skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is youtube large enough?
There's a lecture[1] on slideshare that introduces Python in Youtube.

Another example is a Chinese SNS website Douban[2], which serves over 100 million users, and it's very active.
[1] http://www.slideshare.net/didip/super-sizing-youtube-with-py...
[2] http://douban.com
Perhaps, but I'm less interested with functionality and more interested in community. This is kind of like my current problem with Yelp: I can't trust the ratings in certain neighborhoods in Seattle because they are dominated by college kids whose tastes I don't share.
Thanks! Would love to hear what you end up hacking on.
Does this issue affect the iPhone? If not, why not?
Encrypted networking for regular people
A true hero for China.
Ask HN: Does iOS7 change what I should learn?
With iOS7 being as complete a redesign as we've had for iOS since the release of the iPhone, as a student looking into starting to learn iOS development this summer, does the new iOS change what I should learn? Are iOS6 books similar enough to learn from, or should I wait for new resources to come out?
The sad likelihood of the matter is that largely, people who hated the Patriot Act under Bush don't mind it so much under Obama, and vice versa.

http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/14/nsa-confidential-we-lo...

I don't know why so many people can't understand that a bad law is a bad law, and judge it as such. The criteria for whether a law is any good ought to be (at least partially) based on whether or not you'd support it if your opposition party were able to use it. If the answer is 'No', then it's bad, simply.
I wonder how the rising valuations (many on AngelList are over $5m) will be affecting expected returns for angels.

Expected angel returns circa 2007 were described here:

http://www.kauffman.org/research-and-policy/returns-of-angel...

Unless today's higher valuations are tied to a commensurate rise in company quality and/or exit opportunities, it would seem that these returns are going to come down significantly from what they have been historically.
>Sorry but is this the kind of paranoid stupidity I should start to expect from HN now ?

Nothing "paranoid" about it.

Are you some kind of totally private citizen, only concerned with his household affairs, that has never been in any activist, grassroots, dissident movement, from OWS to EFF?

If yes, your lack of historical knowledge is understandable.

>The "government" has been able to collect far more data via the tax and health care systems, TSA, census etc for decades. Imagine all the scary statements I could contrive from those.

No need to imagine anything. Yes, they have been able to collect all these data, and they have already used them. Even in the past, do you know how many people the government didn't like did Senator McCarthy or J.E. Hoover step on, blackmailed, got fired from their job and/or jailed with such data?

Do you remember why Nixon was resigned? Remember that Watergate thing? Heck, they eavesdropped and broke into the HQs of the Democratic Party, which is a huge power itself. Consider what they'd do to dissidents, whistleblowers and such.

>Or how about we amp up the crazy and talk about all the things the "government" could be doing with their drones and satellites.

What's crazy about it? They already murder citizens of sovereign nations with them, without trial, and also track foreign (as if only) nations, corporations, etc, with those. You meant to suggest those things are not bad enough already?
It's a shame that the standard terms in the Bitcoin world are now 100% paid 6 months in advance preorders. I realize that Bitcoin has attracted a lot of get-rich-quick suckers, but it seems like Bitcoin companies are trying to drive away any non-suckers. Or maybe this is just what a race to the bottom looks like.
err, the point of the OP was that people are too concerned with their own lives to be involved in politics. He wasn't claiming that it was an inferior mindset (myopic, trivial, narcissistic, apathetic), so he wasn't describing people like anigbrowl.
This is a poor analogy when you consider that people don't live for hundreds of years and thus there is no such thing as "hangers-on" arriving to a country.

It also ignores all of the things that the founders did that we find reprehensible today (slave-owning), along with how far this country has come racially and in regards to civil rights in the past 50 years.

It also ignores the fact that the size of the US economy has never been larger, and whatever "decline" you are referring to is purely subjective and mostly rosy retrospection.

I wonder what it is about the USA that has made this type of "our good run is over, oh well" sentiment popular for several generations. People have been making complaints like this for several hundred years in this country.
You do..(though it's simple, you just sort of humm or go "aaaaah" to yourself, silently.. that keeps your airway open).

No innate reaction - over-inflation would require a positive pressure applied to the lungs - normally as we breathe it's at equilibrium.
Your lungs aren't elastic at all - once they are at capacity, over-pressure will rupture them right quick, and you own't feel it coming (but you'll sure feel it happening)
It is true you cannot bind to a neurotransmitter from a headband. The research that these efforts are based on involved direct activation of the neuron ganglia by inducing currents in them through the absorption of electromagnetic energy (in the case of DBS) and by increasing electron flow in the case of tDCS).

Hiker and Voger's work [1] (and a bunch of others, just look for DBS and dopamine) which looks at Dopamine response and Gandiga and Hummel [2] who look at tDCS and whether its effects are effective in neuroretraining, or in the case of our hobbyists, enhancing existing neurotraining.

[1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.10297/abstrac...

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1388245705...
Of course I read it. And the key passage (to my mind) was this one:

"We’ve also been hearing that there wasn’t a whole lot of communication between the various teams behind say, Mail and Safari. And that there were multiple teams inside each group that were competing with various designs, leading to what some see as inconsistencies in icon design."
That's a fantastic idea. I would be down for that.
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Well done with the repair.
When our then 10ish yr old washing machine broke, the repairman charged about 40 to 50% of the cost of a new one, which in fairness wasn't exorbitant taking his time and overheads into account.
But it was clear that I'd never get another repairman out.
That was also close on 10 years ago and surprisingly that domestic appliance repairman is still in business.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
There is only one Cloud Icon in the Entire Universe: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThereIsOnlyOneCloudIconInTheEn...
Right, but you just assumed the model for life is "confidential unless told otherwise" and I'm saying that assertion doesn't necessarily hold. Your relationship with a secret lover? Yeah, probably. Does that same assumption hold if you're drunk, telling one of your friends (who is also drunk) something at a bar? Probably not.

So what we've discovered is that context matters. The folks at Apple treated the negotiation with Derek the same as all the folks at the labels (where secrecy is probably the default and nothing needed to be said). Derek assumed that the people he was talking to understood the nature of his business (much, much different than a big music label) and would tell him if he needed to keep his trap shut. No such words were said and thus, he assumed everything was cool.

Was it potentially stupid of him to assume everything was cool? Yeah maybe. But at the same time, why is it his responsibility to think to ask if it's OK to share this information? How can he know there is any confidence to be breached?

I'm essentially arguing that this isn't such a clear-cut case as you make it out to be. Since context matters.
In the short term taxing the rich seems like the only viable solution. But just give it some time. Skill acquisition via free online courses will replace high cost universities. This alone will solve most of Krugman's problem. Entrepreneurs have a funny way of figuring out how to solve our problems - without redistributing wealth (save for the overly hyped Tesla)
I have three 23" monitors, none currently pivoted. When I'm doing web development I have a tmux session on one screen, an auto-refreshing web browser on another, and then another web browser with google on the other. I love it!
Instacart (YC S12) is now not just easier, but cheaper
"Enhance Text Legibility", for example: http://i.imgur.com/5XhQsM9.png

(Not my picture, someone posted this on the last days and I shared it with a few friends so I still had the link.)
I've also found it helps to use a divider to separate your audience section from the rest. If you just lump them together with US at the top you're more likely to get grumblings about "US-centric" this or that, but the divider helps communicate "this is our expected audience and we're making it easier for them, but we're inclusive of everyone else below as well".
System76 unveils the Galago UltraPro Ubuntu ultrabook
Very buttony and well designed.
Good MVP.
I notice you can order 10 shirts and send them to 10,000 locations, though.
We (StartupThreads) also have an api in private beta that companies have used to ship swag. A little different than this but this looks cool.
Panspermia also has a parsimony problem, it ends up falling to Occam's Razor.

In a sense, I think that, in the absence of evidence that particularly demands panspermia over more local theories of the emergence of life, this is a bigger problem than the "space is big" problem.
"because, no, we don't have a single shread of evidence"
I don't know why you're saying Elliptic Curve is not widely available, here is an Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman implementation guide from the NSA itself: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/SuiteB_Implementer_G-113808.pdf

Those patents are quite questionable anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_patents
I don't think I do.

It is something everyone should be interested in.

Really? Who put you in charge of how people should order their priorities, or made you the arbiter of how people gauge their freedom? I understand that you find the NSA monitoring intolerable and consider it an imposition upon your freedom, but you seem baffled by the idea that anyone might have come to a different conclusion from you about this. You assume that it must be because their minds are taken up with other matters which you consider trivial, and that they simply don't have the 'mental bandwidth' to understand what's going on, unlike yourself.

Now, granted that this is true of some people, and there are a good many people out there that have simply never thought about these issues. But there are others (such as myself) that have thought about them and don't share your views. Historically it seems to me that the trend has been towards greater transparency, more responsive government, and a greater degree of individual autonomy. I hold this view in spite of the fact that I assumed the NSA was accumulating data on a vast scale before these revelations (both because it was obvious that the Patriot Act was designed to facilitate such information-gathering, and because of the existence of other systems that already existed for that purpose).

I have no expectation or especial desire to convert you to my point of view; you're perfectly free to disagree with it. What I object to is your assumption that there's no possible way that anyone could understand what's going on and not share your view. Posting in all caps doesn't make your argument any clearer, it just tells me that you're feeling frustrated by the discovery that there are people who don't share your perspective.

If you have time, I invite you to read this essay, 'The paranoid Style in American Politics,' which was written in 1965 but still remains entirely relevant today: http://archive.harpers.org/1964/11/pdf/HarpersMagazine-1964-... I offer it not to suggest that you are paranoid, but because it effectively sketches out the limiting nature of discourse based around Manichean assumptions and zero-sum representations of what are complex and multi-faceted issues.
"While Instacart founder Apoorva Mehta would not explain exactly where these groceries come from, he guaranteed they are cheaper."

Is Instacart getting into the shoplifting business?
The article says:

- that the U.S. government has been developing Main Core and martial law plans since at least the 1980s, and

- that they might use a major terrorist attack, involving the death of thousands of people, as an excuse to implement those plans.

Of course we already did have such a terrorist attack, and martial law was not declared, and 8 million Americans were not rounded up into FEMA detention camps.
iOS is the Worst Platform for Software Development
Is SEGA next?
As a professional iOS developer, this comment made me practically fall out of my chair laughing.
'...for seemingly no reason whatsoever'

Perhaps you missed it. The IRS specifically targeted groups likely to oppose DNC policies.
He doesn't speak like that at all; you can find a ton of "behind the scenes" videos on PATV, and you'll see that these people are (portrayed to be) genuinely appreciative of their fans and where their comics have taken them and their associates. The way he writes does irk me though. As far as I'm concerned it definitely detracts from the message he's trying to convey.
At no point in time did I ever see a concrete effort of the administrative or judicial to protect Snowden and not do anything but seek the harshest punishment against him. In fact, most rhetoric supported the NSA's actions and demanded justice in what they saw as a criminal act.

Perhaps, the court of popular opinion might have swayed the forces that be into thinking different. Looking at other whistleblowers like Manning would only lead a foolish person to believe that likely.

As a result, I firmly believe Snowden used this as his get out of jail card to gain sympathy from Hong Kong residents. The US and its citizens already failed him, why would he place his life in their hands? He very clearly stated he was going to place his life in the hands of Hong Kong and its rule of law, not the US.
Fun new Hilter meme
>well, it's not really paranoid stupidity. these resources were used against the Occupy movement. if you look at the 70's, COINTELPRO was created to squash domestic dissenting groups such as the Black Panthers, to great effect.

And tons of other similar programs. Like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

What's "paranoid" (== isolated in a private little world and ignoring facts) is to ignore or downplay such things, as the parent does.

If not total naiveness, it's a classic case of "la la la la la hands in the ears" denial.

As Gore Vidal put it: "Americans have been trained by media to go into Pavlovian giggles at the mention of 'conspiracy' because for an American to believe in a conspiracy he must also believe in flying saucers."

As if governments all other the world, throughout history, didn't conspire against dissidents. And as if secret services weren't created for this very reason exactly.
while it is a pretty neat idea, it makes me think of http://iam.peteashton.com/keep-calm-rape-tshirt-amazon/
This article is incredibly useful and timing cannot be more right for us. Thanks for sharing !
A small note on Go and enforced conventions. Gofmt enforces a standardized syntax for all code - there's no debating or arguing over code style. Now for the rest of it (file structure and the like) Rails blows Go away. If Go had a framework like Rails, but designed to play to Go's strengths, it could decimate Rails in every facet except the amount of existing code written.
"Are our shirts any good? Not really. Why are you even on our site?"
No offense, but that's pretty much what every acquisition ever hopes for... and then they find out after the 'no interference' clause in their contract expires you start getting 'Input' from the new ownership.

I hope for your guys sake this doesn't happen though!!
"Even designing just one simple, clean, good-looking icon is not an easy task. Multiply that by 25 and there was a ton of work to do in the 8 months since Forstall was booted, which led to certain things being overlooked"

Well that's dramatizing more than just a little bit. Apple has $143 billion in the bank, a nearly unlimited budget, a design obsession, and they had over half a year. Clearly the time it takes to create a nice icon was not the problem (regardless of if it was 25 icons or 250 icons).
Funny--I love Gildan t-shirts since they actually last for a good while and don't shrink.
Big Brother’s Prying Eyes: Lawrence Lessig [video]
Well, to be fully accurate, panspermia doesn't even cover the origin or emergence of life anyway. It still had to start somewhere, panspermia just pushes that somewhere off of Earth (and perhaps to Mars, or perhaps off Mars and onto Earth). Panspermia is a distribution thing, and only an "origin" thing if you limit your focus to a particular planet.

So basically even if you go with "aliens made us", you've still got to have abiogenesis for those aliens, or the aliens that created those aliens, or the aliens that created....

Running to panspermia to avoid the hypothesis of life beginning on earth out of natural processes is just silly. Silly because Occams Razor slices it off, and silly because it doesn't even get you away from life being a natural phenomenon.
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Ex-NeXT Developer: Steve Jobs "Would Have Died Before Giving In To The NSA"
Time at pressure is the key, without question.

The longer you breathe at pressure, the more time there is for gas (nitrogen, mainly) to saturate your system (until you are at equilibrium, anyway).

Release the pressure, and it's like opening a can of soda... all that dissolved gas can't stay dissolved any longer.

It takes time to get out of your system as you reduce pressure, so a gradual decompression is the only safe way out once you are saturated.

In a typical submarine, air pressure is maintained at standard atmosphere, relying on structural integrity to keep all that pressure from crushing the ship. That means they can surface any time without risk.

Another neat thing when diving is that if you are down at 30 meters, you can take a breath from your regulator, spit it out, open your airway gently (say "AAAAH" quietly to yourslef basically) and then ascend, you feel like you have an endless supply of air, because that breath you took is expanding on your way up. (That's part of recreational diving.. you can ascend from 30 meters on a breath of air and not get stressed out about it)
Except these are civilian targets in HK. Collecting arbitrary data on US citizens is no different from collecting arbitrary data on HK and Chinese citizens. Innocent people's privacy is still being violated on a large scale.

Of course the Chinese government also hacks US civilian targets, primarily American tech companies, but two wrongs don't make a right.
Just because a determined thief will smash your window is no reason not to lock your doors.
Tech Pushes to Keep Its Spoils in Immigration Bill
Wait what polarity reversed ? Current goes from A to B, so it doesn't quite matter ! So side B from the skull is negative and A is positive, unless you reverse it, then it's reversed ... But regardless one side will always be "reversed"...

So the question is rather where you want the current to go exactly, but if "reversing" the polarity is bad, it's safe to say EVERYTHING is bad. (Unless you don't mind destroying a part of the brain to get to another part.)
2 older Dell 19" 4:3 monitors, I prefer the square space more for programming and layout work than having the width. Right monitor is on a 4 unit KVM so I can switch between my Linux box, Mac Mini Intel, Mini PPC and whatever machines come my way for work. So when I'm working on one of the non-Linux machines I can still watch movies or read instructions on the left monitor.
Basic income for everyone does indeed seem reasonable to me. If new technology drastically reduces the amount of labour, it seems obviously fair that everyone should be eligible to profit from its benefits.
If 2% of the population can provide food for the whole society, maybe another 30% (a number to be drastically reduced by new technology) needed to maintain the social and economical infrastructure, then we will have a majority of people whose economic output is not required. Those people, e.g. children, retirees, handicapped, people with illness, etc. need means to live a decent life. To excessively burden the relatives of those people seems to be an arbitrary and cruel neglect of the society to care for its members.

The argument against basic income is the same as for IP laws. Without money or legal constructs to monetize their products, people have no incentives to work. Maybe we need better incentives for working and creating things.
Yes, one sided propaganda. What about it? In Europe people have followed the story decades before Robert Kind even heard of Syria, and know both sides and their backgrounds and goals.
An encrypted message to Edward Snowden
> People have been making complaints like this for several hundred years in this country.

People have been making complaints like this for several thousand years, in pretty much every country. I suspect that its largely because people tend to see things in an overly optimistic way as children and progressively see more of the messy bits as they mature, and this creates a common impression (irrespective of the truth) that things are actually getting worse, and this is magnified by people trying to advance agendas by demogoguery centering around the idea of a past happier age created by exaggerating positive qualities and ignoring negative ones of the past.
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So basically he's trying to get people in HK to like him so they'll fight his extradition.

"Hey HK, the US gov is spying on you too! We're in this together! Please don't send me back."
"people used the cocoa leaf to make a tea they drank all the time"

It's really hard to quantify what effect has been of this. Bolivia by all metrics is an underdeveloped country. Has this contributed to it or not? No way to really know..

Also I'm not convinced about the social effects of heroin. I think it DID have effects on society and that's why it was eventually outlawed.
From a legal scholarship standpoint, that would be an improper delegation of Congressional authority; it's part of the job description if you like, and thus an assignment of responsibility as much as facility. The word 'shall' is construed in law as a mandatory assignment, as opposed to saying Congress 'may' do something (ie if it feels like it).