skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a few threat models where its useful.

The government can subpoena your emails on gmail, but I think they might have a more difficult time convincing google to change their javascript to add a $.post to steal your decrypted emails.

Also, these attacks rely on the user actively logging in. So if you are in jail or dead , your data will be safe.
2.4 MB for a video that is part of what was clearly a designed interactive experience for desktop/laptop doesn't seem like any kind of big deal.
Register renaming is one of the most very basic levels of optimization. I challenge you to find me a single optimizing compiler that slows down when you give names to temporary results. Hell, I can show you non-optimizing compilers that suffer no slowdown from code like this.
I completely disagree. I've used siftscience (http://siftscience.com) and the service is remarkably good. I admit there are some cases where it would be impractical. However, in my experience ML-as-a-service has been pragmatic and I've seen it lead to very favorable outcomes with minimal effort from the client.
I agree with the sentiment of your post, but I don't think they "make acquiring and owning games easier" than piracy. In fact it's very easy to pirate gog games because of their anti-DRM stance so if a potential customer doesn't feel like paying the 5 bucks for a game, it's just a torrent away. Not saying GOG haven't done something wonderful but it's certainly not pirate-proof.
Right, but even your example shows a reason why this approach is an issue. Apple Maps was late to the market - it came out after someone else (Google) already captured essentially the whole thing. Apple released a product that was maybe 25% of Google Map's feature parity and they were late to the party. They failed and now are trying to iterate out of a hole but their perception has already been set to "the inferior one" by most potential users.
I think it was free, and then it became paid, and now it's free again.

Freemium might be better. Or suggested article advertizement on the right? They pretty much do that already.
Why, simply because it's hosted on a different domain? It seems to help people reach an audience wider than they would otherwise, which is anything but bad for branding.
HN comments down for anyone else?
Trying to view some threads in the last few minutes - just a blank screen.

Anyone else have this problem?
Beyond that, it doesn't even define the plugin API side of it, only the JS side. Defining the plugin API would make the proposal less bad (!= good) as then at least the plugins wouldn't be browser specific (though I suspect quickly enough a de-facto standard will appear)

I mean, at least something like NPAPI is (somewhat) documented, so that one can support all NPAPI plugins in any browser (say, Flash, Silverlight on OS X, etc.), even if what the plugins do themselves it totally undocumented…
Why isn't the navigation persistent?!
Same but opposite can view them via a VPN but not directly from my home connection.
Not my site, and while I hear you on the backups, the perhaps more-relevant problem is the lying.
Cool site. Mobile version looks amazing. I will check it out.
Skateistan is a moving short film about two young skaters from Afghanistan
This would be much more interesting if it asked you about symptoms of sleep deficit. E.g., "if you go into a dark room and lie down in the middle of the day, how long will it take you to fall asleep?"

Someone who habitually sleeps 6 hours a night but never feels tired is probably fine. Someone who habitually sleeps 8 hours a night but always feels tired should try sleeping more, and if that doesn't work they should seek advice from a doctor.

I expect there is a large segment of people who suffer from sleep deficit and would be more effective if they slept more, but don't know that it would help them. I don't think this is the correct way to reach such people, or the correct message to give them.
Appeal to authority. You don't have to trust some random comment on the Internet. Read a little about how generics are implemented in other languages today, and you will be able to see the points the commenter is making.
This would be really, really good news if it were true. We have demonstrated the ability to put these things into the atmosphere, with 40-50 year-old tech, and as an accidental side effect rather than a deliberate attempt to do so. We have demonstrated the ability to let them decay out of the atmosphere without adding significantly more. If the CFCs had this level of impact on the atmospheric temperature, this would give us such an enormous stick in global temperature management that at the very least the fears of a new ice age [1] could be put to rest for the duration of our technological civilization, and of course there's the fact that it would also demonstrate that our CO2 contribution is also not that big a deal so our warming fears could also be all but put to bed.

It's such good news, in fact, that I daresay it's too good a bit of news. The Cynic's Razor [2] may not be quite as reliable as Occam's Razor, but it's still pretty darned reliable. (Unfortunately.) Alas, the Cynic's Razor must slash this theory away without a great deal more evidence.

[1] I fear global cooling far more than I fear global warming. I say that without regard to any immediate probability estimates of the two, I'm considering the whole life span of civilization here. Take the worst global warming scenario you've ever heard. The compare it to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Iceage_north-intergl_glac_... And bear in mind that "areas with no growing season to speak of" continues a significant distance beyond the glaciers themselves. Canada and Britain completely uninhabitable. The US, Russia, and most if not all of Europe with zero growing season for any commercially-viable crop. Similar problems in the southern hemisphere. Global warming may be bad for civilization, an Ice Age is potentially death to the entire concept of civilization. YMMV.

[2] Drat! Not quite an original construct: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Cynic%27s+Razor%22 So close.
The comment said the Bay, not the US. Even still, if $20 is $1000 for you, then it's absurd to think you'd put it on a game on KickStarter.
> That if something is not 100%, exactly, totally, purely aligned to your personal vision it's fucking garbage, or worse, evil and bad.

> I'm not arguing any further, you're clearly a zealot
skeptic
When I download the library, none of the examples work because the jquery files are named incorrectly. Pretty frustrating to have to change this before I can see anything
Moxie Marlinspike is not hiding behind an alias, and neither is Sherwin. I didn't sleuth his name from anywhere; it was public at least since last night, on Twitter. Presumably, the guy who starts a contest under an HN nick with his name in it and then emails numerous people from an address with his name in it is not trying to hide his identity.

Nobody is playing dumb with you. I'm not afraid to be wrong in a debate with you; I just haven't had the opportunity to be, yet.
How do I go about filing a civil suit? I'm sure I can "google it" but I'd like to hear more from someone who knows what they're talking about.
Relevant.

> it's simply a fact.

No one is disputing that fact. However, you're the one making it out like it's late and that it's millions over budget, neither of which are fact.

More importantly, you make the idea of it being unfinished bad, as if you were guaranteed anything via KickStarter.
But the energy density of natural gas is a lot less than coal, so you are burning more gas to get the same energy output. I'm not sure it is quite a wash, gas is cleaner in a lot of other ways (no particulates, no or very little sulfur, etc.)
If you're willing to disclose the data, how much did your house cost?

The cost of housing is one of my major deterrents to moving to the Bay Area. Otherwise I'd be there in a heartbeat if I could bring my SO along.

I just feel like with the typical developer wages quoted on Hacker News for the Bay Area I really don't see how I could afford a $1M home, which seems to be the going rate there. I'm in Houston and could get a $100k-$150k house here if I were willing to commute. Even if my salary doubled going to SF, it'd be hard to swallow the fact that housing would go up to nearly seven figures.
Your electric car simply transfers the carbon emissions from the tailpipe to the local powerplant smokestacks (unless your utility uses nukes).
Very nice! Looking forward to seeing what interesting puzzles Chapter 2 provides.
Thanks for doing this. :)

Does it help to have a prototype or not? have a startup being planned or not? I've done kernel stuff before but does that hurt or help?
Check without cookies (incognito mode in Chrome).
Hi there -- I work at Stripe.

First, "aggregation" (something many of the other commenters have brought up) is a pretty fuzzy term. A lot of it depends on customer expectations -- whether they expect to be paying you (and not the seller), whether you're handling customer support, refunds, disputes, and so on. I wouldn't immediately assume that you're in violation of our ToS if you're a marketplace; many that use Stripe (Lyft, Exec, Postmates) are not.

Second, we actually have an API feature that allows you to programmatically transfer funds via ACH to a bank account almost exactly for this use case -- it's in private beta right now. I'd be happy to give you access (and help figure out whether you're actually violating our ToS) if you want to drop me an email (amber@stripe.com).
I wonder what the reasoning was behind branding the author in the URL path as opposed to as a subdomain. It seems like a very strange approach to take from guys who have done the latter before.

If nothing else it sure makes posts from Medium very annoying on HN because I can't actually tell which blogger's post I'm going to read until I click the link (primarily read on iPad so no hovering).
I'm fine héroe. Ipad 4
Also same here. Work works but home doesn't. DNS returned the same ip, cleared cache, cleared cookies (and tried incognito),..etc..

Edit: Back now
I have filed one suit, a landlord-tenant dispute. I found a local lawyer, almost literally from the yellow pages, showed up for a consult, and then paid them to file the suit.

The best next step here would be to ask people for recommendations for a lawyer to pursue the case. What you'll learn is that different lawyers handle different kinds of things; most lawyers do things like contract review or mergers and not litigation.

If you have any kind of rapport with any lawyer, they should be able to refer you to someone.

When you talk to the lawyer, you should make it clear that your interest in the case is in stopping ongoing fraud and abuse, and not in getting any kind of payout, because otherwise lawyers will probably be at pains to tell you how your case isn't lucrative. But of course that's not the point!

There are a couple really smart lawyers (and hackers with legal training) on HN who might be able to recommend people to talk to.

From my very limited experiences with law enforcement: they are overwhelmed and unlikely to pursue a case in which no clear damages occurred. But the same thing is not true of civil litigators!
Your assumption that poor people are dumb and don't know how to help themselves is insulting. I'm a part of the unexotic underclass; I was doing pretty good in my life till serious health problems started in college. Being transgender played a large role too. I've been homeless, broke, been a housemaid and a sex worker, exchanged sex for housing. Before that I was top of my International Baccalaureate program class, and a National Merit scholar. I attended a well ranked state school. I just didn't have any golden parachutes when I had health problems.

From being poor though what I've ended up discovering is just how hard it is to come up from being homeless and broke, or not being from money and having serious health problems, or being black and getting a felony record from an asshole cop. There are a lot of decent poor people, that just can't come up in the world anymore. Their jobs work them like dogs, the world treats them like shit, and their spare energy left at the end of the day is zip. There's nothing left to better yourself with because everyone takes and takes from you and gives back nothing but disrespect.

Sure there are people that are just lazy too. But even among those people there's only a small number that are purposely taking advantage. The silent majority have either disabilities holding them back, or trauma from their life (PTSD). Or the simple lack of anyone parenting them properly and encouraging them to explore their dreams and interests.

Drugs, alcohol, junk food, tv and other vices are a coping mechanism for a shitty life. Make people's lives the least bit better in substantial ways, and those people will start to flower and bloom into more capable and wonderful people.

The disrespect, patronizing, and superior attitudes of the privileged upper class are a huge part of the problem.
> there are web browsers written in javascript

Really? Where?
Dear 1871, Chicago's Tech Incubator
Ask HN: What's your favorite coding atmosphere?
What's your favorite coding atmosphere?

I'm curious how everyone likes to code, not which software.. more like what kind of music, space, monitor/keyboard setup, standing/sitting, temperature, people surrounding, time of the day, etc..
Mercedes and Toyota are already licensing the battery and drivetrain technology from Tesla, and I'm sure other manufacturers will fall into line soon. Why not license the charging technology at the same time?
Maybe store the game state in cookies so it can be resumed implicitly, but have the game restarted explicitly, by clearing them?
Scala has a small community? :)
Thanks for the source - I completed the game though didn't realize at first that the vehicle was auto-unloading - at first I thought I was just losing numans somewhere in space :) I now see I was a bad test subject and didn't read the description properly.
My real beef is how readily Ubuntu installs proprietary software (like binary drivers) while having this "bug" in its tracker.

Yes, yes, if you want to get anything done now, you need those drivers. And a lot of users wouldn't use Linux at all if they couldn't get what they wanted now.

But the long-term implications of giving into hardware manufacturers is you will never get an open driver. Ubuntu does not care about free software at all (whether or not for good reason) and it annoys me that they pretend to.
They just came back up for me, although they were broken for a while. My desk-mate and I are on the same version of chrome (Version 27.0.1453.93 on OSX), on the same IP address, and in incognito mode my comments were broken and his were fine. No idea what might be causing this.
I think the article is trying to say that for Microsoft, this behavior is the rule, not the exception. I was a bit surprised there was no mention of things like the Surface, Zune, Windows ME, etc. which all seem to fit the rule.

For Apple (in the last ~8 years at least) it seems to be the other way around, in that this behavior is the exception, not the rule.
Well...

Just put it this way... phone calls to Pakistan by a known terrorist threat from an American prison SHOULD not happen.

So this guy was just, kind of, connecting the dots.
"After persuading Marc Tarpenning, a software jockey and Eberhard's business partner in his previous companies, to join him, they INCORPORATED Tesla Motors in JULY 2003."

"It took Eberhard and Ian Wright,VP of vehicle development, only two hours during a February 2004 meeting to get Musk onboard."

CNN Money: Tesla's wild ride
http://cnnmoney.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?expire=-1&...
Noisy brackets are evil as well :-)
I've actually just started doing this as well, so I can relate. Rather than focusing on offering the cheapest rate, make sure that your proposal is rock solid.

Be picky in the jobs you choose, but once you decide to put your bid in, invest time to understand what the client wants and make sure your proposal reflects that. It's not always easy, because sometimes there's only very limited information. Just treat every bid like a job interview.

It's also perfectly OK and normal to charge a little lower at first, until you collect feedback and build yourself a good reputation. But make sure you set the right expectation. I always put my normal rate in the proposal, but reflect a discount where necessary to make sure that I remain competitive with the other bidders.

And last, make sure you deliver what you promise :)
A wider reach isn't a given, especially for someone who writes well and has basic marketing skills.

Besides, on the rare occasion I have read an article on Medium (I don't anymore) I could never remember the author. It's all just the faceless Borg.

For anyone thinking of using Medium, don't do it. It's like giving your work away for free, and for no recognition.
Yes and no. Works for me, but doesn't work for some others. Probably a network or HN issue. For the ones it doesn't work for, it's not related to browsers and they receive only half the response (the header).
No, that was never the concensus among scientists.

Scientific consensus is a valid argument in the same sense that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"; the probability that mainstream science is wrong and you are right is low, proportionally to the amount of science at either end.

The fact that the Earth is round was known by the Greeks and has been acknowledged ever since, not least following several circumnavigations by people such as Magellan. The notion that people (scientists and laymen alike) believed in a flat earth is really a popular myth perpetrated, probably, to make the Columbus story more interesting. Columbus knew perfectly well that the Earth was round.

The fact that Earth and the universe are very old was pretty much agreed upon since the 18th century with the arrival of geology as a branch of science. Aristotle thought the universe was infinite in age. The Hindus thought it was billions of years old. The 6000 year thing is a very recent Christian idea.
See this post -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796002
> Another way would be to use genetic algorithms to create random indexes, run the queries on a dummy database, and then read the index usage stats to determine the most efficient combinations.

I like GAs as much as the next bloke, but they're not suitable for every problem. It's a relatively small search space, but GAs impose a lot of overhead.

I reckon a simple heuristic hill climber would probably thrash a GA on this task.
Preventing Prostate Cancer
It's not annoying for Medium. It's free labor.
I saw an nginx error page an hour or two ago.
What do you think of someone who commits $1 million in insurance fraud? Spread out amongst all the other customers and shareholders, it comes to a very small amount per person, certainly less than $20. But you'd still be mad about it, wouldn't you?
Yes, my name is public. I don't really care about you mentioning it. What I care about is my name being mentioned in a way that implies my dishonesty which is all lawnchair_larry originally argued. His argument had two components: You're making a false accusation and it's more harmful because you're using my real name.

You chose to reassert that you believe your accusation is true without responding to the specific points raised and turn the focus of the discussion to the subsidiary point.
Look at this article from 2008:

"After persuading Marc Tarpenning, a software jockey and Eberhard's business partner in his previous companies, to join him, they INCORPORATED Tesla Motors in JULY 2003."
"It took Eberhard and Ian Wright,VP of vehicle development, only two hours during a FEBRUARY 2004 meeting to get Musk onboard."
CNN Money: Tesla's wild ride
http://cnnmoney.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?expire=-1&...
The Declaration of Independence is a statement of people who successfully fought a world power and founded country which became a world power. I think this counts more than a majority vote in parliament, not less.
I am not sure what they were using in the UK in the mid 2000s but it was way too sweet for me. Same with chocolate over there.
Where does this misconception come from? Isn't it obvious that large electric power plants are far more efficient than the tiny internal combustion engines?

Running an electric car on pure coal is more CO2 efficient than any gasoline car out there. And it's easy to switch to cleaner electricity sources.
Well, specifically running only free software. While Ubuntu falls short of that goal, OS X is not even in the same league.
The analogy fits.
He's suggesting a carbon tax. That means you can expect low-carbon energy sources to slowly win out price-wise over high-carbon sources. The electric car will use whatever is economical for the utilities, whereas a gas car is committed to gasoline.
I was imprecise; Lua has weak tables, not general weak references. So I'd be happy with weak maps in JS.
So, really, a few thoughts:

1. I think a theme that comes up on HN often is "when do you ship?". You could always argue that "well, we should wait to ship in order to [fix this/add this feature/...]". At a certain point, you have to say that you're done and ship it. There will always be room for improvement and the good news is that you're actually able to improve it later on. You just need to set a "ship" bar that is acceptable.

2. Like others have said, the first point is made even more important as Microsoft was already late to market with a tablet friendly OS.

3. People could argue all day about whether it was acceptable or not for the Office team to have released Office 2013 without Metro style apps. Whether it was acceptable for Windows 8 to be released before the Office team made Metro style apps. After taking points 1 & 2 into consideration, you have to remember that you need to manage resources. I'm sure the Office team WANTED Metro apps, but it was probably impossible for them to ship Office 2013 and Metro Office at the same time and "on time" for Office 2013 desktop release. Like I said, you could argue all day whether you think they managed their time/resources properly but either way there is something to be learned from this. You simply can't do everything at once. I don't know what the reasons are here, but for some reason Microsoft must have deemed it more important to ship desktop Office before the Metro apps. I'd also bargain that the Metro apps will have something to do with Office 365 subscriptions and IIRC the desktop Office 2013 release is largely testing Office 365 out (the consumer version, anyways). Anyways: point here is you can't do everything at once.

4. The article talks about perception as if it was a permanent thing. I'd say that perception can change without having it to be some colossal task. I have to go soon and the first example that comes to mind is people made so, so, so much fun of the iPad when it first came out. I remember people making fun of the first person I know to have bought one. And now? "Everyone" has one. I don't think Apple necesarily did anything to make this perception change, but after people saw the benefits of it they changed their attitudes towards it themselves. The same thing can happen here (e.g. if I didn't like Windows 8 but then I see someone using Windows 8.x in some way I think is really cool, it might cross my mind that maybe now Windows is in a better state and my perception of the product will change).

My $0.02

disclosure: i interned at microsoft in 2011 and 2012
Right, but petrol-fueled cars will still emit CO2 regardless of whether the local power plant uses clean energy or not.
"What's striking is that since 2002, global temperatures have actually declined"

What about this claim? Is this verifiable? A 10 year decline in global temperature would be quite extraordinary, given that global CO2 emissions have increased over the last 10 years (despite efforts of some, they are nothing compared to the growth of India and China).