skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The music is the same as Enix's old version, i.e. MIDI and not nearly as good as the original PSX music. There's a mod for that though - google Ficedula's music patch
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Ask HN: Should i take time off to learn to code?
Just wondering what HN thinks about my situation.

Graduated with an accounting degree but ended up working in a startup doing customer service and their digital marketing. I've always wanted to learn how to code, and have the financial means to take 6-12 months off to really dedicate myself to learning to code.

Unfortunately with after work obligations i really don't have sufficient time to do it after hours whilst working full time.

What do you think? I'm 24 and have always dreamed of doing my own startup. Working where I am now has given me a really good grounding in the bus dev/marketing side of a startup but want to be able to code my own apps.

Would it be worth taking time off, enrolling in one of the coding bootcamps to learn something like rails? The other option is to do some sort of postgraduate degree in CS, but that's not too appealing to me.
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Steve only said: "CryptoCat doesn't work as expected". "The creators are incompetent of taking on such task" (which is his opinion that he's entitled to have), and "Here's why it doesn't work".
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It is some coincidence for this to come out the day after the airspace fiasco.
I'm Italian, and I disagree completely.

There is a reason (many actually) because clincal trials are subject to countless checks and hurdles before they are carried out: you cannot play with people's lives to prove your theories, regardless of how good your intentions are and how much you are convinced these theories are correct.

If the theory is based on flawed data (that is to say, there is no real ground on which to expect positive results), giving false hope is just sadistic.
Looks like this could be useful. I'm always humbled and whenever I see something I've written [1] appear on a list like this :D

Otherwise I've noticed a bug. If you filter on the homepage, click something, then go back the checkbox is still checked but the filter is not applied.

[1] http://www.javascriptoo.com/enquire-js
I read "larger" as meaning "more diverse". Not sure I agree though.
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Why?
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Ideally you’ll be very comfortable with the following technologies:

- JS (specifically AngularJS)

- CSS3/SCSS

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Experience of the following will probably help:

- E-Commerce

- Responsive development

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- GitHub

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That was my reaction too. I am surprised many people here feel otherwise.
> In fact in Texas an atheist can't run for public office.

Can you cite a source for that? Because it sounds like one HUGE violation of the 1st amendement.
Completely off topic but just thought I'd say hi as a fellow nilliams :) HI!
Did Enix do the original PC port? That would be kinda weird since, Square and Enix were competitors at the time.

Guess the use of MIDI is what you do when the hardware doesn't for sure come with support for redbook audio.
Misleading those users was unnecessary. From the user's perspective they are stuck between Zynga and Eric who decided to have some fun with them.

I wonder how much time he had on his hands to toy around with feedback emails everyday. Would an email filter with an automatic response not have sufficed ?
All software has bugs. There's no piece of real-world general-purpose software that you can't look at and say "this was improved incrementally as bugs were found".

But not all software has the same sensitivity. In the weeks before Netscape Navigator shipped in the mid-90s, Jamie Zawinski slept under his desk at work trying to make it reliable. The builds from the night before launch crashed! Nobody thought they'd make it. That's a story anyone on a commercial dev team can probably tell you; it's the oldest story in product development.

That kind of incremental development works fine when you're shipping the first web browser, or even the first version of a new web browser.

It does not work when you are shipping cryptography. Nate Lawson is fond of saying, "plan to budget 10x for the validation of a new cryptosystem as you to implementation". You probably can't actually be doing that when your whole cryptosystem changes 4 times in 2 years.

The difference is between handling bugs and expecting bugs. Netscape expected bugs. Crypto software can't do that.
I can't imaging any company that values its brand would use this, except for a joke: the comments in the article and YouTube video are just a small taste of the outrage people have to technology like this.
Exactly. It's hard enough to be a male and not a sports fan in America.

"Ok, so you're an atheist. Wait, you're not a {local team here} fan!!!"
It does, but you can turn it on/off. Its off by default.
America is much larger than Europe

Only in land area, and much of that extra land area is very sparsely populated. Europe has over twice as many people.
To clarify, the theory is that there is a significant market in people who are still using XP, are sophisticated enough to want a 'better' browser, have knowledge and IT permissions to install one, yet at the same time don't want a featured interface.

I'm sure there's a few people like that, but a market big enough to model your product around them? I.... I just can't imagine that being the case.
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>I'm also a little confused: if the team put Steve Thomas on their thank-you page, why did Steve Thomas write a blog post linking directly to that page saying he wasn't on it?

The thanks on the cryptocat page wasn't there about 4-5 hours ago (last time I checked).
"The article seems to insinuate that Apple could make Sherlock run on a cell phone; that’s impossible, unless the cell phone were actually running Mac OS X, which definitely is impossible."

Yeah .. even Gruber sometimes writes claim chowder :-)
When the FBI is aware of planned terrorism against average Americans, it goes in with guns blazing and parades the bad guys out on TV to show how they foiled the terrorist plot (even if it's the FBI's own plot). In this case they identified someone who was apparently making real plans, but did nothing.
Even if they did have it, there's a good chance their systems aren't compatible with whatever they used to render them.

The game is nearly 20 years old, a millennia in video game time. Oh my goodness... 20 years!
Either you and Steve Thomas are right, or this release is right. Both can't be true.
Nadim has a good idea here in Cryptocat. The implementation has some problems, clearly. Is anyone surprised (including Nadim)? Clearly Nadim is learning as he goes. Let's dispense with the personal attacks and instead, if we think Cryptocat is a good idea, let's help make it as secure as we can. Can we get experienced crypto experts on board? Nadim ought to be interested in that.
Dribble does work with images disabled though, as well it should.
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So, police agent provocateurs providing knowledge and material support (to do things like blockade the port of Houston) is just about kicking out inconvenient campers?
Always sort of distressing to have one of your favorite features (Fit to Width in this case) described as "confusing rather than helping". I guess I should give up on hoping that Blink-based Opera will become worth using.
I'm bitter-sweet about recent Opera (both browser and company strategy) - I've been using Opera for 8 years. I'm really happy to see some developments, because Opera browser always seemed somehow stalled (except for investing resources in strange technologies - e.g. widgets, unite).

I'm afraid that Opera vision is becoming a company serving ads, so the browser will be no longer best choice for power users.

The old Opera (till 12.16) just didn't have many users, but with new engine Opera could take some users from Chrome. I think this is a step for being attractive for advertisers.

Just take a look at Opera business page [1] - the "technology" part just gives historical context, whereas ads/content takes prominient place.

I think we'll see some innovations from Opera such as mentioned Stash, Discover (another way of promoting partners' content), etc. But I think in the case of web browser we really need faster horse.

What is interesting, Opera published their commits to Chromium and Blink [2] - it seams that only 8 Opera developers work with browser, at least with adopting engine.

By the way, Opera 12.16 was released, but you will not find it easily[3].

[1]:http://business.opera.com/company

[2]:http://operasoftware.github.io/upstreamtools/

[2]:windows: http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/1216/int/Opera_1216_int_S...
http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/win/1216/int/Opera_1216_int_S...

mac: http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/mac/1216/Opera_12.16-1860.x86...

linux: http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/1216/
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Texas Constitution. Article 1, Section 4:

"Sec. 4. RELIGIOUS TESTS. No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being." [1]

This doesn't actually say that an atheist can't hold office, but a non-believer can be excluded from office.

There are some particularly egregious examples of public-office tests listed in [2]; in particular Tennessee.

[1] http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/CN/htm/CN.1.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination_against_atheists...
I'm sorry. Mississippi makes Alabama look like NYC.
I felt good for them. They really need more recognition.
Search results are personalized so make sure you are logged in on the same account on the phone and the computer.
Also, many videos are marked as "not viewable on phone" by their uploaders, so you can't watch them on the phone, and hence they won't appear in search results.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/12/fbi-treated-...
On the one hand this is appealing ... on the other hand it introduces another level of uncertainty into the mix
You can look at it as punishment for playing those mindless Zynga games :P
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I would expect Zynga kindly apologizing, for their screw up, to their customers. Eric did do the wrong thing, by making fun of the customers here.

But isint it a huge mistake that you wont expect from some BIG BRAND like Zynga to do? They surely disappointed their users.
I see two potential explanations for why they didn't intervene:

1. The FBI does not see public assassination of Occupy participants itself as terrorism

2. The FBI does not see public assassination of Occupy participants by whoever was planning it as terrorism
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I agree! It's a mess. We're based in Sweden so we do it this way.
I remember watching his NerdTV interview several years ago and being inspired by how principled and focused his work was. He wanted to apply his capacity toward solving interesting problems, and he did something about it.

Original PBS page with now broken media links:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/nerdtv/player/?ext=mp4&show=011

The Archive has it:
http://archive.org/details/nerdtv011
It is on most the international keyboards. Why they leave it out from the US and JP keyboard, I don't know.
I presume you don't have a strong connection between particular football teams and religion and therefore particular community allegiances?

Rangers/Celtic, Hearts/Hibs etc.
It's a technical article. You can like it more or less because of its tone, but if you're an engineer, you should be persuaded (or not) by the content, not the persuasiveness of the writing.
Unfortunately no. But if the demand is there, we will definitely consider it. And I know it's not exactly the same, but FreeBSD is on it's way…
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Ask HN: How do I become a "Wordpress installer"?
Hi. I've seen some people talking about installing Wordpress (and the like) websites for local small companies, and some friends have been advising me to do just that. I'm studying software engineering and host a (personal) Wordpress, so I'm familiar with the platform, but I don't really know where to start when it comes to doing it for third parties. How personalized should it be? Do I need to take care of the hosting? Should I offer maintenance? How to determine pricing?

All in all, are there people out there who experimented with this kind of side business and could share their experience?
> government agencies should not refer to peaceful or even violent protesters as terrorists

You mean "potential terrorists."

And, I for one am fine with people in government speculating and planning. There is a vast difference in research and study, speculation and planning. After all, all it would take is a few OWS people to go blow up a bank or something to escalate the entire matter. Sure, it's just a few members, a splinter group, but then what do you do. Ignore the entire movement? Did the cover of OWS help them achieve some other goal, or did OWS unwittingly help them escalate the matter further.

None of this is to lay blame to OWS, but maybe something like this should have been considered, so when bad things do happen, we are more prepared.

And it's all speculation. But the minute you start holding to account speculation at the same level you hold official policy, you start serious restricting our ability to plan.

I'd hope that our government has plans on how to invade Canada should the need arise. I hope that need never arises, but I'd rather have the plan and not need it then need it and not have it.

There is a vast difference in planning something, and intending to follow through (which is always why the conspiracy laws are not just applied for planning, otherwise thriller writers the world over would be in jail).

> and the judgement calls required to choose between freedom-fighter and terrorist are so subjective

People are fond of reminding us that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom-fighter. They forget that for that statement to be true, that freedom-fighter must also be a terrorist.
A blind person might.

A government agency would rather not post a video to it's own site without a transcript (Section 508).

Many people would. For me it depends on the video. I often would rather read the transcript than watch. So yeah, it'd be better for me that the video wasn't even posted so I wouldn't have to waste my time searching for a transcript that didn't exist.
You could open terminal, and "touch file". Now saying that, XFCE seems to be favorite for people who don't like GNOME or KDE.
The Google cache [1] from 26th of June does not show Steve Thomas' name on that page, so it seems that Steve is right and CryptoCat are not telling the truth. That said, 26th is quite a few days ago so it might have changed between then and now.

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...
Agreed. Three decimal places is awfully high precision for a measurement of people.
"The vulnerability was so that any conversations had over Cryptocat’s group chat function, between versions 2.0 and 2.0.42 (2.0.42 not included), were easier to crack via brute force."

That's quite an understatement - and they helpfully don't link to Steve Thomas's blog post so readers can't easily discover just how weak the encryption actually was. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5989707 if it's dropped off the front page by the time you're reading this comment.)
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Technically they're not lying since they have put his name on their thank-you page now, they're just deceiving us with the truth.
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This completely ignores the problem of T-vertices.
this is just the last article on that topic.. read also:

http://www.nature.com/news/stem-cell-ruling-riles-researcher...

http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/05/italy-may-rein-in-rogue...

http://www.nature.com/news/stem-cell-cloner-acknowledges-err...
Right! It would prevent people from being able to use it in hosted services that didn't share the source, and we wanted to make sure people could easily use it in those things without any problems.
If he actually took on the role of customer support, Zynga never would have updated the email address. They would have accepted the free customer support rep and it would have continued.
I used boxee mostly for it's unparalleled ability to play all kinds of downloaded [did i just say that?] movie formats from external sources and 10% for it's WiFi + ability to render all kinds of movie resolutions on all kinds of TV screens correctly.

It's design though was clunky and awkward and I never was going to pay for any subscriptions and BS along these lines.

I still think that it's future could [or may] be in improving, enhancing and "universalling" it's hardware to add more capabilities.

No one needs yet-another-stupid-platform used to monetize it's owners and de-monetize your pocket.

Everyone needs simple, working and supported solutions.
Can we please separate criticism of (1) the technical internals of Cryptocat from (2) the core idea behind Cryptocat and, especially, (3) Nadim himself, personally?

My own take on this is that Nadim ought to be encouraged, and we ought to help him engage additional people who are experienced crypto experts to help implement the Cryptocat internals.

If you think the core idea behind Cryptocat is crap, then fine, make a technical argument. If you think the idea is good, then let's encourage and help Nadim make it better.

If you want to criticize Nadim's judgment from afar (I assume you are not on the core Cryptocat team) then that's your choice, but trust me, it does not help him, or you, or anyone. We all have our flaws and we all make bad decisions. I for one would bet that Nadim is absolutely interested in making Cryptocat better, not sweeping problems under the rug. Let's help make that happen and let's do it without the personal attacks.
It (hopefully) made Zynga think, now they are going to be more careful.
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On the one hand, you're understating the case: Cryptocat has often been breakable within days to attackers with very modest resources.

On the other hand, you're missing the point. If crypto software is going to be used, it has to be usable --- and if the setup instructions are obscure, it won't get installed. If the procedures for using it are arcane, it won't get used.

That's what CryptoCat is getting right: the UX. The unsafe internals make that dangerous, but it's still worth studying.
" At Cryptocat, we’ve undertaken the difficult mission of trying to bridge the gap between accessibility and security. This will never be easy."

Really, Cryptocat should be commended for this

Because the crypto people usually don't care and in some cases makes extra-hard for regular people (or even non experts) to have security. Like the ECB fiasco. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/05/why-isnt-my-encrypt...
At least the documentation warns it's really a bad choice.

Making technology accessible to everybody is very important
Ya it does rally suck you head needs to be on the fire all the time
Calif. attorney general: Time to crack down on companies that don't encrypt
I don't understand how people are using multithreaded ruby. Are these people doing something clever that I am not aware of? Or is it just insane amounts of testing?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15184338/how-to-know-what...
I hear this all the time but I think it's a little verkakte. Here's why:

First, GPG isn't that hard to use. When people say this, I assume they're referring to the command-line tools. But nobody advocating GPG for "ordinary people" thinks they should be using the command line tools. Here's the day-to-day UX for GPG in Mail.app: (1) ask for acquaintance's key, (2) double click it in the email message when it arrives, (3) optionally call acquaintance the first time you use the key to verify it, (4) send acquaintance mail. Depending on your settings, you may need a step (5), "push encryption button in mail composer window".

Second, to the extent that GPG is fussy, it's fussy because it's trying to solve a difficult problem. Wanting the problem to be easier doesn't make it easier. We would all be better off if all mail was opportunistically encrypted (OE was the dream of the late '90s, where you wouldn't even need to ask, and software would just figure out when it was possible to encrypt traffic). But GPG is doing more than OE does, because GPG is guaranteed end-to-end, even in conversations with multiple people. OE-style encryption is not that far from what we already have today with certificate-pinned DHE TLS to Gmail.

We could definitely use better UX for PGP (the fact that GPGMail is the best we have right now is telling).

But that's not what tools like this are; they're not a better UX for a proven system. They're not even the same kind of system. Cryptocat provides weaker guarantees than GPG does. It's simpler to use because it's a simpler, less secure system.

As to Comic Book Guy voice: yes, that's something that happens in infosec. You should be able to see why: it's a field populated by nerds that is uniquely adversarial. Bruce Schneier hasn't taken that tone with Cryptocat, but he's taken it with other people. If you go looking for patronizing, pedantic, dismissive tone in infosec, you're sure to find it. But let's not lose sight of the fact that the people taking that tone are (a) in this case right and (b) taking the time to communicate that rightness on their own dime.

Nobody paid Steve Thomas or Adam Langley to find bugs in Cryptocat.
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4. Not developed by cryptographers.
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