skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are all sorts of easy to use online prompt generators.

http://xta.github.io/HalloweenBash/

https://ddg.gg/?q=bash+prompt+generator

But it's not so difficult to customize your prompt yourself. Read the man page for whichever shell you're using.
I don't care for any of that oh-my-zsh, or powerline stuff, etc.

Back in the early 1990's, when I did most of my work in MS-DOS, I used ANSI.SYS and escape sequences to add colors, info, and positioning, and the same basics still apply in most of today's Unix-like systems.
Thank you for posting that, it may be helpful, but it's ~twice larger than apng. I think that matters when served to clients.
Also viewable here: http://youtu.be/rVwaIe6CiHw
Problem is, that is assuming that forwarding work email doesn't breach company policy in some way which can open up even more issues :)
> Interventions helped.
This only works with moderators who aren't narcissistic, megalomaniacal and/or sociopathic

Unfortunately, the Internet, startups, programming, and social media attract all seem to attract narcissistic, megalomaniacal and/or sociopathic types.
And what are we to do when their bluffs are revealed to be truthful, and the NSA's sway over all levels of government to be absolute? What if we were to learn that the Constitution is simply a feeble veneer meant to conceal the fact that there is certain legislation we're powerless to exert pressure over?

What happens when the sea of democracy recedes and all that's left are naked, stinking husks that were once called "congressional oversight" and "judicial oversight"?

My comment may the height of hyperbole and scaremongering, but it's difficult to ignore the opportunity to express myself in such a colorful manner.
Tell All: Forget 'SVBTLE' and 'Medium'. Here is a nice tumblr alternative.
I was waiting for my invites from SVBTLE and Medium. I found a nice alternative

Optica Tumblr Theme: http://www.tumblr.com/theme/37310

Example 1: http://blog.k-create.com/ (the creator of the theme i believe)

Example 2: http://teslachat.tumblr.com/ (i work here)

Example 3: http://nerdydata.tumblr.com/post/57308630996/how-we-found-all-of-optimizleys-clients (just saw this on HN)
Ask PG: Should network effects be a turnoff?
In How to Start a Startup, you say:

"I can think of several heuristics for generating ideas for startups, but most reduce to this: look at something people are trying to do, and figure out how to do it in a way that doesn't suck."

and then go on to give the example of making a better dating site. But what about network effects? That's basically the name of the game with dating sites.

1) Should small startup founders avoid ideas that involve network effects?

2) If not, what sort of heuristic would you propose for a small founder to overcome network effects?

Network effects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
PickToRead: A Google Reader Alternative
Yet another site that disables pinchzoom on mobile devices.
Btw, node.js / angular is production ready. There are others edgy framework or languages that I wouldn't recommend for the exact reasons you are saying.
I would recommend against hosting your own email unless you want to learn from the experience. Otherwise, pick a good company and focus on other things.

Personally, I would recommend Rackspace; perhaps from a reseller that can sell you a single address ($24/year). (contact me if you want) Free services scare me unless I can find how and why they are doing it.
Side note: jacobian's djangobook.com is languishing and needs help. The latest commit message was a grim "Add more explicit warnings about the status of the book". See the current index.rst: https://github.com/jacobian/djangobook.com/blob/master/index...
It's reasonably common for U.S. citizens to be extradited for crimes they're alleged to have committed while on a trip to another country [1]. I would be interested to know if any have been extradited for "virtual" offenses, however, i.e. to a country they have not visited, but which argues they violated that country's laws via the internet, or some other indirect mechanism.

[1] e.g. http://praguemonitor.com/2013/05/28/dahlgrens-extradition-%C...
50-year-old military-industrial complex

I was disappointed to read that part, as it omits the Congressional portion of the equation as well as fails to make note that said complex is a lot older than 50 years.
>Why don't people use snprintf?

Old habits perhaps? When I look back at it I remember that my first books on C were full of problematic sprintf and strcpy use. It may then easy to continue using what you first learned, even when you know better. It basically the "Baby duck syndrome"[0] for C functions.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprinting_(psychology)#Baby_du...
Firstly, the centralized cloud webmail companies (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo) by giving people the ability to self host their email with an awesome webmail solution! ~Mailpile Designer
Maybe hellbanning adds random upvotes to deceive the poster even further?
You'll have to write to the DoJ and ask them
Open thank you to open source
But not necessarily if it's important
Mailpile UI/UX designer here- thanks for the "feedback" I guess... What bothers you about our current logo, specifically?
I pressed submit without selecting a file and got:

Internal error

Ticket issued: wastats/134.21.203.171.2013-08-04.15-00-48.fd885357-c8af-45ce-8316-75bdffc004e2
I think he meant that non-Western societies have other problems that compete for most insane and awful.
But as a crowdfunder, I know that going in. Donation levels are clearly marked with what returns, if any, I can expect if the project is successful. "Worthwhile" to a VC means "big financial returns"; "worthwhile" to a crowdfunder means "this cool thing gets made". It's exactly the same concept; how it works out in practice is just mechanics.
> is just a pure and obvious bluff.

Provide proof?
> we don't know if the security services blackmail politicians, and other influential or powerful people.

It doesn't need to be so one-sided, some Senate and House members may in fact be benefiting greatly from the NSA's spying (eg: manipulating the stock market by using their exclusive access to private information), and in exchange the NSA continues their work with impunity and without oversight. It's a symbiotic relationship where they're benefiting from each-other.
I think that one of the most important features of $timout is that it runs a digest cycle after the timeout completes. That's why bindings get updated when you modify data in a $timout callback. So it is related to dirty checking.
Turn Your Career into a Work of Art
Tile, The World's Largest Lost & Found
Why do sites like this go out of their way to disable pinchzoom? Why remove useful functionality?
Ok, done. "sources tell us" All hearsay and innuendo. "Then suddenly, there was silence." What is he writing, a spy novel? I thought you said Jake Tapper is a well respected journalist? Is this what garners respect?
Hey topherwhite I'm the UI/UX designer of Mailpile- totally aware of the poor rendering on mobile at present. Working on fixing that- was swamped with other aspects of the campaign launch. Thanks for your feedback :)
That reminds of the Dwarf Fortress motto 'Losing is Fun', only that it is also inevitable! The algos will eventually win...
I can back clarle up, YUI is oftern misinterpreted as the old, while in reality it's rocksolid and good enough to build large stuff. Unfortunately the entry-cost is too high, that could be improved by a wrapper class that allows jquery minded people to go faster. http://yuilibrary.com/ could need a design overhaul, it looks like Java Documentation http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/documentation/....

What could be the reason, Bad marking maybe, idk?

YUI not only has pretty good damn support for ARIA and their templates conforms easily conform to WCAG AAA. What I like about YUI is that they continually improve and reinvent themselves. Something you cannot say about extjs and jqueryui for example.

PS: In 2002 - 2004 (not sure when), I've sent a huge css file (it resetted every tag) to a friend working at Yahoo and I was glad when they announced YUI CSS a month later which may or may not have built on my code, it remarkably defined the web. Today you can see html5boilerplate borrowing these ideas Yahoo once put into the mainstream with their awesome Framework.
Nah, I have much less Karma than that and I have "flag" buttons but no downvote buttons.
There now seems to be a subset of Internet denizens who are invested in a culture of pattern-matching and parroting snarky self-righteous knee-jerk reactions. Even more disturbing, is that many of these people have been indoctrinated to believe that this is "clever" somehow, even though it involves nothing more sophisticated than ELIZA.

Going around thinking you're superior because you're connected is just as shallow online as it was for country clubs.

Please actually process ideas if you comment on HN.
> Win7 was basically Vista with intelligent defaults

and some incredible performance improvements for low end hardware. The performance between Vista and 7 is night and day.
Try submitting something positive about Microsoft, but the negative posts will quickly make it to the top.

I'm starting to think it's well deserved.
I posted here for a year after getting hellbanned before realizing. It happens.
At this point when I find Android news, I just search google for half a dozen sites carrying the same story and submit them all, sure enough I might get 1 or 2 through the auto-kill filter.
> The ITC failed to take into consideration Samsung's FRAND obligations

You really believe this? That the committee whose job it is to consider such things and spent months deliberating is not considering the one thing that every internet commentator is apparently an expert on?

This is the reality distortion field taken to the extreme of willful self delusion.
Cookies can't be read by other sites, can they?
I provide a code word in my out of office message so that people can flag things they want me to read but don't want to remember to resend in a few week's time. e.g.

I'm away until dd/mm and will not be checking email. If you would like me to take action on or note something when I return please resend with [Action] in the subject line. All other messages will be automatically archived.
You mean like Bacon.js? I have not, yet. Looking at it now it seems that it is used for filtering/mapping/combining values?

The messages I send are more light weight and usually say "this has happened" to which a View would respond by re-rendering itself or its part rather then me directly passing whole Models and Collections around.
If Manning only released information about war crimes then he would be a true whistle-blower. Instead he released a whole bunch of information, mostly diplomatic cables which had no relevance to war crimes. He has set back protection for genuine whistleblowers because of his actions.
Yeah, it's always pissed me off how much speculation about Apple products manages to make it to the front page, when similar articles about Android devices would never have a chance.
I've been hellbanned at least a few times while trying to show HN the OSS project I've been working on :(

In /r/programming on reddit, it was shadowbanned as soon as it was posted. It's pretty frustrating and it's making me want to contribute to HN less.

https://chat.echoplex.us
https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus
This is also something I never understood. Who cares if I submit tons of (non-duplicate) links from my own domain. If the community doesn't like them, they won't get upvoted and will disappear. Same goes for the opposite.
Don't think so, am I?
You bring up good points, and I agree that a lot of these issues are very difficult to grapple with: it's difficult to pin down how evil something is, how much you're contributing to it, and whether you should take part in it when you've got mouths to feed at home. But I also think that an informed and learned individual in this day and age will recognize that dragnet surveillance encroaches on fundamental rights of human privacy. If I were an employee at NSA and had been asked to implement some part of PRISM I would protest within the proper confines of law, and ask to be given other work which I would be ethically okay with.

> Refusing to take part doesn't absolve you of anything, according to your philosophy

I think in this context it's fair to interpret a refusal to work on something you deem evil not as inaction but as an act that makes it difficult for evil to prevail. If most good men did this they either would not find persons to complete the work or only be able to find persons who cannot do it well or do it completely.

To further clarify, what I am really saying is one's decisions at work which are detached from any ethical considerations is a problem, they're not just engineering problems -- they affect people, in good ways or bad. I hope everyone would make an earnest effort to determine the morality of tools, laws, policies, etc. they're in charge of creating or maintaining by accessing existing literature, discussing the moral considerations of their work with their peers and others, and then decide if they really want to be a part of that. And, as it happens, the chances are that since a lot of this stuff work requires high competency, whenever you find yourself in a situation where determining the morality of your work is exceedingly difficult, there is good chance you can easily find good work elsewhere that will give you the right engineering challenges without the difficult ethical questions.
NYSE Euronext's Free Market Fallacy
America truly is the land of the free
I'm so glad to hear that. I had sort of assumed those breathtaking photos you see of the Milky Way were the result of long exposure tricks.

It sounds kind of silly, but I live in a really terribly light-polluted area where you're lucky to see a dozen or so stars at night if it isn't cloudy, and my dream vacation is just to go out to Arizona or maybe the middle of the ocean, just to see the stars properly for once.
I've been happy using tuffmail.com .

Fine for my needs, no problems that I know of, and they're helpful
I don't know, I called the Apple hotline twice to ask if more RAM is possible or using a better SSD like the ones Intel makes, but they said: Sorry that's no possible.
Spy agencies are addicted to corporate data load
Stop eating gluten. Go rock climbing. Find a summer job. Keep studying.
90% of it is print statement -> function. I got pretty tired of scrolling past all that to try and find the interesting bits.
Angel investors put $20B a year into startups (infographic)
Their posting frequency dropped significantly over the past year, probably as a result of never receiving any upvotes. At the time they were (presumably) hellbanned, they were posting at a rough average of one post per day, and it's much less frequent now. They seem to go for a week or two period in which they'll post several links, then forget about HN for a while.

I won't try to defend all of their posts; most of them are things that I don't even find interesting. But it seems that someone basically used banning as a method of cutting down on uninteresting material.

That may even be a good way of maintaining the signal-to-noise ratio on HN: if we ban the users that post many uninteresting links then the community won't have to see them. But it wasn't a tactic that I was aware of before today.
The repo contains the bin folder, which has the .apk checked in.
https://github.com/mparramont/metafilter-for-android/blob/ma...

You can install for free as fast as paid. Is the point to pay out of goodwill, or should a little more hassle be introduced?
Yes. Apple renders them as little colorful pictures.
Having been involved with some of these Industry/Academic partnership grants, some of them are not what you think. The worst I have seen are simply corporate welfare, using colleges to launder the source of the money.
Fake smile in a mirror makes you buy what you try on
Vote the bums out and defund the NSA. It's clear no one on the intelligence committee has been doing their job, so let's start there.

http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/memberscurrent.html

http://intelligence.house.gov/about/hpsci-majority-members
More likely is that the party leadership would not let them on any of the important committees. Or they may via backchannels fund a primary challenger.
Ah I understand what you're saying now. Thanks for the clarification :)
The meta-topic here (being danced around) is (1) the ability to <downvote articles> does not exist by design; and (2) flagging is an order of magnitude more powerful than a downvote, in reducing the prominence of a discussion. Hence (3) a mis-use of (2) is arguably ~abusive.
Where do you draw the "important"-line? Most my (important) bills come in my snail mail mailbox without any confirmation to the sender. If i don't pay them on time i get a delay fine. What's easier, pay the fine or try to prove in court that you never received the invoice? Or worse, explaining that you threw out all the mail you received during holidays?

Still, I agree, important messages through email should always be replied to to confirm that you've got them.
The life and times and tendencies of tech-wealthy "Millennials"
I'll put one up tomorrow in office where I have enough time to run the script. If you can, please run it while you work on your computer.
I think mailbox solves the to-do list problem well enough that it's hard to catch them on that dimension. On the other hnad, there are plenty of new thorny security issues that can generate popular interest. Running a crowd-funder is a good way of proving a market.
As far as we know it's the latter.
Because if it wasn't hard, then everyone would be doing it, competition would be greater, and separating yourself would be more difficult.
"She likes hacking code and occasionally hacking text"... hacking text, WTF?
It's never been about child pornography. That's a nuclear option that immediately invokes every American's maternal/paternal fears. It's a scare tactic used to manipulate and justify attacks.
To clarify, I mean that you can get one with 16GB, you can't upgrade it afterwards unless I'm mistaken.

Ram is so cheap that Apple should really consider making 16GB the standard for all rMBPs with an option to increase to 32 for the 15".
On another account, I checked regularly for possible hellban status.

Lo and behold, I caught it about 3 days in. Of course, I didn't even use HN for the first of those 2 days.

This day, I spend more of my time on subreddits that share HN's enthusiasm and knowledge without the subterfuge of hellbans.
In more honest times "economics" was more accurately called "political economy": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_economy
Beyond Grades
Moai
We're actually having an interesting conversation here about abusive flagging, in a thread I posted earlier today that was, ironically enough, abusively flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155513
The true hacking ethos is one about creation and isn't specific to code.
writing, i assume?
I stand corrected! Firefox, Chrome and Safari had no issues with this. I could cmd-c without highlighting and it still copied.

I finally found something indicating browser-support for this.[0] I have to think it wasn't supported in earlier versions of certain browsers and that's why Trello decided not to go this route. I'm definitely going to play around with this. This is pretty darn cool, thanks for sticking with me. :)

0: http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/events/cutcopypaste.html
The Silicon Valley/Bay Area ballwashing is half the reason why I don't submit posts anymore. This place is less about hackers and more about trendy startups.
Not even close. Tor took a big hit, but it will recover.
getting https cert error
Couldn't Android just ask for the DHCP option? It sounds to me as if this is a case of Android as a DHCP client talking to Android as a DHCP host, so making Android ask as a client seems feasible.
Ask HN: Best Agile process for using with continuous delivery?
For continuous delivery (CD), the focus on software inverts from the features per release, to releases per feature. You often deploy the code as soon as it's pushed to the deployment branch. For many Agile processes, you have an "iteration" or "sprint" and release the code at the end. Are some Agile processes, such as Kanban, better suited than Scrum or XP for use with CD or can CD be used seamlessly with Scrum or XP? (I have my thoughts on the matter, but I'm curious what others think).
Seconded - I just made a gushing sound that made my girlfriend think I saw a puppy online or something.

I may need help.
We're actually discussing the flagging situation here, in a thread that was flagged:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6155513

I don't think many stories get flagged just on the new page. It's usually domains that are flagged, like buzzfeed.com, huffingtonpost.com, or gawker.com. It sounds like maybe there was a bug in the server today.
I get the same error with https, but the http version of the homepage works just fine. See also, https://search.nerdydata.com/
Slide 55
http://image.slidesharecdn.com/bhslides-130803155156-phpapp0...
That is an incredibly bad idea. The people who would use this value the data and are willing to pay a lot of money for it. Secondly they are not going to be doing many searches. The Google search monitization strategy will not work. This guys have the right idea, copy the way BuiltWith.com makes money.
Thank you for catching the spelling mistakes.

The point of that slide is that trade secret theft is a very old problem, and that there is a long history of criminal and civil case law to look to when punishing that kind of action. Those individuals were all charged under the Economic Espionage Act and face extreme penalties. I see this as another version of overcharging under the CFAA; the Federal Government has one standard for doing something on paper and a much harsher one for the same activities while using an SVN repo.

I am not defending the actions of those men, I just feel that the civil remedies that have been used for decades are more appropriate than having the soul-destroying power of the US DOJ turned against them on behalf of their employers.

The ethical dilemma exists for the technologist who performs the investigation and testifies against her former co-worker. What responsibility does she have to see justice done? I don't have an answer, but that was the question posed by the slides on justice.
€2.99 Kimsufi/OVH servers - Have you been able to order one?
Two weeks ago I ordered three "KS 2G" €2.99 /month Kimsufi servers. I already had a server with Kimsufi so I didn't have to fax them my ids and such.

For some reasons the servers have been "cancelled" and I received a refund for them. But I didn't cancel anything by myself! So I sent them an email about this and got no reply.

I then ordered three of those servers again. But now, I don't even see them in my OVH control panel! Nothing in "My Invoices" or in "Orders in progress". I opened an incident ticket about this and got no reply. Worst, I don't even see the ticket anymore in my control panel...

I know those servers are really cheap and I'm not expecting any form of support. BUT at least I'd like to be able to order them and get the required credentials!

Did some of you successfully ordered one of those servers?
Mostly for practical reason. I'm familiar with rails and didn't want to learn yet another web framework.