skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have your facts wrong.

Firstly, there were German and Japanese spies, but there was basically nobody on the Allied side who thought it was whistleblowing to leak secrets to Hitler. Unlike the case of the Soviet Union, which the Manhattan scientists did think it was whistleblowing, and did leak the nuclear bomb secrets, Wikileaks or no. Also unlike the case of the German military, which was riddled with anti-Hitler resistance who leaked what they could to the Allies, again Wikileaks or no. So if Wikileaks existed in 1940, it would have made easier the life of Schulze-Boysen acting against Hitler, not Bomber Harris acting against Churchill.

Example references:

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

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

The French Resistance was useless. Besides, traitors amongst them could easily have dropped off an anonymous tip to the Gestapo or even turned double agent. Wikileaks would have been a lot less decisive in this case.

Finally, the Germans already had lots of evidence about their enigma code being broken, and about the British radar system. Hitler himself told the generals the attack would come at Normandy.

However, the German generals could not bring themselves to believe it. They had too much hubris to believe that their codes had been cracked. And they could not believe that the British would use such shitty old fashioned radar. The German counter measures were designed to work against good radars such as their own, and no one had thought of building counter measures against the British crap. This gave British airpower the advantage. Sadly I don't have references on me for these, but I do have a reference for the Normandy landings.

The German generals refused to believe Hitler because landing at Normandy would be insanely expensive in Allied blood. Only a complete idiot would decide to land at Normandy. The fact that Hitler told the generals is made a point of in Shirer's book:

http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Third-Reich-History/dp/14516...

So World War 2 is a really lousy example for you to use.

Besides, to protect against this sort of thing, Wikileaks have a disclosure policy. For example, when they released the diplomatic cables, they tried to go through the newspapers first: anything the newspapers redacted, they redacted too.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates admitted that "the review to date has not revealed any sensitive intelligence sources and methods compromised by this disclosure" and later stated
"Is this embarrassing? Yes. Is it awkward? Yes. Consequences for U.S. foreign policy? I think fairly modest."

References:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8...

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

So frankly, Wikileaks are mitigating your fictitious Hitler-in-1940 scenario anyway. And I trust them way more than I trust the politicians telling me what I don't need to know.
Actually we aren't using server side handlebars rendering for the Google aspect, although that's something we considered! We're using it for more boring stuff like our Oneboxes.

Our site is indexable by Google and it doesn't do much fancy. On certain URLs, we generate a small HTML view of the content in the <noscript> tag. You can see this by viewing source or disabling JS in your browser. It's just a simple ERB template in Rails, and uses the same object graph that we serialize via Active Model Serializers.

Google can see it and index it, we've confirmed by searching post launch.

As time goes on we'll probably work more on it to make the SEO even better. As you can imagine it was tough to do when we were in stealth mode ;)
At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life
Not to be pedantic, but those who believe their time here is a scarce commodity are often driven to do great things (e.g. Steve Jobs).
Alternate title: the importance of peer review.

Spreadsheets are awesome because they let us organize analysis visually which more programming-based quantitative tools cannot.

This makes everything easier, including auditing. But someone's still got to do it.
I used Aquamacs for a while, but I found GNU emacs had everything I needed- clipboard integration, cmd-s and so on. Out of curiosity, what do you want that's more OS X-y?
Not really, the issue is more about making computer science and related fields equally accessible and comfortable to all genders. One way to do this is to avoid unnecessarily biasing topics towards the sexual interests of heterosexual males, e.g. using such pornography in image processing materials.

I'm not personally offended by the image, but I don't think it's useful in the context just described.
How to install Mosh(an SSH secure shell Replacement) on CentOS 6.
A congressman who justifies every vote on Facebook
I haven't gone through all the egghead.io tutorials yet, but I suspect transclusion is addressed in one of the screencasts.
> hkarthik probably meant "seed cleaning equipment" which is quite different from a combine.

That had crossed my mind, but he was quite explicit about the machine that does the harvesting of the seeds. It is not very common for farmers to clean their own seeds anyway, even predating these patent issues. Monsanto has been so successful with this because it has no real impact on most farms.

> No, that would be false.

I mean you are not going to be buying GMO seed from your neighbour, but any business in the business of producing seeds will have the technology available. Monsanto is not the only vendor of RR products.
There's two physical factors working against air travel here:

1) it's much less cost-effective to make a flight comfortable, in terms of leg room, food, space to walk around, than a train trip; this difference only gets bigger as liquid fuel prices go up;

2) as a practical matter you can't build airports in the heart of urban centers.

If there was a 14 hour train between NYC and LA, with the leg room and amenities of existing Amtrak trains, I think it would give air travel a run for its money. Taking a cab to LaGuardia takes about half an hour from Manhattan, and it's like a $40 cab ride. Another half an hour in LA, probably $50+ cab ride. Add at least an hour at the airport for each scenario, plus the 4-5 hours of actual travel time, and you're looking at an 8 hour trip.

Would you rather have 8 hours of cab -> airport -> airplane -> airport -> cab, or 14 hours just walking from a downtown train station, onto a train, and out of another downtown train station? Would you rather spend 5 hours crammed into an economy class seat, or 14 hours in an Amtrak train with a ton of leg room, where you can get up, go to the snack car, etc?
As a skeptic, I look at the northeast, and say that may be the one place in the country it makes sense to have high speed rail because of the population density, and close proximity of the major cities.
Interesting! After reading this I just re-tried Dolphin on my new Nexus 10 and it's much better than when I tried it previously. I'm not sure when they changed the UI (it's a lot cleaner than I remember), but it looks like they launched Jetpack just a few days before my review, so I totally missed it.

I'll have to use it a bit before forming an opinion (already noticed some shearing when pages redraw), but it's definitely much improved. I wish I had noticed before my post. Thanks!
Ah the existential crisis that is college graduation. Nothing quite like it. Certainly not for the clever and yet lost ones.

Eric is suffering from a common ailment, lack of an agenda and fear of employment. Suffering from tales of drudgery and pain that is the "9 to 5 job" he dreams of something larger, but because he has no agenda there is nothing to target, nothing to attack. I hope he avoids a game studio initally, they chew up these guys and spit them out as spent rags into the world suffering from post tramautic coding disorder.

Spend the summer after graduation helping people. People with real problems in the real world. Buy a one way ticket to another place and work your way back, drive from the polar circle to the southern tip of Brazil. Engage with the world, find the place where you can apply positive good with your skills and do that for a while. You'll feel better about yourself and the world will be better for it.

Or find someone you respect and you can learn from and join them in their quest to make the world a better place.
Show HN: SNEBU -- Simple Network Backup Utility
Spreadsheet verification and type systems have been studied extensively by the rather terrifyingly productive Martin Erwig. See http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~erwig/papers/abstracts.html, and scroll down the page.

"Software Engineering for Spreadsheets"
"Automatic Detection of Dimension Errors in Spreadsheets"
"Type Inference for Spreadsheets"

etc.
What fiction do you recommend? A comment of yours from a few years ago describes how I feel about fiction now: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917882.
I hate to be picky, but it's Smalltalk, not SmallTalk.
A Couple months back there was a post on Y Combinator...
..That compared Facebook to an Asian social network. I am trying to find the name of the Other social network.

The guy who created it was a young 20 something with an Asian descent. Googling the other social networks from America would bring you to the sites' splash page that promoted investors.

The landing page for investors for this other site had a white, blue color scheme similar to Facebook, and scrolled down a bit.

Any ideas? or any links that sound similar?
Memorials for Aaron Swartz Turn to Discussion of How to Honor His Legacy
"I think a lot of the HST skeptics would do well to spend some time in the northeast"

Taking "the northeast" to be New England + New York + Pennsylvania + New Jersey, it covers ~135,000 square miles and has a population of ~56 million people.

New Mexico alone has an area of ~121,000 square miles and has only ~2 million people.

This matters. A lot.
It's all who you know?
This is my first major open source project. I would appreciate any feedback on the setup on Github (is there features I'm mis-using or not aware of, etc).

Basically, this is a backup tool that is one step better than rsync-based backups (has a database[sqlplus] based backup catalog, supports compression, etc), without the complexity the bigger backup solutions.
Interesting that you quoted an outspoken racist and anti-semite. I'm guessing you believe in a "clash of civilizations" existential conflict between Muslims and Westerners, right?
why is that pedantic?
One method that I've found useful is to completely re-create somebody else's design in Photoshop. Find a website that you really like, take a screenshot of it, paste it into Photoshop, and recreate the whole thing.

The benefit of doing this is three-fold. For one, you are more than likely not going to functionally know how to re-create some effects which will force you to go out and read targeted tutorials. Second, you will notice the subtleties of the design that you are unlikely to notice when just looking, which will help build your design intuition. Lastly, you won't waste time trying to come up with an idea and failing through the execution; you will start with something great and end with something (hopefully) great.

Clearly this isn't the way to learn the creative side of design, but it will build up your skill-set such that you will actually be able to execute when you have a vision.
Stupid auctions
Honestly, I think you are saying things that are just plain untrue. Can you actually point to a single actual monsanto patent that is claiming some sequence and not the invention of making a plant glypshosphate resistant? My guess is you can't, because it would almost be impossible to issue and even it was it wouldn't hold up in court.
Good japanese technology blogs?
any suggestions?
> It accommodates the state of the track (in most cases). To go faster would require wholesale replacement of most existing track, which is thought to be too expensive (but is the approach that was used in Japan and France).

It does not accomodate current tracks. No rail lines in the US are designed for speeds over 150 mph.
The bigger question, I hope someone will answer is : Why Discourse?

Not putting down the software, but I did look at the about page and didn't get much convincing. Also, even though I'm not mainly a PHP dev, the assertion that "ancient, legacy PHP/MySQL code bases" doesn't apply to bbPress or Vanilla (or at least I hope not, I haven't really looked at the code in a while).

Also, and this may be what sells it to me, can I use it comfortably if I'm disabled? I've built some discussion forums for sites that cater to people who have difficulty navigating cluttered environments (some have suffered strokes or other brain injuries) and some who are legally blind. Can they replace their forums with Discourse?

Other forums, even the crappy legacy code ones, still have real HTML links that can be browsed. Can I use it while having JS disabled (let's say I'm some privacy freak)?

Edit:
Should have read the FAQ first ;) So my Lynx and text-to-speech users are out of luck.
Gandi.net (https://www.gandi.net/) (domain registrar) gives 5 email accounts with 1GB shared space for all domains registered with them. I've only used them for a short time, but they seem great for simple email needs. They also offer email forwarding so you could forward to a gmail account, for example.
The underlying problem is that people are still, to this day, treating presentation as more important than data.

Here's an idea: use the absolute bare-minimum of styling and layout, and let me decide via OS and browser preferences what default font faces and styles to use.
It is smart of them and the FPGA vendor to release the demo board with superior hardware as a loss leader that helps get people hooked on the architecture!
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a friend about the impeding launch of Discourse. She asked me if I was worried that people would judge me for the code I'd written (although to be honest, you can't tell who wrote what since we reset our commit history when we launched).

The truth is releasing your code is a very scary thing to do. I knew some parts were good, some parts less so.

Posts like this (and their pull requests) have floored me. Grant did a fantastic job refactoring a large chunk of technical debt we'd acquired, and then took the time to write up why he did it in detail.

I really hope this trend of improving something and writing how you did it catches on. I want to see it in other people's code bases too!
dont like it ? dont watch it. Nobody forces you to watch that video or to read "Mein Kampf" ( though strangely "Mein Kampf" is a best seller in the arab world , like "the protocol of the elders of zion" ... )
naming the groups by their most conventional names, you gone so far as to create the dynamics of these groups, why forgo naming them? not really understanding the cloak and dagger element
I'm not sure what you are quoting, but the problem I have with your quote is that you are saying all modern biotechnology should have no intellectual property protection.
It's a nice map, but it elides over the difficult parts of high-speed rail in the US. Running track through rural areas is easy, modulo getting across the Rockies and the Sierras. The hard part is routing through urban areas. Look at the Los Angeles and New York "stations". They cover the entire metro areas. Same with San Francisco. No one wants to be forced to sell their house to the government for high-speed rail, but without new dedicated track carved deep into the hearts of our urban areas, it will never compete with air travel.
One of the reasons I would hesitate in letting my children near Facebook until they're ~15+ is the enormous pressure it places on them to maintain a front that is completely free of any errors or embarrassments. This article talks about adults and how they struggle reconciling their online identity with their real sincere identity -- think how teenagers have struggles with their identity, and how precariously one mistake made risks being bombarded by ridicule by similarly aged peers. This is one of the reasons anonymity is so important -- we humans need a chance to explore and play with our identities without fear of failing and tarring our reputation. It's how we develop.
I think that the high-speed rail map that the Obama Administration put up on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) website is a little more close to a tenable future.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/High_Spee...

It highlights the boston-washington route (NEC on the map or BosWash some like to say[1]), which seems to be easily the most do-able route in the near future, in terms of people served.

I like it. The idea, I mean. But its hard to get people to come around to spending money on anything remotely like this seems. I think all societies should have very lofty goals published and promoted often[2], but I think at the same time we need to always provide concrete reality-scale plans when trying to make the argument to non-believers, which is why I prefer the ARRA map, or something even smaller.

I think there are some larger societal issues that affect the value of things like this too. I wish Americans would (could) travel more, and see what other developed countries are like.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boswash

[2] "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea" -Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Ettanews
i want to create a beautiful interface for news data. what sites should i look at for inspiration?
So booking a random trip: Wed Mar. 6 to Fri. Mar. 8. For business hours flights (leaving NY at 2 pm, returning at 9AM) I can get UAL for $175 round trip. But that's JFK <-> IAD. But Midtown to JFK is a $50 35 minute cab ride, and Dulles to downtown DC is an $80 40 minute cab ride. Add in an hour at the airport in JFK and half an hour getting out of IAD, you're looking at $305 round trip, and 4 hours for each leg. The Acela Express will get you downtown to downtown for $300 even ($150 each way) in three hours including boarding time/disembark time at each station. The Northeast Regional will get you there for $100 round trip in three and a half hours including boarding/disembark time.
Thanks a lot, I very much like the analogy :) You covered it all.

To add more, even if you have star techie co-founders, it doesn't make much sense to be that business person with no understanding of programming, not even the basics. And even if the business requires enterprise sales.

Practically, it would affect brainstorming at early start up stages for example.
It's also fatally broken in landscape mode on mobile safari.
The Corporate Word does represent a smallish % of GDP. But the impact of 1) Government Departments, 2) Banks, 3) Infrastructure Providers (eg Telco's) are felt by everyone in the economy.

Quick Thought Experiment: which would be more disruptive - every YC company shutting down for a day (as-in all their services going offline and completely unavailable) or $LARGEST_BANK or $LARGEST_TELCO in your country shutting down for the same 24 hours?
>Who said all opinions could be equally respected?

Certainly not me. But there's a difference between criticizing an opinion and shaming someone for holding that opinion. I also think those sorts of movies are terrible, but shaming people for enjoying them is unnecessary and immature.

And please spare me your claims of "suffering" because Hollywood makes crappy movies. First of all, the suffering you will cause a single person by shaming them for enjoying a movie is probably greater than the net suffering you will endure from your awareness of every bad movie you hear about in your entire life. Secondly, no number of snotty assholes who shame people for their cinematic taste will ever make a dent in the number of bad movies produced in Hollywood. The most impact you would see would be that at some point everyone else might backlash against the snotty assholes and watch more crappy movies in defiance.

Finally, what analogy are you trying to draw, exactly, between bad movies and smoothing filters in emulators? What negative impact are 2xSaI users going to have on people who set their emulators on simpler scaling modes?
> free speech is restricted

Where I live (Brazil) there are, regrettably, a lot more restrictions to free speech than in the U.S.. But I don't think one error is justification for another one.

> free speech is restricted if it is directed to lead to "imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action"

Ok, I can accept this. But I don't understand how mocking a religion leads to "imminent lawless action".
Except the people managing these spreadsheets where not programmers and had probably never heard of ODBC. People outside the process generally suggest a rewrite over trying to maintain Excel spreadsheets which is generally a bad idea.
Yeah. It makes it a lot easier to build a truly high-speed train.

It's harder for a train to go 200mph through densely populated areas where NIMBYs don't want anything built. Cows, on the other hand, don't care. The train also doesn't have to stop very often -- a train can stop in Albequerque and Santa Fe, and zip north to Colorado Springs and Denver.

The biggest challenge to high-speed trains in the US is not population density or technology; the problem is political.
> Odd. What tablet?

iPad 3. I think, what it is, is that the grey sidebar had your "TNW" logo with some fancy left-to-right fade-in effect, which cycled around again and again while it was caching data. Not meant to be a flash, but that's what it amounted to. Now, it just stays grey until it loads. Thanks for changing that.

Still annoyingly takes up 25% of the screen and doesn't let me zoom.
Writing a test that fails is a subset of what you can do. Pharo (and other Smalltalks) support writing traditional test cases and running them in a test runner.
However you can also:

- write snippets in a workspace, as vincie mentioned.
- write code against an API that doesn't exist, run it, have it fail, and then fill in the API and implementation.
- write stubs that fail automatically, and then fill them out (similar to above).

The difference is, when things fail:

- you get to play with the live objects in a work space.
- fill in missing implementation.
- fix any errors.

And then much of the time continue execution from the point of failure. No need to restart anything.
I simply could not appreciate the variety of options available in a Smalltalk environment until I used it for some fun projects over a few months.

Be warned, you might hate your so called modern environments once you get back to them.
For Objective-C coders there is hope: http://injectionforxcode.com
Excel and Bloomberg are the only reasons our FinTech shop has a few Windows boxes in our office--the rest are Linux. If MS Office becomes available on Linux, as rumored, we will have even fewer.

Quite simply, the financial world runs on Excel. For this reason we make sure all our APIs work just as well when being called from VBA as they do from Python, JavaScript, Perl, etc. It's Excel's world, we just live in it.
Models which are at best a charicature of some reality as a sole pretense for actions are the problem and distract from the issue of what sorts of controls are appropriate in finance like position limits. Allowing banks to create their own risk models shows whose pockets regulators are in - the Banks pockets. So we talk about Excel and models and don't notice models are distractions that allow banks to do what they please until a trader blows up, when then they can blame the models instead of a lack of controls they don't want in the first place. Get real.
Thank a lot. Ruby seems like a good language to start with. I will certainly email you, thanks again.
I should have said that a comparatively modest roadbed upgrade would allow this speed -- but only compared to the effort required for the higher speeds possible elsewhere.