skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The timing here is not great, is it?

(I think the law is a step forward, though I don't think it does enough to mitigate the real problem with CFAA, which is that sentences under CFAA scale with dollar damages. The bit about making it harder to "accelerate" CFAA crimes when they're done in furtherance of crimes that are also CFAA crimes is also very important, but doesn't address the core flaw of the statute.)
So, obviously I don't want to sound ungrateful and I'm impressed that they put this together and made it freely available. I'm not sure that creative commons is the right license though, since it doesn't require the LaTeX source to be redistributed if the pdf is (unlike the GPL or the GNU Free Documentation License). (They're providing the source on GitHub, but if interest in the project trails off and someone else forks it, the person forking is under no obligation to share the modified LaTeX).

I can think of many sets of notes on the MIT OCW site that are CC, which I'd like to be able to modify and share but can't because the source is missing.

Anyone else have thoughts on the right license for this sort of project?
LinkedIn Outage Due To Possible DNS Hijacking
THE WEB'S MOST COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF FREE PLACES TO LEARN... EVER
I suspect it will become different eventually, when drones are much, much smaller, and weaponized. But the FBI isn't using those yet, so I agree, this is just opportunistic reporting since everyone is talking about the surveillance state. Demonstrates that journalists, for the most part, are clueless and lazy.
Ah yes, you are probably referring to the Internet Yellow Pages[1], use to be one of my favourite things to use at a library and write down websites..

http://i.imgur.com/1n6mH4N.jpg
The data was collected without a warrant. It cannot be used in court.
And non US citizens?
Short forms are ideal. A simple web form that asks for my name, contact info, a brief introductory paragraph, and a file in the format of my choosing (usually PDF) where I've already listed all relevant info seems logical to me.

But complex web forms that go on for multiple pages, asking all kinds of invasive questions before any interest has been established, and then top it off by requiring you to submit a resume only in Microsoft Word format are ridiculous. I would guess that most people that post here would not be likely to jump through these hoops unless the position was out of this world great.
Here’s what the future of video game development looks like
I want to do this, but I think it only makes sense for big cities. Am I wrong? My nearest city has ~8k people. Should I stand with a placard at the town square?
Learn to swim before climbing the roof
I use DigitalOcean.
This article makes me feel ashamed of Silicon Valley.
USCIS on EB-5 Program
I really don't get any of this.

These lawyers and courts are no more privileged to secret data from the NSA, the military, or any of the other classified source today, then they were 1 year ago, 10 years ago, etc.
Thanks, linguistic prescriptivism is a pet peeve of mine. It's astonishing how paper thin and clearly unnatural most of the arguments are.
Good point. In 100 years maybe physical floppy disks will be long-forgotten by everyone but museums and historians, but the icon will still be in everyday use.

And maybe the icon will change over time. As the public's consciousness of physical floppies dies away, maybe designers will feel freer to use a more stylized representation, like the Voicemail icon's representation of a...telephone handset? Cassette tape?
git treats every paragraph as a single line. That seems like an annoying default for english text.
My point is that the focus must be on the operators of such devices, not the devices themselves. For example, the fact that Obama likes to use drones to take out American citizens (and I guess their children and cousins?) suspected of providing material support to terrorists should make us all angry because of the lack of due process, not that a fancy new technology is used.
You're right on some level. But given that sugar and starch are packed into all processed food, I think it makes that level of calories difficult to sustain for most people. Note that the blood-sugar-rollercoaster that cheap carbs give makes you ravenous at the trough. An additional factor in why we eat too much of it.

Meanwhile after an example lunch of fish, veggies, and olive oil I feel full and satisfied almost all day (with the same range of calories).
"A perfect search engine will process and understand all the information in the world," said Sergey Brin, Google president and co-founder of Google. "That is where Google is headed."

Wow. Sergey is still after it. :)
Little things that matter in language design
The thought that your tax dollars are going to pay for some bloated overpriced inefficient software solution is unpleasant. For example, according to Binney and co. ThinThread was small, fast, efficient and cost-effective, but some outside contractors with connections inside the agency had other ideas. Where the NSA decision-makers are personally invested in these contractors, similar to how Carlyle Group with its politician clients owns most of Booz Allen, it's tempting to speculate on the motivations of the agency to go for the less efficient, less robust, more expensive solutions (more maintenance and support contracts... cha ching). But, who knows... it's all top secret.

It's like when people pointed out the financial ties between certain politicians and companies that produced expensive airport body scanners, which the government promptly purchased after the t`ism scare tactics had cast a spell over people making them accept that anything and everything was "necessary".
I hope you didn't list that in order of importance.

First you have to find a niche. If your product/book/website/blog/whatever is the only one out there, it's a red flag because it might mean that there's no need for whatever you offer.

A product will never create a need, you create a product out of people's need.

Try to look for something that already exists, and you know you can make it better, and pitch whatever you built to the your competitors dissatisfied users, and there you go, you have an audience.

Then you can start looking into metrics/analytics and finally into SEO.
"It's not for nothing that we often say, 'a picture is worth a thousand words'."

This sentence can support either side of the argument. I love it. Draw that sentence.
On Corporate VCs
"The laws of evidence require that prosecutors turn over to the defense any records they have that might help prove a suspect's innocence."

In other words, they were entitled to them 10 years ago, but now that they know they exist they can actually request them.
I tried to find a way to store a function in an object to call later, and after fighting the syntax I hit a bus error. I guess that is only possible with full closures.

I was trying to have a vector of behaviors for my sprites, which would hold arbitrary functions to call when updating the sprite. I don't need to capture any variables, so I don't actually need a closure. But the scope in which the anonymous function was initially created is long gone, so that's probably the issue.

I'll see if co-routines can solve this for me ...
Porn and cat pictures.
No warrant doesn't matter, the data can be used in court. The Guardian's leak today [1] proved that the NSA is authorized to keep all data obtained 'inadvertently' -- e.g. as part of a broad-scale tap, without a warrant -- and to use it later. Specifically, data regarding US citizens.

The safest assumption now is that with respect to electronic surveillance in the US, warrants mean nothing and everything is being stored.

[1] - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/fisa-court-nsa-w...
A modest Google Calendar proposal
It's funny but this is not really true. We've just finished a massive UI test involving a choice our users have to make during sign up.

Various graphical images illustrating the choice caused more confusion than a short sentence for each.

We also found replacing text links with icons increased support requests from new users by a noticeable margin. AND when keeping the icons and restoring the text it was still above baseline

My view is that for length and complex ideas images or video can be illustrative. But for 90% of interactions text is always clearer.
The defense doesn't challenge a lack of warrant for data that benefits them.
Isn't there a difference between text and language? I see a lot of these comments getting them confused.
We're talking about today's drone use by the FBI. They most certainly don't have fully autonomous drones. Sure, give them a decade or two and they'll have miniature, weaponized drones soon enough.
> I did read that point and find it perplexing.

The "fat virus" theory would perfectly explain it. If some of our co-evolved viruses and bacteria have been making us more prone to accumulate fat and it's contagious, the lab animals caught it too. So their metabolism slows down to allow them to accumulate weight on the same diet that used to be merely sufficient for sustenance.

On a personal note: I also lost 30 pounds over 6 months once. I did it by simply counting calories (hacker's diet). And I kept the weight off for about a year. But then I gained it all back and then some within the next few years. Most people can lose weight on most diets in the short term; the real trick is losing a significant amount of weight and keeping it off in the long term. Although some people manage to do it, it's not many. How to reliably lose weight and keep it off is still basically an unsolved problem.
Wow a black president made certainly a lot of difference. Just like the white ones : lying, deceptive, secretive, and dishonest (See NSA). Sorry if I fail to see much difference.
Start collecting your visitor's emails, that's how you start building an audience.

Forget about SEO right now, you don't want really want more traffic, you want conversion rate.

I know people who own websites with hundreds of thousands of visitors per month, but almost 0% conversion rate.
Vine + filters + 9 seconds
You can add 5% hydrogen to the natural gas in the german grid at the moment without changing much infrastructure, up to 15% in the medium term.

Here is a pilot project:

http://www.eon.com/en/media/news/press-releases/2013/6/13/po...
Yes, I've done Keto to various degrees (including Atkins), and had no success. Yet another fad diet with scientific backing that has no effect.
An Inviting Mini-World: How Nintendo Made Animal Crossing
http://www.radiolab.org/2010/oct/08/

Radio Lab did a segment on how a cities average gait can predict many things about it.
I can store 1024 terabytes on a DVD today, entirely in software, no innovative hardware based on new engineering principles necessary:

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1T | pv -c -W | gzip -c9 | pv -c -W > big.gz

I'm pretty sure the resulting big.gz will fit on a DVD with plenty of room to spare.

You may need to sudo apt-get install pv if you don't have that incredibly useful utility already. You may also need several hours of CPU time...

EDiT: Downvoted within two minutes? HN needs to get a sense of humor...
Call your senators and representative, it really helps. Keep it short and to the point, write out what you're going to say before you call. You'll get put through to voicemail or an intern who will take notes on what you say. It's very low-pressure.

http://callday.org/
Please call your Senators and Representative, it really does help. Every call counts for hundreds (or even thousands) of emails.

http://callday.org/ makes it pretty easy. You'll either get voicemail or an intern who will take notes on what you say. It's very low-pressure.
6 Reasons Why Kim Jong Un Is Screwed
True, but don't for get, IF IT LOOKS GOOD, MORE PEOPLE WILL WANT TO READ IT.

That's why, for instance, even with the driest of academic textbooks, they still spend a few extra dollars on a cover design.
Sorry, Folks: Google Hasn’t Changed Their Interview Questions
Tristan O’Tierney, Square’s Co-Founder And Early iOS Engineer, Leaves
I'd love to see Google say that they not have the data requested, because they simply do not collect it from users. If Google has it, NSA will get it. One way or another. Denials and "lawsuits" against the NSA written like press releases are useless.

That's why Google and Facebook are extremely dangerous, they hold unto every piece of info to try to squeeze a few more pennies from each user. Nice and ready for NSA to get it legally: “There is no indication that this order to Verizon was unique or novel. It is very likely that business records orders like this exist for every major American telecommunication company, meaning that, if you make calls in the United States, the NSA has those records. And this has been going on for at least 7 years, and probably longer,” http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/verizon-responds/
> I've never seen any production web apps that have been
> compiled from languages like Ruby, Python or C

Ever used Google Groups or Docs? https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/
Those courts and prosecutors have no access to classified datastores of the NSA.

That data is classified and protected by law.

What you are quoting is completely something else, and just references the data the prosecutors have on hand that is gathered and developed as part of the investigation.
This is an interesting hypothesis. It wouldn't even have to be changing percentages of ingredients, it could simply be the result of increased agricultural efficiency and yields. 100 calories worth of corn feed is quite likely to be subtly different in composition today than decades ago.
You have a point. However, the game has changed. Defense attorneys will allege that reasonable doubt could be shown if only they could present as evidence the NSA data most people believe exists. Juries will more likely find for the defendant, then. Or the prosecutors will claim the opposite. The turmoil in courtrooms will fuel a groundswell of support for declassifying the NSA data.
The government outsources background checks for top-secret jobs? Why, so they can shift the blame for their 10%-rated efforts to private firmst?

Makes you wonder: who was responsible for picking USIS to do the job?
Microsoft Paying Developers for Windows Phone Apps isn't New
Ask HN: Data Scientist/Analyst jobs at environment or wild life organizations?
I love that this is what they are investigating.
For those who have not seen the movie, by the way-

1) Go watch it

2) Someone tries to do exactly what was just described as "reliable" to the protagonist
Leadwerks crowdfunding native Linux development
You are ignoring cases where you want to present your changes in an atomic fashion to other systems and people. I don't need my compiler to be churning on code that I know won't compile and I don't need dropbox constantly reuploading binary files that I am in the process of modifying. What is the point of burning network IO every time a user drags his stylus across an image in Photoshop? Atomic interactions are the future, not the past.

Furthermore, "forking" is what happens when you "check out" a file to memory and "merging" your changes occurs when you write them back. You are only modifying the terminology. Replacing the "save" verb with "merge" would not be doing the user any favours.
The mobile experience on HN sucks.
Rogaway's SEAL also used AND.

Apropos nothing (because I noticed this when looking for another cipher with AND in its round function): to appreciate how simple the design of SIMON (or SPECK) is, read the first (or second) half of the NSA paper... then read the Kelsey and Schneier's Twofish paper.
Drop your folk guitar startup video. Seriously.
GROOVE with Grooblin.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id603544126
- Music : Skibeatz + Nesby Phips
- Direction : Cédric Richer
Ask HN: When do you take some off the table?
Ok, I know it appears bad to ask, but at what point do founders of VC backed companies take a little off the table to ensure they are well cared for? I am not saying they become wealthy or anything, but when have you/do you do it?

I have no backing in the VC world, so it is truly just an academic learning exercise for me. But I personally haven't seen it addressed, and you can only live on a thread for so long before your productivity and capability wane (e.g. you need to afford a reasonable vacation etc). Obviously the focus should be on the business not on cashing out, but you have to eat and pay bills.
I stand thoroughly corrected.
They were indeed, during the '90s.

You are incorrect in speculating that they're just now becoming one.
Introduction to Mobile Prototyping with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Nice, except it needs a "like" button.
You know, it could wind up being good. Isn't one of our most basic tenants to do our damndest to avoid convicting the innocent, even at the cost of letting some guilty go free? If it succeeds, we could potentially see even better exoneration numbers for the innocent, and I'm not certain how to weight that against my privacy.
Feds: We can’t give up cellular location data, because NSA doesn’t collect it
I interpret it to mean that if NSA's filter catches words related to communications security then it is flagged and possibly read by an analyst. It does say the Director of the NSA has to specifically request that the communication be kept, but someone has to read it first to determine its value. So it's read and stored without a warrant. Seems like a pretty clear violation of the 4th amendment to me.
No, it isn't. Unless you're saying you gained weight again while still eating the same diet, you solved the problem, you just failed at implementing the solution.
Alarming Facebook Misuse Stats
Based on how it was said, I assumed corporate taxes. So sure, you need to pay your 800 bucks to the state of California (if you even operate here), and a couple points for payroll tax.

But it's just the sentiment I don't like. If young entrepreneurs give themselves trumped up titles and dream of grandiose things, that doesn't disgust me at all. Perhaps a wry smile, along with some encouragement.
Out of Work Animator Needs to Feed His Kids....
It's not realistic to think they will do that. But then, it might not be realistic to say that they can just send paper...
I saw on the news today that 70% of the US is a size 14 or larger now. Shocking. In addition to the need for sugar and starch reduction, a lot of grocery foods are not as natural as we think they are. Having lived in European and Asian countries I can say that the people there are less calorie conscious and sometimes eat more than Americans do but their food options and ingredients seem more wholesome and less processed than in North America. Is it worthwhile to investigate who controls the health standards in manufacturing of food?
Nice presentation. Curious, why was WebKit/Safari excluded from the comparisons? Or is WebKit the engine in some of these browsers and it just didn't seem necessary to include it? I assume these results are applicable to mobile as well, where WebKit is pretty big as I understand it.
WAT JavaScript, Ignorance And Prejudice
Same here, I went on a diet(ultimately became a lifestyle change) trying all kinds of things... but in the end... I lost nearly 40lbs by simply eliminating bread & sugar. Blogged about it, but be warned - my workout routine is based on Nintendo's Wii Fit Plus. Don't laugh, it worked for me! - http://blog.sanriotown.com/minusworld:hellokitty.com/2011/06...
Don't count. Being an Australian, I'm pissed.
The preponderance of evidence is that net caloric balance predicts weight.

http://examine.com/faq/what-should-i-eat-for-weight-loss.htm...

Given the choice between "astonishing phenomenon never before detected in history" and "record-keeping errors", I know which horse Occam is telling me to bet on. And it's not that HFCS has more Higgs bosons.
Show HN: Crowdfunding Pack (6) Free Deals for Crowdfunders
Android WrongCalculator : you don't need right answers.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199212313272701
> You will end up with way too many conflicts unless you basically "lock" sections through either a software mechanism or agreement, because edits often touch or reorder many paragraphs. A copyediting/wording pass will typically touch every paragraph, for example, and these are more frequent in writing than refactoring or variable-renaming passes are in coding.

As stated above, Dropbox doesn't even try to merge files, but Git does, which is definitely an advantage (at the very least, it tells you where the conflicts are, which is far more reliable than trying to work out the conflicts by hand, or with a separate diffing tool).
Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 (2012)
NSA Can Collect And Keep Your Encrypted Data As Long As It Takes To Crack It
Trello has one big failing. It doesn't support multiple accounts. You can't have separate personal and work accounts without repeatedly logging out and back in again. Mobile is even worse since logging out and in is way more painful (assuming a decent password).

I've responded to Trello employees comments a few times when they mention using it for both work and personal, and it appears they just use their personal accounts for work stuff.
Atlantic Ocean to Disappear in 200 Million Years?
Atkins certainly does have an effect, though I don't recommend it.
Useless ... but fun !
If evil exists outside of fairy tales, it does so inside of us. All of us.

Yes, and? You seem to think you're making quite the profound point.
But they don't autosave. They autorecover. Which means that instead of just reopening my file, I have 2 files that Excel or Word must try to delta check to rebuild my file.

When Excel or Word crash, I have to wait several minutes while the program closes, reports to the reporting server and checks for problems, then tries to recover my file. Or my other choice is to cancel the reporting and reopen the file manually, where it still has to recover.

I can't even just reopen my unsaved file to redo my changes.

This has been my experience since using Office 2007 on Windows Vista. It's still the same with Office 2010 on 7, and I don't know that it will change with Office 2013 on 8.
True. But what causes the overeating?
An example of foods consumed in North America but banned in EU http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleyperez/8-foods-we-eat-in-the-us...
There are all sorts of them. Most jurisdictions require a license to operate a car, and a slightly harder to get license to operate larger vehicles. There are similar things with planes and explosives and other sorts of chemicals. Guns are restricted in many areas, pistols are restricted in most areas, large knives are restricted in most areas.
It seems to have held up

Bullshit. I asked you to imagine something, you just bumble off into nonsense.
As a Tizen developer, this comes really to close to what I was looking for.
Investors.. get your checks ready. :)
Your example doesn't invalidate my point at all because it's restricted to one particular situation: signing up for something. If you were selling shoes online instead, I think you'd be much more likely to agree with me on the importance of images, which would simply prove my point that "it depends".

Consider what works better:

* a description of a place and how to get there or a map

* a description of a floor plan or a diagram

* a description of someone's appearance or their photograph

* a description of a piece of clothing or its photograph

The OP said, "the most powerful tool on the web is still words". That might be true, but I disagree with CodeMage when s/he said that "words are at the heart of whatever you're trying to do on the Web". I don't believe that words are at the heart of Google Maps or Flickr or last.fm or countless other web properties that revolve around sound, images and video.

If pornography were wordless, would people stop watching it? Do people watch it now because of "communication"?

Words are important, but they are not of sole importance in general and in many cases are not of primary importance.