skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it to manage my "archive" folder, which contains large binary files which rarely change. This includes music, some tv series, operating system .iso images, backups of retired computers, etc..

The great thing about git annex is that each clone of the repository has the entire tree structure of the repository, but by default has none of the data. So if I'm going on a trip I can just cd into the right folder on my laptop and type "git annex get ." or "git annex get Windows*.iso". Being able to tab-complete all the files in the annex even though you don't have a copy of most of them makes it very convenient.

The numcopies constraints also help enforce redundancy on the data. I could use raid to have local redundancy, but that only protects against a harddisk crashing. If I have four repositories in different physical locations and set numcopies to three, then git annex helps make sure there are always enough copies of a file (in three different physical locations), so I won't lose data even if my house burns down.
It sounds like you're being underutilized. Many times people "Create an organization" to solve a problem as a way to say they're doing something, without actually having to get dirty themselves.

I don't know your situation well, but perhaps it may be time to look around.
the danger lies in double spending: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Double-spending
Using or not using a so-called useless thing is not a question of human survival. Humans are consuming soda and it has been proven that it isn't HELPFUL. So the question is really about the continuous waste of time, resources and energy (in producing and consuming) versus that of the intent behind all these (time, resources and energy).

Unless of course you believe that producing/consuming Soda is HELPFUL in a sense that it is helpful towards economy (someone's making and people are consuming it). In this case, I have no argument here because the intent is clear enough.
I have not seen a single mention of hyperloop outside a couple articles on HN. Are you sure there's a lot of hype? Where is it?
1 Million Apps on iOS Store ... When? ... July 30th
Pragmatic: Putin's office switches to typewriters
The default installs of shells and window managers are likely to reveal whether the command has either ever or recently been run.. Disabling the defaults is also "suspicious".

I don't think you can fix a social problem with a technical fix. Innocent until proven guilty (of a crime with a victim please!) has to apply to employment law and clearances. Otherwise we are building a group of criminals who can honestly be believed when they say they are willing to violate the constitution to protect executive branch interests.

The trouble with the Snowden case is that the NSA now has more power to filter its employees/contracts in order to further violate the terms of the agreement.

Even drastic action would not fix it. Impeach the entire chain up the executive branch and the next one will be more secretive and let Hoover shine as the simple misunderstood Prom Queen he wanted to be.

I just hope Obama's actions will ruin him and this nonsense about replacing the President with an outsider. If that suddenly gets you an honest system instead of a cynical President, then kissing the frog must work too.
I already did: http://www.addalicense.com/
Agreed. While I'm happy to see effort here, it seems half-baked.

Among the many things not there:

* Create new issues
* Add tags to issues
* View milestones
* View diffs
Yup, we're focusing on the pages most likely to be clicked through on mobile first.
Perhaps the move to a wide, non-developer audience finally did it?
Why not some sort of suspension system?

Request take down of something you don't own -> you can't invoke DMCA for a month. That should be a deterrent.
Nice to read this. The experience with paying with BTC last time I tried is was less than pleasant - I had to wait about an hour until the funds appeared.
Why did Ashton Kutcher choose to play Steve Jobs in the upcoming movie Jobs?
There are horror stories in New York around parents asking, "Why no social studies for Junior this year?" and being told, "Social Studies is only covered on the high stakes exam next year, so that's not my problem."

Standardized testing implies you really have to nail the test design, and be vigilant that people aren't working just to the metric, and aren't cheating. (Freakonomics has a chapter on how they caught cheaters in Chicago. Apparently they caught them in other cities too but didn't have the courage to fire them elsewhere.)
I was doing some usability testing in one of my webapps and needed a simple way to count conversions. There are lots of A/B testing solutions out there, but I just wanted a persistent count I could increment on specific user actions. So I created the ArbitraryCounter.com.

I find it useful, but I'm wondering if anyone else might. What do y'all think?

PS. This is WAY beta, and mainly a proof-of-concept. But I'll continue developing it if there's an interest it.
Thank you for not making me feel like such an oldtimer here. As soon as I saw the name I thought "I bet I'm the only one who remembers it".

windows 3.11 aka "windows for warehouses" was actually pretty nifty and in a prior life I installed it at many small businesses who took full advantage of it's built in network mail client and many other very useful features.

It absolutely killed Lantastic which, at the time was pretty much pervasive in small businesses. Also at about the same time we replaced a lot of Arcnet and Token ring networks with UTP ethernet which I would have been amazed back then to hear would still be widely in use in 2013.
About time! This is awesome!
Putin: Snowden 'shifting position' on meeting asylum conditions
It's funny that you think your license choice meets everybodies "requirements" and mine doesn't. I think the exact opposite: I think yours meets the requirements of yourself and other developers. In comparison, I think my choice meets the requirements of humanity. Especially in the long run.

You wish I'd chosen differently. I also wish you had chosen differently, as currently from my point of view, you're helping the propagation and spread of closed source software.

Simply: I don't want my code to be used in closed source software, so I can't use your license. That choice is simply not open to me.
So Yahoo! "fighting back" apparently was apart of the smoke and mirrors, since apparently they have no choice what so ever except to bend over and take it from the surveillance state?

>Doing otherwise can lead to the labeling of individuals as national security threats or even potential terrorists, after which all gloves are off.

Are you suggesting that if in the event of a CEO or shareholders of multinational corporations deciding not to comply with secret orders then they will be labeled by the state to the public as terrorists and national security threats? Can't wait to see the headlines on Bloomberg for that…

>So let me ask you this - if the populace at large doesn't do anything, why do you expect a company of a few thousands to be up in arms about it? That's a really screwed double standard.

If one needs the populace at large in order to discern whether the actions undertaken by the state or any of it's outsourced entities are reprehensible or not, they we have bigger problems at hand…
> so any network traffic is considered to be entering hostile territory as soon as it leaves your LAN.

I wouldn't trust the routers and modems either... And there are some problems with trusting the actual computers. At a minimum, USB devices shouldn't be trusted.

NSA proofing your data isn't easy.
The password for the wikileaks cables were leaked by a Guardian journalist in a book rushed out about the story:

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zJr4qXVzdEAC&q=crystallis...

not really wikileaks fault - at a certain point you have to trust journalists you're working with, or no work can be done with the data. You could encrypt files individually I suppose, but you still rely on someone to release it responsibly.
Spatial Training Boosts Math Skills
They'll probably want to steer all mobile users to their Github app.
Me too please: emimimethods_com AT yahoo.com

Thanks!
Subhed: "The truth begins putting its pants on."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876108
Intuitive Hacker News Filter. Built With AngularJS
Didn't we already know this?
I believe one of those specific circumstances includes iOS's Mail.app when used with Yahoo mail. Why not with gmail?
So you have an explanation why women earn less (which you believe - not sure if that is the correct one), but you still believe in discrimination? How does that add up?
I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to say. If the TSA was moved back to the Department of Transportation and the Secret Service was moved back to the Department of the Treasury, then you'd simply add two departments to the turf battle war instead of having the one.

NSA is part of the DoD, so let's group them together. Under your plan to eliminate "poorly conceived" bureaucracy, you'd change the potential interactions from this:

FBI-DoD,
FBI-DHS,
DoD-DHS

To this:

FBI-DoD,
FBI-Treasury,
FBI-Transportation,
DoD-Treasury,
DoD-Transportation,
Treasury-Transportation

Wasn't DHS designed exactly to simplify this very issue? As a software engineer looking at a domain model with DHS compared to the old system, it seems like the DHS system has better separation of concerns, better cohesion, and reduced coupling.
I USE LOTS OF CAPS BECAUSE I THINK IT HELPS ME GET MY POINT ACROSS BETTER.
I worked for a placed that used the Reflections TCP/IP stack on Windows 3.x. I recall it working fairly well for that era.
"The danger, of course, is that the payment never makes it into this ledger"

As a registrar I can confirm that we can back out and get our money refunded for any transaction within 5 days. Now you can't abuse that (and there is a ratio of reversals you can do w/o having a problem) but the risk they are taking by waiting is actually far less than a credit card risk where you lose big time if fraud is involved (it gets kicked out much later than the cutoff to get the money back for the registry fee). And with cc you get dinged with a penalty and lose the money.
I already prefer a remote smartphone app for my TV
You need to find a way to prevent people from hacking it. Google page rank is similar, and people were motivated to hack it
I didn't say that it did--just that information sharing has improved.
The only Utah ISP (and one of the few nationwide) standing up for user privacy
Do you not see the injustice!?! :^)
You know, upon thinking about it, I'm not sure that many (or even most) clinical trials use one-sided testing. It makes sense to do so, and would increase power for the particular side chosen, but I can't recall ever seeing it in a paper.
Before you use a bogus gmail, or your own email, for testing, consider mailinator.com . Anything@mailinator.com goes to a globally visible inbox. It's pretty convenient.
uhh...css reset? also * { border: 0 }
You're now contradicting your assertion of "IF EVERYTHING IS THE SAME". Clearly everything isn't the same if one person is likely to start working 45+ hours per week when having a child(provider/father) and the other person is more likely to start working part-time when having a child(care-taker/mother). Over-time has an opportunity cost attached to it.
you want http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/
Fortunately, a google search for "the awk programming language pdf" returns a link to this: http://books.cat-v.org/computer-science/awk-programming-lang...

It's the first result for me.
I don't think they are. It's really minimalistic. Just Zepto & a small bit of scripting for the navbar.
How do I get Windows 8?
"Namecheap is the $.18 ICANN fee "

Competitor to namecheap here. Nope not on the hook for either the ICANN fee or the registry fee if done w/i 5 days.

Edit: for .com .org .net .info
I wonder if Snowden really has the ability to definitely answer this question. Someone should get fired if a guy like him, coming along after the fact, could really access definitive proof.
Fidelity bonds are interesting, but it seems to me there are a couple of alternative solutions that are much easier to understand and hence more likely to get traction. One would be to rely on green addresses (downside: requires third party trust) and another is to simply sniff the bitcoin network for an additional small time window looking for suspicious double spend attempts (downside: not 100% effective)

However, I suspect you understand these issues better than I, so I'd love to hear your input on these alternatives and why you think Fidelity bonds are the most likely solution that will be adopted.
Kinda useless without the newsfeed. :/
I think <blink> was probably worse :). I probably would never even visit GitHub from my mobile device, but I just wanted to point that out.
Github's in your base, killing your dudes! (OUTAGE!!)
I thought at first they were talking about that myself, but it seems that there was a separate winsock client released by Microsoft for 3.11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_3.1x#Windows_for_Workgr...

Also, for your historical needs
http://www.trumpet.com.au/index.php/downloads.html
Yes, I have a JSON api that the Backbone.js website uses. To export all of your logged time, just page through this resource:

https://www.wakati.me/api/v1/actions?page=1&show=file,is_wri...

I'll publish api docs soon to make writing your own plugin easier.
We haven't seen a decrease in the valuations/valuation caps at which YC companies have raised money after Demo Day.

Valuations are high by historical standards, which means at some point they'll probably fall, but we're not seeing evidence of a fall yet.

It does seem to be getting harder to raise later rounds. But I think that is a secular change, not a market fluctuation. VCs seem to be shifting toward a strategy of spraying money at early stage startups, and then ruthlessly culling them at the next stage. This may well be the optimal strategy, but it's tough on the late bloomers.
No, the problem is that a career as we've defined it is required in the first place (desired is a different animal). Why can't a mother co-work with other mothers? Or consult while her partner watches the kid/s? Or choose to do only mothering? Or find some other way to combine career and motherhood in proportions that aren't 90/10? "Well, if she isn't in the office from 9-6 she won't get promoted, or she'll get caught in the next round of downsizing, or we can't collaborate as well", congratulations, you're now part of the problem.

Some offices do reduce the friction with on-premise daycare, breastfeeding/pumping rooms, flexible schedules, work from home, etc. It's not an insurmountable problem.

> society is telling mothers that if they want to be good mothers then they cannot take advantage of those things.

Looking at US society I can't agree with that. Daycare is pervasive. Walking down the halls here I see many women, many of them with pictures of their young children in their cubes. Perhaps it's different here in SV, but I don't think so.

What I do see is a lot of this kind of talk on the part of young professional mothers, and this makes me think it is a defense mechanism -- that the mothers actually would like to spend more time with their kids, maybe not breastfeed or maybe so, but in any case, the current proportion of career and motherhood is not fulfilling to them.

[Since I mentioned the office, I will add the standard disclaimer that this opinion is my own and not that of my employer's. I don't talk about this stuff at work.]
Does this track time even when the window is unfocused? If possible, it shouldn't: I often leave my editor open but idle even for hours, and this might skew the tracking by counting a lot of time on a file on which I didn't really work for that long.
Even if the incident with screwing over the chinese dissidents is the entire reason they fought the NSA in court that does not subtract one iota from the good karma they deserve for fighting the NSA in court.

People who learn from their mistakes deserve at least as much praise as the ones who got it right from the beginning (the list of which seems to be exceptionally short in this case).
It's for women in tech, mostly, with a focus on helping anyone get jobs in tech. It's really high quality.
Maybe I missed it - but it would be really cool to see a large fragment of working code for some of the apis.
> It would be legal to take BSD code and add an additional clause that said, "Not for military use."

No, it would not be legal to add a clause unless you were the copyright holder of the BSD code.
Why Your Doctor May Still Have Paper Records
Definitely true. I stream most of my media (home server, seedbox, or Netflix) so the storage isn't that big a deal. I have an 8gb flash drive for ROMs and haven't come close to filling the internal storage with games.

I wouldn't use the Ouya for serious storage anyway because I couldn't readily access or manipulate that data through the network, but that's just me.
New NIST/NSA Revelations (1993)
True. Either way...a famous refrain is to charge as quickly as possible.
Instead of mounting your file system with discard, use cron to run the command "fstrim /path/on/ssd" daily. You won't have to pass the discard commands every time something is deleted, and instead only have the performance hit once a day.
Even if it was easy to forge, what's the point? As soon as it is clear that it's not a valid transaction, they can just cancel your order.
I hate to disappoint you, but the main stream user experience of bitcoin remains a clusterfk. Things are slowly improving though (new payment protocol, hardware wallets, zero-conf transactions, lightweight wallets, deterministic wallets, etc.)
Are there updates coming for the Android apps also, or is the focus on mobile web? The Android app doesn't support the one thing I could reasonably do on my phone - reviewing pull requests.
Flight is a lightweight, component-based, event-driven JavaScript framework
Yeah, I thought so too. It looks like nytimes and wired ran the story on June 1, 2012 [0][1]. I think the only new piece of information is that the NSA specifically co-wrote it with Israel, according to Snowden.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ord...

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/?p=42451
Ask HN: What SaaS products do you pay for personally?
Ask HN: What SaaS products do you pay for personally?

Saw this question asked from the perspective of startup SaaS tools, but I'm wondering what subscription-based services folks use personally. I actually thought I spent more than I actually do.

My List

Monthly:
Github,
Sprint.ly,
MindMeister,
Evernote,
Spotify

Annual:
Pandora (still undecided b/w Pandora and Spotify),
iTunes Match,
Yahoo Email/POP Access (don't judge)
I was expecting Rowling to start writing under a pseudonym after the response to Casual Vacancy didn't make it much further than "this isn't like Harry Potter at all!" It's kind of a shame that the secret's out.
The kernel symlinking is actually a rather unnecessary eselect module. An example of a more useful module is switching your system's default python from 2.7 to 3 to 2.6 in one command instead of changing the symlink for the various python commands.
Would it be possible have the source of those plugins open?
It is obviously not just that. You just simply don't put together four wheels with motors and a battery pack and call it a car. Forgetting about everything inside (interior design, user interaction, fancy touchscreens, etc) and looking at it from a point of systems integration, it is really hard to design good suspension systems, optimize the aerodynamics and tune the dynamics of the system to have good handling on a broad set of road conditions. Tesla got it right and the big auto makers will eventually get it right too, but by no means is an easy task.
I don't understand this line of thinking. If I'm a Github user and I'm on the website from a phone and go to create an issue then that's actually what I'm hoping to do.
I would imagine you could install Gnu GO, VLC, or any other GPL software that has been removed from the App Store.
PaaS in Japan. Notes from my recent trip
You're probably thinking of Warren Farrell. He was writing a piece for the NYT on the wage gap when he thought "If workers can be bought for 75cents to the dollar then surely someone in the market would have taken advantage of this." The lack of case studies on any such companies is a telling sign that the "wage-gap" is more nuanced than just discrimination.
I wonder who is going to make one of the first big strides in NN analysis- Europe (http://www.humanbrainproject.eu), Google, or now NVIDIA ... It is nice to see that there is competition which will hopefully push for sooner discoveries.
Who actually uses bitcoins and what for? Last time I checked, I couldn't buy bitcoins with my Paypal account or credit card.

The only way I see it being useful is if I get paid for some hacking job or botnet (then spend the money on Namecheap domain and hosting :-)...

What am I missing?
Why can't he just dump everything at once, instead of a new revelation every other day?
Replying to this just to let you know that it seems you've been hellbanned - each of your last three comments is [dead], although none seems offensive or inappropriate.
Does he know this himself independently, or is he answering based on the common knowledge of this?

I suspect it's the latter because he would have no reason to have anything to do with stuxnet, and I doubt the security is that bad that any employee anywhere can find out everything about every program.
> patio11 is great and I'm not sure why you brought him up.

Because he's really good at marketing, and I was curious if all the people equating marketing with sleaze would be as quick to call him sleazy as well.
Yep. We've known this ever since Stuxnet was discovered, not to mention that this article is a week old.

What could be of importance is seeing an official, classified document, that mentions this important fact. Let's hope we eventually get to see official confirmation on this issue.
IMO this is essentially a publicity stunt in aid of an escape from stereotyping for Rowling. It's a good narrative (the ploy, that is).
This depends on the client. The reference client will not display the funds as available until it reaches 6 confirmations (~60 minutes) but the coins are theoretically available to spend as soon as your client knows about them, it's just a matter of using a client that allows you to do so, and also making sure that the network knows that you have coins in the address you specified as an input before you try to spend them yourself.
I'm happy to answer questions about this. I'm Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack.
After Casual Vacancy I gave up on her. This was not do to the lack of Harry Potter but due to the lack of any magic. By magic I mean likeable characters and a story I could care about.

Casual Vacancy was slow, dull and full of people I wanted no business with.
isn't sentiment a lagging indicator of earnings?

so sentiment shouldn't really have peaked unless earnings already did too?

wonder if anyone else has seen this, and when he wrote that, if it was during the Fed scare correction that seems to have been succeeded by the Fed relief rally.

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=%24spx&id=p33407302522&def=...
OTOH, in those days classic Mac OS was quite popular as an Internet server running WebStar and AIMS.
Bill Gates is probably wondering what took Linus so long.
Here is Kernighan's personal help file on AWK:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr08/cos333/awk...

It deals with things he forgets or needs to remind himself of.

If you're interested in his other personal tutorials, they are here:

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr08/cos333/tut...
Apple was able to do it the way they did because there are so few choices in Apple hardware. Sure the "double-or-nothing" approach simplifies things but it's not a practical approach for large ecosystems like Windows or Android where the resolutions vary a lot more.