skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you feel a need to invoke Godwin you should at least try to be intellectually honest.

The citizens in the tumbling EU-nations are paying what they perceive as unfair reparations already (Justification: "You lived beyond your means" - most citizens most certainly didn't). The radicalization is already happening (cf. elections in Greece and Italy).

You make it sound like taking 6.75% out of the small guy's savings account would somehow be better than stretching out the pain or (god forbid!) claiming the wealth back from those who extracted it in the first place.
Looks great. That example on the front page might want to pick a different variable name, though. It sort of looks like you're using the number 1 as the variable.
This is amazing! Ahahahah, very good.
The closest environment I got to work with Matrix-like UI but real experience was:

There is board I'm developing on with serial port, and kernel debug prints so much garbage it literally fills the entire screen in less than couple of seconds. It was because of faulty/broken hardware and there is busy loop that keeps retrying to access the device.

I could enter shell commands but I/O lines get mixed in between the verbose kernel debug lines. After some time my eyes synced to the screen scroll rate and I could follow the output from bottom to top to read it (repeatedly run command until I could catch the output correctly).

For the moment, I saw "blonde" in fast scrolling random code :) Anyone else had to work like this?
I think you may be missing the point of coffeescript.

> Perhaps its me, but I just don't get why I'd want to write in one language in order to get code in another. Why not just learn the target language?

This seems to imply to me you think most coffeescripters don't know javascript?

I've always thought coffeescript was for people who _did_ know javascript, and just wanted a little neater syntax.

Why use it? For the same reason I tweak my text editor: when I spend hours a day doing something, even small efficiency wins add up.

I agree that learning only coffeescript, and not javascript is a bad idea.

edit: toned down language.
5 bucks says that searching for your phone number actually adds you to the list
> If you undermine the social contract and rule by fiat, as the EU has in Greece and Cyprus, it leads to extremism, break down of social order, an ever more polarised political situation, and ultimately revolution and/or dictatorship (see France late 1780s, Russia 1900-1917, Germany 1920-30s).

Hopefully irrelevant factoid: Cyprus is the 6th country in the world in number of guns per capita [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_c...
This is the tip of the iceberg. My mode of operation is to assume that anything I post on the internet will eventually if not immediately become public. And remember it stays there forever. I think a lot of people who are in their 20s now will learn this to their dismay when they try to do something like run for public office in another 10 or 20 years time and everything they posted on social networks while they were in college comes back to haunt them.
This is exactly the sort of thing the whole "Show us a better way" site was supposed to encourage. I took a stab at some stuff using various sources but didn't have enough time (Edit: or skill, or access to data sources).

While I appreciate some of the game related stuff this looks most promising for allowing people to easy see statistical information at-a-glance, data journalism etc.

The NapTAN datbase would be an awesome addition that should be relatively easy to add.

Regarding the data.gov.uk team. They do have a twitter account and website, hit them, hit them hard. Even if they can only smooth the way for data access (Like the building heights) that would be awesome.
This is a good argument but not a definitive one. For example, if "sousveillance" is pervasive, the wealth and power of the few might be balanced by the number of people watching on them.
Right. But I have seen actual code do this plenty of times and there was no explanation in the article so I naturally assumed it was just like those cases where basics of functions are not understood.
What laws do you think it violates?
You can't understand and be productive in today's world without understanding computation.
If it outsources app development, should a company register as an app developer?
Hey HN,

I work for a company that has several apps for its clients, none of which were developed by the company alone but in cooperation with other smaller firms that are now registered as developers.

Recently an idea surfaced that we might increase visibility by registering as developers of the apps for our clients on Google Play and iTunes. The thing is - our app has no value for the end user if he's not a client as well, so I'm not quite sure that visibility has any actual gain for us.

Could you please help with comments on the pros and cons of registering as developers? Thank you for your help.
would be interesting if you can share those thoughts on security stackexchange. Guys like Thomas Pornin seem very knowledgeable and I'd be curious to hear his take on this.
Are you using the older Google Collections and not Guava? I'd be curious to see your results with the latest Guava release 14.0.1 which includes a change to use MurmurHash3's mixK1 for hash bit smearing:

https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/source/detail?r=69...
Looks awesome! A much needed revamp at last!

From now on, the snake will be able to compete head to head with a certain pink rock (in terms of attractive homepages) :)
But doesn't this attack only reveal the second byte of the RC4 cipher? If I got it right it is some kind of frequency analysis that doesn't reveal the entire key (cipher), or at least with high probability (higher than 1)..
Thanks, I didn't realize HN was removing the single quote.
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That was hard work just to read a paragraph of text. Note to website owners/designers 5-7 words per line doesn't make it easier to read on a smartphone.
If you were born into a middle class American family in the late 20th century and have no major disabilities you are a "right place right time" person. The just world hypothesis is false - most people with any kind of power had immense luck and opportunity going for them irrespective of their talent or ability.
I'd like to see the Ven diagram of people who post their cell phone number and porn sites... cross.... people who will ever stumble across this site, let alone pay 10 euro to search, let alone pay 1000 euro to remove their name/number.
You have it the wrong way. You are paying exactly nothing to "help them out". Money is being borrowed through the EFSF and EFSM and being lent to Ireland et al. This money goes directly to the bondholders of the defunct banks. These bondholders are the major German, Dutch and French banks. Deutsche Bank would have defaulted if the Irish or Spanish banking system went under.

In essence, The Irish have bailed out Germany and the rest of Europe. In the case of Ireland, they are now sitting on 80+ billions of Euros of debt that they have to pay back.

And remember: There was no haircut for the bondholders.
http://prototype.php.net/ feel free to contribute.
>"Dropbox did not buy Mailbox based on a couple of Techcrunch posts, and they obviously will have done their due diligence before purchasing the company."

I like Dropbox. But recent history is filled with terrible acquisitions that have you wondering what the lawyers and accountants were doing:

Ebay buying Skype.

Microsoft buying Danger.

Microsoft buying aQuantive.

Anyone investing in Color.

AOL buying Time Warner.

Yahoo! buying Geocities.

and these were all huge deals I can think of off the top of my head. The number of small ones is, I'm sure, substantially larger.
Spot on!

I think the acquisition of mailbox is brilliant! Dropbox, while fantastic is a one dimensional service which in its current form doesn't have much room to innovate around simply storing and synching my data.

With the addition of mailbox, they can start down the path of having the storage layer augmented by services directly on top of it.
Last I checked, OCaml had a replay debugger -- one which lets you step backwards.

And I know the mozilla guys sometimes use chronicle-recorder to fully record a running application for debugging. (It was referenced in a bug I filed.)

http://code.google.com/p/chronicle-recorder/
Blackmail, extortion, defamation, libel

How would they proof that the original comment wasn't libel? I doubt the have cross refrenced commenters IP addresses with the numbers listed. And if you relay libel (especially with malicious intent) it is still libel or maybe even blackmail.
Funny that so many are taking this so seriously. I thought it was a brilliant reflection on Internet privacy.
Reminds me of SafeShepherd since they delete data like this. The data brokers still have the data, it's not like they're going to remove it from their system.
Thanks for the advice, we'll definitely follow up on it! And I agree, the data side of things is very interesting and is something we're keen to explore as a separate entity to the playful/art aspect.
Meet Potato, the Palantir of marketing
I agree, and I don't want to simplify CS, but rather JS. The thing that bothers me about CoffeeScript is the call syntax without parenthesis but with commas - which seems to me the main source of "surprises".

The main benefit of it however is allowing you to write anonymous function arguments without chasing closing delimiters.

I would like something that lies in between JS and CS, with that particular benefit but without the weird grammar.
I HATE NIGGERS
The style reminds me of the jQuery site redesign, but python.org looks better.
Exactly!

The problem is that the elected officials promised the exact opposite, in order to get elected.
it would appear that they are attempting to hide behind free speech (creating an "artwork"). i'm certainly not a lawyer but this seems pretty transparent
Chrome 25, I got sent to Paypal.
Except that makes no sense

They're Google: the only sense they have to make is AdSense.
Fucking sexy, only immediate criticism is the PSF link looks disabled because it's the only unsaturated label color. It feels very "coming-soon" and not very "click on me!"
OK. Can you send me an email (In HN profile)?
Awesome. How about having a different landing page for non-devs and devs like drupal.com vs drupal.org?
It can always be better. But you are investing in something that will write code for you for a browser platform that you should understand fully. Python and Ruby can also be better - perhaps we should write a language that compiles to Python or Ruby so we're not stuck with it? The 'better' solution was to allow more languages to interact with the dom and possibly that will happen in the future (Dart?). But to have an intermediary language that produces code for you which you cannot fully control, to run on a platform (the browser) which you at the moment have not much choice in the matter just to avoid punching a few keys or because you don't like the language, to me, doesn't sit well. To each his own I guess.
Weekend Project: Agree.io is like a handshake, but better
Cyprus parliament delays vote on deposit levy to Monday
I certainly support research, but isn't there a sequester looming? I would be happier if Obama took steps to raise taxes. At the place I work we lost an employee due to grant shortages.
Your comment is not very constructive...

Of course, there is a strong divide between the internet industry (driven for a large part by advertising) and the proponents of an ideal Internet that respects people's privacy.

It seems to me that web publishers should be allowed to decide what ad tracking they want to set up to monetize their website, as long as it's disclosed and you can opt out. You're also free to take any action that you deem to protect yourself against such tracking.
" I'll just buy gold "

This only works if you physically have the gold. Having a note stating how much gold you own, which is housed someplace beyond your reach isn't security. You are still relying on the market/bank.

And even if you did have the gold, this presents a slew of other problems; security and storage are two that come to mind.
Doesn't work with Chromium 27, either...
i don't think this is legal
You can receive mail with out a mailing address or a PO box.
Weaning the nation off fossil fuels entirely for its transportation needs may not be practical or realistic.

Reality never stopped a good government money grab before, why should it now?

Sarcasm aside, the idea is of course ridiculous. If/when viable alternatives to petroleum fuels are available, the transition will happen. Companies like Tesla and every major automobile manufacturer have R&D going on in this area right now. Grabbing $2 billion via a new tax on oil production will do nothing to further that, however. Look at results of similar "stimulus" spending a few years ago.
Here is another "artist" who claimed free speech[1] so calling yourself an artist is not blanket protection against prosecution. Also libel is not covered under free speech although I too ANAL.

[1] http://betabeat.com/2013/01/2-girls-1-cup-creator-sentenced-...
What about people who frequently leave their neighbour's/coworker's/ex partner's/employer's/... phone numbers on porn sites?
The issue of running for public office comes up a lot, but what about kids seeing all of their parents social network activity 20-30 years down the line?
Serif font makes the l look like a 1 in the code.
We could start with "what you right doesn't potentially change your net worth."
I don't like that the buttons appear only on hover, and that they hide the headline. I usually move the mouse wherever I'm currently looking at the screen, and then the text suddenly disappears... not good.

I like that the headlines are big, and I like the pictures of the authors (but they are distorted).

I see that your flexible layout doesn't really look good at any width (in Safari). Flexible layouts are a lot of work to get right. Maybe you should start a fixed width layout. Many blogs now use a simple one-column layout, around 600px wide, with large text (14-16px).

Such a simple fixed width layout works surprisingly well on mobile, without any adjustments at all.
Chrome 25 mac, didn't get sent to paypal.

Do you have scripts disabled? Because it wouldn't work in that case.
I'd love to see it – shoot me an email.
Do you think it's better to blog on your own personal blog, or to blog on the product's blog page?

I figured you'd want SEO on the product's blog page, but on the other hand, if it tanks, or you end up doing something else, you'd want the SEO on your own blog, right?
After reading The Handshake Deal Protocol http://ycombinator.com/hdp.html I decided to make a simple site. Keep in mind, I started working on this Friday evening so there is plenty of room for feedback.

You don't have to sign up to use this for the time being. If you want to test it out with someone else, feel free to send me something jon@agree.io
While I certainly wouldn't advocate sending these guys a cent, hypothetically if enough people were to credibly add to this betting pool it would be enough to compensate whoever actually tried it either way. (Like a sort of self fulfilling prediction market.)
That's a fair point, DanielBMarkham. I would have loved to write more on that, but this post kinda hit me out of the blue at like 3:00 in the morning. I felt compelled to write and publish it, but needed to get to sleep, so I probably rushed it a a bit.

That said, the linked Wikipedia page[1] on the "Hacker Ethic" does a decent job of explaining it, and they definition(s) they provide are pretty much what I had in mind.

Definition (1) from the corresponding Jargon File entry[2] is pretty close as well.

If I get time later, I'll go back and write some more on this topic.

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

[2]: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hacker-ethic.html
The mantra of "profit" [1] and "capitalism" has become suffused with the same absolutism that has tainted so many religions, to their eventual detriment.

While expounding upon the virtue of the individual, it is simultaneously devaluing and grinding down an endless number of them.

It is really about the "select" individual. If you are not selected, you do not matter. And participation is no guarantee of selection.

Rather than the ostensible goal, look at what the proponent is willing to do to achieve it. Judge accordingly.

--

[1] also present, in somewhat different disguise, in many formally "not-for-profit" endeavors
Process is 6x more important than analysis
Why I switched my blog from Blogger to WordPress: terminated Google services
Salvatore Iaconesi is the guy that was on HN in the last few months for his "Open Sourcing a cure to brain cancer."

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4829763
Awesome ... but if I'm so stupid to left my acutal phone then I deserve public Ludibrium :)
Lets stick with that tire example. Because god knows we don't have enough euphemisms about operating systems and cars.

So Michelin has 80% of the tire market, and is releasing esoteric tires backed by huge marketing campaigns. They raise the price of normal Michelin tires for everyone, and offer their new esoteric tires to manufacturers at big discounts as long as they don't sell cars with other tires.

Cha-Ching every manufacturer says, people are clamoring over themselves to get this new tire. In order to support this new tire they had to build part of the car to these strange specs anyway, no other tire would fit, so the condition that they not use another manufacturers tire is an easy one to meet. Bouns: if they meet it they get a big bulk discount!

Jump ahead 2 years: buy a car. One without a Michelin tire? I'm afraid that's not possible. Yes of course there are other tires that meet the standard now, but we all know you're safer on a Michelin tire, and we all know it's easier to just use the Michelin tire. Why are you making such a fuss? Oh you already have some tires that fit? Ok well just buy the car with the Michelin tires, take them off, and return them to the manufacturer for a - oh wait they won't actually do that. They require you to return the car. Why? I have no idea. I guess cars are sold as a complete package, so taking off the tires is just pointless, you don't like the tires? Send the car back.

Manufacturers are starting to get burned though. Michelin has marketed well. There's a large portion of the population that do not trust tires other than from Michelin, those discount tires are costing allot more now adays. The threat of pulling their discount isn't even relevant any more. people just can't imagine driving on the road without a Michelin tire. Manufacturers try to sell cars without them but are greeted with poor sales, distrust, and even negative public reaction.

So you just watched this whole thing happen. Sort of like watching a car accident. You browse the tire section of Costco. 20$ for a set of Goodrich tires. 25$ for a set of Firestone. 235$ for a replacement set of Michelin tires. Oh and by the way no mechanic will touch your car if you don't buy Michelin.

I got to say, if I was standing there, the last thing I would think is "I don't see what all the fuss is about."

Personally, I am fussed.
This is extortion
Not at all.

With personal taxes, you can disagree over the amount to be paid, you have time to prepare your accounts and get your finances in order, you can even refuse to pay and negotiate a settlement with the taxman.

In contrast, Cypriot deposit holders are going to wake up on Tuesday and simply find their money gone.
Looks great, now make the Python example actually interactive using a Javascript backend.
Ask HN: Would you use your NFC phone and a Voting Express Lane?
Welcome to November, 2016. You don't know anything about the new Voting Express Lane and you arrive at your local voting booth, and while looking around you see signs with QR codes about downloading the new offline pre-voting app. You see people on their phones waiting in line, so you give it a try. You log in, 5 minutes go by and you've marked all the mayors you want to be elected and the governor.

You now have two choices: wait in line to get a unique id that's embedded into a QR code, or grab some paper and a pen and wait in line and manually vote...again. You got things to do, so you scan the QR code, the app connects with your voting data, and you wait in line. When you reach the booth, there's a tablet and an NFC tag area. You tap your phone, a confirmation asking you if you're sure about these choices pops up, you hit ok. In the background, the voting data is sent to the local server and it gets double checked by humans and a computer. Green light shows up, and you're back to doing the things you love to do.

Would you use it?

If you would, give it a vote at: https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submission/prevoting-using-mobile-devices-with-nfc-technology-and-a-new-voting-express-lane/
The Pirate Bay’s Oldest Torrent is “Revolution OS”
using 'l' as a variable name seems like bad practice… it looks like a 1!
I wholeheartedly agree. And this in my mind is what the whole story comes down to. I've written about it here: http://bit.ly/1103Gkq.

But to summarize, when both the banking system and the government is insolvent it's relatively obvious to me that loses should be imposed in this order:

1. First bank shareholders should be wiped out(!),

2. then junior bondholders,

3. then senior bondholders and uninsured depositors,

4. then government bond holders,

5. and finally, only if the above doesn't cover it, insured deposit holders will have to take a haircut.

What we're seeing now is more or less a jump straight to 5.
In today's throwaway culture, it makes sense to punt debugging (read: conserve debugging resources) whenever possible.

That flaky appliance? Junk it and buy a new one.

The explosion of systems complexity have made many debugging tasks harder than ever before.
One of my biggest bugbears of learning from the official docs was trudging through python.org. Hopefully this addresses that.

Loving the redesign - clean, functional and pretty as well.
There ain't no right solution.

That's the biggest problem of them all.

Earlier, in biblical period, god would flush the toilet and things would start from scratch.

Now, we can't afford to flush.
Sorry, but I could not resist it. It's hacker news afterall isn't it.

Feel free to use this link to place a flower on Google Glass (feel free to modify the placement of the flower too, and the type!):

http://slate-interactives-prod.elasticbeanstalk.com/googleGr...
I think the primary point of this site is not to blackmail or make money, but make a point; 'art'. I don't see any of the offerings appealing to anyone (while they'll take your money, i'm not sure they are intended to), and the charge to search the database serves as a privacy guard (which isn't present on equally-functional google).

About artIsOpenSource;

AOS, Art is Open Source, is an international informal network exploring the mutation of human beings with the wide and ubiquitous accessibility and availability of digital technologies and networks.
We move across arts and sciences, using technology, communication, performance, art and design, to instantiate emotional actions and processes that are able to expose the dynamics of our contemporary world.
We do this in academic, artistic, business and activist domains and, actually, we are focused on moving fluidly among each of these spaces.
I believe your code is incorrect:

for(var i=0; i < links.length; j++){ // j++ => i++
$2 billion won't buy jack shit in the way of R&D on a problem like this.