skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I presume he thought you were simply going to twist his words ("one person, one vote" -> "mob rule")

No, that's what I did. "Mob rule" is a proxy for the entire notion that direct democracy cannot work; the only other responses are that people don't want it or people can't do it. It's a blatantly obvious response from anyone who did not already buy into whatever mikeash is selling. The fact that he was framing his next response to be a sophisticated, high-fallutin, knock-your-socks-off thesis of epic proportions was disgusting and offensive. I'm not surprised that a taste of his own medicine cornered him into name-calling and running away.

> Your reply to ktizo was much more informative and appreciable.

Because ktizo was asking for information. If someone asks a question, I answer it earnestly. If someone is clearly ignorant, I try to explain what they're missing. If someone claims to have a solution to a well-known problem like "ZOMG!SHEEPLE", I expect them to actually have the damn solution ready at hand and not dangle it like a fucking carrot.

He could have called me on my tone and then answered the question. But I suspect he has no answer. All he has is an intuitive appeal to fairness completely unsupported by thousands of years of world history.
Nice plugin, but the title makes me wonder. Aren't "visiting HN" and "saving time" in contradiction?
I didn't feel bruised, I felt pity ;)

People write hard constrained trading software in Java e.g. http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.se/ Googling for java avonics has some hits too e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/keugbang/t-50-avionics-embedded-so...

I was pretty familiar with the intracities of real-time called iirc "guaranteed service" back when I worked at Symbian. That was a kernel written in dialect of C++. And I've written camera and video capture software for, among others, Android phones. So fairly general experience, I'd say. Still so much more to learn.

You, on the other hand Chris, keep calling out Rob, me and anyone else who thinks that PDP-11 is not a necessary requirement for the next decade's "system language" ;) What systems projects have you worked on then?
[Kickstarter] Guildsmanship: Battle-Scapes
Google told to fix privacy policy by EU data regulators
My 7th-grade daughter just did a report on Marie Curie for school. She was fascinated by the subject, and amazed to find how useful and important her research was. I wanted to go to her laboratory/museum in Paris when we were there several summers ago, but it was unfortunately closed.

Bottom line, Marie Curie is a great role model, and while I don't think that my daughter is headed for a career in science or engineering, at least she now sees that there are women who did it, and did amazing things in the field.
Not sure, if ... or just ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
There was a link originally but I deleted it by accident - not it's back, thank you for the warning!
La Panna Cotta
La Panna Cotta
http://whatcanidoformozilla.org/

This popped up on Hacker News the other day. It looks like the majority of the bugs are C/C++ related, but you might find some helpful folks in a project so interested in new contributors. Good luck and keep hacking!
Felix Baumgartner: 834mph = £100m publicity
Sklo-DOV-ska

Sclo like it's halfway between a and o, _not_ an “oh”.
I've never seen it, perhaps because they haven't made the change to google.co.uk
It reminds me "One year in one image":

http://eirikso.com/2011/01/04/one-year-in-one-image/
you mean "I have a partner now but I'm looking for someone better" ? Seems like a strong disincentive to dating you.

But then again, I know there are dating sites which only focus on cheating so surely there is a market for this too.
I am in Australia and I often find this frustrating, I do completely understand why though. The United States has a population of 311 Million. In Australia we have a population of 22 Million.

When you consider the complications in making software global, I can see why our potential customer base doesn't make it worthwhile.

Even the simple things are tougher than they seem (post code vs. zip code). It seems easy enough to detect their location and display the right wording... but then your help documentation is going to be wrong for some, or will you create multiple versions of that too.

I wish it were different, but I suspect until we have the same needs/laws, it's going to continue like this.
Thanks! Can you make it work with news.ycombinator.org too?
My understanding is that the benefit is the consolidation of various agency websites into a single site, initially replacing DirectGov and Business Link.
Having the same issue.
Great plugin.

I primarily use http://hckrnews.com to browse HN submissions ( <-- this site is great. If you don't use it, you're missing a lot IMO ) and its extensions for Safari: http://hckrnews.com/about.html

Both have great ideas, and I think pg should adopt one of them (though I know he won't). I hate it when I use my iPad for browsing HN. Comments are small, up/down-vote arrows are minuscule, and you can't use these highly-useful plugins. And I've tried about a dozen different clients so far. None of them offer anything like http://hckrnews.com (a chronological timeline of submissions), so I keep coming back to Safari... :(
Sure, but I think readability and ease of editing should trump purity here (and I'm an OCaml user).
It becomes a "markup" language (ala markdown, etc) when the "markups" are removed and replaced by htlm codes. As you noted, in HN, when using stars they get removed and replace by some <i>...</i> stuff.
Nice extension. I'd be curious to see the funnel associated with your "shameless plug" at the end of your post:

How many people click through to your consulting page?

How many additional inquiries do you get over the coming 1-2 weeks?
I'm using it as a beta user, and I find it really helpful.

I used to do this kind of things with a spreadsheet, but this tool automates it and gives you nice charts.
CUDAfy me
This is an example of how to run a government IT project. Extremely well run team, excellent programmers and designers and using a lot of interesting technology. That's cool for the tech community but for the majority of the users the biggest benefit is a single location for everything. Direct.gov.uk was still a collection of links to lots of external sites but the goal with gov.uk is to have everything on one site. I think this is a great project.

Some background at http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/16/directgov-a-q...
Show HN: docs for Mixture, running on Mixture
Will the iPhone 5 stall Mobile Payment Roll-out?
I have a side project which is writing a production management plant for my brother in law's company.. That's not exactly "a quick website", took me around 600 hours (six hundreds) so far. I've worked 2 hours a day, 4 days a week on average for more than 1.5 year now... Still doin' great. No web site so far. Not even github (what for? I'm the only one working on it :-))
Thanks for the heads-up anyway! :-)
OpenStreetMap is no crappy source anymore. Have you looked at the data recently ?
Hi there, quick question: do you have any support for eCommerce or are you just about burn rates for other SaaS companies? The trickiest part is figuring out "okay, we can do $10k this week in new products" after counting our sales rate, burn rate, amount of credit available (via credit cards, etc), and how much we owe licensors.
the costs of fixing the security breaches are bourne by the US tax payer - also peoples carears will be nagativly impacted.

I used to work for the Guy in charge of the system that was hacking in the very well known "Prince Phillip Prestel" case - he neaver made it past MPG4
I disagree, I think it looks a lot different to directgov. It's a helluva lot cleaner - every page on directgov is a mass of links to other places, whereas this one focuses much more on the content. The design is also responsive, which is nice (directgov definitely isn't responsive) - it'll look nice on mobile devices. The floating 'relevant links' thing is a nice touch too.

I don't get why the default font for the size is so huge though, they ought to make it smaller a couple of points.
For anyone who's wondering, the actual website is at http://www.gov.uk
You just gave me a great idea for a future post ;)
Not as disgusting as the US refusing to extradie IRA suspects with very striong eveidence!
Good job it's apparently a lot less money to run than direct.gov.uk, so a huge win for the UK taxpayer!
I think Rentzsch is being somewhere between helpful and sarcastic.

Apple could provide newer libssl dylibs and programmers should link against specific versions. You could argue the only mistake in this instance is the existence of the generic libssl.dylib symlink which will need to point to 0.9.8 in perpetuity.

Exactly why Apple have given up on OpenSSL is anyone's guess (since Apple aren't saying -- hence Rentzsch's post). You could insert a conspiracy theory but my guess is that they can't be bothered curating and patching another OpenSSL library version since they themselves only ever use libcrypto.

Apple could -- and do -- security patch libssl.0.9.8.dylib. So while you will never go from 0.9.8 to 1.0.1 automatically, you could automatically go from 0.9.8r to 0.9.8s automatically.
I agree, the data is not optimized for searching since it's supposed to serve all sorts of purposes.

We didn't look into elastic search, since we wanted to give ArangoDB a try. We will have a look into it, thanks for the hint!
Hah I can see how that's a distinct possibility especially as it says "The best place fo find government services and information is www.gov.uk". That does look right out of a parked domain site!

Still, I think the simple list of links, with an easy search entry, is exactly what a site like this needs.
Looks great!

Will direct.gov.uk have a bunch of redirects to gov.uk?
Man, it's another reason for me to wish I were back in Osaka...
I'd also recommend handling the onclick event of your outbound links and sending a custom event up to Google Analytics. That way you can get a rough approximation of how many people are clicking through to other sites.
You won't find any Apple technote on the subject because the use of OpenSSL is deprecated on iOS and OS X from their point of view.
Reddit Enhancement Suite for HN.
University of Texas Joins Harvard-MIT EdX Online Venture
The best way to save more time on Hacker News is stop reading it.
Yes. One of the shining lights about this project is their attention to preserving links.

http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/11/no-link-left-...
Here's a blog post about the redirection policy: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/11/no-link-left-...

Cool URIs don't change.
Project X 2012 is a very nice Comedy movie in the year.Three seemingly anonymous high school seniors attempt to finally make a name for themselves. Their idea is innocent enough – let’s throw a party that no one will forget, and have a camera there, to document history in the making. But nothing could prepare them for this party. Word spreads quickly as dreams are ruined, records are blemished and legends are born.”Project X” follows three seemingly anonymous high school seniors as they attempt to finally make a name for themselves. Their idea is innocent enough: let’s throw a party that no one will forget… but nothing could prepare them for this party.
so nice movie
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/project-x-2012-720p-blura...
I'm still seeing "beta" labels everywhere and notices, "This is a test website, so may be inaccurate or misleading."?

edit: seems the launch is tomorrow, this commit is just in preparation. Makes sense.
Setting up your manufacturing facility in Dubai
I guess it depends on what you're selling but what about Gumroad? Works well for digital products/downloads.
The UK has The Computer Misuse Act (1990), which quite adequately covers the allegations made against Mr McKinnon. Whether or not he has Asperger Syndrome, or is potentially suicidal is irrelevant with regards to his extradition in my opinion. He should not be extradited to the US for a crime that took place on British soil.

The evidence should be presented to the UK Crown Prosecution Service and they should decide whether or not it is in the public interest to try Mr McKinnon in a court of law in front of a jury of his peers.

If damages are owed, then Mr McKinnon should be required to make amends and serve any prison time should he be found guilty.

The US should be simply a party claiming criminal damages, in the same way that a British yob might smash the car window of a diplomatic vehicle owned by the United States also on British territory.

If Mr McKinnon is extradited, then the British people need to seriously question the validity of their sovereignty.
There is no integration so far with external tools. Here is how it works:

You enter the planned expenses and income (using recurrence rules, monthly, quarterly, weekly etc), either based on already known bills to come or on projections.

Once it's done, you get:

- a burn chart which will show your cashflow level over time for the coming year, day by day

- a computation of your "time-wealth" and "crash date" if you provide your bank account balance

- a monthly break-down of expenses and income

- the ability to zoom on a specific account

- a dashboard showing the upcoming (2 weeks) transactions and the cashflow totals at 30, 60 and 90 days

- a weekly email reminder of upcoming transactions (so you don't miss any / pay late fees)

The tool focuses on the future and the present (rather than tracking the past), and on providing useful metrics and information to take informed decisions for freelancers and small business owners.

The goal here is to provide peace of mind and control for those small businesses.

See https://www.wisecashhq.com/newsletters/acquiring-more-financ... for an outline of benefits.

Hope this clarify things a bit!
Looks like a cool product!

If I could make one suggestion; if possible, you shouldn't be showing screenshots forecasting loss/deficit. It might not be rational, but finance is so important that even fictional losses are not pleasant to look at. It's sort of the equivalent of having unhappy faces in your stock art.

There's a reason the Google finance favicon is steadily increasing graph!
Precisely. Would anyone argue that instead of Einstein Day, we should have Turing Day? No, the objection to that would be that for one thing they have very little in common, so why would one replace the other, and for the other part, why can't we have both an Einstein Day and a Turing Day? Both valid points. So why are women different, why is it the case that the only way Curie can become more prominent is if Lovelace takes a step back?

The choice of Turing as an example: He was a closer match to Lovelace in being a computer science pioneer.
FWIW, the comments on this post convinced me that I was wrong. Local, well-named, short-lived feature branches are something that I should learn to use more. These do not limit effective CI at all - this only happens once a feature branch lives on for days and days. I see now that the advice to use small, short-lived branches is in fact much of the article's gist.
It's not entirely victimless.

The US tax payer had to stump up cash for a whole bunch of investigation into what had happened, what had been compromised and so on.

Now, you can make a good argument that it actually made them pull their collective finger out and sort some stuff out that really needed sorting out, and that's probably true, but it's also probably true that having to do it in the way that they did (in response to an attack) cost more and was more disruptive than it would otherwise have been, and came with a larger bill as a result.

It's easy to think of attacks on the government as victimless but ultimately it all comes back to the citizens of that country (in the same way insurance fraud isn't victimless, the victims are those whose pensions are invested in the firms and those who have to pay the increased premiums that result).

My reading of it is that from a legal point of view it's a fair cop (both in terms of the crime and the extradition). The issue is that the American's seem to have made it clear that they don't give a toss about his Aspergers and the complications that it presents and that's where the calls for leniency and not extraditing him become justified.
We already question the validity of our sovereignty. Unfortunately that brands us as "terrorists".

The media here is still in a "terrorism" frenzy.
The Lord of the Rings Family Tree Project
Microsoft Surface TV Ad: This Ain’t 1984
Boeing engineer: more evidence on the assassination of Polish president in 2010
Willpower: It’s in Your Head (2011)
Thanks for suggestion. I will implement as soon as possible.
This is what I've been thinking since I've first read that willpower is depletable: "Isn't it just a self-fulfilling prophecy? Don't I feel out of willpower just because I'm convinced that it should be depleted by now because of all things I've already done today?"

http://www.stanford.edu/~gwalton/home/Publications_files/Job...

Much recent research suggests that willpower—the capacity to exert self-control—is a limited resource that is depleted after
exertion. We propose that whether depletion takes place or not depends on a person’s belief about whether willpower is
a limited resource.
yeah - it's a neat project, but my first reaction, too, was to look for a link to lua.
And lets not forget the Oberon family of operating systems I referred to in another thread.
Because regulators don't do their job.
Private customers shouldn't be responsible for auditing their bank - instead, regulators should enforce fines for banking privacy and security breaches that are an order of magnitude greater than the cost of implementing the systems securely.

The banking rules should be so that even an immoral Scrooge would see proper security as the cheaper, cost-efficient way compared to screwing their customers with shoddy systems.

If a bank teller violates financial privacy by leaking his customer's transaction lists, it carries criminal penalties in many countries. Why should a manager who intentionally violates banking privacy of thousands of customers face less prosecution?
Glad you like WiseCash!

We (my wife and I, co-founders) also used a spreadsheet a long while back and it got fairly hairy.

We built WiseCash both to create a secondary income apart from freelancing and to help out people get more freedom like we managed to.
Thanks for your feedback. I'm thinking about comment functionality for each entity on the pattern.
Easier said than done ;-)
Is there any difference between the two websites? I wasn't even aware that there was to .org...
Personally, I think the citizens should pay for the cock ups of their elected representatives and their public servants.

Pointing fingers at this guy is all fine and that, but no-one dares mention the bus size hole they left in their security infrastructure as that would be bad for business...
I'm astounded by the number of radioactive quack products still being manufactured currently:

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/quackcures/quackcures.htm (see the bottom of the page)

Most of them seem to originate in Japan.
I believe North Korea agrees with you, if one of their citizens set off UK nuclear missiles to attack UK targets, they would prefer to be tried in a North Korean court. You should respect their sovereignty ;-)

Just to be clear, I don't believe the punishment the US has in mind for him is fair and in proportion for his crimes. That said, if you use a hacking tool on purpose to target the US military from your home computer, it's also not going to get much sympathy from me.
Even if the cookies would be properly encrypted, it still violates PCI DSS mandatory requirements - you aren't supposed to store or send a full credit card number unless necessary for an actual transaction.

They could do without a (full) CC number there. Ergo, it's a violation.

It's simple defense in depth, and does reduce the risks - say, if the encryption you thought was secure really isn't, etc.
New social network to help startups with their promotion launched
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Blackberry becomes a source for shame and public humiliation
Why any computer crime? Is it not crime in some way?

There are valid arguments about where the crime takes place and the jurisdiction in question (the location of the attacker or the victim), but can you say you should never extradite someone for computer crimes?

You also need to ask yourself how you think an attack by someone in Iran on the US should be handled. Are you happy with that being dealt with by Iran?
Save Time and Hacker News don't mix. :)
Nintendo rip-offs on iPhone are becoming surprisingly polished
I did a lot of hosting (of well over a million sites and clients) and this is simply not good practice. Not even looking at the amount paid by edublogs to host. If a warning is ignored you automatically dispatch another mail (and/or sms as some do which is even better). Then you block web traffic in the firewall, leaving :22 open so the client can repair if they missed the 2 warnings.

Depending on the prior cases for that client (or; is this client a notorious spreader of illegal materials or someone who didn't paid in time on numerous occasions) you send automated warnings for a few days if the content remains in place and THEN you can decide to (manually) switch of the server. Unfortunately bigger companies forget about client support / contact and that client is king; Pearson is not your client, edublogs is; you are supposed to defend them, especially lacking prior cases over a larger period of time.

If edublogs called serverbeach to explain the case, telling them they removed the content (from varnish as well) through the open ssh connection, the support person can immediately check and switch it back on. That's normal practice to me and any host who doesn't do that is not worth paying more than $1.99 for some experimental landing page/site which doesn't mean much to you anyway if closed down.

Sorry to say if this is how Serverbeach or Site5.com treat paying customers, I will never bring my business there and I hope others do not either to show that we expect better from you in this day and age. There are clear ways to treat DMCA's and most can be done automated without actually removing anything yourself on the server; there are plenty of filtering rules to block outside the actual server while keeping the rest of the system up and giving the client ample opportunity to remove the offending content.
Yeah, calling it "The Five Year Itch" is a great way to alienate anyone who hasn't worked in the same job for 5 years.

Also who, when bored with their current job, asks themselves "oh how could I scratch this Five Year Itch that I'm having"? I'd venture to say anyone who has worked that long in software development would either reach out to their network or simply stop ignoring the requests from recruiters they're getting.
I found the comment more interesting than the article, though it goes in a very different direction :)

As somebody coming from the other end of the spectrum (Java/Python and other dynamic languages), I'm curious to know what you think of Rust as a systems programming language, once it matures. You get a number of high-level/functional idioms, built-in concurrency and either garbage-collected or manually-managed memory.
Of course, who else is going to pick up the bill?

I'm really just disputing the term victimless - it implies that no-one suffers which rather skews how it's seen and isn't the case.

We can debate your suggestion that they should be victims but that doesn't change the fact that they are victims.