skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can I choose a custom port for SFTP/SSH?
Milk, turnip, knife? That's funny. I might start coding like that by default.
Electronic Arts free game code goes viral on Reddit
Slashdot and HN are different flavors, I like them both but I find the harshness of Slashdot can be offputting sometimes. However often I see technical insights there that floor me.
I've seen the javascript of large webapps. That's why I said determined. You could reverse-engineer even the craziest logic if you wanted.
hi, i was just taking a real good look at the www.google.com/robots.txt and i found this little gem in there

Sitemap: http://www.gstatic.com/trends/websites/sitemaps/sitemapindex.xml

besides that fact that google killed on of their more usefull tools (google trends for websites) it seems they forgot the tell the robots.txt team (if there is such a thing)
> It's just stupid.

Borderline unethical. It is an explicit and willfully applied passive-aggressive mechanism of dubious utility in response to 'perceived' attempts at trolling a forum.

Keep in mind the mechanism is designed to have a negative psychological impact on the subject and comes with a later date "haha" surprise date. I find it vile.

(Fully agree re. the waste of time, too.)
The RPi Foundation has said they didn't do this initially because they don't need the money. I doubt they're in worse financial shape now, so it seems unlikely.
Hello,

Welcome to HN!

(apologies in advance for the patronising tone. I really need help and advice about tone in written communication. Sorry.)

In general it's a bad idea to say "Why is this news" because that adds little to the conversation. You will attract down votes for comments like that.

In general it's considered poor form to say that an item doesn't belong on HN. Alternatives are to use the voting system; use the flag system; or just ignore the bad content. You don't have access to down votes yet, and top level items don't have down vote buttons anyway, but you do have up vote rights. It's great when many people visit [new] and up vote good content.

This is a shame because you probably have a good point.

From the Welcome page:

> A crap link is one that's only superficially interesting. Stories on HN don't have to be about hacking, because good hackers aren't only interested in hacking, but they do have to be deeply interesting.

>What does "deeply interesting" mean? It means stuff that teaches you about the world. A story about a robbery, for example, would probably not be deeply interesting. But if this robbery was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be.

>The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter.
> I don't see how mathematical contributions hundreds of years ago have any relevance to the modern world. We're talking about a time when the US as a country didn't even exist.

No math = No modern world.
Got it?
The compiler for the TI C55x family [1] of fixed-point DSPs is implemented that way: sizeof(char) == 1 and sizeof(int) == 1, both 16-bit fields. A practical consequence is that you can't easily use the same struct header files, for example, on a more conventional platform. Another is that ASCII strings use twice the space.

[1] http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Category:C5000
99.99% of disgusting hateful speech is just that: disgusting hateful speech.

The other .01% is the only hope we have as a species of honestly addressing our situation and problems and adapting and moving forward. The mob cannot tell the difference between these two groups. In fact, unless you are from the future looking back, nobody can. People who change society for the better through their speech are almost universally hated. At first.

This isn't a nice-to-have feature of modern life. This is critical stuff. To see Ban Ki-moon say “when some people use this freedom of expression to provoke or humiliate some others’ values and beliefs, then this cannot be protected.”? A little bit of us all die.

We as a secular free society must protect people humiliating others, their beliefs and values, through speech. It's the price we paid to get to where we are -- thousands of unpopular folks yelling in the wilderness about how we are stupid, wrong, immoral and how we should improve ourselves. It's much to steep of a price, too much depends on it, for us to abandon it now.
Their parent company Ziff Davis has 5 or 6 different accounts they use to spam HN.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4555756
Before the GPLv2 we had the AGPL, which made it explicit that you had to divulge any server side code.

Now, with the GPLv2, it is possible to use Aloha freely in most websites/webapps. You don't distribute your website/webapp and therefore are not bound by the GPLv2 to divulge your website's source code.

The GPLv2 _would_ take effect if you distribute your website in the traditional sense - a package that someone can run himself.

(IANAL and can't speak for Gentics etc.)
This is weird.. I placed an order with element 14 and I received the RPi in less than 3 weeks. To be honest I am a little bummed as I got mine less than a month ago .. and I have the 256MB one... Could have done with 512
I see what you mean. Only the size of the group that stands behind you when someone challenges your property is a matter of scale, not principle. Is it only you? Your immediate family? Pack? Your country? There's always someone with a bigger club...

I believe the GP simply meant that when you base your entire business on extortion (regardless of the group size perpetrating it, incl. governments), you shouldn't complain when another tentacle of the same machinery slaps you in the back.
Five Reasons to (not?) join App.net Now
What Psychopaths Teach Us about How to Succeed
Mojave Space Port: The ‘Silicon Valley’ of space
Eureca beta is live. A place for your business to buy better and sell more
CodeTable - Online Compiler and Interpreter
And it appears the bottom-feeder subclass of redditors has spilled over :-(
Visualising the Ruby Global VM Lock
Master keys are the very definition of "security through obscurity". As Bruce says, this is a very hard problem and one that has been reasonably solved for a long time. However, thinking that sophisticated terrorists or criminals have been unable to exploit this merely because they haven't been to eBay is naïve to the extreme.
Exploiting the iOS 6's KASLR [Jailbreaking]
Heck, militia groups in the U.S. manage to mount occasional terrorist attacks, and they're generally quite poor. I don't think Timothy McVeigh raised too much funding.
Introducing, Drive – The Driving Companion App
How Cats Infect Human Brain
Or it might signal that which is all but known on HN, that many of its users are mean and spiteful, especially in the early morning.
What's wrong with tumblr's SEO?
Oh awesome! Nice way to get round any of the legal issues.
Sometimes the truth is really boring
YouTube Search Ranking Factor: Time Watched
Everyone should chill out and have a beer by the beach. Unless you are in the US, where that's illegal.
Can confirm that cookies on my laptop did (don't anymore, and I won't be using their online banking anymore) contain sensitive information about my santander account that I last logged into over 24 hours ago.

Going to go email them and tell them I'll be closing my account if they don't start taking their security seriously.
Yes, sorry about that unfortunate typo.
i'd say it’s less-so 'cheering on' or having a soft spot for them, but rather, they seem to have an understanding that, like it or not, copyright holders do have a right to enforce their property, and that not to expect otherwise is idiotic (especially when their enforcement is brought-down via denying access to services they provide).

and while i agree that its surprising given the source, they do seem to take a pretty pragmatic view on the issue. i mean we’re not talking about a record industry suing a 13-year-old girl for sharing a few mp3s here.. to have done this you would have had to seriously modify your console and probably violated nearly every line in the service’s terms of use in the process. xbox live is a service after all and they’re under no obligation to continue offering it to those who egregiously abuse it.
Isn't it good for HTPC using XBMC?
I feel like if this were to be replaced by a digital solution it would be essential that multiple vendors would be used. There was a big vulnerability that occurred with hotel locks that seems like it would have been mitigated by multiple vendors. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/08/hotel_door_loc...
Humorously, you'll find the CEC part (which was designed to do this) the hardest to get working well.

I've done something similar in my woodworking shed, I have a raspberry Pi that controls the dust collector, air filtration, and some other stuff. It also turns on a nice little colored light when my wife IM's me :)

Also i'm sure you know this, so this is more for others reading the comment, but you shouldn't control anything like the AC directly from the GPIO. You should isolate it.
maybe OT but my current workflow for doing mockups is by using jade + mixins for bootstrap + http://tin.cr/

for me its faster to use vim to bring some bootstrap components on the screen (in that stage i don't care about the structure of my HTML), apply classes to make them postition: relative and use the chrome developer tools to move them around, apply colors, ... and through the magic of tincr it gets persisted into an css file.

so i use the best of both worlds, graphical tools for stuff that is hard to do with code, and a texteditor for stuff that is faster to do by some lines of code.

bonus point: even if i throw the mockup away i still can reuse some html/css snippets when i start with the real implementation.
That has to be the slickest bikeshed I've seen all day...

These kids need mentoring bad. Someone steer them to a worthwhile project please.
Wonder if this means no more Beagleboards/pandaboards, etc...
I'm sorry, but, what? Critique is not censorship. The spread and evolution of ideas necessitates a dialog--critique, further reform of your idea, more critique, etc. etc. etc. This is how pretty much all intellectual expression works. Ideas do not exist in a vacuum, they exist among all other ideas and opinions and among data and personal anecdote and so on.

Without critique, ideas fail.

Edit: If you think someone is wrong, you should tell them (if you can articulate it in a well-reasoned, well-supported manner). Controversial ideas especially shouldn't get a free pass from critique just because they're on the dubside of mainstream thought. How does that even make any sense? Mainstream ideas are, by definition, more popular. While this popularity could lead to less (direct) critique, it still leads to more people thinking about the idea, refining it, etc. There's more brainpower behind a mainstream idea than behind a controversial one. All ideas are deserving of critique, but the ones that have been built with less human hours should probably be looked at a little more closely.
If you take that post at face value, it's not really going to do much. Sounds like the guy was on at them for a while.
For a second I was impressed, thinking you were born in this millenium. Oh well.
Of course it is. The political systems of the West lack integrity: they're not going to uphold general principles in the face of emotionally charged specifics. They merely react on a pragmatic basis depending on how various rights groups and media commentators and public opinions change.

Btw, an easy way to overcome these sorts of laws would be if everyone just started posting the supposedly forbidden statement on twitter (and elsewhere). They only have the resources to suppress a few disparate voices.
Here's a video of another high speed Blackbird breakup, from a D-21 drone release:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyC2urCl_4

The debris just keeps on going because of the huge momentum and thin air at those speeds and altitudes.
Please add a section for films on sale, especially HD ones. It always surprises me that there isn't some definitive "watch this space for bargains" for movies outside iTunes like there is with games.
How does this differ from the violent history of Christianization? From Theodosius I declaring Christianity mandatory and destroying the pagan temples, to Icelanders being held hostage to put pressure on them to convert (which they eventually voted to do, under that pressure), to colonial militias spreading Christianity in Africa and Asia, the religion basically spread by the sword. And it was maintained for hundreds of years thereafter through state violence: in most of Europe, if you attempted to convert to another religion, or declare yourself an atheist, you'd be executed as an apostate or a heretic. Even the Jews were expelled from many parts of Europe, where they had been tolerated by the Muslim empires (and prospered in Ottoman Istanbul and Salonica).
Open-source EPUB web reader with offline access
I actually quit Santander(UK) because of their security policies. They essentially changed online banking so you had to give them a mobile number and then had to get a code from a text message they sent you to login.

My question to them was "what happens if I don't have a mobile phone?" and "What do I do when I am on holiday abroad?" and their responses were (paraphrasing) "You won't be able to use online banking at all in either of those cases."

In order to just get this response I got transferred between like four or five different customer service reps. So I quit my bank of like ten years and when I quit they didn't even care enough to ask my WHY I was quitting.
Lets see if he actually manages to finish this one.

Also should he really be using TF2 models when he has his own team now?
Lets see if he actually manages to finish this one
Mozilla adds sweetener to JavaScript
SCHUFAFREIE KREDITE UND DARLEHEN
Having watched some other MIT lecture sequences, I'm really looking forward to this.

Data structures are one thing I believe every software engineer should have a solid foundation in, and it looks like these lectures will provide a nice additional resource.
It's not just this alone that's pushing me away from them, I don't like them much anyway.

Their security practices for online banking are pathetic in comparison to HSBC. HSBC gave me a one time key dongle which breeds more confidence than the various articles about santander's lax security I've read.
I only know him as a passionate advocate for Go language. He was a moderator on /r/golang and maintained a comprehensive site on Go language resources at http://go-lang.cat-v.org/. I've been to his site many times looking for libraries, books, or code samples.

If I'm not mistaken, this is his Google+: https://plus.google.com/105846208800330724949/about.

RIP, fellow programmer.
If enough users start making a fuss it could trigger action, it seems like a good idea to protect all of the users who don't know about this vulnerability
Scientists quantify consciousness using EM pulse
He'll need one hell of a vacation to get over that.

Also how many weeks do we reckon till he dates MinecraftChick?
Confirmed for my santander account. I have not got a credit card, but the NewUniversalCookie cookie does contain my passcode (in all caps, just discovered it is case insensative!).

The data is not just one base64 chunk, but multiple space separated chunks that base64 -d chokes on after a bit. I am probably missing a step.
The real news here is that Halo 4 apparently has a story worth ruining?
Farnell (element14) have generally been very good with fulfilment of orders, RS not so much. Got my e14 in 5 weeks (ordered at release), RS one never came after months so cancelled it.
CouchDB gives you /real/ transactions, they just don't span multiple documents.
So,
1) Change your program so it uses lots of mallocs.
2) Switch to a garbage collector to make your program faster!
I expect the UK online banking site is a decendant of Alliance & Leicester's site.

Santander bought A&L a few years ago when they got into trouble during the credit crunch. Before then, Santander was not trading in the UK.
Exactly what zimbatm said. Why do you need to request to "Update your public and private repositories (Commits, Issues, etc)." I'm not using the service until either I know exactly why you need that information/ability or you take that part of the request off.
Beer me: 5 lessons for trade associations
I'm amazed at the hubris shown towards a civilisation that has existed far longer than your own.

Please reflect more on this. Your "solution" to this problem is just to oversimplify everything and solve these simple problems. A clear flag, that you lack the education to actually contribute something meaningful to the discussion.
Top changes in Tor since the 2004 design paper (Part 1)
Do some investigating into the temporary worker regulations for the country you are in.

Here in the UK a recent law came into force where temporary workers have to be paid the same as colleagues in the same role after 12 weeks. They should also get the same performance related bonuses too.

It's worth checking if your company need to pay your agency a fee if you were to join the company as a perm employee.
wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
I'm looking forward to the hi-res images when Red Bull has finally processed them and gotten them up. The video is spectacular to watch again as well.
No, you're the one that still doesn't get it. Who invented algebra 1000 years ago is entirely irrelevant to modern geopolitics.
I just did some more reading on source maps. I thought they had far more information about the original source than they actually do. Thanks!
His Ph.D is in operations research. Also a blogger
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/

An article on market design for kids choosing schools
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0809/opinions-harvard-alvi...

Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets
http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/Repugnance.pdf
What sort of clowns stored the credit card number in a cookie? Seriously? What a breathtakingly stupid show of total incompetence.

Was considering switching my personal account to Santander, have been looking to move away from Natwest for a while now. Natwest are a dismal failure of a bank to the extent I'm always happy to go out my way and dissuade people from associating with them in any way. I'll be writing Santander off my list for sure now. How on earth can you trust them after seeing this?

For a business who HAS to take security seriously, for a business with a LOT of resources, for a business who hold YOUR cash this is utterly pathetic and inexcusable on their part.

Leaving them might be a good idea for your personal security, unfortunately the UK is a little short of good banks. Would love to see someone shake up banking like Stripe has shaken up online payments.
I don't think I have any tricks clever enough to help anyone who can easily read minified code :)
I only want to prevent simple theft from copy/pasting of source code.
> Oh please. A proper root cause analysis is different from blaming everything on the West. It would have to include the idea that the current cultural clash is with an extremely violent religion as can be shown by its teachings.

Christianity can be an extremely violent religion, as shown by its history, from the Crusades to the Thirty Years war. Not to mention the various non-religious genocides committed for the most part by "good christians". Most religions have enough internal contradiction that widely different interpretations arise. You have a world of difference between Salafists and Sufis, for instance.

Denying that at least a century of Western interference in the Middle East does not play a very significant role in this "culture war" is naive. Not to deny very different cultural standards between the West and the Middle East, but it's certainly not black and white.
I don't know about tumblr.com, but stackoverflow doesn't allow their site to be viewed within an iframe (security reasons). Nor does facebook.com or google.com. I also hope most banking sites wouldn't allow this.

That said, it seems like a useful tool when you are the developer and want to see how it renders for different viewscreens.
> You would like to limit immigration. What would companies like google like look after that? Would you advocate sending the head of youtube back to Iran? What about much of Detroit or New York?

I'm not talking about educated people, and like I said above, this issue is not particularly applicable to America, it's more relevant to Europe. In Europe, there is a serious issue with Muslim immigrants not integrating into mainstream society, and this is because many European nations accepted large numbers of Muslim immigrants in an indiscriminate fashion.
I don't know how things work in the UK, but apparently you can report them to ICO so they take action:

http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/handling.aspx
CodeTable - online compiler/interpreter. (A weekend hack)
It's worth mentioning that Uriel was one of the major contributors to http://suckless.org/ software. Things like wmii, dwm, dmenu, and other minimalist bits of software for Linux were partly his doing. He will be missed.
I've seen that list before. I've suffered from nearly all those things while living in a foreign country. It's really not a big deal unless you choose to make it one.

A large number of those problems are of the form "I prefer people of my race, but there aren't very many of them. Oh noes." If you have narrow preferences of any sort, racial or otherwise, your life will be harder. Big surprise.

Should I feel doubly awesome because people thought I was a smart hotshot dev even while I suffered from these horrible problems?
>I don't think the mild, "I think you're stupid and wrong" responses are why he's quitting Twitter.

So, what you're saying is that you have no proof that he deleted his Twitter over anything more than not being able to stand criticism?
It was Abbey, no?
This post's title is inaccurate and needs fixing. The article's title is: "Amazon looks to acquire TI mobile chip business, report says".

It's an external report which is claiming that the two companies are in talks. It's not a press release from Amazon or TI saying they're doing it.

[BTW: what is flagging meant to be used for? Why is there no documentation on these features?]
For anyone interested, if you want to see the information it is storing then take the NewUniversalCookie and seperate it by the #'s then you can see two base64 strings which are easily decoded

The scary part is that the 'alias' id is actually one of the 2 passwords needed to log into the account. So in fact if someone had that and my card number all they would need is the 5 digit numerical code to log in
> A thing called colonialism did exist....

All that is true, but it doesn't change what America needs to do now to ensure it remains in control in the most efficient manner. Moreover, with domestic and renewable sources of energy, we wouldn't need to get involved in the Middle East, so they would benefit too.

> The west managed to turn them to "a bunch of desert nomads with no real power" precisely when it wanted to get ahold of cheap labour and later the crude oil.

Great civilizations rise and fill. Regardless of how they got there, that's where they'll be when the US leaves. My point is that their ability to attack the US will be neutralized the minute their cash flow stops.
Small correction: they were trading in the UK, just not under the name "Santander" - they had owned Abbey (formerly Abbey National) for a few years before they bought A&L and then merged them under the new (to the UK) Santander name.