skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a great, much-needed product. I picked Progressive years ago because it seemed like the easiest onboarding process (and I'm lazy) -- I just didn't want to deal with the hassles of comparison shopping and negotiation. That said, I had no idea how bad I was getting ripped off until just now. Anyway, congrats on the launch. You can consider me a new, happy Leaky customer.
The Ops School Curriculum’s documentation
Read ProGit: http://git-scm.com/book

> "git commit origin master"

That's not how to do it :)

> I wanted to make it so that they could also commit code into the same repo

No. Each developer works in her private repo, for sharing work you use a bare repo people push to / fetch from.
"People trust the Apple brand...iMac, iBook, iPod, " - Steve Jobs introduces the iPod at the 2001 Music Event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0SVBCJqLs
How Wal-Mart Got a Foot in the Door of India's Retail Market
Bitcoin miners fabricating their own chips
Stash 2.0
Gamers are notorious early adopters. Only 5% adoption of Windows 8 by Steam users sounds extremely low to me.

And your link says OS X share may be only of the Steam market is 3.3%, and OS X share of the total desktop market is between 6% and 10% depending on who you ask. Using some terribly sloppy, but not entirely unreasonable math, OSX-Steam has captured 30-50% of the available market in two years. That sounds wildly successful.
Worth it just for that video of the perfect game of Asteroids.
Tried it and the lowest priced company it showed had a rate that was ~$250 cheaper than the actual quote I could get on the insurers web site. Plus my current company (Safeco) wasn't in the comparison list, which means the cheapest company (for me) isn't shown.
I would love to see something like this but for learning programming languages.
> Competition is about customers, not competitors.

Who are FaceBook's and Twitter's customers? Certainly not the users. So it's still possible that users lose.
I placed the search icon to make it convenient for right-handed users on the iPad to tap.

True, I've heard that comment about the news articles before. I need to revamp that.

Your favorite stock quotes appear on the right edge of the main screen, as well as on the watchlist page (swipe right.) There's no packed display like the indices on the left.

Cheers for the feedback.
The Best Marketing is a Great Product
Very popular, to whom? Linux has what, 1% of the desktop market share. Linux is very popular on android, but I was pretty sure that Android didn't use X. That's like saying you were popular in High School because you had two friends. And apparently, from an article on HN, Ubuntu isn't going to be using it any further.
Despite Linux not being ready for "The Desktop", it is certainly ready for my desktop. That is the one that matters to users of Linux. Their desktop, not a hypothetical grandmother desktop which has been branded "The".
Good point.

https://lpo.energy.gov/?page_id=43

I'm confused by the criteria described at the bottom of the page:

In order to be financially eligible for an ATVM loan, an applicant must be financially viable without the receipt of additional federal funding for the proposed project.

Would Tesla really have been financially viable without this loan?
Open Source and the Power of Community
Everyone agrees that we're going to call this "sock-el" right?
I've still been developing for Lotus Notes as a side job during my studies - it's still very big in Europe. Developing, administering (and to some extent using) classic notes applications is still a breeze. The reason why it's so hated is most probably the direction IBM took it in. It should have neve been marketed as a messaging application. Imagine a megacorp buying Evernote and turning it into an Messaging client - that's basically what happened from what I get. The 8.x eclipse made everything worse by adding another layer on top of the old C libraries and not replacing anything. It also broke the old mantra of 'everything is a notes db/document' which is a major point of why it worked so well together - similar to Unix.
Alameda County Courts the Hackers
Tesla Motors is in great shape. I've been following the company for a while and recently drove the Model S. Amazing car in almost every way. What struck me was that it's not an incremental improvement but really a radical (might I say disruptive) improvement in terms of ride quality (super quiet), handling (low center of gravity with skateboard powertrain), electronics (17" touchscreen), cargo space (heard of the frunk?), reliability (electric cars have far less moving parts), and store experience (Tesla retail stores are a way better customer experience than a typical car dealership). It's difficult to drive a Model S and NOT say that you've driven the future.

The Model S is so good that all they need to do is make it into a SUV (Model X) and they'll have the coolest high-end SUV (coming 2014).

Then, they just need to make the Model S smaller (GenIII Bluestar) and then they'll have the best small luxury sport sedan on the market (ie., BMW 3 series, Lexus IS, Audi A4 market). Elon Musk has said they're going after the BMW 3 Series market with the GenIII car, and he's determined to make a best car in that market. Just like the Model S is better than a BMW 5 Series in most regards, the GenIII will be better than the BMW 3 Series in most regards. I know it might be difficult for many people to accept that (especially since the BMW 3 Series is legendary) but Tesla's got all the right pieces and has proven they can do it with the Model S. Again, they just need to shrink the Model S and make it more affordable.

But GenIII is slated for 2015 at the earliest and it takes a while to dominate a car segment even after you have a stellar car. I expect Tesla to become increasingly competitive (in terms of # sales) to the BMW 3 series by 2020 and perhaps dominant by 2025 (if not earlier).

Elon Musk has repeatedly said that Tesla Motors is not a typical car company but rather a technology company that will innovate at a blistering pace. As long as they continue to do that, they'll be fine.
Sigh. Regulations are being added at a very rapid rate. Regulations are very much taxes just in a different form.

I didn't vote for Romney.
I recently answered a Quora question about this that has many more details http://qr.ae/1viyQ.

The core NLP behind Prismatic is topic modeling; we don't use anything off the shelf, but something crafted pretty specifically to our needs.

We do model user similarity based upon interest overlap and social graph analysis. So we know how likely you are to care about what someone in your extended network shares.
The new log4j 2.0
App.net isn't a solution. They are still a centralized social network, owned by one company. Sure, they treat users nice now, but what happens if the business model changes?

Second, it's impossible to get on App.net's social network without paying a significant sum of money. This means a truly diverse set of voices will never be represented on App.net. For more, see “You Can't Start the Revolution From the Country Club” by Anil Dash: http://dashes.com/anil/2012/08/you-cant-start-the-revolution...

I have the most hope, long term, for the Tent protocol: https://tent.io It's not ready for prime-time yet, and the existing hosting service is not entirely smooth. But anyone can set up their own provider. We could have some businesses that charge a few dollars a month, like App.net, and put users first, and other businesses that offer free service with ads, and it would all be on the same network, just like the competition among email and web hosting providers today.
Ditto for me.

"Above the fold" photos of severely/epic photoshopped boobs, etc. Scrolling a little further down I was greeted with photos of poop. Lots of them. I'll skip what there were photos of on the next page.

Suffice to say, I am sure there are a ton of Internet trolls taking advantage of the lack of filtering, and they want to make the site look bad. Hopefully MS can put some type of fix on that sooner than later. Otherwise, I assume some early adopters might be turned off just from going to the home page.
Neat. I'm going to launch a site where you post an idea to see if it's worth posting it to LaunchSky to see if it's worth posting to Kickstarter...

Seriously, though, I don't see how that's not already handled on Kickstarter. If there's not enough interest in your idea it won't reach its funding goal. What's the point of a pre-screening step?
After Friendster did their big redesign they added Facebook login too. I think that was about a year ago now.
Funny, that someone did this. I wanted to implement something similar to check that GCHQ weren't lying to me about this: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/12/back-channel-confirms-that-im-ri... Essentially, I thought that it was possible that this block of code was not what they actually used (partially because 0x7f did not appear in the output).

I didn't do it because I had only 326 bytes of random material with 7 bits per byte. Too little to recover the state.
You mention something very interesting, it seems like even though science and technology advance at a really fast pace, there more developed a society/community is, the harder it is to implement and adopt new technologies, or the other way around, it is really easy for undeveloped countries to pick up new technologies, because there's no previous technology/standard to compete with.
Welcome to doing something that has been done in Europe for many years now, and not just on auto-isnurance:

http://www.confused.com/

http://www.comparethemarket.com/

http://www.moneysupermarket.com/car-insurance/

to name a few...

I understand that this was a legal issue due to the insurers (but even so, they only launched a year ago...) but what is it with American companies that they just don't seem to get the internet?

Comparing price of auto-insurance is really no different than comparing the price of flights, travel insurance, cars, houses, whatever. It's a product/service and it is not going to be one size fits all. Some insurance companies will be a better fit in terms of price and options available, so insurance companies that are competitive will actually get more customers by being on the comparison sites.
Half of revenue generated by iOS and Android apps goes to just 25 developers
Thanks for the kind words and feedback. The best way to let us know is to email feedback@getprismatic.com with details (iPhone/Web, Browser, any other details), and we'll do our best to fix it ASAP.
Elon Musk: Mars base will open the way to other stars
Oh great: New attack makes some password cracking faster, easier than ever
"a proper mobile webpage would suffice"

I think people have higher aspirations than "would suffice".
Why I'm Done "Supporting" Untappd
You are looking at what you see and don't consider what you don't see. You are seeing how government intervention did these things but you are not considering that without this intervention society would have made other uses of the resources. I realize it's impossible but any analysis has to take into account unseen possibilities when considering government intervention. Ignoring the unseen effects of your actions leaves your analysis incomplete.

I'm not under 30.
I recommend using https://github.com/antijingoist/AlphaSymbolic as a means of distilling the cultural/economic/historical/etc unnecessary typographic biases/information latent in current font libraries. At least for Latin-based systems; these biases may distract the reader from developing extensible representation models of the text itself; thus, they distract the reader from more immediately perceiving the "stress" or density of text, since the characters are each so "unique" in terms of glyphs, etc.
I love this list. I've seen most of these.
By root level private keys you mean the third-parties like Verisign etc, not just the ones explicitly belonging to the US government?
I don't think the Steam figures are indicative of anything other than the fact that gamers prefer Windows because it's still the only viable platform for mainstream PC gaming.

And was Gabe explicitly commenting on adoption rate of Win8? Or perhaps was he referring to the fact that developing games for Win8 will likely lead to fewer and lower-quality games on that platform?
I would argue it is possible to believe both that Tesla is a great company and that Romney was generally right in that many of the green investments have indeed been losers (Solyndra, A123, Beacon Power, Abound Solar, ...).

Lest we forget, Romney is/was a pretty great investor and entrepreneur himself, just like Elon Musk. It's unfortunate that Romney included Tesla in his list of green losers - he did start this fight - but Tesla is the exception that proves the rule. The government has not come close to making money on its green energy bets, and will not even if Tesla is a massive success. It has lost $535M on Solyndra, $249M on A123, and $400M on Abound Solar. Even if Tesla is profitable enough to pay back its $465M loan, this is a very poor risk-adjusted return. Many of the other companies in the green energy portfolio are reportedly quite sick as well; we shall see what happens to the 26 that received loan guarantees in five years.

The dismal history of Russian and Chinese state-owned enterprises should be sufficient to give us pause, but the reasons that people oppose government funding of companies like this are several fold:

1. The government has the power to regulate or tax
competitors into submission. Regulators have strong
political incentives to begin colluding with
funded companies at the expense of the consumer to show
that the investment was a "success". This can be done
without fingerprints by doing things like holding
competitors to a higher bar when applying for permits.

2. Unlike the funds pledged by an LP, tax dollars are
extracted coercively (via threat of police action for
failing to pay the IRS). Arguably such acts should be
kept to a bare minimum.

3. The federal government is notoriously poor at being on
the cutting edge of technology; it is unlikely that they
will make better investment decisions than professional
investors.

One can go further, but it is striking to see how companies like Uber or AirBnB run into political roadblocks, while other companies receive $500M loans. The government is not just any old company or investor, the government has guns and can compel action in a way that others cannot. As such it is very powerful to have as a investor and very dangerous to have as a competitor. Too dangerous.
The ITU might have more geek cred if there were fewer politicians and diplomats and more technologists and engineers making the decisions. Do we really want people who regard the Internet as a "series of tubes" and/or a threat to their domestic power to be the ones in charge of it? Or are we content to let the people who built the damned thing continue to run it too?
LOL. I'm assuming you're the authority on what constitutes "evil" right?

You are essentially advocating a fascist viewpoint: either you agree with us, or we crush you.
Yeah. Very true. I guess memes should be taken in context with the help or under the tutelage of a native speaker.
Show HN: Tyype - total cursor control on Android
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peter
IntelliJ Idea 12 available
Simply Google "website landing pages inspiration" you'll get a ton of great lists to comb over.

Also tyler-b's comment should help you focus on the important features of a landing page
Pinterest better than Facebook
I recently moved into a house with the worst heating system ever: In ceiling radiant heating. Apparently the house was designed without regards to the laws of thermodynamics. On the upside, we have probably one of the warmest attics in the winter.

If I turn the heat on in all the rooms, I can watch the electric meter spin.
Community Contributions: A Follow-Up
A lonely dev and his users
Is your partner also 'an American native speaker of General American English'? I would be interested in learning more about households where both parents learned additional language(s) to raise their children bilingually.
California Eyeing Drone Surveillance
Front page already has pages dedicated to porn stars and is borderline NSFW, if you were looking to check it out.
No relevant research was done before Google and Amazon? That's news.
Let me Google that for you
Kettle: "Hey Pot! You're black!"

The US isn't perfect, but there is no other place in the world I'd rather live. For all our faults, people still bang on the doors to get in.

I'd put our record up against that of any other nation in the world. ANY nation. Look hard enough at everyone else and you'll find all the reason you need to hate their countries too.
I can only view it as So-Chlorine.
I should point out that multi-word passwords have at least one disadvantage: if you can figure out which letters were used and/or the password's length, and you know the password is multi-word, then it becomes easier to derive what the password was.

So, for example, if you used a multi-word password on your ATM machine, and someone aimed an infrared camera at the machine after you left and retrieved the set of buttons that you pressed, the game would be over if your password were short--or at least much closer to being over if it were long.

Alternatively, an attacker could eavesdrop on your keyboard sounds and capture the timing of the clicks, thereby inferring candidate sets of letters. Or they could examine how much oil is on each key of your keyboard, or how much each key is worn, and adjust for the stats on the English language, etc.

Or, as in the ATM case, an agent could interrupt you right after you've entered your password on a false pretext ("Excuse me, I need help.") and surreptitiously take an in infrared photo of your keyboard. This is plausible in many semi-public scenarios (bank teller, etc.)

I think the saving grace here is that a sufficiently long password uses most letters in the English alphabet--but it is still prone to attack if you can at least get the relative ordering of some of the letters, or you know the password's length (by listening to the number of keyboard clicks, for example).
What about convincing engineers to join you? How'd you do that?
I don't see the "satire". It's a good idea.
Great comment, thank you. I'd just like to add that the "frunk" isn't new -- I've been stashing my gym bag in my Porsche 911's frunk for years (it's a rear-engined car).

Edit: While I absolutely live the Model S, I can assure you that exceeding stalwarts of the 5-series category, like the BMW M5, will not be as easy to disrupt as the market the Model S aims for.
>No. Each developer works in her private repo, for sharing work you use a bare repo people push to / fetch from

What do you mean by a "bare repo"? blhack wants to make it so that they commit code into the same repo. You could do that by setting up a repository somewhere, and then each person would clone it.
So you're arguing that the search engine space, or new computer manufacturers, or rocket ships did better before venture capital and startups got involved?
They launched a new website look too.
The Graph library is intriguing to me, would love to see some of your stuff open sourced.
I tried it while it was in beta. It's not yet ideal but definitely on a good path to compete for the default keyboard replacement for Android. It's especially useful if you tweet a lot from your phone and need to precisely cut and copy single words and sentences. Beats the Android defaults by far. The usability and the speed of the app needs to improve, though.
Giving the benefit of the doubt that this isn't a math joke (because it did make me chuckle), <3 in this context is supposed to be a heart, thus "We <3 n" translates to "We love n"
That's right, ford didn't get a bailout, they got the exact same loan Tesla has, but theirs was bigger.
Yeah, it's a visible improvement. And it's now my daily routine to go to Hacker News and getPrismatic.com every morning! :)

One thing I missed was to navigate to topics from my home feed. Before I used to be able to on the right menu I think, now I need to click into my profile every time to go back to my subscribed interests.

It was useful to be able to view by topics because the home feed is a mashup of all topics (which can range from work to personal interest). Would love to hear your thoughts as well!
Yeah, but maybe the frunk + full trunk is new?
Survey of E-commerce companies
http://builtwithbootstrap.com ?
It absolutely works in the US. Look at some of the copyright extension stuff. There were complaints and the response from congress was "We're just normalizing with Europe"
It's hard to feel any sympathy for Twitter on this Instagram debacle, given their track record.

Of course, users will pay the price, with a poor user experience and some additional clicks (plus ads, FB cookies, etc). Pity. That's the problem with being user instead of customer. Nice and free, exactly because we are the product.

I see a Chrome extension coming in 3...2..
The European Union Has a New Agenda to Modernize its Copyright Rules
A new era begins for Haskell
Amen to that!

I remember how wonderful it was to have this flat 32-bit address space, where each memory location could be unambiguously identified by a single numeric address, and you did not have to make any crazy distinctions between short and long pointers.
Good question! I've found it's easiest through progress in this manual sort of way. It's a much easier pitch to say, "hey, I need you, because we have all these paying customers who are going crazy, because there is no website" than it is to say I have "this awesome idea but no one is using it yet."
With a small handful of high payoff winners, it's tax money well spent.
These papers were key milestones and the technologies described therein benefited from previous research.
Identify.js: generate id attributes for HTML block elements
Two Apps Aim To Tell The Truth And Nothing But The Truth
Do you plan to publish the algorithm/model at some point, or is it too closely connected to the business's "secret sauce"?

The latter would be perfectly understandable, so not meant to be a hostile question, more curiosity out of personal interest of how you handle that aspect of private-sector research. Worries about that are part of what keeps me personally from jumping from academia. I'd like to do less paper-writing and more applied work, which fits nicely, but I'd still want to do some paper-writing and be able to discuss techniques publicly, which seems to fit more awkwardly. I assume it's possible to pull off both, but all the people I know who've left academia for startups have stopped publishing completely, and many of them doing ML/big-data stuff are quite secretive about their techniques.
The ranking code (mistakenly) identified something bad going on. I'll try to fix it.

I'm going to kill this in the meantime. As it says in the guidelines, you should send moderation questions to us, not post them on the site.