skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the context you are missing is the history of suicide among startup founders. Suicide may not be technology itself, but history (and previous discussions I have read here on HN) has shown us that its relevant to the people that create technology.
Hmm, I've never heard of John Rawls (but I'm not too keen on political theory, either). Thanks, this the first time anyone has ever answered my query in a helpful way. I guess I'll have to see he has to say on the matter.
It's just a natural progression. I'm sure if you go just a bit further up the coast and away from "the money" of Los Angeles you will find laid back coastal communities.
You can easily change Feedly settings to provide you with just that.
Feedly is the best I've tried so far. They allow so much customization that it can be daunting at first, but once you've got everything setup it can be just as good as – if not better than – Google Reader.
The Army Corp gives guidance on what defines a navigable waterway: http://www.nap.usace.army.mil/Portals/39/docs/regulatory/reg...

It should be noted that rivers and streams shift over time and so there is no comprehensive list of navigable waterways.
bazqux.com - very clear and minimal.
Synchronized and Runnable Gists
Did you get the proprietary drivers for that Nvidia card?

They can't legally be included in the distro itself, you have to go get them, which is a shame.
I'm asking why the "better user experience" can't be accessible to people without an iPhone or Android device.
Given their other twisted interpretations of laws and policies to suit their purposes, I wouldn't be surprised. But we have no idea, because they classify everything, including how they interpret the existing laws.
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EasyRSS (Android App) is closing but open sourced
On an iPhone a well built app will be far better than a webpage from an accessibility point of view.
Because a computer is a small self-contained thing that you can often fit in a bag? That's my point about information consolidation: the law is rooted in the physical (and necessarily so). You can wax philosophical about "virtual spaces" but at the end of the day a hard drive is a small physical object that is treated the same as any other small physical object.
> Yes you are wrong :D If NSA is not actively man-in-the-middling you, Perfect forward secrecy still works.

OK, I guess I was reading too much into the (not very enlightening) definition of PFS on Wikipedia and too little of the actual implementation based on Diffie-Hellman, which has the desired properties.

The question that arises is: how feasible is a MITM attack on this phase of session initiation? Can it be kept undetected?
Ansible allows you to do this, it has failure modes that let you take actions, including rolling back.
I quit one.
Websites already exists and have been linked to by other people. This app just makes it easier to find and use that info from a mobile phone.
You could throw set theory into the ring as well :)
Yeah, I realized that immediately after I posted.
You have misrepresented what I said to a really breathtaking extent. I never said "the Nazis did it too," my concern was never to justify anyone's behavior.

I am addressing a distortion of history. If you don't recognize that fraught decisions and, yes, the unintentional AND intentional deaths of civilians (and rape, and torture) are an ancient part of war - NOT just by the US or the Allies or even the parties to WWII - then I am sorry to say that something is very wrong with your understanding of war and history. Specifically, it is a very selective understanding; a very conveniently selective understanding, aimed only at imparting a sense that the US is worse than everything else in history.

It isn't helpful to propagate this misunderstanding, by selectively citing ONLY cases where the US has killed civilians (but nobody else, and always out of context). It isn't helpful to equivocate casually between civilian deaths in war, and intentionally killing civilians, as if they were exactly the same thing.

There are important and meaningful changes in how civilians have been affected by war over time. But you are just blowing these away entirely in favor of a simplistic cartoon.

I'm not sure why you would hold me to account for defending the Iraq war, which I have never done, or attribute to me the bizarrely specific claim that 6,000 deaths is "incidental". Perhaps you should address this to someone who supported that war.
Sure, ambition can be a poison that kills your soul.

But without ambition, were you alive to be poisoned in the first place?
iOS 7 sends push notifications in batches to preserve battery
I know it's hard but I also think it would be one of the most important things we could do.

If you or anyone else is interested in building this, email me.
Introducing #Event - A Twitter-based Calendar
Are you just here for trolling?

I've tried to be very polite, but we're getting nowhere because we're talking past each other (most charitable reading I have).

My original statement, to which you replied with particulars about binding precedence, said absolutely zero about establishing precedents that bind other courts. Who cares if one court's rubber stamp affects a wider court radius than the others if they are both operating as rubber stamps for a particular kind of case and that is all that was being said?

If you want to have an exchange and dispute whether or not the CAFC operates as a patent litigator's rubber stamp in much the same way that the FISC operates as a spy agency's rubber stamp, then please do so. If not, then by the universe, stop changing the subject to something that is not of primary concern when evaluating whether or not the CAFC is a rubber-stamp patent troll's court. We have nothing to discuss on the precedent issue because I sincerely do not disagree or care to dispute the ways in which the FISC "shaped law in its area", as it is not at all related to the current thread.

[edit: removed strongly-worded-out-of-exasperation language. my apologies.]
"Incidentally, don’t let salary be a factor. I just watched someone turn down one of these breakout companies because Microsoft offered him $30k per year more in salary—that was a terrible decision. He will not build interesting things and may not work with smart people."

That quote drips so much of elitism its disgusting. MS still has many brilliant engineers and is building alot of really complex stuff, probably more than your average startup ever will. This is the kind of talk i find really off putting about the whole startup-scene...
I didn't say anything about you or what you claim. Resorting to the logical fallacy fallacy is pretty poor in general, but quite ridiculous when you aren't even using the terms correctly.
I don't really mind things that are said a lot, especially when they express genuine doubt, rather than people playing devil's advocate or intentionally muddying the waters with far-fetched speculation. My problem is the misuse of the word. "Terrifying" is to HN as "slightly concerning" is to real life.

I do like your list, though.
Perfect, never knew about this!
From the author’s website: “FREE to download and use”. There was no pirating, let alone ‘very much’ of it. http://gallery.hd.org/_c/natural-science/prism-and-refractio...

Also, here’s the HN discussion about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5868220
I hear this on HN quite a bit, but it's not that big of an issue. Most game developers don't need the raw speed of a native system. They do need to create something that can be played by everybody, and is easy to develop for.

The very fact that we're seeing so much html/js game dev (including games packaged with a browser as native apps)says it all. Game developers don't pick up a language/platform lightly, if they're making games for it, it's a good choice.

However, regarding mobile platforms, you can forget all I've said.
There is an obvious correlation - if I employ someone and he's not nice to me, I'll fire him (or stop ordering his services) and hire somebody who is. Why should I suffer for my own money? Of course, there could be cases where I have no choice - like when I'm dealing with some sort of government monopoly like telecom or water company - but even there people are usually nice and there are ways to deal with it if they are not.

>>> Once you start tipping the niceness is much more out there as possibly faked.

What you mean by "faked"? I don't want each of these people to become by best friends forever or have deep emotional relationship with me. I don't date them or plan to spend a romantic vacation with them. I want them to be polite, courteous and helpful. How can it be "fake"? How you distinguish "fake" please from "sincere" please and what that even means?
Has anyone used TypeScript in conjunction with Node.js? I love developing in the Node ecosystem, but the lack of type checking is irritating.
I'm reminded of Henry Newbolt's wonderful poem:

To set the cause above renown,

To love the game beyond the prize,

To honor while you strike him down,

The foe that comes fearless eyes.

To hold the life of battle good,

And dear the land that gave thee birth,

and dearer yet the brotherhood

that binds the brave of all the earth.
Assuming you're sarcastic, but don't you think it's right to punish sites that don't use the best encryption strategies?

I'd support three stages: 1) no encryption, 2) some/partial encryption, 3) "perfect" encryption.

For the partial encryption, the browser would provide an explanation of exactly how it could be compromised. For the case where the encrypted version does not have perfect forward secrecy, it could explain that if the server is compromised, this session can also be decrypted.

I don't think browsers should cover the banks' asses here.

Edit (since I can't reply deeper): I thought you were being sarcastic since I consider a gradient to be a really horrible idea. I'd want something where the browser tells me something. I don't want to wonder whether the new browser version changed the gradients slightly or a site improved its encryption strategy. Clear symbols and language is a must.
If you research Stephen Fry a bit, you'll find a great many people who believe he's a somewhat of a national treasure, and the world is better for having him in it. It goes much beyond his acting. He's a cultural icon.

To find that someone so beloved wanted to kill himself, it's... jarring.
No one owes you an app. If it doesn't exist and you think there is a need then do the entrepreneurial thing and create one.
This is awful advice. I'm sorry but when you're 19 you should go out into the _world_ (not the US) and discover it. Go book a cheap flight to South America and go backpacking for a few months. Live on $300 a month, meet interesting people. Techies, nerds and entrepreneurs aren't _that_ interesting.

But sure, if all that you care about is success and you happen to define success like most other Americans (i.e. by making the most money) then go ahead and work as hard as you can and make that million. But please don't complain about your burnout when you're 30-40.

There is way more than money and work in this live. Don't work too hard especially when you're young. If you waste a year or two, nothing will run away and your opportunities will still be there when you're 25.
How do you know the logo was prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. federal government? They could’ve hired a design company to make it (albeit not a very good one, by the looks of it).

Anyways, it seems like the NSA feel it is copyrighted: http://gawker.com/the-nsa-sent-a-takedown-notice-over-my-cus...
Oh, I'd just meant "standard" in the "something against which you measure things" sense, and had been thinking per-browser, but I agree that some industry-wide coordination would be fantastic, if done right. Probably an industry-wide lower bound, with individual browsers allowed to require more security for a given marking, would be best.
I have this exact dilemma of whether to stay in college and build projects on the side or leave college and get a job at a start up or create my own. I'd love to be able to choose the latter but the one thing that's holding me back is that I'm in Ireland and it's not exactly Silicon Valley when it comes to the start-up scene. It's extremely frustrating because I have the talent and skills but companies feel it's too high of a risk to relocate and house an 19 year old undergraduate but it's understandable.
Readable: no annoying ; or $ to distract you, only the real code

Without $, how do you distinguish a constant from a variable?

Concise: use + and - to set static or instance methods, \ for private, | for protected, / for public

This seems more confusing. \ vs / does not scream public vs private. Seems like something I'd have to keep looking up.

Safe by default: all the calls to echo or print ar wrapped with htmlentities, to prevent XSS flaws

You should be using a templating system like Smarty, and not echoing or printing HTML output
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> My original statement, to which you replied with particulars about binding precedence, said absolutely zero about establishing precedents that bind other courts.

Your original statement also said absolutely zero about rubber stamping. Your second statement had two paragraphs: one about rubber stamping, one about binding precedent. It's not "changing the subject" if I fail to read your mind about what the subject happens to be.
This article makes a claim (...Puppet...Suck(s)), but does not take even attempt to explain what it is that sucks.

What, specifically, "sucks" about Puppet and Chef and what is so much "simpler" about Salt or Ansible? As an Ops guy who has been running Puppet since 2008 (and Chef most recently) against hundred of servers, I don't see the simplicity reflected in the documentation, nor do I find Puppet or Chef particularly complicated.

(Ok, Chef's attributes system is a bit confusing at first, but it is hugely powerful.)
Creating a community of nerds
boostrapping a community of "real-nerds"; the only rule is that you must post something you did or you've partecipated to (for larger projects)... Retro-software is welcome... ;-)
Tile, the world's largest lost and found.
...I think I'm in love.
> If you waste a year or two, nothing will run away and your opportunities will still be there when you're 25.

Something tells me this is an aspirational claim rather than a statement with empirical support. On the other hand, there is a lot of data to support the view that being out of work for years is very bad for finding a job when you finally do want one.
Only people with money say "Don't worry about money".
The thing is that big companies rarely provide as much job security as they seem to at the time you take your offer. Ask the folks who joined AT&T in the 1950s, or Digital in the 1970s, or Sun or SGI in the 1990s, how it worked out for them. When you're at a big company, you're often at the mercy of market forces and executive decisions that you can't see. In a small company, all of these are at least visible to you.

I'm not entirely sure that I'd agree that you learn less at a big company than a startup, though. I learned a lot more in my first year and a half at Google than I did in my 1-2 years at each of the two startups I'd worked at previously. It does level out after your first 2 years, but that's the time to practice soft skills like leadership, mentorship, influence, estimation, decision-making, and so on as you gain trust and get put into positions that don't exist in a startup.
So, I have no reactions to this. WTF is this...impress.js sounds like powerpoint or something?, and you broke my back button.
I agree with that--for example, I think Microsoft Research has some of the smartest hackers I've met. However, other divisions of MSFT (and where this person was going) have some of the worst people I've met.
This is a bit hyperbolic. Vigilantism refers specifically to "an individual or group undertaking law enforcement without legal authority".

Not to defend the clearly overreaching actions of the Malibu homeowners, but hiring security guards to protect what you feel is your property is not vigalantism in any sense of the word.

A homeowner has every right to hire security guards for their property. At worst, the issue here is overreaching claims on the extent of their property – something that happens among even the unwealthy.
I'm not being sarcastic, I think this is a good idea. I probably came off wrong because half-way through writing my comment I actually changed my mind, I guess my tone leaked through though.
Tumblr founder seen surrounded by women, spraying Champagne at Diddy party
What you hate is the word "perfect". "Forward secrecy", though, has a technical meaning: a compromise in the long-lived key material for the cryptosystem doesn't enable an adversary to go back and decrypt earlier saved sessions.

The link you've provided doesn't implicate Diffie Hellman; it's in an obscure, virtually unused NIST standard that uses elliptic curves to generate random numbers.

There are other things not to like about the NIST curves, but the methodology used to generate them is documented (I suppose you could generate your own using the same method) and is based on the literature on ECC from the late '90s.
One thing mainstream jobs have in common with cool startup work... the schleps. Any interesting work involves schleps, for sufficiently loose values of "any". And the schlep is no fun. That's what makes it a schlep.

Now think about all the jobs that are all schlep, all the time, with no intellectual or moral reward (and usually little fiscal reward). Of course the people doing that are going to think it sucks - it does suck!
> That’s exactly the danger of what too much ambition can do: Narrow the range of acceptable outcomes to the ridiculous, and then make anything less seem like utter failure

I love this quote, it succinctly puts in words the uneasy feeling I've had with ambition.
Note: IANAL

>> I'm going to patent everything

See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5934890

The following are the requirements for filing a patent:

1. Usefulness

2. Novelty: The invention must not have existed from before

3. Non-obviousness: The invention must not be obvious to those skilled in the prior art.

When filing a patent application, you are required to describe the invention in full, including the best mode.

So while a working prototype is not required, satisfying 1, 2 and 3 above is still theoretically hard and requires a lot of work for filing a good patent. The issue is that the system is abused as each one of 1, 2 and 3 are subjective more or less.

While not explicitly stated, I believe the concept described in the application must be correct [1]! Since a prototype is not required, it is sometimes the case that things that do not even work the way inventors thought get the patent granted anyways.

Finally, just for completion sake, there are things that cannot be patented like laws of physics, theorems in mathematics, and material that is a subject for copyrights instead.

[1] I am not sure of this. There may or may not be specific legal criteria on this.
Using Gravatar As A Key Server
I don't think so. For example,

'I prefer out-of-process approach, where separate set of processes/servers are responsible for realtime portion.'

and

'Tornado is the framework I stopped on.'

and

'Greenlets make everything "easy" at cost of possible issues and allow implicit context switching.'
Anyone have any particular advice for an ambitious 14 year old with three years left of high school?
Only in the way Page Rank is for web sites. It's reputation-based message propagation.

I would even argue that it's necessary. Without this, it would susceptible to attack by injecting noise to drown out the signal.
Sorry about the back button..working on a fix for that now.

Impress.js is a html/css based presentation framework. More info here: https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js
Cancer frightens me very much. How are things going for you?
Scratching a personal itch of mine. I was missing out on a lot of events because I didn't know they existed. With #Event you can simply tweet something like: "#event Going to the #hack4ac in London on July 6th 2013" and all of your followers will have this event created for them.
NeverWet: Strange, Sick and Wonderful Water-Repelling Is This?
Interesting but as accurate as pissing in the wind
Your API Consumers Aren’t Who You Think They Are
Eh, just run Lynx...
FYI we've spoken in the #puppet channel about just this issue ;).
Here are the first four words and the gist of TFA:

> In the right dose

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I casually watched the race and it was cool seeing dhh on the board. I was rooting for his #24 car!
I disagree. There are lots of different types of venturing out into the world that aren't necessarily just bumming around on the beach. I went traveling when I was 20 and ended up spending months at a hostel in exchange for building them a new website. And not only was I working, but I was also spending time with people older than my peers in the US and hearing about their life experiences. If you travel with the right mindset, it can be just as much of a growth experience as working at an interesting company.
Just in case it's not clear enough, @kls doesn't mean attributing one's life to someone else or someone specific, it can easily be mistaken for that. There would be enough people who'd love to profit from such naivety in that matter.
People are not going to pay attention to a color-coded internet-weather-report sort of icon.

But maybe if you switched the iconography/expectation:
use a 'person' icon, instead of the lock, for vanilla SSL. It would indicate you have verified the server's identity -- which is not nothing -- but you can reserve the lock icon for forward-secure servers.
And if you're 19 or 20 and you put that extra $30k into an index fund, the magic of compound interest will give you much more money than if you start shoveling three times the amount in when you're in your mid-30s.
I still said that when I had a negative checking account balance while starting my company. I think you should worry about money, but that you should take a long-term view of it.
If you are not a US Citizen and think your career might take you here/want to come here to the US, then you should do college.

Not having even a crappy and unnecessary degree from a crappy university made my ability to work in the US very very difficult, and all future immigration reform for high-skilled workers still orientates around STEM qualifications.
> How do you know the logo was prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. federal government? They could’ve hired a design company to make it (albeit not a very good one, by the looks of it).

Had they done so, it'd presumably be a work for hire and still not be copyrightable, since the government would own it.
Shutting down Facebook & Google
NSA issues aside, it would be nice to get some of the community's thoughts on the merits of the service from a technical and product point of view.
Suppose the data captured is not a dump of a database but rather a https log. Doesn't it imply that NSA has to essentially rebuild the server functionality to make sense of the data?
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