skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does the market need a cheaper printer, or a better one?

Isn't that the point of crowd funding? Commenters on Hacker News don't decide what the market needs, but rather the market itself does.
Boy you need to calm down tptacek. Personal attacks on the OP based on a highly disputable claim (it's just a description of a possible attack that doesn't fulfill the original conditions in the first place) is a bit unseemly and makes you sound desperate to an extent.
Workin' on it ;) https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/pull/582
> I hear lots of objection to DRM in HTML but no alternatives.

To quote Thomas Sowell:

"No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: “But what would you replace it with?” When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?"
It's amazing how much the title submission can influence comments.

Original title: "Hated expensive, crappy stock photos so I made this."

Current title: "Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days"

A lot of these comments are really negative and might be confusing to people who didn't know the original title. And frankly, when you have a title like that to start, it warrants some of the criticism.

If you just take this site for what it is, and what the new title says, then it's awesome and no one should really have a problem with someone spending their time taking great quality photos and releasing them for free.
> The solution is pick capitalism or socialism and all their associated ills

That sounds like a terrible solution. I'd much rather try to balance bits of capitalism and socialism as necessary. Yes, it's hard, yes, we'll get things wrong, no, that doesn't mean it's not worth trying. 'Be wary of simple answers to complex problems'.
For what it's worth, it also works on Opera 12 for PC.
SASS is quite good but stylus has more features. SASS's bigger community is surely a point in its favor but stylus's simple excellence makes it the victor for me.
We are, in just a few months, going from asking if there was ever water on Mars to being able to calculate how deep and fast were some streams. Most people doesn't realize it, but we are in the middle of a paradigm change. It is happening before our eyes.
You haven't offended me.

You did however launch a "contest" to demonstrate the soundness of using browser Javascript cryptography to protect user secrets, and made exactly the kind of slip-up that trivially demonstrates what a bad idea browser JS crypto is: to wit, your application couldn't even protect its own pages, let alone use them to safely deliver crypto code; you provided an ambiguous address and didn't properly lock the server down to SSL, so you couldn't even rely on users getting to your app under SSL.

Your app wouldn't have demonstrated any of the security value (largely nonexistent) of browser JS crypto even if it had been careful about SSL hygiene. But you spared Moxie the trouble of making that case.

Somehow I doubt Moxie cares too much about the $1000, but: you screwed up, lost the contest, and then (from what I can see) weaseled. The real point isn't "pay Moxie $1000"; it's, "don't try to run contests like this".
"People are stupid. Bureaucrats are stupid with bad incentives." -- Robin Hanson (from memory)
YOU'RE ALL WEASELS.
It's not that remote accesses are good, it's that trying to induce them can harm cache usage elsewhere. If the author at High Scalability will allow me another quibble, I'd say that actually, memory locality is still King. It's just that we have to be very careful about trying to improve it; if you try to improve locality in one place (say, induce local accesses from a socket to main memory), you may end up harming it somewhere else (more total number of accesses to main memory because now the cache is thrashing).

The NUMA bit comes in when you said "scheduling related threads on the same cpu" and "threads spread over many cpus". If you schedule related threads on the same socket (cpu), you're more likely to get local accesses. If your threads share data, then that's two good things: local memory accesses, and good cache usage. But if your threads use different data, then the fact that you have local memory accesses may not matter because you may have many more cache misses because the threads are interfering with each other.

A simpler way to think about it: shorter access to main memory does not help you if you end up doing many more total accesses.
If you're building a rocket to Mars, you'd better have at least a few psychology types to anticipate (and prevent) miscommunications that result in a units-conversion error that blows up the shiny engineering thingie.
Stylus seems strictly better from my narrow perspective. 0 negatives, about 6 positives the other 2 miss.
The government-backed sugar cartel in the US simply drove up the cost of (cane and beet) sugar, resulting in a comparative cost advantage for HFCS. I am surprised at how many people think HFCS is a corporate conspiracy, and are wholly ignorant of the government's role in the matter.

Here's a similar article with an interesting graph: http://mjperry.blogspot.ca/2011/01/big-sugar-cartel-cost-con...
In Russia, LiveJournal is popular and serious blog platform.
technically is is call a tactile rotating cone (or tactile for short).

Traffic Signal Engineer.....
Where does Martin Eberard call Elon Musk a cofounder ??
Do you have any documentation of that ?
Thanks. This is an attempt at doing three things:
1. Learning more about the security risks of JavaScript
2. Facilitating a more create and nuanced discussion of its pros and cons
3. Learning about interacting with HN

I failed at my second goal and while I've succeeded in the third it was in different way than anticipated.

I also to reiterate that this isn't some backhanded attempt at a product launch. I would have hoped that my statements, using an appspot domain, no design and limited functionality would have made that clear.
glad you're enjoying it! feel free to reach out and/or contribute any time <3

ref: http://roots.cx/axis
rackspace ripped me off
It's a sad time when people seriously think it is easier to have deep-well pumped, shipped, refined, shipped again toxic substances supplied than electricity.

Use the money you would take to buy your 2-stroke generator and invest it into a bunch of solar panels. Also, donate some money to your local power company, because power outages are not at all a common thing in the european half of the developed world.
same as Corn Ethanol- the Iowa Caucus
Firedoglake, too:

http://www.correntewire.com/time_to_short_rackspace_ha_ha
It is worth noting that here, as is typical in politics, a focused interest (sugar growers) beats a diffuse interest (the general public). We would all benefit from ending this ridiculous practice. But we would individually benefit very little, and it isn't worth much from us to do so.

But it gets worse. Because there is a second layer of beneficiaries here. Corn growers. And they have great political power, as is seen in the subsidies they get and the ethanol additives that are legally require (which damage engines, and are a net negative on energy once you consider the costs of growing that corn).

Not the least among the advantages that corn growers have politically is the simple fact that they are important in Iowa. Which means that any national politician who dreams of being President, or of working with any other that has that dream, has very direct incentives to keep corn growers happy.
Is jclouds.org down?
There is an interesting conspiracy theory suggesting that New Coke was released to mask the switch of sugar to HFCS in the then re-introduced Coke Classic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Conspiracy_theories
Show HN: I hacked a script to download all videos from paintbottle.com
What can we learn from Fictional Interface?
An ongoing collection of computer interface designs from popular culture.
4) Iterators?

5) ???

6) Web framework?
It may be; they are in the process of shifting to the ASF incubator.
The page linked in the article is worth a couple of chuckles: "The US sugar industry is almost as important to our economic vitality as is a steady supply of affordable energy. Subjecting sugar to the unpredictable forces of global laissez faire capitalism would likely lead to 'dumping' by countries whose own sugar industries are much more protected than is ours."

In a sense, this quote isn't wrong. That's exactly what the sugar producing countries would do. The U.S. almost certainly does not have a competitive advantage in sugar production, and if the industry were deregulated domestic sugar production would end, and we'd become sugar importers. And that would be okay, because sugar isn't the strategically important commodity it once was.

But the same reasoning applies to steel and arms manufacturing too. The difference is, it wouldn't be okay if all our domestic steel production went overseas.
I read researched this a few days ago.

You have to consider the taste, it tastes nicer because fructose has only 5 carbon in it's ring instead of 6 which leads to more pleasurable experience as it makes it fit better into the sweetness sensing in the mouth[1]

With Corn Syrup you get both glucose and fructose together whereas with sugar you just get sucrose. Another reason would be that more corn is grown in the US than sugar cane which makes it more efficient to produce corn syrup instead.

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23537367
Sorry, but that's nonsense. Don't believe everything read on Huff-post.

Edit: And since it's sure to come up, our sex education isn't abstinence-only, either.
Elon Musk hinting at June 20 for news on Hyperloop
I think web apps are slightly starting to become cool again, lots of people are realising that they don't need individual platform apps when the web can reach them all.
In the documentary King Corn [1] they suggest that HFCS is ubiquitous because of the government subsidies for growing corn. The surplus of corn was so large, they started looking for creative ways to use it all up. HFCS was one of those, as-is feeding it to livestock (which traditionally don't eat corn).

The subsidies are such that a cattle farmer can actually make a profit buy growing corn, selling it (with subsidies), then buying corn back to feed their own livestock.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1112115/
Medium is not a complex webapp. Facebook or gmail is a complex webapp.
Looks like GitHub is back up!
Apparently some people can always be trusted to rewrite their entire perception of social reality in abject worship of low real-estate prices.
Trivial example use of inotify (or rather, inotifywait) to restart Apache after you edit the Apache conf file or add/edit/remove a site config:

while inotifywait -e attrib,modify /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf -e attrib,modify,create,delete,move -r /etc/httpd/sites-enabled ; do
/sbin/service httpd graceful && echo "`date -u --rfc-3339=seconds` httpd graceful" >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-conf.log
done

Shows how to monitor a single file and a directory, and do a sequence of commands if events happen. Unlike while stat, this doesn't spam checking the file system for changes, it waits until the kernel notifies that a change happened.

To "daemonize" this, tack on an invocation test, perhaps:

#!/bin/bash
if [ "x$1" != "x--" ]; then
$0 -- 1> /etc/httpd/conf/watchconf.log 2> /etc/httpd/conf/watchconf-err.log &
exit 0
fi

while inotifywait -e attrib,modify /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf -e attrib,modify,create,delete,move -r /etc/httpd/sites-enabled ; do
/sbin/service httpd graceful && echo "`date -u --rfc-3339=seconds` httpd graceful" >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-conf.log
done
Then I'd think it's not a coincidence that Iowa is designated as a swing state, since both parties have to play into this scheme.
This debate has come up on HN repeatedly; it is again worth pointing out that HFCS is "HF" relative to "CS", not to table sugar. Table sugar is ~50% fructose, HFCS 55%.

The point isn't that HFCS is good for you --- it isn't --- but that a flight to "natural" sugars isn't a good response. The problem is hyperpalatable foods and (even moreso) liquid calories, not which sugar is being used.

HFCS alarmism probably works to the advantage of junk food companies, who can simply market equally unhealthful products built on table sugar as a premium alternative.
HFCS is almost in the same place as sugar if we look at it in terms of regulation.

Both are victims of price fixing through government subsidies. It doesn't matter if you don't contribute to the purchase of the product, as your tax dollars already fund its creation.
@jnoller congrats on the launch. Check out the http://www.dreamfactory.com open source platform for mobile. We should figure out how to work together!
Fair point, though it's still not that great as far as I can tell.
We can, right now, rejuvenate individual cells on several levels. Even senescent cells can be made do divide themselves again.

We can, right now, use stem cells and extra-cellular matrices to regenerate parts of our bodies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracellular_matrix_protein#M...

Now combine the two, and you see that significant partial rejuvenating procedures are not far. Depending on how fast this goes, people alive right now may very well double their life span using technology from 20 to 50 years in the future.

---

You probably won't own a self driving car. Most likely, you will rent them for less than the cost of public transportation. The car you commute with will likely have one seat and a small trunk. There may not be any traffic jam any more. Parking space will move out of the cities, and shrink. Public transportation and individual transportation may blend. You can expect some changes to the way packages are delivered.

And of course, cars aren't the only things that are allowed to drive themselves. Self piloting utility drones could serve a host of purposes (I can think of surveillance, monitoring, and package delivery).

---

We may have recursively self-improving AI before the end of the century. Unless it destroys us all by accident (we are made of atoms the AI could use to fulfil its pre-programmed goals, if we're not really really careful), the world beyond will quickly overshoot current science fiction. (We may have other ways of creating smarter-than-current-human-intelligence, AI just looks like the more probable one) http://intelligenceexplosion.com/
There's Golangide[0] and Goclipse[1].

[0]: https://code.google.com/p/golangide/

[1]: https://code.google.com/p/goclipse/
I've released my staff management software under the GPL - http://hey-jimmy.github.io/TeamSheet/ - so any and all work on it is welcome.
I don't like how pricing is hidden, and then "per day" when finally dug in. It feels like it's trying to cover up for being more expensive than the vendor wants to admit. That, in turn, makes me as a potential customer suspicious. Starting a relationship on already-misleading terms isn't good.
CNET founder files for bankruptcy
HFCS alarmism probably works to the advantage of junk food companies, who can simply market equally unhealthful products built on table sugar as a premium alternative.

That's fine, let them try. It would equalize the market among these players and those who are already not using HFCS.
> If you acknowledge that it's sufficient to prevent evidence recovery

Any snake oil is sufficient to thwart some attacker somewhere some of the time.

Browser Script Crypto adds a lot of complexity. It also adds a metric crapton of insidious counter-intuitiveness to the security model.

These are real and serious engineering drawbacks to BSC. In order for BSC is worthwhile in a given situation, you need to show that any benefits it may bring outweigh the drawbacks and do so better than other solutions.

This is never the case in practice, because BSC is vulnerable to all the same attacks as the web browser.

> There was a Google "Site Reliability Engineer" who got fired for snooping on young girls chats and harassing them.

Solution: Publicly fire the guy. Don't log the chats.

> If Gmail sent down Javascript that did the crypto before they got it, this employee would not have been able to do that.

I think you're assuming that based on the belief that this engineer would not have been able and willing to conduct an active attack. What is your evidence for this belief?

> I'm not very confident that nobody there will ever passively snoop

Snooping is their (Google/Facebook) business model. It's just a question of whether or not their internal authorization process was followed.

BSC doesn't solve the problem of the insider threat. It may make it marginally more risky for some insiders some of the time, but there are already an unlimited number of ways to make life more complicated for insiders (legitimate or not).

> The [Dropbox] flaw, a software bug that rendered the service's authentication mechanism non-functional,

As a rule, if the authentication is broken, the encryption is too.

> [La Cie] stating that Dropbox's problems wouldn't be an issue if files were encrypted by the client

Only maybe if the user chose a strong password and there was literally no way for users to recover their data if they lost it.

I'm not against client-side encryption. I'm a fan of PGP and Truecrypt.

> JS crypto, in its broken state, offers some improvement for some real-world scenarios that SSL does not even attempt to address.

I can think of one or two such scenarios, but not many. Mr. Dotcom may well be the exception that proves the rule; his primary adversary is the US DOJ. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out.
Ask HN: Do people use the zoom functionality in browsers?
Using some CSS3 shapes that distort if the user zooms in. Looks fine zoomed out and 100%. Is this a concern?
Sadly, I suspect this is a case of developer neglect and laziness. I'd imagine what has happened here is the developer has serialised the entirety of a User model, rather than carefully only exposing properties required by the client.

Hopefully this will act as a cautionary tale for anyone designing an API.
Steve Jobs Created the iPad to Show Microsoft Employee
These guys seem to have no problem with manipulating the search results will hundreds of thousands of paid links:

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks/subdomains/jitbit...

So it's really no surprise that Google's latest Penguin rollout has hurt them.

Sad to see it blamed on authorship.
... resulting in no net gain for consumers, who would still be prey for the multibillion dollar junk food industry.
Yeah, I was wondering about this as a sort of intro or thesis to this discussion. That quote is pretty blatantly untrue and if that's the premise of this argument, well... It seems like it would be more like "women are told that they are only good enough for certain jobs and those jobs pay less."
Not sure why you're interested in my personal situation but here goes....
Food is a necessity - plus it's not monetarily worthless.

I don't spend tens of thousands of dollars on my hobbies - they're near free.

I sold my car last year and don't plan on buying one again. But when I purchased it, I definitely made a self indulgent choice. I don't claim to be immune to temptation. But more to the point, it was never monetarily worthless and didn't put me tens of thousands of dollars in debt.

Underwear? I'm not sure what kind of fancy underwear would cost tens of thousands of dollars, but I'd definitely like to know more about that.
You might be interested to read "The Myth of the Rational Voter" , or other material by Bryan Caplan; he argues that the reason these policies thrive is not the uninformed public. Caplan argues that the public has strong beliefs in favor of the tariffs and protectionism, as a result of anti-foreign, and anti-market bias.
> The difference is, it wouldn't be okay if all our domestic steel production went overseas.

I think I know the rationale behind this statement, but I'm always curious as to why we hold on to these beliefs. If we let industries move around based on true competitiveness, stripped of subsidies and other anticompetitive practices, we might find that to be a force for good.

That said, I've come to believe that this is most likely a minority view. Everyone believes in free markets until it starts affecting their bottom line.
To me, the title screamed “SEO’d to death”.
I'm having troubles getting the twitter blurb to load. Any recommendations?
http://i.imgur.com/h3IshHe.png
In the other HN thread on this announcement, chaz posted [1] about "contingency anxiety", which was an excellent post.

You're doing exactly that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5791114
Of course people zoom in with their browsers, especially older people or those otherwise sight-impaired, but the set of zoomers isn't limited to just them... in a universe of an increasing number of very high DPI screens (but where you still can't expect those to be the standard), zooming is pretty commonplace.

I zoom myself when a designer decides to use some stupidly small font and then often don't even notice the zoom is on until some other website is using a larger than normal font.

So, yes, people do zoom. Does it matter that this breaks your CSS3? I don't know, I'd have to see the breakage to know if it is a showstopper or merely a visual annoyance.
The problem is that it's 7 feet long, 4 feet wide, and weighs 1,000 lbs. It's also sealed into the chassis and makes up the floor of the car.
Generally speaking, the mechanism used for attribution is not specific to Google accounts. It's just a rel="me" or rel="author" hyperlink somewhere in your articles, and you can list multiple source of profile data. (Which is generally a good idea for semantic web purposes. Take a look at the social links on my website for an example.)

The Microformats Wiki has more details on how these work:
http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me
http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-author

That said, I believe Google Search only knows how to extract author bios from the Google Profile database. Personally, I don't think this is different than having to creating a Webmaster Tools account if you want to view your website data -- it provides an authoritative, user-editable source of biographical data for the system to use.

(If this was scraped from across the web for everyone, I could imagine some folks getting upset if the wrong information is picked up. Case in point: I remember a while back when somebody's Wikipedia article listed them as dead, and that information was automatically pulled into the Knowledge Graph. Oops.)

That said, I'm not on any of the teams involved in creating this, so take all this with a grain of salt.
This is great -- I love math visualized. It's fun to set the settings to no delay and just watch the bar graph normalize really quickly

http://i.imgur.com/E8yppGG.png
The charging stations should be able to accommodate a lot more cars than a gas station. You don't have to have a lot of machinery to pump fluids around as electrons get around on their own. The physical size and expense of equipment per charging station should also be a lot smaller when compared with a gas station.
It's mainly that it's always the first primary election and the presidential primaries are very much momentum-based. If you crash and burn in the Iowa caucus you're basically done.
Iowa isn't "designated" a swing state; it emerges as one every election season because of its particular mix of urban and rural counties and its proximity to Chicago and Minneapolis, both Democratic bastions, and its large number of reliably conservative rural voters.
I think the point is why do we have a sugar protection racket.
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None. It's something which is, ironically, used by people who overestimate their own understanding of pop-psychology to put down others. The fact that it was used in earnest without presenting any justification just makes it all the more hilarious, unintentionally so.
The tup build system also does this.
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