skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That has been tried in certain countries (e.g. Brazil), beyond the fact that it's yet another tax and solves little, it is debatable, even though it has its qualities.

But here's a proposal then. Abolish all other taxes and keep only this tax (at a higher rate). No more IRS enforcement al well since collecting will be automatic.
Arrington and MG may be many things, but they've fought and scrambled in the face of a lot of obstacles and naysayers to get where they are today. Arrington in particular, grew Techcrunch from a blog in his bedroom to the major presence that is today. Siegler is a talented writer, and has a lot of interesting technology insights. He also has a good eye for up and coming companies - which is obviously why Arrington recruited him as a General Partner for Crunch Fund.

I don't know Arrington personally, so I can't comment on the jerk comment.

Feel free to critique them for what they are, but let's be reasonable and respect them for what they've done. Saying that they've accomplished is a result of "undeserved influence" belittles that.
Serif, the file-based blogging engine
The people who propose these inane conspiracy theories always forget one critical component: why the acquirer was such a willing patsy.
>Potentially, but if you're dismissing free markets on account of manipulative, deceitful or otherwise fraudulent behaviour, you ought to at least hope that fraudulent behaviour never occurs or occurs less frequently in the centrally planned economy alternative. There seems to be a surfeit of evidence contrary to this statement throughout the world at the moment, so you'll excuse me if I take that idea with several solar masses of sodium chloride.

And who said anything about a "centrally planned economy"? Certainly not me.

I dismiss "free market" on the premise that it doesn't exist and it never existed (and furthermore: that it can never exist). As soon as you have a government and regulations you don't have a free market. And even if you could have a free market, as soon as some players in the free market can grow big enough to change the market environment to their favor, it ceases to exist again. There is nothing to rebalance it automatically: only power plays.

>I still maintain the only alternative to giving people what they want is forcing them to follow your plan.

How about letting them decide and produce what they want, instead of "giving it" to them?
Awesome! Looking forward to what you come up with
The code in the post is for Python 2.x but if you're running Python 3.x, use this to set up a server:

python -m http.server 8000
Show HN: jQuery Typewriter plugin (early stage)
I really want one of these paintings now. I wonder if I can get the exclusive distribution rights to sell them in Brooklyn and the Mission district. I'd be willing to bet they'd sell like hotcakes
I've re-read your earlier post and I have to say that any view that requires the supreme court to enact laws they find outside the scope of the constitution is just baffling and tautologically wrong.

Marbury v. Madison didn't establish a power, it clarified the obvious. If the law oversteps the bounds of the constitution the court has no power to enforce it - their and congress' own power being derived from the constitution. Nobody can be ordered by law to do something beyond the scope of law.

But above and beyond that, "The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in [the supreme court]" is pretty clear - congress passes laws and the courts enforce them. If a single entity was desired, it'd have been specified.

It doesn't mean the SC is the final arbiter of constitutionality, the people are, but they certainly have the ability and duty to say no.
My feeling is that the terms are deliberately open to definition.

The developers could quite easily have implemented a counter of some kind should they wish to implement a limit and I certainly would feel no ill will were they to do that at some stage.

I, for one, given my circumstances, am very glad they they have left it open as they have - had I 70$ to chuck at it, I certainly would. When I do, I will.
Yup, we'll change that. All of this content is dummy preview content at this point.
Here's an unlock trick for Ford Rangers that saved me a bunch of money on locksmiths:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNb4YKBlRo

The first time I did this it took me ten-fifteen minutes. (now it takes 30 secs) I disagree with the argument that anyone fiddling with a lock for twenty minutes is going to attract attention, I wasn't bothered and I was in a busy urban parking lot with lots of passers-by.

Few seem to know about it, if anyone's used it to get in my truck in the 7 years I've owned it I haven't noticed.
Yeah, that example is a placeholder; we plan on replacing it with something awesome. Thanks!
It looks a lot better than the current site! A few criticisms:

1) The line numbers and spacings on the list example are confusing: The examples come from an interactive session, but the presence of line numbers suggest that it's a script. Also the spacing is inconsistent with what you'd get if you typed that into the standard python shell.

2) I think the drop down menus from the top of the page are much bigger and obtrusive than they need to be. When I opened the page, my mouse went over the "Success Stories" tab, and I saw a big white "Google" logo in the middle of the page. The eye is naturally drawn to it, and I spent a second or two like, "What is that doing there?" until I figured it out.

3) Maybe I would have a slideshow or "arrow-buttons" with more python examples than just the list. Basic usage of a list doesn't sell python as hard as, say, list comprehensions, arbitrarily large integers, and/or manipulating sets.
Makes it worse. Probably shouldn't target the leading guy in a popular technology with something else.
This has nothing to do with open source...
Invading and controlling foreign countries costs far more than $700B, we've been doing it for over half a century and it's a few dozen trillion dollars so far.
The key isn't so much using paid alternatives (although I personally think that's a good solution).

The important bit is to always use your own domain where possible. Gmail can be used with your own domain. If you leave Gmail no one is disrupted, because you just move your mail hosting business somewhere else, and point your domain there.
I do like this post and think it is well written, but I think that people are sort of misrepresenting this "no-ui" thing. Is there really anyone that holds the extreme viewpoint of either end of the debate? Is there really anyone that does not agree with the sentiment of the last 2 sentences here? I don't think so.

Anyway, I really like Scott Berkun's post on the matter: http://scottberkun.com/2013/the-no-ui-debate-is-rubbish/
You are aware that Neither Mailbox (and Dropbox for that matter) are publicly traded? What interest do you think the FTC would have here? Do you believe there are Monopolistic, False Advertising, or other consumer protection issues at stake?
Seems the FAQ has recently been updated, a week ago there was no mention of Europe. Odd.
Galaxy S4: The Inescapable Economics (And Ergonomics) Of The $579 Phablet
What, so it is in their best interest to release crappy devices? I (excitedly) bought a Windows 8 Samsung tablet last year as soon as I could find somewhere that actually had one in stock. It was really terrible. Horrible, unusable hardware and software problems. Bad pixels, sound that cut in and out, scary overheating, constant crashes, etc.

I could understand them wanting to focus on Android, but if that's their plan, they should stop releasing crappy Windows tablets.
This is an (unfortunately) fairly common class of vulnerability. Many applications fall victim to this form of attack because they don't think to check signatures on binaries. There is a tool, EvilGrade (https://code.google.com/p/isr-evilgrade/), designed to assist in demonstrating these types of attacks.
That was the traditional way of looking at the mobile gaming market. You miss the elephant in the room if you just consider 'consoles'. Reality is that iPads and iPhones already took a chunk of what was traditionally a Nintendo market segment. This is a trend that will probably continue (tablets and smart-phones will be more pervasive). There will be people (I know some already) who would ordinarily have bought a Nintendo gaming system but won't because the tablet is good enough.
Looks great; a great improvement over the current one.
At times like these I feel the urge to check that my passport is still valid.
If someone did pay the €10 or the €1000, I'm pretty sure they would get a very memorable and expensive lesson in online privacy.

I just hope that that's what this is about and not just a get-rich-quick scheme. That would be just sad...
You may be right that the people who write CoffeeScript already know JavaScript. But as the popularity of CoffeeScript increases so will increase the number of developers who only know CoffeeScript and little to no JavaScript.

This may be a temporary problem, though, as it may also become increasingly unnecessary to know JavaScript. But it WILL be a problem.

This isn't and won't be limited to CoffeeScript though. There are still a ton of "developers" out there who know jQuery or Dojo or, God forbid, Ext.js but actually know little JavaScript. A friend of mine was recently interviewing a guy who claimed to be a JavaScript developer but didn't know that "foo['bar']" was the same as "foo.bar". No doubt the guy could glue things together in some library blindfolded but the fact remains; he didn't know JavaScript and it cost him a job.
That wouldn't surprise me at all. The visual design of a website can engage a user or drive a user away. The current python.org just presents the user with an unfriendly wall of text which make it difficult to get one's bearings.

This is especially important for accommodating users with conditions like ADHD.
What a bunch of pricks.
It embarrasses me to see comments like this getting upvoted on HN. There is no information in it, just inflammatory language. When this sort of comment prevails on HN, we'll have sunk to the ground state of forums.
Sigh. Doesn't matter what the facts are, this point of view that there is a "conspiracy" always emerges. There is a strange counter phenomena on the other side too sometimes. Sometimes a person at a company and get acquired or go public who suddenly has a high net worth, can't internalize the fact that they are suddenly rich and the people perhaps sitting next to them aren't. A bit flips and they decide its because they are just that smart/good/talented. (which is, for them, easier than just being lucky). It is a weird thing to watch, I saw dozens of cases of it at Sun when Sun went public and recognized it in folks at Google as well.

The brain tries to "explain." Sometimes really implausible scenarios seem to be the best answer [1]. For this particular scenario (TechCrunch somehow "selling" Mailbox to Dropbox) some pretty savvy and experienced people would have to have been "tricked." While the probability is non-zero that that is the case, it is highly unlikely. And the much more boring answer that the Mailbox folks had created something of value to the Dropbox folks remains.

I am more curious why Brian is so invested in the lack of standards at TechCrunch. Why does he care? It's not hard to see they rate somewhere been the Enquirer and the Daily Post in terms of what they will publish to get page views.

[1] Alien abduction is one of those areas where people would rather believe they were abducted by aliens than what ever really happened.
Because gold never goes down in value.
BEAST causes PCI scan failures from the major scanning vendors. Therefore it's a significant practical issue for any site taking credit cards.

Try the https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html scan and you'll see what it thinks of your SSL setup. With BEAST vulnerability you get non compliance.
Under the font menu (next to 'Go' button) there is a small separator between 'Larger' and 'Reset' options. It does not have any label but acts like 'Larger' option and increases the font when clicked.

If it is just a separator it should not increase the font. Else it should have proper label.
You can call `document.location=http://badsite.com; e.preventDefault();` in a click (mousedown, mouseup, mouseclick) handler, too. You aren't going to ever prevent this kind of thing from being possible without killing the modern web as we know it.

Instead of making a big deal out of it (phishing 2.0? really?), why not focus on phishing detection and prevention instead? I do it by using LastPass with randomly generated passwords that I don't actually know. I have to go to LastPass for my login information, and it provides information filtered by the domain I'm on. If I'm on badsite.com rather than paypal.com, LastPass won't offer my PayPal information to fill. Problem solved.
Python Tools for Visual Studio http://pytools.codeplex.com/ is one of the best Python development environments out there and wasn't mentioned. The code completion is probably second-to-none. Nice video on the editing experience http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CoGsSlrxKk&hd=1
Maybe this is a terrifically ignorant comment, but it seems like the government mismanages their finances, as a result, they want the everyman to throw away 10% of their bank deposits?

WTF?
And only yesterday there was a post about how you couldn't make any money as a writer!
Welcome to ad serving 101.
CCTV hack takes casino for $33 million in poker losses
Don't we want to offshore finacial sector jobs? As I understand it, personnel costs are huge in the financial sector, with multi-million dollar year-end bonuses & etc.

If we can keep personnel costs down, won't that benefit the consumers of financial services, as the cost to the consumer will also either go down, or not go up so much?
Maybe I've grown too used to the current design, but my first reaction is - yuck, too much like a http://everyfuckingwebsite.com/ clone. I'll try to articulate my dislike as something constructive, and submit feedback directly.
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Does Feedly for IOS have a feed limit? I have I think 160 feeds and it seems to cut me off at 90 I think. My feeds just aren't there. I dont find any settings that help with this either.
EMCA International develops the standards for EMCAScript The Language, which is commonly implemented by browser vendors as Javascript. They have jack-all to do with how DOMs are implemented.

This is a little like complaining to Guido van Rossum because of a perceived flaw in Django.
Wow, what a coincidence. I just made one two weeks ago. Mine is way over 600 bytes though.

Requires Chrome:

http://htmlpreview.github.com/?http://github.com/briangordon...
Sure, but it had exams as well. I'm in university studying Computer Science, and started it when I had a bit of extra time. When my work load built up on proper assessed work I needed to do, and I got deadlines that clashed with its exams, I couldn't see the point in watching the videos in a
fixed time and then not doing the exam.

I'm sure it's valid to criticise my time efficiency while I've been at university, but I did try to phrase my comment without saying the game theory course required too much. It didn't, but it didn't fit with my schedule.
JavaScript ≠ DOM. ECMA take care of JavaScript, the language, but have nothing whatsoever to do with its implementation in and bindings to browsers.
Why not this? :-)

"python -c 'import os; os.system("mv ... ~/Dropbox/from_comp_x/")'

Edit: My point is -- what makes this worth up votes?!
This tax is both "too small to notice", "rounding errors", etc, but will also raise $352 billion over ten years‽ When you hear someone make rationalizations like that, run for the hills.

Further the worst part about "small" taxes is that they usually come with administration and enforcement costs far outweighing the benefits.
Fake It 'Til You Make It: What Came Before Photoshop
This is incorrect. Once you get to see the url in the bar, it's too late if you've been redirected to a site with malware. This is an extremely serious security flaw and downplaying it is not going to help anyone.

There is no use for this security hole other than to deceive people. Period.
Show HN: Streak - A PHP text based blogging framework. Only 700kb
var links = document.links

is a more efficient way to get an array of all of the links on a page.
I'm actually working on something like this for myself; In the future I hope to support sublime plugins. Entirely haml/coffee, built with node-webkit and ace-editor. Based off of TextDrive a chrome app.

Currently there is a more advanced editor (brackets). But I want total control of the stack. I'm tired of closed source editors (sublime), or overly complex c-based editors (textmate, vi, etc). I think it can be done just as well with web technologies. I also don't like remote editors (cloud9), I want it local.

Light Table takes an entirely difference approach. I'm just going for a simple editor, no-integrated-repl-thingie.
http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDauto-updatenot...

> Due to a minor security vulnerability in the auto-update notification

Palm, meet face.
The President doesn't set taxes. That's the job of congress, which is designed to make changing things hard. Obama can call for this and that, but all it takes is one senator to shut the whole process down.
I'd be happier if Obama would take steps to lower taxes.
The banks, not the govt. But the bailout as structured tends to conflate the two, which is part of the problem. Also it directly hurts retirees in country while protecting rich foreigners (eg, holders of Cypriot bank bonds). It's WTF from start to finish, a pretty shocking abuse of power by the rich northern EU countries. Fairness and good governance have nothing to do with it.
>Since the birth of the web we've been trying to drill into people's skulls not to trust anything except what it says in your URL bar after "https:".

While perhaps this should be true, I don't think it is. I don't recall any internet instruction manual advising people to check the domain and browsers don't exactly emphasize the domain.
Looks like you improved upon the one I posted yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387553 - but it works much better in canvas for sure!
Using the here and now to get a handle on the hereafter
I think you're missing the "point".
I doubt that they are actually trying to blackmail anyone.

Hell I would be surprised if there is even a database.

I think they built a polished site around a theoretical concept in order to provoke an emotional response.

It would appear that they have succeeded.

Of course, this is simply my interpretation.

If they really are trying to build a business around distributed extortion, this is not a sustainable MVP.
Check your email @ lavabit.
Instead if a Google Graveyard, I would a Google Rumors Buyer's Guide. A site where I can see how long it has been since a certain Google product has received an update, helping users to assess if they should start using it or better look for an alternative. The shutdown of Reader got me worried about FeedBurner, Google Groups, Picasa Web Albums, Google Code, etc., and I'd like to know if it is warranted.
I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said "objectively". But it's not my idea. I'm merely working with definitions provided by wikipedia. If you are aware of better source on this matter, please refer me to it.

EDIT: what I mean is that discussing readability is pointless if all the participants have different definitions. I agree that the wikipedia page I linked to does not provide the best possible definition because it talks about texts in natural languages and we're talking about source code. Still, using not-the-best definition is better than using many different definitions.
It _is_ minor -- downloading the file yourself risks the same problem, so it's not totally a problem with the auto-updater.
"three pennies on every $100 traded."

That's enough to wipe out 95% of traders.
Iterations: The Improbable, Captivating Pivot From Orchestra To Mailbox
yup, that's a terrible example, not only because of the stupid variable name but poor example code choice. It's work in progress I assume.
TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs"
60-70% of that will go to bureaucratic overhead before it gets to the engineers and scientists.
Those were my thoughts too. If you click on the "paintings" tab, they only show you three of them, (not the 100,000 claimed), and it looks like they dressed them up manually.

Also, by paying them 10 Euro to search for your phone number, you've already self-identified as a sucker, so the unscrupulous people running this site will I'm sure be happy to take advantage of that.
It's bald-faced confiscation of individuals' savings in order to bail out mismanaged banks.
Opting out and taking counter-surveillance measures have always been options. But look at the world we're in now. Those options have not been very effective for the overwhelming majority of internet users, who often don't even realize they have a choice, much less know how to take effective counter-surveillance measures.

We can't just continue the status quo, because it's obvious that it will lead to ever greater surveillance and loss of power and control for the average user. Only the wealthy and technologically savvy will stand much of a chance of retaining their privacy. The rest will be thoroughly screwed.

This is why it's important for developers and founders to opt out of creating such surveillance technology in the first place, and taking a public stand against it. It's up to those who know and make technology to turn the tide.
There are lots of uses, thus why it is widely used. It's also impossible to fix, as there are other methods of doing the same thing, such as preventDefault.
After reading some comments in the article his nought popped into my head. Biodiversity is like vaccinations. It is a natural mechanism to prevent catastrophic die offs. The ticking time bomb goes off when the non diverse crop collides with a pest we aren't aware of that will thrive off of the crop causing environment damage and fine as the entire no diverse crop gets decimated... Just like what happened to the Native Americans when they were introduced to smallpox. Why do we think we can control nature?

Edit: writing comments on an iPad stinks. Sorry for the typos.
"There are already signs of paring back. In December, Y Combinator’s Graham wrote about his accelerator’s decision to reduce its class size, from 84 companies in the summer 2012 class to less than 50 in the current session."

This was nothing to do with any overall trend. It was just because YC's then structure couldn't deal with so many startups.

The other thing this guy doesn't seem to grasp is that we didn't decrease the size of something homogenous. This is not like a restaurant cutting back from 84 tables to 46. Essentially we picked the best 46 out of 84. And in any group of 84 startups, the top 46 will have 100% of the success.

There are so many of these things now that I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them die off. But if that happened I don't think it would affect us.
Mostly because I had to get something up quickly for our project and Meteor is the best tool i'm familiar with to do rapid development.
I personally find it great that they didn't spare the <100k accounts. It would have been much easier to do otherwise, as the "let's just take it from the rich" perspective is easy to sell nowadays in Europe. But taking it from those with under 100k accounts takes the fight to the streets and let politicians "feel" the backslash.
Show HN: Listen your sleep events
Google Play link:

http://bit.ly/15PzGL4

iSleep - During your sleep, iSleep samples the sounds. By analyzing the sound signal, iSleep identifies the events like your body movement, snoring and coughing.
As he wrote in the fiddle's test he worked from the deobfuscated code of the original item, which probably used map to save 4 characters