skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the goal of the Locker Project: http://lockerproject.org/

It seems it has stalled, though :(
Why Opera Software Bought Skyfire
Would be interesting to know what made them settle on Puppet instead of Chef. Thought the guys at Github were big Ruby-Lovers...
I quite like todo.txt[0] which has a similar interface but uses a specific format, sorted in a text file.

[0]: http://todotxt.com
Creepy Quora erodes users' privacy, reveals what you have read
In my Firefox @ WinXP it displays Java 10 :)

I guess it's an issue with the values reported by the browser (about:config lists Java plugin with 10.13.2.20). Chrome and Opera correctly say Java 7.

Also, the Flash version could be more detailed. http://supportdetails.com/ lists precise version. Flash 11.2 vs 11.6 might make a difference. The more details, the better.
In my home country at least, the inheritance law follows the principle of universal succession. Definition vom Merriam-Webster:

Succession under Roman or civil law to the totality of a man's estate including both his rights and liabilities according to the principle that the heir is the same person as the deceased.

With regard to accounts, it means that all your personal accounts become your heirs' accounts upon death. Enforceability in the US where most online servies are located these days remains an open question though …

Personally, I have deposited my most important user credentials as print outs in sealed envelopes with two persons I trust. In addition, I have listed them in my will as executors for my digital estate. Working access to accounts is IMHO more important than ToS etc.
I was stunned reading this. It looks like the group pushing this project are just taking advantage of the president's advisers ignorance. Cognitive neuroscientists, psychologists and neurologists have been "mapping" the human brain for well over 20 years now. There's even a conference dedicated to the pursuit (http://www.humanbrainmapping.org) it attracts over 2500 attendees each year. Unless this project is focusing on some aspect of the brain that has yet to be studied (not very likely) it looks like this is just going to take NIH funds away from researchers who are already working in these areas. It doesn't surprise me though. Francis Collins (head of NIH) was the leader of the publicly funded half of the Human Genome Project. I guess he's trying to pull the same trick twice. It will be very interesting to see what the final proposal looks like.

EDIT:

Also claims that "we'll be able to cure Alzheimers!" are pretty much part of every grant proposal submitted to NIMH in one way or the other. It's just an easy way to get your "impact on public health" covered. I can't believe they're failing for it here.
I thought the thing was running off of a server on an iPhone; probably just ran out of battery power.
glsl.js - abusing WebGL shaders for efficient 2D
Needs and desires are not always immanent. They are also created by education, advertisement etc.

What the public do want is also in good part what he was taught to want, no?
How Facebook, Vine and Snapchat Make Us Cheat
This looked more like the block you get when you are on the site's black list. How many HN readers are in Beijing? In zhongguancun?
He is pretty much in self appointed house arrest. He isn't "most wanted man in the world " though, albeit lot of influential people and state they represent would love to see him behind bars.
Quora's Motto: Don't Be Good. What else do we expect?

http://statspotting.com/quoras-motto-dont-be-good/
I have only one portal onto the Internet - this site. I check it first thing and last thing, and when it was down today I had a weird epiphany - I did not mind.

HN is not a service, its not a startup trying to get mindshare - its a (luvvie alert) community - and one where the downtime had a known and obvious cause and did not matter - rtm would fix it, I would catch up, I knew this thread would exist and I would still get insight into what is happening 12 hours ahead of everyone else.

I thought I would be more bothered - turns out I am emotionally invested, not emotionally dependant.

To PG et al, good luck with the fixes, and thanks.

Cheers
+1 yours is the best comment I have read so far.

Higher level tools really do speed up content creation. It was a long time ago, but when I worked at Angel Studios, we put a huge effort into infrastructure tools.

A high level scripting language driven generator with good fix-up editing capabilities sounds good.

All that said, I would imagine that large entertainment companies have great smart creation/editing tools, but they are probably kept under wraps.
"He is not "the most wanted man in the world"."

It is obviously not meant to be taken literally. He is, though, wanted by the US, the Brits, the Swedes... Who would you say, off the top of your head, has a higher "wanted" status today?
You really couldn't think of a better name?
This title is a paradox.
Cool, I'll give it a shot, buddy. Thanks for the advice.
More discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5221461

I actually tried it out this weekend. Overall it's pretty good.. there are some sharp corners, but when you iron the kinks out, it really does work well. So far I have exported a HTML5 Canvas demo to Android and am excited to try iOS soon.

One thing that needs to happen soon is documentation update. E.g. for the Engine[1] class, `getCanvas` is deprecated[2]. Additionally they don't tell you (or I missed it) that your app/view can supply a `render` function that receives a canvas context directly.

Luckily, there are several demos provided where you can learn these undocumented tricks, but it still shakes my confidence a bit because I don't know if I'm doing things the "right way", or if what I am using will disappear soon.

[1]: http://docs.gameclosure.com/api/appengine.html

[2]: https://github.com/gameclosure/timestep/blob/master/src/ui/E...
This looks quite neat and the Rails example (https://github.com/hexagonaljs/rails-example) is interesting. I'll definitely have a play around with it later in my never-ending quest to find JS libraries that don't make me want to snap my computer in half.
How many engineers will they receive from the Skyfire purchase?
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It looks just like Trello - what makes it different? A page which told me what was different would help me to decide quickly if it's worth signing up. And help your sales!
The "probably" comes directly from the HTML5 Media spec. Browsers can't say for sure that they support a certain video format.

media.canPlayType(type) - Returns the empty string (a negative response), "maybe", or "probably" based on how confident the user agent is that it can play media resources of the given type.

~ http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
I do the same. It works pretty well, it's crazy when you start catching yourself trying to go to one of them by habit.
Saborstudio's Game Pota-Toss Gets Sequel
+1. I've been using spectacle with great success. I previously tied the demo for Sizeup, which is a little more polished, but cost $20 at the time. The only thing that Spectacle is missing is the ability to move windows between monitors. I recently switched to a single 27", so I haven't been missing this feature. I'm definitely going to check out Slate — looks cool.
please stop creating projects for this issue. there are already tons of them.
Charlie Brooker's latest 'Black Mirror' episode touches on a similar subject in a dramatised fashion and it's quite an interesting/thoughtful watch. UK users can catch it on 4OD, it's called 'Be Right Back'.
If your not heavily into psychology but having a passing interest I can highly recommend the book "You are not so smart" http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1851689397/ref=as_li_qf_s... (aff link)

It is an excellent read and very eye opening
On a slight tangent, interesting that it's going to be multi-platform after being signed up as Microsoft exclusives for so long. I'd imagine it's mostly to increase their possible audience, but part of me wonders if it's because the split from Microsoft wasn't entirely without some burned bridges on both sides.

Which begs the question, have they found a way to share the universe between both platforms? That'd be pretty spectacular if they have.
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And every wine 'expert' who read that will be totally confident that they can't be fooled so simply. Another part of the equation is the fiction we construct around ourselves to protect our ego.

Hey! I re-read it. The wine 'experts' tested were "undergraduates". Now I can legitimately suspect their research. Everybody knows freshmen are idiots. Especially freshmen flocking to a free wine-tasting.

See how easy that was? I can dismiss statistical significance with semantic juggling.
Installing/updating Windows apps in Android style
> (ever written an HTTP proxy? Oh boy)

Oh yeah, and it's not fairly hard. After all, it's a well defined, text-based protocol. It's sweet to implement if you're not using C. That is, before you started supporting persistent connections or interacting with the content.

In any case, it's loads better than FTP and SMTP (at least HTTP spelled things completely), and loads easier to use than binary protocols.
The main problem I have with living minimally is where to set the boundary. What does it really mean to live minimally? If it's only about getting rid of as much stuff as possible and spending as little as possible on everything, than it's more like asceticism than minimalism to me. Damn, let's just go back to caves, hunt for food and make own clothes!

I've read a lot of blogs about living minimally and one thing I've noticed is that most of the authors try hard to convince not the readers, but themselves that they're happy with that way of life. I don't buy that. To me minimalism was never about spending less money on things, just the opposite - spend more money, but on less stuff. In other words, quality over quantity. Spend money on stuff that makes you happy, be it travelling, sports cars or attending to as much concerts as possible. Money gives possibilities to experience things, and in my opinion it's what makes life interesting. I don't mind working hard to earn more money, so later I can experience more, without counting every penny. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot more important things in life that money can't buy, but it doesn't mean that money isn't essential to happiness. Just don't waste money on dull, unnecessary things, instead realise what really makes you happy and your life better and spend money on that.
Hexagonal uses Raganwald's metaprogramming ideas. Follow the links from the dependency at https://github.com/gameboxed/YouAreDaBomb.

This shows the beauty of Coffeescript syntax for functional programming. For a deep understanding read Raganwald's new book http://ristrettolo.gy.
Thanks Bro.
Lived in Colorado for 3 years, Eric cartman was my role model ;)
The Rich See a Different Internet Than the Poor -- Scientific American
So the switching your mindset to hexagonal.js is quite hard at the beginning and I think it's the most time consuming part. Then you are very productive - gameboxed.com developed > 20 small and large apps using hexagonal.js last year.
Why don't you implement AJAX support in news.arc? That way PG won't have to spend the time writing it...

https://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/lib/news.arc
A culture crash may have contributed to that so many are leaving. According to the Opera CEO, iOS and Android are the future for Opera now[0].

One could argue that Opera now are in more need of 25 years old iOS developers, that 40+ C++ specialists.

0: http://translate.google.no/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=...
The alleged crime happened in a foreign and independent country, where they have no choice but to play by the rules of that country. That's why. Non-cooperation just makes it worse, ensuring that nothing at all gets done.
This happened last time there was a big HN-Monthly giveaway ...
It's really a major deficiency on how things work together (SSL, HTTP, CNAMEs)

Maybe the solution is having stuff.blah.com redirect to blah.com/stuff and do SSL from there

Ugly, but it gets the job done.
We had 20 professional guys in our beach house. One year we had the beer taste test challenge. Sample a field of 6 beers trying to identify which is which.

Starting off, people were an average of 22% correct.

After one beer, people averaged 16% correct answers.
The continuation of that quote makes this really morbid :).
The point isn't if it's worth it to the developer to charge you that much. It's an automated billing process. The point is that the price point is low enough that people won't think twice about paying it. In this case, more than 5 times as many as would go for $50/year.
As of March 2012 it looks like they had 44 employees and were looking to hire another 20: http://it-jobs.fins.com/Articles/SBB000142405297020337060457...

Not sure how many of those ~65 would be engineers. Somewhere in the range of 30-50?
3 Pieces of Advice I’d Give My 18 Year-Old Self If I Could
I'm not sure if I would rather use a jQuery (or something similar) plugin or this method to do notifications. It seems using a jQuery plugin would be easier if I already had lots of AJAX and DOM events going on.
You can solve this problem by using a "wildcard certificate". It's like 300$ more expensive than a normal one.

You can test how it works creating your own:
http://www.justinsamuel.com/2006/03/11/howto-create-a-self-s...
I can still access FakingNews. I use openDNS. @share4you I thing you should try with change DNS to openDNS. They just blocked it in DNS.
Thanks for the kind words! The pricing is obviously geared towards agencies, not freelancers. We'll see how it pans out, your feedback is greatly appreciated!
That was an honest question more than a complaint. Why do CoffeeScript libraries not use the coffee extension? For broader appeal? Even if you had JavaScript documentation, I would see the source was written in CoffeeScript and realize I can't easily evaluate the quality of the source. Choosing CoffeeScript must mean you prefer it over JavaScript, so why use the extension of a language you do not prefer over one you do?
Actually, no. Comments are all over the place, some are in favor of him, some are against him.

And those defending him have some valid points - If he did agree to go to Sweden for interrogation/trial (of a crime committed in Sweden) under the condition for Sweden to not extradite him to US, why haven't they accepted that deal? This is a local matter, right? Unless they want to ship him over overseas.
amazing... Just amazing... Would you happen to know what breed of hamsters he is using?
Sounds like snake oil. Too early to build a complete human brain model. Simpler brain models (cat, lizard) haven't been done yet (?) but that's not headline-worthy.

How about "President announces program to solve all human suffering"? About as meaningless, but would actually be more useful if by some astronomical fluke they succeeded.
Weekly Online Poker Traffic Update
Python trademark at risk in EU
There are still some important points missing from the discussion:

1. Operating at scale with parallel routing.
2. Handle faults while operating at scale with parallel routing
3. Providing correct statistical models for the situation. The one we have right now is a crude approximation.
4. Measuring on the real system for problems.

The optimum routing is to have each dyno with 0 or 1 job at a time and a global queue of all incoming requests. But this is a latency problem then since it takes time for a dyno to tell that it is "ready". The net result is very bad performance and the global queue is a single point of failure. The solution is to queue because this removes the latency --- but with the price you see RG paying if a Dyno can only serve one request at a time.

If a dyno does not report "ready" to the routing mesh, then you can't route optimally:

Queue length doesn't work since a request in queue may take 7000ms while still having a length of 1. Another queue with length 5 consisting of 5 70ms requests is better to route to.

The time the last request spent in queue is not useful either because the very next message may be a 7000ms one.

So to solve this problem, you must do something else. You cannot use "intelligent routing" unless you can describe how it will work distributed with, say, 8 routing machines while avoiding latency. And while you are at it, you better measure your solution in a real-world scenario.
This article does feel a little over done, but both sides of Australian politics seem to care only about the polls. It would be nice if they actually got something constructive done. Assange would be a nice change.
This.

I'm one of the people behind hexagonal.js. Raganwald's work enabled us to implement one of the main components - the glue code.
Servo would be a new runtime. I would define infinite effort as "more than re-implementing".
http://isup.me/ (their official shortened link).
Lol. Some of thus are pure gold: http://i.qkme.me/3t0xa0.jpg http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/34919156.jpg
I suspect in a couple of years time no-one will be using ember.js as it presently is.

They use methods to access properties and hide the actual properties away in an internal array.

This is because ECMA 3 doesn't have get/setters for property changed notifications. It's one of those things you can't shim. ECMA 5 does support get/setters, so once you don't have to support IE8, using it as it presently is will be silly.

It's a ticking time bomb. If you're using ember.js you can't write normal javascript, which is why I think it won't get any serious penetration. Or I hope it doesn't anyway as I've used libraries that do this before and it gets old fast.
Samsung Android: Better than Google's Android
While JS is quite flawed, it's nowhere near as bad as PHP. If JS kills all usage of PHP, the world will be a better place.
Average child born today 'to spend quarter of life watching a screen'
Fair enough, I guess Trello is more about project/issue management and less about time tracking which is really the point of 1 and 3 above.

From having a quick look around the service, I think I'll stick with Trello for my projects, but then time tracking isn't something I need. I can see that this would be quite useful for many freelancers though, who need more time tracking capabilities. And at any rate, it's nicer than Pivotal!

Email integration is a good idea, and something that Trello is really missing out.
I'm not a wine expert, but I do know that wine experts are indeed out there and have to go through rigorous blind tests to earn accreditation. At highest levels you have to blind taste testing to be able to tell what kind of WATER droplets were mixed with different wines.
Flashback loading - CSS3 animation
I thought that all the developer time they are saving would go into improving the browser and only a small number of people would be contributing to WebKit. I.e. browser improves faster as less time is spent working on the browser engine.

Now it is obvious. Cost saving! Which is fine, just a bit disappointing. Especially considering how they have 3 products. Opera, Opera Mini and the new Tablet Browser (I don't know if this is replacing Mini)
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Do you think thats a product of people solving their own problem, then expanding into fixing the issue for pretty much everyone (a la heroku)? Or is it just projects that have that larger vision?
F#, that's my name!
Believe me, I live in Iran and I understand this. First, cost of living in Iran is now really a pain in the ass. Prices in Iran are now raising with the speed of light but salaries in Iran are decreasing. I know people who can not afford their food in Iran. I understood the article and I completely understand people in china. I just saw that in the article, and it was just amazing for myself to compare economy in China with Iran.
In Iran parents also work so hard to provide their children's cost of education. A term in a college in Iran costs about 400$ and a normal salary here is about 250$ a month.
When you are living in a country with the one of the worst economies in the world, these things in an article gather your attention.
We wrote our own version of this which took about 2 minutes to write.

1. Client hits /support/client-info which generates a specific system error with a unique ID (right 6 digits of a GUID) and pumps browser, error and user context information via log4net into our logging system. Client tells us the error ID.

2. Open monitoring system, type error ID in. It's all there.

Not only that, we use it for error monitoring too.
Crafting CSS3 Transitions and Animations
An Experiment with generating interest in an Android App with NFC tags
Why make this a pay monthly thing? You should offer a block of uses on a pay-as-you-go scheme, like 20 uses for $10.
I used to work in functional brain imaging (fMRI), so perhaps I can shed some light on this. Generally what happens is you take a group of subject, and get "structural" (anatomic) scans of their brain as well as the functional scans showing brain activity for the given task. The structural scans are then run through a statistical "normalization" procedure, which basically does some fancy bending/warping of everyone's brains such that they all line up. Once this is done you apply that normalization function to the functional scans so you can compare everyone. It is also important to note that typically neuroimaging does not go down the neuronal level, the resolution is just not that high. Typically you are looking for brain regions, or sub-regions that correlate with a given activity. Something on the order of millimeters to centimeters. However there are other ways of investigating brain activity, and some of those can go down to the neuronal level.

Here is an example of common software package to do such normalization and analysis: http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
You can solve this problem by using a "wildcard certificate". It's like 300$ more expensive than a normal one.

Incorrect. You cannot create a wildcard domain for every domain in existence. That would somewhat undermine the whole point of SSL.

Edit: I think I misunderstood slightly. You're correct if you mean using the same domain for clients (e.g. client1.domain.com, anotherclient.domain.com), but not if you want clients to be able to use their own domains with your service.

On a related note, StartSSL (http://www.startssl.com) are a cheap option for wildcard certificates, and SSL certificates in general, since they only charge to validate your identity - you can issue as many certificates as you want (for domains you own) thereafter.
Wrapper's parseXXX() for signed binary misleading
My comment was more about the company, and less so about the people. Mass layoffs with severance does not portray the situation as employees choosing to leave.
Why is TRUE == “TRUE” in R?
Because the functions which generate pages get garbage collected. Once the function is gone, there is no reference point.

I suspect hindering spam and vote manipulation plays a part in the architectural decisions. It also makes it possible to create different HN's for different users - e.g. the hellbanned, royals, and plebeians.
> One could argue that Opera now are in
> more need of 25 years old iOS developers,
> that 40+ C++ specialists.

One could, but would one not be assuming that their 20+ years of experience wouldn't more than make up for whatever platform-specific skills they'd need to train on which could surely be picked up in less than a year?