skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really don't understand your focus on making a kind of witch hunt anytime someone try to learn and implement crypto.

There's a stark contrast between someone wanting to learn crypto (and being humble about the process) and someone who's new to crypto but being anything but humble.
Does it? I think that's a different question.

Consider European genocide of Native Americans. Suppose they all had been wiped out. Or consider German genocide of Jews, with the same hypothetical. I think the "sins of thy father" question is: Should the descendants of the criminals be punished for the crimes of their ancestors?

My answer to this is "no". And I think bringing it up in this context mainly confuses things.

I think the question of privilege is about present-day social inequities. If the question is, "Should we work to make society fair to everybody, no matter their race, gender, sexual orientation, or other irrelevant factor?" There, my answer is a firm "yes".

Will that involve people with unearned privilege giving up that privilege? Sure. But that's not a punishment for being among one of the privileged groups, no matter how much it feels like it.
Dreams are free. In the real world, management will typically take all the credit if things go well, for the same reasons as they'll blame-shift and arse-cover if things don't.
Well, we do have Coders at Work.

http://www.codersatwork.com/
Montana Tripp da Boss ft. Black Child - "Right Now"
Yes.

a) The vast majority of satellites are "prototypes." They're built a few at a time, extensively tested, then launched. In the case of satellite frameworks like Cubesat, they're open source and tested every time someone launches one.

b) This is not untested tech, at all. Cubesats have been using consumer technology in satellites extensively, both by startups, hobbyists, and academia (doing advanced stuff like orbital reconfiguration, atmospheric sampling, telecommunications, etc). Combined with NASA's existing suppliers for aerospace grade components, these satellites which have a really high success rate.
Shh. Don't tell everyone this.
One can't delete their account on Hacker News either. Just sayin'. :p
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This is the first change in a long time which looks promising for Gmail :)
He had a large enough trust fund to never need to work a day in his life, so I don't see where you get humble beginnings.
The curse of binary thinking is that numbers get really long. For example, if you have pi to six decimal places (truncated not rounded), it's 3.141592. Equivalent precision in binary is 11.00100100001111110110.

Thinking in base 10 or base 16 (or if you're Douglas Crockford, base 32 [1]) is much easier for most people. It probably has something to do with how the human brain is wired.

Not to mention the benefits of network effects -- most people use base 10, so if you use a different base, it's going to be a pain to convert all the time.

I should also give a shout-out to base 8 for those who frequently use the "chmod" command, and anyone who thinks putting a zero in front of a number in their favorite programming language won't change its value.

Obviously, this is only a comment about the headline and has nothing to do with the linked article's actual content.

[1] http://www.crockford.com/wrmg/base32.html
SQLite DB stored in a Redis Hash
The Scapegoat: René Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion
Firefox's mobile OS for making decent, fast smartphones affordable in the developing world. I think this is going to have a big impact and it's going to be the catalyst for html5 as a serious gaming and application platform.

Ubuntu's mobile version for being the next big step in making the PC obsolete, I don't think this will have a huge commercial impact but it's got some great potential and we're going to learn a lot from it.
Reddit/Hacker News clone for bicycles
Hi all,

One year ago I've discovered Reddit and then Hacker News. I was really impressed how a platform like this can be used to share information on the web... later I found myself cloning a platform for sharing Bicycles information for the Portuguese speaking public.

In this cloning adventure I have mixed structured data and unstructured data... The platform handles Texts and Links but also links to Ads that contain structured data... Any opinions on this mix? There are other experiments that have mixed this two kinds of data?

The link for the project, http://euvoudebicicleta.com

PS: It is in Portuguese language.
It likely includes all of the preliminary engineering geotech, and environmental work that came before implementation. You can't just freeze the ground like that, there are a lot of potential adverse effects (ground) shifts being the biggest) that have to be accounted for and mitigated.
Is {{input type=checkbox}} replacing {{view Ember.Checkbox}} which is used in the tutorial?
I read this as: as much as possible, poor, unfortunate, or unlucky decisions you made in your early 20s should follow you around for the rest of your life (60+ yrs).

By extension, having children is a privilege only for either those who were lucky enough to be born into wealth (i.e. no or minimal debt) or those who were lucky enough to make the correct decisions early in life.
Interesting, I didn't know. Is there some good reason for it?
Show HN: Time expressions - micro language for time management
Kicking questions to supercharge schools
I found out about Yerba mate when looking for alternatives for coffee. BTW, I'm in the Southern US near Atlanta.
Friend of Bradley Manning Drops Lawsuit Against Feds Over Seized Laptop
By doing formal studies someone else tells you you did a good job which grows your self confidence which leads to those $100k jobs down the line. For some people, me included, internal validation is just not enough.

It is all in the head.
"I want people to not waste their time bothering to check that guy's claims."

That is pretty much the definition of an ad-hominem attack.

Your criticisms of his approach are valid, but also apply to a good number of climatologists whose income is more dependent upon pro-AGW funding this his is dependent upon oil company funding. Glass houses, stones, etc.

FWIW, my position is that correlation between human activity and climate change has (finally) been solidly established, but:

- our models lack any real predictive ability w.r.t. future climate, except to say "interesting stuff will happen."

- catastrophic climate change happens regardless of human input

Given the above two points I'm unconvinced that there's any AGW-based argument for legislation. Argument based on atmospheric pollution harming human life? Sure.

Instead, we should be focusing on growing our technological and academic capacity towards climate engineering. Regardless of what AGW brings, at some point in our history, we will need to tweak the climate to survive.
Some companies fire people right before the shares vest. Then they really are worth $0.
Note to mods: this is my second submission in and hour - I'm not someone that normally submits a lot of links, but I just saw this in the sidebar of the other article I submitted and thought it would be interesting to the board.
That is not trampling the First Amendment.

Correct - that only refers to prohibition of government censorship.

I suspect that Facebook wants to keep things "nice" (for some value of "nice") so that the advertisers won't get spooked away and they can continue on their trajectory of world domination.

The trouble is that not every user, advertiser, or activist group agrees on what is "nice", or at least "permissible".
So what, China wants to move some of its industry there, or does it simply want to enable its companies to send their stuff there and re-export it from there, dodging EU taxes in the mean time
I agree, I just don't expect much from VPS hosts - although their handling of this was remarkably poor.

FWIW I'll be finding a new host, I just like to play devils advocate to balance discussions.
Good points. Yes, these comments truly prove that "Your mileage may vary".

The grass isn't always greener, and with so many users, our personal experiences are simply "statistical anomalies / anecdotes" to the other guy, but are 100% our relevant personal experience to ourselves.

It kind of reminds me of my uncle who does surgery on backs. When a patient asks him, "What's the success % rate on this surgery?" He replies, "100% or 0% for YOU". It irked me to hear that from him, as an engineer, but he's so damn right when it comes to personal experiences & preparations (emotionally & otherwise)
The point was that there was no easy fix to the performance issue (a silver bullet). They just had to buckle down and apply a myriad of optimizations, innovations, and hacks to slowly, incrementally get the performance where it needed to be (lots of lead bullets).
DRM allows you to volontarily give up whatever control of your machine you're talking about.

As painful as it is, one part of living in a capitalist society is to exercise your right/power as a consumer. Don't like it? Don't use it.

To me, DRM is not something that infringes on your freedom, though I'm very glad we have the EFF when they spend their time combatting things like surveillance, that are not opt-in.
I could be talking out of my ass here, but with the amount of money that's been pumped into PR (> $1B USD IIRC) by its big-name founders, why do they need to do this? Satellites are cool and all, but everything I see out of them is just "YOU GET INVOLVED" and "SOCIAL" - and not much on "How do we capture and capitalize on mineral resources in space?"
> Could you imagine Gmail requiring you to download your whole multi-gigabyte mailbox to do a simple full-text search?

I can imagine, say, me encrypting the keywords of my search and Google searching for those encrypted keywords. One would have to do some clever stuff to make this secure against traffic analysis and such, but think it might be doable.

Take a look at GNUnet's encrypted keyword search.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Admiral Stockdale:

"You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end, which you can never afford to lose, with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
He's given $60 million to the the College-Ready Promise coalition in Los Angeles that serves thousands of inner-city kids and has given $1.37B to the United Negro College Fund.
I dig the Pebble, not sure if I'd wear one but it is a nice product and I supported the kickstarter.

But, it is a third party product, not widely available yet. Apple doesn't launch something that is pre-order or not available within that quarter on a wide scale, they are hype driven but when they drop a product it is available on a wide scale. Does Samsung or others have a wearable other than Google Glass? Is it available anywhere? I want one no doubt (Google Glass) but I can't get one. Microsoft is famous for hyping before a product is available. Apple doesn't talk until it is ready to launch + conquer.

Also, the e-paper screen is something apple would never do, the screens on Apple if they do a watch will be superior. They still have better screens than any competitor. Apple, if they do one, would look more like a Nano on the wrist.

Personally I think Apple could do well with an AppleTV/App/Gaming Console device extending AirPlay like OUYA + Roku and hope they do that. I supported OUYA as well and hope to get my console soon, taking forever.
A lot of people/daemons do not support edns-subnet. Sadly I recently found out that pdns-recursor does not do edns-subnet.

Id love to hear people's recommendations for caching dns servers that supports edns-subnet
Given that most of us spend... 1/3 of their waking time at work, I think it's safe to say that a commuter's time is worth ~1/3 of their average wage.

20 minutes saved in a round-trip, times 250 days a year, times 160,000 people is 800,000,000 man-minutes, or ~13,000,000 man-hours a year. With an average NYC income of $20/hour, and time being worth a third of hourly income... that's $87,000,000 of life saved, per year. At 8.4 billion dollars for the construction, that does look bleak.

If you bump up the commuter's average wage to ~$50/hour, though, we'd be looking at ~220,000,000 of life saved, per year.

However, that's the lower bound on the public benefit of the project. Some of the costs will be paid through user fees. Others through economic development among the areas served by the line. As far as ditch-digging projects go, this one's probably on par for public ROI.

If we did nothing but count coppers, America would never have built the Interstates.
Machine pareidolia!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/unavoidablegrain/sets/721576288...
I interpreted that to be the cost of building a foot of tunnel, not the technique.
That makes this site almost as dumb as a DRM scheme I once read about that can be disabled by holding a key (Shift I believe) as you put the CD in to prevent Autorun.
Windows start buttons return confirmed in Windows 8.1
Machine pareidolia - when computer vision "sees" faces
But they would be lying.
Yeah that confused me since with the others, it's users... with Bitcoin, it seems like an inflated stat and not particularly relavant in the table.
The Little Metronome That Wouldn't
We added react to hellojs so you can try it out easily:

https://hellojs.backliftapp.com/search/React

This includes the compiled version, which isn't included by default.
I've preferred f x y over f(x,y) ever since I first saw it used in Haskell. Maybe it's just a matter of preference.
Short story for anyone involved in advertising:

Spend more/get better on mobile.
"...we don't need the end user to explicitly specify data bindings. "

Aren't the data bindings going to be explicitly specified within the render function?
I was really hoping someone had compiled Elm to JS. That would give me some hope that mutt would be next...
Sorry, nothing to remark upon, except to say that I like what you've done with this project. Very nice.
One of the obvious problems with this argument is that it has been made for every field ever. It has been proven wrong a lot of times. The people making it in those cases were just fooling themselves into believing an answer that was very convenient for them.

Note also the equivalent argument for race was used enthusiastically to justify slavery in the US. If you'd like to see it in action, go read the Cornerstone Speech, or the Texas Declaration of Secession.

You could be right that this time it is actually valid, but I think the burden of proof is on you. And given the company you're keeping with that style of rhetoric, I'd encourage you to set a pretty high bar.
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A Brief Rant On The Future Of Interaction Design (2011)
You can get an LED bacteria pen. Those will kill most of the bacteria in the water before using it to make coffee.

Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/SteriPEN-Adventurer-Opti-Handheld-Puri...
> DRM allows you to voluntarily give up whatever control of your machine you're talking about.

Of course, and I think it is also fair for consumers to voluntarily protest DRM before it is placed on our devices by expressing our concerns, as opposed to afterward when we have to do so by voting with our wallets. I don't think its "my right" to have DRM-less devices, but I think all the criticisms about freedom and security are valid as long as they are meant to appeal to the producers by signaling our desires as consumers (this as opposed to for example suggesting there should be a law against DRM which I would be against). In theory the ideal would be for everyone to be on the same page before these decisions get made.
Good for EFF. DRM is futile.

There is NO stopping people from recording what's on their screen (with a cell phone camera among other devices).

What we've seen is:

A) The more barriers you put in front of legitimate use, the more you see illegitimate use grow.

B) The EFF is rock solid in standing up & protecting our rights & values in the modern, internet, connected age. Please help fund them.

Meaning: DRM all you want. Make it so that you can ONLY see Game of Thrones if you pay $100,000!!! Great! And, imagine how long it'd take for a copy (lower fidelity, sure) to get in the hands of a larger audience that you can't control, who doesn't like you, who you collect no $ from.

Or: Drop DRM, & go for "iTunes or Netflix" or other distribution methods that are EASY & fair. Watch your revenue boom, while you collect user stats to make your next content even more appealing & marketable.
The Dying Dollar
Video Search Challenge Isn’t Speech Recognition, It’s Content Owner Mgmt (2007)
one point al3x didn't talk to: not all startups will teach you to be an awesome engineer. If a startup is really hiring the best of best, a less experienced programmer is not likely to make the cut. Ever look at your code from 6 months, a year, 5 years ago? and how bad it is? Many tech startups don't have time for that, the quality of your work can make or break a startup. Elite startups want "ex-googlers".

So if you want to get good, you need to work with people that are better than you, who have already learned from their mistakes so you don't have to. Find the strongest shop that will hire you. It will not be the best shop. It probably won't be an elite startup. But more mature companies can afford to pay for your learning curve. You also will probably make more money, enough to pay off your student debt and save up to bootstrap when you're more experienced.
> As painful as it is, one part of living in a capitalist

> society is to exercise your right/power as a consumer.

> Don't like it? Don't use it.

I agree, but there's more to it than that. From the W3C site:

"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community that develops open standards to ensure the long-term growth of the Web."

... and ...

"One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability."

Therefore it's perfectly reasonable, in the context of a capitalist society, to lobby the W3C to refuse the addition of EME. It is inimical to their own stated goals (there are other conflicts too; see http://www.w3.org/Consortium/mission.html for details).

To be clear, I'm not arguing for the initiation of force. Companies should be free to build their own DRM systems, and others to use or not use them as they choose.

But the W3C should have no part of that, and the HTML5 standard should not be crippled by the inclusion of DRM.

Another angle to consider is our cultural heritage. More and more of that is moving to the Web; if we tie it up with DRM, bitrot will mean that in a generation or two most of it will be inaccessible.
If however, you are like a vast majority of job applicants, you are really nobody special. Some talent maybe, but not enough to make me drool.

If this is the type of person you're extending an offer to, it's no wonder you don't care if you lose them. You're absolutely right - if you're not being selective in your hiring, you're not going to mind overly much if you lose a candidate.

On the other hand, why would anyone want to work for a company that's not selective in their hiring? Now that I think about it - if the company won't negotiate your offer, that probably indicates they're full of B-players and you're dodging a bullet.
From a programming standpoint it adds a lot of complication (e.g. all of a sudden you'd have posts owned by NULL, and even if you deleted the posts, what about replies to those posts, etc).
> This breaks code editors, static analysis tools like jshint etc.

You're right. One of our goals in the coming months is to try to make some language files for editors. Vim actually does a pretty good job of this already thanks to the similarity to E4X.

JSHint is another thing we'd like to improve upon. At Facebook & Instagram, we actually lint against the transformed code. Right now the transforms don't modify line numbers so it's been easy to match up. We'd like to build some tooling around this for people who make use of React and JSX.

> I think Web Components is landing soon, and this seems like it could leverage that.

I like the way you think! We've started thinking about that already.
Yes, but that would be regardless of any added DRM. It's not like a "HTML5 Browser" can't have additional features - in fact, they all do.
I doubt killing Hollywood will be the solution. Industry will always try to gain unfair advantages through legislation as long as we let them. That is, as long as government is too large to really care about the little guy.

Harmful legislation is much more present in large legislative agencies such as the US government or (to some extent) the EU.

Decentralizing legislative authority to e.g. the states is the only way to get laws acted in your own best interest.
You could express the same thing without comments:

boolean alreadyLogged = !_ok;
boolean skipLogging = alreadyLogged && (Math.random() > 0.1)
if( skipLogging ) return res;
This is a perfect example of why I don't want UEFI; I spent a long time learning how to do all of this in GRUB, and now they are putting these basic features in the firmware where they belong. Get off my lawn.

Anyway, if this is a problem, you should still be able to use a bootloader to provide the selection menu. I think it should be possible for this bootloader to leverage UEFI to avoid increasing the boot time noticeably. But I do agree that hardcoding names like "Windows Boot Manager" is horrible spec design (and maybe grounds for an anti-trust suit?).

A think I am more open to this type of workaround because I already have set up simmilar systems on my computer. For example, Java does not play nice with window managers that do not re-parent. This caused a problem in Sun's window manager "LG3D", which was non-re-parenting, so they hardcoded a special case for LG3D so things would work. So now, if software asks, I am running LG3D.

You can also look through the Linux kernel device drivers for many special cases.
> Don't like it? Don't use it.

...and also feel free to complain about it. ...which is what he is doing.

I have never understood responses such as yours. No part of being able to vote with your money means that you should only vote with your money. Capitalism does not mean that people shouldn't complain.
Well it came out with the latest one (the CF exploit) that they were gagged on it when the FBI got involved. They eventually came out about it when the gag was removed, but only so much. When the FBI gets involved, usually the transparency get tossed out the window, at least if the company is not one of the giants.
Legally, Moz =/= Mozilla.

Moz (SEOmoz) has the following trademark:
http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4808:tp...

You can search the site for yourself. Aside from tires (for which there is no "likelihood of confusion") there are no other Moz trademarks. If Mozilla wanted to brand themselves as something other than their company name, they should have picked up the Trademark and used it in official commerce.

I seriously doubt Mozilla has a problem with it anyway. I really don't think it's that confusing.
Motorola has the best customer support
Feels about as legitimate as "start-up" skill endorsements on LinkedIn.
Right, I said "static html" not meaning to imply that it was the same thing. I wouldn't consider "straight html" to include script code, but I think it's a valid criticism of my advice that it is oversimplistic.
Drupal.org runs D6 with the phpass module, basically the stuff that went into Drupal 7.