skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Andrew Orlowski is a well known troll. Also on a personal level he's a complete cunt. I used to argue with him back and the day but there is no point.

His previous main argument against wikipedia was that anyone who uses it and supports it is advocating pedophilia.

Indeed when i , as eloquently could, disagreed with him in an email, he decided to publish snippets from my mail, with my name and email address on the reg. I had to contact the editor to get him to remove it and apologise for misrepresenting my remarks.

Feed not ye the troll.
Those are great, stunning even, but they are not from that rig.
http://onethingwell.org/post/457674798/a-poor-mans-notationa...

You can do that easily enough with bash :-)
Yeah I really did hide the price down there hah, thanks for pointing that out! I think you nailed with what are the most important questions users will want answers to before going any further, and they would be easy enough to make more obvious on the landing page or before connecting with FB, I also completely forgot "how long?", which should definitely be added, thanks!
Yeah, my swap partition is encrypted. The only thing that isn't is a small /boot partition. I figured as much, but I would have figured TrueCrypt and the like would be the same way. Being a relative novice with encryption, I just wanted to clarify. Thanks.
For a short while I was using grep and a text file as an address book mostly because like this I could easily add in free form. The reason why I switched to a AddressBook.app and Google Contacts solution is the synchronization.
Not sure what the OP is using but if you search for Pwinty or FujifilmAPI those are two printing APIs.
From the press release: "The QSL is a solid crystal, but its magnetic state is described as liquid: Unlike the other two kinds of magnetism, the magnetic orientations of the individual particles within it fluctuate constantly, resembling the constant motion of molecules within a true liquid." I'm not sure why the extremetech article calls it a new state of matter.
911 response, unless ran very well, and / or miserly, is absolutely often a cost center. You have "frequent fliers" who you may see several times a week, without insurance. Billing sends them a bill, but there's no realistic expectation of payment.

You can't, even as a private agency (and should 't - for better or worse, I'm a proponent of "socialized" medicine, even in bastardized form) refuse a patient transport, though about the best you can do is advise a patient that their insurance is unlikely to pay if the ambulance transport does not have. "medical necessity", even with (especially with) Medicare (who requires us to get a document from the physician stating the necessity of "transport in a fully equipped BLS/ALS ambulance").

Add to that Maintenance, drug purchase (must be kept stocked and current, even if rarely used), fleet Maintenance (driving code in a truck carrying N extra 10-15000 lb at high speed places a lot of strain on a vehicle), insurance (likelihood of an accident), insurance (malpractice in this area is usually carried by the agency, not individual), regulatory and other costs, costs of maintaining sufficient crews on duty so you can respond even when others are out doing long distance transports (hospitals to nursing homes, home, or stabilized patients to bigger or more appropriate hospitals) or transporting your frequent fliers, and it begins to add up.
Yeah, sorry about that, we've been faced with unprecedented demand. Stay tuned while we fix this...
Have a look though the other comments, but it seems to be that way.
Well the terms are that you are licensing the software and if you breach the terms I would assume that the license is invalidated. However in reality they will never know although you know you are infringing their copyright.

I generally hate non open source software licenses but this area of the terms doesn't seem overly unreasonable to me as they are offering a discount from the normal price for individuals but without extending it to the (usually) less price sensitive companies.
Consider this: what happens when that same hacker then spends some of the money he stole from legit users to lobby the software company to ignore the bug in the system (or make it even easier for him to exploit). Do you still admire his ingenuity? Or do you (rightfully) despise his inability and unwillingness to play by the rules that everyone else follows, because he has been able to use his dirty money to keep the loopholes open?
Yes I get that now. Unfortunately, it's difficult to hear the ironic twang in his voice on an internet forum.
I think we will never know. Just in case, if you ever wake up in the middle of the night with that (supposedly) legendary name back in your mind, could you please tell us? :)
Can anyone explain the significance of "a state with fractionalized excitations?"
Little typo in the line: "The full source code to both draw.io and the underlying mxGraph library is available on gituhb"
I wrote the spec for application/hal+json that got compared to WS-star , here's where I'm coming from:

JSON doesn’t have links. Establishing some basic conventions for that makes complete sense. Defining those conventions is called a spec. Giving a payload that follows conventions a name also makes sense. Establishing that is called registering a media type identifier.

It makes no sense to keep reinventing the linking wheel in every API . Pretending like a very minimal media type like hal+json is akin to WS-* is incredibly disingenuous and/or stupid.

Establishing a standard media type like hal+json with a bunch of conventions allows us to build generic tooling that can help with both serving and consuming payloads that contain links.

Being pragmatic is great, but misrepresenting a genuine effort to improve the status quo and improve the API ecosystem in a reasonable, non-complicated fashion as ‘hand-waving’ or 'unnecessary' is not very constructive.
It depends on the type of privacy you need. If you are torrenting or posting to a forum anonymously, using a VPN provider is fine.

If you don't trust any VPN provider, you can host your own VPN, or you can run a second VPN inside of virtual machine.
Libreoffice Draw or Inkscape can also be used.
Ask HN: Using a trademark in a URL
I have a pretty good geographical specific domain name which makes use of the word Java (there's a massive java market here).

I am worried that if I go live with my niche java jobs board that I will get a DMCA / cease and desist from Oracle as it's their trademark.

Any thoughts?
Technically true, but I think that's misleading. The office of dictator in the Roman Republic wasn't something extraordinary. There were at least 76 appointments over the ~450 years that the office was used, or about one every 6 years on average.

The term was time-limited, and for a specific purpose. During their term, they would have imperium (basically, the power to command any army and issue any law), but at the end of the term or when the cause was dealt with, the dictator would step down and the normal processes would resume.

Yes, dictators were appointed during times of war and sedition. But also for mundane reasons, such as to coordinate elections and run games.
Time spent in the air and height are directly related, so yes, the same number can mean both.
First Round Capital Holiday Video 2012 - Call Me First Round Style
It's in response to Rails being on the trailing edge of Hypermedia/REST API design, and not making moves to pull ahead. Rails's strength is in its sane and powerful defaults; the absence of a sufficiently sane and powerful default for API construction is a hindrance (especially now that ActiveResource is getting booted from core Rails).

DHH has simply never taken REST/Hypermedia seriously as a design philosophy. He, and Rails, have been content to move simple JSON serializations over the wire and leave it at that. This was good enough a few years ago, but is getting to the end of the runway for the present and future.
Two Advances Point Toward a Cheaper Electric-Car Battery
If you don't look at the pointers, this is the most difficult Where's Waldo ever.
Applying to a company big enough to have an HR department is probably a mistake.
Extracting Data Access Out of Active Record
https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io/pull/7 ?
There is nothing in the 10th amendment to ignore.

Take the individual mandate, for example. It was fund to be outside the Commerce Power, but within the Taxing Power. What does the 10th amendment have to say about it? If you read the 10th amendment as saying "Congress shall not infringe on the traditional functions of the states to safeguard health, welfare, and morality" then you might say that the individual mandate violates the 10th amendment because healthcare is a traditionally state function. But that's not what the 10th amendment says. All it says is that action which falls outside the Constitutional delegates is unconstitutional. Well if the individual mandate is within the Taxing power, then it is within one of the Constitutional delegations, and is by definition outside the scope of the 10th amendment.

Basically, federal action can never violate the 10th amendment. Either an exercise of federal power is Constitutional under one of the delegations, or it is not supported by any delegation of federal power and is thus unconstitional for that reason.

Re: the expansion of federal power, it's popular but not necessarily accurate to say it has come at the expense of the Constitution. If you had asked the Framers whether a sale of a product in New York, manufactured and shipped from New Jersey, using a bank transaction with a bank and a payment processor located in San Francisco should fall under the purview of the Commerce Power, they probably would have said "yes, that's interstate commerce." Yet, that's what happens when I go downstairs and buy a Snickers bar at the vending machine with my credit card. There is disagreement on this subject, but in my opinion the expansion of federal power hasn't come at the expense of the Constitution, but has come because much more human activity has come within the scope of federal power as it was already defined.
They missed the chance of calling that SQL.
His questions about discoverability seem to assume that people are suggesting not writing any documentation at all.

"The idea that you can write one client to access multiple different APIs" is a straw man.

The connection he's making between HAL and WS-* is ridiculous.
Definitions of “Code” and “Programmer”: Response to “Please Don’t Learn to Code”
PGP, TrueCrypt-encrypted files cracked by £300 tool
Belief and certainty in global warming on the rise
Really a good deal... Upgrading to IntelliJ 12, and getting a license for AppCode at the same time.
After many attempts, I was able to get through the checkout but even Element5 which is used for the checkout process is I think under load... Getting to the Thank you page after entering the CC information took a while but it finally went through...

Glad that the Mayan came up with the end of the world! That made my day!
PressBooks Going Open Source
I doubt it, it's the same with anything when there is a sale.

For example, Steam sales. When I see a game that is interesting I will think "cool, but I should finish all of the games I'm currently playing first". If I have 24 hours hours to get it at half price it feels like I am actually saving money in the long run even if I don't play it straight away.

Whether it was worth the initial price or not is almost irrelevant. I imagine if they set their prices to 25% permanently there would still be high demand if they did a further 25% sale.
Why LinkedIn's "recommend" system is broken, and how to fix it
Rockmelt Social Browser Comes to the iPhone
It looks awesome but sadly i cannot use it with my childs due to the language, i would love to see a translation to spanish.

It would be cool to have that kind of resource so they can use it while i'm not at home, even tough the most fun is when we all are into it.

If anyone know of a cool book or resource on spanish for them to read on their own i would love if you could drop a line.
I'd be interested to see if your system would work in English NHS hospitals. I suspect it would, but you'd have to be careful how you sold it.

There's currently some discussion about the numbers of managers in English health care, and there are severe cost pressures to reduce those managers.

A system that legally maximises revenues while reducing managers seems like a good fit.
Apple's Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers
Al-Qaida sites knocked offline before release of 'Salil al-Sawarim 3'
Bulk of their customers must be enterprises. I have licenses for many of their products and our team uses TeamCity enterprise. I have never considered buying personal licenses. Now I am.
Ah, Orlowski. He's still going?

Bless.
Or hover-boards.
Styling bug on homepage http://cl.ly/image/1s3G0w2K2T0Q
There are a benefits, but most people won't notice them without first actually using a hypermedia API.

* It's self-documenting. Client developers can find all the endpoints just by clicking around (instead of reading mountains of docs).

* Client apps don't need to keep a list of hard-coded urls for random access, removing one of the most brittle parts of client apps (they should know about rels of course, but those end up being easier to keep track of).

Once you actually use an API like this, other APIs feel like they're in the stone age and how to do things with them seems like a continual guessing game. And it's still simple as hell -- remember it's just json with links. It's not like that requires a lot of extra effort.
As a hardware guy, I'm kind of fascinated by how many stories I've seen on HN recently on HDLs, and equally fascinated by how software people describe their mental model and thought processes when thinking about hardware design. It's neat to see how the structure of the problem space is fundamentally different, I think, to how a hardware guy sees it - which is not to say any less valid, and quite possibly becoming more valid.

But I also think that to do hardware design in VHDL or Verilog, you need to understand the underlying structures - latches, flip-flops, decoders, muxes, etc.

I'm enjoying this recent trend!
Which is why in Germany there's been a law since 1977 that declares any part of a TOS void if it's surprising and could not have been anticipated by an end user, given the context.
Fine, make fools out of those freeloaders (me), making them/us think they will get a product free for the rest of their lives (which is supposed to last to 24 hours, RE: Doomsday).

I get it.
This is damn awesome. I was waiting exactly for this. Now I just hope that JRebel offers a similar deal.
From wikipedia: "In a conventional superconductor, the electronic fluid cannot be resolved into individual electrons. Instead, it consists of bound pairs of electrons known as Cooper pairs.... The Cooper pair fluid is thus a superfluid, meaning it can flow without energy dissipation." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductivity#Zero_electric... So a new kind of magnetism that lets electrons flow like a liquid might be very useful to develop new superconductors.
I want to give them money just for how good their landing page copy is... hilarious! Great work :D
Yeah, not at all "cracked". It highlights that encryption keys are in RAM, and that RAM can be imaged and mined. findaes (http://sourceforge.net/projects/findaes/) is a tool that will look through raw binary for valid AES keys, as all AES keys have a particular format. Of course, there's a difference between finding a raw AES key and actually applying it to the different FDE schemes, and I've no doubt that Elcomsoft had to put in a good deal of engineering to make their software work.

Full disk encryption is useful on a laptop--if it gets stolen, no biggie. But it's not particularly useful on a desktop at home. Presumably such a machine will be powered on. If it is, grabbing the data is easy--no need even to image RAM, just image the mounted volumes. Encryption also won't protect you in a criminal setting; the judge can hold you in contempt.
I'd suggest offering a version with no comments as well.
Show HN: re:me keeps track of unresponded texts
Things I like are codename-per-contact and the fact that there's a command line tool supplied with exit codes.

I don't like almost everything else, including the syntax ('ppl phone alice 12345' feels icky and against-the-grain to me), the use of (slow?, and) dependency-heavy git, the redefinition of on-disk format, the lack of formal data-description, the lack of customization for such, trying to do more than one thing well (versioning/diffing/merging/branching = git's job, not yours... keep that out of scope), the lack of meaningful, nontrivial use cases. (What problem does this solve, in the real world, except your itch? If you'd included GPG key, included autopopulation support based on directory lookups or some mature script system, helped people migrate contacts off Gmail and in to private git-based cloud hosting with hooks to preload their FirefoxOS beta with privacy-enhanced contact solution, I would have been more impressed)

Why not do something different like 'ppl alice --phone=12345' (set) and 'ppl alice --phone' or 'ppl phone <alice' or 'ppl -f %phone <alice' (get). In general taking input via pipes is better than adding mandatory arguments.

Better yet, stuff the command line syntax thinking entirely for the moment and focus on JSON. Spec the JSON Schema instead of the interface to it, focusing on data, and how it might differ in different use cases / environments (eg. countries). Some argue that if you get your understanding of the data right, the program is right.

By way of contrast, right now I suspect a lot of the hassle of such a program is going to be things like (0) trying to do too many things, succeeding at none of them (1) yet another definition of what a phone number, address, etc. is that is not going to work for everyone (2) some developer second-guessing what i, the user, want or have to accept in terms of duplicate input, normalization, whitespace significance, etc. (3) non-i18n interface (4) let me smoke my unixpipe, dammit!

I dunno, I'm just playing devil's advocate, but there's probably some value in that rant.
This deal is pretty awesome. I had trouble deciding on whether to get RubyMine instead of IntelliJ. I went ahead and got myself a copy IntelliJ because of all the language/IDE plugins. Great deal today!
Just bought PyCharm and WebStorm - any idea when I'll get my download link? Really keen to start using these tonight.
I was just able to check out. So things are coming back up!
My order just went through. It looks like the order processing is back up!
For those interested in joining, you may have to shoot me an email to be added. My gmail account: talithamichele.
Show HN: Photo Sharing site kinda Instagram
I have finally checked out! I've purchases IntelliJ! 3 hours in the making!
Do you have any sort of proof to support that claim? I've never heard anything like that, and previously "flying jimmy out to do talks" was listed as one of the things we needed to donate for.
Mike Mann Shares Results from A/B Testing on Domain Name Sales
Hey Guys,

I wanted to hear your feedback on this startup I have. I just launched our product about a week ago, and it is called re:me. Right now you are busy, you could be in a business meeting or perhaps in a class. You receive a text message, read it, and make a mental note to respond later. Several hours go by and the inevitable happens, you forget. This could be benign, like the girlfriend or boyfriend that texts you a lot, or it could be a client.

So re:me seeks to solve this problem. re:me builds a list of messages that you have not responded to yet. It works with your native text messaging application, so that you don't have to change your habits. As you respond to people, the messages get cleared from your re:me list. By shifting the focus away from whether a message has been read or not, and putting the focus on what you need to do next, re:me will help make sure that your most important people are never forgotten again.

Right now re:me works with only SMS on the Android platform and we are the only SMS management tool in the Google Play store. However, moving forward, re:me will integrate email, social network mailboxes and phone call tracking. With this, it won't be just a casual program, but rather, a message handling platform for professionals whose livelihood depends on managing their communications, people such as consultants and independent contractors.

I'm very much interested in hearing feedback from you guys.

Yevgeny Chertov
It seems odd to consider 100&euro; unreasonable for an IDE if you are doing professional development unless it offers you no advantages whatsoever.
Don't forget to vote for adding Linux games to GOG:
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_linux_versions_of_games
I like to take this one step further and return referenced objects with both their ID and their URL as actual objects instead of strings. This is incredibly helpful for working with the API in something like Backbone.js, because then there's no need for logic in determining if it is getting a list of IDs as strings or full objects. It's doubly helpful if the references are to objects of different types. The client simply loads the objects as given, and can do a sync if it's missing attributes it expects. (Of course, sending the full data in one request is usually preferable.) Also, the `url` property on the model just returns the `url` attribute instead of needing to duplicate the URL construction pattern.

So,

…
{
'id': 123,
'url': '/resource/123'
},
…

instead of

…
'/resource/123',
'/resource/124',
…

or worse

…
123,
124,
…

Also, Django REST Framework is easily my favorite REST API tool for Django. It's very straightforward to use just as much or just as little of it as necessary. In fact, it's powering the main views of the upcoming second draft of http://marquee.by (the entire site is effectively a browsable API).
Catagorizing new matter/energy phemenon as a state of matter just confuses the understanding. If the particle is simultaneously exhibiting qualities of liquid and a solid, it means a shift in thinking is required.

Iron is solid, but that doesn't mean we should group it with other things that are hard. The other hard object might be hard for a completely different quantum mechanical reason.
the fact that the act of deleting one's fb profile is considered newsworthy means fb is here to stay for now
Ask HN: Using a trademark in a URL (niche job board)
I have a pretty good geographical specific domain name which makes use of the word Java (there's a massive java market here).

I am worried that if I go live with my niche java jobs board that I will get a DMCA / cease and desist from Oracle as it's their trademark.

Any thoughts?
Knockout.js and Kendo UI - a Potent Duo
I wish there were an organization as effective at defending the other 9 amendments in the bill of rights as the NRA is at defending the 2nd.
Crap I already paid $300 for this yesterday before the sale started - can I get a refund?
The Fifth-Biggest Site in the World Operated on a Budget of $27M Last Year
Yeah, that was a really shitty stunt. Especially because, for a few days, you couldn't download any of the games you'd bought.

What annoys me most is that it worked. They got a ton of attention for it, and pretty much everyone just forgot about their poor behavior. And now they've grown to a point where they're impossible to avoid if you want to buy older games.

I don't harbor a grudge towards them anymore, but it does depress me that this kind of lying is so effective and consequence-free.
Much better. I am not sure what to make of fractional quantum states however, back when I took quantum mechanics fractional states were as impossible as having electrons at mid-energy levels.
You're right in that I don't need a rate API, but Shopify needs a shipping API. Something where I can say "6 shirt or 4 shirts and a jacket is flat rate, but 2 shirts and a poster is not because of the tube"