skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dr Mr Schnier,

Years ago I offered a website actually 2 websites one which used SSH to a proxy and one which scraped google's self pointing links to give people freedom to search anonymously.

(You actually linked to my site.)

It wasn't long after that that my data center was raided and i started getting calls from the govt.

I empathize but Im not putting myself through this ever again
Just ignoring the rest of the article and whether or not he is right, I'm just going to pick on this quote: "So many of [Apple's competitors] complained that Apple's music player lacked features like FM radio and was overall too simple. But simple, particularly sync, is what people wanted -- and features like super-long battery life and smaller size. As an analyst then, I consulted with several companies certain they could beat iPod with more features. But they missed the fundamentals."

I think it's funny that he doesn't seem to want to acknowledge how wrong he was. He says that what consumers wanted was simple/easy, long battery life and small size. His advice to his clients was to focus on more features. His clients apparently listened to him and therefore the fault lies with them?

Showing us how wrong he has been in the past but without wanting to admit it is really not helping him come across as more believable.
Dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387314
RSS doesn't have to be a "content" it can be used as metainformation. Here's the obvious UI experience:

You've got lots of bookmarks. Much as browsers recently started downloading and displaying "favicons" (well, maybe not so recently, I'm an old timer), there is no reason a browser can't download the RSS feed from a site and compare the date of the most recent update to the latest date in the browsers history log. In other words if there's something new, its "bold" in my bookmarks and if not, its regular.

Now this is opt-in spamable, if you're running a journalist site or ecommerce, of course you doctor your sites feed to always appear new in someone's bookmarks even if its the same old recycled garbage. But there's more to the 'net than online stores and tabloid journalism.

Another novel user experience would be the trend of turning the "address/URL bar" into a search gateway bar. I think it fairly logical that if I use the "search" bar it should search and prioritize results from RSS feeds I subscribe to, below my own bookmarks and above generic web search results (aka google)

I don't think RSS is very interesting as "content" or an "app" but it could be pretty useful as metainformation.
SSL uses a lot more cpu on the server for static pages/images.

SSL prohibits caching of resources by ISP, universities etc which reduces their internet bill.
I don't see the problem to be honest. We (I live in the Netherlands) are paying a lot of money to help them out, which is okay. But yeah we're asking the inhabitants of Cyprus for a sacrifice too. The 10% tax is a very crude way to implement this, but dire times need dire actions.

I don't think it's hyperbole to suggest that this sort of action could lead to pan-european war in the next decade.

It radically undermines trust in the banking system, in the social contract, and in democratic government. 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). That's not a Europe I want to see and this can happen quite quickly even in an apparently stable society when the foundations are weakened progressively.

The EU was founded to avoid precisely this sort of escalation of conflict and blaming of others by sharing the wealth of nations and promoting ever closer union. They could easily afford to support Cyprus through these hard times against the banks, in fact they're a big enough trading block to simply default wholesale against their creditors and start again, but they have chosen instead the road of muddy compromise, where they end up defaulting piecemeal (as in Greece, which effectively defaulted), but by stealth and in secret and with draconian conditions attached, and which hurts the poorer people of the EU disproportionately by forcing through massive cuts which don't actually solve the problem. Is Greece doing better than Iceland at the moment, is the austerity working? How will paying this bill help Cyprus?

They're undermining trust in the entire EU and EUR project, and there may come a time when governments are overthrown and countries leave the union because of it, and even (and I sincerely hope not) where countries go to war over it. It's fascinating and a little sad to see the same mistakes being made all over again.
On the non-occupied (Greek) side. I believe this does not affect the occupied (still Greek) side.
If the nozzle is too large, or the cat too skinny, it risks getting sucked into the machine. Fair enough the cat is scared. Cats don't do math either. Well, perhaps Schrödinger taught his cat, but I hear it had a sticky end. Nobody is really sure.
ok - won't get into US default / debt argument as we are too far apart on that. I'll just say that it is a lot more than 'no one' expecting and preparing for a failure there. It is not a mainstream view - though mainstream didn't predict the GFC either.

Yes I meant the otherside of a currency failure. They are not as rare as you imply.

If the economy collapses completely then a lot of people will die...likely me included...as I am not a farmer. So I am assuming the economy will not collapse completely. Things will muddle through. Some will fair better than others depending on their understanding of the real nature of money, trade and its history.

We can't eat gold no...but I presume most of your assets are non edible too?

PS: It wasn't me that downvoted your last comment.
You could just donate him a licence.
Well, what can I say. Adrian Chen being Adrian Chen. He raises some mildly valid concerns (people might not want to be recorded in public), but if I were to wear Glass and someone asked me to stop recording, I'd probably do it.

Not that I would have to do it (in a public space), but I wouldn't want to get into a fight over something as stupid as that.

However, the original article appropiately disregards the fact that Glass is not about recording video; in fact, without having worn one, I'd say that recording videos longer than 30 seconds is not very common. Taking pictures, for instance, may be much more common. How many of you walk up to someone taking a picture in public and ask him to delete it because you may be in it?

Be realistic. I don't necessarily want to be in people's videos, but come on, would that bother me? Obviously not.
Post privacy gating for Facebook pages
Nowadays few people on HN downvote without arguing.
And then when some areas have their postal companies close up shop altogether... they're screwed? Having some basic level of services available in rural areas can help encourage growth and small businesses in those areas. Removing them will certainly hurt chances of starting or expanding - fewer employees, fewer customers, etc.
And not every browser has implemented them. Do you have control of the when they are updated, and how often etc? I like the idea though of perhaps just having them as simple bookmarks. That would allow for easy syncing.

Syncing history - could help regarding your reading history (privacy aside.)

Coupled with an 'easy read' mode in the browser (I haven't tried Safari in a long while,) might make for a pleasant experience.

Non of the popular browsers have a good Bookmark UI IMHO, which leads to inappropriate tab use.
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Awful UI.

Some people want a random subset of news for entertainment. G+ is great for that. Here's a great big pile of recent stuff from everyone, a circle, or a community.

On the other hand, lets say I want to verify I read every story from certain sources (perhaps the BBC?) exactly, precisely once. I don't see a way in the G+ UI to "mark as read" or "only display unread" or whatever. Might exist or might be a weird way to hack it in, but its not intuitive.

For some reason option #1 is semi-popular among news readers, social networking, and old fashioned or online broadcasting, but option #2 is nearly universal among email clients and podcast clients. You'd never use an email client with a UI of "here's a random collection of some recent emails" with no way to tag them as read or deleted. I'd LOL at the idea of a podcast client with "here's a random cast that you may or may not have already heard"

Another horrible UI fail is time based. G+ can only do one linear "newest to oldest" sort. Even the dumbest RSS feed readers have some kind of tag/save/star feature. So you can skim the whole feed, star/save/tag good stuff for later detailed reading. Then once there is no "unread" left, start reading the star/save/tag stories in detail, perhaps much later. This "workflow" is impossible in G+ as near as I can tell.

Finally no one using the "RSS" workflow uses G+, so you get the chicken and the egg thing, where there's no demand for even the most primitive of workflow management in G+ because anyone wanting anything like that uses RSS. So the BBC is a bad example in that their social networking people are probably required to use both, but I suspect that 99% of my RSS feeds are not available in G+ because they self segregate by workflow. You'll need a bigger shock to the system than cancelling goog reader. I switched to newsblur once the crushing demand let up a bit. I'm not going to abandon everything I currently enjoy to watch cat videos on G+.
> We’re marching boldly into a panopticon future. I’ve been writing about this for years. And now, suddenly, you’re irate about the potential privacy repercussions of a few geeks bearing glasses? What is wrong with you people? Where have you been?

In the real world, where people doesn't like the idea of being pointed by a video camera all the time. Maybe geeks don't have a problem with antisocial behaviours, but most people do. Video cameras are not new, and they already annoying today for many people.

Also, your life may get fun when people starts being insincere with you because they don't want to get their true opinions recorded. Making jokes about your boss? Talking about someone? Nope, you may show him the video later (heck, you may be streaming it - forget about the blinking red led, it may have been disabled). All that can be already done today with hidden cameras, of course, but it isn't a concern because people assumes that only an asshole would do that. And how will people react when someone learns to hack them to get a secret stream of some girl's glasses?
No idea I'm afraid, it depends on their setup. I used it as one approach when generating a static blog a while ago under Apache, but there are plenty of options (using config redirects, using symlinked pages or dirs, using duplicate html pages with rel=canonical, using js redirects in extra html pages), and I'm sure some if not all of them would work on S3. As long as you're generating statically anyway, you can always add another step to generate all your short links automatically too in whatever form works on your server...
My Take on CoffeeScript
When they can no longer read the contents of your emails.
This seems interesting, but I recently got started with Kirby and will likely stick to that for the time being.
I'm neither here nor there on the article. On the surface there's little I can argue with. But the reality is that Apple makes the lions share of profit in the industry and that is unlikely to change any time soon.

It /is/ bizarre that Apple is all of a sudden behaving like they are under threat though. Seems strange that Tim Cook seems to stick to "We don't worry about what everybody else is doing, we just want to build great products" while Schiller goes on the attack.
Experimenting With (not quite) Google Glass.
Rethinking the WordPress Admin
> What I do know is that we need more Computer Science taught in schools

Why?
Greece and Cyprus were forced to receive "economic help".

Not AFAIK. Their alternatives were just worse.
Very cool. URLs are a little funky (underscores).
They've probably crunched the numbers and realized it's not in their best interests to actually build good Windows and Windows Phone devices. They have a great thing going with Android, an OS that they can bend to their will. Windows? Not so much.
hmm. am i missing something or is it just plain wrong? isn't the sound really B E - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKCQqvpOa1Q ?
I think the main itch being scratched here, is the problem of templating.

Those that grok file systems, might be happy assembling content into an appropriate folder structure, and hitting a 'publish (to html)' button. You could use a little metadata - such as summaries and keywords to string it all together.

I know there are systems such as Pelican already out there, but it's still too complicated for Joe Blow to produce a site with the tool.

Frames were a pretty simple alternative to elaborate CMS's that have been employed to pretty much solve the same problem.

So much wasted CPU time and money. So called professionals cashing in while presenting building web sites as mystical and technically difficult (I realise the tech is difficult - but why should it be?). It goes so against Tim Berners-Lee's vision of publishing easily and straight from the browser.

Not having some dead simple web page editor, has ended in sites such as Facebook becoming 'the web' to so many people.
Apple PR get's all fired up
Exactly. When every other startup relies on ad revenue, they're nothing but furthering the goals of big corporations and big media.
If you don't mind a local backend that you access on the command line, you can host the blog itself (or any static site) directly on Github with no further ado. I recently moved my since-1997 site Vivtek.com to Github and freaking love it. It's never down, no matter how much I neglect my active server!
Cube attack: An actual game contained in a WebGL shader
No, Google wants ad clicks. Data is just a way to get there. There are other ways and they are/will be surely exploring them. Facebook wants the same thing. Apple wants to sell you hardware and some software. Microsoft wants to sell you software. 37signals wants to rent you software. Tesla wants to sell you cars. I want to garner your upvotes. This post is just a means to an end.
Are the Dart programs faster? (Language Benchmarks Game)
I think there's already a Show Duplicate files in Picasa. What does this do that it doesn't?
Does iPhoto have a duplicate finder?
Did you see http://trak.in/mobiles/buying-google-nexus-4-india-price-rs-... ?

(Sounds like you should just work for paychecks and buy it that way.)
It's interesting, but I have ~200 feeds in 5 categories, and would like to be able to browse by:

1) see list of all feeds with unread counts (I don't see how to do that as a guest user)

2) click on a feed, see all articles in the feed (bold unread) (you sort of do this now, but indicating read v unread would be nice)

3) per-story, read in a dense but nicely-formatted way (Feedly does this great; yours is ok. Ideally be able to Instapaper too)

4) (optional) figure out which new articles in which feeds I care most about and "magic" those as well -- maybe using an interface like yours, or a "magazine" like feedly

I really have two modes of using RSS: reading as much as possible of those feeds, or wanting to be passively entertained. I'd potentially use two tools with a common backend.

I don't understand why someone doesn't do as close to a direct clone of Google Reader UI/UX as possible, and then clone Google Reader backend (e.g. the "Normandy" project).
This is pretty naive. All traffic is coming from the same IP address, OS, browser, and browser configuration. If they had the motivation (if it is important for advertising or requested by authorities), all those individual sites listed are capable of linking all your alt accounts.

Also it is feasible that your ISP has the capability of tying all disparate activity across those sites together to the actions of one person. (Again: Same OS, browser, browser config, timestamps, etc)

I don't know what you think you're avoiding. Targeted advertising?

If you want to avoid some cross site tracking (mostly used for creating profiles for advertising) configure Adblock with ad lists and tracking lists and use ghostery.

If you want to avoid censorship or retain pseudoanonymity from most eavesdroppers: use out-of-country privacy-focused VPN services or possibly TOR. Or public wifi. And get comfortable with the fact that if someone is motivated/resourceful enough to find your online activity and tie it all together, they will eventually do it.

If privacy is extremely important to you, avoid using the web.
You should definitely do something with your landing page. Other than that seems like an interesting service, hope you'll do well with it.
Yes. They didn't choose XMPP federation as the underlying technology -- that came later. XMPP is a nice protocol, and XMPP federation is a broken disaster with no anti-spam features.
Pffffft. Oh Please... You got funding. That means you at least convinced someone to trust you with money. I sold 250 calendars (147 on Fab.com, 103 on http://DayOnePP.com) and didn't make a single penny of profit. In fact I LOST $300+ dollars somehow. That's how bad I am at sales (and account management apparently). Ya'll got further than I did. I think I belong in Product Design & Development and away from money.

Chaddeshon your landing page doesn't have a call to action above the fold. You're missing out on a lot of signups like that. (I can design but I couldn't sell ice water to people in hell)
Make it all about the product
I miss Geocities, etc.
I've been thinking about dumping Gmail for a few days now. What are good web-based alternatives, with an even better interface, that I can run locally and have it connect to a server on Heroku or something like that? I feel like I have relied on Google's software for so long, as a no-brainer, I don't even know what other good web mail clients there are, and I'd think there must be something great and open source out there.
I use sublime 2 + live reload on linux all the time
Seems nice but at first sight the code needs a bit more checks. There is a rmtree on a config parameter that could delete all your content if the tool is misconfigured.
You're in the men's room. You're pissing. Someone with Google Glasses walks in. How would you feel? What would you do?
Open door vs. no door (request for comments)
Back to Mesopotamia? The Looming Threat of Debt Restructuring (2011)
Gold has some high-end practical use, like electrical connectors and coatings. But that's a recent thing.
you should use Ben's searchcode: http://searchco.de
Iceland has 300,000 people and a GDP of $12BB. Their economic "choices" and ensuing trajectory are, for practical purposes, irrelevant.
the old Reader, although both are correct since they're admirably copying the 2011 Google high point.
Are you considering what the GP said, i.e. builds of popular browsers; or another browser entirely? I've been using Luakit a lot recently and it stands for a lot of the open and tweakable traits I care about in software. It probably comes with little spying mechanisms, and could be further strapped on with protections.
Oh I mean it as a way to know how the language works.

EDIT for more information:

Being able to write a static blog generator means you have to learn most of the basic skills in a language from the data structures to objects/functions (whatever floats your boat). You have to also most likely interact with outside systems like I/O and databases (if your static blog generator is db driven). You get to familiarize yourself with packaging/modules that the language uses. So yea, I think creating a static blog generator as a next step after hello world would be great
Oh, man. You live in EU, can visit Rome or London on weekends, and only 24, and already know some Python, whooa... I really envy you.
Pressgram: An Image Sharing App Built for an Independent Web
The main reason I think was that C++ support in open source compilers used to be rubbish, and the libstdc++ used to break binary compatibility all the time (from what I've heard).

That was many years ago, but people still think C++ is rubbish because of this, and it failed to gain traction in the open source community because of it. Which is a shame, because it's quite a nice language once you learn the details and are able to use it properly.
What I would like to see is transparency as how the funds of the bailout would be distributed and how they would be utilized at least for my forced percentage contribution. I am pissed off and at least in my case your assumption that money will not be pulled out of the banks is wrong.
There are other, better, technologies in the same solution space, e.g. bicycles, which are more useful, familiar, vastly cheaper, more reliable (e.g. don't need charging, simpler all-mechanical design), and already have tons of existing infrastructure. Bicycles have drawbacks (e.g. the "what do you do with it" issue common to almost all vehicles), but nothing that the segway doesn't also have.

The segway solved nothing. It was a neat toy.
Missile Command world record attempt
Cyprus' reaction to the bailout
Central banks are known buyers at the highs and sellers at the lows. Part of their mandate is "financial stability", and up to and including backstopping out-of-favour assets (like, say, mortgages). I see central banks buying gold as a way to stop a precipitous decline in gold as money rotates sectors.

Then again, this theory happened before this Cyrprus thing, so who knows for sure. Guess we'll see what kind of carnage happens next week.
ViziCities Dev Diary #1: Visualising Cities in 3D using WebGL
I wrote something similar: https://github.com/jimktrains/gus

I like the flexibility of gus and the ability to create custom index files (for tags, by date, &c) and run preprocessing on asset files.

It also has a watch option, but at the moment that acts a little wonky and I'm working on fixing it.

One of my end goals is to create a search index and then use that server-side or ideally via JavaScript on the client.

Here is an entry I wrote about it: http://jimkeener.com/posts/first
Put to test? I would say that it has been totally voided. The people, by the people I mean the little guy, just got rolled.

Considering how well politicians like to play the class warfare card I am surprised even they went for it. Are those in Brussels just tone deaf? I am quite sure no politician here in America would have the guts to pull this, but I do not know how answerable those in Brussels are to the common man.
In addition to VLM's excellent points about the horrible Google+ UI, the feed system is open while Google+ is proprietary and closed. Why should the BBC subsidize Google's business? Why should all of us miss out on innovation which can't happen before Facebook/Twitter adds a feature and Google copies it? Reader might have been the most popular client but there are a ton of tools and services which do interesting things using feeds, none of which are possible in a walled garden.
I thought about mitigating that, as it could definitely have some nasty effects, but couldn't come up with a decent way to do so. Hopefully, people won't misconfigure it too often!
Show HN: Twitter and Instagram photo aggregation based on hashtags. (Maybe NSFW)
XP SP2, Firefox 19.0.2 and all I get is a screen that quickly fades to black and then ... nothing.
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Poll: If forced, what modern technology would you give up