skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's worse, how many of them can even properly think about it? The "nothing to see here" stuff in the last weeks really made me wonder, and all the splitting hairs about individual puzzle pieces without ever looking up at the puzzle itself. When it comes to this on HN, there are many insightful comments, but also a lot of telling sophistry, and I think even more interesting are the patterns of silence.

Would I expect a ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party to reflect upon their role in history, or have a meaningful discussion with others beyond "you're all wrong" and pouting, thinking the topic is beneath them when it's the other way around? Nah, something like that hardly ever happens, it is left to others.
Comparing AES, ECC, RSA, key lengths, strength, CPU requirements
RSA keys are simply weak, even if number of bits sounds great.
Multilanguage for small websites
Multilanguage for small websites
In this discussion he makes several assumptions like "we can de-emphasize the branch switcher since it’s so rarely used" and "The Clone in Mac button was a perfect example of an under-used feature" and "Cloning a repository happens rarely" all of which do not chime with my personal experience.

Our disagreement is to be expected - no two people completely agree about an interface - but it is extremely disappointing that he makes no mention of testing on real users (or at the very least, speaking to them) in order to gauge whether these features really are unimportant. If you want to know the reason why so many site redesigns are unpopular with users, here it is: you didn't test them.

I'm not trying to take this to absurd conclusions like "every change has to be tested" but the central idea of this guy is faulty: design of the user interface, like design of software, is NOT to be done by anyone in isolation. You need to involve real users in major changes before they happen.

I hope Github ran user testing before they released these changes.
My wife and me tried it as well; same thing. Two things make DDG unusable for me; much slower than Google and doesn't understand context. I think that sums up the article as well.
I started playing on my nexus and now, with over 60 villagers, I'd like to move my game on the pc. Anyway I could export my game state?
ther'se two of us :)
And they had one, albeit not the type that goes off if submerged.
You know, it's not impossible, but as someone who works in a field peripheral to quantum computing I would be surprised. There are two types of problems in science, the attrition kind where if you throw enough people and enough money at it you'll get it to work and the breakthrough kind where nothing will happen until some a-ha moment. I suspect quantum computing is more of the latter right now; there are just too many outstanding issues for a large-scale device. But who knows, I may be wrong.

Regarding D-Wave specifically, there's plenty of commentary around on what they're doing...
I, for one, do a lot of branch selection in Github's UI. The problem is not that this guy has made a mistake but that he doesn't seem to realise the importance of consulting the user and testing designs.

If you don't discuss and test then you'll make a mistake. Unless you're Facebook, your company cannot ride roughshod over your customers.
I progressed with a rather slow pace but after the Egyptians came and asked me whether I wanted to help build a new pyramid for their current Pharaoh - as apparently I was a top architect known far-and-wide - things became interesting very quickly. With the gold I earned I could buy my own workers and I am now comfortably running a rivaling empire battling the Pharaoh which employed me earlier. I do seem to have trouble with foreign spies passing on weaponry I research. Guess I have to raise the bounty for those who turn in traitors.
No reason you can't "save" and transfer your game by moving your cookie. You just need to get at your iPad cookies.
Great analysis and tenacity in hunting this one down :)

Letting new compilers loose on existing codebases is always fun and you learn lots of things in the process, I can only recommend it. I debugged a problem once that also had to do with interfacing runtime-generated code with compiletime-generated code. There were differences in the expectations of the ABI, which is described in this bug:

http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=12207

It only surfaced when compiling the codebase with clang (previously gcc). Took quite some digging to find the problem.
I totally agree, I have been watching this totally pointless discussion about domestic spying all over the net. I was going to write about the topic, but someone did it already. My conclusion is that at least 95% of US population are so bad in geography that they don't know that they represent only less than 5% of world population. After all, it seems that only people who are voting in elections do matter at all. Maybe it would be a good time to vote with our wallets. It's also really funny how scared Americans are about Chinese manufactured hardware & backdoors. I just guess it takes a one to know one. Btw. WatchGuard firewall registration is very revealing, they want to know way too much about what the firewall is being used for.
How NSA’s Prism affects you, and how to protect yourself from being spied on
"Product Management" or "Product Management Consulting" is probably the term you're looking for.

There are complete consulting firms built on doing Product Management alone.
Twitter's Choice: Set Up Shop in Turkey or Be Banned
'Twisted light' idea makes for terabit rates in fibre
I can see it being real. Outside of Silicon Valley and tech hubs (including people who tend to follow these things), the majority of the world are not focused on the companies often written about in Techcrunch or posted on HN.

Although my experience is not representative of everything else, almost all of my friends who aren't into startups, HN, or anything like it (even if they are engineers or entrepreneurs of some form), out of college wanted to work for companies like Microsoft, Boeing, Intel, and others along those lines. A lot of it has to do with two things (these are my assumptions):

1. They only consider companies that are huge and within the area where they reside (the companies above were base on people living in Oregon and Washington).

2. They're the companies that are often talked about (no one were talking about any of the exciting startups (even huge ones) back then. And today, I can't see anyone there talking about Square or Github or Tesla either (unless they're living nearby and those are the companies often talked about.

So its not abnormal for me to see people wanting to work for the companies on that list.
Or just click cancel as soon as the text appears, so the log-in screen never pops-up. Works just as well.
I got my first MSX in '84 and went through MSX-2 and Turbo-R in the years after. When the Amiga came out I got one of those, but always kept my MSX-2 computer (which was the most extended and thought me electronics and programming) next to it to write demos and games on occasionally. Always found the Amiga less fun to program on, but that's probably a first-love kind of thing. I still have them (Amiga's and MSX's), they all still work (I cannot say the same for the PCs and laptops I bought 10 years ago). And indeed only the MSX I still code on for fun.
You need to edit your part 2, its the same as part one...
So I kept expecting the cool geeky story about AltaVista to surface in all of my geek news feeds. But it didn't.

Does nobody remember how the service used to run on the DEC Alpha (aka "tin cup") and how they would stuff more RAM in every time a server would swap? Or did I remember that wrong?

The tin cup story (and DEC in general) and also the way AltaVista used to run are amazing geek history, imho.

Sorry for being late to the story, but this is a lot cooler than the JS hack of the day. Are there any old veterans here who can tell some of the story?

[Edit] FWIW, the Alpha architecture is still my personal favorite of the dozen or so I've worked on.
Have you looked at the source?

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="lib/jquery.color-2.1.2.min.js"></script>
<script src="script/Button.js"></script>
<script src="script/engine.js"></script>
<script src="script/header.js"></script>
<script src="script/notifications.js"></script>
<script src="script/events.js"></script>
<script src="script/room.js"></script>
<script src="script/outside.js"></script>
<script src="script/world.js"></script>
<script src="script/path.js"></script>
<script src="script/ship.js"></script>
<script src="script/space.js"></script>
<!-- Event modules -->
<script src="script/events/global.js"></script>
<script src="script/events/room.js"></script>
<script src="script/events/outside.js"></script>
<script src="script/events/encounters.js"></script>
<script src="script/events/setpieces.js"></script>

With the exception of the two minimized libraries, none of this code is obfuscated in the least. It even has comments in it!
REcon 2013 Talks' slides (being uploaded)
Editor wars. Ugh.
It seems to run on Chrome but not on Firefox. If that is on purpose, it should be clearly stated as such at the beginning.
I had looked at the source and concluded the spaceship was just a file left from some other project. Damn, I should have played further.
I just played on firefox and eventually won? it took me several hours however. It was great fun and well worth it.
Practice Makes Programmers
Just to correct your first statement, in their recent article, they have ruled out idea that D-wave solves problems by cooling (otherwise known as simulated or classical annealing). Quantum annealing, a special case of Adiabatic Quantum Computing, is a completely different approach for solving Ising problems.

Unconstrained optimization is NP-hard problem, and quantum approaches won't change that. However, D-wave hopes they are faster in solving optimizations than classical solvers, something they haven't demonstrated yet. The fact whether D-wave is actually a Quantum machine is interesting to Computer Scientists and Physicist who care about accuracy of commercial hype, and also to D-wave's future customers.
In case you missed it: (thanks, nakedrobot2, for providing the text)

This situation will hopefully influence patent debates about DNA everywhere: (yeah, ok, maybe it might)

But that one foreign laboratory was fortunate to get the samples
sent to it at all, since the Saudi Ministry of Health has also been
embroiled in a "patent" dispute surrounding MERS that has
reportedly stymied research efforts by foreign scientists. Last
summer, a Dutch team from Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam
received two patient samples from an Egyptian scientist working
then in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Dutch sequenced the MERS DNA and
claimed ownership of the samples. All scientists hoping to work on
the MERS problem must either obtain samples directly from the Saudi
Ministry of Health or sign legal agreements with Erasmus. For
example, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
is still waiting to receive samples of MERS for testing that were
collected in October 2012 because the legal teams from the CDC and
Erasmus cannot negotiate agreeable terms for a material transfer
agreement. These legal delays are unusual, especially during a
disease outbreak such as this, and Margaret Chan, director-general
of the World Health Organization, publicly criticized Erasmus for
putting patent laws ahead of protecting "your people."
I hadn't done it because it's very home-made, but since it's effortless, it's already done. Thanks for the suggestion!

http://trufa.github.io/git-cheatsheet/
A Name for a Company
I miss neighborhoods, the sense of belonging...
Ah, I didn't notice that one :)
Yip, my thoughts exactly! :-(

Evernote Clearly for Chrome solves the need for a login quite nicely.

http://evernote.com/clearly/
A Difficult Month - Post Mortem
Haha, it's almost like some detective short story.

Surprisingly it wasn't as hard to follow as I thought. Maybe I'm starting to get good at this Computer Science thing.
Has anyone in the airport actually seen him in the transit area?
I had the same effect although the others seem to disagree...
Interestingly, it seems as if a lot of my fellow Canadians are pacified by this line of thinking, perhaps not realizing that they're fair game.
Or did the grue perhaps stoke a fire?
Real nice. BTW, any idea how the HN RSS feed is ordered?
Sean Parker and Silicon Valley’s noxious taste for narcissism
Dingos eat your baby.
The best thing I've ever seen were the BMW (and presumably other manufacturer) military/diplomatic sales deals out of Germany. 10-30% below US prices for some models, and 50+% below the local market prices in some countries. You email them, they send you a selector PDF, you reply with what you want and the price, and they take a deposit.

You have to be deployed military (although not necessarily to Europe), a contractor on specific orders, etc. to use the program, but it's pretty awesome if you can.
Amazon to launch virtual art gallery
I've been forced to use C# for the last week. I'm so sorry scripting languages, I'll be back soon! I miss you!
took me 3 hrs to finish! but a really great game nonetheless. I enjoyed every part of it. kudos!
> What if we had some sort of SubWeb (have I just invented that word? I really like the sound of it!!!) which you have to use the command line to access? :)

There are still a load of great communities below the 'surface' of the web.

Private torrent trackers are a good example. The good ones are invite-only, limit the number of members, or at the very least require a degree of technical knowledge to gain access.

Access is treated as a privilege, and members act accordingly.
You can keep DDG as your default search engine, and use the !g bang command to redirect the most difficult queries to Google. You get the best of both worlds (except for some cognitive load when deciding which engine to use).
hey.. so.. the reason I stopped using Google Reader was that many of the feeds I was subscribed to would only include the first few paragraphs of the blog entry forcing me to click through to the blog anyhow. (This is what killed RSS for me)

Is there a reader that will just open the web page that the feed item links to rather than the text of the feed?
For me the results were simply not as good.
Python-Based Tools for the Space Science Community
It applies to Americans too, as Russ Tice says they can't use the info they get on a court, but they can get the info anyway without restrictions.

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-...

Russ also says that all candidates to presidency, all judges, all people in power are followed close by the NSA, Obama included.

E.g There is something very strange about Obama birth certificate, or Obama studies, thesis that nobody remembers.

Imagine for a moment that Obama is not American, or have sex with other women, or whatever.... the people that have access to the evidence become very powerful.

Now add to it all the secrets of judges, congressmen, and soon you have absolute power in the shadow.
Funny how citizenship seems to be a thing of the past to many people. Another weird side effect of globalization...
DDG doesn't actually have their own search engine though right? They are using Yahoo/Bing on the backend?
Albot, the Swiss army knife of you development workflow
The only person who says they might have seen him said he was surrounded by people that look like FSB. See the foreignpolicy article.
jQuery is your friend.
I just removed all those feeds from my subscription list and only follow the ones who put the whole article in their feed. Works very well for me.
Copa Mundial de Fútbol del 29 de junio de 1986
El seleccionado argentino campeón del mundo en México 1986 fue tal vez el último gran equipo nacional indiscutido por estas tierras. Es que el conjunto conducido por Carlos Salvador Bilardo, luego de una angustiosa clasificación y una preocupante gira previa, dio una verdadera cátedra de fútbol en la Copa del Mundo de la mano de un Diego Maradona inigualable y en plenitud.
That was how I was planning on doing it at first, indeed! But after giving it some thought that still doesn't make sense. Basically if you sign in using Facebook connect, your accounts are linked, and the third party site should be thought of as an extension of Facebook: If you're signed in in Facebook, then you're signed in to all the apps you've "connected" with. If you go to the site of an app you're connected with, the client-side SDK will alert the app within 2 seconds that you're signed in and connected, and could reasonably redirect you to the signed-in version of their site.

I think it comes down to personal preference, and if you're sharing your PC with people you trust, but a sign-out button is meaningless if "signing in" afterwards is possible without any confirmation. The only reason why you would have a sign-out button that signs you out of the third party site, and not out of Facebook, if is someone else wants to use your PC to sign-in on the third party site, without Facebook. That's such a narrow use-case though that I don't think it's worth it to mess up the user's model of security.
> Even worse, a shift away from U.S.-based Internet services is a blow to free expression around the world.

I thought it would be clear by now, that this is not the case.

As a foreigner, the US does not ensure my free expression at all. For example the US already scans social networks and uses it to keep 'unwanted' people out of the country. My data privacy is not respected by the US. The US has signed some privacy agreements with the EU, but in practice this is a bad joke. Putting data onto US servers just makes it easier for the US to spy on me (for whatever reasons they decide to do that).

Currently NOT using US IT services is a better way to protect my pricacy AND my freedom of expression.
That's one thing that has annoyed me about the tech world's outrage and objections to the PRISM spying lark. They appear outraged that US citizens are spied on, with the implication that it was ok when non us citizens were spied on. Do I, a non us citizen, not have a right to privacy?
> Why would anyone think they'd be logged out of Facebook because they logged out of a site that uses Facebook auth?

Because logging in was associated with Facebook, the log out got associated as well? As you said, context scramble. I think this was the point of the author; it's a bit too easy to mix up logging in and logging in with.
How Guys Will Use Google Glass
> we all bought into the dream..

The American dream didn't even work out for most US citizens. Merely the upper class. The rest of the world bought into practical consumerism more than into a diffuse dream.
Things I've learned - David Lee, SV Angel
I think it's actually using local storage, which is a bit harder to get at. But I ended up surpassing my iPad game within 15 minutes anyway... Good fun :)
You could use a markdown language.
F.ex.
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
Really nice insights on design. You might want to chat with the guys that make GitLab :)
Copy paste the game state from localstorage.
Nothing changed, because everything was already assumed. I still run my own servers (in Finland), which provide only strongly encrypted connections for private communication. From public cloud, I only use services which contain only 100% public information. My every social medium post is public, so what if someone snoops? Googling would already reveal almost same data.
Q: What does java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:
clojure.lang.RestFn.<init>(I)V mean?
A: It means you have some code that was AOT
(ahead-of-time) compiled with a different
version of Clojure than the one you're
currently using. If it persists after
running lein clean then it is a problem
with your dependencies. Note that for
your own project that AOT compilation in
Clojure is much less important than it
is in other languages. There are a few
language-level features that must be
AOT-compiled to work, generally for
Java interop. If you are not using any
of these features, you should not
AOT-compile your project if other
projects may depend upon it.

https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/stable/doc/FAQ...
Many people now feel patriotic to ideals than imaginary lines drawn thousands of years ago. It's an interesting shift, and in some ways was started by the US having a constitution (set of ideals) as it's foundation rather than a particular leader, king, or ruler.
I think google search > duckduckgo, but the request "pride" seems to be a pretty weak point to compare, I would expect definition even if there is someting going on in my city. I would never google "pride" but more "pride weekend in Sfo" or something.
Nor should dumb users be punished because of knowledgeable users. Facebook ain't exactly the service of power users. Leaving Facebook logged in on a public computer has some nasty security consequences.

The weakest link of security is always the human factor.
And for what use? (sincerely interested).
Show HN: The Greybox - a chiptune (Famicom/NES) synthesizer
For me, and I may be alone on this, editors are strictly a tool used to express thought. I'm going to choose an editor that I enjoy using, not necessarily because it's possible to type and navigate faster. Using tools that I enjoy gives me one less thing to think about when doing what matters: making things.
I have a really good impression of the site, and might use it as my feed reader.

One question: Do people really want to pay for a feed reader? On one hand the price is low compared to what we use on day-to-day goods, but I'm curious as to whether a feed reader is something that the average hacker would pay for.
And that's why I'm staying with Notepad++
I like the native feel, and it's actually a lot faster, especially in startup.
I've been playing it for a week in Firefox, no problems.
On its own or with Vagrant. Packer is useful on its own but also integrates well with Vagrant if you use it.
More research emerges in defense of D-Wave as a quantum machine
Try using text objects: http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/17/vim-text-objects-the-d...
Congratulations on the design - this is a really nice app, I particularly like the way it presents hacker news links almost as if they were on hacker news, with minimal distractions/ads etc. A much nicer way to read online, though it does lose something of the original articles, it's surprising how much it declutters the websites concerned. I haven't looked at the code yet but will be interested to see how you do this without losing important information.

One bit of UI that confused me - the up down triangles are used on HN for voting, so for HN readers it's really confusing to use them for next/prev story instead. The comment threads could do with some work, but I'm sure you know that - one quick fix that would be nice would be a count of comments in the speech bubble top right. Personally as comments are so important to the appeal of HN (at least for me), I'd give them a bit more prominence than you have here, and perhaps auto-load them in the space below the story, with the bubble just jumping to where they start.

Being able to log in and actually use HN would be nice too, I can't see any way to do that at present, but I'm sure it's on the todo list.

Unfortunately like most interesting stories on HN, this one might just drift past without anyone noticing - I've given you an upvote to try to avoid that.

[EDIT] Oh, that was weird - this story just disappeared into the ether, I wonder why? Did you delete it?
Experimental signature of programmable quantum annealing
Works for me, firefox 21 on Linux.
you're nearly done, you just want to upgrade it with the alien alloy you found in the bore sites