skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I kind of like Objective-C, sadly it is a MacOS X language, as GNUStep does not offer the required portability across all systems I develop for.
Speed is not the only thing. The main question is do I want to talk to vim instead of type?
Until we hit close to the final major milestone for delivery and payment, it's up to the team. After that it's all open source and community.
I find the article very interesting being a Dane. Your sentence "I worked a long time yesterday" would be "Jeg arbejde lang tid igår" in modern Danish - exactly the same structure as the English sentence. This applies to most sentences in at least Danish/Norwegian(Bokmål) and English.
Microsoft to Release Windows Blue, the First Free Windows Ever – Rumors
Just curious, how accurate was the rest of the translation?
I was a reddit user back when they were populating it themselves. I was not offended to learn later, after meeting them, that they'd made up accounts to populate the site.

I enjoyed the really high quality links they posted; that was the only "contract" I felt like I had with reddit at that point. There was no discussion in the beginning, so the links were all there was, and they were high quality (i.e. I enjoyed reading the linked stories). Faking a community would be much harder, so it's lucky they didn't have to. By the time comments were a part of the experience at reddit, there were enough actual users to make it happen.
Metro UI: Cross browser metro inspired theme for the web.
I won't recommend it. You sure can just go to a shallow swimming pool, flail around and learn swimming, but re-discovering first principles is distracting and might de-moralize you.

I don't remember which one I used when I learnt(it was about 6 years ago and I was using windows at that time), but I would say use one which teaches basic letters, n-grams, symbols and integration. Muscle memory is built over time and it's hard to override. Unless you believe using wrong fingers give you some sort of advantage, why would you want to learn the wrong fingers when you can very well learn the right ones with the same level of effort(your comment about y and b)?
US had plans to nuke the moon
The EFF is right, this is still way too hard.
People often bungle their firewall rules because they don't know any better, but Amazon continuing to willfully fuck up TCP for all of AWS is a pretty large issue for the functioning of the net at large.
Its much longer than I expected (I'm .25 of the way through), but so far a much higher quality read than I expected from the domain of 'the american conservative'
Well, they're going to have a lot of explaining to do when a dump truck shows up outside of their house with 4,294,967,290 stock certificates.
> most treatments will have similar effects in both

If so, that would answer the question and undercut what I was responding to.

> being able to filter out nonworking treatments quickly is very important to actually finding the stuff that does work.

Assuming that the filter is accurate. If not, we could close avenues that would be fruitful and open avenues that will be not, wasting decades and billions of dollars.
I don't have a problem with MBA course flaunting their rankings, but why sacrifice learning? You can very well flaunt your ranking, and teach statistics and economics.
Hey, at least he thinks it's glitzy. That's a plus.
Just for the record, the weird looking "Jeg", which is very different than e.g. "Ich" (German) or "Ik" (correct me if I'm wrong, in Dutch). Jeg is pronounced something like e-I - much closer to English "I".
Last time I looked at Mailjet they didn't offer this. Sendgrid does do that, as does Mailgun. I've tried both of them for BunkerApp and decided on Mailgun for various reasions. One reason was that Mailgun offered a simple way for a catch-all-receive (* @*.bunkerapp.com) while with Sendgrid I had to jump through houps. Mailgun also offers a (for my needs) simpler parsing API.

If you need Inbound mails I'd definitely recommend looking at both Sendgrid and Mailgun (and Mailjet if they offer this now), then decide on what suits your particular needs more.
Are you suggesting that digital goods cannot be sold and can only be licensed? What is your basis for this? It seems to me that this was a sale of goods. The fact that the goods are in digital format is irrelevant. It is unlikely that the courts will treat the sale of a book the same as a software license. Ultimately sales of goods are governed by law, and one party is not permitted to breach their contracts.
Man, 29, arrested in Newry 'dissident Republican' investigation
Wow, its almost as if simply changing your user agent does not in fact automagically force chrome to render in various other browsers!

(On a serious note, this looks handy)
I backed Wasteland, and I'm expecting a game similar to Fallout 2 with modern graphics and probably little to no voice acting.

They're using unity so they making big savings right away, but are constrained with what that engine can do. And that's fine. I think most people who backed it want a game that's true to its roots rather then has the latest graphics etc.

Finally Kickstarter doesn't preclude additional funding sources. $900k might have gotten them half way there with the assumption that they can get additional sources of funding after that point. bear in mind that they will be getting sales to people other then current backers after they release.

I think the key thing though is that a small focused team, using an engine like Unity can get a lot done, and the constraints will be excepted by a community who is far more interested in a classic RPG then the latest graphics.
The issue is

4e9 is invalid but in the middle of the way (more often than not) this may be interpreted as a negative number.

Hence you need to check for value 'bigger than allowed' and 'smaller than allowed'

For unsigned ints, there is a natural smallest value allowed: zero.

You're free to not follow my advice though.

And the google style guide is subtle, it's not what you're implying. You can't use 'short' for example unless explicitly.
You could use one of the several temporary mail boxes to exchange messages.

Presumably you'd save anything important on a flash drive or something remote.
> And what might the precursor techs for such a replicating machine look like?

I would wager, attempted mischief, that words themselves are the self-replicating machine, to the Universe..

Think about it. These very characters, here on this page .. motivate the pro-creation of yet more, and so much the human organism is designed exclusively for the propagation and 'existence' of these words, that eventually, to the Universe, it must look like each letter is but a sperm, off to meet some fertile substance designed to fuse another font of near endless replication, reproduction, duplication, consumption ..
I'm in the early stages of setting up a "proper" working environment for my startup (office space, health insurance etc), and would love to hear about people's experiences, costs etc.
Thats the issue that arrives when return of investment is a copy of a game and not stock options. If one treat kickstarter as an investment, then there is not much of a difference.
What's most interesting to me is that traditional VC is being squeezed from both sides. We're seeing earlier IPOs (I get the impression the Series D has more or less disappeared) and at the same time we've been seeing larger angel/seed rounds that could have passed for a Series A in older times.

Could we eventually be heading for a world where companies go straight from angel/seed funding to IPO?
First of all: congrats! I have been using Vagrant for a while now and it's how we manage the development and test environments (+200) in the company I work at (tuenti.com).

It is still not clear to me what the business model will be: will you be charging for selling extra providers (like VMWare Fusion), support contracts or ...?
I guess I was saying that a lot of things happened that were indicators that the site may have not been what it is today. I don't know how much money they have in their bank accounts but I'll bet all mine it's not millions from the reddit sale. I just get annoyed by the hype of a vision and someone be responsible for something that can't really be explained. If it really was that for them, as jay-z put it, they could create another one.
Actually I think that people pledging there know exactly what they will get. Especially if you bring FO3 and a SNES game into the discussion - then I'm affraid that Fallout 3 has less depth than many SNES games.

As I have personally pledged to some projects there I can tell you what I'm expecting from the projects. I want them to deliver good gameplay - and good gameplay equals good ideas - not great AAA visuals - and those cost a lot.

I've also backed Elite:Dangerous - they wanted 1.25kk pounds - a massive amount of money - Have you seen what did they manage to do with Frontier First Encounters? Check how many people worked on it, I estimate that given realistic expectation of what we might get - we can have massive value for our money out of kickstarter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League
[Old School Game] Startup From Hell
They say that Hushmail keeps your mail in plaintext. But does it?

From what I heard, they encrypt your mail even on their servers.

However what kills the service for me is the need to pay if you don't use it reguralry - and there is no way to pay for hushmail anonymously (read: with bitcoin).
F1, like soccer and the metric system, is OK for everyone except Americans
Using "unsigned ints" for values that will never be negative allows you to perform one validation test instead of two. Use a typedef to avoid writing "unsigned" everywhere and you end up with less clutter in the code (for humans) and in the binary (for machines).

nanex
Just about nobody(on the customer end) does anything with SSL certificates. We had to switch from an EV SSL to a domain validated certificate for a few weeks while our new EV was validated and it had absolutely 0 affect on orders.
I'm with you for the first part, but "50% less" seems to me both clear and strictly equivalent with "half as much". What am I missing?
Two games - Faster Than Light and Project Giana. Also I haven't seen too many project in the game industry yet which were right on time, so as long as the guys still work on it that doesn't worry me too much.
Tobacco industry uses trade pacts to try to snuff out anti-smoking laws
As long as everybody doesnt develop its own engine and tech i think alot of stuff has changed today that makes game development cheaper.
There are alot of good engines (Unity3D for example) that can get you going pretty quickly and still have a mighty set of features and possibilities.
Excellent. I've been watching Vagrant from the sidelines. It's looking great, but it's useless to me until it gets a KVM backend.
Please note I didn't want to be pedantic with "spheres", first :-) Just trying to pick a word reflecting that HN has a focus on only a part of what exists.

It's mostly via twitter that I see those, but here are examples this week:

- http://www.rudebaguette.com/2012/11/26/teleportd-nitrogram-i... ($1M)

- http://www.pehub.com/174632/youscribe-raises-e2-million/ (€2M)

- http://frenchweb.fr/la-ruche-qui-dit-oui-leve-15-million-eur... (€1.5M)
How to Create an Input Character Counter with jQuery
I asked a couple of weeks back and they did not, at least yet.
Actually, I find you should always use signed ints.

With signed ints, you can notice that '2-3' has below 0, and act accordingly. If you do '2-3' with unsigned ints, there is not really any way of finding out something went wrong (other than looking for very large numbers).

Of course, particularly in a financal system, you should probably use an integer type which throws/aborts if an out-of-bounds error occurs.
if all you want is to receive mail, the CCC offers anonymous one-time adresses: https://anonbox.net/index.en.html
"Will Betteridge's law be mentioned if this headline is submitted to Hacker News?"
"You know, it's pretty easy to poke holes in something. It's another thing entirely to come up with something better."

I have no problems with coming up with something better. More like 3 a day before breakfast; I'd just have problems making people actually go along with whatever I would come up with. But you know what? If people are so fucked that even I can't magically solve it, that doesn't mean I can't say they're fucked. It just means they're gonna pout and roll their eyes, none of which is news or unexpected.

"There hasn't been a single political system that hasn't been corrupted."

What's your point? That therefore criticism isn't allowed? That naive believe in cynical manipulation is not an issue?

Also, was I talking about a "system"? No, I was talking about specific circumstances, an actual situation, and individuals and their responsibilitie.

But of course, it's easier to just throw some mud into a completely different direction, not hitting anything, and then deluding oneself into having dealt with the issue just nicely, than to actually address any of it.
> The JIT equivalent is not going to be renting a venue for a dinner party. It's going to be going to a restaurant or a bar.

Yes, exactly, my post was clearly very unclear. I was not trying to say "this is how we all live in the future", but rather, "how might we enable nice living in smaller apartments".

So I was trying to get at why one wants a big place. So why is this so, and is this the only mode of operating. Business usually rents space rather than owns it, but it was not always so. I'm wondering if one could make the own/rent equation more fine-grained. I'm thinking of some kind of personalized space rental. Like you store your data in the cloud, you could similarly store some of your stuff in the cloud, and only call it in when you actually need it.

Currently it is not too uncommon for people to collaboratively consume (e.g. borrow/rent over the Internet) rarely used tools, such as hedge clippers or lawn mowers. It does not make sense to do it for things one uses frequently (e.g. spoons), but it might make sense for other things. I've come to realize that I don't really need my living room on a daily basis, only for parties, and for that it is way too small. Now I don't want a restaurant for our mostly small children's parties, but could I somehow avoid owning the living room? If there was a space nearby that I could rent, that would not work, since the kitchen fittings, appliances etc. would not fit my needs or taste. It is currently infeasible to personalize the space for each tenant, but it is still interesting to consider. What if I had a storage space of stuff I owned (perhaps collectively with other people), that I could call on demand. When organizing the dinner party, the stored kitchen stuff would be retrieved from the storage (which could be at several physical locations), and delivered to the space. The organizing and moving costs are what makes it infeasible. The organizing cost could be removed with clever software, the moving cost, not so much.
I tried it. It made my notebooks nice and crisp, but introduced weird black artefacts with the menu panels. Did you get that too or do they work fine for you?
Os Apartamentos Mais Caros do Mundo - Um T1 de 19 Milhões
Maybe the problem could be solved simply delaying retirement age. In some countries we've done it for other, less exciting, reasons.
Digital colonization: The future wars will be digital wars
Hushmail isn't to be trusted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_...
and https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/hushmail_turn...
It doesn't really matter whether they encrypt it on disk: the scenario here isn't that their disks get stolen, but that law enforcement makes them decrypt your mail. The only way to get in the way of that is to encrypt it yourself, see GPG etc.

Also: isn't a bitcoin transaction really difficult to anonymise, with the global transaction record available to the whole world?
Openshift + python flask-flatpages + Twitter Bootstrap
exactly, if you are dealing with under 100 BTC then a webwallet will work sufficiently well for keeping your money in, however those with larger balances are more likely to not mind needing to download the entrie blockchain.

I will say that I recently wiped by HDD and re-installed everything incuding the bitcoin-qt client and it probably took me around 24 hours to download the entire blockchain, probably just shy of 210000 blocks. The first 50-70% of data took very little time at all, the last 50-30% took the lions share of the 24 hours.
A color-coded map of the world’s most and least emotional countries
Louis Vuitton Men Bags Outlet
The greatest trick the ruling classes in the US ever pulled was convincing everyone else, especially those who suffer the most from the current system, that they're not poor and they're not an underclass - they're temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

When I was working in Italy I would sometimes listen to a US Forces radio station on my drive in each morning, and the success story propaganda was fascinating. Every so often, there would be a completely irrelevant and disconnected sixty second summary of some lucky chap who did really well in business, with an undertone that all you needed was to work hard and you'd become a millionaire.
If I have 200 units of fish, and the next day I have 50% less, then I would indeed have 100 units of fish.

Maybe he meant the opposite, "50% more" versus "double"? If I had 50% more the next day, I would have 300 units of fish, not 400.
Hacker menu: How much does it cost to buy an attack kit?
Patriot’s 30-Point Blowout of the Jets, a Very Sweet Victory for Belichick
When the New England Patriot’s head coach’s career (especially with the Patriots), his relationship with Rex Ryan and history with the Jets, is considered, the big victory over the Jets on Thanksgiving Day must have been personally very satisfying.
I experienced reading this as a major slap in the face. When faced with a local maximum, my immediate gut reaction is "hooray, major redesign! whiteboards, here we come!". It's the part I like the most.

Yet, I know he's right. I'm going to have a hard time holding back and accepting incremental change here, too.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/111166-10-Year-Old...
Having worked at B&N, I believe this is the case, as a credit card is required to be on file even when paying for ebooks with a gift card.
Video Gaming on the Pro Tour, for Glory but Little Gold
> The rise of a Henry Ford, from farm boy mechanic to world business tycoon, seems virtually impossible today, as even America’s most successful college dropouts such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg often turn out to be extremely well-connected former Harvard students.

I find the Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg examples poorly chosen. Silicon Valley is probably one of the few remaining industries that largely resembles a meritocracy in America. There are countless cases of people succeeding despite lacking a formal/prestigious education or having the right connections.
the main point of the article is that "weak countries will be digitally colonized"
And this is why I almost always never trust advice that has the words 'always' and 'never'.
Actually it's a little harder still. For instance, when your browser makes requests in your behalf, it provides the destination server with a lot of information which can be used to identify you (at least temporarily)[1]. To get a better level of anonymity, one should at least use a combination of Tor and privoxy [2].

[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
[2] http://www.privoxy.org/
Julian Assange 'has lung infection'
Nobody knows who runs the Tor Mail service. This is good because nobody can order them to give up information about you. However, it's also bad because you've no idea if it's being run by responsible people, a government agency, wikileaks, or just a few nosy kids. You should still definitely use PGP encryption if you're using it.
I was not really trying to say that cramped spaces are great, rather try to think about ways to live in smaller spaces, simply because space is expensive, especially in cities. For this I'm considering the analogy "storing stuff in the cloud" (see thread above).

It's interesting you mention electonics projects, since one of the things I had in the back of my mind is doing wood- and metalworking, which tends to require their own spaces, which can be hard to come by (and expensive). One can either have a dedicated space and proper tools (table saw, drill press, metal brake, welder etc.) or then one can do small things in one's own apartment. To make it cheaper to have a dedicated space it could be made multi-user, shared by many people, but then one loses the benefit of storing the "state" of ones project, just by leaving everything where it was. Cleaning up at the end of each session can be a big fixed cost for larger projects.
I think you are right, its probably some metamaterial like shark skin, where the surface of the exchanger itself is designed to prevent frost crystallization from occurring .. i.e. the metamaterial is geared towards the properties of water at the stage where it goes from fluidic to crystal .. I forget the term .. so the structure of the surface of the exchanger is formed such as to demote crystallization long enough for the pressure forces to remove the liquid hydrogen ..
Hey everyone,

we made a website where we'll be posting business book summaries, so you can see if a book interests you before you read it, or quickly refresh it if you've already read it.

Please let me know what you think, feedback is greatly appreciated.
Your information is out of date. The Tor project no longer advises the use of privoxy, and advises all users to use The Tor Browser Bundle. This is specifically configured to make all Tor users look the same, precisely because of browser fingerprinting.
Do you guys manually read the content and create summaries, or is this an automated algorithm like Summly - http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/01/summly-app-nick-daloisio-vi...
How was that in the end? I got the impression that by the time it was out it was almost irrelevant, given how far everything else had advanced.
What?

Are you assuming that Google Chrome packs Trident, Gecko and other engines along with Webkit?
Well, lottery and inheritances excepted, you won't become one if you don't work hard.
Anyone know how big the Asian demographic is in the US? Would help in guesstimating sincerity of this (vs just a play to get their vote after losing the black and hispanic groups)

Regardless, the bigger story of the alarming anti-meritocratic direction in the US is the poor social mobility in general.

edit: WP says Asians are 5.6% of US population.
I once had this happen with Spam. No joke, some spammer sent out their stuff via a mailing list software with copy-replies-to-all activated. Of course the same thing happened with the additional factor of people threatening legal action to fan the flames.

My trust in people's intelligence went down several notches those days...
I'd use Tor way more if it wasn't so damn slow. Of course security is a priority, but it's just not usable for me.
Wait a sec, is that all they're doing? If so then that's really lame.

What I assumed from their product description was that they're running all those browsers in VMs or some-such in the same way that browserify.com, crossbrowsertesting.com and browserstack.com do. That would be very cool to have as a local service but quite hard to pull of in a way that's nicer to use than just running a bunch of VMs yourself (which is a bit of pain).

Massively overselling your product isn't a good idea. If they sold it as what it is then maybe that's useful to someone. But implying that it is more than that just makes it look really really lame.
I have always wanted a 'google' for your house to find things. Search: "ruby on rails book" would return: "Bedroom 1 North Corner." Search: "keys" would return: "Laundry Shelf".
Also: "wallet" would return "John's Lounge room, click to see directions"

These are one step closer.