skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd strongly suggest looking into the backgrounds of the authors. One is a lobbyist and another is a former politico for Republican candidates.

Berin Szoka:

http://techfreedom.org/people/berin-szoka

>Berin Szoka is the President of TechFreedom. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at The Progress & Freedom Foundation. Before joining PFF, he was an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham & Watkins LLP, where he advised clients on regulations affecting the Internet and telecommunications industries. Before joining Latham's Communications Practice Group, Szoka practiced at Lawler Metzger Milkman & Keeney, LLC, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington, and clerked for the Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

>TechFreedom is supported by foundations as well as web companies and broadband providers (including Google).

Jonathan Henke:

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

>Shortly afterward, Henke served as the New Media Director for the Republican Communications Office, an office of the Senate Republican caucus under the leadership of United States Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).[6] Congressional Quarterly wrote that Henke "launched one of the first and most successful blogger outreach operations on the Capitol Hill, one that has served as a template for other offices."[7] During his time as New Media Director, Henke contributed entries at QandO less frequently than before, and in January 2007, two other bloggers, Bryan Pick and Billy Hollis, joined QandO.

>Henke announced in June 2007 that he would serve Fred Thompson's presidential campaign as an Online Brand Manager.[8] Though Thompson withdrew his candidacy in January 2008, Henke continued to work as a consultant, and started his own firm later that year.[9]
Getting Started with FatFractal
Good question! Funerals are one thing that prevents some to do away with religion entirely. We haven't found (or looked for) any good substitute yet.

Probably because the issue is so touchy (mixing death and religion, both very touchy subjects).
It would take quite the concerted effort over a long period of time. Mosquito eggs can lay dormant for 10-15 years.
This is EXACTLY the same problem I have run into, so much so that we are working on an agile board to solve it. www.matterhorn.io

Its coming along nicely, I'd love to talk to you more about the problems you are having, if you are free my email is josh@seriousfox.co.uk
Yeah, this was very confusing. I thought this was some kind of extension to that library at first.
Excel has vastly more features than Google Docs.

At all the companies where I've worked at, I've never seen anyone use anything more advanced than a few basic functions.

The _vast_ majority of users in a corporate environment use:
1> Font changes (color, size etc)
2> Images
3> Hyperlinks, ToC and other forms or document organization.

It is silly to buy 1000 Desktop or Office 365 Excel licenses, when only 20 people will use a substantial amount of its features.

More importantly, people are not emailing each other Office documents. I've seen companies who do _have_ google docs do it.
My barely-finished-high-school friend figured this out a few years back. He'll enjoy showing me up. Thanks NYT :P
The operations of an organization sketchy enough to lie to congress and ignore the Constitution might be operations that really should fail.
Chrome > Firefox
We have patented something called PassRules which does not disclose your secret during normal use. It's the perfect solution for you but unfortunately we don't have a version for Mac -- only Windows. But if there's sufficient interest we might just develop one. Check us out at www.itsmesecurity.com
That would be perfect, but instead of wearing it I could have something implanted in my arm for instance; and I would definitely notice of somebody tried to steal the tag!
By leaving the country he is still alive, in freedom and able to see the sun.

Do you honestly really think he would have received a fair trial that would have begun now and not after 2-3 years of solitary confinement, only having the memory of a day? A fair trail. USA is not the freedom country you so highly think of, these events should be enough for you to reevaluate it.

He still hasnt leaked any damaging information mind you, no matter what is on those laptops and if its safe or not, he has so far made interviews and given a powerpoint to newspapers.

USA and most western democracies are countries where you cannot avoid jail if the government wants you there, you too are a criminal - copyright infrigement, and what no, they'll always find something, which is kind of the problem, you're a criminal but those who are elite criminals dont face jail.

When will NSA chief face a trail for lying to congress and breaking 4th amandement? When will NSA employee face a trial and jail time for going above his clearance and snooping on other peoples lives?
Don't stick on one language. Learn different languages and technologies like JavaScript, Java etc. and some good frameworks like Node.js, Wicket... just look first at everything from birth perspective and look deeper if you like what you see..
Matthew, that is true for news in the USA but if you browse international news stories there is LOTS of coverage about the leaks, how that affects other counties, business, etc.
Now that's an idea!
The internet does not need another 5000 sloc JS library attempting to solve every problem in one file. Please put your effort towards improving upon other, focused libs.
Compared to MySQL, sure. But that's like comparing a spade to digger: both can make a hole in the ground, but you'll want the digger to do some real work.

It doesn't compare as well to Postgres - but the better tooling may well make it worth the $10k in licence fees. That's a month of engineer time in maintenance.

SQL Server's cheap for what you get when compared to the commercial competition. Informix is pretty much dead (and had horrible tooling). Oracle is even more expensive. And compared to Oracle, Microsoft look like angels. Ingres is a bit of a joke.

The big expensive MSSQL licences also include some pretty nifty BI tools, including decent implementations of data mining algorithms.
Here's a video of the coolest new feature, "watches": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8-b6QEN-rk

I'm also really excited about the behaviors stuff. It means that the entirety of LT's functionality is described in a datastructure that you could reasonably modify by hand. Here's a gist of default.behaviors: https://gist.github.com/ibdknox/6010853 The :+ is there because it's stored as a diff, which allows other behaviors files to add and remove functionality based on the order they're loaded.
Nasdaq Community Forums Hacked, Passwords Compromised
My only issue with Bluetooth pairing is that iPhones are incredibly shiny, and carers work for minimum wage and the thought of not only my iPhone going walkies but it locking my laptop in the process… My head might actually explode :-)
Great to see things are coming along with LightTable. I was a bit surprised by this:

> Lots of things that were blocking the UI no longer are thanks to some magical hackery (given the lack of threads in JS)

I thought WebWorkers where designed to alleviate these kinds of issues. It seems like Webkit supports WebWorkers so I'm surprised they weren't used - anyone know the rationale?
Focusing on Snowden's flight is how domestic media can appear to cover the issue without actually educatng people. Foreign media isn't havning any difficulty continuing to talk about the underlying issues.
Janet Fang is an intern in Nature's Washington DC office.
> A skeuomorph /ˈskjuːəmɔrf/ is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that were necessary in the original.

You can say that it isn't, because they departed with the aesthetic elements intended to make it look true-to-life like reflections and bevels; or that it is, because it still retains the placements and interacts like the physical calculator.
Tesla stock price sags after Goldman Sachs report
I can't do any kind of IO in a webworker, which means things like indexing the filesystem are impossible there. The vast majority of cases where I need to do background work I also need access to the host.

EDIT: I should note that I did start with webworkers for things like auto-complete, but what I'm doing now (spinning up another instance of node) is a lot more powerful and robust. As scary and sad as that may be.
It really discredits any political position he was/is trying to take. Thats the real advantage of having him in Russia.
http://quadstick.com is developing a mouth operated programmable joystick/mouse/keyboard. A sequential combination of up to eight input signals (specific joystick movements and/or a sequence of hard or soft sip & puffs on four different tubes) can trigger the sending of up to six preprogrammed keyboard keys, or it can just recognize characters traced out on the joystick and send them one at a time.
If you want your experience to come through, don't make it the primary point. Your experience will become apparent in the things you write and the way you write about them.

Out of the first 9 paragraphs in 'Focus on Delivering Results' you use "I" in 6 of them - you start 3 of them with "I". The excerpt reads more like a biography.

I don't know whether you worked with a copy editor - if you didn't, you should have.

You also should have had some independent reviews prior to publishing - maybe someone would have been kind enough to tell you about all of those "I"s - they make the text "feel" rough and unfinished.

You could go crazy with the "I"s in your "about the author" section, yet let the book's content speak for itself.

Given this, the excerpt diminishes the book's value for me, so it's unlikely I would pay $25 for it. If I wanted a biography, I would get a biography.
Could you elaborate on the problems with distribution at Lulu?
This seems apropos considering the potential for genetic abuse... from /.

"Scientists Seek Biomarkers For Violence"
http://science.slashdot.org/story/13/07/16/1531241/scientist...

Note that this article is based on two scientists who lost their daughter in a school shooting... implying that angry, emotionally-distraught smart people could be a powerful force in bringing the New World Order down on us.
At this point, the phone handset icon is barely even an icon – it's essentially become a pictogram or a hieroglyph. I don't see this as something to lament or resist, though. While it's beneficial to know the visual etymology of the symbol, it's no more critical to understanding it than knowing the etymology of any of the words you use in normal conversation.
>Publicly leaking the information while going on trial in the US would have lead to people actually talking about the leaked information

That didn't happen when Manning was incarcerated. It's more likely, "story's over... the bad guy got nabbed". The foreign media doesn't stop their coverage of PRISM at Snowden's flight and there's no reason for domestic media to do so either.
Search for violence biomarkers - Precrime or Science?
McDonalds Tells Workers To Budget By Getting A Second Job And Turn Off Heat
Maximizing breeze was actually more about keeping cool than getting rid of mosquitos. Besides, sometimes the breeze would die down and you've got the same old problem. Mosquito nets were available back then :

http://www.nottoway.com/html/nottoway-plantation-history.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4i3101.html
I had to get too tree huggy but mosquitos are a pretty key food source for others. So a fan is great in that it works well and doesn't do too much harm to the food chain.
Senator Feinstein responds re: PRISM
I have never used any version of Logic, but the reviews I have read are all saying that none of the power features have been removed. The Macworld review is titled "Logic Pro X loses none of its power, gains great new features" [0]. The Loop even explicitly says "Rumors have circulated for a long time that Logic Pro was going to be discontinued or that it was going to be reincarnated as some sort of 'GarageBand Pro.' ... this is far from a GarageBand knockoff. This is the same professional digital audio workstation software that we’ve used for years, only better" [1]. And again, macProVideo says "many people feared Logic would be 'Dumbed-down' into a 'LogicBand / GarageBand Pro,' ... I'm pleased to report, it's the same Logic you know and love, but with a fantastic facelift and some brilliant new features." [2]

[0] http://www.macworld.com/article/2044283/logic-pro-x-loses-no...

[1] http://www.loopinsight.com/2013/07/16/review-logic-pro-x/

[2] http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/review-2/logic-pro-x-review-t...
I feel like everybody is taking this comment the wrong way. It sounds like a compliment followed by a joke.

This is a relatively common form of humor. A great achievement followed by a realization of the cost of that achievement.

"I just won my 1000th game of <insert video game>! ...I should go outside."
If it does indeed work with arbitrary BT devices like I think it does (please verify this for yourself before you buy!) then you can get a cheap headset for $15 or so and key it to that instead of your phone. If your Mac (and the software) supports BTLE, you could even use a specialized token like a Stick-N-Find.

This app does claim to support any BT device, just in case the other one doesn't:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tokenlock/id402433482?mt=12

Hope you figure out something that's to your liking.
Simple Twilio Scripts Using Webscript.io
First Pre-release of Tokaido (Rails.app)
i think this guy has: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6052626

:D
Are their any technologies out there that can sense your body heat as well as facial recognition? I don't know if there are any commercially available applications of this but here's an interesting delve into evolving facial recognition into thermal recognition: http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/17173/InTech-Thermal_infrared...
When Your Smartphone Chauffeur Becomes a Stalker
Nice article, and great timing.

Specially in the context of Twitter now syncing their DM read-status across devices and apps (https://blog.twitter.com/2013/direct-message-sync-mobile-sea...), and not syncing their badges.
I'm not sure how much effect it's had on sales figures, but I'm convinced Red Bull is the only soft drink whose flavour is actually improved by adding vodka.
It's like being chased by a tiger, except there is no tiger, and you know it. So it's some of the worst fear you've ever felt in your life, coupled with feeling stupid because you know it is irrational and you should just "get over it". Except you can't.
PayPal credits man with $92,233,720,368,547,800
What would you consider a small list to be, 1000, 5000?
Now you know why, when entering certain stores, you get that insane burst of wind from above the door (Hairstyle killer) That's their way of keeping bugs out of their store.
Estimote Creator Talks About Building An “OS For The Physical World”
Estimote’s first prototype looked like a parrot. The parrot is gone but Estimote has just launched out of the latest Y Combinator class and is ready to create an OS for physical locations. Their product, the Beacon, now looks like a lumpen, colored gem and sticks to the wall, reporting on current retail traffic and pushing notifications to shoppers – who have pre-registered for the messages, of course. The promise of the platform is thrilling if you’re in sales and even more interesting if you’re a customer. In short, the environment interacts with you in a manner heretofore unavailable to individual retailers and it does it using your own smartphone.
This article is ridiculous shilling. Who do you think lobbies state and local governments to keep the cost of entry high for access to the streets they've been digging around in? The "big cable" trade association who "shouldn't be blamed."

The cost argument is based on numbers that factor out long-term costs of letting contractors dig wherever they want. They rip the streets to shreds and since it's the lowest bidder the asphalt has to be completely redone after one or two winters. In Boston we watched this happen to most of the region during the big dig and that work was being done by the best people available.

The open access argument is absurd. What they mean is they want to run fiber down streets with high incomes and let the cable monopolies continue to gouge everyone else.

It's a real shame but if you want residential internet to get better in the US there's probably going to be a lot of federal spending involved. Which we could have managed back when all the cable lines were first being run. Back when we had a functioning government. In the 1970s.
Those sound like good qualifications for someone writing on the matter - am I missing something?
EFF sues the NSA Over Illegal Surveillance
Kinda tangential, but mentioning threads brought it up. I have core.async on the brain, so I was just wondering if you've looked at it or plan on using it for anything. David Nolen had a cool example using it for event handling.
Copyright doesn't stop torrenting.

Copyright is a more-apt comparison than it may appear: the trope of citizen information and data is that hey, once you give it to a third party, the government can get access to it on the slightest of pretexts (Smith v. Maryland).

Contrast this with copyright: every single use and re-use must be licensed. Aside from the first-sale doctrine (which has been getting whittled in the digital age), a movie which licenses your favorite Skrillex cut cannot turn around and allow other people to use it willy-nilly, the way Comcast and Google can do with your emails.
Not living North enough ;)

This is mostly a problem further South and West in Alaska. The higher up you go, the colder it is to the point you don't get that many insects at all.
Laravel: From Apprentice To Artisan
Hi, that would be acceptable just not physically doable I'm afraid. My range of movement would prohibit this unfortunately.
Will shoot you an email now, would love to see what you are working on!
It's only going to evolve so far for consumer application. At some point, the barrier to cracking becomes too high for normal efforts. Who's going to spend 4-6 hours applying makeup to their face to crack your laptop's security (since the crack only applies to one instance) if you're only protecting your weird porn and some household financial data. You likely wouldn't hear about any efforts beyond that, since it would be spycraft.
Crazy Controllerism
Look no further than Propellerhead's Reason for a striking example. The software models everything, from the dials and switches of audio equipment all the way to the back of the rack, where audio cables are connected as desired (complete with hanging cable physics). Of course, it can be argued how much of this is truly skeumorphic, because most of it retains the actual functionality of the original real-life audio components.
Ask HN: Using personal code at my startup.
Six months ago I joined a startup with a 25% stake. As we've pivoted a few times in our business model, it just so happens that 2 large personal codebases of mine have become very relevant to what we're doing. These are weekend projects that I've been working on for several years with the intention of open sourcing them at some point, but now it's not clear what I should do. I could go forward with my plan to open source them, and my company could use them without issue, but how does this affect our company's value to an investor or a buyer outer? If these projects become core to our business, how important is it that they are proprietary to my company? And is there some kind of formal process for signing the projects over? Should I be entitled to something extra beyond my stake and salary? I'd also like to continue working on these projects if the startup fails or gets sold, but that's probably pushing it.

Anyway, I know some of this creeps into areas where I should consult a lawyer or something, and not knowing the nature of my startup and the projects it might be hard to give advice. Overall just wondering if anyone here has been in a similar situation.

FWIW, both codebases are broken up into layers, so perhaps I could open source just the lower layers, and keep the more application-specific ones proprietary.
Yesterday there was a post on here where Elon tweeted a reply to someone that his guess was the closest yet:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046943

He seems to verify that there will be "pods" 2m wide, so it sounds like this will be tunnel- or tube-based.
This is where Web Workers [1] come in. You shouldn't be performing background processing in a way that blocks the UI. Heavy lifting like that should be pushed into the background, if it's done on the front-end at all.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Workers
DAWs and VSTs have always had an incredible amount of skeumorphism, sometimes to the detriment of the user experience. Nearly every VST I've used will try to recreate the feel of analog knobs and buttons rather than more sensible design choices.
Of course it is. I've done it before, it's not particularly difficult after an adjustment period if you work a desk job with Internet access.

Anyway, if you're seriously considering cutting off at-home Internet, take a look at FreedomPop's free plans, limited to 500MB-1GB of data or something per month. I haven't used them personally, but it could be an inexpensive way of reducing the allure of an unlimited Internet funnel.
"solves problems" encompasses a vast space of decision making, some of which is arbitrary and stylistic. "That's it" is oversimplifying things.

"In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word is ontwerpen; in German entwurf. In the Anglo-Saxon language there's only one word for design, which is design. That is something you should work out. Vormgeving is more to make things look nice. So for instance, packaging for a perfume or for chocolate in order to make things fashionable, obsolete and therefore bad for society because we don't really need it. While ontwerpe means, and the Anglo-saxon word, but its stronger, means engineering. That means you as a person try to invent a new thing—which is intelligent, which is clever, and which will have a long-life. And that's called stylistic durability. It means you can use it for a long time."
- Gert Dumbar
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Interesting question. Let's say I have a clearly defined threat model. I rate the chances of an existing database being misused as higher than the chances of a screening service which looks for one or two SNPs being secretly misused to collect entire genomes. The number of health workers who'd have to collude to operate the latter would be enormous, and it would leak like a sieve.

We're not dealing with the government from "1984" here, it's more like the one from "Brazil" (the film, not the country!).
So many words for nothing... Why don't we all just learn to judge others by their behaviour and not by their words? Sometimes, it looks that a well-spoken murderer would be better-perceived than a cursing saint...
Snowden Applies for Temporary Asylum in Russia
He can't excuse foul language with his inability to express what he wants to convey. His lack of manners is really shocking.
Yes, that's what I'm doing at the moment but I'm unlocking the passwords on a session by session basis rather than one password at a time.
Has anyone read this yet? I'd like to see a basic review before I through $25 at a relatively unknown author. Though regardless, congratulations on self publishing and getting a book out!
Let me guess, you're a soviet?
A developer does not understand sarcasm, more news at 11.