skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some explaining here:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http:/...
Yes. They've murdered presidents before.
> one summer spans 1/8 of your life. Unless you live in the UK.

currently summer stretches to nearly 8 minutes.
We switched to Mention.net a few months ago after Alerts stopped sending alerts. We used to get hundreds of hits per month and now it's about 1 per month. Mention.net returns everything and more.
That fringe party being The National Front, which has approximately the same politics as you'd expect from a similarly named party in the US.
Miniflux - ultra minimalist RSS reader
If they truly did interfere with free transit of the head of any state over this, I am surprised.

Shoot downs are not unheard of tho. Your comment made me recall when the Russians took down KAL 007 in the 80s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

200+ people on that including a member of US government.
Simplified logos: Nightly and Aurora
Maybe it's just happy hour, but this finally has me interested in Snowden's personal story. Seems like fun... At least compared to the typical summer slow-news political scandals.
What do you see as MongoDB's limitations, and are any/most of them solved by (the product I work on,) TokuMX[1]?

[1]: http://www.tokutek.com/products/tokumx-for-mongodb/
Batesian mimicry
I'm the founder @ Rethink. Just to clarify, we don't see approachability and scalability as a dichotomy, we think one could do both really well. There are of course some tradeoffs involved (which is why the [awesome] team @ Basho chose a dynamo-style system and we chose a master-slave type system), but in the grand scheme of things, high scale and approachability are definitely possible and we (and possibly others) are going to make it happen.
Having the download buttons listed like that baffles me. Many downloads have similar names, and having them in a vertical list is far easier for determining which one you're supposed to get.
Thanks, that information would be very helpful.

I am not sure about automatically showing up, but that would be my guess. I can ask dvander (who runs awfy) for more details if that would be useful. In any case probably it is very easy to change (disable/enable).
Albert Einstein’s Advice to His Son
>What can they release that compares to that?

offshore banking accounts, kickback/bribe money transfers, undeclared real estate and other property, visits of relaxation to Berlusconi villas staffed with underage maids, etc ... a bunch of stuff that a typical politician is usually involved in. Imagine how it compares in their mind to suspension of 4th (sounds like one after a 3rd, yes?) amendment in some other country across a big ocean.
The international uproar over a shoot down would likely be of little comfort to the dead pilot.
Azubu is a major competitor, but Twitch is dominant.

YouTube seems to still be a secondary place to stash recordings of streams, but if they take the un-Googly step of actually courting streamers personally and sponsoring tournaments, they could make their streaming community more significant.
English rude word enters German language
This really bothers me. I've been fine with Apple's "Walled Garden" App Store approach, because I do believe it offers consumers an amount of safety when buying apps.

Anecdotally, I tell friends and family who are new to their iPhone (or Mac, iPad), that they don't need anti-virus, certainly not on their iPhone. They don't need to worry about downloading bad apps from the App Store, Apple doesn't let anything bad in (Android has a history of malware in its app store). It's what they expect from owning an Apple device.

I really don't want to have to start telling them, "Careful, you could be downloading a fake app" anytime soon. I believe Apple should work harder to stop apps like these from getting into the store - it's much better for developers and consumers.
I used the desktop. I don't think I should want to zoom to draw an element because I would just have to move my fingers further.
> Surely the database would be the bottleneck here?

The idea that "it doesn't matter which language you use because DB would be your bottleneck" might have been true 10 years ago but it's definitely not true anymore.

Latest versions of MySQL and Postgresql are extremely fast. They are written in C/C++ and heavily optimized. MySQL serving data from RAM can easily do 500K+ rps on a commodity server. Even if you need to go to disks there are $200 SSD's that give you almost 100K IOPS. Put a few of them in a RAID and you're getting hundreds of thousands of IOPS for very little money.

In all likelihood application code written in Ruby/Python/PHP with frameworks piled on top of abstractions is going to be orders of magnitude slower than the DB server written in C that has undergone 15+ years of heavy optimizations.
I left my job and drove from Alaska to Argentina.

Afterward, I dropped in at my old workplace to go to lunch with friends still there. A few people said "You're done already - it feels like you left a month ago."

It was 2 years.
I stopped using Firefox and switched to Chrome when, even on an x86 Mac, I could see the browser's UI redraw itself. Not going back at this point.
I really doubt the U.S.want Snowden "disappeared"- there is spying, but also due process.
He has already martyred himself.
The question is why? Why did he feel he had to attach his personality to the leak? It's actually become an immense distraction from the core issue: PRISM
Great. but where is the blog post about how it was made? I know its showHN, but it would be great to hear some hints on how everything was packaged up into a .app etc.
What happens when a business makes a bad choice and people "unlike" en-masse? Does the counter go backwards?

Probably this has not happened much, but I do "unlike" businesses when they start to get quite spammy.
RSS News Reading in Google Plus
Thanks :-)

Side note: One thing people miss is that Twitch is a lot bigger than just eSports. It may create the flashiest, biggest events, but on a day-to-day basis most of our viewership is on stuff that's much more about interactive sharing than it is about competition.
No, Ecuador has withdrawn all support for granting Snowden asylum, and Correa says any help they gave him was a mistake.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/ecuador-rafael-c...
Never thought of that as a reason for denying asylum, but it's quite obvious that if the NSA has tons of communications on your country and your politicians, you probably wouldn't want to piss them off by granting asylum to Snowden

This is almost exactly the blackmailing situation I described in this lively discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5960695

I imagine that the only way to grant him asylum is to do so very very very secretly.
+1 I think you are probably correct. The US government must have tons of blackmail worthy "dirt" on a very large number of positions in other countries.

If we can set morality aside and speak of practical matters: my country has some tough problems. We spend as much on our corporate military industrial complex as all other countries put together (or very close to it). This "investment" has paid off nicely for us in maintaining the $ as the world's reserve currency. Even though I spent a good part of my life working in the defense industry, it seems pretty obvious that this "investment" is doing little else but making special interests very wealthy. I have my own opinions on how we can make our country safer while spending much less money.
The Y Combinator System of Seduction
Python disallows incongruous whitespace, doesn't it?
That's funny because I feel the same way if I have to use Emacs. It feels like going back to the early 90s with some DOS Borland IDE.

Regular text editors just feel so clunky next to the cohesiveness of VS/Resharper or Intellij.

At some point in time, Emacs is going to have get overhauled to join the 90s, much less the 21st century.

And I understand that CL is a special case with Emacs, but it's still clunky as hell compared to what could have been really awesome environments (think Smalltalk environments), but with lots of resources pumped into the development.
If an app is from China, what will prevent you from using it?
Hi, if an app is from China, what will prevent you from using it? For instance, WeChat, I personally think it's better than What's app. It seems very difficult for a Chinese product to succeed in overseas market, I just want to know why.
The above account is 978 days old and has only two comments, one is the above and the other is an almost exact duplicate.

Can anyone verify the legitimacy of his link?
In previous rounds there were some discussions that you were considering open sourcing Gemini. Is that still on the table or have you decided against it?
Thanks for the hint, I'll check them out.
Michael Hastings Sent Panicked Email Hours Before Car Crash
SQL Server has some extra tools, as you've pointed out. You can probably find open source tools equally as powerful (and, by definition, more flexible) to perform those tasks. Granted, you may have to invest some time finding and learning those tools - but really, that's just life. Sometimes it's worth putting in the effort [1].

I've found that the main difference is how you work as a developer. If you're happy using a clicky interface to get your work done, more power to you. I need to be able to script everything I do, because I don't like to repeat myself. The rigmarole of restoring a db from a backup in SQL Server is just insane compared to the 4 second command I could issue at the terminal for postgres.

I know it's going to sound like a total exaggeration but I literally can't use MS products for more than a few hours at a time because of the pain I get in my arm from using the mouse. And trust me, it's not just because I don't know my way around - I spent years developing on that platform (and will never go back).

[1] http://xkcd.com/1205/
what are you trying to suggest?
Apple Said to Near Time Warner Cable Deal for TV Programs
Why I’m not paying the Troll Toll
DO actually offers both San Francisco and Amsterdam locations in addition to New York.
Time as a hexadecimal color value
Edward Snowden rumor prompts diversion of Bolivian president's plane
Clapper apologizes for "erroneous" testimony about surveillance
I think you mean "remain irrelevant"... 10 years in and what has LOPSA to show for itself... Hopefully it can become relevant by taking a leadership position on something like this.
Hmm, Google is missing the flexible dates and calendar view, while http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ is missing EasyJet and presumably other low-cost airlines.
> 2) there is a massive power difference (I am far less likely to wake up to a SWAT team because Facebook found something they don't like)

Replace you with Gizmodo's Jason Chen, and Facebook with Apple and the story becomes more plausible. [1]

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/gizmodo-editor-jason-chens-h...
You can also check http://mobilito.net/
If you think that's funny, check out http://googledevelopers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/pubsubhubbub-... :

we encourage providers of feed systems and related tools to connect their
automated systems for feed acquisition to our PuSH hub (or other hubs in the
PuSH ecosystem).

Google directly hosts many feed producers (e.g. Blogger is one of the largest
feed sources on the web) and is a feed consumer too (e.g. many webmasters use
feeds to tell our Search system about changes on their sites). Our PuSH hub
offers easy access to hundreds of millions of Google-hosted feeds, as well as
hundreds of millions of other feeds available via the PuSH ecosystem and
through active polling.

You'd think they could have picked a better subject to get people to trust them over, or a better day to post about it
How Bloggers can use IFTTT in Blog Promotion
Doesn't most of bcrypt's work come from rehashing its output? So it only has to touch the 1GB input once, right?

Edit: after reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt#Algorithm, it looks like bcryt's make-work loop does refer to the key in each iteration. I can't tell on a cursory reading whether access to the original key can be memoized, though hashing the large input once before passing it into bcrypt would have the same effect.
Yammer + Blogger + Twitter = ShareCred
Facebook is in a problem
This service will turn emails into an RSS stream: http://www.mmmmail.com/

Presumably there are others if this does not meet expectations.
Check out the routing codes that they support. It's like regex for flights.
I did some contracting at a place last year, while there the competition released a complete clone (as in identical) of the companies app. While we where having a laugh at how similar it was we noticed expanded the app store description and it was copied verbatim from the place I was at, which comically included links through to the support area, contact information via telephone, brand names etc...

I'm not sure what the follow up was as I was only there a few weeks, but its shocking how lazy people can be when cloning something.
Do a search for parallax javascript libraries.
Except speed. I love Matrix, but it's not exactly snappy.
I definitely notice the performance improvements in VS2012. I wonder how many people reporting performance issues are also running ReSharper. JetBrains do great work, but ReSharper (<=v7) is very resource-heavy.
People take great pride in where their business is based. And making that fact know is valuable. Whether it is a brewery in Bend, Oregon, a tech firm in Mountain View or a fashion company in New York City.

To have a domain which instantly says where you are is valuable.

So, another motivation might be branding the city and the businesses which function within the city.

NYC already has the Made in NY program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_NY this is another step in the city branding itself and its industry.
Well people will use a good mouse and the will want to use a good treadmill. If your input divice is really frustrating, say a old school mouse with a ball in it, then you will just stop playing. If you have a treadmill that that is just frustrating and inaccurate you will also stop.

But as soon as a new mode of input is good enougth, people have fun doing things with these input modes even if there is a more efficent way to input. People play with controllers even if it is clear that a shooter can be played better with a mouse. People like to play wii because the like hitting the air instead of moving the finger to the button.

Its fun to use a wheel to drive a car instead of a controller even if the controller works much more accuratly. The same goes for the treadmill, running around and shooting stuff can be more fun then sitting and shooting stuff better.

Also nobody belives that everybody will always use a treadmill, just as nobody belives everybody will use mouse, controller, wii remote, kinect or anything else. Some people only like the mouse/keyboard other people have all the above.

I think lots of people will have fun with actually walking around and moving the same distance in the game. Also people will have fun when the look to the left while keeping there gun pointed at some door.

Having another independend multidirectional input will make it harder if you are untraind but it can improv the max skill. I remember playing Goldeneye on the N64 where your gun was always point strait and you had to switch between walking and pointing the gun. Then it changed and you could do both at the same time. Now we will have another such change, your head, your body and your gun all move independently and that will be fun.
Interesting. I know it's a rework of DictShield but I was unaware that came from MongoEngine.
Would any country smaller, economically or in population, than NYC also be too narrow to deserve its own TLD?
I figured it out. Using the username/password as part of the URL string (i.e. https://emily@socialcast.com:demo@demo.socialcast.com/api/me...) worked. I'm sure that there's a better way to do this, but this is just for fun anyways.
It's nyc.ny.us, which is actually in use already. This display of ignorance is a very badly-scaling use of the one and only namespace DNS has.
Uh oh... The AI just fired its second missile at my unsaved thesis edits.
we've come a lonnnng ways since the latenight bootleg korean starcraft stream watching days of the 2005-2008 era, and Twitch has helped make huge leaps forward. My life as a viewer has never been more convenient or filled with options.

Thanks from a former Team Liquid admin :).
Terminally Chillin': the adventures of a young man told he will soon die.
Idea: Emoticons with your actual facial expressions
Unfortunately, the fall of the Roman empire happened slowly and no one did anything about it. The point being, change wont happen, some, perhaps many will look to Snowden as a hero or roll model, but all he is is a sign post.

There were no rallies, no strikes, what did the populous do when they heard about it? Complained silently and some are probably annoyed that it's still being reported on.
Why startups don't know anything about craftsmanship
Email me (in profile).
Heh. I'm skeptical live streaming from Glass will ever become a thing many people do. Having some direct experience with it, most people just don't want to do personal live streams.
Yeah, but then you would also need .nocali and .socali. Then the the .nocali folks would be upset because .socali seems _so_ much more .cali, but the .socali folks would be like whatever dudez.
Show HN: Easy Email Encryption inside Gmail (Alpha, Open-Source)
We built this extension to see if it was possible to prevent webmail providers from handing over your email data to other parties. We encrypt the email message on the local machine and also prevent gmail from saving a draft of the email to their servers so they never have a record of the raw email text.

We think the user experience is pretty great - works inside gmail, users need to know nothing about security or keys and you can send to any other gmail user (you don't have to worry if they have the correct software installed).

With any attempt at security and encryption, you usually trade off ease of use with how secure it is. We decided to use symmetric encryption because it made the user experience better. The only downside of course is that the security is only as good as the password the user chooses to encrypt the message with.

- we're using the Stanford javascript crypto library here: http://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/
- we open sourced our extension here: https://github.com/StreakYC/StreakSecureGmail

There have been a few other attempts at this, but they usually require users to understand how encryption works and require that all the users you send emails to have signed up for something (or have a public key somewhere). We think our attempt is ridiculously easy to use.

This is a super early experiment/alpha/whatever so we see this as a starting point. Would love to get feedback!
My first thought was "OMG he has a working Apple II GS?" and then I realized it was already 4 years old when it was written, and the author was recounting a tale from his childhood.

Lots of Amiga stories from the late 80's early 90's dealing with the fact that the Amiga was a multi-tasking system with an unprotected address space. Great when all the tasks are written by the same group, not so great when they aren't :-)

Of course the notion of anyone being able to write anywhere was the basis for ITS (the Incompatible Timesharing Service) at MIT which was a great counterpoint to Tenex (DEC 10 Executive) which was locked down pretty hard. It changes the way you think when you realize you can tell the computer to do anything you want and it will try to do it, up to and including killing itself.
I think I must be missing something obvious here, but how can you do this if you use something with state like a database? How do you create a production system from scratch without losing all the data?
Ask HN: UrbanDictionary/EtymOnline but for function names
Is there any site out there that is like UrbanDictionary or Online Etymology Dictionary, but for function names?

Oftentimes, I show up in a language or different programming paradigm and find myself encountering new function names, many of which may be completely divorced from the language and context in which they originated. Some like car and cdr are easy to discover, but others like summ, are more difficult to determine its origin and/or synonyms in the same or other languages/contexts.

I know RosettaCode gets close to this idea, but its goal is chrestomathy to demonstrate the same function in idiomatic code for each language and not disambiguation, synonyms and etymology.

It would be great to have a resource like this with an API, where you can set one or more target languages you are familiar with the same way you can look up words in OS X (usually double tapping on a word with three fingers if enabled).
It is still on the table, but we haven't made much internal progress on this yet. Hopefully we'll get there before too long.
I switched from Firefox to chrome because firefox took ungodly amounts of time to startup. But I'm happy with Chrome so I don't go checking every month to see if firefox have fixed it yet. Maybe I'll try it again.
State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook 'likes'
Google+ is Google. You'll use it in the end.
"Hey [redacted] the Feds are interviewing my close friends and associates."

So - who was interviewed? What questions were asked?
We don't talk about unshipped features as a rule. It's hard to do so in a way that doesn't imply promises or timeframes.
Lawrence Lessig AMA - complete list of answered questions
It's more likely that enough people who happened to be scientists enjoyed programming in python enough to implement scientific tools in it. (IMHO as a non-scientist)
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Here's What We Have to Say About the Westboro Baptist Church
Germany denies Edward Snowden asylum
The Associated Press wrote the following:

"Text of a July 2, 2013, letter to Edward Snowden from his father and
father’s attorney

Here is the text of the open letter Lon Snowden, along with his attorney,
Bruce Fein, wrote to NSA leaker Edward Snowden. The letter was provided
to The Associated Press."

The inclusion of Mr. Snowden's letter to the Associated Press's original title and introduction makes this a derivative work for which copyright protection is available[0].

Even without that (or if my understanding of a derivative work is incorrect) you are construing mechanical output of boilerplate CMS content as a specific intent to claim copyright, an assertion which lacks supporting evidence.

[0] http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf
It feels like using the mouse is the tradeoff for using Microsoft products. I use Visual Studio and SQL Sever at work, and they are such a productivity boost, but I hate how often I have to use the mouse. The problem is many of the benefits of using their products perks would be difficult to navigate around with a keyboard.

At times it's frustrating how often you have to use the mouse, but other times it's so great compared to any alternative ways (that I know of).
Not to mention the fact that most experts will spend their time on concept on design rather than code cutting. I think Rob Pike said it well when he said he didn't event have commit privileges at Google while working on Go because he still coded in K&R C.