skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is a bad idea:

You are using marketing terms like "Persona is distributed. Today" (last weeks blog title) but it isn't, because every auth request flows through mozilla servers. You are also advertising that it is so simple, the entire website example is 70 lines of python (recent talk), but it isn't, because you aren't implementing browserid, you're delegating to the centralised mozilla server.

Advertising that it is distributed and simple does not accurately communicate the current state of the implementation. Look at the spec:

https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde...

> This assertion is a Backed Identity Assertion, as defined above. We call it assertion here for simplicity, since the Relying Party typically need only pass this assertion to a verifier service without worrying about the specific semantics of the assertion string.

It does not say that the centralised mozilla verifier is temporary, but expected.

This all leads to people getting the wrong impression. As you say, it is hard to get people to update software on their servers, but they don't even know that they have to - because it's distributed, today, and simple - so they aren't going to be looking. Another group of people are going to look at the spec and implementations and think: what is the point of yet another login scheme which just pipes everything through mozilla?

This is not going to help the adoption of browserid.
If you can't afford to support it you can't afford to run it.
this is an infantile prediction. there is no support for it, nor basis for the behavior from Google.
It seems to be telling me it's 72F in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne at the moment.

I wish :'(

Either that or I'm assuming wrongly that because the demo is reading my location and localising the time, it would also be reading the weather.
Camera Uses Laser Beams to Take 3-D Images From 1 Kilometer Away
I designed a slightly new Hacker News. Comment and let me know what you think.
i hate it when problems are "political" - or more correctly, that the general public's ignorance and fear retarding progress.
slashdot, arstechnica, echojs
Vintage mode (which comes with ST) supports most common vim commands and either way there's plugins for most things and you can write your own for pretty much anything at all.
I'm currently trying to buy a house in UK, I check each potential purchase for distance to cabinet and FTCC on the cabinet. In most cases not having a nearby cabinet (<2KM) has been the deciding factor in not putting an offer in on that house (typically in this area that means a speed of ~1MBps).
Yes, that is true. And I believe they don't have (proper) support even for some paid services, such as App Engine or AdWords. But I was mainly replying to "There is no support at Google".
Yeah, I like the default theme. About the only thing I changed was the tab behaviour to highlight modified files ("highlight_modified_tabs": true) and make the folder labels bold in the left-hand menu ("bold_folder_labels": true).

Maybe some people really hate dark themes?
The underhanded C contest is back
If this is quite clear, why does the demo show an iPad?
I generally tell them "Titus" as my name, so when they call out "Titus", there's only one of me, not multiple "Mike"s going up to grab my coffee. Such first world problems we have. And I'm surprised how many people can't spell the name Titus.
Why is that unfair?
The Big Shift: Abandon dates & report on the past, not the future
pretty slick and nice! like it very much. it would be awesome if PG or someone takes time to get your design ported to the real HN :D
Bitcoins just passed $250/BTC, when will the bubble burst?
Doesn't that makes sense anyway? It isn't like have to get your phone lines after anything else.
Comment Git commits
Do you know any web app (OSS, SaaS, self-hosted) which can be integrated in self-hosted Git server for providing functionality like custom comments on commited code itself?

Workflow should be - I open Git history, browse a code for each commit, choose a file, place a comment in any line. Basically like a discussion with collaborators on that project, but related to the code. There should be also email notifications and maybe some other basic features for that kind of collaboration. So, doing-one-thing-well kind of app.
Linear algebra is indispensable when working with any sort of graphics.
A lot of these services can be pretty laggy and at times unreliable. Good broadband ultimately needs fiber which requires capital and people who can dig up streets etc.

Most telcos will work on the basis of recouping this after X number of years, but can only do so because they have deep pockets. Putting fiber into west london is a no brainer, putting fiber into a village with ~300 residents , half of whom are over 65; not so much.
It's not terrible. You specialize by building up relationships with people at Google and when you're big enough they will have no coice but to listen to you and your clients. It will be a movement.
The flipside is that companies, even ones as massively profitable as Google, should not offer free services.
Why isn't search meant? What about GMail? Millions and millions of people benefit from a simple, free e-mail account with world-class spam protection. Is this also 'simple'? You advice to all these people is that they should pay up or leave? Or should they just live with the risk that sometimes things change?

Here's the thing: Even paid-for services can end up being a nuisance that you want to divest.
Many of the claims are false:
> 1. It’s object oriented.
The point refers to OOHaskell, which is a now dead syntactic dialect. So it may not be valid for common Haskell,
where inheritance with extension may still need to be worked on...
> 17. It has an advanced Array type.
Compare it to even more advanced Array type in R, Matlab, Julia or even NumPy...
> 3. It is a dynamic language.
Most people define dynamic language not by capability to dynamically load code, but to code in quick-and-dirty manner with duck typing.
> 18. It is extensible.
While it allows macros, it doesn't allow for easy addition of arbitrary syntactic sugar like LISP and SCHEME do.

Others are given without reference or elaboration (like pointers to Dynamic, and -fdefer-type-errors in 3, or TemplateHaskell in 18.)

Overall I would call it a bad journalism :-(. One would have hope that 2007 article would be corrected by 2013, but this one hasn't been...
Dutch 17 Year Old Ties GoPro to Weather Balloon
Dutch 17 year old ties a GoPro to a weather balloon, recovers the camera with a GPS tracker and puts photos online.
The same guy (John Slough) started Helion Energy, which is attempting to build a power-producing fusion reactor. Last I heard they had a 1/3 scale device with promising results, and needed $20 million for a full-scale test. But he got funding for the rocket first.

The rocket project may actually be easier. It only pulses once per minute, just runs for three days, and doesn't have to deal with the economic considerations of a practical power plant.

Incidentally, Helion is not the only alternative fusion project in the works. Others include Sandia's MagLIF, Lockheed's recently-announced project, Tri-Alpha, General Fusion, Focus Fusion, and IEC/polywell.
Transparent Lego chandelier by tobias tostesen
Even if they have dark or underutilized fiber it doesn't mean that it's a 0 expenditure. So you don't have to rip up the street, but optics are pretty expensive. That's not even counting a need for new switches if it's not 1 Gbps capable.
Well well well, look who's talking! Let me just get any desktop computer without Windows...oh, wait, I can't (except for about 0.1% of the models out there). Now who's engaging in monopolist and anti-competitive behavior?
I see the video as a reminder that the time you wasted watching this video is like a sand castle, wasted, forever.
too bad there is nothing between free gmail and google apps. I'd like a personal paid account with support.
Yes, and also the same Samsung who do fantastic upstream Linux kernel work for their SoCs, and who employ a whole bunch of Enlightenment developers, and according to Wikipedia about 369000 other people.
Yes, but the main point is that there is a point of contact. It is easier to get hold of God than Google...
Bullets are the most awesome formatting feature in GMail and now I hate to use two click to do that.
Exactly. You don't get a bigger fine if you run a red light after it's been red for 50ms v. 2s, and the fine isn't bigger if the other road has a green.

People are just so important that they have to get to the next red light 10 seconds faster than everyone else.
Isn't that what explainxkcd.com is for?
There's a couple of choke points where you can't take backroads in Austin without going all out of your way. In particular, anything crossing Lady Bird Lake.
Thanks for the anecdote. Statistically, though, Google has no support.
Results are overwhelming, a 12:1 ratio for males:females and a 40:1 ratio for male:other.

At first, I was afraid to answer this poll truthfully because of the recent "gender issues" our scene has faced. But reading through the comments...yes, we (as always) dwelved into the "gender stuff" again but all involved parties managed to have a decent and civilized discussion.

Which made me realize: what our community really needs to improve isn't "red cards", "women-only events", "enforced talks parity" or any other stuff that's just dividing us further. What our community needs is civilized discussion.
So basically a code review tool?

Suggestions from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/131153/open-source-code-r...

For git only ReviewBoard http://www.review-board.org/ seems to be suitable. No personal experience, though.
> Monsanto owns patents in a very restricted area of plant transformation. They aren't going to just sue people owning a completely different technology

They are already suing people who are not applying any plant transformation, just using seeds. They are even suing people who never used their seeds, but got affected by cross-pollination (http://www.rodale.com/research-feed/organic-vs-monsanto-orga...). So who are you to say who they are or aren't going to sue next?
I usually visit http://hckrnews.com, I like the clean design there... But yours is a nice effort
I have a hard time believing they built this before checking if it would make the app store. That's at least the vibe I get from this tweet.
Looks rather similar really http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price
My lemonade stand is dependent on customers not stabbing me in the eye and leaving me to bleed out while they steal all my lemons. That's one end of a continuum. Where do you draw the line? And, more importantly, who gives any of us the right to say "nyaa nyaa toldja so" because someone else drew their line differently?
NASA Scientist Claims to be on the Verge of Faster-Than-Light Travel
You could try the SFTP package. With it, you can mirror a remote directory locally and the package will automatically upload the change in the background. It has some other useful features for working on remote files.

http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp
One of the things I like about the existing Hacker News design is that it's simple and very easy to read. Your redesign uses smaller fonts, which, in my opinion, is definitely not an improvement.
As of this writing, there's still no explanation as to why this Google Group was shut down. Google may shut it down again later today. I hope OP moves quickly to archive the list's contents and get that mailing list hosted elsewhere!
So I hit "TAB" and Google mail sends the partially composed message?
So I'm using Google's compose window, I'm in the middle of composing the message, press "TAB" to, you know, like, insert a TAB character, and it sends the message.

So what's that about?

People, when you design an interface, don't put invisible, undiscoverable, irrecoverable actions in it.
If people are willing to pay for support, then why do they stick with company that does not offer paid support? Why not simply switch some other company that has adequate support plans available?

I see also positive side in Google not catering all possible needs. This leaves space for smaller companies to cover these needs and make some money while doing it.
This is a really good explanation of my program, recommended.
I would reply "When I first used emacs." just to get an upvote from RMS.
Stop lying. You will get sued anyway, you might just have a better chance of winning.
Ask HN: How do apps take top HN positions?
This is really great - had I known about it a week ago I would have used it for a small project. (I ended up scripting it out with httrack). Definitely bookmarked for future use!
I wonder if you'll get more discussion than when I submitted this story yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5517580

I think it's intriguing and deserves more attention.
You left out the bit where Google invested massively in one of the few credible alternatives to Office, and forced Microsoft to reengineer their products to enable online collaboration. So, it's a step or two backwards on support and a leap forward on functionality and access (You can get fully functional Google Docs for free, just not on your own domain, Office 365 seems to be £80/year).
Bootstrap Multiselect
Well, yes and no. We don't get any viruses that run themselves and have access to our data, but we also have no way to share data between apps intelligently, nor can we prevent an app from sending our every interaction to Flurry, and we had to wait for an OS upgrade before accessing contacts asked permission first.

I haven't seen any significant innovation on their end since Notification Center. Android already has alternate lock screens, alternate keyboards, widgets.

My opinion is this; Android is both more innovative and more free. Since I know how to protect myself from malware reasonably well there's no benefit for me using the iPhone. My next phone will be an Android. It [Edit: the iPhone] would be good for, say, my wife, because she could care less about using it as a computing device and just wants to have something that works and takes photos.

PS Google can tighten the screws as much as they like; Android users can just sideload APKs without using the store AFAIK. I think that's far more appropriate. Lock down the store but allow alternatives.
On market intransparency
it has already been created and it's called google.
Patents expire. Companies need to continue to innovate if they want to stay relevant.

The last Roundup-related patent expired, according to Wikipedia, in 2000. Even the Roundup Ready 1 modified seed patent expires next year.
Seems to be in Read-Only mode. I couldn't post to group.
I'm not lying. Don't call me a liar. Monsanto has the same claim on its website. You can read about the suits on Wikipedia. The suits are also public record. Sue them. Go for it. You'll rake in several hundreds of millions and billions of dollars if you can prove its supposedly blatantly misleading claim.
Looks good, I think fonts are too narrow. author name can be greyed out.
It's not hard to run an internal web server for a small office. No sharing necessary.
I have no idea what you're actually asking here - could you perhaps be a little more specific?
Hello Emil,

I believe there is a mistake in this snippet of code: `--` triggers a syntax error. Shouldn't it be

main(O){10<putchar(4^--O?77-(15&5128>>4*O):10)&&main(2+O);}

My obfuscated C experience being quite limited, could you tell me how you determined all those magic values in order to print the right string?

Thank you
This is how I use it: http://i.imgur.com/uwKcrn5.png
App Engine has support. We've found them to be helpful so far.

https://cloud.google.com/support/packages
New Entando Blog Post - Entando Components
Surely that's like saying we've had nuclear submarines since Jules Verne wrote "20,000 leagues under the sea" insofar as Project Orion was little more than science fiction and didn't involve fusion drives ("atomic bomba" would be fission).

(Verne's Nautilus was powered by primitive batteries.)
Seriously, what is with the blatantly biased sources? Why not link to a source from an unbiased top IP lawyer or professor instead?
> "C++ is unsafe by design," he said. "It gets you down to the metal," a term that means that the code runs very fast because it can be read directly by the hardware, "but it is unsafe."

Hmm...
Webinar: Introduction to Entando 3.2.0 17th April 2013
I assume that eventually this will just show a flat (relative to the circumference of XKCD-Earth) expanse of sand due to entropy (maybe followed by a few exciting moments when it gets swallowed by its start red-gianting, is swallowed by a black hole, then billions of years of nothing pending the heat death of the universe).
A simple d3.js map explained
Getting to Yes is the book on negotiation. I'm surprised someone didn't mention it already, but I'll get the karma points instead. If you haven't read it, it will likely become one of the more important books on business and give-and-take interactions you read. We all negotiate every day, on things like prices and salaries, but also what movie to go to or what restaurant to eat at. This book helps in all these areas.

It transformed negotiation from me from something I didn't like to a human and essential part of business.

- A few words I wrote on the book -- http://joshuaspodek.com/top-models-strategies-negotiating

- Wikipedia page -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_yes

- Amazon -- http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

Here are the main strategic points, for reference

1. Separate the people from the problem.

2. Focus on interests, not positions.

3. Invent options for mutual gain.

4. Insist on using objective criteria.

5. Know your BATNA (Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement)

6. Always try to improve your BATNA.
I know. I use OS X. I started using it for the exact reasons you list. I don't like where it is heading.
And microsoft totally stopped selling and developing windows server when there were two other awesome free server operating systems ...
For Chinese, http://xguox.me/blog/2013/04/10/understanding-publications-a...
Roman trove beneath Bloomberg London HQ
Anonymous Attacks Cuban GOV Websites
I did not delve into the details as you might have, but whenever I see mmap associated with huge perf I tend to wonder about corruption. I've seen to many bench comparing ondisk stores with in mmap stores flushed to disk one in a while. Then you need extra steps/configs to get good enough reliability that hinder perf.
hard to call it a redesign when it doesn't solve any problems.
BBC News.
Ask PG: What Is An "Exploding Accelerator Offer"?
Yesterday on twitter [1] pg mentioned "exploding offers" from some
accelerators, and to be honest, I'm just clueless by what that means in
context. I've heard the phrased used in big company buy-out situations.
An example might be the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T having
a condition where if the deal didn't get approved, then AT&T would have
to pay a whole bunch to T-Mobile (for the brand damage etc.).

Dan Shapiro (hn:danshapiro) submitted the tweet to HN yesterday during
the most busy part of the day for submissions, so it didn't get much
of a chance for up-votes.

This morning I woke up wondering what the heck an "exploding accelerator
offer" really is? How do they work? Is there yet another, umm,
"non-transparent" or "potentially risky" investment practice that
founders need to be aware of?

(Yes, I intentionally tried to phrase it nicely since terms and
practices are just terms and practices people/companies agree to)

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/321657682761232384

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5520295
Pressing tab will move the focus to the send button, hitting return will then send the message. Presumably this is what you did. Possibly not ideal, but I'd disagree it is an invisible, undiscoverable (tab to move focus is standard), and irrecoverable (you must also hit return).
Really like it visually, but I don't think there's enough attention on the actual titles. The eye doesn't catch the titles enough.
StatHat - Pricing
Exploring the Space of Human Interaction
When I read elsewhere "We saw a lot of 100 GbE deployments primarily in core networks over the past couple of years, and now 100 GbE peering is taking off too. Several IXPs around the world, most of whom are Brocade customers, have announced the availability of 100 GbE peering ports or the intent offer them this year: AMS-IX (Amsterdam), DE-CIX (Frankfurt), JPIX (Tokyo), JPNAP (Tokyo), LINX (London), Netnod (Stockholm) and NIX.CZ (Prague)."

I can't help but think that European data centers have core internet of 100Gb as well. Following up on that Stockholm company, http://www.netnod.se/bahnhof-becomes-first-netnod-100-gbps-c... says "Netnod is one out of only four Internet Exchanges in the world that offers 100 GE services." Elsewhere, euNetworks Group Ltd says "The new 100G capability is available between the key cities of Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Paris, and also between Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Dublin, and Manchester. " (These are from last year.)

It's therefore hard for me to believe "that the US has the only first world broadband economy" given that many other non-US cities have 100 Gbit service.

I also think it's a bit disingenuous to split a country into its first-world and third-worlds parts. A third-world country can have parts which are very first-world. I think an aspect of being first-world is that private people also have access to good services. In Stockholm, for example, 100 Mbit residential fiber is about $60/month.
I love the classic design :)
I guess you mostly want to fix your current problem but if it's of interest in the longer term, we're building an email-based tool to not only handle the mailing lists but also help turn their content into documentation - http://copyin.com.

We're going to be rolling this out with a number of Rails and Android open-source projects and if you'd be interested in speaking it would be great to include you guys. If would be of help please feel free to contact me directly: peter dot nixey at copyin dot com.
I think larger fonts with more spacing in the list would be more readable:

http://jsbin.com/ucupox/1/
Every day, thousands of Android handsets are sold with a default browser that will likely never see a major upgrade. Why would you disregard that while criticizing Mobile Safari for its update policy, a browser on a OS which actually does receive updates?

Hundreds of millions of people use IE8 to browse the web. Many of them use XP, so they can't upgrade to IE9. Less than 3 years a go, computers with Windows XP were still for sale. IE8 is going to be around for a long time.

Many Android handsets will never see an update. Even if as of today, all Android handsets were sold with Chrome (which is a far cry from reality), it would take at least 3 years before we can stop developing for Android Browser.

Do you know how many people use a 2 year old version of Mobile Safari? Very few. You can stop developing for it right now. That's why Mobile Safari isn't anything like IE6.
Until one morning they wake up and exclaim to their friends, with much more surprise: "Hey guys! Ti
That's a poor poker face, AT&T.
Only on OSX maybe? It works perfectly on Windows, not sure about Linux as I'm too lazy to reboot and test right now. Perhaps someone else can check?
It does not do that, I just double checked, even when the focus is on the "Send" button a dialog box pops with "Send (Ctrl-Enter)" and no sending happens. Maybe what you encountered was the work of a browser extension or a labs feature left enabled, or most likely you just tapped return at the wrong moment.
Zooming in breaks the layout.
Would it work for wasps? They're all over my deck this year :-(
do you happen to have a blog about this stuff? I'd love to read it