skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is no different than navigating to that person's page and clicking on the 'Message' button. It's not a vulnerability.
Thanks. Is there any significant performance difference? (I'm wondering if it makes sense to roll my own "proxy" converting read()s to emit()s.)
Why TV News is a Waste of Human Effort: One Example Worth a Trillion Dollars
CISPA: Who's For It And Who's Against It
NYC has mandated that calories be printed on the menu in the same font size as the name of the product.

So here's a better idea for software sales:

For software licencing/sales, the terms and conditions of the purchase must be printed before the name of the product in the same font size as the name of the product. If buying a video game encumbers me with a clickwrap licence containing 17,000 words of dense legalese, then let them sell it on a box 300 ft tall.
Using as much RAM is possible is right for a task which is a primary task. If all you're doing is browsing, give your browser all the RAM you have.

Sometimes people run other heavy programs alongside a browser: games, IDEs, etc. These tools also assume that RAM is cheap and use lots of it.

At that situation an extension like OneTab becomes very handy.
Well placed italics totally inverts the meaning of the sentence. Nice.
>Bugs have been evolving for exactly as long as we have.

Even more importantly, bugs have been through many more generations than we have. If anything it is the bugs that are "more evolved".
> In fact, a recent article (don't have the link on hand, sorry) pointed out that a large percentage of guns used in crimes in Chicago were bought from a single store just outside the city limits.

I haven't heard this but it certainly sounds plausible.

To me, it says one of a few things are happening: (A) The people buying the guns are not criminals at the time of purchase, and shouldn't be prohibited from buying them in the first. Whether they go on to commit a crime with the gun or the gun is stolen and then used in a crime is mostly irrelevant; (B) The people buying the guns are criminals at the time of purchase, and the NICS check didn't alert the owner properly. This would be more a failure of the FBI than anyone else; (C) Least likely, the people buying the guns are criminals at the time of purchase and the owner of the shop knew this and either did not perform the NICS check or performed it with fraudulent data.
"Like Holocaust Evil"

Oh boy, really? Godwin's law still going strong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
Mr. doob talks to The WebGL Podcast
All of social networking is a virus.

They all rely on viral growth, viral "features" are often pushed despite no one liking them (see everything Facebook ever did). And most disturbingly if they succeed in growing big enough (Facebook again) then not having one can become a bit of problem in real life.

Of course LinkedIn is a virus. It's what works.
Why 0.10 and not 1.0?
Very cool. I just tried it with my app. Can't run it until a few npm modules are updated to support it and of course Heroku needs to be updated to use it too. How bleeding edge. =)
Unfortunately not, this is the one big missing feature from GitHub.
But raising the round doesn't mean success whether you want to think it does or not. It may relieve internal pressures on a team/founder but that's because they foolishly value it as a "success metric". For me, the slide is one of the more important ones to remember.
This is wildly off topic, but I'm genuinely curious... What is with the profile pictures of people looking up and to the right, with usually a circular gradient solid color background? I see it a lot in the SV/tech industry, and am wondering if it's a particular "startup photographer", or some meme I don't know about. Any ideas?
Disagree. For most of us, memory is already full, so bloatware increases swapping, which makes your PC less responsive.

It's somewhat ironic than opening Gmail in Google Chrome seems to consume roughly the same resources as Microsoft Outlook....
So, is Ms. Kirsty Nathoo a lot less busy nowadays? :)

On a more serious note: you're probably out there reading the comments -- what're your thoughts on this 'kristy?
I understand what you're describing to be their purpose. But the first thing I tried to do was click on them, and got confused/frustrated when they didn't do anything. This tells me their purpose is not in line with what I (and possibly others) expected.
I'm not 100% sure, but my lawyers told be that if you're in CA and you have DE corp - you have to pay state taxes in BOTH CA and DE. Again, not 100%. I ended up with CA S-corp.
Hmm - well, let's just say that our experience differs from yours. A pretty significant number of our customers cc their attorneys and have them sign off everything before finalizing the documents. If your attorney won't do this, feel free to contact us and we'll send you to someone who will. Your lawyer should work for you, after all, not the other way around.

I agree that a lot of online forms out there aren't great - it's why we built Clerky, to fill that need. Our forms are very well-vetted by some of the best startup attorneys in the industry (you can look at our About Us page to see our advisors).
> GFW gained ability to operate based on packet behavior.

Yes, that's what happened -- keyword is "deep packet inspection".

> Tor? Too slow.

I think Tor is your best bet, either directly or indirectly. One of the projects coming out of Tor is "obfsproxy", which attempts to defeat deep packet inspection by obfuscating the protocol that you're using so that it looks like a different one: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en

(So, perhaps it will be possible to use OpenVPN routed through obfsproxy?)
nightlyniw support private browsing per window. ie soon to be in ff
This is probably a stupid question that can be answered if I read the docs, but how does versioning work? I love using node, but seeing 0.10.0 makes it appear like such young, teething software that people might immediately dismiss it if not for its user base. Why not call this node 10.0 and start at 0.1 instead of having another 0 that looks like it won't ever increment. Does it reflect a developer's sense of completeness or confidence in his/her software or does it come from quantifiable steps toward stability/speed?
I'm really skeptical of the motives aswell.
Another big issue is the lack of competition for search engines. Google simply has the power to close a lot of shops, just by blacklisting them...
All I'm saying is... websites and portals that are accessed from devices and connections, in emergency-ish situations, should really have fallback modes so they work when I'm stuck in immigration in a third world country (or hospital).

long haul airline sites and medical insurance sites fall under this category. I'm not talking about this from any other perspective than accessibility under less than desirable conditions.

I don't really see how this has anything to do with American state laws. Accessing a portal that tells an insurance company that I need treatment abroad is a simple. Can you please burst your god damn bubble. We're talking about JS and CSS fallback not the united states of americas various laws in regards to medical records.

Have you ever left the US?
This same thing happened to me. Thought it was a "see if these people are on LinkedIn". Instead it emailed them. Somewhat mortifying, but fortunately I tested with a limited subset of my address book.
I have 16 GB in my ThinkPad (x230) and it still lasts 10 hours, so that's really negligible.
LinkedIn was designed to clone myspace, but for grownups instead of high school kids.

It's essentially myspace for realtors.
Proving a religion has an effect on health would not change the fact that religion makes unfalsifiable claims. It would not change the fact that religion wants people to believe things without evidence (faith).
You should try the tree tab plugin. Works like a charm.
Does this mean that all these start-ups can show some sort of transactions in Delaware? We just had a talk with a business lawyer (we are from NY) and we were strongly advised to incorporate in NY to avoid issues in the long run using an LLC structure. I am pretty skeptical that this is the way to go but would like to hear some opinions here from already established startups.
OK, if I run into a reproducible version of the problem I'll see if I can file something helpful.
What do you think about the separation of Web sites and Web services (so-called APIs)? Shouldn't the Web site be the Web service, and offer multiple representations of its endpoints?

As a trivial example, consider that I have a blog located at the URIL http://www.example.org/posts/

If I were to offer an API to other developers, I would have two options: 1) serve posts as `application/json` at the URI http://www.example.org/api/v1/posts ; 2) serve both `text/html` and a `application/json` representations at the same URI http://www.example.org/posts , handling the desired mime-type and API version in the 'Accept' field of the HTTP request.

Which approach is better?
The Holder DOJ has been sending notices to state AG's and LEO's informing them that laws restricting the recording of police officers are unconstitutional. Good for them.

I'm not sure what this has to do with HN, though, so I flagged it. Sorry, Bill! :|
Same example in C# showing pass by reference does exist http://rextester.com/IYZE41714
I can tell there's a lot of thought and a lot of emotion behind that, I just wanted to say one thing - discipline, as instilled by parents or whoever else, doesn't have to come at the point of force.

And if a child is 14 years old and pulling the stuff mentioned in the article, I'm sorry but they are defective. Maybe the sort of defective that can be fixed, but they are committing actual heinous crimes against other people. These are not the actions of kids filled with expectation and hope, these are the actions of little psychopaths with no empathy, and they need to be stopped.
I play a little chess, but I had lots of trouble distinguishing the king from the queen in this graphics. I've tried all the moves with no luck until I've understood that I've mistaken the king for the queen.
It depends on how the project is funded. Some improvements (such as bringing city water/sewer to an area on the outskirts of town or paving a dirt road) are typically funded via special assessments on the affected property. The local government can then sell bonds secured by the future revenue stream and pass along the financing cost to those who see the benefit.

Subway extensions typically distribute costs over a wider population (the regional/state/federal government paying for large chunks of it). On some level this makes sense. A special assessment on the areas within X feet of a subway station would likely be prohibitively costly for property owners, and the entire region benefits from better transportation infrastructure with more benefits. On the other hand, the person who owns the property across the street from the new subway station is benefiting much more than someone who lives on the other side of town. Perhaps a combination of special assessments and general revenue funding is more appropriate for this scenario? You're certainly correct that the current system transfers a lot of public value into private hands. The Central Subway in SF is going to make some property owners in Chinatown very wealthy.
You can see when is typing or if he/she read your message
Just my two cents..
LLC in any state will be just fine for nearly any small to medium business, online or offline.

Delaware corp features are good for those >0.01% with really serious VC investments. You, %startuper%, do not need that, unless you are living in DE.
Is there an easy way to get all of them? It might take me a while to hit the button on each issue in the tablet application.
Last I checked, about 400-500 had accepted. I put the blame squarely on me for not reading carefully, but also on LinkedIn for not warning me, but Google as well. Turns out Google has a group in your contacts for everyone you've ever emailed and it's at something like 6,000 for me, so I guess about 1/5th of those were on LinkedIn, who got invites.

Some of the invites went to people I'd banned from my sites for spamming, an old accountant I haven't talked to in ten years, and PR flacks I had arguments with over sending me press releases I didn't want. My LinkedIn account used to be a pretty well-curated list of people I'd actually interacted with in person before and done some business with, and now it's just a random hodge-podge of a bunch of internet strangers I crossed paths with at some point.
Mozilla continues to exist because there is competition among search engines for marketshare. If Google was the only search engine in the world, they likely wouldn't see any need to fund Mozilla. But given that Bing does exist, and that it has non-negligible marketshare (16.5% [1]), Microsoft would be more than willing to fund Mozilla if Google wasn't willing to pony up. We can only speculate, but bids from Microsoft are likely why Google increased the amount that they're paying Mozilla in the most recent round of negotiations.

Personally, I hope that the venture with Firefox OS will be successful in making Mozilla less reliant on search engine licensing agreements.

[1] http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2244472/Google-Once-Aga...
HoverForMore is {text-overflow: ellipsis;} on steroids
Just curious, why would this be downvoted?
The Genius Diet
So is Capitalism.
What were the issues your lawyer brought up? We were DE LLC- filing- as- S headquartered in NYC for something like 6 years.
I've got a feeling that just about everything in LinkedIn interface is made to be intentionally broken or deceptive, I think there's a lot of "discourage through bad ui", for example, here's a past tweet of mine, I've actually had to GOOGLE to find out how leave a group:

"http://t.co/RTAOpvTo 10 minutes to find how to leave a group on linkedin and need to follow step by step... discouraging through bad ux?"
You know how Google claims that by saving fractions of a second for every search that billions of people do, they've saved many man-lives of productivity? As a leading engineer at both Reddit and Netflix, you've undone all of that. Well done.
Anything for developers not based in the US who would like to start a business in the US?
How go you propose that an individual heat their house if not with gas, propane, oil, or wood? Electric heat, except in the case of perhaps a space heater, is extremely inefficient (and in most cases the electricity itself is made by burning fossil fuels). Unless there have been some dramatic technological improvements recently, solar and geothermal heating are not practical in the northern US where temps can drop well below zero Fahrenheit. Of these options, I'm pretty sure that gas and propane have the lowest environmental impact.
This is a better version of my question. Why use dot decimal notation unless just a fun way to model versions after network addresses
Been there, done that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001

From the wiki article: '[T]he scientific consensus is that "morphology alone cannot be used unambiguously as a tool for primitive life detection."'

But let me know when they find a skeleton fossil in a meteorite.
Then you also don't need designers - you can just use common sense of taste instead! Easy-peasy!
First world perspective. Any globally-oriented FOSS app like Chromium or Firefox should work to reduce hardware requirements as much as possible to provide best possible performance on devices like Raspberry Pie and MIT's $100 laptop [1].

And even in the first world there are a lot of miserly corporations that penny pinch on things like RAM.

If software that wants to target either of those markets can be made more hardware efficient, it should be.

[1] http://one.laptop.org/
Version numbers aren't like numbers. Don't read the . as "point". It's "major dot minor dot release". There's no reason to increment the major version just if the minor version happens to coincide with the number base we use. That's for versions with backwards compatibility breaks (apart from 1.0, which defines the stable public API). See http://semver.org/.
Yup, I was expecting something about putting my sub conscious to work.
I've found linkedin to be massively useful when looking for new contracts. I'm a contractor based in the UK.
If you need any legal advice, you should definitely talk with an attorney. But if you're fine with standard paperwork, please consider using us to take care of all that! It'll free up your legal spend so that you can talk with your attorney about all those important issues.
I think it's just a spoof of your average high-school/glamour photo:

http://www.joblo.com/movie-wallpapers/step-brothers/9659/128...

https://twitter.com/ukpearlgirl/status/309009109540294656
Self-Healing Concrete Coating
Just because evolution of certain details can happen on short timescales does not therefore mean that evolution can or does make any old change in a short timeframe.

Evolution tends to operate as a hill-climbing strategy (not to say it cant clear away exising design details) so it often produce (non-fatal) 'bugs' in its designs that never get fixed.
´n.n.n.n´ where the dot does not represent decimal notation but a less significant variation (of the software) than the previous number. This is universally true for the first two numbers but not always for the rest.
Tabs have replaced bookmarks as the means of saving stuff for later. Why is that? Because bookmarks require a lot more mental effort to organize and take more effort to delete when you're done with them. Bookmarks also take a lot longer to load than a tab (which is usually loaded already).
You're right in that wood-burning is carbon-neutral over human lifespans, making it far better than, say, coal-burning power plants in terms of emissions.

However, in the short term, wood-burning is problematic much like smog from driving is problematic. If cars burned nothing but renewable vegetable oil, and drive in places like Los Angeles the same amount that people drive today, smog would still be a problem for human health.

I think the article overstates the risk a bit; high-efficiency wood stoves burn off much of the harmful gas and particulates and don't have visible emissions when they are working properly, for example. But that's not the point of the article.
Also their app login server appears to be down, which isn't helping matters.
I think you're thinking about decimal expansions, not IEEE 754 floats. Most (almost all) prospective TeX version numbers cannot be stored accurately as floats, but they can as decimal expansions.
This is a great way to spend $15,000 in your first year to end up in exactly the same place as a team that bought the one-click DE C-corp package off the first AdWord ad on the first "incorporate" SERP.

Number of horror stories I've heard about people spending shitloads of money to get incorporation done badly by some random attorney: many.

Number of horror stories I've heard about people putting off incorporation because they believed they needed to do it "right" expensively and having that decision later bite them in the ass: many.

Number of horror stories I've heard about people going out of business because they started out with some cheap default incorporation plan: zero.

There is an advantage to running with a simple, cookie-cutter corporate structure. That advantage is compounded when it's the structure that happens to be used by a whole bunch of YC companies, since YC has a lot of experience pounding corporations into a shape that is acceptable for next funding rounds. There is no advantage I know of to spinning a roulette wheel, picking the lawyer it lands on, and having them draft a bespoke operating agreement.

Incidentally (having just read a bunch of your earlier comments): there are definitely LLCs that elect to file as S-Corporations. We're one of them. Filing as an S allows the principals to take W2 wages instead of distributions; the entirety of your distribution is, as I understand it, subject to self-employment tax, while an S-Corp W2 is FICA-taxed the same way a normal employee's is. We didn't freelance this decision; quite a lot of money flows through our company and we have good accountants.
Node uses semantic versioning: http://semver.org/
http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr02/2012/11/8/1...

> no one enjoys playing debt collector.

That's the personality issue I was referring to. I can see the infomercial now... "Is asking the person you share sleeping quarters with for the $5 he owes you causing hernias and cold sweats? Is retrieving a $10 bill and handing it to a person you see during most of your waking hours just too much damn work? Do you think checks are for old people? Then listen up, 'cause we have the product for you!"

Snark aside, I'm probably just being short sighted. People said the same thing about early consumer digital cameras, too (1/16 the resolution of film, 5x more expensive, mega slow, one lens, and 5 pictures fills up my hard drive? Where do I sign up?!) and now it's ubiquitous.
Perhaps surprisingly, you can actually incorporate a DE C-corp without being based in the US. We have people do this all the time!
Nice way to build a data-set for mining.)
Omniture Co-Founder’s Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $60M
This a a case where the double confirmation would be a good design decision. "Are you sure?" "Click yes to invite 1000 people to connect."
Semantic Versioning: http://semver.org/
THey've defined their versioning based on a subjective assessment of stability, willingness to add new features, and API compatibility. They plan 0.12 to be the final 0.x release before a 1.0 release.
This is toward the end of the page (seems that they're still making major changes, but not breaking backwards compatability. Looks like 1.0 will mostly lock down new features):

"After 0.12, the next major stable release will be 1.0. At that point, very little will change in terms of the day-to-day operation of the project, but it will mark a significant milestone in terms of our stability and willingness to add new features. However, we've already gotten strict about maintaining backwards compatibility, so this won't really be so much of a shift. "
We can survive, for short periods of time. But we can't thrive yet.
It's just a demo lol
Moral Compass - Hustle vs sleight of hand
Why startups fail.
YES. This totally happened to me.

Now I'm connected to every apartment manager, recruiter, and random person I've ever emailed -__-
Saving High-Tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes Act of 2013 (HR 845)
If the majority of people are using a tool in a particular way, it becomes the tool's responsibility to meet that need effectively. Just because you didn't anticipate the ways that real people would use your technology doesn't mean you get assuage responsibility for its shortcomings because you didn't foresee them.
That explains why $random people I've never met send me connect invites. I normally ignore them, but still waste time trying to figure out if its important or not. -.-.

Can one safely ignore all these "Business" networks? Wonder what people get out of it.
The important bit is `&goback=.npv_130180715_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1`

this looks like an indicator of the page you came from, so in this case npv is a "profile view",
there's also "nmp" which is found on links to profiles from the homepage,
"gmr" which is found on a group page, and numerous others indicating all sorts of other pages.

the second part is the profile id, so in this case "130180715"

So we can determine that you got to the Angular Developers group from the profile "130180715".

So far then we've got:

`goback=.<originating page type>_<identifier for originating page>`

If you were to click a link on the Angular Developers group page, you might have the following in your url:

`goback=.gmr_4896676`

I'm not sure what the _1 bits are. Probably just providing non `null` values for this whole goback string