skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've consulted for a video production company and seen them do these, there's no way this would be a 10 sec video.

Try speaking it clearly and slowly as a voiceover artist would as you go through the slides. 'Meet Bob. Bob is a fisherman. He runs his own store and has an online store [boom, there's your 10 secs]'.

Memorable isn't good if they don't get to the sales ptch, which most people wouldn't.

Personally I completely agree with modernerd, this would have been a waste of time and money if it wasn't novel enough to get featured on HN or /r/programming or stuff for a few extra sales. For its stated purpose, it's useless.
> I have not looked at the much of the clojure code and non of the go code

:-)

> can be made with java

Would that be idiomatic Clojure? :-)
So then, make one. Post a link to HN when it is ready to go, and promote it in Europe. But appending this question to an unrelated topic is not going to be the best way of getting it done.
>It is people with guns who are "extremists" because instead of seeking peaceful solutions, they "solve" everything by decree and a gun.

Democracy is a pretty fucking peaceful solution in most developped nations to solve things. The guns are there to protect the democratic system, because if there's nothing like that, people have been shown to not follow the rules decided by the democratic system.

Empirical evidence is a lot more convincing than your personal theory on how things "should" work.
For the sake of background: people bring up the prospect of the death penalty for espionage often in these cases, but it's not something the US has actually invoked since WWII, even in very clear-cut situations where money changed hands or people died as a result.

For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noshir_Gowadia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Kendall_Myers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_James_Nicholson
They actually provide an easy way to get back to the next point to read, even if you've left and returned. Pretty cool!
Just wanting to work for/or make a startup is in itself the best reason to do it. Maybe you are older than most other startup kids but I don't think it should be a problem. If you think you are capable of handling the stress mentally, physically as well as financially, I would say go for it. It is fun.
SILC - Secure Internet Live Conferencing
#) It seems like you're not sanitizing the input parameters before using them to construct a SQL query. You should propably fix this.

#) You shouldn't output the SQL error messages to the user.

#) The purchase column shouldn't have a sort icon if it isn't sortable.

#) IMHO the back button doesn't add any value since it just duplicates browser functionality.

Another little nitpick‎: The sort icon on the page is a image ;-)
One thing is the reality, another thing is justification for it.

Government, rape and theft exist. We cannot get rid of them, we can protect ourselves. That's reality. But we don't derive moral justification from reality. Theft does not become moral because it exists. Government does not become moral because it's inevitable. It becomes moral because of some principle that you hold. So saying "you can't really just choose to not take any part in it" does not invalidate any of my argument.

Now, society != government. Society is 95% anarchy. People voluntarily trust each other, deal with each other, live closer to people they like and further from people they dislike. They choose what to eat, whom to marry etc. Then, there is small group of self-proclaimed religious guys who self-identify with the whole society and also claim the right to use violence because of some mystical "social contract". No one was signing this contract. And even if some dudes in 1787 signed some piece of paper, it has nothing to do with you or people around you. It's just a belief in magical lines called "borders" that suddenly change the moral nature of a man. Within the "border" a man in a costume can arrest someone, but outside the "border" he cannot.

That's simply religious nonsense. If we were in 1241 when everyone believed in god, miracles and priests, it wouldn't make me stupid or extremist. It would make everyone else around stupid and arrogant. Even if there are 99% of them.
Not to mention, that for many of these destructive actions adding a undo function often incurs in higher storage costs.

For example, in the case of deleting information, the easiest way to provide an undo function is to never really delete anything and just flag as deleted (something that doesn't free up storage, and if implemented without the users' knowledge, is abusive in terms of data privacy and ownership).

As for users not expecting the existence of an undo button in a web context, well, Gmail for instance has an "undo" link for lots of actions (archiving, moving to trash, etc.). I'm sure other web services provide similar things too.
Very interested in this... would be nice if, like javascriptweekly, the archive was freely available... I know it seems counter-intuitive, but having the archive for jsweekly helped reassure me that the content was worth sharing my email... if I could see that the content in this weekly was of equal or better quality, I would be willing to share my email...
This is an anecdotal story about me:

Hikikomori, something I actually aspired to be. I love locking myself in a room with my computer equipment and not come out for days. Unfortunately, I have two or three friends that virtually drag me out to hang out with them.

The ironic part is that I'm actually the type of person that hates to socialize with people so I'm not really sure how the hell I ended up with friends that love to drag me out to hang out with them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not depressed, I'm an extremely happy person. I just prefer to be along for the most part working on a software project. I do like to be around people, like in a library, but not necessarily interact with them.

This anime is very relevant [1]. The main protagonists is actually my hero and I kept saying to myself that that is whom I want to be.

What exactly causes this, I believe that I'm way too sensitive to hypocrisy, bad temper, and mean people. I've been burned too many times by people that pretend to be nice. People with bad attitude really get me depressed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_N.H.K.
There have been some heated discussions here following the latest bugs found in cryptocat.

Several people pointed to SILC as an existing option for secure group chat.

But SILC has its own share of problems: https://we.riseup.net/riseup+tech/problems-with-silc

Maybe the people who argued against cryptocat and similar efforts could shed some light on what they think of SILC.

I wonder if SILC's fundamentals are similarly flawed. Or is the recent rise of interest in secure communcations a good opportunity to revisit SILC?
While I agree that they likely store much less data than five zettabytes, your assumption that all their storage is on constantly spinning hard disks seems flawed.

(Tape libraries and various other offline/nearline storage solutions would be viable for most of their data)
> Government is just a privileged group of people with a monopoly on violence. It is an institute of violence. All things you don't like are direct products of the first principle: these guys can use violence to get what they need, others cannot.

Someone needs to read some Hobbes, and then carefully study the history of the past 300-or-so years.
You're right, I think one may say that mainframes did the Age 2 -> 3 transition first, as it was kind of necessary for their use care, and then PCs recapitulated history...
In this context "transparent" means "we can see what you're doing" not "hide even more from us".
Still, as far as I know, we don't have a better system than democracy. And it can work very well and does so in other countries.

What's central for it to work:

- Free (non-privatized) flow of complete information

- Critical thinking skills (to be able to correctly process the information/data)

- Tools to favor discussion
"Made in America": Author Discusses the US-based Maker Movement
Let us take some normal examples of services that exist. Let us say I own the home I live in for purposes of non-ambiguity. Would you say I own the water on my property? If I don't have water, would you be okay if I never paid taxes but paid for the water? Would you be okay if I never paid taxes but paid for the roads usage each time I used it? Or on a monthly basis?
A thought experiment begins with the basic fact that you and I live in a society where certain things must be done, like paying taxes. If I refuse to pay, as oleganza says, will you come to an alternate arrangement with me? Or will you put me in jail?

In short, is my personal liberty a right? Or is it subject to the privilege of my citizenship?
Yes: http://danielfrg.github.io/feeds/all.atom.xml

Gonna add a direct link from the site soon.
Please stop calling it "offensive" when people have a strong reaction your views.
I'm sorry, how is that an extremist view? Nowhere is he saying that we should all assassinate the president, or kill all the arabs, or anything resembling extremist views.

What he's stating are facts. Re-read the sentences one by one. They're the underpinnings of our society and they're no fun to hear, and most people don't even realize that they're there, but it's the reality of things.
DediServe are good. But still dont match those two in terms of pricing.
Technology Workers Are Young (Really Young)
Ugh. It felt extremely weird to read an entire article with that thing obscuring such a huge part of the bottom of the page. The best description of the feeling that I can think of is that it kind of felt like I was reading it by shoulder-surfing somebody else's browsing session on the train.

That, and the general focus of the content itself, put across a message of conversion-centric design rather than human-centric design. Ignoring the way a person feels while interacting your design just to increase signup conversions. Not nice.
Do You Really Know Your Customers?
It's not above life expectancy for Japan, though. Avg. life expectancy of Japan is 83. The second part of your argument is still valid, though.
oooh! so _thats_ how you hide it :)

I actually didn't see the footer at all, shows how my brain learned to keep me sane.
Not for nothing but Ben did you read the article? He's not even discussing most of what you mention. He is simply taking his learning and applying it. You seem to be going off on a tangent about advanced applications where he is obviously just learning about how these things work and not trying to teach a method or suggesting that he has discovered anything significant..

To the author: I liked the article. A simple, concise read.
Agree that the footer is annoying. The page also seems to break #15.
To make the model of Open Source development the norm for UK local government
I still think a confirmation with "Don't ask again" is a much better solutions.

Power users see it once, understand what'll happen and turn it off, no annoying confirmation after they've identified as a power user.

Novice users would, I think, feel better about a confirmation than an undo - if you need an undo you've made a mistake and that's not a good feeling, if you see a confirmation the service is looking out for you.
But that's irrelevant. I'm sure most in the UK didn't like one of their own being extradited to the US for having a UK-legal link site.
And completely broken on iPhone.
They didn't have phones back then, sure, but the concept of "your" effects transcends time. They had records about people stored by third parties back then, but chose to limit 4th amendment protections to things that belong to you. That distinction between "your" effects and anything referring to you can't be ignored.

Also, the 4th amendment does not use the phrase "not public." It gives four examples that are intensely private: your person, your home, your effects, your papers. How private is data that you share with hundreds of people you don't even know?

You can't ignore the plain words on the page for your version of what you think the "spirit" of the language is. The framers could have drafted the 4th amendment much more broadly even only accounting for information sources that existed back then. They did not sue that, And you have to give effect to this conscious choice. P
On the other hand, if you are not Dutch (or perhaps West-European), you may not have heard of KLM before. And now you do.

Of course, with your username the probability is near one that you already knew them ;).
Is it just me or does this article have zero attribution for the author? I see that it says this was taken from print, but who wrote it?
>doesn't every place have its own local diseases and parasites?

Exactly. This whole article feels like the sort of ego piece you only get out of places like LA or NYC. Every place on earth has diseases and other medical problems caused by local environmental factors. To give it that a name like "valley fever" is to trivialize the fact that the exact same phenomenon occurs everywhere else in the world too.
Angular is still a nice way to do your DOM manipulation declaratively. https://github.com/pangloss/clang extends angular to work with the the built in clojurescript data structures. Or https://github.com/zcaudate/purnam has some angular helpers that work with regular javascript objects.
Of course it's a real thing. He never said it wasn't. What he said was that it doesn't explain anything, and that's true.

Laziness is a symptom, not a cause. It's like diagnosing someone with a "cough". It may be correct, but it's pointless, because it's obvious and tells you absolutely nothing about what to do.
I took this to the LGA conference this week, and came up with this after talking to dozens of local politicians.

Any thoughts or feedback gratefully accepted - cheers

Also see www.oss4gov.org/unapology
This is a good example of how the market can outperform centralized governing councils under certain conditions.

the LEED-certifying body can't possibly hope to know all the 2nd- and 3rd-degree repercussions of different design decisions. But if we just increased the energy tax by 20% (arbitrary number), people would tend to find the global maxima of energy efficiency without having to conform to rigid standards.

The same thing can be seen with cars. I think that raising CAFE standards for gas mileage is great and all, but at least where I'm from the trend toward buying more efficient cars is less about their lower upfront cost as a result of CAFE-induced supply reduction and more about the rising price of gas. A $1.50/gallon federal "negative externalities" tax on gasoline would do wonders for the nation's energy consumption levels.
> For what it's worth, amazon does recommend that people set the pricing on their mturk tasks so that they come out to something close to minimum wage

What is the incentive to do an online job and set your prices at the lowest possible legal limit? Surely nearly anything else you could do with a computer would be more valuable? I mean, if you get good enough playing computer games you can make more than minimum wage.
Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state?
Based on much experienced I can confidently say that testimonials are one of the most powerful promotional devices you can use. Perhaps the ones you are seeing have not been done properly. Even just displaying logos of some marquee customers is extremely powerful.
> When you're old, it's easy to be an obedient minion.

Please explain why vote participation increases with age then?

I made this illustrative graph: http://i.imgur.com/Uhdub5G.png

edit: made the axes clearer.
"Doctors gave me 30 days to live": his last post…
"The guns are there to protect the democratic system"

You have just presented a justification for guy A killing guy B for now forking over his part of income to guy C.

Now you need to decipher "democratic system" and what does it mean in reality.

I my view, it's a label for a system where opinions of some people must be forced onto others using force based on some sophisticated paperwork called "voting".
and http://www.tyresum.co.uk/images/sort_asc.png
I can say anecdotally this applies to me. I use ASP.NET and C# heavily and am a daily user on StackOverflow, but I rarely find myself needing to ask a question there. I usually just find an answer to what I need and vote and favorite accordingly. It's become more of a repository of information for me than when it started out.

Some drop in ASP.Net/C# popularity wouldn't surprise me either though.
An Angel in New York: Calvin Chu, Columbia Technology Ventures
Is this a bad thing? AdBlock has made no promises to me, and it continues to be useful. The day it doesn't, I uninstall it and find an alternative.
This is already on the front page[0] (again).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5994871
His complaint is that crypto is to hard to use. This is a valid complaint and "don't do it" isn't a valid solution. Too many "libraries" consist only of implementations of the crypto algorithms, but don't give any help with the proper use.
Here’s who spent their Fourth of July protesting the NSA
Just when you thought Powerpoint was finally dead at last, it comes back disguised in scrolling.. Damned !
The economist has used Editorial Anonymity since 1843 and is edited to read in a single style: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist#Editorial_anonymi...

Obviously there is plenty of criticism of this practice, even on Wikipedia.
Draw on a big virtual wall simultaneously with other people. What do you think?
appfog???
Note: anyone who comes with "privilege of citizenship" argument (or "property rights are only defined within a government") already uses some moral theory. So it's better to ask for explanation what this theory means in reality. E.g. if some group of people vote 51% vs 49%, they can do whatever they want? Or are there "absolute rights"? So now the person who advocates the government must prove all this stuff, or shut the fuck up.
As a follow-up of this news that was posted here a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5831848

The author does not say that he is dead for sure. He says that if we read this most recent post, it probably means he is.

What do you think?
Startups are a long, hard, battle that statistically end in failure. If you can accept that, and can lower your personal burn rate of living on low expenses for quite some time, accept failure, and have a true passion to be independent - do so. A gradual step into the world of startups can be traditional freelancing (as you have to do many of the same activities as a product startup - but you can earn immediate, high return on time). Most first time tech entrepreneurs fail, unless they're in the valley and can be propped up by tech investors who take care of important activities like leadership, biz dev, sales, strategy, business models. (Hint: coding is one of the least important parts of a startup past the initial stage.....). Ask yourself what you're good at, and focus on that. Also look at your competition, and ask how you can compete.
The Economist doesn't have bylines.
I know nothing about tires (and had forgotten that we spell it tyre here in the UK), but I do know that a lot of people mix imperial and decimal measurements. Do you account for that, is it not an issue with tires, or should you add in a either a unit of measurement or the ability to enter measurements in multiple units?
Yes this has been a long time coming
Serious question: just how do you figure the US can close that tax loophole (it's law, so not a scam)? Did you know that it only works when money is routed through the Netherlands? And from there to the Caribbean or elsewhere? You're stretching it, implying the US can sway lawmakers abroad.
Make your AJAX website Crawlable by Google.
I forgot to mention that I've done 3 tech startups in Texas (U.S.)
For Square, part of being in San Francisco has meant picking up its trash.
> just harboring him around at the transit zone.

Russia are not harboring him because he's not in Russia, he's in an international transit lounge and therefore not actually in any country.

It has always shocked me that US airports don't have this concept, it must be the only major world transport hub that doesn't.
Where is the USSR when you need one :)
The 4th amendment isn't general, it's fairly specific while simultaneously being wiggly. The 4th amendment could have been written in more absolute language, like the 1st: "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." That's general language intended to be broadly encompassing. They could have said "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of privacy." In contrast, the 4th amendment uses specific examples, that weren't broadly-encompassing even back then (third party records existed back then too!), and also uses the wiggle word "reasonable" which invites judicial balancing of reasonable versus unreasonable searches. The 1st amendment doesn't mention political protests specifically, or say that Congress shall make no law "unreasonably abridging" the freedom of speech.

You can't just pretend the 4th amendment says whatever you want it to say. It's written using much narrower language than the 1st, and it's use of "reasonable" invites judicial balancing and exception-making in its application.
And the Irish could start asking questions about Delaware. Sounds good.
I am teaching myself php (my first language) and I have seen that outside HN eco-chamber (and some other similar small community), PHP is not only very popular the communities are very newbe friendly.
The new Kuler iOS app is pretty snazzy too. I don't do anything with design in any of my projects, but it's fun to point the camera at things and watch the app pick out colors.
Agreed. Most of the easier .Net questions have already been answered. Most of the harder ones too, thanks to Jon Skeet.
That would explain it. I'm surprised I never ran across that before. Thanks theorique1
I'm not sure what your point is; the story is about PRISM and privacy not about writing jokes on public forums. Local authorities do stupid stuff sometimes.
I am totally going to have to ask you to define "we". All your talk, your speech here has an ambiguity based on your definition: "we" are all not the same. For e.g. your last question seems rhetorical; you feel that Joe and the President are not different. "My" answer is simply this: I can kill Joe in self-defense if he threatens my life; I cannot kill the President. Try to kill a cop in a threatening situation and you know the police force will come down on you harder. There's anecdotal evidence to prove it. Are you going to deny that?

Oleganza's question is simple: If I disagree with your morality or legal system, what would you do about it? If your answer is to say that I shouldn't ask you but read a book, then your value to me in a mutual free society is quite low and of course I don't intend to live at your expense. Therefore, I reject your "we" and "everyone" since those words imply consent, which I most certainly have not given.
Here's a ticket to track for following the state of crypto in Saltstack, https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/5913. It includes a lot of thoughts from the project founder on how to handle it.
That link you posted claims that the majority, 52%, that disapprove of him. In fact that poll claims he's doing a bad job from what I can see.

Here's another link that shows more polls illustrating the point: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obam...

I think in general the approval rating for government is pretty low. Not sure if it's at it's all time low, we've had some pretty rough times, but it's not in great shape.
It seems to me like the GP got that and responded appropriately.
The answer is simple: with age, welfare and benefits increase.