skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it. Nearly all the features shown off in that video make me go "want!". The additional start screen organizing features are precisely what i'm looking for.

Now all I want is more and better fullscreen apps. Not the "your favourite news source" apps. They're bullshit on phones and they're even more bullshit on PCs or big tablets. Real, useful apps. Like a barebones spreadsheet that fits in a sidebar. Zen-writing text editor. Extensions for IE-in-fullscreen-mode. Music player that doesn't suck and doesn't want to be all "cloud".

They're getting real close here. I really hope app vendors follow suit.

(p.s. if you try Win8 without a touchscreen, you didn't really try it at all)
Secrecy and classification have become a huge threat to freedom of speech and freedom in general.

When the government or any of it's agencies is given the authority to lie indiscriminately, that entity will become a threat to the constitution.
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You may be interested in Australis, which removes the title bar by default. Scheduled for Firefox 25. Some (rather old) mockups here: https://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/ux-presentation/ux-pr...
Do they have a demo up anywhere?
I second this. However, it requires a mac and native app development.
this is a godsend for programming Luddites like me!
Yes, we are not talking about some random programming language of a textbook like Ada or Algol. Virtually any system you actually interact with in the real world has a very high probability that it was built in C. At one point, it was nearly a lingua franca. I do not argue it is the greatest language or any box you're trying to put me in. I argue that a proficient programmer with the goal of being well versed in programming (not just "computer science" as you dismissively wrote) should be knowledgeable of C and C++ or at least desire to be and not have some strange attitude of promoting it's ignorance ...
"bad, nasty and just shockingly dull"

sounds like adjectives for TV, most "journalist" websites, most computer games, most radio/music as per your example, most pulp paperback novel shovelware... all ripe for profitable tech startup disruption.

"pr0n that's not awful" would seem to be a perfectly valid startup goal. I have absolutely no idea how to get there, but I like the goal. Can anyone think of any VC funded startups on this topic?
And Google continues killing off niche application vendors... WalMart of the Internet.
You're probably right. If so, please don't think any less of the 'hidden' company - they would simply be the one that got caught (a lot of successful companies have pulled of similar stunts).
You know... adding 5K new things to a platform is not necessarily a good thing. Can you say bloat?
I'm the faculty member on this research project. I'd be happy to answer any questions in this thread if people have them.
So this is that obnoxious friend request I got...
Hi, I'm part of the Ranker.io team.

We basically built something on top of Snapchat, which is a relatively-new social photo sharing app with no API for developers. So we made our own APIs and made Ranker.io work :)
Sex does not mean two genders, neither in the simulation nor in real life. It just means that offspring inherit genes from two (or more!) parents rather than one.
Are all fetishes addictions?

I think the individual is the one who decides whether they're addicted or not.

As I understand it, true porn addiction is when it interferes with your sex life to the point that you can't enjoy sex without it, when you want to enjoy it without it. Anything else is just a fetish.

I'm tired of watching society try to neatly categorize things as amorphous as sexual behavior. As soon as the "experts" have something to say, people find a reason to stop thinking about it.
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Don't make a vow, just create an understanding: there will come a point in time where it will not be in person A's best interest to keep doing the startup, and you guys will have to deal with it amicably.

Ditto re: "communicate beliefs and disagreements". That's an extremely hard task because a lot of the time they'll reside in the emotional plane and be hard to articulate. I'd focus more on "can we resolve arguments without hating each other?"

But yeah sounds like you're on the right track. Good luck.
Dude, my brother works in excavation. Not cool.

Seriously, have you not heard of dark fiber? It's quite common for a network owner not to "light" many of the fibers in a particular run. Sometimes, this is because the capacity is not needed, but it's also common that the network owner's customers prefer to run their own multiplexers. Those customers could include the NSA or whatever agency in the government. Many such agencies certainly have built multiple classified networks this way.

Your average backhoe operator doesn't know what's in the pipe any more than the Dig-Rite spraypaint guy or even AT&T technicians do. The sign just says, "Buried Cable: Call Before Digging". Of course sometimes cables get cut anyway. That's why excavators get bonded. That's also why networks that aren't designed by "idiots" are redundant.
Wow, someone's been drinking their own Kool Aid.

I don't see why the plagiarist went to the effort of copying the site. Equally overdesigned, cheap, tacky looking (oh hello jQuery slider) 'designs' are readily available on ThemeForest for $45.
This might be more useful (but a little dated) ...
http://lisp-univ-etc.blogspot.com/2011/11/clojure-complexity...
They seem to be going the way of Google, in a bad way. I don't want to "Sign in" to my IDE/compiler.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML

Disclaimer: I have no experience with MusicXML. The vast majority of the music I want to notate fits on a single staff, and ABC is brilliant for that -- it's a well-established portable open music format that's easily entered and edited by hand. (Technically speaking it can do multi-staff music as well, but it starts to get a bit over-complicated and hacky at that point, IMO.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_notation

PS The "Score" example on the ABC notation page is terrible, but it's a limitation of the lousy standard abc2ly translator, not the ABC format. I've got my own abc2ly which does a much better job of it...
Is there an official API or was it just reverse engineered?
The Last Psychiatrist, ever controversial, suggests that in some men, viewing pornography (and relevant compulsion) is a way of maintaining a state of denial regarding their own poor sexual performance. It's an interesting hypothesis.

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/02/hes_just_not_that_int...

I don't have a useful personal contribution, I guess. I'm used to closing my eyes and imagining things. My stuff's better than porn, anyway.

The one part that grinds my gears: we're all well acquainted with the stench of amateur pseudoeconomics, amateur pseudopsychology, and amateur pseudosociology that infest every Internet discussion like a splotchy, shouting Bill O'Reilly discussing the movement of tides. Move aside, fellas, here comes amateur pseudoneuroscience:

>I posted this on Your Brain Rebalanced, and someone pointed out the obvious to me: neurons the fire together, wire together, and if I was still indulging those fantasies, I was still keeping those reward pathways strong.

Yeah, if you don't activate the 5-ht4nonsense receptor for a little while, stupidtonin production returns to normal levels. Check, please.

By all means, share your experiences, what works and doesn't, but don't get attached to your claims as though they're related to some fundamental law of neural processing. The brain is a mighty complex thing, and two-bit highdeas about the effect of a fantasy aren't helpful and may distract from real self-improvement. Just pay attention to what is actually happening when you do things.

Though I think the article's barometer is off: the question is not "do you have weird fantasies at all anymore". You have memories, memories don't go away unless you do something stupid. The question is "are you fulfilled by having sex with your partner". In that vein, remember this:

"Ambition is the death of thought" ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Oh, most importantly: stop thinking of sex as a performance. It's not. A partner, male or female, who expects otherwise is a bad person.
Actually, my sister has lived just outside London for almost 10 years now, so I'm quite aware of the situation there.
I never really understood how Fay users could avoid using typeclasses, since it means (presumably) avoiding functors, applicatives, monads and all that other Haskelly stuff.
Probably that video of RMS eating something from his foot...
Done, should have done it instantly, sorry for that :)
Hah, I just finished (?) dealing with a site that literally just scraped our entire Education Industry news site -- all pages -- using some sort of "save for offline" tool and then did a find/replace to change the name and redrew the logos in what might have been MS Paint.

They were shopping the site to ad networks. Maybe they thought they could out-SEO us and then monetize the traffic? Or it was some sort of click fraud long-con? The WHOIS was in Virginia, but the IP that did the scraping was in China.

Totally weird, but I took it as a compliment. Our content was worth stealing, after all.

They also missed a single external file -- a call to our ad server -- when they scraped the site. So I "hacked" it by serving them a special JS file to add funny autoplaying youtube videos to the page and switch all the fonts to Comic Sans. (Didn't want to nuke the whole site while waiting for the hosting company to investigate my DMCA complaint.)
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Porn is destructive in itself and should not be dismissed as neutral, even if you've never seen it in your own experiences or in those around you.

Porn is about control. A person tells themselves a false story about their sexuality (even if they can't articulate it or form it into words) that goes something like "I am not satisfied with my current sexual experiences, but if I find the right type of images/videos/fetishes and watch them, I will be satisfied" -- The person fulfills their sexual desires through porn use, but then it doesn't satisfy and they are back for more the next time.

You can't control a real person as easily as porn and so the user continually goes back to porn. Over time the user prefers porn to the other person in the relationship (usually a woman). Women especially, will try to compensate for the gap by comparing themselves to the women in the porn videos, but to no avail and the woman feels more and more dejected.

Heavy porn use also leads to erectile dysfunction and other issues (even if not in a relationship). Some helpful info is here:
http://yourbrainonporn.com/
Also I'd like to see a "Certificate Cleaner" app that could just erase all the non-mandatory certificates. Or even better, show app-certificate associations so people could better decide which certificates they need/want/don't want. For my phone to "trust" 99 entities I've never heard of, without knowing what those certificates are for, that seems a little unsafe and irresponsible. If I didn't want choice or involvement I'd just buy an iPhone. At least I can see and disable the certificates and install another app store like F-Droid.
Project Spark
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Wondering about the Web Speech API and speech input...Chrome does a great job, but doesn't seem to allow hooking up to 3rd party recognizers like Nuance or even something local.

Anyone know how Mozilla is going to handle this? Are they going to use Google's recognizers in the cloud?
Still doesn't make much sense. Everyone knows what Snapchat is - how are you grabbing the images?
That's one definition, but there are others used by medical community.

Increasing tolerance is a feature of some definitions. "Drug seeky" and "drug keepy" are other features - people who hide bottles of alcohol around the house, or people who need to find more of the drug when their supplies are running low.

Saying that cocaine isn't addictive would be a strange definition of addiction.
Love the ending. You are such a good writer.

"As I look out at the sunrise this morning, my dreams of building something that mattered have been replaced by a dream of doing right towards those who have trusted me through this journey and walked the road with me. A road I couldn’t have walked alone.

I’m going to save my team."
The Court's power lies in its perceived integrity and being above the fray of election-driven politics. If it appears partisan, it risks being marginalized.

Remember, the Court gave itself the powers it has in Marbury vs. Madison, and has at times had folks like Jackson go "let them enforce it". If public opinion turns against the Court, politicians can as well.
It's a bit unfair to mention Chrome performing poorly on these. Both are asm.js, which OdinMonkey is optimised for, V8 not.

That said, I'm very excited about asm.js (using it, in fact) and the performance in FF 22 blows me away as well. The V8 team appears to be working on asm.js optimisations, so soon we can have a fair contest :)

The best thing about asm.js is that the optimisations are really optional, unless your application is actually CPU-bound. The Unreal Engine probably is, to some degree. A simple 2D game like the one I'm working on certainly isn't. Not seeing it run any faster with FF 22, it's already smooth in older versions.
I especially like the idea of watching the visitor's pageviews across the entire site for clues to sketchy behavior. Is that a common feature of anti-fraud systems, or something unique to Sift Science?

... and is that pageview information predictive, so far?
Not to mention that |this| is lexically bound in the case of fat arrow functions. No more ".bind(this)" or "let self = this;" everywhere!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Tightly integrated products have many benefits to consumers. Bing isn't being integrated (solely) to "inflate" its market share, it's being integrated to improve the Windows user's experience. Google doesn't even necessarily support all of the APIs that are needed for the integration, and you can always use it via a browser if desired.
They'll e-mail you one once your spot is ready.
Please give an example of "society" shaming porn.
There's no official API :)
Since the blog doesn't have an immediately obvious link to the actual product homepage, here you go: https://www.nitrous.io/

My synopsis: A server provisioning, web-based IDE that allows for collaborative development.

To the OP and owners, please correct me if I'm wrong but, either put that in the title of the post or add it as an addendum to your blog posts. At the very least, put a clear link to your main site on your blog.

All that being said, the service does look pretty cool. Congrats on the public beta.

Edit: Changed as the blog does have links to the home page, they're just not immediately obvious. My apologies.
Agreed.

However - pull request.
A Google Reader replacement for me is some sync-server with which I can sync read/unread between a native feed reader on my iPhone, my ThinkPad, my Android tablet and my iMac.
Parking. My own fenced in yard to BBQ, dog to run, kids to play in (if I had any). Tons of space to put furniture, exercise equipment, etc. My own garage to park in. Ability to easily have dozen+ people in my house for gatherings, etc. Think of it like hard drive space or RAM :-)
Bing controls less than 20% in US and probably less than 5% in EU.

What I'm surprised is why EU, at least, allowed Google to buy more market share by paying Firefox
Now the NSA can watch your screen! </sarcasm>
I guess it's just taste, too.

I, for one, love the combination. When I'm coding, I'm nearly only in desktop mode. Browser with 20 open tabs, developer environments, consoles, the whole shebang.

Then, when I want a break, I hit start and open Twitter or fullscreen IE10. I'm suddenly on a tablet (with a dock that's always attached, but ok). My ongoing work is still there but hidden from my view and my mind. I stop using the mousepad, and browse with touch only. IE10 has a really excellent user experience on a touch screen, it makes Chrome on Android tablets feel ridiculously ancient.

Then, when I'm done with HN, private mail, and the weather, I hit Win+D and poof, my tablet became a PC again.

It may be a coincidence, but Microsoft essentially made a two-mode OS that precisely matches the two ways I use a computer.
Although the original code was published by the NSA, RedHat and several other groups and companies have been involved in SELinux development over the past 12+ years. The paranoia of having a backdoor in SELinux (very unlikely) has probably made it a more frequent target of audits compared to other parts of linux.
My initial thought was a portable version of this could be useful... I don't use thunderbird much these days, but for several years had my tbird profile symlinked to a dropbox directory. The only irritation was the notices from dropbox if I accidentally left tbird open at another location.

I imagine the same or similar could work here too.
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Supreme Court DOMA Decision Rules Federal Same-Sex Marriage Ban Unconstitutional
'Jarring' is different from 'subtle'. Jarring implies that the transition between states is abrupt and confusing, nothing about how obvious of a transition it is. In fact, in order to not be jarring, a transition should be very obvious to the user.
corny and obviously fake
I'm not necessarily wishing for riots with innocent shopkeepers' livelihoods being trashed.

But I am saying that the normal democratic methods seem to fail us here -- this is a real "don't blame me, I voted for kodos" situation. If Obama, who was the most strident advocate against this stuff out of both parties in the 2008 primaries (except for maybe Kucinich), doesn't follow through on this stuff, what are the democratic options?
So if nginx is "engine-x" does ngrok "negro-k"?

Or is it a "y" sound like "nguyen"...?
I'm sorry, what the heck does "5,000 APIs" mean?

An API is like a platform or a mini-platform. 5,000 of them makes no sense. Do they mean 5,000 new API function calls in the Windows platform or something? Although that would be insanely large too. I don't get it.
Udall and Wyden did specify the inaccurate statement in a classified attachment to their letter to Alexander.

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_23530383/udall-nsa-states-signi...
I'm not saying that burying your head in a book on ancient philosophers constitutes an education. I am certainly a proponent of a truly liberal education. However, I get quite annoyed by arrogant STEM-types who pin the problem on what they perceive to be a collection of "useless" humanities and social science programs.

Again and again people say that engineering graduates are basically illiterate and that they should be taught to write. This is an excellent example of a situation where "more STEM!!!" isn't a solution. Our problem is over-specialization in undergraduate curricula, and this is evident across virtually all disciplines. But the attitude that "those <insert department here> people are worthless hippies" prevents us from solving this problem.

Education has many uses. Some of them are highly practical (get a job, grow food), and others are somewhat less practical (or, at least, their practicality is less obvious), but just as important IMO (understand society and government, deal thoughtfully with social issues). The ideal would be to educate most people broadly and some more specifically in each area. But inter-area bigotry and dismissal prevents us from achieving that first part.
I can't get past the fact that I hate full screen at all.
How Microsoft wants to empower gamers to create worlds with “Project Spark”
The NSA reads my t-shirts.
> Sort of. The cost of higher-education skyrocketed when the government got involved in the student loan business. It became easy to get loans for higher-education and then tuition skyrocketed with the suddenly available capital.

This is very commonly asserted, but no one offers data to back it. Some try to argue it on general supply and demand principles (loans increase demand, supply does not increase as fast, so price goes up), but this fails because that theory predicts prices should rise to the point where supply and demand are equal, yet in fact prices are far below that.
Can anyone comment on how a browser plugin gets access to the desktop? (even if hangouts doesn't do it, there's a remote desktop plugin)

I'm a curmudgeon, but it seems like it's like designing a washing machine attachment that serves as a home security system and pasta maker.

Are there OS or X11 permissions that can restrict userland apps from deviating far from their original use case?
We communicate with Snapchat's servers and pretend to be their mobile app. This gives us access to everything that you can do through the mobile app. For example, we can send messages, view (and save) messages, create new accounts...
In case you're a Python dev, VS2013 now includes support. info at http://pytools.codeplex.com. Has a neat feature to debug CPython & C++ together: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvJaKQ94lBY
Java and the Internet of Things
With all the cloud DBs available... one would think you could simply target one of them as a platform (say mongodb) and that you could define a set of collections/tables/account to use. You could get quite a bit of data in a free account level with couchbase or mongolab. You wouldn't even need to store the full article, just the feeds, urls, dtm and read status... you could do more, but it could work.

For that matter, one could come up with such a "MyData" system that works with the DropBox API or something similar.
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SCOTUS clears way for gay marriage in California
https://www.nitrous.io

There are a few links in the post that link to our signup page, but it's tough to see with the dark background. Maybe it's time to change the background color of our blog...
Yeah, I would like less metro please and no more horizontal scrolling. Oh yes and less full screen shit.

Would be nice.
Aren't snap chats supposed to self destruct? This is really cool.If you think it would be useful, I'd be happy to offer all your users a free custom credit card skin from CreditCovers.com with their photo on it if you'd like. ($10 retail value each) - I assume they all wouldn't redeem it but we could budget ~$100k of product for you for this or another promotion. Anthony @ CreditCovers.com if you want to talk.
This analogy has some flaws.

For one, if you write an encrypted letter, the government (at least not to my knowledge) doesn't claim the right to keep it indefinitely just in case you're using it to communicate with your terrorist buddies.

You can send letters without return addresses.

You don't have to use the recipient's real name when sending a letter.

Writing something on the outside of the letter makes it publicly visible, and thus carries no expectation of privacy. Writing an email to your friend is the electronic equivalent of a private one on one conversation, and thus carries an expectation of privacy. If you had wanted the government to know about it, you would have CC'd the NSA.

I can see why the government would take this position, as it portrays them in a more favorable light, but it's misdirection more than explanation.
Cool, I was going to look into this later
Here is someone who started thinking about a protocol for RSS sync: https://github.com/ArturoVM/pond/wiki/API-Documentation