skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't usually, and maybe that's why I wasn't concerned with faithfulness to character. I read the first Harry Potter, and this several years ago, when it was much shorter. I liked this one a lot better.

I hope, with all the additions, he hasn't gone too far in the direction of education over story.
I don't know if you've used the framework or not, but based on your response I'm assuming you haven't. You can't run the library without instantiating and instance of the Pixate engine with the license key and your email.

[PXEngine licenseKey:@"KEY-GO-HERE" forUser:@"EMAIL-GO-HERE"];

If you already have a license key (which I do and it was paid for) and a new version comes out, you shouldn't have to go though a new "Fill out a license form" just to get the lastest update. All I'm asking for is a download page that actually has a download link.
Why aren't mail servers configured to require public keys?
Why aren't mail servers designed so that any mail directed to user X must be encrypted with user X's public key?
Tell me, what in economics plays the role of identical particles?
Hmm... I wouldn't agree with the people in this thread hailing it as a great work of literature. The main character is a complete Mary Sue - somewhat like Ender, but, in my opinion, considerably worse, although it's been toned down a bit in the later chapters.

But I only say that to counter those people - it's indeed a delightful and addictive read. The only problem is that it updates quite infrequently and is nowhere near done - I had been suspecting that it'd been abandoned. Reading 90 or so chapters (at high speed, due to the addictiveness) only to come to a screeching halt and have to wait months for a few more chapters is not that fun!
Ahem, not to sound like a pessimist.

Android 4.x has vpn, so one way to sniff data is to setup openvpn and on your server tcpdump or wireshark everything.

To sniff 3G/GSM I believe one would have to root their phone and sniff it there as most people dont have 3G/GSM hardware. I dont know more about that, perhaps its as "easy" as rooting it and running tcpdump on the device and saving to sd-card from some of its interfaces?
There's something to that thought -- the phrase "I love treason but hate a traitor" is from Shakespeare, and has been attributed to many leaders (such as Julius Ceasar) but captures the essence of the point.
> Prism has done more harm to the USA that anything Snowden did.

We don't know that.

And if we were to speculate, we could observe that there have been very few terrorist attacks on the US in the past ten years. I'm not trying to equate correlation and causation here, just pointing out that very few people on the planet are able to assess whether PRISM is beneficial or detrimental to the security of the US.
Tech has a misogyny problem? No way.

> It took some years for me to realise that Linda was named after the porn star Linda Lovelace. It was a subtle joke and allusion to Ada by the language's designers

Try and read this and then explain how this is an appropriate "subtle joke", "allusion to Ada [Lovelace]" and "best name ever for a computer language":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lovelace#Charges_against...
I would say yes. So much of the world is taken directly from the actual Harry Potter books and a lot of the fun is to see the effect new Harry has on the same world.
Something tells me the people who like this are the same ones who think Big Bang Theory is hilarious.
C++11/14 STL Features, Fixes, And Breaking Changes In VS 2013
Maybe I'm reading that table wrong, but it lists the cost of a Proton-M launch at $86m while for a Falcon-9 it's $56m, though Falcon-9 v1.1 is only slightly better on cost/kg to LEO. Still, the the numbers for Falcon heavy blow Proton away. Am I missing something?
Witty attempt to be funny but the reality is that their service which isn't free is down. I don't see the funny side.
So, if somebody has SSH open on port 22, root password login enabled, and a root password of Pa$$w0rd, and I guess that and log in, should that be legal? If so, what about a more complex password? Should we legalise other remote attacks on systems?

It could very reasonably be argued that in the case of AT&T's system, device IDs count as passwords for accessing the system.

Simplifying things a little, there was an API, which looked somewhat like this:

GET http://example.com/get-email?device-id=123456
> example@example.com

Now, if we replaced that with some sort of bespoke raw socket interface that somebody would have to reverse-engineer:

CONNECT example.com:4567
> <somemessage>123456<somemessage>
< <someresponse>example@example.com<someresponse>

Would you still be arguing "it's on the web"?

What if I added a field named "password" which always had to be the same value, which was distributed to all devices?

What if it wasn't email addresses, but instead credit card data, or sensitive data such as your race, religion, sexuality, political leanings, medical information...?

I'm not attacking you, simply stating that in my opinion, it's not as simple as "if you can access it, it's public". There's an expectation of privacy for many types of data, especially when the data owner is not explicitly intending to publish the data.
I would prefer if the system punished people for what they did with their access to data, not simply for having that access; organizations that hold private or sensitive information should be punished if unauthorized people can access it by any means. Having email addresses or credit card numbers should not be the crime, regardless of how you obtained that information. Committing credit card fraud or selling credit card information to other unauthorized people should be crimes (or failing to secure your computer where you store said information).

So Weev should not be punished for downloading the email addresses. AT&T should be punished for making the list available to him (and likewise, if Weev made the list available to others, he should be punished for that).
> Make of that what you will.

We clearly need a Ministry of Truth.
Remember Ellsberg got off because of evidence that the government was illegally wiretapping him. I don't believe that's a possibility in Snowden's case...
Most nationalists, and certainly all government employees, do not make such a distinction.
Why computer pioneer Ada Lovelace should be on an English banknote
The same does often happen when you talk about any form of racism beyond really appalling, very clear acts.
Live streaming of child sex abuse an 'emerging threat'
If you are just starting this, make it through at least chapter 10 before deciding if you want to stop reading. That's where things really pick up.
This was really interesting to read, it also made me somewhat nostalgic since I started programming "seriously" thanks to JASS, reading obfuscated JASS code from DotA maps to answer questions in the official forums helped me make many great friends, get a moderator position and collaborating in beta-testing, great experience for my young years :).
Github is using Unicorn as their web server.
If you face the 502 error page (https://github.com/502 with the Unicorn) that
only means that the Unicorn worker your request was send too took too much time to process it, and was killed.
https://github.com/blog/517-unicorn
Nothing crazy.
I guess I would say a genuine, fast mechanism for price discovery and liquid trading Bitcoin long and short needs to be available.

As long as the ETF sponsor stands by to exchange the ETF for Bitcoin and vice versa, shorting isn't really required.

If it were a closed-end-fund with no exchanges for the underlying, then you would need ability to borrow/short.
I was excited of the switch to WebKit, but I expected a straight under the covers replacement of just the rendering engine. As in if you didnt follow the news, you wouldnt be any wiser. The UI changes are unwelcome.
Do dark networks aid cyberthieves and abusers?
If you've not read this, strap yourself in - you're in for a ride. Eliezer, an AI researcher, has created this novel from a simple yet fascinating standpoint - what if Harry was a brilliant rationalist who engaged the magical world from a scientific standpoint? Don't dismiss this because it's a fanfic or incomplete - it introduces rationality, breaks many fantasy and geek tropes, and builds off Rowling's universe in a highly entertaining and thought-provoking page turner (I guess a modernization of this idiom would be "iPad flicker").
When are Americans going to see this as essentially an infringement of their rights as adults? Yes their are adults.

At the age of 20 Americans are old enough to join the army and engage in combat duty, drive, run bank accounts, be tried as adults and even be sentenced to death.
And yet drinking at the age 20 is perceived as an imprisonable offence, and law enforcement officers consider it reason to arrest adults because of that?

Frankly Americans tolerate too much nonsense from their corrupt and hypocritical law makers.

It seems to be one the laws retained to enable their fascist state to criminalize their citizens so they can have something to hold over them.
Though continuous design makes sense on paper, I am skeptical about the practicality of it. It was a big jump for developers to move to TDD & continuous delivery practices. I think unless a set of designer friendly tools and practices emerge, NoPSD requires a bigger cognitive "jump".

I for one am rooting this movement goes forward, since I like most did suffer the PSD to HTML cycle overhead.
I deduced this myself when I wrote an AI for Ludo, so that it chooses one of the possible moves - equally likely - as the moves are getting generated :)

Some other similar logic - Selecting n distinct items out of N, all C(N,n) selections being equally likely, passing through the data only once :)

And the next step - if the data can be accessed randomly, the above can be done in O(n) time instead of O(N) through a modification of the algo, still giving a statistically equivalent sampling scheme.
Ask HN: Starter School - $33,000. Worth it?
I'm taking the next year of my life off to better my development skills of my own accord. I just got an email from Starter School asking to interview me. Is it worth it? I feel for just a fraction of $33k, I can get some pretty nice resources online myself instead of moving somewhere remote and paying that much..

Has anyone any experience with Starter School?

http://www.starterschool.com/program
Patent troll: 'I'm ethical and moral'
It will be a very long one. I have been idle for the last 2 hours.
Aren't the people most able to keep that focus future leakers and whistleblowers like Snowden? Do you want to empower the message now playing out in front of our eyes that such people had better not even think about trying?
I personally like that PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page. Love it or hate, it's pretty cool that a language with such humble roots rose to such widespread use.
Just because there's an expectation of privacy doesn't mean that such an expectation is reasonable.

It is not reasonable to have an expectation of privacy if your root password is "password" and you have ssh open to the world, no.
Stanford students capture the flight of birds on very high-speed video
5 Email Marketing Conversion Killers
Really hate the transitions on those slides. I read a lot faster than that, so they are forcing me to read slow, basically.
Deutsche Borse launches world's first trading platform for computing power
Yes, Falcon 9 v1.1 and Falcon Heavy have not yer launched. We will know their costs when they are reliably working and have been operating at market price for some years, all first launches have already been booked at special prices for early adopters.
a break from reading hn?
Zynga and handing over your company to someone else to manage
Then a "rapid response" organization needs to be tied into the Federal Register[1]. The Federal Register is a Constitutionally mandated[2] publication where the activities of the government are recorded. Just from the latest issue[3] there are entries about a draft report from the NRC about the effects of a beyond design basis earthquake on the spent fuel pool for a nuclear reactor[4] (which included a request for comments) and a report on which labs in the US are certified to do urine tests for drugs as part of a pre-employment screening[5]. They also carry executive orders[6], actions of the State Department[7], and all of the actions of the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress[8].

Speaking of the Library of Congress, THOMAS[9] is the system you want for new, pending, and current legislation so things don't happen behind your back. Not only do they publish what passed Congress yesterday and was sent to the president[10], they also post the floor activity on the House of Representatives in real time[11], and daily issues of the Congressional Register[12]. They also have a list of all House Bills[13] and Senate Bills[14], and a page on each bill that tracks its progress as it moves through the legislative process[15].

With all of the above tools you will be more informed than anybody who watches the news on television. There's a niche here for special interest issue web apps to make sense of this data. Think Big Tobacco, the NRA, and other interest groups aren't either using or looking into using this data to send alerts to people on the ground in their organizations?

A "rapid response" organization should also have its members in touch with their local representatives on a moderate basis - not too much so the staffers set the "obsessive" flag on their communications but not so little that they wonder "who the heck is this guy?!"

[1] https://www.federalregister.gov/
[2] Article I, Section 5, Paragraph 3 of the Constitution of the United States
[3] https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/07/02
[4] https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/07/02/2013-158...
[5] https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/07/02/2013-157...
[6] https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/executive-office-of...
[7] https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/state-department
[8] https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/copyright-office-li... (including a history back to 1994)
[9] http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php
[10] http://thomas.loc.gov/home/rss/presentedtopresident.html (along with an RSS feed)
[11] http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.aspx (along with an RSS feed)
[12] http://thomas.loc.gov/home/Browse.php?&n=Issues
[13] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/d?d113:0:./list/bss/d1...:
[14] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/d?d113:0:./list/bss/d1...:
[15] http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d113:11:./list/bss/d... (each bill has its own RSS feed)
I'm similar to BWStearns, I let my girlfriend monitor facebook for events, we often both get invited to events where only one of us attend or one of us is invited by the other isn't. That's not to say she manages my calendar. We have both our own GCals (viewable by the other) and a shared GCal, we've had a long standing agreement that if we book anything in our own calendar attendance by the other is not expected and our shared calendar is attendance optional unless otherwise specified.
Revoke access to all those Reader replacements
While as an epidemiologist I wholeheartedly endorse the push for making corporate research data more open, this sentence:

"they relied too heavily on the assumption that the articles published in journals accurately represented the results of all clinical trials that had been conducted."

Is a little misleading. Meta-analysis, which is what Cochrane reviews are, are very conscious of the "file drawer effect", and looking for evidence of non-publication is a rather fundamental aspect of doing meta-analysis.
Github hosting (git-pages)
I've finally built my personal webpage, with my work portfolio, what i do info, skills etc.. Its just html+css+js no server-side.
My question is, for credibility, rep, professionalism matter, is it a bad idea do host it at github and leave the default url? (username.github.io)

Use case:
You as a employer would consider other person with a private domain over me for example?
* Free fairy dust for all Neverland residents

I kid. Unfortunately, many of these are good but would be impossible to pass in today's political climate.

One that I agree with strongly and would make a huge difference is an instant run-off ballot.
Thoughts on Build 2013
is there ruby equivalent?
He claims they tried to frame him 5 times for terrorism, yet I can't find any articles which details what happened. Is there any solid evidence of this, or is it mainly speculation?

Also, if you're already on the FBI's radar, wouldn't you think it be smarter to lay low and wait until things cool down before you start hacking again?
http://www.donnfelker.com/how-did-c-get-its-name/
Clint Eastwood's Pauli Exclusion Principle:

This energy state ain't big enough for the both of us.
I primarily use Sublime, TextMate or Komodo on Mac for python dev but would love to also use VS. I do run windows and do most dev on that under VS. Maybe one day VS will come to Mac, I know that doesn't follow the platform mission but would get some good traction for Visual Studio going forward and a little fire under Xcode for C/C++ dev on Mac.

At this point both XCode and VS are pretty equal but XCode I also like and have no problem with. Both are unique to the OS though. Both are also extremely bloated but needed for C/C++ dev. Eclipse is also a bit cludgy. That python to native screenshot on the site looks intruiging.

I do use MonoDevelop on Mac for Unity dev and it does support debugging but would love to use VS on Mac one day.

All in all when I do python dev I like less in my IDE at times, just a good autocomplete/intellisense and I usually despise integrated source control into IDEs preferring to do it with outside tools such as terminal/cmd, sourcetree or tortoises. SCM integration in IDEs always seems to kill performance and gets out of sync, especially in the latest MonoDevelop (startup indexing kills the usefulness - http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/356129/monodevelop-perf...).
how do wind farms make money? check out their bidding profile
I chuckled at: "Django (Python's Web Framework)". Someone has missed out on years of hand-wringing about our menagerie of frameworks.
Excellent resource, thank you for sharing it. I think we're agreed, though, that we shouldn't be needing to practice opsec to have some basic privacy.
Relative economic position of actors? Not sure if that's what ubernostrum was referring to.
The best designers I have worked with have been able to write textual documentation about what they want to achieve, doodle in whatever medium they prefer until they have visual concepts, and then work with me to turn those concepts into functionality.

Delivering PSDs is worse than useless, and the results of a skilled UX/IX designer working directly on the implementation are always better than either of us would have come up with alone.
An instant run-off ballot solves that.
icantthinkofone: You have just committed a federal felony by using a fake name on the internet. (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030)

When the FBI kicks down your door, shoots your dog, smashes every bit of technology that you own, takes all your hard drives and removable media to search for more evidence (It is way hard to distinguish that picture your mom sent you of you flopping in the pool naked to porn.), please understand that them doing this is not a mistake and there would be nothing to see here, so do not post. Move on and accept a life in prison.
I meant you could be sued for public racial statements (corresp. gay propaganda). But you could talk about admissibility of such a statements.
I don't think they were trying to be funny. I think it's just jargon talk. I work with unicorns all day and this didn't strike me as an attempt at humour, more as a technical description of what is going on.
It's a good thought, but it's named wrong. Emphasis on 'psds vs not psds' makes it seem like it's about the tools, but it's not: it's about the process.
Most of the problems stated in the article can be solved by simply not outsourcing design and doing it in-house. After that, all you have to do is learn how to iterate quickly.
Designing for software products and designing for marketing/advertising are very different processes because they have very different needs. Software goes out and is updated as it lives and is used. Ad campaigns and branding materials very rarely are. I think the big thing here is that we have to recognize that, and not try to do all design in the same way.
Testing Apps For Mobile Devices (Without Buying Out the Store)
how does a wind farm make money... by supplying power into the wholesale power markets.

check out the bidding profile and provide your comments.
Reading this article definitely brought back fond memories of early Google. I remember the first time I used Google (based on a friend's recommendation), and I remember the elation I felt at being able to find useful results so easily. I spent about 20 or 30 minutes just searching topics that I was interested in. I found stuff that I had no idea existed despite looking for it fairly aggressively in the past (mostly academic content on cognition and timely news/culture information from PRC and Japan).

That night I took a dive down the rabbit hole, and I didn't come back out until sunrise....

Does anyone else remember their first Google experience?

The current state of Google is largely suckage, this recent link on Google killing organic search being just one representative example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5971560

Is DuckDuckGo the answer? Are there any other promising engines on the horizon?

For anyone considering taking on the search space, I am definitely willing to accommodate some minimally intrusive monetization of a site (including straight payment), as long as I could get clean, fast, and highly relevant results.
Wondering. what kind of phishing score Google chrome phishing classifier will allocate for pages with Google Ad words? Any idea?
Awesome. We'll send you the details regarding the SDK to use pretty soon.
As I understand it, the NSA does not have unfettered access to all of Google's/Facebook's data so it makes FISA requests on individual users, which the online companies have not been permitted to include in their transparency reports (http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/). Dragnet surveillance techniques such as tapping fiber is a different issue.

Regarding detectability, I'm sure they have methods for downloading phone data that are hard to detect and would look like malware if someone happened to detect it.
Because email comes from the early internet, when the net was basically between a relatively few trusted individuals. Then millions, then billions saw the utility of what existed, and now it's almost too late.
As for an IDE, RubyMine.
The Underhanded C contest
Wow, you're right. It does come with some data out of the box after all. Its UI isn't all that it could be, though.
how does a wind farm make money.. by supplying wholesale power. check out the bidding profile at
www.kwenergyonline.net
I did leave. Four years ago.