skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice. However, I object to the "edit .emacs" part. I found out that most of the things that were in my .emacs could be set via M-x customize. I don't see the point of editing the configuration file instead of using the configuration interface, in particular when one addresses new users.
Okay, so it was probably created in 1969 or 1970 and only published in 1971.

I think you've misunderstood what we are talking about - the method by which the graphic was created. Which I assume to have been a plotter fed instructions by a program that removed hidden lines from the graphs.
Subvocalization [1] -- "hearing the words" -- actually varies between people. Anecdotally: I myself don't "hear" anything while reading. There is apparently some evidence that all, or almost all, people subvocalize, but that for many people it happens subconsciously and involuntarily, and that you can detect it only by monitoring the vocal chords. There was an HN thread discussing it recently [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5278039
Yes, that's exactly it! Some letters are not there (actually most letters), and I know that some numbers are "weaker" than others. I also know that some of these color synesthetics have changed over time. For example, I know that the number 2 for me didn't always trigger darkish pink, but I can't remember what it used to be. Also, I have lost synesthesia for G, H, and J, which used to be yellowish, yellowish, and green, but now don't "do" anything.

If you are experiencing more of a one-to-one idea/color analogue instead of a simple kind of "association" between an idea and a color, then what you are describing is highly likely to be similar to what I have, which is word-color synesthesia, the most common form of the "condition". For example, it's much more intrinsic than the simple association we normally feel between, say, the word "money" and the color green. That's a simple word-color association. When I see the word "March", I "feel/see/experience" the color blue (and vice versa, though this vice versa is a bit weird because I'm not so good at distinguishing individual colors).
How devoted are Apple users to the Apple ecosystem?
As far as i understand Nix, two users could have different glibc versions, but two programs of a single user?
Why? Google can see everyone you do on them.

I don't know why Skype being able to see the URLs is such a huge issue that people are saying they won't use it for business purposes, but at the same time we see people and companies use Google Docs, Google Apps, Gmail which allow Google to see all your business documents, spreadsheets and email.

Is this because they think Google is somehow more trustworthy that Microsoft? I am not saying Outlook.com/Skydrive is more secure, but didn't a Google employee get caught reading Gmail information to stalk teens? Atleast Office is primarily used for storing files under your own control, unlike Google docs where you have no choice but to risk Google employees reading them.
Yup, title needs to be changed. After reading it, I immediately closed Skype.
I find that the students and new-comers are also benefiting from Creative Cloud because it allows one to try out all the tools unrestricted (and maybe even profiting from work) without having to take out a loan or worry about 30 day trials.

> I think Gimp vs. Photoshop is the vim vs. Emacs for digital artists.

As a programmer and a hobbyist painter, the analogy should be more like (vim/emacs/sublime) vs MS Notepad. While GIMP is great for general photo manipulation and editing, it is out of Photoshop's league when it comes to painting.
I have to agree. If Yahoo is offering this much, they need to take it, because I don't believe Tumblr will ever be successfully monetized.
It is for html. It is called Htmlify.

I don't see why you feel a need to call it useless, just because it doesn't apply to markdown.
Show HN: topmost: find the most popular pages of a given website
Google's Plan To Take Over The World
I often wondered why that is. I noticed it very noticeable too.

I often thought that this is just because it is Java. And almost all other Java apps feel similarly sluggish.

But then compare IntelliJ. It really feels very snappy. The startup time is not too long and then everything is extremely fast and responsive.
That quote isn't from the policy, it is from a third party audit that was done in 2005.
You only need to put it in for a couple of seconds to fry it. Many cards do not respond well to this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBk8yZcyt5g A better way is to find the chips (either look for the raised part, or shine a high-powered flashlight through to look for it). Then you can crack it with a hammer, or peel a tiny piece of the card off and take it out.
I have used Xamarin recently - while I absolutely loved developing an iPhone app in C#, it was a bit frustrating to see that all the best 3rd party libraries, tutorials, etc for iOS are all in objective c - and some concepts didn't seem to translate easily to C#. It was my first iPhone app, so I could be mistaken - but I think I'll go down the native route in future.
Show HN: Time Watch - track billable hours
Readable is one thing. Read and used is a completely different thing.
I once wrote a program in BASIC (on my C64) which would make such a display (it's straightforward). I lost that program, but recreated a lookalike in Python:

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heuh... it looks a bit horrible in ASCII art ;-)

import random
import math

canvh = 40
canvw = 60
tracecount = 16
canvas = [[' ' for col in xrange(canvw)] for row in xrange(canvh)]

def randomtrace():
sigma = random.uniform(4, 20)
mu = random.gauss(canvw/2, canvw/20)
k = canvw / (sigma * math.sqrt(2*math.pi))
s = -1.0 / (2 * sigma * sigma)
amp = 2.0
tr = [amp * k * math.exp(s * (x - mu)*(x - mu)) for x in xrange(canvw)]
# TODO: Random permutations, or Perlin noise.
return tr

for t in range(tracecount):
if t == 0 or t == tracecount - 1:
continue
y = t * canvh / tracecount
trace = randomtrace()
for x, t in enumerate(trace):
t = int(t)
top = y - t
if top >= 0:
canvas[top][x] = '-'
for i in range(t):
top += 1
if top >= 0:
canvas[top][x] = ' '

for row in canvas:
line = "".join(row)
print " ", line
Ordered data? Lookups into sorted data can use a binary search and are only O(log n).
Xamarin is wicked expensive...
The requested URL /Star_Trek/1_Original_Series/Star_Trek_TOS_Writers_Guide.pdf was not found on this server.
What if someone passes an internal (poorly designed) Microsoft REST API that damages something when HEAD is called?
I'd flinch and stumble in some direction, it might or might not be away.

There's a good chance I'd fall on you.
Does it just wrap your code in pre and code tags or am I missing something?
Fundamental, Circular Ladder of Business
Probably because you're making it a joyless enterprise. You have high expectations, and you're making it a test of your worthiness as a person. So even starting to work on it reminds you of many personal regrets. You also have the problem that you're a very experienced Windows developer, so being a dummy again with a new topic is painful.

Your body doesn't like feeling that way so it says "nope".

I struggle with this problem too; I'm in a similar situation. But I think I broke my programmer's block by allowing myself to just do silly little projects. No big plans or expectations. Like, set yourself the task of rewriting a small program you did before. Or something small and personally valuable, even if it just gives you the scores of your favorite team or something. Think very small, low stakes.
Interesting, I have always thought that image was from a Fairlight waveform display.

http://machinesdontcare.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/fairligh...
http://myblogitsfullofstars.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/fl2x...
check out syndie : http://syndie.i2p2.de
Author here. I didn't think of them - most digital arts or however it is called students I know get a copy of the current master suite from their university.

Since the creative work is done by other people I am not fully aware of all the advantages and differences, so your analogy is likely better - even if Gimp fans will likely disagree ;)
It also maintains whitespaces and escapes special html symbols (&, <, >). I know it doesn't do much. As I said, it's only a convenience.
I like the idea, but I think I'd find more use for pads printed with an iPhone outline. It'd save having to photograph and then clean each time with WhitePad?
How? The recipients have to manually type in the decoding key? Or they have an account and have been given access internally to the content?
CSRF Tool
You can switch to the Markdown editor on your settings page; https://www.tumblr.com/settings
https://myservice.com/#chan=somerandomid&secret=somerand...

Then you have to give the URL to the recipient (over a secure channel), but the app will optionally allow you to not automatically send the file, but tell you how many people are connected (e.g. if there are two when you're expecting one) and begin transfer manually.

Also, I'm planning to make it all a single HTML file so you can download/verify it and store it somewhere to use whenever you like.
No one on here has access to nature.com? It seems like my university stopped paying for it, otherwise I would have checked.
The easiest test is visual: if the surface is bulging even just a little and/or the capacitor isn't standing straight (this one doesn't apply to Soviet electronics), it has failed. There are lots of tutorials on the net, there is definitely something on http://www.eevblog.com/ But the way I learned it was to just take an old PSU, try to get a component out and then solder it back on.

[edit:] Some googling found this thread for capacitor testing: http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=17592 I found the badcaps community pretty good when looking for a new PSU, there seemed to be many knowledgeable posters.
I can quickly tell you why you've had 0 luck finding a co-founder.

My background: I am both a web hosting industry veteran, with a successful high-end hosting company under my belt (see http://www.erica.biz/2009/the-end-of-an-era/ for my story)...and my current co-founder and I also did a presentation at SXSW this year on "How to Find the Perfect Co-Founder."

You've made 2 classic mistakes here:

1) You haven't started building the business without your co-founder.

There is absolutely 0 reason why you need a developer co-founder to build what is essentially a high-end hosting company. Put up a WordPress site, set up a Stripe account, collect payment (3 months in advance for new customers will help you buy the server) and you're in business. This is EXACTLY what I did when I started my hosting company. There are many options available to lease high-end hardware (I'm not talking about leasing hosting; I'm talking about leasing the hardware and colocating it) and there's no reason for you to not build and prove out this business.

2) You are looking for a co-founder and not a particular skill set. When my co-founder of my current startup and I met in June 2010, I wasn't looking for a co-founder; I was looking for a developer. We worked together for several months and I paid him to develop the site and back-end for our customers. We signed our first customers and only then did I offer him a co-founder position with equity. But I paid him the entire time.

Can't afford to pay someone? See my first piece of advice. You don't need anyone else. When I built my hosting company in 2001, I had just started to learn how to write code. I taught myself PHP, wrote my own shopping cart, set up an integration with Payflow Link (now owned by Paypal), and I was in business. You need to do the same thing here.

The bottom line is that no one wants equity in an idea. You have to prove the model. Things like WordPress themes and Stripe make it easy to do so, so anyone even remotely technical who doesn't do that doesn't appear to be serious about the business. (I'm not making a judgment call here, but that is the perception when you don't even have a simple website with products for sale and a checkout process before looking for a co-founder.)

On top of that, the hosting industry is exceedingly difficult (I've written about it on my blog at http://erica.biz extensively) and you're really going to have to prove that you have something awesome and different to succeed in that business.

Think you've got it? Here's the challenge: Get a site up with a checkout process in the next 24 hours. When the first order comes in, put that server on a credit card and deliver to the customer. Then repeat 100x more in the next 6-12 months. You may find you don't need a co-founder, or you may find your business idea was wrong. Either way, you won't be banging your head against the wall saying things like "I can't move forward without a co-founder!"--you will have taken control of your business and moved forward to prove the idea with the skills you have right now.
> If you're a developer or sysad... learn VIM

I really don't understand this mindset. You don't want to install Emacs on a server? Fine, install mg, it'll do 90% of what I need. If you whine about a 170k binary when a modern vi is 2MB, by god I am not a violent man but I will throttle you with a CAT5 cable.
They seem to twist the facts ever so slightly.

PHP is not "most popular computing language on the planet", it's the most popular web coding language; C is the most popular "computing" language, whatever that means.

And in linked article they make it seem that PhoneGap apps are more native than they are, "built-in PhoneGap integration so developers can publish native app packages to the various app stores".

Not factually wrong, but not very clear truth either.
No. No. No, no, no, no. These are two different things.

One is a feature designed to allow them to check URLs, fetch thumbnails, etc. The other is a very pivotal core decision in how Skype works.

Skype has always been primarily node-to-node. Doing p2p connections like that required signaling/directory services. In the past, users' computers were used for that functionality. After their purchase, Microsoft transitioned those signaling/directory services to the cloud.

At worst, this gives Microsoft the ability to see who is calling who, I'll grant that. Worst case scenario, you can't negotiate via STUN and UDP hole punching or UPnP port forwarding, then you will get stuck with TURN and that will route through Microsoft's servers.

So, unless someone has proof of a connection that should have established peer-to-peer and instead the call itself was routed through MS's servers TURN style.... then can we ALL please stop repeating this obnoxious rumor about MS eavesdropping on all Skype calls. Or worse yet tying it to some URL lookup service?
Google owns a LOT of fiber, so they pay pennies on the dollar for bandwidth. It's a pretty perfect marriage.
From what I can tell, there's no pattern in any synesthesia. It's due ("they" think) to essentially a hardware crossover in the regions of the brain responsible for these "cognitions"... You have the same idea I did for some time when I was much younger. A really good friend of mine organized raves back around the first time they were popular and I knew if people could experience what I experience for only a while, it would have a result similar to the consciousness-altering properties of drugs. It's always been normal to me, but I also know what it's like to think of words/colors that have no meaning together, so I can imagine how empty my vocabulary would be without this extra layer of interconnectedness. I'm terribly sorry if this comment meets your disapproval. I'm really just trying to help extend my experience to fellow HNers.
Xssman strikes again. Secure your code kiddies.
Anonymous revenge editing on Wikipedia – the case of Robert Clark Young/Qworty
Yes, they do! However, some art students I know would like to freelance while studying to pay off their student loans. The student edition won't allow them (legally anyway) to make money off of their work.
I like this just for the fact that it means GAE is here to stay.

They're going hard on App Engine, and I'll take that as a win even for python-heads like me.
Is it really bad taste if the questionable combinations (and their assessment) are purely at the hands of players?
I doubt most of them would be engineers, or even technical people.
Weekly Vim Focus: Week 3
It's just an alpha release... it's on my todo list :-)
'I don't want to partner up with the wrong person.'

This runs both ways. You need to prove to all your potential cofounders that you're the right person to partner with too. They will want to know that you're qualified and interested

Do your ads explain exactly what skills you bring to the startup? Can you show any validation? Have you already found people who would be willing to pay for your idea once it's built?

You haven't mentioned exactly what your idea is (and keep in mind it will probably/definitely change as your startup grows) but if it's possible to start finding customers with a solution that requires little or no technology then absolutely do that. In other words, try to find a way to run it yourself.

This will either prove your idea has merit, and will make it easier built a team around, or it will let you weed out any gaps in your business model until it does. It's better to find problems before everything is complicated by having two personalities to manage.
I wrote a few paragraphs but don't want to talk past you, that sounds fine for a secure channel, but are you going to warn users against using Skype for example? I mean, I don't know if someone has tried Google Docs with Skype, but I know I posted a GDoc link somewhere a while back only to have a bot pop into the doc. So, if the same happens with Skype, someone "joins" this shared resource... and you hit "Transmit"... who or what received it?

Of course, Skype's bot won't implement WebRTC.

They'll implement the proprietary blend that they told no one they were working on until everyone else was making serious progress with the implementation that everyone else collaborated on...

http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/prototypes/cu-r... [hm, they've actually put some money where their proposal is, I'll have to check into this more]
>How far does this go? Do people need to worry
about microsoft IIS web servers with SSL, exchange servers?
You do have to wonder if apple backdoored their IM client, below the OTR, or
silent circle, or the OS - I mean how far does this go? Jon Callas said not
apple, that wouldnt be cool, and apple aims for coolness for users; maybe he
should dig a little more.

What? Why bring Apple into this?

>Now are they just hoovering up the skype IMs via the new microsoft central
server architecture having back doored skype client to no longer have
end2end encrption (and feedind them through echelon or whatever) or is this
the client that is reading your IMs and sending selected things to the
mothership.

Skype claims the changes were unrelated, not sure if believable but they have some details on them here.

http://blogs.skype.com/2012/07/26/what-does-skypes-architect...

More interesting details here.
http://www.zdnet.com/no-microsoft-and-skype-are-not-playing-...

>btw their HEAD request was completely ineffective per the weak excuse
microsoft offered in the article at top my php contained a meta-refresh
which the head wont see as its in the html body

Yes, but if the links are spreading fast, you can expect more scrutiny. I think they're trying avoid situations like the below.

"New Skype malware spreading at 2,000 clicks per hour to mine Bitcoins" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502028

Interesting comments on that article, including someone calling for Ballmer to be jailed because he allows malware links on Skype. How can they detect and stop malware with OTR?
The Benefits of Using a Tumblr Corporate Blog
I recently landed a position, and I'd suggest that you look on Glassdoor.com to see what impressions candidates are getting about your company from browsing there. Are the salaries competitive? Do the employee reviews make it sound like a nightmare to work at? Do the interview reviews make it sound like an unreasonable process?

Also, consider hosting a javascript hacking class or meetup and choose talent based on the performance you see there.
What do you mean by 'using GET requests for verification'?
I think you are mixing different concepts. The problem is caused by URL encoded credentials and has nothing to do with GET requests. It is perfectly fine (and often desirable) to authorize GET requests.
There is so much anti-information in your post. There are a huge number of non-default subreddit who are very popular. r/bitcoins r/minecraft r/eve r/seduction even cities subreddit like r/newyork etc...

Check this list here : http://stattit.com/subreddits/

I'm engaging in a LOT of small subreddit and I wouldn't call most of those inadequate for serious advertising.
The best experience in developing cross platform games I had with Haxe+Nme, the aproach works and the speed is native. Also it's free and open source.
Irony: the author's blog renders poorly on mobile Safari, due to unfortunate floating interface elements.
I am 34 and was recently hacked if not data mined. I want to learn programming from the grass roots. Where do I start? This subject has stolen my entire focus, and I obsess a bit. Where do I begin?
Perhaps image archival could be something for a second tier.

It's just too important to give up over; a half-baked solution is better than none.
> They should have a bunch of subreddits with 1+ million subscribers given the size of the site.

Not really. What about the 90/10 rule?
Good! Thank GOD it's come to this. Let me share with you an old adage: "Good advertising is no more expensive than bad advertising: but at least it's good."

Don't approach this as a way to influence and convince users. Advertising should entertian, teach, engross, delight, the full spectrum of the human condition. After all, isn't that what your product is - something for humans? A part of people's actual lives?

I think if you approach advertising correctly you will find that it is your chance to be something more than lines of code or a manufacturing contract: it's your chance to be human.
> IVB is adequate for retina display ... if paired with a sidecar like the GeForce GT650M. Or used solely for typing and similar non-graphically-intensive activities. (As on this rMBP 15").

Completely agree -- I think there were early performance issues which were due to unoptimised drivers causing e.g. laggy Safari scrolling and that's caused a lot of misinformation to be out there. The truth is that, in practice, the IVB GPU has been more than fine for me unless I'm doing something that would require a dedicated GPU anyway.
Yeah when Safari supports it...