skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've always asked that others not host development documentation. Lots of us keep a local copy either for playing around or helping improve them, but you've clearly posted this as a preview of Bootstrap 3 without any permission from Mark.
No, but it's a Google Apps domain.

Free, too, from before they cancelled their free plans.
Panning following the contrails is beautiful. Very creative.
The images and everything else would still be unusually small though.
And I am still waiting to use a Saavn minus Flash!
> The Contest is void in Cuba, Quebec, Saudi Arabia and Syria
> and where prohibited by law. Individuals and entities
> restricted by applicable export controls and sanctions
> programs are ineligible to participate in the Contest

Some could perhaps be explained by export restrictions on crypto code, although I would expect to see some other countries (Iran) banned if that were the case.

Quebec has rather stringent data privacy laws - perhaps these are not compatible with Google's personal data storage policy.
It's a different kind of lock in. Phone lock in is real because the apps I bought on e.g. IOS don't transfer anywhere else. In the case of e.g. frequent flyer miles, that's something they just give me for "free" as part of using their service. That makes the next purchase potentially cheaper so I'll tend to shop with them again. But I could just walk away (and have, in the case of airlines) if I feel the need since this was essentially a gift to me in any case.
Another bicycle innovation, the sailing bike: http://www.whike.com/en/
but Watson doesn't scale to the amount of queries google is getting
This is a continuation of a post I made a couple days ago, title "Hacker News Redesign". It was a link to a jsbin. This time, it's a Github Page, which means it can update, so check back often.

I plan on accepting feedback on this redesign. I already took some feedback from the last post. This time, I can update the project upon feedback, and keep a dialog about the design.

Hope you enjoy it! :)
Efficient simply because of how much you have to be willing to do without. The most obvious is climate control. Sure you might not get wet but damn I would not want to be that close to the road in the dead of summer and I cannot imagine the fun on cold days either. Top it off with no real crash protection; just versus normal objects; most likely very little standards in manufacturing, and then there is visibility; both for the user and others. Storage, well as long as it fits on a bicycle it should fit here, maybe.

So yeah, its more efficient than an automobile but it does not compete with automobiles. Why compare not compare it to something in everyday use, like bicycles? Price most likely. So they went with an absurd comparison.
Well, at least he is going to know what people from HN that choose to answer polls say about their age.
I don't have a LinkedIn profile, never had one and don't see why I ever would want one anyway?

We have xing over here, which seems to be the local rip-off - and it's useless crap. I don't like FB or most things online with a 'social' label, and these sites seem to be 'FB without games'. I don't get the appeal. I don't understand the target group (ignoring recruiters).
Cannot sign in. I wonder if this is country restricted or something. Or probably some bug ..
Yes. I don't care at all about the privacy. I do care, very much, that a lot of my digital life is tied to a Google account, and losing that account will effectively kill my online presence. (see, for example, people who've had their Google account hacked and then lost everything else.)

There doesn't appear to be an easy way to export all of that stuff. I'd really like a way to export all my logins and passwords to a CSV file. Yes, I'm aware just how risky storing that file is - I can encrypt it and store it on a USB stick; print it out and keep it in my 'read on death' file with my will; etc.
They've reimplemented their web interface to be all AJAXy since few months ago with discussion view and all similar to the old Gmail. Although I'm IMAP user, I don't feel their new web interface is lacking anything.

You can setup your own domain with Fastmail with the $39.95/yr plan.
>Walmart avoids things like loyalty card discounts

Walmart has "walmart cards" and while they don't give you a discount, what you will notice is that if you return something they might resist if you ask for cash back but saying "put it back on my walmart card" will result in a near instant refund in almost any situation.
The GraphLab Workshop - Why Should You Care?
I've always thought that when someone refers to oneself as being a "hacker" then they're most likely not.

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#what_is
The Inconvenient Truth of High Tech’s Silicon Valley
Conservatives and republicans propagate how rich people benefit society more than the rest of us. That they alone will bring people struggling to survive out of poverty. However, Silicon Valley’s real story reveals the fallacy behind their words.
Well, Walmart doesn't have razor thin margins. On some things they do (on some things they even lose money) but e.g. toys have a markup of over 40%, for example. That's probably not even the highest margin.
Bitcoin exchange halts trades of digital currency after drop in value
Any ideas/plans for how you will do the migration?
I was particularly interested in building parsers a short while back, and your post rekindled my interest.

So, in the interest of sharing I thought I'd mention a couple of interesting libraries I came across.

In Ruby I think Temple (https://github.com/judofyr/temple) is really quite cool. It's designed to make creating templating languages really easy, and constructs ASTs using user-defined parsers.

And even more interesting in my opinion is Haskell's Parsec (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parsec). It uses combinators to build up parsers, and can produce friendly parse error messages "for free."

Thanks for the intersting read.
Its actually the miners who will be getting the transaction fees once the supply of bitcoins stops growing.
On what basis are you claiming that they are not impossible to forge? You can check the crypto yourself:

http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf
I was also disappointed by the amount of responses in my age group. (49)
Happy Birthday, you have cancer
No, and here's why: http://hadihariri.com/2012/04/07/is-your-identity-in-your-ow...
31st Dec 1969 23:59 UTC, Ouch
Yes, this would be lovely! What about adding a more button?
I'm not sure the computer could do all of their jobs. A lot of their jobs were judgement calls, often based on "gut feel". I never got the impression the people there were completely redundant.
It would be interesting to have seen how many people used their own personal domain with Google Apps. It's the best of both worlds.
Yes I do... kind of. My personal email is everything that really is personal. Stuff like my twitter account and my github account. For everything else, I use another email address (@fine.io)
Comic Sans with alternating colors for all the letters.
As long as you are tweaking things, could you add a confirmation option to the flag link? Its placement next to the comment link makes it all too easy to hit by accident on a smartphone screen by fat-fingered people like me.
Quebec has weird laws about competitions.

(http://www.advertisinglawyer.ca/advertising.htm)

(http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/08/why-many-contes...)
Some of us old farts use Ctrl + to get around such issues.
If I put my credit card number into a site and the next page said "actually this isn't real, and we promise we didn't save your card number", my next step would be to call my bank and cancel the card.
Web games with in-app purchases get fair trading scrutiny
Can we have a third option? "I use the gmail service to read my email, but I either use Google Apps for my own domain or forward all my email to gmail."
I do, it's awesome!
Self hosted postfix+dovecot - at least I see what's actually going on in /var/log/maillog.
i've been using bootstrap a lot for the last ~half a year, initially i was like "wow, so much components".

now i think that the styles are not very clean written, you have a lot of work changing standard behavior ...

foundation is much lighter ( of course therefore it lacks a lot of elements, i.e. you have to add icons by yourself ) but also cleaner.
Yes, but I'm going to change, because I don't trust "Google stability" anymore. And if account will be banned for some reasons or accidentally - it can be problem too.
I don't really care about Gmail 'features' that I will be missing out on, spam detection is probably the thing I'll miss the most, but that's a tradeoff I can live with.

Other than that, there's the thing that I need to trust my VM provider, but that much easier than trusting a data mining conglomerate with your private conversations.

In the end, self hosting an email server isn't that big of a deal to set up and maintain.
Personal domain hosted by (free) Google Apps. I'm looking to move away but I don't want to host myself and I can't find anyone decent.

I want to use Gandi email hosting as I've used them before and they seem pretty reliable - however to do that I'd need to transfer my domain from 123-reg and because it's a Spanish domain, it's a bit more difficult. I'd use 123-reg's email but I don't really trust them.

If anyone knows any good email hosting providers, please reply with recommendations.
Hold the phone up to your ear until it makes the Siri beep. Then people will think you're just talking on your phone.
I didn't have any trouble reading it, but here is a link to the report the article is based on [PDF]:

http://www.sigar.mil/pdf/audits/2013-04-10audit-13-6.pdf
"In the real, mathematical world of one way functions Bob's reverse dictionary is called a 'rainbow table'..."

No; it's just a reverse lookup table. A "rainbow table" is a specific space optimization on top of a reverse lookup table. See the Wikipedia article you linked to:

"To address this issue of scale, reverse lookup tables were generated that stored only a smaller selection of hashes that when reversed could generate long chains of passwords. Although the reverse lookup of a hash in a chained table takes more computational time, the lookup table itself can be much smaller, so hashes of longer passwords can be stored. Rainbow tables are a refinement of this chaining technique and provide a solution to a problem called chain collisions."
I think it's foolish to assume to have the magic tool that will instantly give you a meaningful probability distribution that can statistically reproduce arbitrary datasets. Once you've choosen a certain bandwidth (by fixed binning, or choosing a kernel) you've lost the ability to resolve structure finer than this, and you cannot quantify parameters (e.g. the macroscopic view) much larger than that.

But of course, playing around with these parameters will hopefully give you a nice plot, insight into the problem and allow you to propose a proper model describing your data. Then you can fit this model to your data and extract the model parameters more precisely.

And when the distribution width of the toplogical features match your kernel sizes, of course, this PDF will look almost identical as the density plots.
I had a similar impression. the video looks like the founders really don't know anything about the business they are getting into. The video looks cheesy, like a corporation trying to speak teen's language to sell them ice cream, not like somebody who understands artists.

also it was hard to understand what the site does, there is something like a price slider on the demo page but does not slide. what the hell is going on? better read some explanation...

the founder probably did many mistakes, good luck next time.
Great idea! This is something we'd be happy to support on writeLaTeX (https://www.writelatex.com)

Edit: I should also point out that there is a fairly well-established protocol for online latex compilers, namely that of the CLSI (https://github.com/scribtex/clsi), which is maintained by jpallen at ShareLaTeX. So, it should be straightforward to do this in a vendor-neutral way.
Try KeePass.
Yes, but I am in the process of changing that. I'm moving to Fastmail.fm

I'm starting fresh and will be filtering mail by address in future: Gmail for non-personal stuff, signups, mailing lists, etc. My personal domain(s) for friends and important things.
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I'm very familiar with Afghanistan (I spent a few years there as a contractor), and very familiar with the subcontracting process. The article actually understates the problem.

Virtually 100% of the contracts in Afghanistan which involve transport are contracted to local vendors. Those vendors pay off the Taliban to not attack them; this has been known inside the contracting community ~forever, and publicly since at least 2005. The going rate is about 10-15% of total project expenses; usually it goes from DOD to prime to potentially a sub to a local trucking company to either a relative who is Taliban affiliated, or via a local government/warlord person who is Taliban affiliated.

The risk isn't that random contracts are possibly to Taliban front companies; it is that virtually every trucking and logistics operation (except air) funda the Taliban with a substantial percentage of contract amount.

For the high dollar contracts, or those with substantial on-base performance requirements (e.g. GD/L-3 supplying IT personnel), the prime contract isn't the issue, but the subsidiary support contracts those contractors sign. E.g. when they pay for their living trailers to be brought on base, the trucking company is either closely Taliban affiliated, or pays 10-15% of the trailer contract to Taliban. This means even the big contracts are paying a few percent to the Taliban, indirectly.

The issue is that if the US had zero presence in Afghanistan, none of these contracts would exist. After opium, contracting-related extortion is the major funding source for the Taliban; higher than extortion of the local Afghan economy (other than opium).

If we decriminalized [Afghan] opium, either by buying/destroying or buying/medicalizing (or just decriminalizing narcotics worldwide), and pulled out of Afghanistan, there would be no funding to keep the bad guys going.
Primary for me is interesting bullshit, listserve, note taking, spam, recruiters, etc. And yes Google can read all of this high-value information!

Secondary is my quasi-professional front.
Quartz scheduler can be backed by CouchDb
That is why one should scale images in ems. Old enough to remember when programming.
Citogenesis

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/citogenesis.png
Interesting! I just finished writing a very similar engine in C++. https://github.com/catnapgames/NLTemplate
Spam is really the only reason I haven't switched over to self-hosting at this point. Does anyone know of a good service or method to provide similar spam protection that google provides?
I think the easiest mathematical example would probably be something along the lines of:

"I've managed to solve for X, Y and Z!"

"So did I, but I don't believe you. Prove it to me."

"The sum of all the digits in X, Y and Z is 143"
Here is something with a bit of substance:
http://web.archive.org/web/20070817170606/http://mtgox.com/g...
I am using my own domain, but after trying self-hosting (downtime stress while I am on vacation) and paid hosting (lacks decent webmail), I now use Google Apps to actually host the email.

My reasons for using my own domain are simple:

* I want to be able to switch whenever I want, without having to email everyone telling me I changed address.

* When I use it professionally, my domain is my "business card", where I host my website with portfolio etc.
Yes, that was sloppy of me. I will correct.
I put "France" although I really meant "Fleur", the problem was I was on a mobile device and couldn't go back and find out who it was specifically.
Oh - thanks for the info. I was under the impression it would be a pun towards Fort Knox.
The submitter didn't even need to read the entire article. That information was available in the first sentence:

"More than 80 percent of the Defense Department’s Afghanistan reconstruction contracts are vulnerable to putting U.S. taxpayer money into enemy coffers, a government watchdog says in a new report."
Why is that bad? Please enlighten a naive hacker
Sounds kewl. Let me check. Thanks.
I moved to http://atmailcloud.com and am really happy with the service. ($2/month/account; minimum $10/month; can host multiple domains under one control panel.)
I think the poster is hinting that having the largest trading platform for a (formerly) $1bn economy based on an RPG trading card site is not wise.

The events on mtgox in the last few days are irritating but not all that surprising. Bitcoin as a protocol is still solid but traders need to take their business to a less amateurishly run platform. Mtgox already has several competitors (Bitstamp seem good) but a shock like this was required to overcome the critical mass they had.

As an aside - it's fascinating to watch a new financial system being built from the ground up. Through the regular disasters in the Bitcoin ecosystem I'm starting to see why parts of the 'real' banking world function the way they do.
Yes, the lack of reason to switch.
No, and yes.

I use firstname@lastname.com for my primary personal email, hosted by Google Apps.

I use lastname@gmail.com for my primary impersonal email.
Team reconstructs 'human ancestor'
Nice to see that you've changed the hovers to being the HN grey, I think I said on the first one that it was too 'Black text on white' and this time your subtle improvements have made a big difference to legibility so far as I'm concerned. Well done!
What for this app wants to post tweets from my name? Decline.
I'm planning to move to Runbox [1], a Norwegian company. Norway arguably has the some tough privacy laws (than US) and being a European citizen, all the better for me.

My friend is using it and the interface is not as polished as other providers,but definitely worth the money!

[1]: http://runbox.com/
Yes and not bothered about privacy issues at all.
But I use Google apps on a personal domain, so I am "kind of" using gmail as my primary email.
Maybe this explains so many me-too consumer based websites are de rigueur around here? I'd like to hear more feedback about MVP practices within the enterprise space.
I too want to do this but I haven't seen a self-hosted interface and spam filtering that really competes with Gmail :(
How 1927-12-31 23:54:08 happened twice
No, I'm current split though, I mainly use shanea93@ho[]tmai`l.co.uk, but it feels impersonal when I email people, I'm thinking of swapping over to me@shane[]armstro`ng.co.uk (a domain I own.)
> I used to use a self hosted email address, but it just lead to confusion.

Not sure what that means. How does a self-hosted email address lead to confusion? Confusion by who for what?
I used to believe that spam detection was the critical component that would be difficult to replace, but going back about a year now I don't believe that's true any more.

I've even seen Gmail mark its own address confirmation mails as spam, along with many mails from people I frequently converse with.
Wow. Exactly what kind of pleasure does a person derive from giving false answers to the question "What's your age?" on an anonymous internet poll? I am not asking that facetiously -- I really am curious to know. Is this some people's of idea of "being bad"? "being funny"?

Something like trolling, getting a rise out of people, etc -- I don't like it or agree with it, but I can comprehend it. In this case, no one is even going to see or know what you did. Is there some pleasure taken in knowing that people think the results are valid while you secretly know they aren't? Or was there an awareness that the moderators would see the bad results, be annoyed by them, and post about it?
I was humorously assuming it was because almost all programming languages have key words in English.

The Imp of the Recursive in my head was imagining an alternate programming culture like a Quebec version of steam-punk.
Anyone know if Wikipedia has any tools to detect that sort of thing?
How about lots of cat photos on the front page? I've heard that's very popular with the under 10 group.
Lol and your post reads like a google PR post.
This does suggest that they really did shut down Reader in order to push people to use Google+. This suggests that somebody at Google is a fucking idiot, because Google+ is in no way a substitute for Reader. Google+ (like Facebook or Twitter) gives me a stream of stuff that's happened recently - it's ephemeral, in that if I don't make a conscious effort to bookmark something I see there, I'll forget it. An RSS reader, on the other hand, remembers (and categorizes) everything unless I make a conscious choice to mark it as forgettable.
It's nice! I would avoid the icon for the upvote though. It looks like a pipe (|) at first glance.
Nearly 10%? Nowhere near that.

66/(66+23+358+1340+1465+813+378+168+86+34+22+16+15+17+18+19+21+82)
0.013357619914996965

=> 1.3%
How do people know that other platforms are being run less amateurishly? For all that I know, it could be just that the other exchanges didn't have so much traffic // weren't ddosed yet.
So from what I gather and the various photos in the article, you are put into a 'low slung' vehicle weighing only 35kg and drive along with other road users in their 1-2000kg vehicles. Sounds fun. I give you two weeks on a highway.

My daily commute (3km by bicycle) includes 100m of main road (and optionally an amazing two tunnels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltsADGmrjVQ). The rest is a shared use path. I now take the lane on this section because so many cars/vans have tried to pass me dangerously. I was seriously thinking of buying a head cam.

If you really want to make a change and get people out of cars you need to make the infrastructure you provide safe enough for a 10 year old to cycle it. This means not putting different types of transport in conflict. Have segregated car/cycle/pedestrian lanes. Prioritise cycling over all other forms of transport. Recognise it as a transport 'service' and make it core to government transport policy.

This stuff is beginning to happen in the UK. (See London.) Studies are showing the massive benefits to a city (financially) putting in segregated cycling lanes and the long term benefits these bring to companies (cyclists don't have as many days sick). There are also the obvious health benefits.

The problem with America is that it loves the car (as does the UK) and is only just beginning to wake up to the fact that converting your city into a massive parking lot just doesn't work and is socially/financially a bad thing.

So make it safe enough for a 10 year old to use, design out conflict (seperate out cars/cycles/pedestrians) and put cycling as a priority above everything else. Do not give me a 35kg vehicle where I am forced to queue with all the rest of the cars.
Those crazy Quebecois are going to use the knowledge learned to nuke Toronto!
How to increase ROP (Return on Projects) by reducing context-switches
USA corporations, including Google, have restrictions on paying money to residents of certain countries such as Cuba and Syria. Tough luck.
Then why the dot and the wierd lower- and uppercase mixture?
If you just want to increase font size for a website/short time. Almost every browser can do so by doing ctrl(cmd)+ or -.
Not faster than old. At least less ugly.
US craft beer: How it inspired British brewers
I dunno why, but that font seriously hurts my eyes.
The mouse distance to go from the link's text to the comments seems really far, IMO that's the most important link per row. I thought the points section was the comments.
New music 'rewarding for the brain'
I hate hate hate the Arial Narrow. It's too jarring of a difference between the header and the content. I'd keep it at non-narrow.
"Fall down seven times, get up eight times..."
A scooter or motorcycle is the best comparison. Similar levels of safety & cost & climate protection & fun, IMO.