skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the feeling that the various "online IDE" projects may be quickly superseded. If anyone could pull that off, it's Github - just getting Github integration working is hit-and-miss with most of the others. If it could include some live preview functionality for HTML/CSS/JS for mockups and Markdown for writing, it would quickly become vastly useful.

Does anyone know what text editor they're using? I assume it's CodeMirror, but I could be wrong.
Show HN: I'm a hacker and needed gift ideas.. here's my weekend project
I have an M5 and would definitely consider getting a Model S instead if I needed to replace my car.
The graphics are terrible.
SystemRandom uses the system's urandom, which may not be ideal, either. (The man page for urandom mentions theoretical problems when system entropy pools are depleted.)

The PyCrypto.Random.random option mentioned in another thread by wulczer might be better... but would love an authoritative recommendation from an expert.
That's interesting. So it seems that Twitter integration provides the best content. I'm don't use Twitter very much, so that's not an option for me.

If my experience is the same as every other non-twitter user's, then it's likely that Prismatic's user base will be limited only to twitter users, unless they can improve their product.
Running Jekyll on Rackspace Cloud Files
I faced a similar problem in academia, but it was in economics. I started my undergrad career as a computer science major, later ending up in economics, and I went on for my PhD in economics after finishing my BA. For those that aren't familiar, a PhD in economics is a lot like a PhD in mathematics. If you don't already respect economists mathematical ability, you really should, but that's not my point here because math is just a tool, and contains no absolute truths for the social scientist.

In an effort to combine solid theoretical research with well built empirical models, I learned how to program Python to scrape data from web sites. Since nobody around me knew anything about computer science, I found myself having to teach myself everything when it came to "how would I write a program that collects X things from Y products in Z Internet markets". In the beginning, when I was learning to use Python libraries for doing HTTP requests (eventually converging to using 'requests'), how to parse that HTML (started with BeautifulSoup and then converged to 'lxml'), and how to aggregate and analyze that data (eventually converging to 'pandas'), I had to spend a lot of time learning the ins and outs of Python. To this day, I still think it was a great choice because Python has changed the way I approach any kind of business question that could be answered with a well defined empirical model.

As a research assistant, I would spend 12 hours writing scripts to automate the collection and analysis of data for some project I discussed with a professor. The day after writing that script, I would go and talk to the professor and want to discuss some of the computational issues with the script (say, encoding issues, or even the use of computers on EC2 to help collect massive amounts of data every day), but the economics professors would not care at all to hear about any of that. "You need to be studying the economics, not the computer science" they'd tell me. This would infuriate me, because in my mind, if you wanted to be able to ask all these interesting questions that rely on the data, then you need to spend time to make sure you've done the computation correctly and in a way that is reliable. Maybe I dug my own grave by showing my excitement as I began to become more fluent with Python, and thus more confident in my abilities.

Nonetheless, I eventually decided to leave my PhD program because my interests in topics that lie at the intersection of computer science and economics were a bad fit for my program. It was so disheartening to me because I truly loved economics, and was confident that what I intended to do with my PhD research was going to be unique and lay a framework for the field of industrial organization. However, the experience I received in my program was the lack of an adviser that could truly help me achieve what I wanted to do, and a regular negative response to anything I'd bring up that was out of the realm of what my professors were used to talking to graduate students about.

Overall, as my tone may signal, graduate school has left me very, very bitter.
I think it is a great decision on where to place the create new file button, it seems obvious when you see it but is such a simple solution. Or is it just me?

When I read their tweet I was interested to see how they had integrated it with everything else. Off the top of my head I couldn't think of an ideal place without the whole UX feeling clunky. Well done Github!
This might be an interesting argument from the point of view of pure philosophy or ideology, but it is a pointless argument when discussing practical politics. It does not matter which is the primary means of providing social order.

It is particularly pointless because "being a government" is not an interesting measure outside of the realms of philosophy and ideology. There are very many governments that would have done the world a great service by ceasing to "be a government".

Personally, I'd argue that a government that provides no welfare are often a net negative - many of the early nation states saw enormous societal harm resulting from law enforcement and military being used as a bulwark against the effects of the lack of working welfare systems.

E.g. I'm from Norway. A large proportion of the Norwegian emigrants who settled in the US (like the Irish) came during periods of extreme poverty and often starvation in Norway (Norway didn't become wealthy really until oil finds in the 60's, and until at least the 20's it was really a quite poor country). Poor people could get forcibly put to work in poor-houses, as they were in many other countries. Yet the state at the time used the police to restrict emigration:

You needed permission, or you could get thrown in jail for trying to leave. It was seen as essential in order to provide social order. As it was in many other countries.

> Here is how I support my claim that police and military are the primary means of providing social order. Can our government exist without welfare? It has. Can it exist without the public school system?

Can it exist without government run police? Many governments have historically largely deferred policing to volunteers (UK for example, where volunteers still have a role in policing). Without military? There are examples of that too - the modern nation state with standing armies is a relatively new invention and prior to that at least some societies had what amounted to functioning governments without military or police - Iceland, for example, which had a functioning parliament and established laws and court system for hundreds of years before it got a government run police and military.

While the nature of a government that is not a monopoly provider of violence and force is by necessity very different, that does not mean they can not exist.
This is definitely a massive overstatement. I think it's true in almost any industry, that the best results come from a balance of these things.

You don't get anywhere by doing and not thinking. You don't get anywhere by thinking and not doing. Things like this don't have to be (and are not) black and white.
It might not be the nicotine, but the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons produced by burning, which are broad-spectrum venoms.
Hey Anil,
I read somewhere that the way ArchiveSocial does the archiving it somehow preserves that info so that it looks just like it did when originally posted on facebook, twitter or wherever. That's kinda hard to imagine. How does it maintain the look of the particular social media environment the content was posted in?

-Ron Clabo
Silent Circle appears to be for people who both

1) Want military-grade(ish) hardened coms

and also

2) Aren't willing to set it up themselves, but trust a service provider to do it for them

I read their docs a bit ago and don't really get it. I didn't really get Whisper Systems offering either as it appeared to have a broken trust model on a variety of levels.

If I cared about this kind of thing, and I really don't, I'd likely want to own all parts of the transport system and have the only available threat surface be the encryption algorithm as much as possible
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+encryption

Might it all be pointless without massive amounts of traffic padding based on this attack? I wouldn't know.
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10207-010-0111-4...
Time Out is a pretty unique jazz album that's often overlooked. Most jazz, like rock, is in 4/4 time (with the odd waltz-time tune to liven it up.) Not good enough for Dave Brubeck: Time Out has all kinds of weird compound time stuff going on. Take Five is in 5/4, which gives it its unusual vibe; Three to Get Ready gives you two bars of 3/4 and two of 4/4, alternating (which to me it feels a bit like a car on the verge of starting; I don't actually like that tune.) There's other stuff going on there too but it's been a while since I listened to it. Will dig it out again tonight in his honour.

Non jazz-heads wanting a similar experience could do worse than listen to Money, by Pink Floyd: 7/4 for the verses, then 4/4 for the solo.
> Do you want a personalized news feed of only things you are interested in? They are working on making that and I'm not aware of anyone else trying.

Over the years a lot of services have tried to do this exclusively, but Flipboard is the only one that has bridged the gap between "stuff I definitely want to read" and "stuff on the fringes I wouldn't have actively sought but am happy I found."
I believe the editor is ACE:

https://github.com/blog/905-edit-like-an-ace

https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace
I think I meant to reply to your comment, not the parent. The contemporary vibe comes in part from the unusual structures. It still sounds really fresh.
> Making ‘git diff’ wrap long lines ... My git diff would not wrap lines and leave a lot of information hidden from view in my terminal.

Git is so ... stone age!
It continues to shock me how many people believe that profit-seeking or optimizing production is "immoral". I have nothing much to say about it, since this position is fundamentally irreconcilable with the core ideas of capitalism, which I use as a framework to view all sorts of different aspects of life that become problematic if we believe that people are somehow duped into spending their money or time at a utility loss to themselves.
Incredibly valuable tool. I can see financial companies jumping on this to fill compliance needs if and when they let their reps use social media.
I think a worthy discussion question is:

Are rounded corners a bad thing, and not a part of the "flat design" movement?

My 2¢: I'm not sure they are a bad thing. I think you can still have a flat design and use rounded corners. Frankly, I dislike when buttons are flat _and_ right-angled because too much affordance is lost.
I feel like this should be relatively easy to put an end to.

1. Make revenge porn site give up IP address that uploaded the incriminating images;
2. Check to see if victim's ex-boyfriend lives at the street address leasing the IP;
3. Get a warrant to sieze all his computers;
4. Find the images on his hard drive;
5. Convict him

I guess a judge has to figure out what crime he's guilty of, but from that article it sounds like he could be guilty of at least three. It would be harder if the perpetrator was security-conscious, but even private VPN services are required to hand over information if there's evidence of their users engaging in criminal activity, and most of these douchebags don't even know what a VPN is.
Amazon Hooks 'Em Young with Unlimited Access to Kids Content On Kindle Fire
It would not be that hard to write a 3D physics engine for a TI-89 calculator (Assuming you already know how to write a 3D physics engine, which I do). Problem is, it would be useless since it will probably take tens of seconds (if not more) to calculate each frame.
Cartoon about Shopping, Sales and Bargains
For those learning R, this site: http://www.twotorials.com/ which I found on HN several months ago is fairly helpful as well.
Ridiculous attention to detail. It isn't the big things, mostly, that draw me to IDEA (though some of them, like the way it handles projects and that Maven Just Works, help a lot), but the thousand little things that someone, somewhere, got right that you don't think about. Unless I think about it, I just notice that the overall experience is somehow more pleasant.

Stuff like what comes first in autocomplete (Eclipse's quality in this regard has been somewhat inconsistent). Refactor suggesting intelligent names for variables based on their types.

And then there's the theming. Normally, Swing apps are somewhat ugly and generally obnoxious. The JetBrains folks have put together a Swing LaF that's beautiful and compact, which also contributes to the overall experience just being pleasant.

I'm happier using IntelliJ.
A really good news aggregation/management site would help me out a lot more than a marginally better Siri. I waste a lot of time on the news and miss a lot of stuff.
Victoria's secret fashion show 2012
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What "SQL nightmare" is this?

For the record, I mostly work on "NoSQL" databases now (am an HBase committer). But I have no qualms with SQL, and it is certainly not a nightmare.
Servo: a Mozilla research project to develop a new Web browser engine
Show HN: Deal, HyperLocal Buying & Selling
Hi HackerNews,

I'm Chris and I'd like to show you my new free app called: Deal

It works like this, you list the things you want to Buy &/or Sell

When you walk past people in the High Street or at a Market,
Your lists are compared automatically. If there is a match,
you’re alerted & you can chat to each other to organize a Deal.

Video: http://vimeo.com/52853298
Download link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deal/id333252543?ls=1&mt=8
Website link: http:/deal.gameweaver.com

Scenarios:

“The last shopping day before Christmas”
It’s the last shopping day before Christmas and all of the shops have sold out of “SuperMega Toy” - the must have toy for Christmas. You’ve been looking everywhere for it. It may be the case that some people might be selling the “SuperMega Toy” you are after, they might have brought it and changed their mind etc. You enter “SuperMega Toy” in the App as “Buy” whilst the seller enters “SuperMega Toy” in the App with “Sell”, If the two people are sitting down having lunch at the same fast-food place, or walk buy each other in the street. Their lists will be compared, there’s a match, they chat to each other to work out a Deal and Christmas is saved.

“Market”
You’re a collector of “My Little Pony” memorabilia, you visit Markets/Yard Sales/other events in your search for “My Little Pony” items.
Market stall sellers enter a list of the items they are selling and you as the buyer enter the “My Little Pony” items you are buying. As you walk around the different stalls, your lists are compared, saving you time to search for the items you want. Hopefully you get a match and find the items you want to buy.
I had issues with updating Eclipse itself. The last time I used Eclipse was when I updated the main IDE itself. The update somehow broke my plugins (including Google's ADT) so badly that I had to remove Eclipse and reinstall it and the plugins from scratch. I decided to move on to IntelliJ after that, and I have not had any update issues since then.

This was back in the Eclipse 3.5-3.7 days, but with 4.x already out, it's possible that this issue has already been fixed.
Could this be the eventual IDE in the cloud so many others have failed at? Start with getting everyone's code in the system, get them viewing code in your system, commenting on commits daily, then "hey while you're here, why not just edit the file in this little editor"...fast forward several more iterations/improvements and then you find yourself never leaving the web editor.
This seems really cool how you can automatically print at Target, CVS, etc pretty easy. So this is definitely an upgrade.

I haven't used the app yet, I'm about to, but what's the advantage over just emailing the photos to the grandparents?
I build apps that I need so at worst I have at least one customer.
I get what you're saying -- you could assign a level of importance or interesting-ness to an article that would be different than other people's.

I think adding a collaborative filter to HN or Reddit based on what you vote and view could actually work really well - that's a great idea.

Maybe we could get Reddit or HN to try it. Any Reddit employees here? I'm assuming PG is too busy to add that to HN, but maybe he could open up the codebase to an ambitious programmer.
High-Skilled Immigration Reform Stopped In Senate
From your house to Google is encrypted, but is it transmitted encrypted to the recipient's email provider?
It appears to be useful for admins getting convicted of CP trafficking for running a node. Does that count?

Try this one:
http://distributedcity.github.com/

The previous incarnation of Distributed City was pretty cool. I haven't looked at their new code.
Snoop Lion AMA on Reddit
Ron, to clarify, we do present the information back in a way that mimics the original social network, but we don't actually preserve the content pixel-by-pixel. We actually preserve the raw metadata and recreate the look, feel, and behavior. This is in contrast to many other tools that simply capture the HTML presentation from Facebook.com and Twitter.com, but not the underlying data. Our view is that the content should feel very familiar to the user, but that the underlying record and metadata are actually what matters.
Great. So First Round Capital is pushing idea that they stood with David against Goliath and won teaching a lesson to Big Co. Did the entrepreneurs see any of the money?
Gregg here from Code School.. we actually tried making it autoscroll down at first. It was too distracting and annoying. Scrolling down when you're ready to continue just felt more natural.
Yet another fluff article about Wayland. It's too bad. I'd love to see some analysis of its potential and a comparison with OS X Quartz and Windows aero/WDM. How does the performance compare to X? What GPU features does Wayland expose that X doesn't?
Definitely. Financial Services is the flagship market for a solution like this due to SEC and FINRA compliance requirements around record keeping. Imagine not being able to use Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn unless you are able to keep records of every interaction for 5 years in a tamper-proof, non-erasable format :)
Ask HN: Foreign coworking offices?
I'm thinking about taking an extended vacation (2-3 months) to somewhere tropical while I build out v1.0 of a new product. Which cities have facilities conducive to doing such a thing? Hopefully with a decent developer community.

Thanks!
"More Open, Smart, Honest Criticism"
Haskell Prime is not like Python 3 in the sense that there are very few (and no in practice) breaking changes to the language. Haskell Prime standardizes stuff that's already there.
Building a better world
It's a 96x64 B/W screen.
Social Chat Integration For Your Site
I bet it is very satisfying to just constantly ship cool new discrete features like this for a product like GitHub.
It might be boring, but affiliates make a killing with auto insurance. Just like Mint did with banks and credit cards. Killing.
All of those are good points. None of them are in the article.
For most people today, an all-electric car is a pricey second car that you can't use on longer trips. Nothing inherently wrong with that. Lots of families have a couple vehicles, one of which is an SUV/minivan and the other a car. It's not even exactly unheard of for one person to own a couple of vehicles (I do). The main issue today is price which does indeed tend to put Teslas in the same category as owning a BMW as a second vehicle.
They didn't test it before deployment?!
What does that resolution correspond to, an Asus eee?
First Look - Myspace
Myspace is reborn! This is a look into some of the new features
It's easier with new cars than old cars because you have an apples to apples comparison. The problem I had with using carwoo is that even after negotiating the price down, showing up at the dealership they tried to add in all these extra bullshit costs.

I think carwoo operates by users paying a fee like $200 or so, and is free to dealers. Dealerships treat it as a source for qualified buyers. carwoo also gives you some basic reviews of the different dealerships and car pricing info based on your inputs.
I don't like the design, it's way too cluttered. Needs less colors and more space between the elements.

I love the concept though and I definitely see myself using something like this.
Socket.IO with Android WebView
Agreed. I've used it for a blog and a promotional site for a few months now.
I'm trying to be very careful to avoid responding to things you're not actually saying. This would be more fun to discuss over some beers.

Trying to tiptoe away from Godwin, I'll agree the use of moral/amoral is worth the quibble. Certainly it's people who have morals, and institutions that have, at best, ethics or principles. I'm not trying to argue that governments are moral, although they do take on responsibilities that corporations cannot or would not, and that such responsibilities can create something like a moral obligation -- operating on an axis that does not include a profit factor -- without imbuing the institution with "morals" per se.
What if the internet goes out?
Now I feel even less bad about using their store as a glorified showroom...as I take barcode pictures, find better prices online, and leave without buying a fuckin thing. :)
The site looks great.

One piece of feedback- on Chrome Version 23.0.1271.91, the "Rate Artwork" slider doesn't have any kind of scale or visual confirmation of what score I'm giving- I'm assuming moving the slider left indicates that I'm saying that I don't like the design and right that I like it. Is this a bug or by design?
I absolutely agree, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise with my post.

> it makes no odds to me - I'm getting neither of them in a reasonable timeframe

There's nothing wrong with a passphrase as long as it can't be gotten in a reasonable timeframe, obviously! My point about generation stands, though - no password scheme stands in a vacuum, and if whatever you do catches on, you can guarantee software will be made to exploit the low entropy passwords on that scheme (for example, attacks can now include tricks like taking the website name - LinkedIn - and performing common mutations to generate passwords to attempt: L1nk3dIn1)

If it became really common, people would make rainbow tables for it too. All you'd need to do is create a reduction function that maps back into the set <passwords formed from concatenating common words> :)

This applies to all forms of password generation though: ultimately, entropy is important, and if you care about your security you should know whether the entropy levels of your passwords afford you the security you want or need.
You're responding to something I did not say. I said "amoral". It's different.
Having used Balanced for a couple months, I can attest to this, they are a fantastic bunch providing support wherever, whenever and in whatever way they can.