skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a great policy - for the reason that government should provide same service to ALL citizens regardless of what phone they happen to own. Equality of access is paramount - other technical considerations are secondary.

If they were to create an app, it would most likely be an Iphone app (judging from experience of how these things work - whatever the cause). It would come with a disclaimer "We'll have the Android app as soon as possible". Meanwhile the Windows app may never come. So here immediately majority of people with mobile phones are unable to access the service - because they happen to have a 'wrong' phone.

Since every smartphone comes with a web browser, every user will be able to access the service.
Is despotify dead?
Changed spotify the API? Was it a legal thing?
Despotify unusable as of http://sourceforge.net/projects/despotify/develop
A (malicious) person who controls a majority of the hashing power can change the rules. Central to bitcoin is the idea that the longest chain is the valid one. If you control 51% of the network, you can create a chain that looks however you want it to look, and then publish that chain. Because your chain is longer than the correct one, it will be accepted, and your changes will be accepted. Using this, you can modify the chain to be what it would look like according to your rules.

Of course, this is only possible becuase your chain looks as if it was following the rules. If you have a non malicious computational majority, than any change in the rules would make an incompatible block-chain and a hardfork.
Does this require the authentication cookie to be constant? If, for example, I issue a new cookie to the client every connection then this is mitigated?
Excellent success story with Go.

Love this quote... "We also weren't sure if we would be able hire top talent if we chose Go, but we soon found out that we could get top talent because we chose Go."
Investors think differently than you.
Consider this article is 7 years old
Well, if we're allowed to use methods that are essentially impossible; then in my fabricated arsenal for our simulation I have a weapon that destroys all resources of the opposing force and places all their personnel in a location of my choosing with the push of a big, red button.

After all, who cares if our simulation attempts to simulate realistic conditions?
The negative posts here miss the point. Having too much stuff can be a burden, just as too little can be a hardship.

In the book "your money or your life" I learned about the concept of enough... the logarithmic curve of stuff vs. happiness. TL;DR: get yourself up towards the front of the hump and stop there.

Though I've never been rich, I've gone thru the same phases the author describes. The average (American at least) works too hard and has too much to worry about. So yes, the advice to downsize is good for most. But don't take it too far. He's not advocating sleeping on a dirt floor and giving up electricity as a comment or two here seem to think.

Personally, I currently aim for the life my grandparents lived plus smartphone, better healthcare, and more vacation time.
I will definitely make another one but it was here on HN to one of the former posterous owners.
Very neat! I have thought quite a bit about how to make wikis easier to work with, but I don't know if I'll need to anymore because you pretty much nailed it! Real-time markdown editing is a great idea.

A few things:

* Making an ordered list right after an unordered one and vice versa doesn't render properly.

* New pages always become children of the first page, and I don't know how to turn them into root pages or make them in the first place.

* Signing out doesn't work.

* Clicking away while editing a page title doesn't save it.

* Public links and history are on top of my wishlist for this.
Nice to see an explanation video that isn't just stick figures and animation. It was really slick - informative, humorous, and on brand (love that your socks match your brand's colour).

Agree that dropbox for wi-fi is confusing. Why not something like 'easy wi-fi sharing' or the like.

PS - where was this filmed? Geneva?
That probably does mitigate the attack, with the proviso that a MITM can keep cookies from rotating by preventing requests from hitting the target.
Refinements look exactly like C# Extension Methods.
Heroku down again?
Yet there's research out there [1] indicating that consumers care more about pricing than same day delivery.

[1] http://www.bcg.com/media/PressReleaseDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-...
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Technically speaking, getting 51% of the community to switch is still creating a rival block chain. You don't even need 51%. As was the case in this incident, if you have incompatible nodes, the block chain would fork itself naturally.
Glad you noticed the socks! It's all filmed in Stockholm, Sweden.
In my opinion, this is a staff acquisition. Buy a company to get the staff free and on board, ditch the product/project.

Besides, I think Posterous would be a good complement to 140 char-twitter. I don't even consider them as competition to each other..
This event, and many like it, only remind me that the modern Internet is about which groups you belong to, not who you are as an individual.

Websites owned and operated by individuals are now vanishingly rare, while aggregations of people -- Facebook, Twitter, et. al. -- have become the norm.

Example individual website: http://arachnoid.com/
Have you considered hiring someone full time just to improve Hacker News? You have built an incredibly valuable forum, and there is no other place on the internet like it. But the quality of the comments is definitely degrading over time. I worry that if serious time is not dedicated to fixing the problem Hacker News will go the way of usenet.
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They probably bought it for the people. So there would be no one left to work on the Posterous site if everyone is working on Twitter instead. I know they didn't buy it for the infrastructure since it's hosted on Rackspace and Twitter is an AWS shop.

https://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous
Hennessy, tech industrialist look to future of computing
I had assumed that TLS didn't use plain RC4, but rather a variant of RC4 that discards the first several hundred bytes of the keystream to avoid this problem. But I just checked and apparently TLS uses straight-up RC4. Sigh...

I'm not sure why people so fervently recommend disabling AES-CBC (and SSLLabs knocks you a whole letter grade if you haven't) when modern browsers and TLS clients work around BEAST with "1/n-1" record splitting [1]. I figure out-of-date browsers are probably vulnerable to something that lets you hijack sessions without needing BEAST anyways.

[1] http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/01/15/beastfollowup.html
Very excited to see the images on cards being prominently displayed. I hope that feature is brought back to the iPhone.

There are certain visual projects that I use Trello for on my iPhone that I wish could to see the attached images for each card. Describing items that are going through a flow is difficult when they're all the same item but look different.
Best dashboard apps for startups?
Hi HN - I'm looking for a dashboard application that can aggregate our key metrics (week over week growth, engagement, etc) that ties in with Google Analytics or Mixpanel. Which ones do you all use?
c8c86a1e225bb28ccdd229f6f27fe39ad65c9831

Sha1 of image, in case you want to verify.
Disallow both up and down vote buttons for the top comment. The top few comments will rise together, taking turns having vote buttons or not.
Reinvent Payphones: The Open Source City – NYC as API
there are similar tools like http://www.panix.com/~eli/unicode/convert.cgi?text=example+t...
I wonder what Automattic Inc. thinks of that company name?
It does look like most rooms have several rules. As I remember, it became a norm. Mostly as a reaction from random users getting on the decks and playing absurd stuff to kill the room's vibe. We could call them trolls.

Edit: I clicked on the spreadsheet. Having a music black list is pretty extreme. I thought you were referring to room rules; like, only playing five songs then stepping down or having a list of who is up next.
There is some merit to the complaint. Turntable is far from dead, but it's also suffered a downturn in usage (as opposed to merely slowing growth). I've been on there for a long time and the top-20 rooms don't have half the population now as they did during the service's peak.

So it isn't just a matter of media coverage or failing to live up to overinflated expectations, the service has visibly lost userbase. It's also not even close to dead, though.
Now, are there any "new" publishers around, which work based on 1/2/3/4? Or let's say publishing-server providers?

I just don't think many authors want to do A/B testing, find editors, illustrators and not to forget coordinate marketing, PR, book tour on their own.

Working professionals usually have so many things on their table, that keeping some basic outreach on social media sites intact is demanding enough. This "you can do it on your own" is such an superficial argument. If I want to fly cross country, I don't want to assemble the plane myself - even if there are perfectly good options out there on different DIY aircrafts. Arguing, that there are now ready made components for DIY kit out there that some successful hobbyists have used with very much success, doesn't make it any easier.
"Bandwidth in itself is not per say needed"

I guess so; I have a 200Mbit fiber connection but surprisingly little is happening.

I started the instance 10 minutes a go and it has only uploaded 20MB. I've set 'concurrent items' and 'rsync threads' to the max.
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What relevance does that have?
Galaxy Note N7000.
To the first, these things tend to spread throughout the team over time, so by the end everybody will be using those 40 hotkeys if they're indeed helpful. If some people like them and others don't, they'll figure out how to resolve the difference with the least possible amount of fuss. With regard to color schemes, I've never seen a dispute over those, personally. People may come to the table with different preferences, but over time those also resolve one way or another.

In my experience, severe competency issues are actually /better/ dealt with via pair programming than the alternative: pairing forces their competency issues to the surface, and can be dealt with more easily. Personality conflicts can be worked through, or the team can be changed up. When things like that don't work out, the worst thing you can do is make too big a deal out of it...reconfigure the team one way or another and move on.
unrelated but funny.... I'm using this spreadsheet to catch up on music that I might like... Late adopters scavenging on hipster crumbs.
I believe it is a chemical balance, which requires chemical intervention.
Exactly. There's a massive growth in users at the beginning; eventually, those that are less interested drift away, leaving a core userbase behind. In Turntable's case, the top rooms still have 100-200 concurrent users at any given time; meanwhile, the team running it has been ramping up in their regularly-scheduled events with artists and venues.
What is the point that is being missed?

I thought the design was pretentious minimalism. It's minimal for the sake of it, not minimal because it's distilling the essence of something. The essence of HN is not the orange and grey colors. It's really hard to connect the shirt to HN when I look at it. The essence of HN to me is karma, usernames, YC, up/downvotes, programming, America, internet companies, drama, PG love / hate. Just printing something like "100 points" on the grey background would have made it much more wearable.

Also, if what you want is an appropriately critical, non-cynical community, you need to embody those qualities yourself. There's not much lower you can go than taking passive aggressive swipes at random posters. If you're the leader of a community, and you don't like the community, it's your responsibility to do something about it.

Here's one idea: an official recommendation from you of upvotes for thoughtful replies (even in the case of disagreement), and downvotes for replies that don't add to the conversation.
I made an alternative to your alternative: http://teespring.com/hnexpired
This would be very popular indeed if a WYSIWYG editor was used instead of a markup language.

There has been study after study showing how the wiki markup syntax is a hurdle to participation on wikipedia, to the point where wikipedia is now finally, after 12 years, working on a wysiwyg editor: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/jimmy-wales-on-new-editing-...

There are so many free and open source wysiwyg editors that can be easily plugged into a site: aloha, tinymce, ckeditor, etc.
Why does HTML think "chucknorris" is a color?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-thi...
Look cool, I think this is going to get me to finally try trello out.

Aside: As a silicon valley person, when viewing videos of people on the east coast I always feel like I'm watching people in another country. Such an odd, overly formal look.
It would be even better if it displayed the no-procrast message!
First, the record split problems caused compat issues.

Second, even with the record splitting fix, you still have Lucky 13, which is really annoying to fix completely, and people are wary of deploying a crypto fix to their SSL library that in 5 years we'll just find out was window dressing.
Why not push both?

Why can't browsers "suggest" that they don't use RC4 any more, and when they still use RC4 (as they will almost certainly do) they use the workaround.
> I dont really get why people want the shirt to be recognisable.

That's kind of the core concept of putting something with any sort of meaning on a t-shirt.
I can also recommend the book that the comic is taken from. (Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman)
Look, I'm going to be critical in this comment, so let me preface my remarks by saying something nice: this work seems to demonstrate that you have some coding chops. Additionally, you seem to have a good sense of aesthetic, because the data visualization does, in fact, look pretty.

However, I'm a bit put off by it. You mention Tufte, but then you have 16 step explanation of what the data visualization actually is and what it is intended to show. Your chart doesn't really convey any meaning to me when I look at it because it's unclear what the axes actually are, what the opacity is supposed to represent, and the little number on the side makes no sense unless you hover over it. You've succeed in making a chart very pretty but I feel that you may have stumbled a bit in making it comprehensible.

Just my two cents.
Apart from my security concerns I noted elsewhere, I have one major question why facebook? Why not google plus? why not twitter? Why not forgo the social network douchebaggery and just check my contact list?

Anyway, still love the idea, but until I can use it without facebook (or any other "special" network for that matter) it just isn't happening.
It's interesting that in Smalltalk there is a SortedCollection class which guarantees this state, and in general you can sort by calling #asSortedCollection on your collection. Presumably the search methods on that class are O(log N) rather than O(N).
Here's one of the best blogs about the Geocities data: http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/
The vast majority of the time (both at home and at work), I'm not running on battery power - and when I am, it's rarely for more than an hour or two. And I doubt that I'm too unusual in that.

Given that, it seems odd to design the entire UI experience around power management.
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Ask HN: Most interesting startups you follow?
Most of the tech press I know of covers the same handful of startups and investors. I'm curious to know what interesting startups you keep up with?
Then it seems like the right solution is to push TLS 1.2 + AES-GCM along with fixes for Lucky 13, and use CBC for everything before 1.2 and GCM for everything after it.
It's a nice idea, but if I understand this correctly[1], the predictable bytes are very early in the request, as early as the second byte, which is 'E' (for a request which starts with something like `GET / HTTP/1.1`). So moving the cookie headers might not make much of a difference.

[1]http://security.stackexchange.com/a/31873/7306

EDIT: I think I might be wrong. Trying to read a little more, it seems like the first few bytes are the easiest to predict and then it gets harder... but with an HTTP request, the first few bytes are kinda known anyway (`GET / ...`), so this doesn't give much advantage to the attacker. Perhaps randomizing the position of the cookie header, or perhaps adding more NO-OP headers could help against this kind of attack after all?
As I mentioned, for those with the skill, time, patience, and determination, any traditional publishing deal, including O'Reilly, isn't worth it. But I think you're overestimating the amount of O'Reilly authors who can do (and are interested in doing, and have time for) every little thing required to produce, market, and distribute paper and ebooks.

Here on HN we're all hackers who like to roll up our sleeves; but O'Reilly's vast catalog isn't all written by hackers. I doubt even a majority is. O'Reilly doesn't need to start selling novels because their authors appear to be happy with the traditional tradeoff. If more weren't, then O'Reilly wouldn't exist today. After all self-publishing is nothing new. Vanity presses have been around for centuries.

Just like we'd chuckle at the guy who says, "You want how much to make a web site? Don't you just put a picture at the top and write some text?" so too would O'Reilly chuckle at us for saying, "They want how much for their percentage? Don't they just turn on a printer and convert a .doc file to .mobi with Calibre?"
I see most of the Unicode characters on Firefox/Gentoo Linux with the following packages installed:

media-fonts/arphicfonts
media-fonts/baekmuk-fonts
media-fonts/cardo
media-fonts/corefonts
media-fonts/dejavu
media-fonts/droid
media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-100dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-lucidatypewriter-75dpi
media-fonts/font-bh-ttf
media-fonts/font-bh-type1
media-fonts/freefont
media-fonts/freefonts
media-fonts/inconsolata
media-fonts/intlfonts
media-fonts/kochi-substitute
media-fonts/symbola
media-fonts/terminus-font
media-fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera
"And the custom types are not actually complex, unlike what Clojure leads you to believe with its preference to using the basic built-in types"

Custom data types are not always complex, but efficient and useful data types often are. Clojure's data structures have very good performance for immutable data structures. Clojure's maps, for instance, have what effectively amounts to a O(1) lookup, while Haskell's Data.Map is a size balanced binary tree with only O(log n) performance.
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I wish more actions like this would happen, too. I'm glad that they at least happen. The technology to share work is there, and here's work that might be overshadowed at times, the BOINC project: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ . Use your unused CPU cycles for the greater good.
It depends on what you want to do. With a large Java ecosystem not having easy FFI may not be a big deal.

CL, and SBCL, are great, but SBCL uses a conservative garbage collector (or at least it did the last time I used it) so I'd say the chances of having memory problems with Clojure are less than with SBCL. In fact I remember having some memory issues with SBCL though I no longer remember the details.

Being able to disassemble functions is a great but honestly I don't miss that option in Clojure.

Clojure's a great language that's really worth trying out. I'm not saying it's perfect, there are still warts, but it's immensely satisfying too.
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What is obscure for you is not obscure for someone else.
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It's because Git has won, in terms of usershare.

Bitbucket, the Mercurial hosting service, now also offers Git. Xen, the first major project to use Mercurial, just switched to Git last month. Microsoft has added Git to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.

Whatever Joel's personal source-control preferences were, he has to sell into a world where there are more Git users than Mercurial users.

It's unfortunate, as I preferred Mercurial, but then, Git also comes with some advantages to mitigate the disadvantages. They really were closely-matched. Which is why it was a religious war -- it boiled down to preferences.
I thought that post was saying "right now we can only get the first line, but as we learn more we expect to get more and more data out of the request header, including potentially cookies!"
I feel like I'm trapped in an HN parody.

Congratulations! We have a winner.

You have just won first place in the crowd sourced competition for the front of V2.0 of the official Hacker News Tshirt.

Honorable mention:

Wear something people want.
Correlation != clothesation.
Fuck. That. Shirt.
Take off this shirt and get back to work.
Shirt early. Shirt often.
Made from 100% down (votes).
I clicked "threads" and got this shirt.
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> I will tell people that I like something, but I never tell them
> that they must use it.

I think it's just a "dude, you've got to check this out" sorta thing. Not really a command but that special itch to just share your opinion with someone.

I gravitate towards the tools/technologies/paradigms that compel this sort of enthusiasm every time.

* Martin Odersky's (and the general community's) enthusiasm led me to pursue Scala and convinced me to take a serious stab at functional programming.

* Rich Hickey (etc.) to Clojure.

* Sandi Metz (etc.) to object-oriented design.

* DHH (etc.) to Ruby and Rails.

Vim, Coffeescript, Alfred, Postgres, tmux, Crystal Reports, Dropbox, most my entire toolchain, where I went out to eat last night -- all cajoled by the infectious enthusiasm of others inspirited by those things.
Have you used transients in Clojure? http://clojure.org/transients

They allow mutation as long as it's localized.
> First, the record split problems caused compat issues.

It did, but I think we're through it now. IE, Firefox and Chrome have all had it on for a while.
I've never had the discipline to set noprocrast, so I wouldn't know what that looks like :-}
And none of them work on mobile.
I'd say that people who need mail merge know what it is. It was made most famous by Microsoft Office (at least thats where i heard it first). But, it'd be a good idea to have a simple description thats a natural search term.
I also find it interesting that they define allowed websockets, but don't define which iFrames are allowed.
I haven't used it but http://www.geckoboard.com looks good.
OK. I wasn't making a recommendation for Automatic, I was just trying to explain to pc86 how dsr_'s preferred strategy (that Automatic keep no data) was very plausible and, in fact, is used by many companies.
I think this is awesome..but I have almost no friends with android. Do you guys have a timeline for the iOS port?
Yeah I was completely baffled by this until I looked in Google Image Search. I ran this on my Windows box and sure enough it looks crazy with little 'springs' going everywhere. Under Chrome, Firefox and Safari on OS X it looks normal though, just foreign text.
Out of curiousity, I would be interested to know which version/patches of ruby you were using. With ruby I'm used to running out of memory on servers long before running out of CPU. Of course, most of our workloads are IO bound, so that may be the diffent.