skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nit-picky about the necessity? Two countries were invaded without posing any threat to the US!

"Pearl Harbor may have forced our hand more clearly, so to speak, but both attacks were deep provocations."

What exactly was 9/11 a provocation to do? Most of the people involved were already dead, and they weren't state actors - they were private citizens. What exactly was that a provocation for the US to do?

"each represented a physical challenge to the United States' influence over particular spheres."

One represented a challenge to physically and economically dominate the Pacific for the foreseeable future. One represented a challenge to the structural integrity of some buildings in New York. The scale, effect and consequences are so fantastically different that I genuinely struggle to understand how they can be seen in principle as the same thing.

"But if you want to define "Pearl Harbors" as serious, potentially dangerous attacks against the US"

By this definition, 9/11, which was not a serious, potentially dangerous attack against the US, was not a Pearl Harbour. It was a criminal act that killed a lot of people and caused a lot of damage. It was not a serious threat to the US.
This seems to be aimed at developers more than at end users - note that big segment at the end where they plug the SDK (it was the same with Ubuntu Mobile). Right now it looks like they're trying to get apps written so that the platform is actually usable when released to consumers.
Let’s not forget that PG's full-time job is YC whereas Drew's full-time job is as Dropbox CEO. I think the difference is already apparent in that sentence – Drew isn’t a substitute for PG and PG isn’t a substitute for Drew.

YC has never been just PG, there has always been a group of partners (which has increased over a period of time and includes some part-time founders) and you can always arrange time with the partners during office hours.

Sure PG and the other partners can provide you with some excellent advice but, no one is an expert in every single vertical. YC fully understand that which is why they bring experts in during YC for dinners as well as hosting conferences for the founders throughout the year.

I believe the alumni network has made YC stronger because, they've funded so many companies that there's likely to be other members in the alumni network within the same industry and/or using a similar technology to you – and if you ever need their help then they are there to help you.
The number of calories you burn isn't just a minor detail you can brush away.

Some sources of energy turn preferentially into fat, others promote a higher burning base metabolism. And when you say weight, you're ignoring other factors like muscle mass, water retention, others, that aren't really what we mean when we say lose weight. (Although incidentally, cutting carbs decreases water retention which is one very valid counter to the low-carb weight loss claims.)

Ignoring the very direct counter-statement by OP that he increased his caloric intake and still found success cannot be dismissed.
> I've long thought that the third dimension was woefully underused in smoothing the flow of traffic through intersections.

It's a simple matter of available space:

http://atomictoasters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cloverl...
Teaching Smart People How To Learn
So it's a highbrow version of Scientology, then?
I haven't read gwern's article, but I did discover that when my sleep cycle gets weird, a few nights with a melatonin supplement seems to reset things.

I discovered it by accident. Years ago I was having terrible patterns, so out of desperation I tried melatonin. I'm a little paranoid of taking anything to the point of dependency so I would only do a couple of nights in a row, then not use it until I needed it.

It works quite well for me this way, but I must say that occasionally I'll have dreams that are vivid and intense (meaning it get's my adrenaline going). Not nightmares, more anxiety-like.
That raises a good point. If you don't agree to the new EULA, is there a way to withdraw your money?
Very cool. This is essentially what I envisioned when I started work on http://www.textalyze.com.

Haven't devoted much time to it over the last couple months, but this provides a lot of inspiration.
An Affordable Option to Combat DDoS
Find if time slots overlap
Not at all. But you don't establish that A) the landing page in the post doesn't create money, NOR B) that the landing page that "makes you feel" does.
Though I don’t fully trust LibreOffice to be compatible with any Word document, I’ve been impressed with the progress in the last one or two years. Some Word documents with a tad advanced formatting that failed miserably two years ago render perfectly today in LibreOffice.

If you haven’t used LibreOffice for a while, you might be pleasantly surprised.
I recently switched to Vundle from Pathogen and it is a joy to use. Best part: you can bootstrap[1] Vundle from your .vimrc, turning the two-part "vimrc & plugins" configuration into a one-part "vimrc" configuration.

https://github.com/gmarik/vundle/blob/master/test/vimrc
I think you answered the 'why privacy' question right there.
An update on account hijacking from Google
Amazon releases OpsWorks - Chef-based dev-ops product
Real-time SQL on Hadoop using Postgres foreign tables
- Smartctl has a media wearout indicator if you want to check. Most likely, you'll check it after months of use, see that you've used like 3% of the write capacity, and then not sweat it.

- Firmware reliability sadly has been an issue. So, yes, keep backups.

- It's fun to check out the ongoing SSD write exhaustion derby here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271063-SS...
You can do a lot of analysis for urban planning. ArcGIS is a very powerful piece software that will handle mapping and some types of analysis. And i2maps is a geocomputing environment that will handle traffic analysis

Microsimulation of Seattle traffic: http://ncg.nuim.ie/i2maps/projects/transportation/index.html

Foot traffic simulation: http://ncg.nuim.ie/i2maps/projects/simcampus/index.html
Actually, I like renting the latest MS Office. I don't have to pony up $300 to have the best office software anymore. I just pay $10 a month and it runs seamless with Outlook, SkyDrive and Skype.
Jeep’s verified Twitter account hijacked
The Productivity Catalyst
Ask HN: Comp Sci classes that were worth it?
Reading the forums, most people do not necessarily think that a degree in computer sciences is fundamentally needed for becoming a good programmer/starting a successful start-up. But if there were any comp sci classes that you thought were definitely helpful and glad you took, what were they?

Thanks!
Had to rush to catch a bus, would have read more thoroughly any other time.
omg, how many charts this page has... i fell asleep just scrolling through the page.
I just started using Wintersmith since Blacksmith has become a little less than usable for quick set up. I'll have to try this out too.
yep, still there.
I love that you put "user friendly" in quotes. As if these products were for somebody other than the users.

Computers have taken over the world precisely because we have worked very hard to make them approachable by mere mortals. The only reason Google matters is that they figured out how to make the search engine much more user friendly. Apple is on top of the world because they made a more user-friendly music player, phone, and portable computer. And we HNers are all getting paid stupid amounts of money because the wide adoption of computing has created high demand.

Nobody is talking about coding away individual responsibility. They're talking about removing another bit of pointless friction from the system, so that the tools are more effective for the tool-users.

And I'll add that cars are heading in exactly the direction that you lampoon. If the car industry had thought like you, they'd still be back on hand-cranking to start the car, needing to maintain the battery's water level, and having to wear goggles. And soon Google will have solved the driving problem, mainly thanks to the way consumer adoption has driven down the costs of computing.
I think that would apply if this weren't money-related. When your money mysteriously goes missing and nobody's telling you why, I think that's cause for concern.
LibreOffice is great, so long as you do not plan on ever exporting styled documents back into MS Office. This of course means that you cannot use LibreOffice for documents that will be sent to customers in MS Office formats.
The Suppliers Behind Apple, Inc.
>In Ruby config land, there's also Sprinkle, Rexify, etc! So many options!

The Rexify (or more precisely Rex) that I'm aware of is written in Perl - http://rexify.org/ | https://github.com/krimdomu/Rex
In my country (BR), which is normally around 3 years behind the first world in most tech stuff, there is a popularity explosion w/ the app Runkeeper for running.

(Example: we now have Netflix but it has almost no relevant shows)
I hate the DnB and DUNS
I hate the dnb. How can I circumvent the system. I just waited 14 days for a duns number that didnt work. now i have to wait 25 days for them to update their system and send me a new duns, and then another 14 days before i can use the duns. Im ready to launch my app asap. wtf!!!
For the State of Michigan: http://www.michigan.gov/treasury/0,1607,7-121-44435_57506---...
Coming Fall 2013: Perhaps the next several generations' Halley's Comet.
Eat less calories than you use each day. (fullstop!)

While true, that statement is useless. It doesn't take into account the effect insulin has on the ability one has to actually take in those fewer calories. It also doesn't take into account metabolic pathways that allow one to eat more of certain kinds of foods than others.

The scientific literature is pretty clear (once you filter out the government propaganda that caused 300 million people to be unwitting participants in a dietetic experiment):

If you[1] want to loose weight and be healthier, screw calories and worry about insulin (full stop!)

There is nothing that more closely predicts insulin reaction than the number of carbs you are eating. Cut out all the simple carbs (which includes the bags of sugar we've cultivated as most fruit) and focus on fats, protein and very complex carbs and you will lose weight. More importantly, nothing has been shown to affect metabolic disorder[2] as positively.

I look at it like this: what do we use to fatten cattle up before we slaughter them? It's corn. Now look at every nutrition label to see what is in it. Is it surprising we are fat, too?

1. The body is incredibly complex. There are people who will respond better on other diets. So take any general study with a grain of salt and experiment on yourself to find what works!

2. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, heat disease, hypoglycemia, type 2 diabetes, gout, and others have all been lumped together into a disorder that strongly appears to be the result of hyperinsulenimia (eg too much insulin in the blood stream).
Communications with Space Station Restored
You are just throwing accusations right and left without comprehending the material that you linked to. I have pasted the whole section here.

Tell me which clause leads you to believe ECHELON actively breaks into corporate networks. It seems that what ECHELON has access to is something that anybody can lay their hands on. If you conduct your business by broadcasting messages over a public, then not only ECHELON, but the whole world can listen to it. This is much different than the ugly spearfishing and active breaking in by the Chinese.

Did you just keyword search and paste without understanding what the clauses meant?

"10.6. Is ECHELON suitable for industrial espionage suitable for industrial espionage?

The strategic monitoring of international telecommunications, can produce useful information for industrial espionage purposes, but only by chance. In fact, sensitive industrial information is primarily to be found in the firms themselves, which means that industrial espionage is carried out primarily by attempting to obtain the information via employees or infiltrators or by breaking into internal computer networks. Only where sensitive data is sent outside via cable or radio (satellite) can a communications surveillance system be used for industrial espionage. This occurs systematically in the following three cases:

- in connection with firms which operate in three times zones, so that interim results are sent from Europe to America and then on to Asia;
- in the case of videoconferences in multinational companies conducted by VSAT or cable;

- when important contracts have to be negotiated locally (construction of facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, rebuilding of transport systems, etc.), and the firm's representatives have to consult their head office.

If firms fail to protect their communications in such cases, interception can provide competitors with valuable data"
Yeah, I agree! "Self" is confusing indeed. Fixed! Thank you for pointing it out!
There are other ways to lose weight. Such as swallowing tape worms, taking a laxative with every meal, using meth, moving to the moon... The statement "Cutting calories is the only way to lose weight" is a gross oversimplification and provably false.
CopperEgg Cloud Service Monitoring - Hybrid Visibility, Fine-Grained Forensics
New heatmaps, custom cloud monitoring dashboards, and iPhone, iPad, and Android mobile apps announced. Designed for hybrid monitoring across clouds, enterprise+cloud, and inside the enterprise as well. Custom dashboards aggregate application performance metrics with server monitoring and website performance for service-level views.
Congrats to the Citus Data team on a big release. These guys know distributed databases backwards and forwards. Excited to see how this product stacks up against Hive.
My focus was on tablets and netbooks. We have a real and proven Linux based solution, a solution you can install now on your Nexus 7. Granted; it isn't perfect, the installation procedure isn't for the faint of heart, but it exists and nobody talks about it.

Then Canonical announces that it will do the same (Qt based, unified PC/Netbook/Tablet experience), it shows no code, no real use video and everyone talks about it.

I guess it is kind of disheartening for the many - many free software developers involved.
Ask HN: Why was the Sim City traffic post killed?
Why was this post killed after 80 votes? I am not the person who submitted it, but hackerly approaches to traffic planning have come up on HN before, so it seems like a relevant discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5245249
Probably not as much as you think. Who was it that just a few weeks ago was hired to specifically research and design this exact item?
It reminds me very strongly of the Objectivist cult. Similar personalities and faults.
I love the transformations that the OS goes through based on device, very much like responsive web design.

My favorite feature is running phone apps on the side with the Windows8-like split view, great idea. I wonder how that translates to portrait.
What are your lifts?
The heat map is awesome!
Ducksboard for Twilio: A New Way To Monitor Your Twilio Metrics
Renting it sounds like a poor choice in the long term. I think people usually keep one Office software for about a decade or so, or close to that. Paying $100 every year for 10 years is a lot more than paying $300 at once. Also for small businesses it's $150, and probably more for bigger companies.

What functionality are you missing from the free LibreOffice? Or are you willing to pay that much just because you're "used to it"?
> Design isn't someone's aesthetic or someone else's taste, it's the ability to communicate. This page is confusing a lot of people, so by definition, it is not well-designed.

I don't really have a dog in this race but I am a designer and I am a writer, and hey, deconstructing sentences is fun.

Starting at the top:

> Design isn't someone's aesthetic or someone else's taste, it's the ability to communicate.

This is not an accepted definition. In fact, it's a huge bone of contention. Exhibit A: the yearly surge of near-infinite "What Is Design!?" "Design Is…" articles.

But let's pretend it is a canonical definition and then talk about what that would mean:

> it's the ability to communicate.

How do people communicate? They can only communicate if they hold things in common. Example: a language. What else? Belief systems. Culture. Background.

Are aesthetics personal? Can different people hold different aesthetics? Can a mismatch between their aesthetics, like a mismatch in language or belief, cause a communication rift?

Yes, yes it can. Ergo…

> Design isn't someone's aesthetic or someone else's taste,

… is wrong.

If you don't think it's not, you've never tried to design something modern and sleek for lawyers… or tried to persuade somebody who loves floral wallpaper to side with Adolf Loos.

"Things that look better, work better," research has shown… but did they test it on people outside the culture that created the object tested? What is "better," exactly?

This is why knowing your audience's taste (beliefs about aesthetic) is critical to communicating effectively and, ergo, why aesthetics are a huge part of design.

> This page is confusing a lot of people, so by definition, it is not well-designed.

Let's take the two assumptions here:

1. This page confuses a lot of people
2. That means it's not well-designed

Even if you accept 1 as true, that does not lead to 2 as neatly as you suppose it does. What if it confuses people who are not his audience in the first place? What if it confuses people who aren't really interested in conversion rates, but simply interested because Nathan Barry is becoming an HN darling? Casual surfers, you might call them.

If casual surfers are the only ones confused, then does that mean the page is not well-designed?

What if what you consider "awkwardness" in the design actually attracts other people who are in the author's target audience, while repelling people who are the internet equivalent of windowshoppers?

Is that not the definition of well-designed?

Finally, I think what you meant to say is "This page confuses a handful of people who are commenting on HN" which is not the same as "a lot of people."
I wasn't trying to make a moral argument, I was pointing out the current state of US and UK law, as it wasn't mentioned in the original article.

But lets discuss the moral implications. On what moral foundation do you base your statement? What example cases would your supposition provide the greater societal good?
Can you explain why you think fat is bad for you
Why is there something wrong with having someone want to pay you for what you own?
Cause for concern, sure, but my problem with it was the jumping to conclusions, as I noted with the quotation from the post.
Relevant novel by Stanislaw Lem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible
Forget to Run Your Migrations?
This ain't bad but you know you can re-execute last macro with @@? So it ends up being @q and then hold down the @ key to repeat.
Fish shell for Mac and Ubuntu
Yes and no. You may take whatever technological steps you want to restrict someone's ability to copy the work. But you can't use copyright via the legal system to stop copying.
Cool! Until I found easymotion.vim, I was sort of doing a poor man's vim-seek with `/` and two chars.
Pirate Party threatened by legal action for providing Internet access to TPB
"There is a lot more to running a successful business than dev cost A and price B. and this is why so many Chinese clones fail"

Aargh. That does not make it moral or legal.
Which web site was compromised? Several reports point to "a website for mobile software developers" as "the waterhole". Is it the apple ios dev center? The android sdk site? HN?

I'd be very interested in knowing if myself or coworkers may have been exposed (or in the best case, which waterhole website I've been missing out on)
Not a single mention of Cloudera Impala in the article? Competition in this space is great! Woud be great to know how this offering compares to Impala.
> So every action is tracked using some simple observers.

PSA, as of Rails 4, observers have been extracted to a plugin: https://github.com/rails/rails-observers
>Any coffee before lunch is just a placebo really.

No.

I understand what you're trying to convey but calling coffee before lunch a placebo is definitely going too far.

It's true that caffeine binds to adenosine, but 1) there is always a non-trivial baseline of adenosine in your system (and for many, morning adenosine levels are high in spite of having just slept) and 2) there is more than just caffeine in coffee.
How is that jumping to conclusions? He's not saying that he thinks they stole it. He just wants a clear explanation of what happened. I don't see pitchforks, just a demand for a response.
Facebook Confirmed: Several Other Companies Hacked
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Why not require prisons to also be Accredited colleges or better yet, use online colleges and require anyone serving 4-20 years to work towards college education and learning. Then offer conditional expungement after 2-4 good years on the outside (expungement is conditional in that it won't come up in background checks, but will if they're ever convicted again, and will be un-expunged)..

I also think there should be two types of prisons -- violent / non-violent. non-violent should be like living in a Private School or Rehab facility that just happens to have a fence around and armed guards outside. Non-violent is focused on getting people to become profitable members of society when they get on the outside. When they get a professional job they will be required to re-pay the cost of their college via standard student loan type payments...

They could even have some sort of 'trial parole' period for inmates who've acquired their bachelors degree, and have 0 history of violence. Say they're a thief who's in for 10-20 years, or drug dealer who now has a Bachelors in software development, let them out early and find them a job, and monitor them. This would at the very least be something they could do on a small trial basis. Prison costs society as a whole and we need to find a solution to the bigger issue. It's self-perpetuating, junior sees dad goes to prison, and just expects to someday do the same, and so does his two brothers that's 3 extra people in jail because of 1 person's bad example....

Though, I also think that we could also perhaps take away their privacy rights for a couple years - via some sort of phone-tap/monitoring devices, even microchips implanted -- trade imprisonment, for freedom w/out privacy ... at least then they'd be forced to pay their own way.
I wrote most of this app on a contract nearly 10 years ago. We used it as a mentorship exercise to train state worker programmers in the SCO department on the (then new) ASP.NET Framework and SQL Server 2000. The DBA was familiar with Oracle and mainframes, but not SQL Server. It was written in ASP.NET 1.1 and used SQL Server 2000. From what I can tell it hasn't changed much at all.

"Programmer and database types will notice one problem immediately - no fuzzy string matching."

Yeah, I really wanted to implement that. The problem was we had to use Microsoft SQL Server and no third party database/indexing systems. SQL Server's Full Text Indexing run took too long during the nightly import job on year 2000 commodity hardware. We also had to do all of this within the constraints of training state workers and handing off something they could actually maintain.

Ah, the joys of state contracting.
"Question is, Can I realistically expect to find work with nothing but being self taught & making a GitHub account to show my work ?"

This is me without having a GitHub account, but I've been doing this for 7+years (27 now), started when I was in college and has been my own form of income. So if you have the time and will power and discipline you can make it.