skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Curious kid" could also drink bleach or fall from a roof or bite into an electric cable or spill a boiling soup on his head. That's what parents are for. If the kid is smart enough to use dad's printer, he has the mental capacity to understand the dangers. If the parents didn't educate him it's their failure.
My friend used to call it the "escalator" symbol.

It is pretty abstract. I see it as a representation of a switch or two different alternatives.
It's a circuit diagram for a switch. It represents a choice between two paths, as appropriate for the "option" key.

http://electronicsclub.info/circuitsymbols.htm#switches
Understandable given the HN crowd. Try to focus on the fact that you did an incredible job. At the end of the day, the purpose was to create an entertaining game. Me and a whole bunch of others gave you 6-7 hours last weekend, and I am not easily parted from my hours. I haven't been captivated by a game like that in a decade.

Good job.
It is things like this that show why every college should have a history of CS course.
This article doesn't consider an aggregate like "nsa + national security agency." Plotting the two terms combined shows the Snowden story isn't clouding out the NSA searches.

For people who might suggest plotting "edward snowden + snowden," the graph doesn't change at all, for obvious reasons.
Keep coding. Punchy Prose will handle copywriting and editing for you.
Curiously enough, they don't exactly say they hit the target - they say they fired "towards" the target (I've read the Hebrew original of course), but it doesn't mean they actually hit it. I imagine the accuracy of such device would be pretty bad...
The cake isn't assets or liabilities, products or customers, it is the equity of the company, and equity is created when the founders decide to incorporate the business and it belongs to them. As such it's theirs to do with as they please, from the time it is worth nothing to the time when everyone wants some of it, if they are so lucky.

It's kind of lame to say what they do with it is or isn't "fair" since the exchange of equity for something else is always done between two agreeing parties. It's extremely over-simplifying things to look at a liquidity event and then at the equity division to say if it was "fair" based upon who contributed what to the company. The equity and its distribution happens on a separate plane from the actual operating activities of the company itself, and the individual efforts or contributions of employees. There is no particular reason to believe that someone who provided huge amounts of value to a company "deserves" equity based upon this fact alone, though often founders will give up their equity to these people in exchange for their good work.

Any equity in the hands of a non-founder can be traced back to the founders giving up the equity they had up to another party in a mutual agreement, so it's quite bizarre to try to apply some external notion of fairness since nobody is forced to take such an offer.
Aloha, Hacker News. Just a few minutes ago, I launched Punchy Prose. Recently, I turned my full-time writing gig at a tech blog into a part-time stint so I could focus on honing my Python skills and whipping up web projects. I figured, however, that I could fuse my two interests and lend a hand with copyediting and copywriting. And lo, Punchy Prose was born.

PS If you're curious, I built the site with Django.
A little late to the party, eh?
May I be the first to say, "tough cookies" (pun fully intended) to their ire :-) My browser, my rules. If advertisers want to sell me something, they can find a less-underhanded way to do it than tracking my every mouse-click.
ITYM "people that are irrationally afraid of 3D-printed guns will make the air travel even more inconvenient than it is now". FTFY.
What about people who have switched from programming into management, rejected that, and have gotten back to programming :)
EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2643611
Good use of Trello.

If I can give you feedback on your lists, I would say you are approaching markets in way that will likely have you paddling upstream for years to come.

Here's the thing: You don't have to come up with the problem to be an entrepreneur. Other people have problems. Lots of problems.

Your job is to create their solution.

I mean no disrespect--on the contrary, I'm trying to help.

Now, I can't see the details of your board, but how many people are trying to combine a pen and music? Sure, they might want to flaunt your awesome solution after they see it, but more than likely, they'll continue along with their life and not give your idea the time of day. Even it it's awesome and you execute flawlessly. Brookstone isn't even a big retailer in the scope of things.

Alternatively, talk to someone in any job. Really, any job will do.

Ask them about their challenges. Their problems. What sucks. What they wish they could do. I'll bet more people have complaints about their jobs&processes than want to combine pens and music.

So go ask people about what they don't like. And even if your impromptu focus group of 1 isn't forthcoming, this is where you lead. Wave your hands and invent solutions on the fly. Double credit if you can make these solutions with computers. Do any of your ideas strike their fancy?

Congratulations, hone in on it, then go talk to more people with that same job and see if the problem exists...repeat and tweak, you might have a real thing.

I've found that understanding, and then solving other people's problems is remarkably powerful and lucrative. You don't need to invent problems since people have enough big ones already.

Put a few on Trello, and solve one.
Pretty much yeah: http://caniuse.com/#search=canvas
The best recommendation in the thread.
This article raises a multitude of issues.

Issue number one: The problematic ways that the prison system deals with assault and mental illness among inmates.

Issue number two: Whether the potential sentence for a crime purely involving speech, rather than actions, should be so severe as eight years in prison.

Issue number three: Whether the speech in question was Constitutionally protected satire, or a criminal threat.

Issue number four: Whether the justice system should have taken a look at this case and decided to cut the defendant some slack.

I'm sure there are more.
You kinda nailed the theme of the Google I/O keynote.
It's worth noting that (for a while), the Play Store / Play Services has offered to verify even sideloaded apps. I notice this regularly when I install a new build of Firefox Aurora. It's never rejected an update, but I believe it is looking for exactly this sort of thing. So as long as you have Google Play Services in any form, you should be covered.

The more interesting question is when / how will Amazon (and other reputable app stores) deal with the issue.
The tuition assistance is precisely for this reason that majority interested are men. The assistance is supposed to increase the interest among women.
Just applied. Crossing my fingers. Thanks for posting this.
Information processing abilities of ants
Well let's first assume that the client not only admitted that he did it but also really did it.

The system is best served by not being allowed to randomly put whomever in jail for whatever [1]. So we would require the prosecution present legally-obtained evidence that the defendant has committed a crime to establish that fact. Defence attorneys are to ensure that there is a fair fight because we cannot expect all of the accused to be legally savvy. To make this effective, the defence must be able to speak to them in confidence, ergo attorney-client privilege. So the defendant admits to his lawyer that he killed a woman. If the state is overreaching on charges, let's say murder one when he did it on a whim, he actually should not be convicted of it. Giving a good defence is supposed to ensure that when an accused is convicted they are convicted beyond a reasonable doubt. "Better one thousand guilty walk free..."

Also in that case the defence would likely advise the culprit to admit guilt to a second or third-degree murder.

[1] Although I don't think it's succeeding very well at this due to overreach by the states as far as charging too much to get a plea bargain.
Hilarious. AT&T can barely manage to keep track of my DSL usage for billing purposes (a $10/50GB surcharge for data in excess of 150GB/month). My attempts to look up my current usage have a failure rate in excess of 20%, and when their website is able to show me their "data", it is several days out of date and hardly a month goes by where their numbers don't have some ridiculous inconsistency with my router logs (such as AT&T under-reporting the amount of data I downloaded in a day by almost 50%).

I guess I can believe them when they say the data they sell will be anonymized - the data they give me is already half way there, and any significant aggregation will finish the job. (Unless this data for sale is derived from some measurement mechanism that is more accurate and reliable than what their billing system uses, but that would make their billing system rather fraudulent, wouldn't it?)
The latest EFF post links to another site's guide

http://www.constitutioncampaign.org/blog/?p=13929

on organizing effective public protests.
Exactly, when you're at rage cry stage - it's pretty bad. Next step is rage farts and that's the worst type of people to be around.
Presumably fixes are available, since the linked talk abstract says that the vulnerability was "disclosed to Google in February 2013."

What worries me is that I've heard that many manufacturers don't have ways to update the OS on phones in the wild, preferring to require customers to root their phone or purchase a new handset to get a new OS.

Even for manufacturers that do have an easy upgrade path, I wonder how many users ever update their OS's? I don't have data, but somehow I'm not optimistic about the answer.
Archive.org has this video, too, and lets you download it: http://archive.org/details/XD300-23_68HighlightsAResearchCnt...

Also, this demo has a Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
Firefox OS: mozilla takes on the closed Internet again
Typo on the homepage:

Spruce up exisintg documents.

Not really a good start for a copy editing business....
I love the concept, but I'm surprised at the (IMO) low pricing. How much time are you (or are you outsourcing too) spending on a $19 task?
Ruby Service Objects With Pub-Sub
I love Panic Sans that comes with Coda. I ripped it out of the package of the trial version and installed it on my system.
Ah, damn it. Alas, happens to the best of us.
You should reconsider. GPLv3 has much stricter "copyleft" requirements that make it difficult to use GPLv3 code with code under less radical licenses.
Even without using any UI code, having the possibility of writing your entire backend in a cross-platform way is a big advantage. I am rather skeptical about how well Qt UI can work on mobile, but I would definitely use the libraries that cover everything-not-Cocoa.
I'm a student in the current batch, and can confirm that their ability to make money off recruiting fees is not a factor in the admissions decisions - I made it very clear in the admissions process that I would not be looking for a job after the batch, because it only seemed fair to let them filter on that if they wanted to. It was and has continued to be a non-issue. In fact, the founders/facilitators I've talked to are enthusiastic about my plans, and offered me great advice.
thanks for the feedback - all my ideas are to solve problems that I have come across. All my apps past and present have been built because I couldn't find a solution that worked for me. And luckily other people seem to have the same problems and I've managed to attract awesome investors.

p.s - penmusic is nothing to with a pen, rather its a feature i was toying with to integrate music streaming on my pen.io product
Your lineheights are wonky on my browser (Mac Chrome): specifically, line-height is set to 20px and font-size is set to 32px so there's a fair amount of overlap.

Also, nothing scares me more than a typo on a site selling me a copyediting service. "Exisintg" should be "existing."

Add social proof as soon as possible; I'd also include something about a moneyback guarantee.

Good luck -- I can't wait to see how this evolves :).
I found Ansible quite tricky to use.

I was trying to set up https://github.com/pas256/ansible-ec2 to manage some EC2 instances and it seems like I needed to replace a static config file with a script? Wouldn't that prevent me doing anything that wasn't EC2 with that instance of Ansible?

Debian also moved the inventory files around in their package so that made things confusing.
Thanks! When it comes to pricing, I'm shooting from the hip. I'll be doing all the work myself. If it becomes too big of a beast to handle on my own... I'll figure something out.
i love workflowy too although I find myself using Trello more often. I keep my weekly schedule on workflowy.
The Engelbart demo is about as much about teleconferencing as the iPhone introduction is just about a nicer mobile phone.

And I think both the original and my reply were about the demos themselves not about the mouse specifically or Apple in general. My point was that a technology demo of a research prototype and a product introduction are radically different things. I suspect that Engelbart's demo itself must have been a very early, (the first?) large-scale, live demonstration of interactive computer technology. They had to borrow an Eidophor from NASA to do it, which gives an idea of how unusual it was for the time. It's not like they showed up and plugged a coax cable into the projection system of the convention hall. That's one, among many reasons why one of these things is The Demo and the other a demo.
My robot is smelling my dirty laundry (privacy, PRISM, and home service robots)
Regrettably, I'm not an autodidact and my ADD can sometimes get in the way when to learning programming. Knowing this from an applicant, does that dissuade you from accepting that person?

Much of what I have learned in programming already was simply finding ways to automate tasks at my current job - the motivation to learn was there, I suppose, and helped keep the ADD at bay. But, for all I know the stuff I wrote could just be child's play and no real indicator of talent. Something that led me to change my mind about applying a few months ago. Have any of your students felt something similar before they started attending?
Gracias! Just squashed the typo.

Hmm. Seems like I have some work to do on the line-height.
If you're an administrator of a website and you actually care about this, your priorities should be at least implementing proper HTTPS support before placing a linked image to the EFF on your website.
Xiki: The shell console reimagined
Pay someone who has the skill?
Vulnerability allows attackers to modify Android apps w/o breaking signatures
I use a variant called Meslo, which gives you better control over the line spacing:

https://github.com/andreberg/Meslo-Font
(1) There are usually fairly strong legal restrictions against hiring scabs. Especially for public sector unions.

(2) True, but the public cannot use the infrastructure that they paid dearly to build and have some claim of ownership to.
Hi,
This will be a tldr. I am a senior PhD student this fall 2013. I have always wanted to sharpen my C++ OOP skills and overall programming skills. I'd like to think I have a good grasp of computing systems since my phd is centered around computer architecture/vlsi. But in most times, when I read other people's code, mostly simulators with 50K-100K lines, I have a hard time following through as I think my fundamentals are not really strong. I spend about half the time learning new language intricacies I didn't know rather than understanding how the whole thing works. I have made some efforts into advancing my own understanding of the languages by studying in my own time (currently on Accelerated CPP by Koehnig) but then a conference paper deadline suddenly comes up and I have to reallocate my efforts. If not a conference, my professor will be writing a proposal and needs my help. I feel like there is always something that takes away my focus in learning. Would I make a good candidate for hacker school? Sometimes I feel like you guys are looking for Android/iOS/Ruby/Php programmers, although you have clearly stated that HS is language-agnostic, I still feel like I'd be the lone wolf in HS trying to learn advanced C++..
Look into different ISP's. Most areas have both cable and DSL providers. You might be able to pay for "business class" service with higher, and symmetric, speeds.

If there isn't any such ISP in your area, you could always move...Moving has large costs (depending on how far away you go, it can be highly disruptive to jobs, friendships or relationships). Minimal cost and optimum privacy protection may be orthogonal...

Also, keep in mind that, if you're like most people, many of your communication partners will not be as secure as you are. E.g. if you're worried about NSA snooping on email, and the folks you communicate with all use Gmail, it doesn't matter what email provider you use -- it can all be grabbed from your friends' mailboxes on Gmail's servers and forwarded to the spooks.
The money is an extra, it's added on. It's not as though they thought about paying for everybody and then took it away for men, that would be silly.
"commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets". - Chomsky
People are really starting to wake up, I think this stuff is finally working.
I'm not going to go into completely crazy pants MoC land here (just one-leg crazy pants), but your comment kinda hurts (completely unintentionally on your part—this is just to talk through my personal brokenness).

I've worked mainly at startup organizations since I got out of school. I turned 30 last week. None of the startups I worked at panned out, all but the last has folded (try getting references when every company you've worked at no longer exists), and all the equity I ever vested is worth less than the papers I had to sign to get it.

So, I'm 30, still job hopping, have no meaningful financial assets to speak of, and I sit around and listen to people say your 20s are for building up a massive hoard of cash and investments so you can live the rest of your life. Ouch. Failureland. Yes, it's my fault. I didn't recalibrate my salary when insanity struck and fresh bumbling BSCS graduates started making more than me with eight years of relevant experience. I could have gone to a Big Corp and had a Soul Crushing Job with Better Pay for the past eight years. I could be a millionaire by now with careful saving. But, no. Move fast and ruin your life. Let the 20-something founders "take money off the table" while watching the rest of the company honestly believe they are amazing, almost touched-by-god people. Work for sub-market wages with free lunches, work-on-whatever-you-want policies, and unlimited vacation days. Shoot for the stars. Enable the dreams of the founders and first five employees who were hired five years ago to cash out. Just keep moving diagonally. (pretend I made an elaborate chess joke at the end there)

Perhaps we just need better transportation so I can commute to jobs in SF and NYC while living in Iowa.
I put in around 12 hours over two days, interspersed with watching movies while I waited for resources to accumulate.
He cares about openness so much that he makes his own decisions! Imagine that!
This led me to wonder why 1970-01-01 is the Unix epoch. Answer: http://stackoverflow.com/q/1090869/578288. In short, Unix was developed in 1969 and first released in 1971.
Can you elaborate on some of those techniques? Plenty of people are reluctant to use credit cards online for the fear that they might get stolen.
I played the game through and never realised the wanderers could be trusted at all - I gave them resources a few times, but never got a return!
The launch of Firefox OS: my thoughts and some history
Kim Dotcom is a maverick!
Thanks -- edited title based on your response.
I would much prefer using JRuby/Rails but we have a bus factor of 1 with Ruby :(.
Like NodeUp for node.js
http://nodeup.com
This crisis management technique is employed by politicians while running their campaign, is it really that surprising that it persists when former campaign staff gets government titles?

1) Move the limelight away from the story and onto the opponent.

2) Dig out some questionable behavior from the past, or coin a term that portrays everyday common behavior in a negative light, e.g. if someone changed their opinions about anything, they're now a "flip-flopper".

3) Profit.
To be clear, there is no "tuition" and therefore no "tuition assistance". The living stipends are provided by external companies, like etsy, and they are provided as an outreach effort.

Now. On a purely practical note, HS is a business, and the core objective is to deliver excellent batch dynamics. The responsibility is to attendees and attendees only -- how are they delivering an experience that makes the time (and, indirectly, money) commitment of the students worth it? The issue of "fairness" does not enter the conversation because this is not a charity. Or, more straightforwardly, their responsibility is not to people who did not get in.

Now, ok, you might argue that you are not convinced that having a roughly-equal gender ratio is beneficial to the batch as a whole, but I am in the current batch and I'm telling you it makes a huge difference. If you don't believe me, let's chat over email or skype.
Tiny stem-cell livers grown in laboratory
Really, we've all been spoiled by credit cards. Checks, money orders, wire transfers, and even cash, all still work.

And while I'm not aware of a properly turn-key solution for a VPN server, it should hardly be an epic undertaking to create one. Setting up a Linode account and running a StackScript is simple enough even for mostly-clueless people.
What if you just used emacs?

All right there are some interesting features, but nothing that cannot be implemented in emacs in a couple of hours. I wonder how much time he spent to replicate it...
> * What the IRS did to Tea Party groups is probably just the tip of a very large iceberg.*

And the FBI cracked down on Occupy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coor...
Some anecdotal support: I use a US VPN provider when outside the US to access geo-restricted sites. I've had the account for two years with monthly auto-payment via Visa and never had an issue.

The fraud detection team at my bank called me last week to confirm the renewal payment was genuine. The same payment has been occurring every month for two years without issue, so it seems likely something has been tweaked within their detection algorthm.
What advice do you give companies that go that route so that nothing they do in earlier rounds ends up as a black mark on the schedule of exceptions?

How are companies that crowdfunded in earlier rounds being received by traditional VCs? What do they check for before making any investments in a startup that took non-traditional finance in early rounds?
Why Asian Internet Companies Struggle to Become Global
Coursera reaches 4 Million students