skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really enjoying the "How to Break into Security" posts you linked to.

The infosec (specifically, appsec) space seems very very interesting.
Related question. Am I wrong in assuming virtually every business that has a "cash only" policy does so to facilitate tax fraud?

I know there are legit exceptions, but isn't this the main reason they do it?
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How do you think the malware will be installed?

I doubt you can access a web site or use USB port on it.
I just got a rMBP yesterday. It's surprising/disappointing to me how gross non-retina apps and websites look. Almost worth switching back.. almost. Retina apps are so buttery smooth. I really hope there is wider adoption over the next couple of months.
This is also one of the "big ideas" in the book _Eifelheim_, under the name "cliometrics".

SPOILERS (just little ones, but still)

Essentially, a historical visitation by aliens is revealed due to the failure of a certain group of people to fit the mathematical model of what their history should have been- the arrival of aliens was not considered as a factor in the theory.
That's a really nice monospace.
Man, I will never understand these users.
The full text is here (pdf): http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112s3414pcs/pdf/BILLS-112...

No abortion in the final voted-on text, but you appear to be correct on the proposed amendment. Digging through the bowels of thomas.loc.gov, it looks like, somewhat bizarrely, Mike Lee (R-UT) proposed an amendment to the cybersecurity bill that would restrict abortion in Washington, D.C., under the federal government's legislative authority for the federal district:

> SA 2716. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 3414, to enhance the security and resiliency of the cyber and communications infrastructure of the United States; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

> At the appropriate place, insert the following:

> SEC. __X. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PAIN-CAPABLE UNBORN CHILD PROTECTION ACT.

> (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the ``District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act''.

> (b) Legislative Findings.--Congress finds and declares the following:

> (1) Pain receptors (nociceptors) are present throughout the unborn child's entire body and nerves link these receptors to the brain's thalamus and subcortical plate by no later than 20 weeks after fertilization.

etc.
The LuaJIT maintainer is missing that Apple does not claim any conformance to ARM EABI. Apple's ABI is defined to be based on the AAPCS standard, but Apple makes no claims to it being exact.

In other words, it's not Linux, and it sounds like the LuaJIT maintainer is annoyed that it doesn't follow a common approach used on Linux.

Anyone that works on low-level implementations that sit below the standard platform compiler should expect this kind of thing when supporting multiple platforms.

Source: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Xcode/...
The fake meat this article discusses is soy-based.
"have a better nutrition profile (no cholesterol, no saturated fat, but lots of protein)"

That's probably a worse nutritional profile. Naturally raised meats are rich in the healthy saturated fats, such as stearic acid.

And I thought the cholesterol boogy-man had been thoroughly debunked by now.

Please link a properly conducted study that shows that naturally grown meat is unhealthy, or that the saturated fat from naturally grown meat is unhealthy. Most fat studies don't differentiate plant based saturated fats with meat based ones or with trans-fats. Most meat studies don't differentiate between red meat and processed meat. It's not the meat in the hot dog that makes the hot dog unhealthy.
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Exactly. Sass/Less have functions to adjust brightness and saturation for just this reason. I routinely tweak saturation so link and hover colors "read" the same on a white background versus even a light grey header.
Smideo: Create slideshows using Youtube, Images or screen casts.
At the risk of sounding like a vegan fanboy, there could be a lot of money in this. The article said that currently it's not cheaper to produce than factory farming, but I think it's only a matter of time for that to happen and as such something that tastes like meat and is healthier should make the producers rich. The meat industry is a billion dollar industry with a lot of inefficiencies. This won't just be for vegetarians. I think this isn't just converting some meat eaters to eating "fake" meat (perhaps at the start) but to actually change the industry.
This reads exactly like the Objective-C tutorial would, with an analogue syntax, manual instantiation of views (as compared to IB), and a different set of command-line-only tools.
Doesn't seem to be working for me, I get a 'sorry you can't do that' error.

Once it's up again I'll take a deeper look, inventory needs help and i look forward to seeing your solution.
Apple wants dismissal, winning verdict in Samsung case for evidence leak
The example to date is the Eiffel Tower, with 36429 checkins over the 3 years of Foursquare's existence.

Approximately 6.8 million people visit the Eiffel Tower each year.

It doesn't take a math major to realize that this is a laughable idea.
There was also a statistic about the percentage of people who open facebook for their dogs. I wonder if dog and stalker accounts are in that fake count, or if they do count as active as they generate puppy treat ad revenue.
Pinterest-like interface for eBay
I found that video very offputting. I couldn't linger on scenes I found interesting.
Avoid CC fees.
A better reference for tofu would be http://www.jacn.org/content/19/2/242.full
Imagine how the rest of the planet sees it. We are supposed to believe the US is some sort of beacon of democracy and freedom. Oh dear...
The monospace version looks brilliant. Looks like something that could one day become my coding font. It's quite hard to find a nice monospace font and I think the choice does in fact matter (for coding obviously)
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yeah, reading him feels like he's been totally disconnected from reality or managed to forget the circumstances of that era in Europe, where fighting communism was real not just a propaganda witchhunt. hence my comment before, many of his observations are totally out of context.
I always assumed it was to avoid card swipe fees. Margins at small restaurants can be incredibly thin, so a percent or two off each transaction could make a big difference.
Yes, thank you. Glad to know I'm not the only one.
Determining control-flow and/or types in functional, scripting and OO languages
I've heard, no first-person knowledge here, that upon suspecting a business, taxation agencies are not unknown to send out a person with a clicker to tally patronage during spcific time periods and see if that lines up with their expectations and what the business reports. As others have said, this could be one of many signals to use in determining who to follow up on.
You would be wrong in that assumption. Some businesses don't like paying the additional fees charged by banks when you use a credit card, they can be up to 8.5% according to a friend of mine that runs a locksmith. He would rather give 8.5% more service to the folks who come in the door. He has an ATM on site that will let you get a cash advance on your credit card if all you brought was plastic. It has a $3 transaction fee (plus what ever your bank charges). When people complain he says, "you can pay it or you can pay it." Then explains that he (like everyone else) would simply raise his price making that fee 'invisible' to you and let the banks get away with it. This way you have a choice (of sorts).
> it feels like a cop out to be vegan yet eat stuff that looks like meat

I like the taste of meat but don't want to be a party to torturing animals. Not sure how eating whatever tastes good and fits with my morals is a cop out.
You need to log in first. Click log-in in the upper right hand corner. However, thanks for mentioning that, as you are the second person to point out a bit of confusion with that. In fact, I'll see if I can push out a quick fix to clarify that error.
This is not about Linux. Every brittle OS on ARM uses the standard ABIs. But Apple can't? Gimme a break.
I don't think that the main problems are in name / marketing. While these, and price (which is a legit concern) definitely contribute, the whole idea doesn't sit that well with me.

First off, what exactly is it? JSON-based message bus PaaS? Paid social network? Appstore? A development platform? "mobile social entertainment provider"? Something else? I understand that they're working off a broad idea, but it would be reasonable IMO for someone to think that they're attempting each of these. The blog posts and join.app.net don't really clarify things too much. I think that a broad roadmap (or something accessible to users, and devs who don't want to read the whole backstory to try to figure it out) would really help here.

Next up, the project doesn't really sell me on its benefits. Developers/users can pay to be able to write to a feed that other developers/users pay to be able to access (or can access for free?)? There's some potential for turning it into an app-store type thing, making it free for developers and splitting user revenue (with the example given where app.net takes 50%)? What concrete benefits, as a developer, or user, will I be able to derive from this service, guaranteed, in the near future?

All of the questions here are part of the reason that I'm not particularly excited about it. IMO there are some great ideas in there, and it has a lot of potential, but at the moment it seems like it's not too much more than some hand-waving and assertions that Twitter's bad, and that you should pay for an (at current) nearly identical experience because it has a whole lot of potential at some undefined point in the future. When originally pitching the thing Caldwell made some comments about how it's not fair to assume that you can somehow improve your monetization later, but this seems to be almost the same thing in reverse - they've got their monetization down, but they're assuming that they can somehow add the value for users later. Of course, I could be completely misunderstanding what they're doing / trying to do or how they're going about doing it...
Im no font nerd, but this looks great
Nama Terbaru Peterpan = NOAH , Alasan Memilih Nama Noah
In that case, it would be really good to explain that on the site :)

But definitely, making singup option would be much much better.
At least, some intro content available that will get visitors attention.
Part of the excitement of eating a steak is exploring the different flavors that come with each individual piece.

Yes, meat might be "bad" for you. Meat might be an ineffective use of resources. Killing animals may be wrong. But, for meat eaters, part of the enjoyment is the hedonistic pursuit.

Lots of vegetarians and vegans have expressed their opinions, so let me weigh in as someone who hasn't eaten a single vegetable for over 12 years: I love meat, and to many people like myself, these alternative meats are about as much a replacement as aspartame is for sugar.
"Instead of just relying on soy, we want to use lupin, mustard seed protein, and barley to give consumers a broad range of plant-based proteins."
Really? I've spear hunted fish when I was a kid and shot targets with a bow (if I were a proto-human it could have been small animals instead) and both were pretty damn easy and not mentally taxing at all.
Recommend a product/company/startup for training/courseware?
What are some current and notable names in companies who specialize in putting together instruction/training/education/presentations? This may skew towards understanding financial-type information intended for everyday regular people and/or staff and will be Web-based to complement an Intranet or Internet site.

I've stumbled across some here on HN but forgot to bookmark them. Thanks.
Something similar happened to me with a significant other. I thought a bright green umbrella was yellow, but apparently, that was not the case.
Beautiful fonts. Thanks for the tip! :)

Here's the download link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sourcesans.adobe/files/Sourc...
I don't do enough design to care about fonts, but I'll always take a chance at a new monospace font. Especially this one. Looks gorgeous. (The regular face looks good too, don't get me wrong, I just don't have good uses for it).

[[On an aside, I love this thread. A post about the license, geeking out about the font and even more specifically the monospaced fonts. No where else would I see this conversation. :)]]

edit: sorry to burst bubbles, the release/source doesn't include the monospaced variant yet.
Fully agree with these suggestions. Plus the the big question is still why the end product should be more successful than Diaspora, which apparently attracts only a very niche audience. Some sort of freemium model could probably work well and I am surprised that very few (non-work) related social networks have made used of that.
In spite of the fact that it worked for many people?
Building UnImaginable Shapes (Ted talk)
Faster Javascript
Some key points.
I think the ones I've seen have been animation-focused but I don't recall at the moment.
Voizin's pivots could save them 18.6 million building the wrong thing...
Read more than just the headline. He didn't "collect rainwater" - he damed and diverted rivers that supply a metropolitan area with drinking water so he could have ponds, on property he didn't own the water rights to.
Really? Because it solved my problem completely. I have to reboot when my system runs out of RAM, but I'd much rather do that once every two weeks than be constantly bombarded with beach balls.
Let's think through this conversation:
"Bob, let me introduce you to footwear.me."
"Are you an investor?"
"No, I invested in shoes.tv because I thought they were the best company in this space."

It's going to be a really lame intro, probably worse than if you cold-called the person. So unless you're desperate, I wouldn't ask.

A better plan would be to pump them for competitive information. "Oh, shoes.tv! They're really neat. What was it about them that made you pull the trigger on the investment? Do you think that footwear companies are hot right now? What other companies did you look at? What do you think of their product so far?" If you're friendly and open, you might get some useful (non-confidential) information about the space, and how investors in the space think about it.
It would be nice if results would be presented as colored boxes rather than color codes.
Uh, sourceforge? When I hear "making these files available" I think github or a simple website. Not something with a download.com-style "Wait 5 seconds while we force this ad down your throat and try to find a mirror because Route 53 / load-balancing is a foreign concept to us programmers still hanging out in the '90s."
I wouldn't be too concerned on the app front. The situation was the same when the iPhone first got its retina display but these days most apps are optimised for it.

The web side of things is a different story. AFAIK, there isn't even a nice way to send hires images to hires displays without adversely affecting those browsing with standard DPIs.
OpenGL is still available through Windows. It's hard to see this as a "smear campaign" on anything but the Direct3D batch processing.
I think $50 is fair for a yearly subscription to a service such as Twitter, which has no other source of revenue. I spend way more time on Twitter per day than watching Netflix and Netflix costs almost twice as much per year.

The article addresses the price with a number of different solutions to lower it, in one case to $1, initially, as to gain critical mass.
thank you, i'd forgot the flags and it does make things more scannable. I think your right - least i assumed it was the Tibeten flag as well.
>That's probably a worse nutritional profile.

That doesn't seem to be the consensus. There are many studies that meat is unhealthy (I'm not sure what you mean by naturally grown, perhaps hormones?). Red meat in particular is considered to be very unhealthy. Also you can get stearic acid from other sources that don't have that much saturated fat and cholesterol.
He's repeated a number of variations of that quote. One of the better ones is, I want to die on Mars. Hopefully not on impact.
...Which is why it's so similar to how a typical American probably knows where some large cities in Europe are without having the slightest clue about which country many of them reside in.
Add a "Show HN:" to the beginning of the title of this thread, and you will be more likely to get feedback. I will give proper feedback when I get more time to test it.
How are they not taking responsibility? They lost the money. They aren't getting it back. What more responsibility could they take?
Here's the first of 12 million results for "red meat unhealthy":
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/14/news/la-heb-red-meat...

There is also lots of material on how much more expensive meat product is. Here's just one:
http://www.ajcn.org/content/78/3/660S.full

The two articles you list are not particularly compelling.
You are right. OpenGL works everywhere.

But you have to be careful: my amateur OpenGL 3d game had problems running on half of computers, especially laptops. It's because various cards support different opengl extensions. You can't use non-power-of-two textures, can't use textures bigger than 512x512 (or other number), can't generate mipmaps automatically, can't have too big display lists.

I thought about optional DirectX renderer when running on Windows, because I've heard it's more standarized.
Prices are meaningless without knowing what the option grant price was. Or if someone got 10,000 shares, $5 is still just fine.
Probably the majority of those check-ins happened in the past year. Also, look at a Starbucks near where I live:

https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/explore#req=venues/49f...

Over 10k check-ins, and I doubt it has 2 million visitors per year.

Please elaborate on why you believe this is a laughable idea just from a numerical standpoint.
I already stopped using it a couple of months ago for a couple of reasons. Most notably privacy concerns upon realizing that nothing ever gets lost there. Yeah I know, as a tech person I should have known that from the start. Well, Facebook ended up with about a year and a half of my life, well documented online and stored deeply inside their database and their backups.

But as you pointed out, Facebook becomes less appealing to it's users for a variety of reasons that - I think - are all rooted in the fact that it doesn't really seem to care about what the user wants Facebook to do. That's never a good thing.

Somehow it gives the impression that FB is beginning to openly admit that users are not their customers but their product.
Any food that, when people see the making of it they cry, is cruel and I personally won't eat it.
You haven't eaten a single vegetable in 12 years? That's weird.
I am a meat eater, but I don't think it's a good thing. I applaud vegetarians and vegans for making a stand, but ultimately I think the only realistic solution to getting people off "real" meat are technological, industrial and political advances.

Assuming we keep advancing technologically, there will come a time when "fake" meat is indistinguishable from real meat, at least as healthy, cheaper and more environmentally friendly to produce. When this happens, that is when people will start eating it en masse.

When enough people have started eating it and given enough time, politics will step in to ban farming animals for food. This will take quite a while because there will be a hard core of people who want to keep farming and eating animals. I imagine this part alone will take a couple of generations.
Apple’s Next Challenge: Finesse of Power
Boston, MA (Remote welcome, but onsite would be awesome)

ProBueno (http://www.probueno.com)

We're looking for an engineer and a marketing/growth hacker to help us change the way people think about volunteering their time for charity.

(The engineering position lists front-end, but a back-end/middle/generalist/whatever (we're on Rails) would be awesome - anything to take some load off of me :) )

We're super early, angel-funded, and since you'd be employee #1, for the right person, non-trivial equity is definitely on the table.

To read more: http://www.probueno.com/jobs?hn=yay
Yes the JACN article is at least a scientific study. It is one data point however, and AFAIK the only study to find a link between soy intake and decreased cognition -- compared with a large body of research that has associated intake of soy isoflavones with better health, including better cognition. These include studies of typical Asian diets, which are known to be higher in soy than Western diets.

If one was to look at the entire scientific literature honestly and soberly, I think the evidence would overwhelmingly support the claim for soy health benefits.
Your first Boot to Gecko (Firefox OS) app
There are many millions (or perhaps a few billion?) webpages with ads. Getting something to display properly is a common problem which has been solved again and again. The canvas is as familiar as that which an architect encounters when sitting down with a client to discuss a building - actually it's probably simpler since it's much easier to sell a hospital on scrapping their existing website and constructing a new one than it is to convince them to scrap their existing building - imagine if you had to provide an estimate to update a Geocities page to HTML 5 and support for iPads.

If there is a fundamental difference between programming and other creative endeavors, perhaps it is the lack of literature Richard Gabriel observes and remarks upon - though I'm not convinced.

I'm more of the opinion, that the difference when it comes to estimating between programming and professionals in other creative pursuits, can be found in the fact that Frank Gehry was in his 50's by the time he started to become a rock star, Michelangelo was in his mid thirties when he began the Sistine Chapel, and Einstein was too old to be a brogrammer in the Annus Mirabilis.

Programming is just one of many fields where one starts with a blank canvas, no matter how much of a true Scotsman one wishes it were.
> My feeling is that innovative software solutions come a good amount of time after the release of hardware that enables them; gaming consoles just don't keep the hype alive long enough to pick sufficient interest.

I'd buy that argument more if there were more great titles for the Wii (which has been around ages now) that really used it's remote.

(And I don't believe it's because the Wii is under powered in any way. Yes it's not a powerful console by todays standards but people have managed to create great, compelling games with less power than the Wii has.)

> Maybe not, but the physical sensors could be attached to a structure resembling a bracelet. Make it wireless and aesthetically pleasing, and I could see myself wearing one without feeling silly.

I wasn't really thinking about making it look great, just looking at the pictures there are a fair number of sensors in non-convenient places (higher up the arm than the wrist and the diagram shows them all over the body). Maybe they'll improve it but I'm not convinced that you'd get a really good range of movements monitored without considerable coverage.
Cash can be spent immediately, CC receipts not so much.

In the case of CC you'll get a payment 30 days later, so in VISA vs. cash, you're not getting the interest on the money, if you need to use the money you'll have to pay your bank interest, and you'll pay a processing fee on top of it.

About the only advantage CC has is that it's difficult for employees to steal from the register, so instead they steal the magstrips.
> I think $50 is fair for a yearly subscription to a service such as Twitter,

Now you just need to find 10,000 other people that feel the same way as you do.