skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is different in the UK. Amex is not widely accepted. The charges to the merchant are very high.
About muli-windowing, are you talking about Onskreen's Cornerstone and perhaps these links by Steve Kondik [1] and CyanogenMod [2]?

[1]: https://plus.google.com/100275307499530023476/posts/ViCME1bb...

[2]: https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/jWb2VJi3KJT
I'm only my first SP - iPhone 4 - and the only reason I keep it is so I can stream music from SiriusXM. If a lesser device would do this, then I would dump it in a second.
Big design vs simple solutions
>is it just the case that people who really hate Google were voted into power?

It really seems that way. I mean how else can you explain that all of their ideas are so stupid.

As a general rule, if you're trying to scheme up some way to "get" Google, stop. Think first. The first question you should ask is: What will this do to companies that compete with Google? Will it bankrupt them? Give Google an advantage over them, because its large legal staff can better navigate the law, or take advantage of economies of scale? Because if it does, and your aim is to hurt Google, you've failed. All it does is strengthen their market position and increase their likelihood and ability to diverge from their "don't be evil" roots and embrace the dark side.

I mean just think about this tax for two seconds: Never mind the complete inability to administer it (how do you collect the tax from a company with zero business presence in France whose site is still visited by French users? Or do they get a pass, causing websites to flee the country en masse?), what does this do to the incentives of the legislature? Now their tax revenue is based on companies collecting personal information from users. Anything that would stop or even slow that down is now a significant "cost" to the legislature because it reduces the revenue the tax generates, so I hope none of you ever wanted to see any internet privacy regulation again.

It really seems like these people don't even think for one second before they open their mouths.
I agree. I think I picked up this syntax from Python. My response was intended as tongue-in-cheek answer since Matlab allows both i and j as the complex number. I mainly see this when editing or modifying scripts written by others in my lab and have to pinpoint their counter usage.
Are there any other similar prison camps elsewhere in the world, or is North Korea unique?
> We also obviously built this on Node.js, anything else and it would take to much time to configure or setup.

really? node.js is the only way to deploy a web app quickly?
check again, their declared revenue in France is disputed by the tax service. So you can't compute with published figures.
Nano and pico gives you that... Available on most unix systems.
Second major section. Scan for paragraph containing bolded "print books as well"
Care to do one for social media in general(Google+,Youtube,Twitter,etc)?
Thats a great idea. We were originally going to let the user use Facebook authentication and do something there, but we didn't have time to implement all that.

But going forward, if we actually want to keep the website up, then your idea would make sense to implement and see how fast we can do it.

Thanks Danso for the advice.
That's in the next post...
Heh, I found this amusing "We also obviously built this on Node.js, anything else and it would take to much time to configure or setup." Couldn't you just use a lightweight Ruby or Python framework (e.g. Sinatra)? And wouldn't any simple data-store do? I'm surprised you even considered MongoDB...
I'm going against the general idea here, but the college issued a statement:

http://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/home

Basically, they say Ahmed did more than just what is reported in the article, and they can't publicly say what he did - because that's private info about Ahmed that they're legally obliged to protect.

Now I'm not taking a position in favor of the college or in favor of Ahmed. I'm just saying, it's not all black (or white). The National Post article is biased and we're missing some info. We should remember about that before going crazy on the witch hunt.
On the potential downside, if this were done in the numbers needed to incite revolution, this would be interpreted (correctly) as a foreign attempt to destabilise and change the regime; essentially, interpreted as war through means of inciting revolution. Whatever happens at the point the DPRK authorities realise this would probably be bad news for everyone.
Users are bad at telling you what to build, but good at telling you what...
Our thinking was to emulate the experience of watching previews in the theaters. You don't know anything about the movie, making it more intriguing. That's why we chose not to fade in the title until the last 15 seconds of the trailer.
"while others she says she never sent to anyone and may have been lifted from her phone or computer"

There you go. Also as another commenter you need model release forms. You are the rights holder of any likenesses of yourself.
Ha, I knew someone would bring that up. No, obviously not. But my expertise are in ColdFusion, and now Node.js for the past year, so compared to ColdFusion Node.js is a breeze.
http://html5rocks.com seems to be a wealth of resources. What in particular did you find useful?
"Each file and each folder node uses its own randomly generated 128 bit key. File nodes use the same key for the attribute block and the file data, plus a 64 bit random counter start value and a 64 bit meta MAC to verify the file's integrity."

This implies that it is not convergent, unless dedup is somehow done with the "Meta MAC".
At the risk of being too inexact: I want to defend against all those things, although I don't think it's practical to defend against someone in his office looking over his shoulder or reading his screen when he gets up to make a coffee.

Using a password-protected Microsoft Word file is an option, but it's a little cumbersome because (a) I would also have to password-protect the other attachment files separately; and (b) he would have to reply with a password-protected Microsoft word file and individually password-protect any files he wants to send me.

I like the idea of an https server, but why won't my accountant be able to reply? That is, accountant clicks a link to the https site, puts in password, sees message, clicks the 'reply' button on the webpage, then I get an email saying 'click here to see your accountants reply'.
> so, banning this avenue would DDOS the legal system.

It is the reverse. If you have too many cases to deal with because of absurd legislation that criminalizes a large portion of your population then you are already DDOS'ing your legal system. The 'lets try to route all requests straight to jail' option is not a solution for this problem.

The DDOS is cause, not effect, and it is the laws that cause the DDOS, not the fact that people have (in theory apparently) a right to a fair trial.
If by breaking in you mean walking in through open, unsecured doors...
yeah, they tried, now they are asked €1b by the French State.
I spent a few hours debugging an OpenGL program I was working on only to realize that I forgot to account for normalized coordinates. All I had to do was individually multiply x and y by the canvas size.

Always start with the small, obvious stuff first!
Apple Q1 2013 earning preview, results on January 23
I've only ever done responsive via JavaScript, as I often need to target as many old and new browsers as possible. It seems like my method is way easier and faster than this "new" fancy CSS way. Does anyone have any experiences with both approaches, and if yes, which do you prefer?

For those wondering: My method is pretty simple - I use a global ratio which is multiplied with width/heights, and a resize() function, which is called when the page is loaded and resized.

Edit: Long timer HN lurker, registered to post this. Also forgot to say I enjoyed the article, thanks!
I'm seeing a problem with Paymill: They clearly were built by Rocket to get acquired (possibly by Stripe) in the future. So I'd be careful with integrating their services as those services might be acquired and shut down anytime.
Cockney Rhyming Slang
Your comment had just resurfaced in my brain and I saw this new headline and came here and was pleasantly surprised to find exactly what I was looking for.

The original tribal shaman(plural) who used sleight of hand or small chemical reactions cultivated society and truly invented ritual and religion, creating a separation of power. Fear of the unknown and fear of power is precisely what our culture is based on.

It underpins our entire society and government. Ritualistic religion goes hand in hand with our culture, even if some of us are not part of it directly.

We can't escape it, and hacker culture will always be counterculture until some great cataclysmic event occurs in our society. Those in power fear the hacker, and the hacker (as we have tragically seen) fears those in power.
The noble thing would be to donate the money to charity. It doesn't feel right to monetize on people's addictions, even if they themselves make the conscious decision to accept the challenge.
Good to know that you did something about it PG :)

I will remain liking your work! :)

But please, keep paying attention... I think that sometimes if companies can get away with doing bad stuff, they will (in that case maybe it was not malicious, but getting IP and MAC addresses is kinda dangerous for example).
Coding Smarter: The Why of Foundation 4
South Koreans just want to keep playing Starcraft and League of Legends.
5 Minute Management Course
Ah, ok, thanks, that makes sense :)

(well - "sense" is relative when it comes to all these VAT rules...)
EasyMotion for Sublime Text 2 - jump anywhere visible in 4 keystrokes
Anecdotally, I went to a Grande Ecole studying Computer Science: INSA of Rennes and I was an exchange student at RIT in rochester. The level of the classes and exams at RIT was much lower than what I had back in france (and a lot of exams had rote learning at RIT, I remember questions like: Which companies drafted the openGL specifications? which is beyond useless and stupid.)

The examples of practice projects you listed for OS and compilers are similar to what we did. We also had a fourth year practice project that lasted all the year in a 6 students team and which was really interesting: we were working on a cross platform networked Tarot game with an expert system implemented in Prolog. It was really fun :-)

Of course, it also depends on the grande école or university you go to and I'm quite sure that for example MIT is much better than RIT for example.
It always amuses me when this gets posted on HN. As a link, it appears as medium grey on slightly lighter grey.
Whats the link between resolution and contrast between colors?
Want to know how Spotify scales up, yet stays agile?
For me, when doing Node development, usually my first instinct is to go for MongoDB. I guess my post conveys that thought. But sure we could have used any simple data store, and we did (parse).

As for Node.js, as I previously said in another comment, I am a former ColdFusion developer, so again I bring many biases from that platform and found Node.js to be super simple to use.

I'm not a Ruby or Python developer but I'm sure it would have taken someone with those skill sets equally as fast.
And this is why DEL is properly a forward delete operation: it erases the character under the cursor and advances (the tape) over the next.

I blame the VT220 for screwing this up.
> We're keeping things small and invite-only to ensure quality.

If you're going to be a gated community then don't post it on HN.

(also, I seriously doubt this ensures "quality".)
This has reminded me to go back and re-read Solzhenitsyn's "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_in_the_Life_of_Ivan_Den...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Denisovich-Penguin-Modern-Class...

http://www.shmoop.com/ivan-denisovich/
I can respect that thinking. But one of the beauties of the Internet is having more control over consumption than in real world situations. I've sat in a theater many times wishing I had a "skip" button. Not because I hate trailers... I like them. But I only need to see most of them one time. :)
Well, bluntly, I was just exaggerating.
I think this is a great idea. I'm a software developer at a big tech company; I just signed up to see if there are interesting projects.. good luck!
I like how they talk about it as if not using Facebook is some extraordinary privation. I havn't used it for two years, and I officially closed my account a year ago.
Kill the floppy icon once and for all
indeed the two URL are different (well, the second part of them are different) and HN didn't spot the dupe
We are deeply distraught over the outcome of this case. We will be examining our procedures to ensure that we acted correctly. Our duty to the American people is to uphold justice for defendants as well as accusers. Mr. Swartz's death leaves us having unfulfilled our obligation to both Mr. Swartz and the American people and was not the intention of this office.
http://www.jetstrap.com/ Can you mock widgets using this tool or is it mostly pages,layouts, navs?
> North Korea has the biggest standing army of the world.

It's big, but not quite biggest according to Wikipedia. Or are you using a more specific definition of "standing army" than the amount of active servicemen? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...

(Just a nitpick though, I appreciate your input.)
The justice department is not in the healthcare business.

Let's not shy too far from the facts here. Aaron knew what he was doing was breaking the law. He participated in an act of civil disobedience, that does not grant freedom from consequences.
I like the idea of an "HN for designers." That said, I don't think it will work.

We built something similar around 2008 and maintained it for a couple of years. Ultimately, we chose to shut it down, due to the difficulty in getting good discussion, and the amount of "pseudo-spam" from folks who would flood us with links to crap and designer link-bait.

My suggestion is to ignore the design feedback you're getting here. It's not that it isn't perhaps accurate; it's just not your biggest concern.

In my opinion, the real key with these communities is the discussion. HN is ugly, but the content is good. Additionally, the active nature of the community is huge. Part of that has to do with it having first-move advantage; the other may be the associated "carrot" of pg looking at contributor involvement, come application time.

My hunch is that the biggest part of why HN is so active relates to startup-folk being more concerned with the data/insight than presentation. I could be entirely incorrect on this point, but my feeling is that the majority of designers simply aren't geared the same way. They're more interested in seeing eye-candy than reading, thinking, and discussing.

This is a generalization, and there are certainly designers who are geared quite differently. (Personally, I find sites like dribbble really boring, but am on HN within 5 minutes of waking.)

The challenge here, for you will be in getting a sufficient mass of good contributors/commenters (i.e. Thoughtful, meaningful dialogue). I think it's will be hard to make this happen. I do hope you'll prove me wrong, though, as the design community could use something like this.
How can they not admit they are wrong? A MAN DIED. something went wrong.
This is so obviously not the case that I wonder why you would say it. What a person likes changes over time.
I have two responses.

The first one is that if someone is suicidal and they commit a crime, you can't decide not to prosecute them simply because they may kill themselves. Our community might be certain that his suicide was a result of the prosecution, and there may or may not be evidence of that, but all things being equal, simply being suicidal cannot be a get-out-of-jail-free card.

The second response is that these people are lawyers. They're not going to openly admit to having done wrong even if it's obvious because it will only make their punishment that much swifter. Statements like the above are publicly made until it becomes clear that an act of contrition will reduce the penalty. That isn't obvious to Ortiz or her department right now, so there's no reason to expect them to attempt to publicly admit wrongdoing.

Note that this would be true even if Ortiz actually were wracked with guilt. These people are lawyers.
I admit that the behavior is quite odd at first, but once you get used to it, it is really useful. It is the behavior you would expect in a desktop app — for example, you wouldn’t want iTunes to stop playing when you select a playlist, would you?
Great, I use debian, and the version of gnash I have (0.8.11~git.master21579-20120430-none) won't stream from soundcloud or e.g. rephlex. However gnash isn't so broken that it can't stream audio. For example the flash streamer on www.zippyshare.com works fine with gnash. I will give this command line tool a bash. At the moment am limited to downloading from soundcloud by this.
European VCs hit back over tech record
Its looks good in the eyes of a designer, but sucks for users. I can't read shit and made my eyes hurt (for real). I can't even comment on the content because I can't read it.

First rule of producing good content:

1. Make sure people can read it.
I can't blame them for that. I'm sitting on the couch in a warm room with new year tree and 47" TV right now and I certainly won't want to go outside in the snow and cold to fix the agriculture or restore the order of some remote and unhospitable land.

Also won't want to have my lifestyle degrade because my country suddently have 20 million unproductive mouths to feed.
I know Sailer is racially obsessed and not a creditable source.

That's an understatement. Links to his blog and other edits inspired by his blog have been a plague on Wikipedia for years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/...

Finland is officially bilingual. (The minority official language is Swedish, which is not even cognate with the Suomi language that is usually "Finnish" in English.) Because schools in Latin America, and particular in Mexico, are notoriously underperforming (the reason for that is the role of schoolteacher trade unions in national politics), it is not surprising that first-generation immigrants to the United States from the largest source country, Mexico, start out disadvantaged in school compared to native-born children from English-speaking families. But the latest PISA results look separately at the issue of how the surveyed OECD countries do in helping the least advantaged students in each country's school systems,

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/pisaproducts/pisa2009/48165173.pdf

and the United States is not a conspicuously strong performer by that standard, even though the United States has a level of public school spending.

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/49685503.pdf

For more information on the "race" issue, see the user bibliography "Anthropology, human biology, and race citations"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Anthropol...

which links to better sources than those considered by most Wikipedians so far.
Whatever you say, "Baghdad" Ortiz.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Saeed_al-Sahhaf#During...
Block-level de-duplication doesn't require or imply knowledge of, or access to, decrypted file contents. It would be trivial to use de-duplication in a secure way. (though you're not going to reap nearly as much return from de-duplication of secure files, natch)

I'd agree that they're not serious, if it's true that they're deterministically generating encryption keys based on file hashes. But the de-duplication part has nothing to do with it.
> As it happens, there are companies making fortunes on internet, and their business largely depends on the contents that is created by others. This is particularly true with Google and the press industry. If you see it that way, it seems only fair that Google participate in paying the journalists producing quality content that makes people use their search engine and/or see their ads.

Are you really trying to claim that Google largely depends on the content created by the press for their success?

If so, wouldn't you also claim that projects which become famous solely because of link aggregators such as Reddit and HN should pay a monetary amount back to the link aggregator?

Also, how do you account for the free services provided to the press industry to allow their content to be written? Does the press in France still pay sums to the Gutenberg estate and heirs?

Either way even assuming your point is true, the response should be much simpler: If the journalist content is really that valuable to Google then have the publisher negotiate with Google directly for payment, or remove their content from Google and make them suffer.
Unfinished. All the points you raise are invalid. Tom and Yehuda are working very hard on ember itself. A RC is finally around the corner. Ember data will get the same treatment. It will take time. Ember data is more ambitious and complicated then ember.
I like how the "Like" count is light-grey on black.
http://i.imgur.com/6HVmt1S.png
With regards defending against the NSA - I believe you have no chance.

With regards the password protected Word files, yes, you would have to protected every attachment, and your accountant would have to password protect every document in the reply. But what else would you expect?

With the https server, will you implement the mail package? In other words, what "Reply" button? Even then, the document will be stored in clear on the server, so whoever owns it will be able to read them. So that had better be you.
on my laptop this is way worse:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5091763
Conspiracy? No. Manipulation? Feels like it...
> Is it funny that your towel isn't always clean?

This actually made me laugh...
Atari US operations file for bankruptcy protection
Think Like an Artist To Become a Better Storyteller
Oh totally agree, Matlab-the-language is terrible, and Python is a million times nicer to work with. My comment was only about the suitability of Pyhton + Numpy + SciPy + Matplotlib as a Matlab replacement for non-programmers.
Another story about life in prison and subsequent escape
http://www.dailynk.com/english/sub_list_last.php?page=1&...
The antivaccine movement and “autism biomed” versus “outgrowing” autism
this book could possibly change a bit your utopian view of liberating through radio waves and so. especially the historic examples about communism times in europe.

http://www.amazon.com/Net-Delusion-Dark-Internet-Freedom/dp/...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/09/net-delusion-mor...

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/06/books/review/Siegel-t.htm...
Yup and thats what we plan to do. Were going to donate the money to the center for mental health and addiction in Toronto.

We didn't write it on the website because we felt it would be too cheesy.
Invite-only isn't a bad idea, given the audience. This approach may help them keep the overall content quality higher than if they opened it up to everyone.

As for posting it on HN, I think it makes sense for them to try to attract some new viewers--even if they are selective about who they let in. I'd do the same thing.
welcome to HN ludde and thank you for all your projects!
Not only won't they admit wrong doing, but they will encourage suicides wherever possible.
Bug: Some icons break when browser-zooming.
"Simply starting node on your server is a recipe for disaster. If it crashes (and at some point it will, node code is perfect), your service will be wiped of the internet."

The solution to that in the article seems an awful lot of trouble. You can just use the following in your script to keep it from crashing/exiting whenever there's an exception, warning or whichever:

process.on('uncaughtException', function (err) {
//do stuff
});

I've used that in a few projects, where it usually sends me an email if something goes wrong. (npm: mailer).