skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also worth noting that Elasticsearch can be swapped for Solr for this just as easily. Some projects like Kibana do what's described here under the hood. Kibana has a fairly narrow focus though -- in that it deals mostly with web server logs -- whereas solr/elasticsearch can be used as the foundation of a variety of big data analytics tasks beyond that.
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So how do we get people to place a higher value on, say, their liberties and human rights instead of fear of the spectre of terrorism?

'rayiner answered your question:

[She] trusts the government, and assumes that the government wouldn't use any information they get from her e-mails to hurt her. And you know what? She's right. They won't.

Most people are not concerned about a theoretical invasion of their privacy, instead they would be very concerned with an invasion that has material consequences. Isn't this simple?
Can...not...resist....

"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."

-Calvin and Hobbes
Having to rewrite yourself constantly in order to fit your thought into a (let's face it, fairly arbitrary) limit is not fun.
How dare companies only hire workers that they believe provide utility and could lead to increased profit?
Hey, he finally learned not to give a strong opinion on the guilt or innocence of pending legal cases!
There are probably more than a few ex-marine-corps types, very well placed in the defence-industrial establishment that would not say "no" if asked to do such a thing.
I would love to be able to hold my breath for that, but I somehow doubt that the direct result of the race for profit and monopoly will be gifts with no strings attached.
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I like this idea, it's similar to what modern tablet and phones use for Bluetooth pairing: instead of asking to enter a number on the other device, they just ask you to check whether they match up.
A bunch of startups are working on the problem of creating a customized, ranked, deduplicated newsfeed for you from multiple personal sources. A few that immediately come to mind are: Nuzzel, Prismatic, Flipboard.

Eventually Twitter will have to copy or acquire such filtering, but this also might be an important differentiator for App.net: apps whose filtering and UI innovations shouldn't be held back by platform proprietor restrictions.
Thanks for the quick reply!

> Instead of spinning up a VM on your local machine it spins up a new droplet in your Digital Ocean account (droplet is DO's term for a virtual server).
>Vagrant integration with AWS or DO is simply to have the server spin up there rather than locally.

Every droplet costs money, why would you want to create new droplets for development, when you can spin up a VM locally? What are the advantages of spinning up remote server instances over local ones?
Schneier pointed out the 'trust and verify' mechanism, i.e. the need to have accountability on Government policy and actions. That is a basic instrument to ascertain legality of government actions. However, if we talk about improving the level of 'trust' in institutions, that is a whole different level. We can't possibly stop there. Gaining and maintaining 'trust' means a lot more than simply acting in a legal way and takes more then just verification. I consider a basic need for establishing trust also the analysis of their motivation behind certain choices. Government officials are not just 'citizens', and their agencies are not private companies. While the private citizens and companies can do whatever they want which is not considered illegal, public officials and agencies are governed by a different concept: they have a specific mandate/scope and can only perform in that narrow path. They should not exploit policy wording to perform questionable actions; especially if such policies are classified and only a restricted number of people has the ability to review and assess them. If the government wants to conquer back some form of trust by the public opinion, not only it should improve transparency, but should also steer from this farce of hiding their real intentions behind legalese and wordplay contained in all the latest security related policies.
As an experiment, I'd like to see a HackerNews or reddit-like site where the older accounts get more voting power. (Actually, there's no reason you couldn't just put a weighted voting system into place parallel with the old system, and just offer different views.)

I don't think it would work, but I'm interested to see how it would fail. It would probably lead to all sorts of weird gaming of the system ("Ebay auction for reddit account #12") and unintended consequences. But those would also be an interesting outcome of the experiment.
I'd actually be capable of buying and installing my own heat sink (I have never bothered doing so; I don't really do hardware mods), but I do not know how to troubleshoot a temperature-driven performance problem.

I mean, it's just thermal paste on a fan, right? That's not exactly hard, after a fairly low threshold of know-how.
This is exactly what I do here. I start with the first few comments and then click through to read the story after the comments add some context to the headline.
With the feature, I can explain to my mom, my girlfriend, my sister how to steal passwords from any chrome browser. In a way that they will remember and be able to repeat tomorrow.

Without it, I can't.

That matters.
I agree with this tactic 100%. It is much more meaningful and honest.
Yes. It got me pretty nice traffic back then and it was much easier then getting featured on TechCrunch. I will submit on Kickoffboost for my next project!
And use so-called "intrusive" data structures and APIs to avoid more allocations.
Since this article was written in 2001, iTerm2 has implemented support for the tmux protocol, so windows, panes, scrolling etc. happen at the GUI level instead of the terminal level. Kind of the MacVim of tmux.

https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/wiki/TmuxIntegration
I just follow @newsycombinator on Twitter and use Notifier for Twitter on Chrome.

I use twitter as an RSS feed of sorts, so I just get a popup of tweets as they come in and don't have to spend time going to aggerator sites every day to follow the news.

https://twitter.com/newsycombinator

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/notifier-for-twitt...
Sadly, no denial of a spying program on the rest of the world, then again that would be flat out lies on top of what probably already is.

Modern politics. Democracy and privacy no longer exist.
Practically the first thing to do in any serious game development project is to pick an allocator other than malloc.
Does Justin have a Post-It stuck to his monitor labeled "Secret - Please Don't peek" with all of his passwords written on the back? Pretty tempting to anyone that may be somewhat ethically challenged.
Yeah, I don't leave my wallet on my desk either.
Yeah, if you're going to have editors, they have to, you know, edit. Otherwise all they're doing is slowing things down without adding any value. Slashdot lost me when it lost sight of this.
> 1) Does a homosexual couple with no knowledge of US marriage law not have a valid opinion on whether they should be allowed to marry?

Does a redneck from the south with no knowledge of US marriage law have a valid opinion on whether gays should be allowed to marry?

Does you opinion on what's a valid opinion change depending on whether you think people would agree with you?
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From my office workstation, in this list I can read password of my personal NAS that I only access from home.

Does it means that all these passwords are stored in my Google Account ?

Does it means that applying steps below is possible ?

1. Steal Google credentials : By using phishing or simply access the password Chrome page of an unmonitored screen (it only requires 10 seconds),
2. On a other system, use the stolen Google credentials to connect on an blank Chrome installation,
3. Open the password list page, and get access to all the passwords registered in the Google Account.

If it works, it provides a long term remote access to all the passwords stored on the targeted Google Account.

Even if the targeted user changes the stored passwords (Facebook, ...), as long as it stores them on Chrome and does not change its Google password, I can get all the password changes.

Please, tell me that I missed something, and that I am wrong ...
Put a gun, sword into the hands of the player. Just think of the Neal Stephenson kickstarter with Rift VR.
Yeah, upon hearing the news I assumed that WaPo Labs was what Bezos was really after so this is surprising.
Quite. But there was plenty of "Intel is doomed" hype in the 1980s when RISC chips first appeared. Indeed, Microsoft didn't write either of its home grown operating systems -- NT and CE -- on x86 processors.

Of course, "Intel is doomed" (and "Microsoft is doomed") have been staples of clueless fanboy hype for 40 years. I'm still waiting for one of them to be right....
What happens when Silicon-Valley-tech of the week skilled workers become redundant and they're suddently "unskilled"? That makes me sad.
>post-election

Pre-election. He flip-flopped about the wiretaps prior to his election, after winning the primaries.
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but can my experience only add value if I critique the shortcomings

Not necessarily only the shortcomings, I was thinking critical as in "analytical", I would have love to read about how the EV experience translated driving out of the dealership for example. It may not be new to you but I've never driven one and would have "extracted value" out of your post if you did describe it ;-)
Is there a way to send data back to the Teensy? That way you could have a program on your computer that tells it "hey, I'm in vim now, so use 'i' and 'Ctrl-['" or "hey, I'm in emacs now, so just be 'Left-Alt' now".

If it's "just a keyboard" and doesn't normally support that, I've seen hacks that utilize the Caps/Scroll/Num lights as inputs back into a keyboard...
The best part about their $5,000 is that most of it will be profit.

I'm pretty happy with my own SaaS application, but because I provide a telephone service I have pretty low margins. This is by far the most annoying thing about my business (it affects me more than taxes), especially considering that it would have been just as much work to make a SaaS with negligible marginal costs.

The lesson is, if you have the choice and don't want hypergrowth + venture funding, provide a service that costs you next to nothing to provide. Another disadvantage of providing a service that has high marginal costs is that your bigger competitors will usually be able to outprice you. If all you need is a few servers, you can differentiate based on product alone and charge accordingly.
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Charge 5 dollars one time for commenting privileges here and I bet the community would scale down in number and scale up in quality quite nicely.
It will be useful to link all metrics to the real pages : for example : datador "API" should link to http://docs.datadoghq.com/api/
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I am currently working with one of the children who is interested in learning programming – and I have a ton of questions (further below) on how best to teach programming.

The first week of facilitating programming has been fun, the things we’ve worked on are...
Greenwald claims up to 20,000 Snowden documents are in his possession
Definitely seeing activity in the machine learning community, and a colleague and I are introducing it to the optimization/operations research community: http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_HTML/2013/05/3883.html
Way too easy. My little brother screwed me over twice with this. This has been an issue for me every since switching from firefox to chrome. If you're going to offer a saved password option at least give me a master password option too. or at least give me a warning that this is a dumb idea.We're not all security experts. By not enabling a thin layer of falls security you just turned my grandmother into a computer hacker.
And being the head of security at chrome I'd think you would be able to secure chrome at a browser level even if it is vulnerable in the OS. Unacceptable, but then again I'm just a novice.
Well, think of it this way, just because you can do something doesn't mean you are doing something.

If we say that just because the NSA has access to data that by definition domestic surveillance is going on, that would also mean that every ISP is engaging in domestic surveillance (of what little domestic part they service or peer), that all SaaS providers are engaged in industrial espionage, or that the U.S. is engaged in "domestic nuclear bombing" simply because they possess dangerous weapons.

To the extent that NSA analysts actually engage in spying on people domestically, at the direction of the Administration, then you'd definitely be right. But as far as I know even Snowden hasn't argued that, merely that we're one "turnkey tyranny" away from exactly that starting up.

Perhaps the story about the DEA's SOD engaging in parallel construction is an example though?
> The policy parts, I don’t feel like I have a say in that. I don’t have a voice there. I know what I want to see happen. But I don’t feel like I have a say or a voice so I choose to be interested in the technology and think about where that’s going to take us next.

It just burns to hear Rob Malda say this. I wince at the thought. I've heard the words before, in the back of my head: solutionism, powerlessness, voter apathy. I have no good ideas to solve this or even reverse it: no way forward, no 'edge'.

I'm starting to think these news sites live and die like phoenixes. Emotional baggage accumulates, pushing "issues" to the surface, clouding understanding. "Thought-provoking" is the kind of post I like to read, but only when it provokes curiosity, not frustration.

I wonder what would happen to the HN userbase if the entire site goes dark for a whole month. I'd come back. I hope the "issues" disappear and we can all start conversing with clear minds once again.
I spend a lot of time thinking about this too - because computer/ robotic automation is not just going to take warehouse jobs, it will eventually come for all of our jobs.

But this doesn't have to be a bad thing, if you think about it from a community perspective, how great would it be if all our basic needs were automated and low cost? Theoretically, this should free people up to pursue other interests, like science, art, sports, religion -- kind of like the premise Star Trek TNG.

Unfortunately, this isn't the reality today. If things keep going like they are, then this automation will enable a small oligarchy even greater wealth and power, and leverage over the civilization. I don't mean this to be alarmist, this is a really logical progression, and 'they way things are' has created some pretty amazing achievements for us to-date. I think this will be the next big social evolution and I can't wait to see how it unfolds.
I really like this. As an avid user of Coffeescript, Knockout.js and Erector-style code-as-templates, this is a great fit for me. Additionally, while I now understand how Knockout works internally, I was initially frustrated by how much magic it involved; Reactive.coffee looks like it does a better job of exposing the relevant parts of how it works.
Seconding BMW/Mini - I've now leased two cars from them and had a pleasant experience both times.

VW - I won't touch, last time I was in one I was told "we don't have time to deal with you today" when there was nobody else in the dealership.

GM - Wouldn't talk to me until they ran a credit check. Afterwards were very pushy about me buying the car that day.

Subaru - Was hesitant to talk to me until they'd determined I COULD afford the car.

Honda - poor kid knew nothing about cars. No, when someone says "I drive a Mini, I'm looking for something small but not quite as small" you don't suggest an Accord.
What about the situation where I drop my computer off for service. While I may remember to delete all the passwords, I doubt my dad will...Now we have the possibility that a service tech who I will never meet can harvest credentials and sell them on the black market.
Why would that be? Do blinked things ever leave the flow? I didn't think so, so layout should be unaffected.
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Thank you.

I am actually using Flask almost all the time, but I guess I need to find the community, and stick with the conventions. The smaller stuff will be the hobby. :-)

cheers
I'd even cheer them on if they did that instead of dehumanizing those workers.

And I'm sure those workers would be grateful for your cheering when they're standing in the unemployment line.
Fixed up and pushed to repo. If you see anything else that's incorrect, please feel free to let me know either by posting or through mail, and thanks again for pointing that out.

With the changes, the scores didn't change dramatically, and the asm.js version got a bit faster too, actually coming in closer to the native score than before, which is weird. Overall, scores got better across the board by about 8% or so.

The fact that asm.js does better now than it did before somehow suggests to me that there may be an issue in the NDK libc's malloc or free implementation, and that the better scores are simply allowing that issue to have more effect. This is another one of those programs which does a bunch of "biggish" allocs/frees repeatedly.

I'll put the updated charts up with an edit note shortly.
And the only solution is regulation. Minimum wage too low? Raise it.

If Amazon wants to be efficient, it can be on the back of its margins, not at the expense of humans.

EDIT: Ran into this on reddit, thought it was very timely:

"Sorry, It's Not A 'Law Of Capitalism' That You Pay Your Employees As Little As Possible"

http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-need-to-pay-people-...
This reminds me a lot of the story Manna. In the story, robotics and machine vision is still behind human workers, however computers are able to perfectly optimize every other detail, and so tell human workers what to do step by step through an earpiece.

I love the idea actually, but I think most people would find it unsettling. But why not have perfectly optimized work routines and get the same amount of stuff done in half the time? Unfortunately I doubt the benefits would go to the workers and they'd still have to work the same amount of time, but that's true for all increases in efficiency.
Well the German BND just the other day was shown to be spying on the rest of the world and giving "non-German" data over to the NSA. The idea that the world's foremost proponents of data security and data privacy still spy on the rest of the world (and fully legally) is illustrative IMHO.
The name/theme of the site really put me off. It suggests an audience of men who are so insecure they feel they have to live up to some imaginary ideal of "manliness". Isn't being a good person more suitable, with maybe some minor variations in particulars based on one's sex.

This also makes the article rather misplaced, by implication. Isn't integrity equally a virtue for women as well? Placing this whole concept under the banner of "manliness" indicates a rather warped perspective, IMHO.
Your points are well-taken, but in a democracy it's a hard argument to make to say: "people don't really think what they think they think because of the media."

> So how do we get people to place a higher value on, say, their liberties and human rights instead of fear of the spectre of terrorism? Is it possible?

I think people do care about their liberties and human rights, but they do so in concrete ways. I think you can get people to care by making it more concrete for people.

People on HN take it for granted that your average voter should be outraged by the FBI being able to look at someone's Facebook posts. But why? To my mom, Facebook is just one of those things that wrong with kids today--posting half-naked pictures of themselves for everyone on the internet to see. You're not going to get instinctual outrage from her on the issue.

With her, you might get some traction on the front that the government might use it to single out people from certain backgrounds. After all, she worries the government holds up her checks because she's got a middle eastern last name. Other others you might get traction on the front the government could use it to single out particular religious beliefs, immigrant communities, etc. Painting with broad brushes, there are ways to take the privacy argument and put it into terms that target Jews, Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, Mormons, Baptists, etc. But right now it seems like the arguments are couched in the language of young libertarian white techie humanists, and that's just not a major voting demographic...
Why? Most jobs in the world require no special skill not picked up on the job.

In all seriousness, the world needs ditch diggers too.
Gawd. Looks utterly ghastly....
Thanks for sharing. I wrote similar post here on HN sometime back, would like to share here to add value :

After 30 days of launch, I managed to get 7000+ active users, about 100 paying users and $6129 in revenues.

My learnings :
1. Build your first main feature really well

2. Dont launch with 100s of features, keep the product simple

3. Make sure to have some influencers on your board as users from day one and make them super happy

4. Use tweet button very smartly - this is make or break up for your side project

5. Dont hurry up into making money, let your users ask you for more feature and then roll out paid features.

Shared here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5600281
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This place is an elitist microcosm of the networking hell that is silicon valley.

I come here because I'm part of the tech world. It's just that the tech world is a corrupt, greedy place--Y Combinator included.
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"One downside I found was that the Ctrl-[ combo seems to back up the cursor one character, which can be annoying."

So, technically you could just flutter the pedal to move the cursor left? :)
The notice of inspection was missing, fwiw. But good to know, I didn't realize the TSA inspection was tracked like that.
> He's not allowed to say "Big", but you can say "mass produced"? Those are pretty close.

"Big Food" is a meaningless scare phrase. It literally means nothing in the context of the comment I was replying to. On the other hand, "mass produced" has a very clear and well-established general meaning that I'm pretty sure most HN readers understand (and one that can easily be found online or in a dictionary; when I try Googling "Big Food", I just get a lot of random sites that use it as a buzzword without ever bothering to define clearly what they're fighting against).

> Take out that hedgey "necessarily" and you've answered your own question.

The question was rhetorical, and the point was to illustrate how absurd the phrase "Big Food" is. My statement about mass produced food was intended to show that I'm not defending major corporations that produce unhealthy food, but pointing out a rhetorical and logical flaw in tlb's post.

> To say that Ensure is excessively sweetened to make people buy more, while Soylent isn't, sounds like an argument to me.

tlb didn't include any sourced information about Soylent (other than "it's not sweet", which means nothing about its sugar content), so that's irrelevant. My point, again, was that calling anything "Big Food" is a meaningless, bullshit scare tactic and I was calling it as a saw it.
Looks pretty good. Being a Flask user, happy to see the flask example as well. Would definitely try and use it in side projects of mine. You open to any forks and/or pull requests ?
Maybe they are trying to tell you to stop tweeting about it, put down your phone and enjoy your vacation?