skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your site is a simple static blog or whatever, there probably is no XSS vector. So you probably don't need CSP.
Show HN: I'm starting a Quantified Self podcast
I'm open to suggestions for new names to be interviewed.

And btw, what topics of Quantified-Self fascinate you more?
Hurry, send the link to someone else!
It might be libel in the U.K., but the standard for such is a bit higher in the U.S. Which is probably a good thing, on the whole, as otherwise we'd have had to destroy the Internet ten years ago based on its usage as a libel-launching platform.
It really needs an accordion soft-synth, and when you change direction (and/or when you start to slow down?), to play the next note in the song... as you said, with volume depending on movement speed (and maybe current position also affecting the sound a little). In short, what we need is an VST to javascript bridge haha.

And then make a litte plugin out of it, so this can be put on all websites; using a canonical CDN location would even mean everybody has it cached all the time, so there'd be no downside to doing that.

I have been wondering what the web 3.0 would look like for a while now, but I asked the wrong question.... what does it sound like, that is what matters.
Depends on what patent applications one gets for review ;)
Symmetry fallacy. Saying "Reddit was right" doesn't make Reddit wrong, it makes one more wrongsayer wrong.
Cyanogenmod is not an separate OS. It is just Android.
True. But if what you say is true, that the encryption in javascript is good enough or comparable to their desktop counterparts, then it is a step in the right direction.

Nothing is 100% secure, specially in the web, but anything is better that what we have today.

I will start doing some research on the solutions to this. We are going to do for our clients, what I expect my providers do for me.
I think it's the same reason people write "lol" instead of "hahaha" even though they are not actually laughing out loud.

It sounds like internet speek, it's cooler and more 1337.
Not true. We have 24hour pubs.
Funny how this stops being true as soon as it involves people you don't like. (Not accusing you personally. Just tired of "it's okay if they're politicians on the other side!")
You are just playing a recording, the user doesn't "play an accordion" by resizing the window, and it is really uninteresting.
And they were so close to getting it right too. Change "D-league" to "rookie year" and it's apt.
doxxing of usernames is banned. doxxing of non-Reddit entities is not covered by policy.
I didn't want to say that so I'm glad someone else did =)
It's actually not sensible to assume that basic principles apply to things that are complex and subtle.

For example, a basic principle for centuries was that metal is too heavy to float, therefore it was clearly too heavy to fly. Simple, basic, and completely wrong - see for example today's airplanes.

This is not to say that the opponents of austerity must have it all figured out, but rather that history has not been kind to ideas of the form "this complex system must surely follow certain common sense principles".
In terms of your little make-believe story it's -- "send photos of igouy and you and your buddies, and we'll see which photos are prettier".

But don't send photos of your cousins, and your buddies cousins, and...
What's wrong with Paul Ryan?
Does it matter? When your adversaries make the laws, it is not meaningful to debate legalities.

Instead, ask, what has he done that is unjust?

[Sorry, I accidentally downvoted you when I meant to hit reply.]
Current mobile ecosystems definitely have become heavily reliant on 3rd party apps. That doesn't mean it's the only way a mobile OS (or any OS) can succeed, nor does it imply that you need to hit a critical mass of app developers for it to be successful.

I think the Ubuntu phone will run regular Ubuntu apps and the Firefox OS treats web apps as first class citizens. Those two are leveraging pre-existing applications.

Aside from that, the only apps I use on my phone are the browser, google maps, and google voice. Who's to say the massive 3rd party application pool is even needed for an OS to really be successful? What if Sailfish just had very few really well-written and privacy-respecting apps that they sold for like $20?
Up to a point, yes. But the whole point of money is that it serves as an intermediary for value, so that you don't need to do barter. If a currency is extremely volatile this function is diminished because when you immediately have to get rid of your money to hold some kind of stable value you get closer and closer to a barter system. In the limit where nobody wants to hold money and immediately wants to get rid of it you get a barter system.

For example if bitcoin is so volatile that every time people earn one they immediately want to buy X with it to make sure they hold their value, you might as well skip the bitcoin step and directly use X as a currency, especially since a bitcoin transaction isn't free. X could be stocks, bonds, gold, dollars, etc.
As much as I don't really enjoy working in Javascript, I think this type of thing may be the future of the presentation layer of web applications. The alternative is better browser support for alternative runtimes to JS, but that seems at lot less likely. But the ability to use the same front-end code client-side and server-side is a huge selling point, particularly to the extent that the boundary can be abstracted, so that application aspects can be declaratively deployed. I love my Django for data layer and business logic, but I'm far less married to it for presentation. I'm very intrigued.
By planning your holidays.
1) Identify issue and alert manager that it needs addressing - say ew say clock changes for summertime as a poor obvious example.
2) manager ignores it with it will be fine mentality as nothing is on fire at the time
3) you book holiday when you expect shit to hit fan

Shit hits fan, you have issue documented as you alerted your manager and got response not an issue so you booked holiday and not there. With that you can not be blamed. Also ALL IT people worth there salt work above and beyond what there contract states - so if your contract is for DBA work, that is not sys admin work, that is not crawling under desks networking or desktop support - but you help out and do those things. So with that if it is outside your scope of your work contract then again you have the ability to ignore it as well. But the holiday approach is the best.

But there are 3 types of managers - those that can do your job, those that think they can do your job and those that will admit they have no idea. Then ontop of that there are those that can balance dealing with you and sheilding you from HR and the other crap and then there are those that just look after themselfs and smile to your face and say all sorts behind your back. As a rule a manager that can do your job is one you will get on with, ones that can not do your job are less likely to be good managers I have found, though have met some that are and there is no hard and fast rule or way to single the good from the bad sadly until your few months into a job.
It does take skill, just not technical.

Knowing the right people, flirting with tech reporters, being good at PR etc

That is what gets you ahead.
IT'S BEER O'CLOCK!
Also, I wouldn't have gotten that feeling of smug superiority for having read Terry Pratchett.
I think Google has like 90% market share in Europe, and most of the rest is taken by Yandex/Yahoo. Bing has a very tiny market share worldwide (like 2%-4%).
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> I really want to experience zero-gravity!

You can.

http://www.gozerog.com/

Or if you don't want to drop $5k, go to your local flying school. You can get ~5 seconds of zero G in a Cessna.
Out of curiosity.. how much money were you trying to charge for the service?
Does this site have an API?
Is releasing photos of someone and accusing them of murder really not considered libel in the US? It seems like quite an extreme case of libel to me (although IANAL).
Sweet, that's for doing this and clarifying.
It's telling me to start drinking at 9am.
I left Reddit a while back because I felt this way. I'm a conservative and on that site it's like being a social pariah. I'd rather just keep my thoughts to myself from now on.
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Love a great terrible project. Nice job!
The reddit thread started with good intents. From what I saw (and I didn't follow it very much) the goal was to name possible suspects. They did this by look for people with large backpacks who were later seen without them.

The problem is that redditors are your average everyday people. Some people don't understand that "possible suspect" doesn't mean "this guy is a terrorist, get him". This mentality is not just reddit. It exist in our country already. Each time a suspect is pictured on TV, they already guilty in the minds of many viewers. It seems that most people don't understand our "innocent until proven guilty" justice system.
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I too, struggle with a lot of this. I've seen people who just "sit back" when they are dissatisfied with the stuff that frustrates them at work.

Problem with me is, I'm unable to do that. I DO enjoy the work I do, I DO recognize the value that I am bringing to the company/others, and I AM frustrated at people who insist on a work-prevention structure, but I just cannot bring myself to push things off my own plate.

I see the people who stand around talking about useless miscellaneous happenings while everyone else is sitting/working. I see the people who (even in non-managerial roles), take the fruits of my effort, and wave it high in the air "oh look, I'm such a genius! Look at what I did!". I see those same people treat me like crap simply because I'm actually doing work and not talking about how I lost $500 playing online poker yesterday, or how his iPhone app made 5 bucks this month. I'm see those same people make racist or sexist remarks as a joke, 5 feet away from the subjects of their jokes. I'm not the "in" crowd, I'm just there to produce results and value so they can show it off, get promoted, and look back down on me and sneer.

I also see that one other programmer on the other corner, working just like me, and being treated no differently.

I'm a very patient and calm person, but seeing how much anger I have pent up, I can only extend a little of my remaining empathy and sense that, that one other programmer feels very much the same.
So you want to do a PhD (2012)
I read about a study done some time ago that said pretty much everyone starts "lying" when they report above 45 hours per week. Like your example, they start scoring things as work that one might not otherwise.

E.g. I found my max "death march" rate of work, which I can sustain for a number of months, is 6 7 hour days. That's 7 hours of real, at the keyboard work, not counting formal meetings, lunch, breaks, etc.

More than once I suffered because bad management measured apparent work effort, e.g. vs. people who put in a lot more hours including debugging for some inexplicable reason vs. useful results.
Not just crying but legs kicking and hands trying to grab their own poo while you try and open a bag of wipes. I think you need 5 arms to handle that situation.
By definition: "[DDos] is an attempt to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users.". When I see "DDoS" I always thought it was malicious...
His co-authors are not those who fucked up the original study.
Except they didn't say that. What the hell is "Where's Wally"? Are they trying to avoid trademark infringement or something?
I didn't say "common sense principles", I said "basic principles". Most complex systems surely follow certain basic principles.

Apparently "don't spend money you don't have on negative-return investments" isn't common sense.
Ask HN: How do you make the most of talent?
Not necessarily a question about technical talent, most about talent in any field. Once you recognize that someone has a certain level of talent in an area what helps that person make the most of it? What environment? What approach? etc.
I'm reminded of Pirsig's comments on the multiple ways you could break down a motorcycle, for example.

The tyranny of the dominant decomposition is no joke, especially when single inheritance and single dispatch are so popular.
Except that accusation has not been made by the entity "Reddit" but by individual people.

Making that distinction may be hard for fossilized media and politicians, but it should come natural to anybody on HN.
Giving someone a medium for free speech is NOT the same as committing the act of libel. If they did want to sue it should be against the OP/commentors, not the site.
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Having both lived with people and married one, and being absolutely atheistic, and someone who previously thought "it's just a piece of paper"... it's not, and I was wrong. Being married is different.

There's also some reasons to believe that cohabitating before marriage (to the same person) leads to higher rates of divorce: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/the-downsid...

What's different about it? I'm not 100% sure. But none of the guys I lived with (for years) caused me the kind of angst that my husband did at first, when I moved in with him and immediately got married a few weeks after. (Prior, we didn't really live together before marriage except for weeks/months at a time at the others' apartment, living in different countries.) I'd never had a terrible "adjustment period" before, but did this time… and believe me, on paper, previous boyfriends were way more annoying than my husband was, even in those first few months. We got through it, obviously. I'm grateful for him every day.

I'd always been a committed and faithful girlfriend to the others but it just isn't the same as being married. Which surprised me as much as anyone.

Intellectual types underrate the importance of ceremony. I now believe that's a mistake.
Lawsuits based on what? Sure there could be lawsuits but none of them should be against the site itself.
I would not be surprised to learn that the US Government is the largest single purchaser of IBM hardware, directly or indirectly. Most projects I am familiar with that use COTS machines for processing are using IBM boxes. A significant number of those were x86 though, which leads me to believe that market isn't enough for IBM. Of course, they were pushing POWER really hard when I left that world.
Not gonna downvote you, but that's a very glib reading of what, for me, was at times a melancholy and dark piece of writing. The silliness is there, in part, to make more palatable a story about loneliness, alienation, and fear of separation from others.

_why was highly critical, even before he disappeared, of the "programmer mentality" that's incubated and fostered by sites like Hacker News itself. He was worried that something with such potential for fun, for creativity, for exploration, was being turned into something incredibly mechanized and efficient and even brutal. His "Poignant" Guide was just another way of exploring that.
For the most part, they were pointing out suspicious pictures, in the wake of a nearby large-scale criminal event. Not suspicious people by name.
> Why isn't a startup doing this?

There is no financial incentive. A recurring theme throughout the interview.
Posts like this makes me think Airbnb is a awesome place to work. Sharing is caring!
Was Service Denied? Was the cause Distributed?
Doesn't mean the software engineer would be bad at either. In my experience software engineers with leadership skills(meaning someone I would respect, and would work under), still get passed up.
True and Apple interestingly enough jettisoned their rack server a few years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xserve

"On November 5, 2010, Apple announced that the Xserve line would be discontinued on January 31, 2011"

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/specs/xserve-in...
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Comodo's been good to me in this regard.

Incidentally, beware of RapidSSL and their "free www." SAN; they only grant it in certain specific and undocumented circumstances.
The LOIC does.
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Hey! That's my face in this video! I'm teh famous!
I've a friend who was told that he needed to take a vacation. Not in the "You're out of line" sense at all, but in the "We expect our employees to use their vacation time, and you've been working hard lately." He's also been told to cut back on the his hours, as his bosses didn't want him to sacrifice his personal life.

Usually when you hear stories like this, it's because the employee is screwing up. In this case, it's because the higher ups realize that proactively preventing employees from becoming overstressed is a good way to keep employees.
> Whimsical and heartfelt? I say arbitrary and jejune.

Weird, since taste is entirely objective and everyone almost always agrees about art.
Ask HN: How does fire behave in space?
Does the flame burn upwards? What is up? Does it become like a fireball or just float away in different directions?

Many questions regarding fire in space and I hope someone of you can clear this for me.
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“Apple's share is shrinking”

No, it’s not. It has outperformed the rest of the PC market for years and continues to gain marketshare.

http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/11/happy-birthday-ipad/
Just thinking about how sometimes an approaching deadline makes me piss my pants, I have the utmost respect for these people, who live and work under the highest pressure, out there, alone in the void helpless, if something goes really wrong. Only one small piece of their gear malfunctions and they are done.
And then I'm thinking about the complexity of all the systems they are supported and kept alive by. I couldn't probably help but constantly be thinking that with a huge human-designed system like that, something is always bound to go wrong and that I would probably die in a few minutes because of some obscure equipment failure.
And yet, there he is, floating around, keeping it cool, just doing his stuff in that floating cable jungle, swinging that razor sharp knife around like he isn't a knife cut away from eternity. I will try to keep this image in mind next time when my cables get tangled.
Thanks for your input, I'll have to pick that book up. I read that 40,000/100 post a day or two ago, definitely worth the read, but it doesn't fit my scenario. My company has been in the industry for over a decade, I've been working in the industry for nearly 20 years. I have paying customers who use the system I built and would pay more for the system I am proposing. A company that is offering just 1/4 of the SaaS system I want to build is charging $1,000 - $5,000 a month per client.

I also own a few websites that are in the industry, one is 1st page in Google for most the key words/phrases. I can get the traffic. I have a database of tens of thousands of current users that would be easily assimilated into the new system. Someone is going to build this system or one like it eventually, the need is there.
If we are going to blame "reddit" and "the internet", are we also blaming "the media" for the cnn false report and the nypost cover photo?

I have a hard time finding the collective responsibility of "the internet" materially different from "the media".
It has been my experience that good producers are more likely to be asked to continue to produce. If they moved you to a higher position and better pay then who would produce the software?

My experience has been the opposite, and more akin to the Peter Principle[1]. The best engineers become team leads, and then managers, and then...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
According to Wikipedia it's (incorrectly) attributed to the Socrates character in Plato's Republic. Although a related idea is discussed in that book, the saying itself is attributed to Roman poet Juvenal, which was discussing marital affairs.
Not in my opinion. They were just people trying to catch the bombers. No one was jumping to conclusions from what I saw (maybe some did but they were downvoted further down than I scrolled), rather they were just pointing out scenes that looked suspicious to them so that the police could investigate further. While there have definitely been cases in the past where a line has been crossed, I don't believe that to have happened this time.
Outside the US it's Wally, not Waldo.
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If you want to meet new people is the solution really to spend EVEN MORE time on the computer?
awesome fodder for a reddit comment chain, let's continue it there
https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Asuspect

Why did you try to get reddit threads closed, and not get the Australian TV news station closed?
this was great, thank you for taking the time to pull your thoughts together.
Interesting concept, I'm looking forward to the first release.

> it's not a dating site

The skeptic in me says that if it works to some scale, it will quickly become one :)
Freedom of speech is kind of a big thing around here, yes.

You have to remember the context: Some nearly anonymous asshole points a finger and says that so-and-so is the bomber, with no real concrete evidence. It's practically a farce at that stage, only idiots could fall for that.

Unfortunately for Sunil, there are a lot of idiots online (and in the media, apparently).

On the other hand, entities like the NY Post should have known better. They presumably pay "journalists" to fact-check (so there's a higher standard of quality expected), and they understand that it imparts a higher expectation on what they do print, which means it's more likely that people would believe such an accusation.

So Sunil might even have a case against professional outfits like these, especially since he wasn't previously a public figure. But against random people from the Internet there's not really any hope of a libel charge sticking.

Maybe some states would have "cyber-bullying" legislation that would apply though (assuming it's not struck down as unconstitutional).
I really do believe that consciousness doesn't really have anything to do with intelligence. Even if humans are not simple. It's conceivable you could create something like a human with very simple machinery, just massively scaled up.

If that is too complex, you could create an even simpler algorithm which produces that. Maybe by creating a genetic algorithm which "evolves" human-like intelligence after billions of generations.

In both cases the end result may be complex, but the algorithm that creates it is not. Whether it be a network of billions of interconnected neurons that arise from simple programming of a few neurons, or a complex intelligence optimized by simple random mutation and selection.

This is the idea of emergence. That complex seeming behavior can "emerge" from simple rules and a simple process.
Stupid title. Apple remembers somebody wanted to get drunk for up to 2 years - with no idea who.
What were the pictures of?

Would the pictures, or the people in the pictures, be suspected of being bombers? Were the police looking for pictures or for people in pictures?
sure thing, Jacob-- appreciate this.