skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parsing PDFs at Scale with Node.js, PDF.js, and Lunr.js
> Java’s designers were consciously designing a product for people not as smart as them

The Go creators definitely enjoy their language themselves. They designed the language that they personally would want to work with.

"For too long to admit to here, C was my language of choice, but I have used many languages through my career. Nowadays almost everything I write is in Go; it is the most productive language I have ever used and has displaced C completely from my toolbox." [0]

[0] http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1941206
"don't have to worry about money"? Goodness, because they don't have any to worry about? Or do they profess to above such concerns?
You're making at least a couple incorrect assumptions. Google launched authorship before Google+, for example.
I thought the same thing. I think this would be hard to do at scale and they offer quite a lot more features than most would need (sepia tone filter). I couldn't personally see paying for re service, but obviously it must be useful to others.
Likely, the .br is there because the original submitter (here on HN) is from Brazil. Blogspot tends to redirect to the subdomain of the reader's country for some reason.
7 days is a fine maximum, but not necessarily a target. A malicious 3rd party script should be removed in an hour.

Are there any independent groups that rate a firm's response to an exploit? Other than HN comments and (rare) legal recourse, I don't know what pressure a YC startup faces to do a good job in a holistic sense. It'd be nice if a respected 3rd party were around to shame sites if necessary.
"Best layer resolution: 100microns"

So 0.1mm in z, but what about x and y? Or does the above imply that they are all 0.1mm? Is that for the final product output or is that a nozzle head movement resolution?
It looks like it is just a hopper instead of a proprietary spool[1]. I would imagine you can use any 1.75mm filament in it.

[1] Example of a proprietary spool: http://cubify.com/cube/store_parts.aspx
True. A tutorial other than two screens at the beginning would have saved a lot of hassle. I learnt a lot of shortcuts through Yash Tolia's blog. Regarding programs, every program installed leaves a clutter of things on the Start Screen, that is one major annoyance for me too. Among the main shortcut will be, read me's and other nonsense.
Pervasive Business Intelligence: From Business to Consumer Intelligence
Ask HN: Anyone else seeing Gmail issues?
I just had an email disappear completely from inbox, my reply disappeared from sent.
I would order this, but I have already heard about people getting ripped off from kickstarter. I know that most of these people actually deliver what they are supposed to on their end, but one bad apple can cause hesitation when it comes to my hard earned cash.
The greatest geek of all time.
Dart project co-founders answer your questions
Great question. We have actually only ever raised the $450k seed. Our revenues are helping with our ability to grow the team and have salaries where people can feel that money is not a factor, and we can focus on the great opportunities we have. For example, our April revenue was $115k and we're essentially cash-flow positive (we're hiring aggressively and aren't aiming for profit right now). To answer your initial question, we didn't take any salary for the first year, then we took $60k for a number of months before gradually increasing further. We increased to the $118k figure just a few couple months ago, which was over 2 years after we had started.
I am a fan of theirs since their beta period :)

In fact, I like them so much I bought more games than I even downloaded...

And The Witcher 2 is the ONLY game EVER that I pre-ordered, and the ONLY game EVER that I paid more than 30 USD, just because of CD Projekt sheer awesomeness.

By the way, I created my GOG.com account to buy Screamers, I suggest you people do the same, very obscure, but very fun racing game (that needs quite a bit of processing power, it was released before Pentium was invented, and designed to only work in full graphics with Pentium! Very crazy stuff!)
I agree with you. Linux is possibly a bad example, there's nothing special about writing it.

That said, we have made major progress in many fields and I disagree that nothing important is done anymore. Consumer aviation comes to mind. The safety standards they have met is truly mind boggling. Wireless and Internet Connectivity is another - wimax has a huge impact in developing countries. IMO, just these two things have made massive impact on how we do things in everyday life. Much more than the space program to daily life.
The problem I had with XMLHttpRequest was that the API would use the current Heroku cookie rather than the API token passed in with the request.

With curl, the doc says to use a blank username and the token as password in Basic Auth. When I do that with XMLHttpRequest, the token is completely ignored and the main site's cookie is used. There is no way not to pass the cookie with XMLHttpRequest unfortunately, so I would have to rely on if the user is logged in or not. That would bring other problems: I could only use the API for one account at a time for example, and I would have to add checks to see if the user is logged in, etc.

So my work-around was to write a proxy that would just pass around the requests to Heroku and the response back to the XMLHttpRequest client. (https://github.com/Timothee/Passeplat) With it, I can make the same requests I would make to https://api.heroku.com but instead make them to mypasseplatinstance.heroku.com.

Making this a Heroku-ready app is of course not a coincidence: my plan is to use my Heroku instances (the proxy and the yet-to-be-written git clone) to bootstrap a couple of Heroku instances with the user's own Heroku account. Then the extension would use these to start up other apps. I like the bootstrap idea: it's like compiling a compiler. :)

I'm now realizing that it might even be done with a buildpack… I'd have to look into that. (that would remove the need for that second "git clone" app) Hum, I'll really have to look into that! That could make things much easier and cleaner. (and also cooler)

There would still be the issue of specific configurations and add-ons to deal with, but that shouldn't be too hard if the rest is done.

edit: I haven't checked if this is still a problem with today's announcement. Also, I contacted Heroku support about it, but they only suggested I use a proxy.
This is the exact same problem I have with DuckDuckGo.

I still use them, but they could be logging everything, for all I know.

It would be great if they were regularly and frequently audited by a third-party who has earned widespread trust and respect, like the EFF. Not that the EFF is in the audit business. But serious auditing of sites that claim to respect privacy is sorely needed.
Mobile and the Innovators Dilemma
GitTogether: Video Chat for GitHub (powered by WebRTC)
Hmm yes perhaps, I tend to think of a dial as part of a measurement device. So a volt/ammeter has a dial, a clock has a dial etc.

I suppose I could see myself calling the temperature setting of a cooker the "Temperature dial", but not the mode selector knob thing. Mode/Temperature selector is quite a good one actually. Still doesn't come to hand like knob does though.
Wow, the campaign was launched just a while ago, and while I was watching the video it already gathered $35,000. Insane momentum.

Edit: After I wrote this comment it already had $39,000.
Holy sweet jesus batman! That is exactly what I want, and the Effort vs. Payoff has drastically reduced. I know what my computer's going to be doing for the next few nights.

Thank you!
I need UX designer. Other than survey, how could I know if our team want to work with them and they have a good sense of UX for our product category.
"I can't imagine doing all of it unless I was some criminal."

This is the #1 misconception about why people are concerned with privacy and it needs to stop. Not everyone who wants to protect their privacy is a criminal. Here are a few reasons you'd want to protect your privacy unrelated to criminal activities. I'm sure fellow HNers could add more to the list.

Private life away from work. Political enemies within the state. Private sexual fetish. Public personality who needs anonymity for some sense of a real life.

Another important one is private life away from family. You're probably thinking I'm referring to a cheating spouse but it's not only that. Many gay or atheist children are thrown out of their house when their parents discover that about their children.

There are many reasons law abiding citizens want privacy online. Please don't paint all privacy conscious people as criminals.
You may want to defend this (incorrect) blog post with that world view, but Google launched authorship markup before Google+: http://www.seoinc.com/seo-blog/google-launches-authorship-ma...
I brute forced from 10 to 20,000 :)
I use PrivateInternetAccess as well, they make it pretty easy and I'm able to log multiple boxes on at once (my HTPC, laptop, Mac Pro) without them complaining.

http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anon...

I also stack on Little Snitch, Adblock and Facebook Block (to stop Facebook from loading its iframes on sites that are not facebook).
Suggestion: a monthly "Want to be a beta user? Looking for beta users?" thread
a la freelancers thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5304173).

Just thought a lot of us here could benefit from such thing.
Here is the State of Illinois catch-all approach to addresses (from their voter registration form:

http://www.elections.il.gov/downloads/votinginformation/pdf/...

IF YOU HAVE NO STREET ADDRESS,
below describe your home: list the name of subdivision; cross
streets; roads; landmarks; mileage and/or neighbors' names.
This is why we need 💩
I feel like level 4 doesn't take http://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-ab... into account.

Also, the question on level 4, "The only gramatically correct address in that file is", grammatically is spelled incorrectly. Since it wouldn't make a good hint, I assume it's a typo.
That list makes me uncomfortable. I can't imagine doing all of it unless I was some criminal.

Alternatively, you could be a schizoid with paranoid tendencies. :-)
If only there were some way that people could make choices for themselves. Perhaps in the future we can invent a political system where individuals have responsibility for their own fate. Then, well-informed people would be rightly be able to do as they thought best, and everyone else would learn to only take action with proper knowledge, making everyone better-informed.

Until such a mystical system of rights can be invented, we're just going to have to keep forcing people to die and suffer from disease. Such a conundrum! It seems to be a problem that no HN threads have a solution for.
Maybe I am reading this wrong. It seems to be about the US, as opposed to humanity, not having done anything important in a while:

"the fact that the US doesn’t have a manned spaceflight program is a step back. But then he said, “our generation hasn’t done anything like land someone on the Moon… we used to do big things.”"

Then he goes on to put-up Linux as an example of the US (???) having done something great? Did I read that wrong?

Linux is not a US development. It didn't even start in the US. It's the result of collaboration from nearly every corner of the world.

As for humanity not having done something great. Please. Billions of people are connected like never before via the Internet. Never in the history of mankind was the dissemination of information, knowledge and culture accessible to so many for so little. And this is just the beginning.
Struggling with organizing and storing your photos? I'm trying to help you.
I'm working on a product that will include:

- Unlimited, free storage in the cloud
- Merge all photos from Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, etc.
- Simple photo editing
- Accessible from any device
- Facial recognition
- Joint accounts for families

Am I crazy, or is that something you'd be interested in? If you are feeling charitable and would like to take a quick survey:

http://bit.ly/framely
X.com merged with Confinity. Only after the merger did the resulting company name itself PayPal. One can reasonably call all of the founders of X.com and all of the founders of Confinity "founders of PayPal".
I would even say that full disclosure should be standard in such cases. If vulnerability is already exploited, some bad guys already know about it. Keeping it secret, even for a short time, gives these bad guys advantage and hurts users that can not take any extra precautions until the vulnerability is disclosed.
Does the market need a cheaper printer, or a better one?

I've used 6 types of 3D printers. (Extrusion type, ABS or PLA) 3 from the 'consumer' grade and 3 from the 'pro' grade. Each of the consumer grade printers was an exercise in frustration.

All the printers had ugly, clunky software, but the pro printers would almost always make the thing I wanted.

The consumer printers I've tried take 3 or 4 failures to get 'set up' then a few more tries to find the bugs most of the way through a build, and eventually you might get one nice print. (After 4-6 hours)

The difficulty of getting a good print scales dramatically with the initial footprint, and not as much with height.

I have no intention of actually buying a printer until I've seen one work that I can afford. I can't manage the cost of most pro machines, but I can't accept the headache of 'consumer' printers today.

I'm glad 3D printing is taking off, but I think we've reached an inflection point where we need to go from possible to easy.
The main problem with DRM is that we can have culture lost forever. There will be some things impossible to purchase (in its own right absurd in digital age). But also with platforms dying we can have games and ecosystems lost for the future generations.

After all PS2 has ended its run. Soul Reaver and some FF games enter public domain early next century. By that time they may have been lost forever. And it is a loss to humanity if you ask me.
Do we really need a front-page post every time a service has a hiccup?
Dude, I shop at Whole Foods every week.

The point everyone was making was that good healthy food is available. It might not be the BULK of what's on sale. But it's certainly AVAILABLE.

Here is a quote from you:
"Not a single one of them has any significant fresh food selection."

I can get almost any fresh meat I desire and nearly any vegetable at my store. I think you need to reconsider your language.
Have you asked the person you've send the email to, if he/she received it?
Huh, I never tried right clicking on the lower-left corner of the screen before, that's pretty handy.

Too bad it doesn't work right: despite every shortcut in the list being a shell object they don't have right click property menus, instead right-clicking invokes the item. Ugh.
Wow. That's insane.

As a software developer, I'd like to propose some changes in the world.

1) Addresses should be the very precise lat/long of the mailbox + the name of the recipient. Nothing else.

2) There should be one time zone for the whole world and no daylight savings. Time should be 24-hour-based. Perhaps you'll need to set your personal alarm for 19:00 in the "morning". Tough.

3) Nobody is allowed to change their names.

4) Whoever keeps sawing outside our building should stop.

That is all for now. I look forward to the complete capitulation of all world leaders to my frank good sense.

Thank you.
No they don't and no it isn't.
On the flip side - I would say, 20+ years into a reasonably successful career in IT/Network Engineering, that one of the best uses of my time in the last couple decades was spending hundreds of hours grokking awk. I've had my share of travelling, socializing, and startups - but I certainly don't, for a second, regret my days and late weekend nights staring into the face of awk.

I don't know if this is a "when you have a hammer, everything appears to be a nail" - but I continually am shocked at how few of my six-figure salary colleagues in the IT industry (networking, unix, systems integration) are incapable of slicing and dicing a large text file and reporting on it. Activities that take them the better part of day in Excel, can sometimes be done in a few minutes with a fast awk script.

Knowing awk (and all the regex associated joy) has brought me (personally) great pleasure, and I'll die a happy man knowing the time I put into it was well spent.

We each have to find joy in life where we can.
Still #1 when I search and that's not even what he's talking about.

He's claiming that having a G+ picture inserted next to search results is resulting in a much lower CTR than they previously had.

Which I think is plausible as it detracts from the search experience, I often skip those results as the text isn't lined up so I can't scan it properly. Wish you could turn them off, it's really off putting. I also wonder what the CTRs of pretty people are like compared to munters. I still don't get why Google added it.
The Linux kernel is a complete unknown to the vast majority of people on the planet, yes. But it runs so much of the Internet behind the scenes that I don't think it's fair to say that it only touches the lives of "a small percentage" of the people. Not everyone, to be sure, and depending on how many levels of indirection you consider to be valid, perhaps not even half. But undoubtedly more than can really be called a "small percentage."
Exactly. In the modern world latency concerns so outstrip bandwidth issues that it's actually much saner to copy the whole file across the wire than it is to try to edit it locally. The curmudgeon in me finds that amazing sometimes.
Now it's my highest rated comment for two-and-a-half years. I'm not sure how to feel about that.
> Left wing thought, in my world, is creating the maximum benefit for the maximum number of people. We against "robbing peter to pay paul".

But that's exactly what welfare is: robbing Peter to pay Paul!

(yes, I'm aware that folks claim stuff like, 'ah, but if we rob Peter nicely than there's less risk of Paul robbing and killing him, so really Peter's expected value is higher if we rob him')
What's the nubbin on the end of a fencing foil called?
His position on the SERPs didn't change, he's still #1 for the keywords that were driving the traffic.
I posted this yesterday with the original article title, but linked to the .com version of the post, not the .com.br version: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5789736
The Alcatel-Lucent 5ESS switch code is larger, more mature, has probably had more developers over its lifetime, and still, pretty much, runs the whole phone network.
U.S. urges states not to allow general use of self-driving cars
It's Tor, not TOR: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhyCalledTor
In Burnaby, BC we have some pedestrian signals that will audibly count down how long is left to cross the road as well as providing a visual counter on the signal itself.
.br isn't a subdomain, it's a TLD.
The whole point of this transcontinental charge network, at least as it has been marketed, is for road trips. If you're driving across the country it's unlikely that you will want to stop for 30 minutes every 2 hours. I could see two or three 30 minute stops per day at the most.
Thoughts on this system: http://www.yankodesign.com/2013/05/21/lumigrids-while-cyclin...
Ah, so you could never move a mailbox?
> "The issue for PHP and even Node.js is obviously you're trapped in a single-threaded situation and what I really wanted was to be able to do a lot of things concurrently,"

Remember "Node.js is cancer"? Remember how the Node.js fanboys would bully programmers on social media who critiqued it? At no point have I seen Go programmers hype up the language and attack others.

I sincerely hope the "brogrammers" and "hackers" who beat their chest about Rails and Node.js and whatever framework was/is flavor of the day, do not start using Go.

They will be a negative force in the community and it will be sickening to see them pump up the hype and declare themselves as champions of Go.
If anyone wants to view the site without js, you can just right-click the overlay->inspect element and then right-click the noscript element->delete node.
I'm sorry about your experience, however it definitely isn't everbody's experience.

When I was 13 I had a stomache ache, my mother being overly paranoid took me to the hospital after a few hours of it not getting any better. After about an hours wait I saw 3 or 4 doctors in quick succession, was diagnosed with appendicitis and had surgery scheduled for around 7 hours later. I was taken care of excellently and wasn't charged a penny.

Anecdotally, almost everyone I know has only had positive experiences with the NHS. Of course it isn't perfect, but it sure as hell isn't a disaster.
I wouldn't call the current title a "spin"; it's just a short summary of what Google explicitly said in the post that's more informative than the post title.

(Compare this key quote: "Based on our experience, however, we believe that more urgent action -- within 7 days -- is appropriate for critical vulnerabilities under active exploitation.")
This. IMHO a lot of people are tired of blog spam/social spam and just want the original content.
Selling game cheaply is good business, DRM has nothing to do with the success. Most of my games are on Steam (and most of games on Steam has DRM), I have 2 or 3 games on GOG. Only because they were cheaper on GOG when I wanted them. With a bad DRM you can easily lose customer but I don't think you actually lose customer if your DRM are well done.

Also Team Fortress 2 make 3x more money for 2 reasons. It's Valve, which has a HUGE fan base, and they sell crate that contains a random hat, which can be sold for money to someone else (in the end it act like a lottery where people think they will be able to get a rare hat that will be sold for hundreds of dollars on the market). I don't think you can reproduce these two things on every game.
Sorry. Wrong. If we were to undertake a serious challenge, like get to Mars, or go 100% renewable power in 15 years, I'd take that over the linux kernel any day all day.
Maybe I am off base, or my calculations are wrong, but 110k (60*1.3+22+10) for a "Master" level engineer in San Fransisco seems amazingly below market, especially when a "junior" level engineer is making 92k.