skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This algorightm might highly impact discoverability. It gives mover visibility to already popular websites making them even popular, while not very well known websites will never be discovered because very few people spend time on them.

Also I don't like the idea of having to install a plugin on my browser so that the urls I visit and how much time I spent on them is tracked, even if suposedly my identity is never tracked. Once the plugin is installed how can I know if a new version of the plugin won't track more parameters?

When I read the title I though it was referring to a distributed search engine like YacY or Seeks.
In theory, it's a little simpler - at least for new keys...
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ke... and http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#the-keygen-element
Show HN: Crowdsourcing for live events
No(t necessarily). Basic income can be cost neutral. One such cost neutral model was proposed in Finland, so there's no inflation.
I use it for StartSSL. It allows me to use SSL client cert auth for their OpenID instance.[0] I use it to log into StackOverflow and a few prominent sites. I like the idea of my cert provider being a trusted party for auth for other sites. However, trusting anyone other than himself in this post-PRISM era is probably a mistake.

[0] http://www.startssl.com/?app=14
I would love to hear more about this. I've been looking for a good sso solution that uses crypto cards.
IEA Report Offers Prescription to Ease Urban Transit Congestion
You don't actually need to sue people to make GPL have an effect. Some companies might casually infringe copyright, but they are less likely to do so once informed about it by the public. At that point, it becomes willingly infringement. Willingly infringement on a commercial scale is one of those key legal terms that turn fines into millions, and in some countries, can even become a criminal offence rather than civil (criminal offences are handled by the state rather than by the complaint).
Raspberry Pi Wall Box SONOS Controller
Send me an email, ben@exocortex.com, I'd love to hear your ideas. Be sure to sign up for the beta as well.
You can check out my personal blog at ozkatz.github.io - I'll be writing about it soon, probably.
Clustering reading list
Freedom of association always applies, the only question is whether government can and has overridden it.

For "has", neither Congress nor Nevada has attempted to make discrimination based on employer illegal, in a place of public accommodation or otherwise. There can be no illegal discrimination when there is no relevant law, making the case moot from its inception.

And even if they had attempted such (that is, we move to the "can" analysis), we know from the Supreme Court's unanimous decision in Hurley that it's difficult to do even where there is an entanglement of public and private interests, the harm to the private interests is extremely attenuated, and the excluded group is arguably quasi-suspect.
Virtualization: Cloud Computing's Foundation
Great idea! It would be nice if one was able to start creating guides without registering with the service.
Scary at the least. I guess we dont know the whole story. Was it just 1 guy, a group of guys? Wow.
You are confusing popularity with effectiveness.

Ron Paul specifically had been talking for what, 20 years about auditing the federal reserve more than they were allowed. They finally got something through under someone else's name, but the victory was his.

The reason is that Ron Paul and his like cannot push through something on his own. The entrenched interests are way too powerful.
After 5 years on here I've finally built a system I think is worth a Show HN.

After a soft launch a few weeks ago and a lot of feedback my partner and I have gone through and made a bunch of changes to the system. Now we're starting our second big push to get content.

Basic idea is that we give fans a way to bring performers to their hometown through crowd funding. In the same system we give performers and promoters a way to plan events without the same risk as they currently face by ensuring they sell enough tickets to make it profitable before locking it in.
Good advice, but the advice given also works in Europe: Also in Amsterdam, you can bump into VCs. You just have to know what to say.
It's interesting that there seems to be a lack of appreciation for having a single way of doing things. I think there are very few applications for which the performance gains of additional flexibility are significant, whereas the productivity and test simplicity can be more significant for non trivial apps.
Reminds me of this:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-10-30/
Even easier: f(x) = - arctan(x). We have f'(x) = -1/(1+x^2) < 0 for all x, and f''(x) = 2*x/((1+x^2)^2) which has the same sign as x.
Basic income makes it easier to work, because one no longer has to choose between working and receiving benefits. There's currently a huge divide between working zero hours for unemployment benefit, and having to work many hours to get the equivalent in wages. With basic income there's no bureaucratic friction with signing on and off, or having to justify your need for support. Any extra hours worked give you extra money, and they'll be hours "on the books" - no need to hide the fact that you're working - which is a win all round.
>It misses the fact that work is fulfilling for (most) people.

Basic income is not against working, it's point is to let people work in all kinds of situations. Old-fashion social security usually makes the tax rate for certain part-time / freelancing work 100% (e.g. $100 increase in pay can reduce benefits $100, therefore the actual marginal tax rate is 100% and most people won't do that work).

> But just paying people to breath has problems as well.

You can do that in most Nordic countries, and it has many more benefits than disadvantages. For example, you can walk safely everywhere because everyone has sufficient social security. Street robberies and whatnot are practically non-existent.
I use ffmpeg to record my desktop and convert the output to animated gif.

I'm not sure about OS X, but FreeBSD and Linux distros should have ffmpeg in ports/repos.

There's also byzanz for ubuntu.
I suspect that the rich would rather pay higher taxes than face civil unrest from the ever-increasing fraction of the population that can't find work.
What is a data driven Product Management tool?
I agree that for machine to machine communication client certificates work well. Especially if you implement your own CA so you don't worry about the public infrastructure.
Dragon's Tale is an MMORPG casino game offering Bitcoin gambling
Please keep the do-gooder central planning away from my bank account. Thanks.
I think this is a great idea! However, I am worried about privacy. I also feel like this algorithm may inflate the importance of certain types of content over others. For example, just because I spend more time on a news or social media website does not mean that it has higher quality content, it just means that the content takes longer to consume. Within content categories, however, I think this could do a good job of weeding out the quality content from the spam.
Canadian Actress Ellen Page Tweets “No F ing way” About 3D Printing
So after we dehumanized a person, they acted like a person. And that "freaked us out" so ... we acted normally.

You have to be f* kidding me.
Everyone knows "Hadoop is a distributed system for counting words." ;-)

https://github.com/twitter/scalding
Money and business moves to where it's most welcome for the same reason people move to neighborhoods with low rates of theft (after all, taxation and inflationary monetary policy is theft no matter which way it's painted).

The reason people can't find work now is due to the failures of central planning, not the lack of it. Communist and hard-socialist countries all have tried the basic income idea and failed. The only exceptions are where the basic income is funded through resources, not confiscation of wealth - and even this takes wise, benevolent leadership.

When you confiscate wealth to provide a basic income, you create a disincentive to create wealth and an incentive to not work in exchange for basic income. This creates a rapid increase in both, which backfires because you have more people to support with basic income and less revenue because business owners scale back.

It all sounds good in theory, but in practice...

Edit: Interesting on the downvotes without the explanations. Do any of you live in the real world?
NCTR (Non-cooperative target recognition) has advanced rapidly to the point that AESA radars can provide the geometry of a locked target and identify the type of aircraft BVR. There's also old-fashioned IFF.
I wouldn't call you arrogant, LINQ has been around for 5 years now and any C# interview should include it.

That said, not all questions are best solved with it, but it certainly has made working with enumerables much easier.
because its cool to hate Microsoft. 'nuff said.
Without imports:

d = {}
for word in s1.split(' '):
try:
d[word] += 1
except KeyError:
d[word] = 1
print [(x, d[x]) for x in sorted(d, key=d.get, reverse=True)][:10]
Darpa also put out a contract before the MSoft acquisition to try and break into Skype Calls properly...
It's sad that your reaction to reasoned advice is to lash out with snark rather than simply to appreciate that you've been given a playbook for dealing with both current and future issues of this kind. The first play, by the way, being "stop lashing out".
I don't know what browsers do, but it's fairly easy to password protect these keys.

If you then keep the key accessible until some timeout (whether maximum or idle time) occurs then you've got pretty good security.

That's what you already get if you use LastPass e.a.
Yes, in the early days, apps like fart soundboards and flashlights were making people significant chunks of money.

As the competition has increased, you either find dozens of clones of the low quality apps, or one or two competitors that have taken most of the market.
Something like this would be awesome for vagrant!
Ah, so that's what it is. This morning, we got an e-mail : "If you open this link on any computer, including your home computer, you are required to report this through Security channels as a classified spillage. " I was wondering why the Post was being singled out. (I had not yet had a chance to look at it.)
As someone with a passion for good UI, this is infuriating. We've had microwaves for 50 years; their UI should be solved by now. After a half-century, we should have a standard set of controls that are simple, intuitive, efficient, and forgiving.

Instead, we all have stories like this about microwaves with dials, modes, stages, levels, pre-programmed jobs, and recipe databases, but that lack a simple way to microwave something for 30 seconds!

I assume this is because every microwave designer wants to invent some new feature they can tout on the box. I have often fantasized about enacting a law that requires designers of new interfaces to be forced to use said interfaces in their personal lives for a month. Hopefully this would promote better design; alternatively, it could be used as a form of penance.
Navigating the Postmodern Python World
The Myth of the Overpaid American CEO
Relevant self-promotion: I recently did a statistical analysis of medium.com submissions to Hacker News. I discovered that while the number of submissions has hockey-sticked, being on medium.com is not a panacea, and most of the posts that make it to the front page (16% of all medium.com submissions) only get 10-20 points overall.

http://minimaxir.com/2013/07/medium-normal/
text.Split(' ').Where(x=>!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(x)).GroupBy(x => x).Select(x => new { word = x.Key, count = x.Count() }).OrderByDescending(x => x.count).Select(x=>x.word).Take(10).ToArray();
The Snowden Effect: definition and examples
Thanks.

That's from 1998 , when building fabs was cheap. I wonder what manufacturing process their latest factory uses.
FYI: after creating an account they will ask you to install a browser plugin - that's how it works.
on the internet, it seems that there is a lack of appreciation for having a single way of doing things, but in the real world... it doesn't really same to be the case. The appreciation is there, it's just not as vocal, because it's... well, not as interesting to talk about, to be honest. How much of the world's software is written in C++? How many HN articles are about C++? HN is representative of HN, not programming in general.
I know for a fact that you do not have a near-100% chance of losing your money in a single hour at the casino, so the rest of your data, and your logic in general I find suspect.

Your argument would hold some weight if you could provide some source or documentation for your assertions (that investment has no feedback loop and is therefore not addictive, or that the speed at which you lose your money on an investment is something that matters for the sake of this conversation).
> And yet I can imagine this is something that could be optimized; why not cross-train the three emergency respondent department members into jack-of-all-trades that can deal with 80% of cases?

Because that's very expensive (increasing initial and ongoing costs for training and equipping every first-response unit), and in the many cases where more than the minimal response is known to be necessary from the first call, and in cases where those departments aren't acting as first responders, it doesn't save anything.

> I'm not an expert, but that would reduce overhead and cross-department communication needs.

No, training and equipping EMTs to be adequate-for-most-cases firefighters and cops, firefighters to be adequate-for-most-cases cops and EMTs, and cops to be adequate-for-most-cases EMTs and firefighters would not reduce overhead. Quite the opposite.
> What you don't want is the $10,000 bill if they send a helicopter out.

If you frequently find yourself in locations where a heli may be needed you may want to invest in a membership with your hospital or regional network (in the northwest US (ID, OR, WA) there is the life flight network, $60 a year covers any costs that your insurance don't pay).
Same goes for S/MIME which uses X.509, too. But S/MIME recently got traction and usability again because of OSX Mail.app and iOS mail support.

People should really consider S/MIME for mail encryption as nearly every MUA (mail client) can deal with it and large institutions already use it (e.g. for SSO)

https://gist.github.com/rmoriz/5945400
With basic income, wouldn't the economy adapt to the fresh money supply and rents and other costs raise to account for it? It would effectivly be additional currency inflation by a different name?
I give medium credit for being up front about their intentions in their agreement.

The author comes up with what I think of as a very 21st century problem, building a brand as a writer. When we read about Louis CK doing his own comedy show and making plenty of money by offering it up DRM free for $5. There is push back that "well everyone already knows who he is." So clearly the exposure can be a good thing.

I suspect that writers, like coders or painters or sculpters may find that much of their early work is given away or benefits a patron rather than the artist more as part of the 'dues' of becoming 'known.'

I don't agree though with this : "Gathering an audience when you don’t have an audience is wicked hard work." though. I think of it as just being "work" and perhaps most importantly it takes "time". Time for people to get around to reading your stuff, time for people to tell others its worth reading, time for folks to both find your stuff when they need it and to retain it. It sucks that if you're the next Hemingway or JK Rowling starting today, you probably won't be recognized as such for 10 or 15 years from now. That isn't because of some painful gymnastic maneuver you have to do, it is that information diffuses slowly for the general case.

For nearly everyone who you know now who is "famous" you can go back and see that they have been practicing their art for many years, often several decades. It is a painful reality that finding an audience is a fickle thing, and finding your style.
It's not too unusual for pilots to turn a minor problem into a major one by trying to fix the minor problem too aggressively. A cargo door opening would be a good example of this. It doesn't threaten the aircraft, so it should be ignored until the situation is calm enough that your attention isn't needed elsewhere. Prioritizing problems like this is a big part of pilot training.

It's a little bit like spilling your coffee while merging onto an interstate in a car. Slamming on your brakes so you can take care of your coffee will likely make things worse. Instead, merge, get stabilized, then figure out what to do with the coffee.
I decided to try it out. That Mac OS installation video is wonderfully clever.

I was weary of giving Lumi access to my browsing history, but then I remembered how many companies already have access to it.

It's still not done processing my browsing history, so I have no idea if it works.
Unfortunately this idea was patented 13 years ago:

http://www.google.com/patents/US6124583

Makes you realize why there are no commercial implementations of this and why patents are terrible.
I find it hard to believe that client certs offer much advantage over cookies for most normal web sites.

Even if it was common practice you would still need some way to recover an account after loosing a certificate, at which point an email will be sent out with a password equivalent reset token, so why not just use a password?

Storing certs client side just creates another target for malware, even if the certificate is password protected. You could move the certificate to a key fob, but at that point why not just use a separate second factor token? You would either have a full sense of security, or have to trust that the client machine is fully secure (impossible).

It is much more sense to focus on making cookies as secure as possible by setting secure headers, and invalidating cookies that come from a machine that is different than expected.
excuse me?
It's sad to think that, with Google Analytics, Google probably has this data point already available for a lot of pages without having to ask people to install stuff.
I agree with your pain points.

We try to use ICollection in our APIs instead of IEnumerable, since the latter can have surprising semantics like being a wrapper for some operation which may not be valid anymore, or might be slower than you expect to do things like .Count(). IMO it's really not best for transporting across interface boundries in the most common case; only when you're specifically trying to avoid having the whole collection in memory or something like that.

Another thing that can help is this wonderful May<T> library[1]. It a great option type[2] for .NET. It helps make operations more composable.

[1] https://github.com/Strilanc/May

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type
The most annoying thing about LINQ is that they use the SQL language. So unless you use C# and LINQ all of the time it's hard to figure out what functions translate to the ones used by every functional language in the world.

I wish they would at least alias map, reduce, some, etc.
It may not be quite as dire as you suspect. Firstly, system specs in games are always specced higher than you need in reality. Secondly, Linux OpenGL driver quality varies wildly, which is why they list only the two big vendors. IIUC Intel Linux drivers are actually quite good, so you may be in luck. I would reserve judgement.
For all of these "Trends" that seem to "push us towards an unconditional basic income" I'm sure there are stronger "Real Quantified Trends" that push us in the opposite direction.
This reads like satire especially toward the end
> Instead of making cookie information easily visisble and manageable

How do /you/ suggest making base64 encoded blobs of context-less ID numbers understandable to the average browser user, assuming that they could be persuaded to care in the first place?

Even as a geek who knows where to look, I look at the cookies from most sites and have no idea what they mean :P
Why are you allowed to ask technical question whens you dont even understand how LINQ works under the hood. This material is nearly 6 years old and even a dated Jon Skeet book would suffice. WTF.
They're as secure as your ability to keep the private keys private, just like with server certs.

As far as MITM and PFS goes; that's handled just the same as regular SSL. Using a client cert doesn't affect that at all.
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Any dot net dev not familiar with littered .toList need to pack their bags.
Basic income on top of everything else doesn't make much sense (cost-wise).

But if we could trade B.I. for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and other social progams-- it would probably be more cost efficient as individuals look after their money better than other people do.

Here's a video from Milton Friedman (not Tom Friedman!) who is advocating for a negative income tax-- a variation of basic income.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
> “Return the top 10 most frequently occurring words in a string.”

...

> var words = s1.Split(' ');

Wrong. Yet another example where an interviewer cannot correctly solve his own questions.
I won Buzzword Bingo by the end of the second paragraph.
Having exactly the same in fluxbox since more than 10 years ago...

And more "dynamic" and "generated" menus (all that is needed is the "include" directive in the menu handler and cron).
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Of course there are details to work out but it is fundamentally a solvable problem. A tax on any coal natural gas or oil should cover most of the bases (per ton of carbon contained). If it is being purchased for a use that won't end up in the atmosphere (IE carbon capture and storage), the burden is on the purchaser to prove the case for a tax write-off.
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or 22 x i7 cpus just to match a USB ASIC doing 335Mhash/sec - they currently retail at 1BTC so anywhere between £45 and £57 - whereas 22 x i7 will be approx £5500 (at £250 a piece).
XBOX commands sizable chunk of a very lucrative market. If we have luck the console industry will implode soon because the current model is unsustainable, but at the moment XBOX is not not very big.
Your suggestion has the same problems as most basic income proposals.

1) The numbers don't work out. Even a very steep CO2 tax will produce too little revenue for any form of meaningful BI.

2) The money collected on the CO2 tax could also be used for a general tax cut. So you still have the political problem of explaining to working middle class why their money is being handed out to lazy bums.