skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://simplerses.com - A hosted email solution and newsletter delivery tool powered by Amazon SES.
Been working on it as a side project for a while. Trying to put more time over the weekends now that I have a few paying customers.
> And yet, few of these consumers were aware of Bradley’s shortcut quietly lingering in their machines. It wasn’t until the early 1990s, when Microsoft’s Windows took off, that the shortcut came to prominence.

What? I've programmed the PC since 1982 or so. Everyone knew about C-A-D.
In my spare time, machine learning. I'm working through Bishop's book and testing out a few ideas of my own (a new way to ensemble models and a way for ANN's to communicate).
CS Lewis explored the idea of a shed with a window onto the sun. Looked at from the doorway, you see a shaft of light with dancing dust motes. But if you step inside and become bathed in sunlight you get quite another experience.

Likewise, looking at a brain from the outside, it's a squishy biological construct with some electrical stuff going on.

Viewed from the inside, though: what a difference!
Yeah, it would nice (and probably simple to implement) to have an option at the top to toggle between condensed and uncondensed views.
I have some data:

http://w3techs.com/blog/entry/jquery_now_runs_on_every_secon...

Of the top 10k sites 58.8% use jQuery. That's good!

But only 26.6% use a cdn. Leaving only 15.6%. That's bad...

But 94.2% use Google's. Which is still 14.7%! That's good!

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/03/18/http-archive-jqu...

But only 1% use the newest version of jQuery. Leaving only 0.15%. That's bad...

http://www.quora.com/User-Behavior/How-many-websites-does-an...

But users visit on average 89 sites per month. Which gives us 12.5%. That's good!

http://stevesouders.com/cache.php

But default browser cache sizes are small. That's bad...

http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2013/06/05/web-page-growt...

But the average website is about 1MB so with a 50MB cache about 50 sites can be cached. Which leaves about 7.2%. That's... OK?

OK. So I don't actually know if a cdn cache hit is all that likely, but the situation is a bit worse, and a bit better than most people think.

Of course, using a cdn is still better than hosting yourself. If you bundle your jQuery then every time your site updates it needs to be redownloaded. If you serve it seperately on your domain, you won't have the distribution benefit of a cdn.

Should you use Google's cdn instead of a different commercial cdn provider that's faster? In that case I'm not sure.
No. If it were, I wouldn't even consider using it.

Switching between multiple interpreter installations is pretty easy (a drop down in a preference pane) -- it will find every interpreter on your path, and can index anything defined in $PERL5LIB for auto-complete goodness.

The debugger is great -- I love being able to set conditional breakpoints using a possibly complex expression in the native language (not just simple var=val type things).
Particularly the big annoyance in the latest version of UI/UX wave is the small fonts. I always zoom to about 150% and in instances where the pages are spaced out very little content is visible in one screenview. I just hope this phase passes soon and never comes back.

And to be clear, I have 20-20 vision.
Sort of, many modern JS engines use lazy parsing, so don't actually parse the contents of a function until it's needed.
I linked to that from https://paste.sh/about -- creating pastes only works on browsers with crypto.getRandomValues (or with the command line client).

Okay, there are still issues with the JS environment but this does eliminate one of the worst issues IMO
I will post here my what I wrote in the forum (cannot exactly disclose it, but lots of the people there are damaged men, and thus usually blame everything on women) where I saw this post originally:

The problem is not only VAWA...

United States is severely broken currently, PRISM, VAWA, excessive pedohunting, Manning prosecution, stopping a president plane, throwing false rape accusations against a journalist, making a kid suicide over legal hell (Aaron Swartz for those that don't know, the same prosecutors are also involved into other horrible cases of overprosecution), imprisoning a 19 year old boy over a sarcastic comment over a online game (someone called a boy playing League of Legends "crazy", he replied: "Yes sure, I am so crazy I will go to a kindergarten shoot the toddlers and eat their still beating hearts, lol jk"), asking a half million bail on that boy (yes O.o, some people were confused, because it beats bails of rape, murder and other extremely violent crime cases)...

And the most sad of it all, is that most of US people don't move their asses, instead they just show their hole to the president (whoever it is at the time) and wait to get fucked.
The Verge seems like a candidate. If you name a tech publication after an aspect of technology itself, like Wired, the name is destined for quaintness.
> Translating this forum is hard. They uses a specific language...

I'm always fascinated by the way these people's minds seem to work! Reading his posts, this "DarkPassenger" fellow seems even crazier than our good HN friend losethos: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
My largest current project is writing a book about neural networks and deep learning.
Thanks Ben - have both dropped you a line and ordering tax books.

And of course wasting no time plugging the Open Source campaign - http://www.oss4gov.org/manifesto

Cheers
The authorization cookie has neither the secure flag or http flag set.

i.e. If you could get the client to redirect to http://paste.sh it would send the full auth cookie in the (now unencrypted) headers. (Man-in-the-middle can then use the cookie.)

Edit: For anyone checking, the cookie is only set upon the first edit.
absolutely agreed.
http://www.sweden.se/eng/home/society/equality/facts/gender-...

Sweden does it :)
I suspect bluff. The damaging revelations about surveillance are already done, unless he has document suggesting Putin is a CIA operative or the notorious Chinese hackers actually work for NSA, or has recording of Obama ordering assassination of Tea Party leaders, or something of that measure of insanity - I don't see what else could he reveal. By now everybody is pretty much sure NSA owns phone networks (at least in the USA) and the Internet (pretty much anywhere) and gets unreserved cooperation from every major provider. What else could there be?
I really hope somebody has these magazines scanned and archived somewhere. Recently I've been looking at old Amiga and MSX magazines and they're both really fun, but also really good documentation of the era. In a decade or so, a PC World archive could become possibly the only documentation of the release dates and prices of various products and the histories of entire minor industries.
I think the large, bold story numbers draw too much attention that would otherwise be focused on the headlines. What a story is about is more important, and contains more information, than its ranking on the front page.

Hacker News may not be all that pretty, but it's designed to bring out the important parts and communicate them quickly. Less relevant, less commonly accessed bits or information like numbers and usernames are available but don't stand out.
And the next email where Ted says that the NSA are one of the good guys... Yeah, not so much.
It's probably instant for the 99%. I don't think people are willing to handle the security and technical aspect of Bitcoin. They'll hand these details to a service like Coinbase, which will have merchant APIs and accept transactions instantly.
The worst issue with JS cryptography is that it's almost always pointless, as it is here. Your users can't trust that you'll protect their secrets, because any coercive adversary who would ordinarily operate by copying those secrets off the server directly will instead simply force you to host a backdoor that breaks the crypto.

That's the worst problem with JS crypto, but we haven't enumerated all of the problems on this thread, nor does my (old) post on our website do so either.
Radley Balko: “Once a town gets a SWAT team you want to use it”
Just because the mathematical operations are similar does not mean the two fields are at all related. The quadratic equation has many uses, but that does not mean that everything the equation is used for is in some way fundamentally related.
I like the concept, but the site optimizes "beautiful" over functional. It is very hard to scan titles versus the standard news.ycombinator.com

1. make the text bigger and bolder

2. cut out colors

3. less padding on everything

4. the "numbering of the post" matters very little to me. it doesn't need to be so prominent
You just took T'so's quote totally out of context in order to make a fatuous point. In reality, Torvalds and T'so have a better understanding of software security topics than virtually anyone who comments on HN.
https://starthq.com - a web app directory and browser new tab replacement
From the ruling given in 1942:

"...an enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property, are familiar examples of belligerents who are generally deemed not to be entitled to the status of prisoners of war, but to be offenders against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by military tribunals."

Likewise, from the very same two paragraphs you reference you would find that the Bush-definition of enemy combatant describes an "unlawful combatant" who has no right to POW status under Geneva or the LOAC.

That doesn't mean that such civilian combatants have no rights whatsoever, but they are far limited compared to what Geneva provides for uniformed forces, and there is indeed precedent in international (and U.S.) law. For instance, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld was argued to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004, which ruled (among other things) "... repudiating the U.S. government's unilateral assertion of executive authority to suspend the constitutional protections of individual liberty of a U.S. citizen. The Court recognized the power of the government to detain unlawful combatants, but ruled that detainees must have the ability to challenge their detention before an impartial judge.". Congress tried to clarify in 2006 with the "Military Commissions Act of 2006" which does indeed contain a definition of an unlawful enemy combatant (one not reliant solely on the will of the executive). Likewise, several Supreme Court rulings have further eroded the position taken by Bush regarding the legal rights afforded to unlawful combatants held in Gitmo and other places.

And going back to the subject here (of whether the executive can unilaterally declare Snowden to be an 'enemy combatant' and send him to Gitmo): "On 18 December 2003, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the Bush Administration lacked the authority to detain a U.S. citizen arrested on U.S. soil as an "illegal enemy combatant" without clear congressional authorization (per 18 U.S.C. § 4001(a)); it consequently ordered the government to release Padilla from military custody within thirty days." (Padilla was a U.S. citizen arrested on U.S. soil).

But, that case ended up being thrown out on a technicality. When it was re-argued in the right court, they "ordered the Bush administration to either charge Padilla or release him.". They relied for that ruling on the Supreme Court ruling I'd just mentioned.

So no, Snowden should be perfectly safe from treatment as any kind of weird unlawful combatant should he return. In fact the term 'enemy combatant' was dropped in 2009 coincident to a certain regime change in the U.S.
> A starving population is how you lose wars, and the work the government does to maintain the local food supply exists for that reason.

While it's true that having crops in the fields would help keep people fed during a world war that disrupted world agriculture, that's not the reason "the work the government does to maintain the local food supply exists." It exists because agriculture has a powerful lobby and they make a lot of money this way. Poor, developing world farmers don't get a vote.

It's sometimes used as a post-hoc justification for what is done.

> Also, there is growing concern for our ability to replenish food-stocks as-is. If farming ceases in these nations, you lose a lot of food people directly eat too.

Killing developed world agricultural subsidies and allowing market competition to stimulate agricultural production in the developing world is one of those things that seems to unite almost all economists. This seems to be because they think it will make food less expensive and more accessible. I'm not familiar with anyone making the opposite case?
An open source game for the Apple II, written in 6502 assembly language. Original music transcribed from public domain scores (played with the 2-tone Electric Duet software). It's been very mind-opening to have to think about every byte of memory, learn bit twiddling tricks, design efficient data structures to fit game data on a 140KB floppy disk, etc.
Working through Communicating Sequential Processes paper to understand the fundamentals behind core.async. Have a strong understanding of Clojure but need to fill out core.{logic, async, match} as well as the array libraries.
What is the reasoning behind making the story number so big?

We now that it is an ordered list so we don't really care much about the story number.

The most important thing on the page should be Story title > Story source / Submitter / Comments

I like the idea of having the top 20 of both websites side by side though.
I know the arguments that say inflation is required to encourage people to usefully apply their money, but I haven't seen enough to convince me that this is true.

Part of the difficulty I have with accepting the "inflation is good" argument is that I can see how economic policies result in inflation and it strikes me as a survival trait amongst economists to declare a consequence of their advice as a positive event.

Bitcoin may be an interesting test of that hypothesis.

It wouldn't be the first time that the consensus of an entire field was wrong prior to a significant counterexample appearing.
> Even the lowly Microchip PIC or ATmega parts have fairly large datasheets associated with them compared to say the Z80 data sheet.

And oh what you could do with a Z80 or a 6502, a few kilobytes of RAM and a couple support chips!
Men with higher testosterone levels are more likely to produce male offspring. So I agree with you. It seems easier to put the gender bias mechanism in the males.
Yes, about 15%. :) To be fair most flip within 24 hours, but about 3% or so take longer than a week.

Typically rural ISPs or Alaskan ISPs (they don't want to pay to forward all the requests so they override the TTLs).

This is when we flip Netflix IPs.
Meeting various standards for RNGs doesn't help though if the algorithm is properly backdoored. Like for instance Dual_EC_DRBG could be..

Also correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't this about using RdRand as entropy source to the linux /dev/random, which afaik is not injection-proof..

And I would consider /dev/random among the most critial of applications.
UPDATE: To quote the authors: "In the present paper, we discuss such a link, ALBEIT a much more MODEST one, between Bell nonlocality and the theory of Bayesian games—also referred to as games with incomplete information."
Just launched http://www.textrep.com Text marketing for real estate agents.

Working on meeting with potential customers and am also taking real estate agent license classes nights to learn more about my market.
You're already in the graph. You can't escape it any more than Kevin Bacon, and you'll go crazy trying.
Working for a smaller company will normally give you a far wider scope of technologies due to how many staff they have, this isn't always a positive however, but it can certainly be more interesting.

Working in a larger company normally will have the other benefit that you become an 'expert' within your field much more easily, because your silo'ed working on that one thing most of the time, however make sure you enjoy that one area your working in!

Out side of work just try dedicated some time each day, say an hour or even just 30min, read some material or try build something a little bit more each day. Once you have a plan stick to it and look back at the end of each week to see if your actually learning anything, if not amend your plan to suit.

Picking what to learn when you have limited time is going to be fairly difficult, your probably going to want something that you already have an head start on so you can make decent progress with your limited learning time. For example if you know Cisco routers, learn Juniper routers. If you know PHP learn MySQL, Memcache etc...
You know what's really sad? People whining about the NSA every single day on Hacker News. It's really unbearable. I'm quite sure that the NSA has a filter for people who bad mouth America on hacker sites. I really wouldn't worry too much. You're classified as impotent. Unlikely to do anything more than whine.

Let the downvoting begin. What a bunch of losers.
When we flip Netflix domains we see about a 15% straggler effect (although to be fair only about 3% take a week, but many take around 24 hours).
Ditto here on Unity, but I got a confirm dialog. On Windows it's still the software interrupt, and on the corporate edition of win7 at work I get "Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to log in" on every boot.
The Iranian government has no point of view worth its salt. It's a repressive regime and the more we buy into their crap the more we're actually harming the people of that country.
I got an internal server error when I tried to access that.

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eu6ON48...

Edit: Yes, it is OK now.
Whereas with closed source you would almost never know. Crypto is very hard to do properly, but at least with open source you have the possibility of independent third party analysis.
I'm trying to investigate the learning of artificial neural networks by using methods from mathematical logic.
http://carros.com.co - Its becoming the biggest used car portal in Colombia.
Sounds interesting. Are you working with a traditional publishing company?
That's an... interesting mechanism. I can't figure out what the goal is, aside from, as you said, keeping prices high (specifically for those two kinds of sugar, which seems extra weird) - is there another reasonable explanation?
mobile app for animating and visual programming on tablets
I love this. I immediately started tweaking the CSS for a larger font size and less padding, though. HN users are accustomed to density, I think.
There's only one way to make a tiny page that loads super fast - and that's to make every single decision with an eye towards efficiency.

People who say "hey, what's an extra 30KB for one library? It's only like 10x larger" will tend to reach a similar conclusion at every decision point. And that's why the internet is full of massive, bloated, slow web pages. Single decisions don't cause bloat. Bloat comes from a slack attitude towards efficiency.

I'm not saying this project is an important breakthrough, but I definitely applaud the effort. I've always been surprised at the large size of jquery. I'd love to see a benchmark for runtime performance, including a comparison of parsing time and a benchmark of common operations.
It is not prospering by any stretch of imagination, what are you talking about?
My humble perspective: Nothing matters as long as profitability and opportunity exist. Bitcoin will continue its growth as long as it's profitable to operate a miner, a business, an exchange and as long as there is an opportunity to run something. People will go where the money is.

My other humble take: High-rises and businesses are built by continuous and large flow of money (wealth) into a system. Bitcoin business will continue to grow and solidify (have better security, legal status, branding...) as the money keeps flowing to the system.
http://www.one-tab.com - save up to 95% memory in Google Chrome and reduce tab clutter. It launched on HN a couple months ago, and am currently adding multi-PC sync.
Knew this was coming.

I'm worried about the new trend of the hivemind unilaterally attacking employees from companies they are morally opposed to, regardless of their internal level (i.e. NSA, Walmart, etc).

I'm fairly confident the people behind this library are closer to being our tech brethren, rather than policymakers inside WalMart, responsible for any of WalMart's official practices.

TL;DR - Give them a break and stop shitting on their work.
A 3d film about a 12th century bishop and his crazy ideas about the expanding universe. I'm taking the simulations a physicist has written of them and trying to render them in an attractive way.
Powertop doesn't do that though.
Why do you think it is necessarily much simpler?

Selecting X or Y sperm cells may be easy, if there is some sort of external effect to the genes in those. For example, perhaps X causes sperm cells to be more robust to acidity, and the female can select for X by increasing acidity levels.
While it's true that getting butthurt about fiat currency not being a good value store is not rational, calling inflation/debasement-proofing a "disadvantage" depends very much on your place in the economy.

If you have an income and the freedom to set your own pricing levels, inflation can be dandy. If you live off savings and the central bank has crushed interest rates, not so much.
Obama signed executive order granting him access to control US Internet access
A mobile app for my wife's political campaign for a city council seat. Handles canvasing (door knocking) and phone banking.
That is very interesting. Thanks!
HTML/JS/CSS desktop environment. https://github.com/Lerc/notanos

Posted a Show HN a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932209

Currently in thinking mode about how to structure the client frame APIs.
I'm working on my company's second product, Signal: http://signalapp.io/
Yeah, I really regret going there now...

Which is really, really sad. It's come to this, where we have to be afraid of drivebys on websites just because they may be honeypots for the US government, or because they might get all of us on some surveillance list.

When is it going to stop?
Can some of the clojure and clojurescript gurus take some time to write beginner friendly, hand holding tutorials? I mean, I can see the power of these technologies but the very thought of climbing a learning curve AS WELL AS a getting started curve ( that too without any external help! ) is the single most important thing that turns people off.. especially me. My general complaint is with regard to how many tutorials and even books are out there on these topics! Countable, with the fingers in one hand perhaps!
All good now. Database server was restarting.
None of them actually believe that crap. They want us to believe that they actually believe that crap. Get it? It's a scare tactic sorta similar to what the police in the US uses and should not be unfamiliar to anyone living here.
Not defending the debain change but openssl code structure / readability is far from great, the only packages I would put behind openssl is libxml2, glib and glibc.
Is that 90's design style on purpose? That way you can attract older users?
Maybe no-one would have noticed if it was closed source. I bet if Microsoft released everything as Open Source there would be billions of bugs discovered.
There is no proof in empirical science. It's annoying when people claim it, and just as annoying when people demand it.
A crowd-sourced alternative to Rosetta Stone http://www.babelmatch.com
Hacking Health (hackinghealth.ca) Pair up health professionals and hackers to make better healthcare. We provide multiple events such as hackatons, cafes, consults and we're working on an accelerator to link team to real clinics and hospitals.