One
Where does the traffic to your blog come from? Web search?
Come back Nigel Farage http://www.nigelfaragemep.co.uk/
All is forgiven!

Watch some of his videos laying into the commissioner(s) at the EU parliament. Quite amusing but it seems to be just what they need and deserve.
"You have a relational mapping problem. 'I know', you say. 'I'll use an ORM.' You now have two problems."

That just about sums up my experience with ORMs. Of course, like all things in the real world, experiences vary. However, I do think that generally, ORMs solve none of the difficult relational mapping problems and adds another layer of abstraction that complicates things like performance tuning to the point of negating any other benefits they may bring.
Apple's secret weapon : Design patents
their tutorials are good
Wallaby Launches the Cloud Wallet for Credit Cards
The core of fowler's article is, "what is the alternative to ORMs?" - and the answer is there isn't much other than rolling your own.

This is not at all analogous to PHP where there is an abundance of alternatives to it's mediocre design. PHP isn't hated because of its concept - a "web-based scripting language". It's hated because it's done very poorly. Just like a lot of bad ORMs Fowler refers to.
We should start a new award for web sites with crap password security. Let's name it after Robert Morris (Senior) who essentially inventing password hashing.

A Morris Award would be a bit like a Darwin Award for people who've failed to learn anything about password security and in doing so have been exposed.

Recent Morris Award winners: LinkedIn, last.fm, eHarmony, Tuts+, ...
if you switch to tmux, then you can have term-agnostic split panes
Yea but wrapping them up right away would be a sinch, right? 1-2 seconds.
You are not. Although, I had more trouble with the Apple earbuds than with a more premium earbud.
For this reason Facebook connect/Twitter login are becoming popular. 1password, lastpass, keypass etc are not that popular among casual users.
Agree - HSBC - good experience for me. I've been with HSBC UK for personal use for about five years. Their online banking is what I'd expect - allows for low-hassle international FX transfers, security seems solid, stuff works, no user interface horror. On the phone they're consistently helpful. Like the parent, they block my card the moment I do too many transactions with new overseas providers without warning them. But they sort it out quickly if you call and verify.
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I personally haven't heard/seen anyone griping about ORMs for a couple of years now. I thought the debate was over. Much like you rarely see anyone talk about stored procedures these days.
You're absolutely right and things should work that way. But these are in fact political appointments yet their point is to give the member states a sense of entitlement. Once the voters have lost their confidence in the political party to which the commissioners belong, there's no reason for them to be there, as they really haven't been elected by the people. Moreover, they are unlikely to play second fiddle any longer, the temptation to stick to their own narrow agendas is just too strong. Keep in mind that these people are professional politicians, not technicians.
The universe tends to favor people born fortunate enough to be in a position to earn an MBA. Indeed, just being able to live and work in the US is evidence that life could easily have been worse.