skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amusingly, this post made a lot more sense when I remembered that boxers are a type of dog.

That said, it's a great post and something that is all too easy to forget when you work with people, who often get angry at you when things aren't going their way. It's really kind of unfortunate, too; most companies have trained people that anger really is the best way to get something. If you yell, you might get a manager, and eventually the company just wants to placate you so that you go away. Now, people just reach for anger...
Covering video too would be great but maybe a second phase handling them separately is a hassle for users.
Crime still happens in jail. If you put everyone (presumably, except for the jail guards) in jail, you don't reduce the crime rate, you increase it and change the location.
>They are unlikely to become customers

My reading of the original post was that she already was a customer but couldn't understand that her current problem wasn't actually with Basecamp. And I'm sure you know the stats about the difference in cost between acquiring new vs. retaining existing customers...
i want to download evasion jailbreak for ios 6.1.3
I don't understand your argument. I think you might have misread mine.

I'm saying that in order to undo the surveillance state, you have to convince the general public that mass surveillance is bad. HN readers might realize it, but the average US citizen does not.

BTW, "who will keep us safe" was sarcastic. Sorry if that wasn't obvious.
What about flickr and the insane free space they provide? you it's free now right?

searching is also a breeze there.

not sure how you'd go about downloading them all though...
Bill G's Summer Reading List
In my opinion, this is one of the things that is keeping Eclipse from progressing. I still use it when programming Java because of the 3-4 awesome time-saving features it provides that a text editor couldn't handle, but I just can't be bothered to learn where it hides the rest of the functionality that might make it more generally useful.
We're not using any subdomains and we never will. Even www just gets redirected to the https://neocities.org version.

If I did need to use subdomains for provisioning, I would probably just get another domain exclusively for it. You can run a nameserver without having to attach it to ns1.neocities.org. Enjoy your new site. :-)
Snapchat Had the Frattiest Creation in Startup History
I like DDG in theory a lot, and have switched my default search to it, but admittedly still end up going back to Google a lot, as DDG often doesn't bring up what I'm looking for, whereas it'll be the first result on Google.
Yeah, you guys decided to push more efforts to blurity if I remember correctly.
I think eHow managed to build up a certain reservoir of whatever the opposite of brand loyalty is among techies, so there's some lingering effect. These days I personally don't think eHow is uniquely bad. I don't think it on average has particularly great content (there are a handful of very good entries, but they're unusual), but it's not spam, or at least not more spammy than seems to be the norm in large-scale commercial media properties. A lot of it is just run-of-the-mill mediocre content on popular keywords, vaguely like About.com or the array of recipe sites, or (with some tilt towards current events) the kind of stuff published by Gawker, HuffPo, Cracked, etc.
Oh sure, let's keep buffer bugs, waste tons of bandwidth and storage, burn millions of CPU hours in parsing computer-generated text, completely ban encryption and screw it for all non-en_US-speakers so that it could be debugged via misuse of a protocol from 1983 that no one sane uses.
When I am aware of a connection, you are damn straight I make a point of avoiding giving them my money. There are a number of places that have been stricken from my vacation checklist for this reason.
Code Read of core.async Timeouts
Poll: How Many Times Do You Hit Ctrl+C On A Busy Program?
Suppose there is a busy script running in your terminal and you wish to terminate it by pressing Ctrl+C.

How many time do you press the buttons?
I press one time and then wait.
I press several times, to make sure the system "gets" it.
I press and hold it till it is actually stops.
To Protect and Defend (June 2013)
I smell a no true Scotsman fallacy.
You are not the arbiter of what constitutes a "theory." And it's a good thing, too...
Excellent point about nation building...

Too bad we're doing that nation building away from home.
You mean intentionally exceeding your authorized access with intent to defraud?

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
The original idea behind the web was a publishing platform that, like a classic car, would be easy to explore, maintain and develop.

The new vision is the application. Whether it's on a phone, or running as a web site, these are not publishing so much as services.

Perhaps it's time to fork protocols: one for publishing, one for interactive applications.
The problem is with Greenwald / Snowden - they needed to provide indisputable evidence regarding their most garish claims; or `direct access` to a representation of the evidence
The recaptcha is not https so I can't register in chrome
A DVD holds 4.7GB. Box.net offers 5GB for free.

Besides, how do you verify that those backups can be restored when you need them, if they're offline in some remote location? That seems rather untrustworthy to me. I run checks against parity files regularly to verify their integrity.
What is the advantage over dropbox? My dropbox app already automagically uploads photos taken from my phone. Am I missing something?
SSD isn't automatically faster than a traditional HD, as people using SD cards to boot ARM boards have found out.

The SSD in the Chomebook for instance gets about 64 MB/s sequential read, 17 MB/s sequential write, 4 MB/s random 4k read and 1 MB/s random 4k write.

Which in practice is probably better than a 5400 RPM HD, but there's still a magnitude of difference from a most laptop SSDs.
> I am not paying for AWS because I am dumb

...and the people who criticize AWS aren't dumb, either. AWS brings a lot to the table, and also takes a few things off the table. AWS's scaling and combo of services are both wonderful, but they come at the cost of performance and price.

Most companies don't need "click of a button"-type scaling of instances. And most people don't need all of AWS' services; replacing them with good, stable open-source software alternatives (eg., RabbitMQ for SQS, Riak for Dynamo, Postgres for RDS), while incurring a higher admin cost, is not non-trivial.

My company replaced all of our AWS instances with co-located servers a couple of years ago. Our servers were basically static; we did not rely on any dynamic scaling of instances, and since we are in Europe, we couldn't rely on datacenter distribution, either. The performance difference was extreme. The servers were cheap, but they still blew Amazon out of the water. We could easily afford two 32-core database servers within our budget, and their performance translates to a whole bunch of Amazon's fastest instances.

The up-front hardware costs were less than what we were paying per year to Amazon. We have an entire rack now, and I think we are paying something like $1,500/mo for the entire hosting package. (It may be a little more, but not much.)

Hardware maintenance costs have been negligible so far, and the redundancy built into our infrastructure and stack means we don't have to rush out the door if a box dies on us.
Ask HN: DuckDuckGo vs StartPage/Ixquick
Since the Prism break, I've seen a lot of HN postings about DuckDuckGo. In almost every DuckDuckGo discussion, I've seen one or two mentions of either StartPage or Ixquick.

Based on this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6022236) it would appear that StartPage/Ixquick is notably more private than DDG. If it is, it seems to me that SP/I should be more prominent in HN postings.

So, now I'm curious - Why are there so many more DuckDuckGo HN postings making it to the front page than there are StartPage/Ixquick?

Is there a qualitative difference? Just a different market presence? What the difference?

Edited to add "Ask HN" to title
Croatia just joined the European Union beginning this month... I'm sure that's an important step, though the media didn't pay much attention to it.
Militarized police overreach — a second excerpt from Radley Balko's book
This is part two of Salon.com's excerpts from the book: "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The militarization of America's Police Forces."
To read the first ("Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book."): http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/“why_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_...

and the corresponding hacker news discussion of the first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6001843
No monthly fee for unlimited storage.
> Easy for a guy sitting in a chair in front of a computer to say.

I'm sorry but last time I checked there was no police draft, these officers chose this line of work and were made aware or the risks and responsibilities (and pay) involved. I agree that the sureounding circumstances are partially at fault, but you make it seem as if these guys are bystanders thrown into thee situations with no culpability of their own.
I believe crime is at an all time low because everyone is in prison.

http://dcj.state.co.us/ors/images/Stats%20Images/crime%20rat...
I don't think so.

Using another picked on minority, I don't consider a "casual" neo-nazi skinhead and a dedicated one to be on particularly different levels. They both disgust me fairly equally (if for no other reason, then because the former incubate and insulate the later.)
The new one looks like a toy, like another one of those hipster websites, ugh. It doesnt work with the idea of a "neocities". Shame if this is implemented, just my 2 cents.
thx, this is awesome!
Public Opinion Shifts on Security-Liberty Balance
I think part of the reason it's bad is that the customer still won't get why you won't get them.

It's also bad because the solution was actually pretty straight forward send them the support docs (or the support contact) for their website. At least then you're pointing them in the right direction.
Directories are not impossible, I'm just not sure how to make the interface for them look good and work well. It's more a UX problem than a coding one. I would love some suggestions/sketches/wireframes to improve the editing dashboard to enable this. Please send me an e-mail if you have any ideas here.
"You can run a nameserver without having to attach it to ns1.neocities.org."

Haha. You most certainly can.

Thanks for creating the project, should be fun.
I find that hard to believe. I grew up in Hawaii, and I have come across lots of dick head cops engaging in some heinous activities. I have several friends from Oahu who would also agree with my statement.
Haha. Well, thanks for the honest answer. Having never been in that environment, I can't say what I'd do. =)
I'm sure they're protecting their turf, but they didn't start the drug war, and they're not at the forefront of promoting it.

Nixon declared the "War on Drugs". He also pioneered the "Southern Strategy", and many elements of his campaign are now well accepted to have been used as code words.

It wasn't a personal appeal to the puritan morality of drug users to stop, it was an appeal to the fears of scared whites.

The "War on Drugs" almost exclusively effects poor, minority communities and individuals.
This is actually the _exact_ same way I started learning to program.

I started with a book on HTML 4.01 and designing a webpage for my sixth grade class. Then I started to learn CSS to make maintenance a bit easier. In seventh grade I learned javascript so that I could have epic-site-battles with the eighth graders. I fondly remember adding different cursor-trail effects every week.

Yes, I did go on to learn PHP (4) -- and free hosts were easy enough to find back then. However dynamic sites is not what _sparked_ my interest. In the very beginning all I _needed_ was geocities. A few static pages and a URL was all I wanted.

I didn't know [or necessarily _want to know_] about subdomains or DNS; at first I didn't even know how to run PHP on my own machine! -- At the time my development cycle was roughly: [write -> FTP -> test -> DOH. Typo. -> write -> FTP -> actual test -> write ->] ...

---

We all have to start somewhere -- and a full stack framework would've confused the snot out of me back then. So in a way: I'm thankful for my humble beginnings; and I'm happy to see that neocities will provide that chance for someone else.
There are tags implemented, it's just a matter of me getting them into the browse. I probably should have mentioned this in the blog post.. oops. :-)
I was assuming that for counting, measuring,
and arithmetic, we want a field (you know,
addition, multiplication, both with an identity
element and inverses, associativity,
a distributed law, commutativity). We want
order -- that is bigger and smaller.
And likely we want Archimedean order.

So, if we was also want each nonempty set bounded
above to have a least upper bound, then
we are stucko with the usual reals.

For algebra, and in particular number theory,
already in undergraduate school one of my
math profs declared that I'm an analyst
and not an algebraist. The difference?
As that math prof explained, it:
"Analysis has an idea behind it. Algebra
is just pushing symbols around." I can
think intuitively about analysis and often
convert the intuitive ideas into good proofs;
in algebra, mostly I can't do such a thing.
I ended up writing my honors paper in
group representations -- I didn't
like such concentration on algebra.

For using strange constructions from algebra
or computer science to replace the reals,
I will have to decline to buy in based if only
on ignorance of the offering. But somehow
I suspect that the reals are the right answer!
Because subtitles are used with movies.

And those movies come from torrents, more often than not, (even worse, subtitles are actually made for specific rips, with respect to frame rates and sync, and say so in their metadata).
Good. Google monopoly is bad for everyone except their shareholders.

I'd love the search market to be split into 3-4 entities with similiar market share - not one getting 80-90% of the cake. Google extracts way too much value out of web traffic, killing the small business - and this phenomenon increases quarter by quarter in its intensity.
Great post. Shared it with our support team and everyone appreciated it so thank you!

Proud to say one of the guys came back with this: "she should have just written her the first time: here write [to] these guys instead" :)
And this chap, who talked two colleagues out of firing a nuclear torpedo during the Cuban Missile Crisis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov
I love NeoCities, I'm glad it exists.
Couple app now localized to Spanish
There are major cities with good amount of software talent: Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi, Brasov, Timisoara.

Most of the jobs are for other companies (Amazon, MS, Ubi, etc), a lot of outsourcing - no sign yet of Skype or other original success, as far I know.

BTW, Romania is considered by most as part of Balkans :)
If you're tempted to argue against this by pointing out that very simple tools can make irrelevant the change to a non-textual protocol -- then you are, I suspect, missing the point. There's a real psychological difference between debugging something that is, at bottom, human-readable versus one that isn't. I'm willing to concede that it isn't really that big of a difference. For the sake of argument I'm even willing to concede that it's largely illusory -- because that doesn't matter. Who cares how irrational it may be? If it's that prevalent in the human psyche, you're just better off not fighting it.

Like scripting languages, a text-based protocol doesn't just make it easier for you to get your hands dirty: it practically begs you to. The value of that sort of encouragement to the adoption of a global standard should not be underestimated.
I'll definitely start using this!
Hack5 NSA SKetch [video] (2006)
Nice! Love the simplicity of it all!
We have unions over here in Europe too. Even more respected actually. But they don't correlate with "police spending".

Perhaps the word you're looking for is "lobbyists" and "demagogues".
Awesome, I am a trello fan. Too bad this didn't exist a year ago. Already migrated to JIRA because Github issues was so underpowered. I'd use it otherwise. :(
In case you need reminding: The reason this is funny is that Sequoia pissed away $200M over WebVan.
A small over-generalization, don't you think ? Most people go to college to BOTH learn and get a credential. You can learn almost everything on your own, but it is usually easier to do it in an organized setting (curriculum, peers, teachers help)
"I actually don't think that's the case."

Neither do I. I think people make honest mistakes.

Alas, under pressure, people also try to cover them up.

I forget where I read it but some insider in the intelligence community said he thought that Obama's behavior could be explained by the fact he never had such access to such secrets before (unlike the Bush family who are closely connected with the CIA) and he quickly became obsessed with his newfound power of secrecy.

The question is whether he is man enough to admit he (and those before him) made a mistake and whether "yes we can" fix it.
(Disclaimer: I work for Basho.)

Last write wins is indeed a bad default for data integrity; I believe we received feedback early on from customers that siblings were too confusing for developers.

The good news is that Kyle was deliberately testing things that were effectively guaranteed to break, thus the high rate of data loss. Most applications won't be simultaneously writing the same keys on both sides of a network partition; there will typically be a healthier mix of new and old keys being written.
1Keyboard to rule them all - Type on your iPhone/iPad from your Mac
Maybe try sitting down for X minutes and just brainstorming, or thinking about, your project? I've often found that it's sometimes just keeping the idea in your mind every day is effective in continuing the chain.
I hate these kinds of articles. He gives the example of a TV remote with never-ending complexity like pause, record, slow motion, rewind, and so on. However, what is the solution? Saying that one should say "no" to all but essential features is a nice platitude but, after saying "no" all those times and whittling the features down to the bare essentials, what are the underlying principles with which one can present those essential features to the user without over-complicating the user experience?

I'd like to see a case study taking all the complexity that a modern remote has and yielding simplicity. Would you go from a 50 button remote down to the Apple TV remote which has only three buttons and a four-way directional pad?

What would Jared Spool's properly designed remote control look like?
Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux
>The comment was very focused on the download method, even though that should be basically irrelevant.

No, the download method is very much relevant. People download from torrents files they DON'T own any license for (from DVDs or whatever).

The just casually pile on new movies to watch.

Oh, and they are not previewing the movie to "consider it for purchase" either.
Dave's and pprof are both similar in that they run the application and poll randomly which routine the execution is currently in.

The output of pprof and Dave's (which uses pprof) would look like:

2 13.3% 13.3% 2 13.3% go/scanner.(*Scanner).next
2 13.3% 26.7% 2 13.3% path.Clean
1 6.7% 33.3% 3 20.0% go/scanner.(*Scanner).Scan
1 6.7% 40.0% 1 6.7% main.hasPathPrefix
1 6.7% 46.7% 3 20.0% main.mountedFS.translate
1 6.7% 53.3% 1 6.7% path.Dir
1 6.7% 60.0% 1 6.7% path/filepath.(*lazybuf).append
1 6.7% 66.7% 1 6.7% runtime.findfunc
1 6.7% 73.3% 2 13.3% runtime.makeslice
1 6.7% 80.0% 2 13.3% runtime.mallocgc

They are telling you what percent of the time the polling was in that routine.

Nitro is very different. You put breaks at major sections in your application where you want to measure and label those breaks.

For instance if you wrote an application to take markdown files and convert them to html you may split that up into 3 sections and see the following output.

import markdown files:
4.664481ms (5.887625ms) 0.43 MB 4583 Allocs
convert to html:
65.196788ms (71.107809ms) 17.13 MB 70151 Allocs
write html files:
1.823434ms (72.960713ms) 0.12 MB 3720 Allocs

Hopefully the difference is clear. If you wanted to break it up further you can.

Perhaps you don't find it usable, that's fine. It's not for you.

Personally I find this high level really valuable. When I make changes... say tweaking a process or adding a new feature, it's great to see the difference between execution times, memory use & allocations. Using pprof it is rather hard to get that kind of information.
"!s" also works for startpage
The medal will probably be radioactive and covered with cyanide.
"By the people, of the people, and for the people" is a description, not a prescription.

Take a look around -- that movement away from self-restraint is evident everywhere, in public and in private, in business and in government. You can even see it in people's bodies, from eating too much to working out too much.

By the people: a description. If as a society we don't restrain ourselves, it is not a great leap in logic to predict that government will do the same. We are a society obsessed with loopholes & me-first attitudes and we glorify rampant consumerism and pretty people that consume rampantly. Our companies publicly claim to "do no evil" and privately do what they want.

The surprising truth should be that the government is a mirror on ourselves. If we don't like the government, we have a much more sinister problem.

We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Heads should roll for them being filed in the first place.
Balanced-ios Project Architecture
While I agree with you that there has been lots of historical movement away from tyranny, you'd be a fool to fear McCarthy's Senate of the 50's more than the intelligence apparatus of today.

According to wikipedia:

"Between 1949 and 1954, a total of 109 investigations were carried out by these and other committees of Congress."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

The Hollywood blacklist at its height listed 300 people. Despite how high-profile it was, these institutions touched microscopic handfuls of people, and they were considerably more public and easy to oppose than the modern NSA.

Compare:

Modern NSA is pretty clearly keeping files on pretty much everyone. Hundreds of millions of people, conservatively.

Number of people on terrorist watch lists: Unclear, anywhere from thousands to millions.

Number of FISA warrants granted: In recent years, from a low of 1,300 (2009) to a high of 1,700 (2012). Call it 6,000 in the period 2009-2012.

Number of people killed via drone strikes: 2,000 to 3,000.

You are VASTLY more likely to impacted by the modern surveillance state than you ever were by the McCarthy investigations, and the government at least holds out the possibility that they will assassinate you without due process, which to my knowledge the McCarthy investigations never did.

I suspect that a similar scale argument holds with Hoover's FBI, though I don't know how I would prove it.