skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I cut my teeth on Geocities in 1996. Frustrated by the limitations of their in-browser editor, I decided to go hard-core and do all my HTML in Notepad :-) I graduated to HotDog Pro and Homesite in short order. Of course, I had the requisite star field background, animated gifs, and requisite <blink> tags.

However, is this a typical path? Today I'd guess many build "sites" using Tumblr, Blogger, or Wordpress before picking up development skills. Even those stumbling through Rails or the like can drop in Twitter Bootstrap with little fanfare and have a pretty decent looking first effort.
You actually expect most users to figure that out? Especially if corrupted with stuff that looks vaguely like regular postgres data...
Is this actually a good idea?
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Do you have a cite to the section of the U.S. Code that says that? That applies to companies such as Apple, Google, FB, etc.? (Hint: it doesn't exist.)
That's a really impressive achievement. It's mostly let down by the choice of music included (you wouldn't use a site like that to listen to songs, so really the tracks should have been house, techno or DnB to allow a little more "turntablism").

If Mixbolt's developer is reading this, another worthwhile addition would be keyboard hot keys (eg [Q][W][E] raises the levels of the low, mid and hi's respectively, [A][S][D] lowers those levels). So you can use the keyboard as a rudimentary MIDI controller (plus a single mouse isn't great when a lot of DJing requires both hands on the rotaries / faders).
But why should tech people collect art? If I have few millions dollars to spare I will throw them at Tim Schaffer to make Psychonauts 2 ... games can use maecenates as well. And they are much closer to the heart and mind of the tech community.

The only thing I can read in this article is "Moooom, flow of money bypassing my pockets".
Yes exactly.

The 'yay no vendor prefixes!' crew seem to have very short memories on what it was like before vendor prefixes..IE Waiting a LONG time (years) for a CSS feature to be 'recommended' by the w3c.

Vendor Prefixes were the best of a bad situation, I think they will be missed quite quickly.

I'm all up for this movement, but the W3C will need to move a lot quicker if this is to happen. Otherwise innovation will just grind to a halt again like it did before.
OK, that got me. It took a few minutes, and rereading the above link to work out it is not Manchester UK (pop 1/2m) but Manchester NH (pop 100K)

However 19 cabs total for a population of 100,000 is really low. A quick google / yell shows me 109 listed taxi firms in Manchester UK. Thats about what I would expect.

Why are there only 19 actual cars in Manchester NH?

- http://www.taxinumber.com/taxis/manchester/?page=5
SNI has the added merit of working on practically everything these days.
I've never been one for strength training. I just like to run really hard for a short period of time... Guess I will need to change that.
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Love the one you're with... doot doot!
It seems like SoundCloud is more like the Vimeo for audio. They provide free and paid versions just like Vimeo. I don't think I've seen the YouTube for audio yet.
Sure, for the wealthy there are reasons, but not for the 99%.
Is this scoop an unintentional advertisement for Swiss banking ? I did a text search for India , Sharad Pawar , Gandhi and Yadav --- nothing showed up. But the rich in India always favor Swiss banking for their illicit wealth.
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Buying drugs for bitcoin just happens to be the most famous use, because the media love to pay attention to Silk Road. So when everyone think about bitcoin, silk road comes to mind. Everything else associated with bitcoin just get left behind because it is boring.
Prolexic is also the company providing DDOS protection for MtGox.

Source: MagicalTux (person who runs Gox) in freenode #mtgox.
If it helps bringing these advantages to modern day programmers then I'm all for it. A lot has been lost during the 90's with the rise of C++ and Java.
There was a nice post about Atlassian's choice of Mercurial over Git on their blog: https://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/02/mercurial-vs-git-why-mer... Their argument about a windows version doesn't seem to hold today. There seems to be a first-class Windows version of git.

Since there exists HgGit (http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgGit) and git-remote-hg (https://github.com/rfk/git-remote-hg), the two are equivalent in the sense that you can use either to contribute to any hg/git repo. Which is your prefered flavour of interface?
Before the Kindle came out I would read the covers of books of people sitting opposite me on the Tube. If it looked interesting I got a copy. The only major fail I remember was Dan Browns The Davinci Code.
While it is not the case right now, being heavily invested into open-source myself, it is very possible that it ends up under CC-BY at some point.
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I think it's awesome! Probably one of the nerdiest creations I've seen in a while. Booyah
You should really photoshop those dollar signs into bitcoin symbols.
Many people have heard the phrase "conspicuous consumption", but it's only half of Veblen's analysis. It counterpart, "conspicuous leisure", is arguably at least as important. Typical social proof that you're doing well is not just buying a BMW, but also showing that you didn't have to work hard for it. This is communicated most effectively by advertising the time you can afford to spend on non-economic activities: tourism, cooking, amateur photography etc. There are, of course, many other good reasons to engage in these pastimes. But their importance as a means of social display should not be underestimated.
I don't care whether you think I was being too specific in my choice of location. If you have read it, the article was about a US government agency.

Sure, there are real life conspiracies, but understand this, just because we can define a conspiracy as 'the very thing secret agencies do' does not prove that the DAE is conspiring to release PR articles to spread disinformation.

There's no evidence of what the OP suggested but there is a whole lot of paranoia and emotions running wild and it doesn't befit this place.
Maybe the situation is different in Canada. I've been there only a couple times, and it seemed cleaner and wealthier. I'm in an area of L.A. where a lot of families cram into 1 bedroom apartments.
Ah okay. I should have read the article more carefully. It still could have been automated spam though :)
I definitely disagreed with the implication of generalized naivety among "tech" folk regarding the arts and humanities. It all depends on the circles you run in. I studied Latin and Ancient Greek for a long time and then I got into tech. My experience includes a number of tech people who have studied art history extensively across a wide range of traditions and I also know folks in tech who were linguists in their previous lives.

I would also argue, though, that an honest appreciative and humanistic approach to art and its place in our lives is to the NYC art scene as a loving physical relationship is to porn and hookers and this story seemed more concerned with the "scene" than actual art itself.
It seems to me that even large, overly bureaucratic corporations need a process in place that allows deploying critical security updates in a reasonably expedient manner. Is this uncommon?
>What were people actually saying by Tweeting about their visit?

They are telling others about their life experiences. It's called communication, we do it in real life all the time, why can't we do it online? If somebody told you what they did on the weekend, do you respond "you are fulfilling your obligation to have to share"?
I don't think the author is against sharing in general. It seems to me he is trying to say there is a time and place for sharing, and that is not during the event itself. Perhaps I'm getting the wrong impression from the post. Anyway, this is why I don't find the post as ironic as you do: clearly this post wasn't written while he was visiting Singapore.

Second, I don't necessarily believe the "humans are social animals" argument. I completely agree with you about that fact. But that doesn't mean it is good for us to try and make ourselves look attractive to other people, or that it makes us happy. I tend to think of it more as a drive or an itch. We don't receive happiness in the act of posting things on twitter (modulo the excitement that comes from anticipating for acknowledgement), but we "scratch the itch" when we get recognition. Is that scratching worth being dissociated with what is going around you? I don't really know, maybe it is for different people. In either case, arguing that posting to twitter is fine because "thats what people do" doesn't seem very satisfying to me.
Excellent! I've been working on something similar. Trying to come up with a schema that is data-centric is hard enough let alone focusing on the ease of use by developers. Good luck!

Can I send how many requests I want?, I think you might mean Can I send as many requests as I want? ?
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I cannot remember the name but there is a company that fingerprints record companies copyrighted music, and then monitors radio stations etc for which songs played where, then works out which ones violated agreements.

Sounded like a cool piece of tech, but a not cool use case. Kind of like designing a golden violin that plays like a Stradi - for Belzebub.
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Let me get this straight, because I don't want to misread you. What you are saying here is the wealthy deserve separate protection under the law and anyone in the 99% should have their records published because they don't "need" privacy?
Their approach has generally to release their tools and SDK so others can build using their tools. I don't think they have much interest in releasing the code, but they have always wanted (and benefited from) the community taking their tools and engine and building cool stuff.
In Chrome on OSX if I look at a snippet, then go back, the preview images don't render, but I see all black instead.
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Title is a bit redundant. Vimscript is the most stupidly hard (as in, cryptic syntax and semantics for no good reason) language this side of Brainfuck.
That would be great.

Security Groups work across accounts, so Heroku (or whoever) could let you provide your account ID and Security Group name, then authorise access from this group.
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Really? it is an interesting topic, for HN, but not for a Q&A site. (I actually sound like a Jeff Atwood snippet.)
Co-routines, Modula-2 was one of the first languages to have native support for such constructs.

The only things that Go has over Modula-2 are interfaces, single declaration modules and GC.

Single declaration modules and GC were part of Modula-2 successor, Oberon in 1986, while Active Oberon in 2001 added Tasks and Interfaces to the Oberon language family.

All of these languages were used to built operating systems used for real work at Zurich's Technical University.
Its a trap to me because I don't like windows and osx. I'm trapped in a bash shell. :-)
It's pretty clear that imagery has gotten very popular these days, and I think it has become a very important part of our lives because of these huge platforms for broadcasting and sharing them. Good photos aren't just for "professional" personal branding but also for casual identity. A great photo of something boring can often get more attention than a bad photo of something awesome. And events with well-documented professional-looking photos are sometimes seen as far bigger and more impressive events than ones with more people but fewer photos. I was kind of shocked to go to a huge computing conference lately and see people taking official photos who were pretty clearly amateurs in the photography world.

And it's important to mention that you don't need to be a professional photographer to provide value to your social circle or area, you just need to take better photos than the people around you... which might not be as difficult as it sounds. You just need a passion for it.

Many photographers are ticked off by the rise of instagram and mobile phone cameras, but I'm glad that the world is getting interested in photography and seeing the value in good photos. It encourages them to learn how to get better photos out of their devices, whether it's instagram or their new DSLR. To me it means that those important moments will be captured. Even with 20+ people with cameras, everyone can miss a split-second opportunity, unless they are talented and anticipating the moment. Better skills, technology, and distribution channels allow those moments to be captured.
What's up with the plugin list? Why no Sublime Text?
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Gchat isn't encrypted in any way-other than over SSL to and from your client to Google's servers. Your chat history is also stored in gmail.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/1002

"(3) Encryption
A telecommunications carrier shall not be responsible for decrypting, or ensuring the government’s ability to decrypt, any communication encrypted by a subscriber or customer, unless the encryption was provided by the carrier and the carrier possesses the information necessary to decrypt the communication."

More info: http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/02/deconstructing-calea-hea...

Also, declan, I was in the room during meetings with the FBI when I worked for a large telecommunications carrier. I integrated the CALEA mediation platform with the IP network and I'm well aware of what is required and not required to be present in the network regarding CALEA.

IANAL, but you would be wise to consider that the FBI considers the former "information service providers" to be "telecommunications providers" to the extent that they can convince a judge that they are acting as one. I wouldn't think I was safe because I was using any kind of messaging where I couldn't control the keys, the software that uses them, and the distribution and verification of said keys.
> But you seem to claim that it isn't sound, which also isn't possible without an audit.

That's not quite true, right? If encryption was successfully broken, then you wouldn't need an audit. Even if it wasn't broken, there's still things like this: http://pthree.org/2012/02/17/ecb-vs-cbc-encryption/
Speaking strictly for Americans, this simply isn't true. There are very, very, very few benefits to keeping your money offshore. Tax fraud is benefit #1. "Asset protection" (which generally means you're hiding money from your spouse or business partners) is benefit #2. Unless you actually own property in the country where you keep your money, or do real business there, those are basically the only benefits. There are also massive costs: (1) the literal costs that the foreign nation (and bank) will charge you to hold your money; (2) the risk that the money will actually be available when you want to access it; (3) the risk that the foreign government and bank will cooperate with the U.S. government when it comes knocking (this risk has greatly increased since the passage of MLAT and other recent treaties).

I could definitely see how citizens of other countries could legitimately use such accounts to get around immoral laws in their home countries. Whether this makes up "most people" who use offshore accounts, as you claim, is beyond my knowledge.

I would bet that a great percentage of the volume of money moving through these offshore havens are indeed a hedge against insolvent governments: the governors' own. There's a reason these island nations are where despots like Gaddafi, Mugabe, Marcos, Bashir, Afwerki, Mbasogo, Mubarak, Kagame, and others, and their extended families, park their money.
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Who do you think I should report bugs to for this site? Do you think Themarke51@aol.com still goes to Mr. Zuck? I found a few IE8 bugs.... :)
As I said before, I'd continue to look. Here is another outline provided by East Tennessee State University that I think is fairly worthwhile.

(http://math.etsu.edu/multicalc/prealpha/)

NB: I'll be using the first link to study Calc3 after I finish doing the AP Calc problems in my book first to review. :)
I agree, but I see Rust, D or even C# better suited for that purpose as Go, since it throws too much away.
Hi everyone,
I loved this article, especially “I want to meet the artists and hear their stories about why they make what they make. I don’t want to go to the parties.”

I started Gertrude (www.gertrude.co) a few months ago in NYC exactly on this thought. Instead of using technology to commodify art via an online marketplace, I am more interested in using technology to match collectors and artists so they can meet at intimate, real life one-hour events (we call them Salons, like one by Gertrude Stein).

We have help 7 Salons so far with exciting artists and will do at least one every week in the next few months. You can read more about us here: www.gertrude.co

Kenneth Schlenker
The crux of the argument seems to be the time and place of sharing. Before the advent of social media, sharing used to happen after the event. Now, it happens during it. The author doesn't seem like he is against sharing in general, just the sharing that interferes with the sensory experience of the event itself.
The attactiveness of Uber varies with regards to locality in the United States. Many cities have taxi systems which are deeply non-functional:

a) So few taxis on the roads (because the laws forbid anyone from adding more) that it is virtually impossible to hail one, like San Francisco.

b) Drivers who habitually discriminate against customers by race, desired travel location, etc.

c) Routine fraud conducted by drivers over e.g. whether a payments mechanism which is legally required such as, say, the credit card machine is actually functioning or not. (Taxi drivers in the US prefer to be paid in cash because it makes fraud easier.)

By comparison, Uber is "You push a button. A car picks you up and drives you to your destination. You do not get cheated." This is a severe competitive threat to taxis in many US cities, even at a hefty premium to what taxis are charging.
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Yeah, exactly, when I was reading this article I had the feeling that art gallery people were considering mandatory for wealthy people to collect art. It doesn't give any reason on why they should.
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Yes, they are.

They currently have a project underway to separate the two.

The site owner, MagcialTux, said yesterday in irc that for the last couple of years (since the first bubble) they've basically made barely enough revenue to keep the site running (and sometimes at a loss), much less improving it. They looked at loans, but the most they could arrange was a couple hundred thousand, which wouldn't have been enough apparently. They also privately contacted big bitcoin fortune holders for loans, to the same result.

The kind of people that you'd hire to make it work right are expensive, to no one's surprise. The last few months have given Gox a huge increase in revenue, and they're using it to finally upgrade their tech.

I'm not a Gox fan, and I wish people would use the other exchanges and get some diversity into the system, but I can understand how they got where they are.
I would naively expect the number of taxis used in a city to scale with something like the square of the population. The smaller the city is, the fewer places there are to go, the farther away basic things tend to be, and the more likely people are to have and drive cars.
Yeah I was looking for actual message content in there and couldn't spot it. Not saying that Apple isn't misrepresenting, but I couldn't spot proof that your messages are getting sent without encryption.
>> "It's also insulting to not give a conversation your full attention, for some of us."

There are certain mental conditions (including variants of ADHD) wherein it's actually easier for someone to focus if they're doing two things than if they're doing one thing.

It's insulting to those of us with those conditions to be told to stop because you misunderstand us.
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Hi John,

I loved this article, especially “I want to meet the artists and hear their stories about why they make what they make. I don’t want to go to the parties.”

I started Gertrude (www.gertrude.co) a few months ago in NYC exactly on this thought. Instead of using technology to commodify art via an online marketplace, I am more interested in using technology to match collectors and artists so they can meet at intimate, real life one-hour events (we call them Salons, like one by Gertrude Stein).

It would be cool to meet, we are in Brooklyn too!
Kenneth (twitter @kschlenker)
>> ...and with a little bit of analysis could most likely make a fairly accurate educated guess about exactly which page you requested.

Could you elaborate on this? I would have assumed that with the request URI being encrypted that this would be extremely difficult (load times/payload size maybe?) for all but the simplest of sites.
The author of the commit message I think is what the op was implying.
Rhino with RingoJS would be another good JVM-based test.
There is some interesting code in this release:

void FuckingWellSetTheDocumentNameAndDontBloodyIgnoreMeYouCunt(LPCSTR psDocName)
{
if (gpLastOpenedModViewDoc)
{ // make absolutely fucking sure this bastard does as it's told... //
gpLastOpenedModViewDoc->SetPathName(psDocName,false);
gpLastOpenedModViewDoc->SetTitle (psDocName);
}
}

My heart goes out to whatever programmer had to meet that deadline.
Who writes commit messages for these kinds of user-submitted patches? The author or the committer?
When IOS 6.1.4 gets pushed to your iPhone in the future, consider how difficult it would be for Apple to add code that copies your privately generated keys back to Apple for "key-escrow purposes".
It doesn't help you get home if they pick you up in a high density area and then drop you off in an area where cabs aren't likely to come by.
And this is going to help the conflict how..?

It's clear that this new leader believes he has something to prove to the world. This only serves to aggravate the situation. By hacking his accounts and posting insulting photos, they just give him more reason to carry on with this pointless endeavor.
I love how there's this expectation that once you've made a lot of money you're somehow instantly transformed from what you were before into something else entirely. You're suddenly supposed to care and be interested in a load of things you were never interested in before.

To me a lot of the "high arts" are seemingly networking events for rich people or soon to be rich people.
Great work, lvca ! I'm especially happy about the the 'edge label -> subclass' optimisation, as it is a fairly common use case of mine.

Wish you all success.
I was also secretly trying to lower the price. I'd probably pay $100 or $200 for it, not $5 :)
Thanks for the insights - much appreciated :-)
As a museum technologist and someone who works daily harnessing technology to help make collection objects and exhibitions more accessible and open, I found this article to be a bit skewed. Granted, the thrust was on personal collecting habits of those in the tech sector, but I find the arts/tech community to be vibrant, passionate and invested.

Just my 2 cents from the inside.