skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Friday meetup is a social one. It's the only meetup I attend that is still active after 10pm.

We are planning a mid-week meetup a couple weeks from now in downtown. We'll decide on a date after this week's meetup and post it to the mailing list. Sign up if you'd like to be notified.
Yeah, I don't see the problem with this. If the code is known to work, why do it over again? Just because it's a month old doesn't mean it's necessarily bad. Remember, laziness is one of the three primary virtues of the programmer.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris
PGP/GPG adoption needs to go way up, but I am concerned by the rise of "non-owned" devices. I would put way less trust in running PGP/GPG from a client-side mail client on a smartphone with OTA updates, apparent carrier spyware, etc than I would in PGP/GPG running on OSX, for instance.

Maybe one way to partially mitigate these concerns is to push for only storing/using private keys on these devices on a TPM.
And you know that how? From the code he never posted? Argumentative hipster is argumentative.
Microsoft adds native 3D printing support to Windows 8.1 update
Mainly I'm saying that government has made some serious mistakes by violating the rights of US citizens with various programs. Now they are using the fbi and other organizations improperly to try stop the flow of information about those programs.

They are doing this by declaring journalistic and liberty seeking organizations, to be a threat to the US government. This is clearly wrong and they are obviously over-stepping their mission.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/intelligence/mission

"The FBI’s national security mission is to lead and coordinate intelligence efforts that drive actions to protect the United States.

Our goal is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the threats and penetrate national and transnational networks that have a desire and capability to harm us. Such networks include: terrorist organizations, foreign intelligence services, those that seek to proliferate weapons of mass destruction, and criminal enterprises. "
Nice. Very fast. Can't wait for sort by oldest first and ability to star/import starred items.
Does this mean that the next LTS will not support proprietary nvidia drivers, OR that such drivers will be available for Mir from nvidia?
I think it depends on the size and scope of your project. As devs, we all start with simple text files + email for everything, and then add more specialized tools from there.

Complexity is endless, and depending on the scope of your project, it may not make as much sense to add more tools. I have met many people who just skip the entire bug tracking system and dump the whole thing in trello or somewhere else. But I couldn't imagine doing that on a huge project with thousands of issues and customers.
I've only been there once, but I'm picking that harsh weather, height and the need for attachment points outside the existing bridge make it expensive. I'm not at all surprised that it is expensive, but I am that it hasn't been done yet.
So was the case with Apple, if my sibling is correct. I am just trying to say is that there is plenty, like a lot lot, of innovation in Google Maps - from devices that make it's own mapping data to using WebGL to render it in 3D in browser. To claim otherwise, with incredibly weak argument as in the original comments, is either lazy or dishonest.
> In any event it wouldn't be a loss of $23m a realistic estimate might be closer to 10% of that so around $2-3m.

? Where are you getting this $23m from? The article says that they export to the USA "$166 million of cut flowers". 10% of that would be $16.6 million, not $2 million...
I recently stopped watching everyone on MSNBC but Chris Hayes. He has a great show. He's had Greenwald on a couple times in the past few weeks. Also, Democracy Now! is really great. One of the only programs on TV that talks about Wikileaks and Manning on a semi-regular basis.
New federal rules require healthier school snacks
First phase of Darpa Robotics Challenge ends; nine teams to move forward
In general, I am using the internet and electronic communications less and lees. Often I am now asking myself if what I am going to do is necessary or does it have to be electronic.

As well as altering my choice to use, I am adding more and more security options. Mainly silly small things like the add-on that chooses HTTPS, ad blockers, or using Iron in stead of chrome, and so on. So, where I have an easy or ultimately seamless choice, Im choosing to encrypt and block. Nothing major, I know I am not secure, but more of my traffic is encrypted. Lastly, while I have used Linux servers for years, Im now trying to make Linux work for me as a Windows replacement. Partly because of the awful Windows 8 which I will down grade to from Vista (!!!), but more so because of these security issues.

So, nothing big, but a general move. But one key thing is that is people are anything like me, what we will see is more and more internet traffic become encrypted. Not sure what that with do to spy paranoia. Probably makes us default guilty.

The other plan is to use NO defenses what so ever. Open one's self up, but never ever do anything other then the tedious benign on the internet. Show the world how open and nonthreatening you are. Keep all the evil stuff like joint smoking, porn watching, political opinion, medical questions, employment details, etc off the electronic spy.
In a decent country they would question her and leave it at that.

I would say that our prosecutors are lucky they don't live in such a country, but frankly our prosecutors are a big reason why the USA is not a decent country. The fact that prosecutors can threaten any member of a defendant's family with any number of 3F/d crimes is a big reason they're able to coerce so many plea bargains. If we only had necessary laws that forbid actual crimes, instead of the many shelf-feet of unknowable laws we have, you'd see far more defendants claiming their rights to fair trials. Today's prosecutors probably wouldn't be able to cope, since they'd have to spend their time prosecuting rather than dreaming up new techniques of pretrial coercion.
The wedding wasn't where the stories said it was (private land not a public park), there were no endangered species that were put at risk, and only one reporter out of 100 stories that ran bothered to call them for comment, so it's a bit more than that.

But, as one comment said, if that story were printed on paper it would have needed a redwood to make the sheets. Probably longer than it needed to be.
Backyard Lawn Shed DIY Building Plans and Other Woodworking Projects
They are booming but certainly not "quietly"

- Bitcoin is all over the news

- Capital Access Network, Kabbage, etc are at multi 100M valuations

- Stripe and Braintree are running around at multi 100M vals.

- Simple and Green Dot / Loopt have done plenty in the PR circuit re their latest banking products.

- Kickstarter / Indiegogo are very much mainstream.

- Square is a PR machine at some 4-8B valuation (AFAIK)
Ubuntu is rushing its new display server one version early
> This research was supported by a DARPA grant to CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University (N11AP20005/D11AP00262), a NSF Career grant (CNS0953751), and partial CyLab ARO support from grant DAAD19-02-1-0389 and W911NF-09-1-0273.
Congressman Sires' NSA Survey
The reality is that Python lists usually work as serviceable queues and stacks. Criticizing a language for not having a standard queue or stack is a little weird.
Excellent! In just few clicks i was able to migrate from google reader to this. Nice integration.
I'm actually really curious if anyone has done some sort of study into the relationship between Maslow's hierarchy of needs and suicide. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if suicide rates go up as you go up the pyramid because you're afforded more time for existential thought.
It's less to get and act on a concrete answer to the question, but rather that asking the question unambiguously signals openness and desire to improve. As long as the recipient of the question believes it's being asked earnestly, it doesn't ever need to be directly answered.
I have always wondered how a demo of Gnome 3 would go down with the IT manager of a customer with a large desktop estate. Pretty obviously the customers asked about retraining time &c.

I say this as one who uses 'modern' Gnome every day on my desktop, but who has been involved with staff training on new applications before.
That makes sense from my experience. When looking for front-end jobs it seems like there are very few remote positions available. If there is a position available, they usually fall into two different categories. One, the position is for a senior level front-end wizard or the position is remote but only to the extent of the city limits. For example, "remote but must live in San Francisco".
Sounds a lot like Built in Chicago http://www.builtinchicago.org/
It's not a filter bubble because by default everyone sees the exact same content, just like our Web search results. We decided early on to filter out things like rape, dismemberment, etc. that we thought were staunchly negative. Also, this app wasn't designed to be a traditional news reader. Instead it features interesting content that's currently being shared a lot regardless of publish date.
I'm seeing incredibly versatile applications of this tecnology. One idea would be stem cell therapy for treating tinnitus, where the hair cells in the inner ear are damaged.

If my understanding is correct, this could be healed if stem cells could be delivered precisely. This could concievably be possible with a system like this.
Traffic Growth Is A Marathon, Not A Sprint
Do you have a week? You can be their first competitor!
Reminds me of a blog post about Stack Overflow[0], which references a HN discussion[1] where people were guesstimating that they could reproduce all of SO in a weekend.

We're tinkerers - when we see something, we immediately think about how it works under the hood. And because we're too clever by half, we're dogged optimists, thinking there is always a way to accomplish something.

As we mature, we realize that things are often more complicated than they seem on the surface, that often a lot of engineering goes into making something appear simple and easy, and especially, that there is more to the value of something than the effort it would take to build a copy of it.

[0] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/code-its-trivial.ht...
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678501
Also, "almost none of the journalists bothered to ask us for comment". That was the one part that surprised me; I would have expected better.
Good! I'm glad some people still remember history. Sadly, it looks like we're going to be doomed to repeat it rather we remember it or not.
Agreed, my only nit to pick is I can't seem to re-view old/read articles.
In general, plaintext protocols of any form should be met with the same derision as something like telnet would today. Encrypt all the things. We need the very idea of sending something like plain ASCII beyond your computer to be offensive at its core.

Considering passwords are often stored in plaintext and companies think this is no big deal, I'm not sure how well that will work.

Without proper trust models in place, this won't solve all the problems, but I feel like that's what the culture of communication on the Internet has to look like. It has to be done by the engineers at the protocol level, and application developers have to adopt it. Servers and other peer-to-peer clients should refuse to speak plaintext.

Focusing on things like getting people to use PGP, OTR, etc, is hopeless and will only work with other privacy geeks.
What's different here than at the other peer-to-peer mobile payment apps?
I'm not debating whether lwn is really blogspam or not. However, by HN's moderators standards, it would be classified as blogspam. It offers nothing more of value over their original piece (even if it's narrowing in on a specific subject).
Handibot makes every tool for sale at Home Depot look stupid
http://www.hackthings.com/handibot-is-a-smart-powertool-controlled-by-your-smartphone/
See my older comment here [1]. You may like to read the parent comment for context.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427317

It is not uncommon to have such NDAs especially for senior-level positions. But now they have started coming for pure bureaucracy.

I have heard that some big-name companies do not even let you tell to the outside world that you interviewed with the company. This would happen when say, just for example, if a company like Facebook would have positions for cell-phone design experts. The justification given is actually reasonable -- the media picks up on such moves by companies extremely quickly.

My bet though, it is almost never about any "real awesomeness" of the project. Those projects are most likely happening at several other places in the world.
This isn't a story about successfully delivering a product, it's about the personal mental failures and quirks that prevent success. It's a great cautionary tale that describes his thought process for others to avoid those traps. Without the self-referencing statements, it wouldn't be as useful.
Designing the Visual Studio 2013 User Experience
Easy User Login for AWS Applications
Now put a js based bitcoin miner on the background and you're done.
Nice Frank Lutz-ian reterming of HTML5 video DRM extensions as "premium extensions".
Why is the subject of this article Obama? It was a Bush era program that he shut down. But since he didn't do it the day he took office, I guess he is literally Bush Jr. Jr. Great reporting by The Guardian.
Competency can compensate for a demeanor that is listless, dull, and uncertain but if your profession requires direct engagement with customers you will likely be at a disadvantage. What are the counterexamples you developed?

Given a choice between someone who projects energy, enthusiasm, and confidence and someone who doesn't the latter person will normally have to demonstrate considerably more competence. In particular low energy and lack of confidence in an expert undercut a perception of competence.
maybe it needs to be more generic than 'marketing'.
Sometimes its about making the right connections and getting distribution right. Sometimes its about creating barriers to entry that are not via the core product itself.
Hurd is one of those pieces of tech that just makes me sad. Performance implications aside, micro-kernels feel so much more "right". It feels like proper software engineering techniques applied to the kernel-level. How cool would it be to be able to, e.g. replace the default scheduler with something that satisfies your niche requirements?

But in Hurd's quarter century of life, it's gone nowhere, while Linux, Windows and OS X have zipped by. It feels like nothing short of an apocalypse will bring the micro-kernel back. I think the only major one in the wild in QNX (Blackberry OS), and that's waning. OS X / NT are no longer microkernels.

"Worse is better" still rings true, in more ways than one.
They would have no control over the rest of the stack. If netflix created a linux build of a DRM binary that worked with their service then it would become the tool of choice for everyone that wanted to rip/upload to usenet the latest Netflix exclusive content. Also they frankly just don't care about linux users.

If this were something that they were interested in having, they would have had Netflix on Chrome on 'regular GNU desktop' Linux months ago when it started working with Chrome on a Linux kernel with ChromeOS.
Our interface is severely lacking. The website is mostly for internal use at the moment. I'll try to add a program search tonight to make it more usable.

As a matter of fact, most programs are not linked to packages, and most packages are not present, including moreutils. You won't find it even by crawling.
Looking at their usage "graph" (if the relative visuals indicate actual percentages), it appears that IE overall is a very small percentage of their views - perhaps 3-5%. Within that small percentage, IE 8 makes up what appears to be around 20% of all IE users. So they are spending time to optimize for around 1% and maybe 2% of their total views.

I'd suggest that it probably isn't worth it to spend a significant amount of time to support an audience that small. To determine if this is true, the company should track conversions from those using the IE browsers. If they have an average or higher than average number of conversions, one could argue that it is worth the time spent.

Otherwise, you are probably wasting significant engineering and design resources to solve problems for laggards who probably won't give you any money.
"No one else gives you this much freedom to coherently pass your request directly where you want it to go"

Chrome has this built in, with the added benefit of not unnecessarily sending your searches through a 3rd party, and you can add your own custom searches, and set custom shortcuts.
Well I think more precisely, he's implying if you take out the few heavy hitters, then the value drops precipitously.
Exactly, and then that function is "proof" of the relationship.
So, the NSA was known to tap, track and view Obama's comms in the past - but at the same time they claim to not read some info because they are "respecting the legal advice as confidential"?

Where does the crazy hypocrisy stop with these people. I think they are all absolutely insane.
I also recommend using mitmproxy to get the YQL query from the Yahoo weather app. Lots of good info in that query.
See HN reaction to the Atlantic story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5824276

and here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5820590
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Ironic that GNU/HURD is also on the front page of HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5953737
> tons of vegetables

Wow really? On Kerguelen island vegetables were a rarity. We had fresh fruit for one, two weeks after a resupply (from Reunion island, they were actually among the best fruit I have ever had, and not only because they were the first after and before several months of no fruit at all) but apart from that, fruits vegetables were most of the time limited to potatoes, onions and increasingly bad apples and oranges (and that's when they didn't mistakenly put the fruits and vegetables in the -20°C storage). Really, I'm not sure how they could keep vegetables much better than we could.

(Delicious fresh meat and fish all year round though, but that's because we were not in a place as extreme as Antarctica)

Otherwise, I had much the same experience, with a dedicated "cinema" actually - just a building with a rather good projector and a computer with large storage.

But some people simply cannot imagine life outside the full society with all the amenities their are used too. It's fine, and much better for everyone if they already know it before leaving.

EDIT: oh right, "a few summers". Summers have all kind of things available that you really miss in winter. Our chef actually tried to limit the amount of good things he'd cook during the summer so the overwintering personnel would have it rather than those who were there for just a few months.
I think this style of communication is specific to rap genius. It's just their particular way of merging tech/VC and hip-hop vernacular. I agree it can come off as disingenuous, and sometimes confusing. Like some other posters, I was wondering if "beta" was a typo of "betta."

Also, although they were part of YC, they're based in NYC, not the valley.
I checked out the source; what's the trick for getting the dependencies into the tree?

"go get" is not supported in appengine [1], and if I manually check out individual projects, I end up with extra code that will not compile in the appengine environment.

[1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/8BJ0fxrWZd4/PXyI...
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You are correct in asserting that the EME should become standardized, and that Netflix is participating in that process. I should not throw stones unless I'm willing to help.

I admit to being conflicted about the philosophical need for such extensions--although I have no pragmatic objections. Netflix makes their coin by selling limited access to an artificially-restricted resource; the resource would probably not exist in its present form without the restrictions.

However, as someone who lived through web development in the 1990s, my brain shut off after reading "away from using proprietary" followed by "Microsoft MarketingTerm".
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Linux will never get a PlayReady Media Extension. Linux users control the kernel of the device. Even if hypothetically TPM technology or similar could be used to play video "securely" nevertheless (with hypothetical future tech), it would still be too great a risk to let it on to such a "compromised" system.
I was thinking that all of these new financial disruptions will lead to a boom in smaller, relatively safer startups as well. Some friends of mine are creating a wonderful little startup in the shadow of Square, solving serious business problems for small, mobile vendors (like artists and flea markets) that didn't really exist before mobile credit card processing - or at least, couldn't be solved before that tech existed. I imagine the new technologies will lead to lots of new niche markets appearing.
Awesome, finally I'm not so scared of July 1st. Would be great if posts were marked as read on scrolling, without the need to click on them or hit the "space".
Without Authenticity All Referrals Will Fail
What UX Really Is
Canada Gets Crowdfunded
"...how does it sound? According to Butera, the instrument "can sound like anything you want." So if you are in the market for a harp that plays like a violin and looks like a space-age guitar, Artiphon's new Instrument 1 may be the one instrument for you."

AK-47000? Release 2.0 with meo, leap motion would appear a nice and nautural marriage.
I'm sorry, I'm all in favour of loving what you do and agree that this generally leads to good results, but that interpretation frames the sentence in a completely different context than the original story, which is the following:

> So fundraising is a psychologically trying experience that depends very little on any sober analysis of the quality of your product

Smile or die, motherfucker!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo

> It's unquestionable that you need energy, excitement and confidence to be good at something. Anything from being a doctor, lawyer to professional athlete.

Oh, that is VERY questionable. The first two are focussing on positive emotions and ignore the important role negativity plays. Smilarly, confidence does not in any way equate capability.

> Projection (The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.) is going to be the only thing people can fall back on.

No, that's just our intuitive mind being too lazy to do a rigorous analysis of the situation. I recommend "Thinking Fast and Slow" by Kahneman to fix this.
The Broken Comb is Broken
Seeing the World through Google-Colored Glasses
That's normally very true. What we didn't say in the article was that we have some customers whose corporate IT departments haven't upgraded yet and we didn't want to drop them on the wayside :)
Ah ok, not tension but area. So basically the less water you hit, the less force will be resisted.
Stealth payments startup Clinkle raises $25 million seed round
i'm pretty sure that once you start making it you'll discover that in fact it takes way more than a week ^^
DARPA's New Challenge: Build a Disaster-Zone Robot
This would have been more useful if you told us what it was, what it could do.
The section titled "Evolution of NSA Partnerships with Private Sector" (p28) is interesting.
Or "hike" the Camino del Rey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Nd1qtk1Go

(I didn't.)