skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My father spent 13 months there while in the Navy in 1963. He just gotten married and two weeks later went off. In return the Navy let him pick any assignment for three year stint which was Bermuda. Talk about a long thawing seeing that I wasn't born till some years later.

He told me stories about the drinking and the bleakness etc. It's even worse at the Amundsen–Scott Station where he was frequently sent over the 13 month period.

I do wonder if he developed his alcoholism while being down there because of the environment or it was a trigger. He no doubt had long hidden problems and alcohol was his way of self-medicating.

He's gone now so I will never know but this article brought back a lot of memories of our conversations about his experiences down there.
The paper has been published a while ago. We have been improving Mayhem quite a bit since then, and we recently ran it on debian binaries. It found many crashes, that are not necessarily exploits. 1.2K is the number of bug reports we are going to submit to the Debian bug tracker.
So true. The startup funding industry is much like a sales gig. One where you often are selling a product that doesn't even exist yet. But not to customers, to investors in hopes that customers will be there on the other side.

Nothing against the VC industry but it represents a majority of discussions on HN and little outside.
Link to the previous project[1] / discussion[2] / highscores ;) [3] for anyone who's interested:

[1]http://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5942757

[3]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5943374
Looks like Richard Stallman wins again this week.
lwn has its own (paying) community, and the OP link is speaking to it.

Look at its content. Within the first sentence, it clearly links to what it's talking about, saying "Hey, there's some thing here that may interest you."

It goes on to cite an excerpt as an example of what interested the lwn poster.

I would qualify this more as "conversation" than "spam". Spam would regurgitate the linked content wholesale while probably omitting or burying the link to the original source.

I venture that people here on HN are further reacting negatively to the "blogspam" characterization because many of them are well and long familiar with lwn and have a good amount of respect for it, based upon its quality content (much original) as well as its finding a sustainable model while delivering such.
Yes. The data modeling was by far the hardest part of the app. If you look in the repo you'll see my first attempt was using a separate index table, which was convenient, but expensive. The current data model is quite nice in that the number of users doesn't matter - we don't keep track of who subscribes to which feed. But because of that, when getting the unread story list, we must do 1+N queries (where N is the number of new feeds). However, since we're using go and the datastore, all that work can be done in parallel, so it's not too slow.
I can't find a pricing page anywhere.
My apologies for keeping it quiet for now (I have some reasons), and thank you :-)
You might be able to further increase performance with parallel.js[1]:

[1]: http://adambom.github.io/parallel.js/
Wow. I've never seen that. It does look uncannily familiar. Bootstrap will do that.
The problem is game theory.

All startup founders know they stand a better chance if they project energy, excitement, and confidence, and this is very cheap and easy to do, so they all do it.

As a result, experienced investors become inured, skeptical of it, and ignore it, knowing it's the easiest thing a founder can fake. They look for signals of more substantial stuff, be it the Three T's (Team, Technology, Traction) or something else.

In fact I would argue these days you stand a better chance of distinguishing yourself among investors if you pointedly do not exude energy and excitement at least, but rather sober, quiet confidence, competence, domain expertise, focus, and resolve.

That said, his points about actually being confident, and managing your own psychology, are right on.
The ideological debate is potentially interesting: Does DRM belong in HTML5?

(and yes, it's hard not to view the Netflix/MS situation cynically)

That said, ditching that godawful Silverlight plugin, is probably a welcome change from the customer experience perspective.
I was offered the chance to do this in Egypt. I was told that it was totally safe as long as I brought along enough bride money in the event that we got caught.
That changes the meaning quite a bit--in the original, the word "suppose" was used in the sense of an obligation; in the new sentence, the word "suppose" is used to mean "a guess".

If you're saying that I was being passive aggressive, that's my bad, because I was aiming for over-the-top bravado and didn't go big enough for it to be funny, I guess. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-06-24/
Not really understanding this myself... I'm pretty sure they don't need a key to come into a normal house or apartment. Unless he happens to live in a bunker...
Confidence is the only really defensible trait of the three. Lawyers, surgeons, accountants, and so on probably need to project at least that one, but nobody cares if those people seem energetic or excited.

Even the ability to project confidence isn't a universal requirement though. Nobody gives a rat's ass what an athlete in a solo sport projects.
Why do you think 'the people' in the Fourth Amendment is not a reference to the same "We 'the people' of the United States" in the Constitution?
I have a lot of respect for Bruce, but I am not sure what this has to do with a "move towards the mainstream." This seems like a move "to ensure that the board has competent security guidance." As far as "regular politics" goes, I hope they stay away from regular politics. I want the EFF solely involved in tech policy issues. Does Schneier have a big political background?
Adding the chat shortly and we will change the world number again.

FORK us - https://github.com/pubnub/genetic-car-2
Store CSRF tokens in the session, store the session in a cookie, problem solved.
Bad idea. Star Trek stories are horrid quality compared to Star Wars.[1] Do Star Wars to Star Trek. ;)

1: Based on my own experience. I've read at least 50% of the available Star Trek books and 75% of Star Wars. I've got maybe four Star Trek books I've liked and dozens of Star Wars ones.
I'd trust gwern's speculation.

http://www.gwern.net/

The content here varies from philosophy to poetry to programming to prosaic FAQ. It is everything I felt worth writing for the past few years that didn’t fit somewhere like Wikipedia or was already written - "…I realised that I wanted to read about them what I myself knew. More than this - what only I knew. Deprived of this possibility, I decided to write about them. Hence this book."2 I never expected to write so much, but I discovered that once I had a hammer, nails were everywhere, and that supply creates its own demand3. I believe that someone who has been well-educated will think of something worth writing at least once a week; to a surprising extent, this has been true. (I have added ~130 documents to this repository over the past 3 years.)

http://www.gwern.net/About
/sc2
Hell, it's about time
These are available now.

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_D...
What your emoji usage says about you
Not the most evenly matched standoff of all time, but Ember wins some serious points in the URL-driven department.
"...draft resolution by the Committee Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. It states that those who disclose criminal acts in the public interest should be protected from retaliation and persecution from those who commit them.

Baltasar Garzón

Director of ILOCAD S.L. Law Firm

>...Garzón will NOT represent Snowden

?? Why not?!
So then all good ideas should have already been done?
RSS feed reading in Firefox
How About Coffee?
Are you implying that Flash is any less resource intensive or buggy?
That's certainly what the US media is reporting on.

Here's a better source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-nsa-files
Mayhem changed quite a bit since the publication of the paper. It now reports all crashes, and therefore bugs are not necessarily security critical.
Am I the only one who, given the vast proliferation of mobile and TV-connected devices with Netflix clients over the past few years, can't even remember the last time they used the Silverlight app to stream something?
Yes, I'd like to add that. I've added an issue for this:

https://github.com/mjibson/goread/issues/11
> "The most common Android handset in use in the US of A "

has very little to say about what the bulk of Android devices are, given that something like 80% of Android activations are outside the USA. Further, the discussion isn't just about cheap/underpowered hardware, but even adequate hardware that suffers for lack of effort/support. Hardware superior to Nexus builds routinely perform worse than Nexus builds. This is a consideration larger than what Android or the hardware in a given device can do.

> "Apple did what Apple felt was right for iOS to improve the operating system."

This I very much agree with. I think it's fine to say plenty of Android device makers will continue to release devices with much less thought to performance than Apple, or even Google, and these devices won't look or perform like iOS7, or even stock jelly bean on a Nexus device.

But I doubt very much that anyone at Apple spent any real time planning UI performance/feature tuning as a competitive advantage. This situation is very much like Apple tweaking the UI performance of the very first iPhone until animations could match the speed of touch-response. And they did this solely so that "dragging" an object appeared more 'real' -- to reinforce the concept with visuals and visual performance.

And they did that without regard to what hardware competitors might ship, or even what priorities competitors might have -- as there really were no competitors for the device they were building, when they were building it.

This blur and transparency is no different. It's there to reinforce the UI concept. This is more a story about Apple continuing to devote non-trivial time and effort tuning hardware -- and giving up general performance and battery life -- in the pursuit of a level of UI polish they are internally satisfied with.
What am I missing here? I haven't dug too deep into iOS7, but on the surface it looks like a cosmetic upgrade with new icons, a parallax background effect on the home screen, a blur effect for overlays, and some smooth transitions. None of this hasn't been seen before, and a lot of it looks derivative. I viewed it as a "catch up to Android/WP8" not a step forward.
In fact, they've replaced one proprietary experience with an even more proprietary one. Silverlight was available on more than one browser and OS; this is Windows-only and IE11-only. I believe Netflix are already using EME on Chromebooks but they have a different, totally incompatible DRM scheme (Google's Widevine).
Facebook redesigns its home page
It is not necessary to submit to punishment to be justified.

Submitting to punishment only shows a strong fidelity to law. The link between submission to punishment and purity of motivation is, though a serious consideration theoretically, a tenuous connection practically. There is nothing in submitting to punishment that absolves a disobedient of acting for "personal gain or fame".

Moreover, submitting to punishment may be okay in a nearly just society, but the further one moves from that ideal, the weaker the connection becomes between effective civil disobedience and submission to punishment becomes.
Perhaps if the VCs, Tom and Redpoint included, lent their weight to combating the protectionist laws that govern the payments sector, we'd have something to show for all of this supposed progress other than more plastic payment cards with magnetic stripes.

Last I heard from Tom was, "The MTL laws are large barriers to entry for startups. I'd love to help but I'm not sure I'm ready to sign my name to a petition without understanding the issue in much greater depth. Given the time constraints, I'm not sure I can sign the document."

It's been about eight months. How about now?
Yup, lots of more information keeps coming out, you just have to know where to keep up with it. Here's a great source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-nsa-files
If CloudSigma is using SSL with forward secrecy, tapping the fiber would be pretty useless.

Unless you're suggesting the NSA has compromised CloudSigma's internal network, which is possible.
Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism
For what it's worth, his Encyclopedia Dramatica entry [1] is in the series "Leaders of Anonymous", along with Sabu, Ryan Clearly, etc. It's pretty well known that he was heavily involved, but like most things on IRC and 4chan, the text is ephemeral and/or private, so there's no good records other than miscellaneous pastebins.

On the other hand, I found a decent comment [2] from someone who seems to know what they're talking about that suggests he was just an eager journalist that got pulled too far into this whole thing.

For a quick overview of much of Anonymous's history, I recommend the documentary We are Legion [3]. It features an interview with Barrett Brown, and I think has a much better handle on the whole situation than most MSM reporting does.

[1] https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Barrett_Brown

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/anonymous/comments/zt41f/barrett_bro...

[2] http://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/
I managed to completely resist installing Silverlight for however many years it's been available, and what finally got me was that I needed it to watch the new Arrested Development.
Honestly, it seems like you crossed paths with a personality on an extreme end of some scale.

I remember when I was a teenage hobbyist developer writing my first web apps in ASP. I learned so much, so quickly, that I also rewrote most things a few times.

I didn't try to fix that. I just naturally started learning less quickly as I grew more experienced. Now, I never threw away a whole stack like that, but then again, it's a lot easier to do that now (A lot more stacks, a lot more documentation).

This guy is in college. He's never done this work professionally. I know you're very hedged in your suggestion but IMO it's still entirely unwarranted and tainted by a bad experience you had.
I'm not USAian and I could still guess who it is, or at least one of the presidents in 1913 since it was a year when they changed office.
The surprising physics of cats’ drinking
Experience is an excellent cure for perfectionism.
Pre-9/11 NSA Thinking
I don't think you understand anything about history if you think the US has set any sort of precedent for "meddling/policing" for over a century.
This program has apparently ended. That probably means a more powerful system is operating currently.
Wordpress and Drupal .... mostly i hav seen WORDPRESS... its good CMS, for company or business style website, and other then that drupal is also good, but i will go wid wordpress, coz if your PHP developer you can make your own plugins and make changes in CMS ;)
They will still be rendering the interface and probably the video with standard HTML5 components, in fact even the DRM - Browser mechanism is standardized. It's just that the DRM code itself may be proprietary. So this is still a step forward.
Canonical Will Ship Mir By Default In Ubuntu 13.10
Thank you.

I've tried bunch of possible candidates to replace Reader and this is the first one that actually feels responsive enough for daily use.

And the fact that it's open source and written in Go is just icing on the cake.
Want to make an American friend for another rave? :-D
He didn't screw over his friends.

I'm sure he feels like he did. But he didn't. Unless he was actively lying to them along the way. Which is plausible but certainly not something I would assume about somebody.

He's in school. He's done the best he could with a hard problem. He shouldn't be hard on himself and IMO you shouldn't either.
Obama: "but Bin Laden's dead and Al Qaeda has been defeated."

No. THEY WON.
As a long time Debian user I would like to thank you for choosing Debian as a target platform. The maintainers might not appreciate the bugs in the short term but in the long term this is great for everyone involved. Was there any reason why you chose Debian? I imagine bts made things easier for bug wrangling/submission.
Fun fact: `heroku fork` is implemented entirely in the CLI client using pre-existing APIs: https://github.com/heroku/heroku/blob/master/lib/heroku/comm...

If you wanted to build something like this, you could do so without any involvement from us by just using the (newly-documented) Heroku Platform API: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/platform-api-reference
Serious question—why would I use DuckDuckGo to use StartPage to use Google?

If I was really privacy conscious, I could go straight to StartPage. If I didn't really care, I could go straight to Google.

Where does DDG fit in?
You could right-click on the link and view where it goes. Do you become suspicious from your toddler's click? Yes, yes you do. Not actionable in itself, but it will be on your secret file you can't see, forever.
In what way is it a step forward? Okay, they can now use default video codecs in their proprietary plugin, instead of the same codec being used in Flash.

So does that make it anymore cross-platform than Flash was? And now instead of having "one" monolithic proprietary plugin, it's now more "decentralized" and you'll have to use "many" such proprietary plugins from Netflix, from Hulu, from Amazon, and many others, that may or may not be cross-platform.

Why is the news only about IE (11 even). Does it work in Chrome and Firefox, too?
I made it pretty damn clear that I was talking about it at a constitutional level and it's kinda irksome to watch you find the only person who barely-even-doesn't-really-agree with you and act like they're the only respectable person in the thread. It's not my god damn fault you refuse to read the wikipedia page and inform yourself.

edit: Look, all over the front page this morning. MORE sources and allegations describing MASSIVE domestic surveillance that occurred without any sort of oversight or warrants. How can you just ignore story after story after story and push your anecdotes?
But… I could have written that in a week
I think Google has been first in implementing the proposed EME standard in HTML5 video. The ARM Chromebooks have been already using it to see Netflix video since a few months. Netflix can use Silverlight in IE11, but ARM Chromebooks don't have an alternative way of support and don't forget that Youtube doesn't like people easily downloading their videos like they do now.

http://hothardware.com/News/Netflix-Backing-HTML5-But-Not-Wi...

And I think Chrome nightlies had the web DRM in place but were not enabled by default? Don't quote me on that.

Anyway, I think Firefox will be forced follow Chrome and IE now to implement DRM in HTML5 video. Firefox does not have the market power it once had thanks to Chrome.

Remember how the whole H.264 in HTML5 support thing played out for Firefox? They were on the side of not supporting it, and Google said it would remove it from Chrome, but that never happened, and Mozilla finally got tired of the effects of "Firefox doesn't support this site's video, let me use a browser that does" and added support.

The same thing is pretty much guaranteed to happen with EME as sites start using EME to stream video and IE, Chrome and Safari add support.
I don't remember being taught that.

Edited to add: don't get me wrong, I'm not claiming you're lying, just that your experience doesn't necessarily generalize.
Experimenting with QUIC
> Plus, none of the above UIs even made a dent on the market.

http://www.icharts.net/chartchannel/worldwide-smartphone-os-...

It's a small dent, but if you look really closely you can see Android in dark blue.
Is this the world's weirdest instrument?
Lack of trust and an abundance of paranoia are big obstacles lurking beneath the surface with remote work. Experience leads me to believe most 'managers' or founders aren't able to handle it. However, when you have a good one that gives you the space and trust you need to get things done. It's marvelous.
Getting started with Zurb Foundation 4
I'm seeing errors from users with giant feeds. I'll try to fix those within a day.
TL:DR
The media is a bunch of haters, our wedding wasn't as ecologically devastating as it was played out to be. Why'd you people use so many expletives about us?
A Debian GNU/Hurd snapshot
They did some stuff with cliff-style diving too (not quite that high, but it was good enough). That's one of many episodes that convinces me that they play at being more ignorant than they really are in the show, for dramatic purposes; it just isn't plausible that they do enough research to find a guy specialized in high diving, but somehow didn't find out what he could do before he came. I enjoy the show and I enjoy the results, but wish they would be a bit more honest at times, or be a bit more willing to say "Before we start, here's what the 'book' answer to the question is", because it's often obvious they have it. Also, editing makes it hard to tell, but it's pretty clear they very often come prepared with plans B and C to the offsites, again, making it pretty clear that they aren't as surprised that A failed as they play at.
Cross-Browser Development Tips (or how to make CSS work in IE8)
Really like the ask-to-reply feature, first saw it on Quibb though.
Show HN: Rammer Time
This is the first game we ever released. It's a multiplayer-only game, 4 people free for all. It runs on Android and on PC. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Nyc comments really thnx, i was thinking same to make app wid Django, bt am new developer with unexperienced :)
The beauty of the financial sector, #1 - there's a revenue stream already. You just need to skim a little of it. That's really how virtually all get-rich-big systems work.

Beauty #2 - The scale of existing financial organizations makes them particularly slow and resistant to change. Lots of opportunity for disruption, if you can avoid getting squashed.

Beauty #3 - The sudden reach of mobile devices puts a lot of computing and network power into easy reach of startups.

Between these three things, it is any surprise that the sector is booming?
Ironically, it fails to find "Disk Cleanup" which is rather important if you want to properly delete "Windows.old" after the upgrade. (BTW, it's cleanmgr.exe if you want to run it).
Poll: What mobile OS are you using?
I know this has been done in the past, but looking for more recent results. Feel free to share why you use one over the other.
Ubuntu graphic stack roadmap update
three points:
1. apathy is the friend of all such measures
2. the NSA aren't the only gig in town both in terms of agency and country and in any case have a nothing close to ubiquitous coverage
3. as hard as you might find it to believe some people do have principles and beliefs. our company was founded and has always operated in line with those of our founders. all this is nothing new. again refer to point 1 about apathy.
I don't need another weather app, but it's well-made and I like to support a job well-done.

edit//
works great on iOS 7 beta 2 ;)
NewsBlur has this, just hit 'g'. It's also fuzzy and allows you to make typos, yet it keeps the last useful results on screen.
Windows Azure Web Sites, Mobile Services Now Generally Available
Square Hires AdSense “Godfather” Gokul Rajaram Away From Facebook
Microsoft Adds Auto Scaling To Windows Azure