skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that I don't want YOU to read this info BEFORE I'm dead. And basically there's no way to prevent that if your website contains everything needed to disclose the information.
You are taking it a bit too seriouslly.

As it even notes on the page its 'running on free quota' - hardly something to actully be trusted with life or death information.

A cool tech demo, not a 'premium' service.
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It's actually a clearly-marked checkbox in the Kindle publishing portal: "Allow lending for this book". It's not like it's buried somewhere deep in subclause J of paragraph 97. The authors who have their books put on Amazon through a publisher may not have known about this, but there's zero excuse for the indies.
Keywords are reasonable easy to type (I'm much faster typing plain text without
special characters), simple to auto-complete and read very well. For example,
they could have used something like "to" instead of "->", eg:

"Hello World" to std.out

That's just an idea I had on the spot, not sure how it would play out. But I
think this stream programming would actually lend itself well to some sort of
literate syntax.
Oh, ok, I almost figured. :)
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But for that use case, I have to tell the mob boss that I uploaded a secret to deadman.io. At which point he takes out his rubber hose collection, and gently persuades me to log in and delete the secret.
Also hundreds of DMCA complaints.
They're not committing perjury. Perjury requires that someone know that what they are saying is factually incorrect at the time they are saying it.

The authors in this matter are not technologically sophisticated enough to understand how either the Kindle Lending or LendInk work(ed). They actually believe that it is promoting piracy. Thus, they are not committing perjury in their DMCA notices.
I hacked a similar Utby underframe based solution [1] together a few years ago which I'm still content with. I did end up buying a drafting chair so I can sit at it on occasion.

[1] http://imgur.com/6lfl3
The smaller audience is why he draws the parallel: Hypercard was mac only.
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http://www.deadmansswitch.net/ has been around for at least 5 years.
I made the same thing seven years or so ago:

http://www.deadmansswitch.net

As for the trust issues, you can easily just say "look under the porch in my house", you don't have to reveal all the information there. Or, just encrypt things.
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Thanks. Sounds like the site operator is among the least angry people here.
It's not Vi Hart doing the videos. See http://ejohn.org/blog/introducing-khan-cs/
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My eyes are shot too, but I find that the sharper text on my Retina iPhone is a godsend. I find that the sharper the text is, the easier it is for my aged-vision eyes to focus on.

Also, even if many people don't care about the difference, I think that this is a great advancement. Imagine if all the books and magazines were suddenly reprinted using pixelated fonts. Do you think that people would be happy with this? Do you think they would say, "Doesn't really make a difference to me"?

No, of course not. People would be rightfully outraged! A decade from now, everyone will wonder how we ever suffered with pixelated screens for so long.

The issue is not that many people don't care about the difference. The issue is that many people do care about the issue! The near-future move to sharp text on computer screens will be a wonderful thing for them, and it won't be a bad thing for anyone else. (Modulo pricing differences, which I suspect will rapidly approach zero.)

It's a completely win/win outcome.
You don't need to tell where, and you can use a one-off generated password that you really didn't memorize.
Not necessarily.

You could say, I have a bunch of documents that implicate you and they'll be sent out to authorities should I not answer my email or phone at N time.
+1 for the Python class
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I'd be curious to see how fast Gigabit Internet feels like. Is there any video available that showcases just how fast it is?
This is great. I volunteered at Maker's Faire earlier this year at the Scratch booth and a lot of parents were wondering what some possible next steps could be for their kids who were interested in learning more about programming. It felt a little weird suggesting Khan Academy videos, but with this project I think the transition to deeper CS concepts is a lot more seamless for those who are curious
It's 2012. Are there really no ISPs willing to host a site like this?
I assume the author did a very thorough job removing the pole on which this should be mounted? When you look straight down, there's no sign of anything... almost as if this is a levitating camera detached from anything.
One could also upload an encrypted file, and give the password to the people to whom the file is going.

The website is missing the password, and the recipients don't have the file until the website gives it to them.

(Clearly this still isn't (and can't ever be) sufficient though: bribery/threats of violence/blackmail by either party towards the other.)
Shurely you could just store the decruption key in deadman.io. The actual encrypted files stored elsewhere.

Like you note with your current setup, the passphrase is useless on its own.

Or store encypted file in one deadman.io switch, and the passphrase in another switch (in another account). The evil owner of said website, shouldnt be able to connect the two. (whats the chances they going to arbitarly try decoding every file they have with every passphrase they have)
Or http://www.hovding.com/ for English speakers.
That's why you need advanced auto-pilot before this is feasible. And bear in mind that there's a lot more room for collision avoidance in the air. You'd probably have to have something like special lanes in the air to minimize the number of directions that another vehicle could approach, and to keep them out of the commercial airspace. You'd need a special license to go "off-road".
Wings can only produce lift when they are at a certain angle to the direction of travel; this is called the "angle of attack". Meaning, aircraft expend a certain amount of energy deflecting air downward to stay airborne.
Nice find, no SMS or voice though.
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Some supporting information:

- Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/independent-labs-to-verify-high-p...

- Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

- Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/14/idUS117855+14-Aug-...
Curious as to how much these cost to produce? I have been playing around with some Arduinos and it seems like getting something set up with wireless and a rechargeable battery is a lot more expensive than it should be. Would be cool to have an all-in-one solution for this.
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I wonder why they didn't do the Computer Science class in Python, especially that now more schools are adopting Python. Isn't Python better for learning than Javascript? Did they choose Javascript for this one just because they already had a Python course and they wanted a Javascript one now?
This looks like it has more to do with programming than computer science. That's a good thing, in my opinion, since I think programming is probably more generally useful. But it's a little misleading as the title.
The ISP received complaints and advised he shut the site down, so he took it offline. Honestly the best place for actual info related to this seems to be their Facebook page where the owner has updated what is happened and also all of the comments reveal how many authors feel about the site (however misguided).

https://www.facebook.com/pages/LendInk
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Ask HN: Is learning to code = learn JS/HTML/web only?
I could not frame this title properly but what I really wanted to ask you is that majority of the players in coding tutorials (codeacademy.com etc.) have their homepage saying "learn to code" and all it does is to start with Javascript and stuff. Shouldn't learn to code equate to basics of computer science, algorithms, data structures etc. or those things don't matter much? Am I thinking too much here ?
I think what's great about QuicklyChat is I can skip the initial IM-tag of "you there?" "free now?" kind of back and forth. While it's relatively quick, it does break my attention and when multiplied by every member of the team it does tend to add up. And I think it's great how it's so simple - that's actually a plus, not a minus, to me.
The Google Apps integration with backend tools makes this a huge time saver for us. Thanks Maciej!
So what's the difference between this and any other tutorials on the internet?
Has anyone here had success with reducing procrastination using Neuro-Linguistic Programming?
The site not only got hundreds of DMCA and cease & desist orders, there was also a huge amount of harassment including threats of violence. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4360626 I don't blame any ordinary ISP for pulling a site under those conditions.
The best part about Stripe is, and has always been, their amazing understanding of developer needs and their top-notch customer service. No copy-cat can provide that at the same level as Stripe. Helping a website accept credit cards is only half of the equation.
I was under impression that, since code is copyrighted, release under BSD license does not release the copyright claim and therefore the smart fellow shall indicate whose code he is using/selling.

Is this not the case?
HBO's success doesn't depend on my friends also watching HBO.
> HN is not a Q&A site, neither is Reddit.

That hardly seems necessary. Any generalized discussion site can answer Q&A, since that's just a discussion format. That isn't true the other way around, hence the StackOverflow nazis.
Sort of. (And caveat: I'm a software guy, I just happen to love airplanes.)

Airplanes generate only forward thrust (unless you're in a VTOL craft which we won't talk about). This forward force is what ends up generating lift due mainly to two particular, but separate, applications of physics.

First, wings take advantage of what is called Bernoulli's principle. Picture a wing: it is longer on top than it is on bottom due to the "chamber" of the wing. I.e., the asymmetric difference in the shape of the top and bottom of the wing. This causes the air that flows over the wing on top to be at a different speed than the air on bottom, since the air on top gets compressed. (Remember that in a river, if the river narrows, the current speeds up because you still have a stable amount of water to get downstream. If the volume status the same, higher pressure = higher speed, roughly.)

So, by Bernoulli's principle, the slower air on bottom has more potential energy than the air on top -- and that results in more outward pressure by the air, i.e., it pushes up on the wing harder than the air on top pushes down (which has more kinetic energy and less potential, due to the higher speed). Because the wing is not creating energy, the air is merely converting to and from kinetic/potential.

However, that's not the entire story of lift!

Wings are also angled, with their trailing edge down as compared to the leading edge. This angle is defined as the "angle of attack". Think about it like this: when you stick your hand out of the window of your car while driving down the freeway at high speed, you can tilt your hand up and "take off". The wind hitting your hand pushes it up because of the angle. This seems kind of straightforward, right?

If you continue tilting your hand closer and closer to the vertical, at some point it falls back down. You have "stalled" and are no longer generating enough lift to fly. Airplanes do the same thing, so they have to balance the lift they generate with the other factors.

Airplanes fly mainly through the combination of these two things: lift generated by the relative difference in airspeed above and below the wing, plus lift generated by the angle of attack.

I hope that is explanatory, and if I'm wrong on anything, someone else will come correct me!
I meant there's no standard toolchain. Specifically there's no straightforward way to develop a vanilla Android app in Android. It's not self-hosting in the same way that "real" platforms are; until that is fixed, porting development tools in isolation isn't going to amount to much more than an amusing curiosity.
Methinks "Computer Programming" or "Information Technology" would be a better title for this section than Computer Science. They are more general and applicable to the content.
This guy is _so_ hungry for press attention. I soon expect to see headlines shouting, "Wozniak: Storm coming, rain falling". When someone hasn't accomplished anything notable since the Carter Administration, one should fade away.
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This is very exciting. I was just looking around this past weekend for a way to introduce my 10 and 13 year-olds to programming concepts. I want them to understand more about the computer than how to play warcraft, watch youtube videos of pandas, or even make slide presentations.

My one daughter is going into 8th grade and has had a total of two half-semesters of "business and computer science" where the most they do is to play around with PowerPoint and Excel. Computers are so integral to every-day life now. It's positively disgraceful that every child shouldn't be educated on what they are, how they're built, how they work, how to program them, etc.
> When I buy a physical book (often at a price near that of an ebook) I can lend it to friends and family an infinite number of times, resell it for a good portion of the original price, or give it away to whomever I please.

It would be awesome to know the average 'lending count' of physical books, but I can tell you it is for sure no where anything close to 'infinite', I doubt it is even approaching ten.

Have you checked out the resale value of anything on Amazon that isn't considered collectible or a first edition? I hate seeing that I am only getting less than two bucks for a book I paid 24.95$ for just a few months ago. Same goes with selling back retail copies of most of my stuff at Half Price Books.
eranation might be referring to the programs that have associated videos by Vi Hart - like this one: http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/pascals-triangle/803149756

The program was actually written to match the video though, not the other way around.
More advanced peers aren't going to spend 4 years going over everything to make sure nothing was missed.
No? The whole point of the meter is that it won't occur to you what things to look at. The entire value proposition is spotting those things for you.

If you're the kind of person who memorizes the wattage of everything you plug into your house, then yes, this might not be money well spent. It was for me.
> yet stumble into educational gaps/traps any degreed developer would have learned to avoid.

Care to list some of the common ones you've seen? I'm mostly curious, but it would serve as a good reminder for those who may fall into those traps themselves.
Ask HN: Incompitent leaders & managers think they are always right don't they?
This isn't universal but I've tracked it down so often I'm beginning to see a pattern. For every bad API, every nightmare complaint, every breakdown, every bad things - I can usually trace it to some authority who believes everything they did was right. I rarely (if ever) find someone who says "we don't know what we're doing". It's usually "I'm right, your wrong" end of conversation.
If I had looked at this on my laptop, I would have said, "Cool". On my iPad, though, I was transfixed, especially after removing browser chrome and maximizing the image. It felt lie FaceTime with Mars.

To the creator I say, "Well done!"
>> No real world code is simple and elegant enough that you don't
>> need to think through the complex invariants of the code

> Oh, please...

sendDataWithTimeout(user_t *user, data_t *data, time_t timeout);

What happens if delay is 0?

Can user be NULL? What happens if it is NULL?

How large can 'data' be? Is there a limit? Will the send be chunked into multiple dispatches if 'data' is too large? Is that opaque to the caller? Does it matter to the caller?

If none of those questions are answered, the caller must delve into the sendDataWithTimeout() implementation to figure out the answers, and it is impossible to modify sendDataWithTimeout() without possibly breaking assumptions callers make based on what they've assumed from implementation of sendDataWithTimeout().

This applies equally well to blocks of code within a function that accept input and provide output. It helps to be able to reason about them as atomic units, without necessarily paying the code/maintenance cost of hoisting them into independent functions.
That's a very grave statement. You're essentially saying that the entire newspaper industry has been propped up on the basis of misinformation regarding the effectiveness of advertising. While this was a lucky flaw that allowed the Fourth Estate to remain afloat, it doesn't look like it'll last much longer. We're really going to be fucked as a society if the journalism industry falls apart.
I don't think it would be possible for them to have the type of environment they've got set up if they used Python.
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I fixed the C-w issue by training myself to always close windows using it (for a while in the Gnome 2 days I was using a custom metacity theme with no title bars or buttons at all). The mode switching goes into your muscle memory and your body starts to recognize the difference between editor and GUI context.
I think that python is the better choice for an in-person class, but building an in-browser js interpreter is a lot simpler than an in-browser python interpreter.
The most effective hack is to just step away from the computer for an hour or two. Go for a walk, run, hell take up a martial art or two and meet people outside of you usual circle of friends while being physically active. Now that's a hack!
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Anyone else effected by this? All my sites are currently down.

Related? : http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/13/cloudflare-helps-save-wikileaks-bacon/
I found some progress bar porn on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWUliBMrS90
Ask your cofounder what they think is fair. Figure out what you think is fair. Keep in mind that the equity is probably worth nothing. See if you can work something out.
Seems like exactly what I'd like to eventually use myself - we have a similar backend tooling setup, and I would love to have employees not bother with complicated ACL stuff on our end.

Allowing everyone to just authenticate via Google Apps is a sweet idea. Anyone know of any resources to implement something similar with Nginx? #lazyweb
The only reason I presume Ryanair haven't done it yet is because I presume there would be some law against it.
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Why do i always find out about these websites, AFTER they're closed >.<
Comments like that exist simply to appease documentation tools that can't derive those comments automatically.

The net gain is that you get nice API documentation. The downside is that you have a verbose and obvious comment in the source.
Not really, very few bills must be payed immediately, so most transfers are specified to be made at some later date.

Besides, transfers within my country (Denmark) to other banks arrives next day. If you pay for the transfer, you can get the money transferred immediately. So next day = free, same day = pay.

For free transfers I don't get interest rate for the day when the money leave my account. The recipient don't get interest rate for the day he receives the money. So even if the transfer only takes a few hours (If I pay just after midnight, he'll have the money at 6am), the bank earns interest rate for 2 days.

Banks transfer huge amount of money so the interest rate adds up for them.
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"You and I are both like guys who've got this rich neighbor... XEROX!..." -- Bill Gates' Character to Steve Jobs' Character, Pirates of Silicon Valley

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I am buying stock.
PBKDF2 uses a hash function which need not be SHA-1 and applies it a variable number of rounds with a recommended minimum of 1000.
For what it's worth, the compilers course seems to be fairly well put together for a free course.
Pedantic drone: there is significant evidence that standing desks are worse for you than sitting desks (both standing and sitting are unhealthful; like you said, moving around is the answer --- you don't even need to move strenuously!).

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It's just a little dense to demonstrate the succintness of the language. The 2 samples above are normally dense. I really don't see the problem. It's not clever to make a judgement about a language (whose syntax you don't know) just because you don't like some sample of it.

I think some of the language's concepts are pretty neat and unusual.
None of the three menus they compare mention portion size. Without knowing if the portion was identical across the years, there's no way to accurately compare prices.
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It's been possible to script Excel (and the rest of Office) using Python for probably 15 years now. I'm pretty sure the COM package is included with all the Win32 Python builds, but if not it's just a package install.

It's a bit disappointing that so many people don't learn about the tools they're using.
Same here... after downloading a bunch of files.
I find it incredibly ironic that an ad for Mitt Romney's campaign is splashed across the bottom with the words "Support a smaller government." I know it's just Google's ad service, but really now....
My dream of a flying car is a small harrier in the shape of a porsche.

Vertical take off and landing should be priority number one.
My first target market will not necessarily be for software, but for subscriptions to content. I'm thinking webcomics, small online news outlets, professional blogs, etc. Anywhere that is traditionally supported by advertising.
I've been in a dry sauna as the temperature gradually reached its max peak of 105 C. At that temperature, the trick is to not move so that there's a relatively static layer of air around you. You also have to breathe slowly so as not to burn your nostrils/throat. And you perspire like crazy and the evaporation of your perspiration cools your body. It's still crazy hot though and you can't last very long before having to exit.
I would agree. He's essentially writing opinion pieces and preaching to the choir. Nothing wrong with that and his audience enjoy his work regardless of objectivity.

I think any half-decent tech blogger or journalist should be fighting for court room seats in San Jose right now. That's where the story is.
Thank you for being willing to teach your son programming. I was homeschooled with a programmer for a dad and I guess it just never occurred to him to teach me himself. I discovered programming on my own in late high school, but I would have loved it when I was younger.