skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Welp. I guess I'm in no place to complain, but I will anyway.

My college friends and I were very active users of The Actual Old Reader. We shared a lot of content internally and commented profusely. When Google made the switch to force everyone onto Google+, our sharing didn't continue but we still used GReader.

When Google pulled the plug on Reader and we all needed a new place to go, we discussed a lot internally on which we would all collectively used. We settled on the Old Reader because of its sharing / commenting features (if there are others with these features, let me know!). This was just a few weeks ago.

So we didn't pay money, but we paid a lot in time and commitment. This is frustrating.
Every so often I hear about a frustrated programmer complain about not being able to access private or otherwise inaccessible methods.

Could that code be useful? Sure, but that's not the point.

Information hiding is one of the core concepts in OOP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_hiding

It's not even constrained to OOP, take C for instance: why it is that all functions are not exported in a shared library? Are they nefariously hiding code they don't want you to see? No, it's just that they are minimizing the interface between components, which is a concept as old as modular programming itself.

It makes change easier to contain and allows one to reason over large systems.

This is a good thing. Hiding implementation details is a good thing. Using closures to implement private functions in javascript is not bad. It's advocated in "Javascript, the good parts", as a pattern.

Should one try and write javascript as if it were java? No, and overuse of this pattern leads to a bunch of boiler plate. One usually tries to remain state-less and write deterministic, side-effect free functions that do not depend on closed variables.

Is it handy tool in some cases to implement DRY? Yes. Should it be considered harmful? No.
First world problems...right now the US is arming Syrian rebels so more Syrians can get blown to bits. You're surprised that the culture perpetrating atrocities around the world like that would also hurt the feelings of some upper middle class white "creative type"? Let me break out my violin. What happened, you opened up the window of your ivory tower and didn't like what wafted in? Take off your rose-colored glasses and take a look around you.
...which fits the general pattern, "How one person can replace two people who do a subset of that person's job."

Which does not require an article's worth of explanation.
Smashed computers can still be recycled, I had a partnership with a local e-waste recycling company. The idea was to give people incentive to recycle with a fun event. With regards to the toxic materials, it was my understanding that only monitors offered some risk. I could be wrong though.
Hacker News Enhancement Suite Hacker News Enhancement Suite Hacker News Enhancement Suite ?
And then I rewrote it in C++ for App Engine and other users within Google (Blogger, Plus, hundreds others).

I also then ported the C++ memcached (called memcacheg) to Go, for profiling Go vs C++, and named that one memcachego. So I've written it about 4 times.
HackMIT - Hackathon for students from any school, Oct 4-6
I read every e-mail I receive at moot@4chan.org, usually within minutes.
I think that's a part of it but it's not the whole story.

It's not just a society of consumers, it's a society of ... well, children really, although that might be too insulting. "Dependents" might be better. A society of people who are increasingly urbanized, increasingly educated, increasingly always online. And some of that is good but it has come along with and enabled a culture of dependence. People expect that society at large and the state specifically is going to be there to help them out. Help them get their car back on the road, defend them from the bad guys, keep a roof over their heads, keep their bellies full, and so on. This is the "brave new world" route. A population that's blissed out and utterly incapable of self-reliance.

Add to that a somewhat related phenomenon which I'll just call "fuck the rich". The idea being that those who are wealthy/famous/successful somehow "have more" than their "fair share" and therefore are less deserving of social niceties and are a valid target for abuse. The justification being that "they're rich" (or famous or whatever) and "can take it" or "deserve it". It's surprising how quickly this view has become lodges in the zeitgeist. Here's a revealing little test: if you could press a magic button which would randomly pick someone who made more than $200k/yr in the US and, via a robot or magic or whatever, punch them HARD in the face but at the same time pick someone randomly in the US who made less than $15k/yr and give them $1k in cash would you press the button? How many times? How many people would press the button? How much? Would they feel bad about it?

Add to that the general vitriol that stews in some parts of the internet due to anonymity and a variety of other factors and you get the conditions that this story talks about. It's pretty disgusting, and it's probably not going to just magically go away just by hoping it does. So what are we going to do about it?
I wonder if the pubkeys could be maintained in a system such as namecoin? [never used namecoin, but it sounds right]
Call the burn unit.
So long as google is storing the password to my network in plain text on its servers just because I let one of my friends access my network, they do not get to boast about innovation.
I cannot clearly express the loss of respect that action has engendered.
If you provide access to the website as a Tor hidden service, do you get some sort of unique ID for the computer connecting that can be banned? I don't know much about the Tor protocol, but if you're on the receiving end of packets that need a response, you need a way to address them back.
http://www.blabdash.com/statements/589

> I feel stupid because I made this website.

> This is just a hello world ROR app that accidentally got posted on Hacker News
Should it not be possible to track the vehicle (if it is only one) by installing GPS receivers in the area and noticing when the disruption begins and ends for each receiver?

That, coupled with license plate scanners at those locations, ought to find the culprit.

(And then they can launch an armed drone to take him/her out...)
Just came here to say thank you for Hamachi, many hours of multiplayer Worms Armageddon were had thanks to you.
Go doesn't scan big []byte/strings, so the GC isn't a problem.
Take running as an example - the couch potato thinks the weekend 5K duffers are "running to excess"

A classic straw man example. I hadn't herd of this 'running to excess' term, but I defy you to find someone who thinks running 5k once a week is excessive. I'm not into running myself, but I walk a round trip of that length a couple of times a week (to a specific destination, I don't mean that's my only exercise) and the idea of jogging it instead doesn't seem particularly radical.
A sort of interesting side bar - Capital One may have offered different rates to different customers by browser type ->

http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/11/do-different-we...
It's a technical debt metaphor. Myself and the company I work for have all learned the caveats of bootstrap and how to hack through them. Now it's happily sitting in most, if not all, of our projects. It just doesn't make sense for us to change at this point.
I totally agree. But I think the main reason people don't admit that they're jealous is because they don't even realize it themselves.
And here I am again to provide a friendly reminder that before discussing any patent, you must read the claims! If you did so, in this case, you would see that this is not a "pinch-to-zoom patent", but rather a "pinch-to-zoom-if-the-event-object-created-from-touch-input-has-two-or-more-points-else-scroll-the-view-instead" patent.

Yes, it literally covers something as specific as creating "event objects" out of touch inputs and interpreting them as either zooming or scrolling gestures.

Minority Report is not sufficient prior art because:

1) It does not include a touch-sensitive display,

2) its user input is not "points applied to the touch-sensitive display" that it does not have,

3) it is wholly non-enabled (at least in the movie) which is why it does not teach, as far as we can tell, create "event objects" in response to user input,

4) and though it may depict scrolling gestures and pinching gestures in various scenes, it does not teach how to determine whether an input is a scroll or a pinch (which this patent proposes doing by differentiating the number of points in the touch input).

But why even worry about fictional, non-enabled prior art when people have found specific prior art to (temporarily) invalidate these claims?
>> "I also didn't like that you couldn't remove it (although that's gonna change.)"

Not really. In iOS 7 Newsstand can be moved into a folder, it still can't be deleted or turned off.
1. I mean, in my experience, most shops don't want to expose their code to the world, but this may/may not be generally true.

2. Yeah, I think this is the way I would go about, but I was just wondering if there was any way I could go about it without just throwing random chunks of code here and there on my Github.
On the other hand, if you're having an affair with someone that you have a good excuse to talk to all of the time (family friend, co-worker, etc), the content matters.

Also, that "OMG you were talking to a pedo!" threat doesn't mean much of the conversations were innocuous. To make that threat, they would need a good confidence that you couldn't (for whatever reason[1]) just turn over chat logs proving that nothing was amiss.

[1] E.g. The chat reveals something you want to keep hidden, even if it doesn't relate to the fact that the person is a paedophile, or maybe the logs just don't exist, etc.
I don't know of any personally, but I'm going to say probably not. If you're looking for dual band / GLONASS + Beidou support high grade receiver, you're typically looking into the $1000-$10,000 area.

The best I've seen in consumer space so far is (surprisingly) the iPhone 5. Full AGPS and GLONASS support, which is better than most Android phones.

Ultimately, I don't know if I can give you explicit advice on the matter, but I would suggest you search for some way to integrate something such as an IMU into your navigation system, if possible. A properly implemented dead reckoning plus GPS is usually pretty hard to fool, as one of the systems will drop errors as soon as something starts to go wrong. However, getting the proper integration might cost you more than you're willing to pay, so it may just be in poor taste for me to even bring it up.
It sorta drives home how vulnerable the systems are. If someone can do it accidentally, the what could a malicious, well resourced attacker do? How come a well resourced attacker hasn't done it?
There is a legendary tale of a how a random delivery truck took down a whole popular MMO.

The MMO company had a issue with their own physical logistics, and had to put their login server across the street in another building.

They put special antennas between the two buildings, to keep the thing running, and it worked great, until one day, it didn't.

After a while trying to figure what was going on, they noticed that a huge delivery truck parked illegally (the place where it parked was illegal to anyone park), and the place he choose made the bulk of the truck metal stay right between the two antennas...

EDIT: Also when internet was still dial-up, one delivery truck ignoring height limits managed to cut all phone cables near my town biggest ISP, leaving the entire city without internet. I did not appreciated it...
Protractor: end to end test framework for Angular apps built on webdriverJS
Am I reading this right? The fifth result on the Google Transparency report[1] (the live updated page) is a request from Cisco to take down Cisco urls:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=1064850

[1]http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/
I like to think that the more passionate people get over something on the internet, the saltier the stuff they tend to write about it.
Gettysburg, Readdressed
This is optical:

http://www.topconpositioning.com/products/total-stations/con...

"can measure in reflectorless mode up to 500m at an incredible 3mm + 2ppm accuracy."

A typical GPS:

http://www.topconpositioning.com/products/gps/modular-soluti...

Static	H: 3mm +0.5ppm (x baseline length)
V: 4mm +1.0ppm (x baseline length)

So GPS gives you lower PPM than optical for long runs but lower accuracy on short runs.

You could probably take multiple measurements and play triangulation games to get the error to, or under, one mm given enough time effort and money.
Hmmm... I just push the button, then go get some coffee. Thereby saving myself the time it took you to do the F2 thingy. Which I then lost writing this post to tell you about it :-(
This needs to be paralleled with the story of Caroline Criado-Perez, who campaigned to get a woman to replace Winston Churchill on the ten-pound note. After it was announced that Jane Austen will be on the ten-pound note, Criado-Perez received "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours."

This sort of abuse isn't limited to creative people. It's endemic. Make a stand on something, anything, and you run the risk of having people say they're going to rape you, your family, and your dog. It's really quite horrible. Luckily for Criado-Perez Manchester police arrested a 21-year old man on "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours." Lucky for her, but unfortunately there's an entire sea of horrible people out there to sling the shit.
I've never liked the premise of MakeGamesWithUs. I feel like they're exploiting young developers for the cash. Not paying them and keeping half of their revenue (and using their age for marketing) leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
Sexier*

Fixed that for you.
Wall Street to Main Street
Ballistic launch to orbit is... problematic. Getting something going fast enough is tough (G loads, aero loads, material in the launcher, etc) but doable. A really really big light gas gun should do, if the "Slingatron" won't. Thing is, you cannot shoot something from the planet's surface to orbit. Just can't.

If energy is too low, you're normal ballistic, and the projectile falls somewhere downrange. If energy is too high, you escape from Earth's gravity well, and you never see the thing again. (This might be fine for sending materials to the Moon, though.)

What if the energy is just right? Well, you go into orbit with closest approach at exactly your altitude. Which is you one orbit later... if aero effects haven't already caused enough energy loss to run the projectile into the surface, as they would on Earth.

(Side bar: even on the Moon or Mars, it wouldn't work well. Orbit at the height of the highest lunar mountain would be very unstable, though it would work better than on Earth! Might get a few orbits out of it before crashing, if you can find a path without huge mascon changes, and if it doesn't hit your launch facility. The top of Mons Olympus still has enough atmosphere to be problematic.)

So you have to have high-altitude propulsion to alter your trajectory once you get there, so you can orbit at a reasonable altitude. Which is why they note that they need an onboard rocket. And that's unfortunate, because it throws away the appealing simplicity of ground launch: passive payloads (and thus low marginal costs). Now, alongside your space-gun you've also got to design a mass-produced probably-expendable rocket system (with guidance) that can survive wicked G loads. And so here come a lot of extra marginal and development costs and a lower payload fraction. Does your gun-and-rocket system still beat a 2/3-stage rocket? With enough volume it might, but where do you get those customers?

I kind of like the idea of shooting your massive space-gun at an active target that can do the orbital circularization for you; either a tug that refuels itself from the projectile, or more exotically a rotating momentum exchange tether. That on-orbit system adds additional development and capital expense, in exchange for very low marginal cost. Which would be nice if you had the volume--but nobody needs that sort of volume in space now (nor is likely to for quite some time.)

But once some system with reasonable development costs and acceptable marginal costs has paved the way, it might be a lovely system for bulk material transport (probably mostly volatiles, like water, but maybe also metals for construction).
It's all about the subtitle '...and join the new rich.'
s/prevent/mildly discourage
Source?

I use a mac, and if it's compromised, I'd like to stop using it.
Hey this is really cool. At APhotoFolio (http://aphotofolio.com) we've been tossing around similar ideas (we have a lot of magazine connections). I really like your approach.

I would highly suggest adding either PDF support or a way to import from a blog's RSS feed. That will let you target smaller publishers.

Also, have you seen kits like this?
http://www.binpress.com/app/ipad-newsstand-pdf-starter-kit/1...
For me, Google shutting down Reader was a huge wake-up call that I should be paying for the things that I depend on as much as I did GReader.

I signed up & paid for both pinboard and newsblur within a week of the announcement, and purposely avoided theoldreader and others that didn't have any sort of sustainable business model (although there were/are plenty of other solid projects out there).

Glad I didn't have to learn that lesson twice.
HTML5 for Digital Advertising 1.0
The Japanese founder of 2ch said that anonymity was to allow people the freedom to say what they really meant. (Wikipedia.)

> A: Because delivering news without taking any risk is very important to us. There is a lot of information disclosure or secret news gathered on Channel 2. Few people would post that kind of information by taking a risk. Moreover, people can only truly discuss something when they don't know each other.
If there is a user ID attached to a user, a discussion tends to become a criticizing game. On the other hand, under the anonymous system, even though your opinion/information is criticized, you don't know with whom to be upset. Also with a user ID, those who participate in the site for a long time tend to have authority, and it becomes difficult for a user to disagree with them. Under a perfectly anonymous system, you can say, "it's boring," if it is actually boring. All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.
Then I'll try and be a little more civilized here: Along with some nice things, 4chan is also a notorious breeding ground for some of the worst and most noxious media and hateful activity (e.g. harassment campaigns) on the internet. This has continued to be the case for many years. It doesn't seem much has changed.

Don't you feel any responsibility for the behavior of your users?

http://dashes.com/anil/2011/07/if-your-websites-full-of-assh...
Referenzen Webdesign
You could do that over very small timeframes (say, a millisecond earlier or later) but most systems don't automatically adjust times if the delta is very large
The For Sale sign would have been up before I went into the OR with nary a second thought. Worst case, negotiate arrangements for $50/day for the next 10 years.

Yes, health care costs a lot. Miracles are expensive.
That sounds very much like a "ritual magic" technique. Beyond the document you might include visual, olfactory, etc cues. Pictures and incense etc that create positive goal-achievement-associated feelings and ideas. Maybe a physical metaphor of progress too (...as this candle burns lower so I approach my goal...). Ritual magic enthusiasts (like Aleister Crowley for example) would say that you are actually imposing your will upon the stuff of reality in this controlled way, or something like that. Fascinating stuff.
"What would Chomsky do?" isn't a bad first question to ask on all geopolitical matters.
Course Review: SANS SEC573 Python for Penetration Testers
Similar:

Stanford - Abstractions and data structures C++

http://see.stanford.edu/see/lecturelist.aspx?coll=11f4f422-5...

Edit:

The only thing that takes a little research is tracking down the C++ libraries that coincide with the class.
Digital dating: Young, single and nearby
Apparently, it is supposed to be a play on 2 in Localization 2.0. Not a great name imo, but it is pretty easy to remember I guess.
You can do this with uploaded photos (not shadows) online using Autodesk 123D Catch:

http://www.123dapp.com/catch
I make games, and the few "abusive" comments I received were obviously from astroturfed competitors.

Maybe because although I am a caustic person, I never go around telling people to kill themselves, or suck my dick, or other "wonderful" things that some people like to do.

Also my games usually don't feature violence.
why not hop on the xmpp train? xmpp just lacks a great client incl. some cross device synch capabilities, but besides that is secure, decentralized, open and a standard...
The problem with fixed launch platforms is that unless you shoot for escape velocity, you need a kick stage anyway, otherwise your orbit will intersect the earth surface.

Shooting to escape velocity is possible and useful on the moon perhaps. But not really on earth.
Right, it's just power worship. So government in service of the powerful at the expense of the weak is a-ok; the converse, evil.
"Do you believe people on Twitter do not have the resources available to attempt creative works?"

They do, but they're overwhelmed by the vast amount of empty content ready for consumption. It's so damn easy to chill out clicking this and that, and fall in a rut where that's all you do in the leisure time you spend at your desk. We should try to find a way to actively encourage people to pick up a creative hobby (or more than one!) as a form of therapy, even.

"Furthermore, do you believe that, without being creative, it is not possible for a person to refrain from telling a game designer to kill himself?"

I think outbursts like that come from immature, intellectually under-developed people who would grow immensely from pursuing a creative hobby.
Why I willingly handed over my credit card and PIN to a fraudster
Not having a demo (or a feature list... or even a screenshot) is very frustrating. It wastes my time and their time to have me signup only to find I don't like it 2 minutes later. Mind posting a screenshot?
Have you turned one on in your house/apt? Do that before you make the decision to sell/keep them. They are REALLY loud, and hard to stifle. Craigslist is where I would put them up on though, or a local hackerspace mailing list.
This concept is brilliant. It creates a feeling of empowerment, because for once you have taken control of the relationship. You act like an adult where your father cannot. You are who you are. He is who he is. Your mother s who she is. You are the child and they are the parents. It seems that at some point they forgot that. You are allowed to make mistakes and have their support. Good luck.
They'd be more visually practical, but it would be far easier to swap a reactive straw with a non-reactive straw.

It's a tricky problem, even before you consider false-positives and the false sense of security in general.
Haha bullshit. I submitted this hours before and it got nothing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6122743
No, you do not get any such thing.

Basically, the client and the machine hosting the hidden service both connect to a rendevouz point and communicate via that. The connections to the rendevouz point are not direct. They are bounced through three nodes, with three layers of encryption, each node being able to peal off one layer before passing it on to the next.

This is why hidden services are pretty slow. Every packet has to be routed through 6 other machines, which each can be anywhere in the World.