skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You aren't kidding, their mobile site isn't good. The service exists as a proxy between the user and the destination website that loads modifications (javascript, css) and applies them to site. A server side version of userscripts is a reasonable way to explain it, here's an example of adding favicons before submissions on hn: http://newsycombinator.tomodo.me/

Here's their site with the mobile stylesheet disabled (how meta!): http://tomodomobile.tomodo.me/
Yes, users should have separate accounts. This whole thing is like complaining that a user can browse your My Documents folder if you allow them to use your account. Of course they can, they're logged in to your account!
Won't take long until someone takes that thing skydiving to get the world record. :-)
First they came for the terrorists, then they came after the drug dealers...

You're right though, it is a ridiculous premise. There's no profit to be made from genocide.
JetBrains Day in Malmö, Sweden
I'm a professional programmer with more than 20 years of experience and I think noivad makes an excellent point here. If you apply Justin Schuh's argument to door locks, the conclusion would be that door locks are insecure so don't even bother having them in the first place. How are they insecure ? Take an axe and break the door down. That should probably bypass almost any kind of residential door. Alternatively, break a window.

The reason to have a master password to protect Chrome passwords, for most people and in 99.9% of cases, is that not that we fear we'll get hacked by some random jerk. It's to prevent a casual acquaintance from discovering our passwords easily.

At this point, I think what may have happened is that, at some point, the Google Chrome Security made a decision based on logic that had numerous merits, but doesn't work too well in practice. Now that they've committed themselves over and over by defending this practice, they're so vested in this decision, that they'll defend it, even to their professional demise.

Again, I think their original decision not to have a master password was a smart decision, but not a wise one. As an analogy to door locks again, the smart decision is not to have door locks because they're very insecure (think breaking down a door or window with an axe).

It sounds like this Google Chrome security policy will most likely not change until some significant leadership changes are made over there..
This is a bold step, I must say, Facebook is known to raise issues with app that provide something that Facebook is already providing but in a better way.
It is something that someone found all these interesting stories and presented them to you in a simple ranked list.
Chrome is the browser that auto updates with no user interaction, checks against website blacklists to protect you, and has an entire OS built around the concept of a hassle-free, locked-down, auto-maintained, disk-encrypted, usage.

Chrome is designed for the layman.

Does it warn you that your passwords are effortlessly stolen by anyone that can access your computer? No.

Does it warn you they're at least not encrypted? No.

Do you think the average Chrome user knows this?

Do you think the average user understands computer security like us IT professionals?
I hope they have a standing connection to the server during the throw and detect ... disconnects. That way, they could detect crashes and give approximate credit for the height.

I don't want to throw my phone high into the air, watch it go to pieces and not even get a high score.
It's a pity this didn't get more attention on here, as this is a surprisingly detailed article on the subject.

The one tiny aspect I've been thinking about a lot lately involves the anti-Spotify crowd. This piece throws in some speculative numbers about iTunes vs. Pandora vs. Spotify, and explains that if only non-paying Spotify users listen to a given track it takes 600 listens to equal one iTunes purchase, in terms of royalties. (For paying Spotify users, BTW, it's only 60 listens.)

Although some artists, notably Radiohead, are taking Spotify to task over this, I'm curious about why this is considered differently to the old dynamic of broadcast radio vs. LP/tape/CD, where there was no way one broadcast of a song cost the station as much as buying a single, and that broadcast was nearly guaranteed to reach more than 600 listeners. Is it that Spotify users can choose the songs they listen to, and maybe burn themselves out on their favorite tracks, where in radio they'd run a few chosen songs into the ground but if you wanted to hear anything else you had to buy the album?

What's even more noteworthy to me was Pink Floyd putting just about everything they've got on Spotify. They were one of the famous holdouts on iTunes ostensibly because they wanted their works to be experienced as entire albums, and are part of the group attacking Pandora over its seeking of royalty cuts.
People can also browse My Documents if they're logged in to my account. Microsoft should get this bug fixed asap.
So learning lessons from totalitarianism is totalitarian? WTF did I just read?
Interesting concept, the ranking is definitely different from that of Facebook, its cool to get a different view of the same feed
Pulling the gaming boxen over to the garage & blasting them out with the air compressor hose is part of spring cleaning here.
Karma-whoring will be counterproductive if the community doesn't solicit/reward such behaviour. And this attitude of the community has more or less thwarted karma-whoring till now. We'll see how this works out in future.
It has been updated! Thanks for the heads up!
This is an excellent point. I find it interesting that so many things that I use in my own life for orientation are not even noticed by a broad section of humanity. Philosophy, technology, religion, politics, these are often monumental issues to certain people while rarely even noticed by others. It's interesting that the human experience is so diverse especially intellectually. It's hard to escape the belief that what I follow is IMPORTANT though. As well as the follow up thoughts of "If only more people paid more attention to X the world would be a better place...".
Stephen Fry: Putin is making scapegoats of gay people, just as Hitler did Jews
9 Vim and Shell Enhancements
Pixel-perfect timing attacks with HTML5
Easier way would be to just wait for the user to enter the master key and then decrypt the passwords.
better than suicide bombers
Too bad every other browser works the same way...
PEP 8 for Python,

Go fmt all the things
How does this differ from a browser addon like GreaseMonkey that adds custom Javascript on page load? This seems like the same idea, only using custom (*.tomodo.me) urls and with Javascript pulled from a third-party server rather than my local machine?
Concept looking cool, looking to install
I haven't seen that formula before
Been done: http://maemo.org/packages/view/n900fly/
Ah, yes the "I can't fit it to my mental model, therefore it is impossible" argument.

When little, my brother used to mix up the words "more" and "less" while speaking. I don't doubt someone could mix up > and <.
Ive been actually missing real news e.g. birthday, career moves, events etc on Facebook's normal feed - if this can figure out the stories I missed, it'll be good. I ll be using it definitely
I knew I saw a way to interact with it through the mouse. Thank you for reminding me. `tmux` is really a neatly little program, everything is there, simple and efficient.

ps:

man tmux | grep "mouse-" # shows the mouse related options
C-b : "set mouse-<option> on"

pps: turning on mouse windows/panels interactions disable text selection, do you know a way to have both ? (beside switching beside custom defined modes on your .conf)
Exactly - I use Stylish + Userstyles. I cannot see myself using Tomodo.
I can do this in firefox too...

Tools...options...saved passwords....show passwords...

So I'm missing the point why it makes Chrome so bad?
And the one in between witches and communists "anarchists".
That was the quickstart version—it's just being pragmatic. The alternative is to audit the setup script yourself, which is easy enough to do. You'd do the same for a tarball right?

If you trust the author and want to get started quicky it makes a lot of sense to simplify the install process to a one liner.
IIRC, the service processor on IBM x86 servers is a PPC. (runs the light-path diagnostics, and manages remote boots, etc)
I had a similar problem - though it was after a decade of work. At the end of the day, I'd come to hate technology, writing software, engineering management (especially), and pretty much the entire industry. And, in the interest of full disclosure - I had some pretty good management.

But I was burning out. I changed careers (within tech) and became a Scrum Master, only to find that I started to miss coding and problem solving, since those skills were rarely in use.

Then, I moved into consulting. I've never looked back. I try to balance multiple clients at the same time, because love having the different challenges these clients require. All of a sudden I'm focusing on a core competency (DevOps in my case), but I get to see the world from Python, C#, Java, and even Physical Hardware scenarios. But that generalist approach doesn't work for everyone.

Try different things. See if you can take a couple of hours a week to poke around with new technologies, or industries. Trying to take the bull by its horns is the key.
I understand your point, thanks.
A while ago I changed my prefix to ctrl-q because of ctrl-a interfering with me being able to move to the beginning of a line. Not sure if I would go back to ctrl-a now, but this is nice to know.
The VC-funded startup scene is full of frauds: fake startups, fake technology (manual work being sold as high-power machine learning), and promises made with no intention of keeping them. It's a shark's world, not for the faint of heart, and not a good place if you're a bad judge of character (unless you're prepared to learn, painfully, in that arena).

I've worked in finance and in the startup world. Ethics in the startup world are a lot worse. Finance has more reach (see 2008) but the people who will completely fuck someone over just to make a nickel are just not as common. Even if you get politically unlucky in finance or otherwise end up being laid off, you'll still get a severance and a decent reference. They'll send you off in a decent way. On the other hand, I've seen startup CEOs ruin peoples' reputations just to do it.

OP's complaints have nothing to do with the company being YC, and certainly nothing to do with it being pre-A. The most unethical people I met in the startup scene were the management team of a well-established post-D startup in New York. (The CEO is from an extremely wealthy family and pulls connections to raise money in spite of his own incompetence and the mediocrity of the leadership; otherwise, the company wouldn't exist, but you knew that.) These people have used extortion to settle severance disputes, hired multiple people into the same exact leadership role as an explicitly intentional recruiting tactic, and were so dishonest with investors that they're known for it in New York, which might be why the Series E seems to be a struggle for them. That is in a company that has passed VC vetting four times.

YC doesn’t necessarily mean sure shot success. Paul Graham is a human and bound to make mistakes.

Well, fucking duh. No one is a perfect judge of character. No one. You have to make decisions on people based on extremely minimal information that has more to do with someone's charm and social skill than anything deeper. You only know if someone's a good person when they're really tested; you don't see that in a few hours of superficial interaction. On the other hand, if you're not willing to bet on people based on almost no real information, you can't make any deals at all and that's generally considered worse.

Go for post Series-A. VCs have already done the vetting for you.

They're not going to be any better than YC was. Judging character is just fundamentally a hard problem. Look at the Stanford Prison Experiment. A change of context turned normal people into monsters.

Most of these startups do not match the ideal we have of Google's early days: technical to the core, well-managed, etc. The bad news is that about 75% of these VC-funded startups still fail (but you knew that). The ugly news is that at least that percentage deserve to fail. Sorry, man.

So, OP drew a dud. It happens. I've drawn two and I'm still alive.
When going slightly against common sense, people tend to randomly add Chinese quotes, usually from Lao-tzu, and it is almost always a bad idea. But here this text is vibrating strongly with one of the core idea of daoism, it is impressive.

It could be found more closely in Zhuangzi or even Lizi. These guys were living in a time when many have been killed for their ideas, and many had strong beliefs. Their solution for survival was to be an empty vase, a useless tool.

A good example is the tree: a straight trunk is the sure path to death for a pine tree, while if you are twisted in a way that makes you useless you survive much longer.

There is also this empty boat story. If a big vessel sees a small boat in her way the captain will shout at the small boat, but let the small boat be empty and the captain will just move around.

Daoism is all about being this empty boat. And it is it's limits: society also need people with strong belief and ready to die for them.

Just take slavery; it is a moral belief and duty to be against slavery. Even if by some rational reasoning slavery was proven a better solution than freedom, we would still have to stand against it, and some have died for this moral belief.

So I think I cannot fully agree here.

Edit: Or to be more precise, there is a limit to the reduction of one's identity. Maybe this limit is just that common identity we all share: humanity.
been kinda thinking of this kind of thing for fb from a long time. frineds posts are ranked according to hotness. good to see it finally.
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun" Ecclesiastes 1:9
It is a lot like a server-side user script but it runs on any platform including all mobile devices and without installing anything. Anyone can use this. On the other hand, try sending your grandma a user script, see what happens.
I like this, mind telling what technology you are using?
or an overview of how things are being done behind the scenes?
Show HN: The Jeff Bezos-Washington Post Conflict-of-Interest Crayon
I made this bookmarklet to highlight potential conflicts of interest related to Jeff Bezos in Washington Post stories.

It's basically a quick fork from an existing GitHub repo. Anyone can suggest keywords at a wiki linked to from the GitHub page here.

Tested and works in Chrome and Safari; doesn't work in my Firefox but I'm too ignorant to know why. Any help with that would be appreciated, as would any and all contributions to the wiki.
Not sure if sarcasm.. Yes it is your fault if you forget to lock your account when you leave your machine unattended. It's also a click per password after the three clicks to get to that page.
metro is built in. there is no "not using metro"
the first premise of this app is flawed:

> Around 50% of the updates by your friends are never seen by you

Well yes...I suspect that's the same ratio of HN posts that are never read....because no one liked/upvoted them...and if thhe algorithms are right, that's a good thing. I'm not saying there isn't room for a new way to rank posts (in either FB or HN)...but it's a good thing to not see 100% of all the drek that gets posted to your news feed.

* edit: What would be useful is to see a comparison of how the OP's rendition of the feed compares to the status quo. I've been mostly satisfied with FB (though how do you really know how good it could be?) two of my best friends recently got married. Their friends are also close friends of mine. Theoretically, my newsfeed should be absolutely swamped with notes and photos of their wedding, and a constant circlejerk of likes and comments (I've posted scores of photos and tagged them myself, which creates a mass of FB notifications in itself)...but I've been pleasantly surprised to see that FB has still kept up an interesting variety in my feed.
Awsome Idea. Most of the time i missed my friends stories. Additback help me alot to view those.
I don't use mnemonics in general. For me the effort to remember the mnemonic is actually double that for remembering the thing per se. I need to once remember the symbols->mnemonic connection and then the mnemonic->meaning connection, instead of simply the direct symbols->meaning one. It feels like cluttering my brain with junk that not only doesn't make it easier to remember things, it actively makes it harder.
Same idea, except with this product you can share your modification across machines and users without making everybody install your plugins on their client.
EHealth on Facebook? How Social Media Influences Healthcare?
The missing story part is amazing... I found many missing stories ... Is Facebook really hides my Friend's posts
Here's another poll that shows Django being way ahead of Rails among the YC startups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142
I think Chrome's implementation of security is flawed. If you stop thinking about this security as being a switch which is on or off and instead as a granular scale then you'll agree that Chrome's password handling is as low on that scale as possible. Now just so you know, I'm agreeing that Chrome can't fully lock down your passwords and I'm OK with the reasons why (convenience), but their doing something wrong here, they're not looking at the in-between.

The difference I see is if my spouse or boss wanted to look at my passwords they could, easily. I'm not OK with that. Now, tell me they have to install a trojan, a virus or some other software first to get access to my passwords and thats a level of safety which stops my boss. My boss won't have the technical know how to do it. My spouse could be looking just out of curiosity, the smallest roadblock would stop them. Chrome's implementation makes it easy for anyone to see passwords and that's just wrong!

The length of time anyone will have access to an unsupervised machine plays a role here. It shouldn't take 5 seconds of pointing and clicking that my gran could do to reveal all my passwords. It should take someone more effort!
This is just flat untrue. It has collected this data since b1 and I found the screen that showed it in b2 or b3 (but it was probably present in b1 as well). It also explicitly asks you if you want this feature (separate from the location services opt-in).
The thing is, Hayden has a point. Geesh, never thought I'd be saying that!

Terrorism is an act of politics, not warfare. It's the use of stealth to deliberately attack civilian targets in order to affect political change. (My working definition only). The goal of terrorism isn't dead people, and you don't weigh a terrorist campaign by how many bodies it creates. Terrorism is all about striking fear into the heart of the population in order to get them to vote or behave differently. That's why the tactic of terrorism is so effective against modern democracies. With the help of mass media, a few crazy people can inflict fear on millions.

So sure, in response to the United States' government implementing draconian surveillance technology, some 20-somethings that live in their parent's basement and have no life (notice how quickly the stereotypes come?) will strike out stealthily in order to inflict fear on the population, to be noticed.

But what he's missing is what military leaders in Iraq and Afghanistan have learned: you don't put out fires by dumping gasoline on them. In other words, the asshole that approved of this idiotic idea to store everything possible and then search later is the last person in the world you want defending it. He's gone off the reservation and somebody should shut him up before he makes things worse.

If the establishment starts circling the wagons on this issue, and it looks like that's what is happening, it's going to drive a wedge between the people and the government. This is not a good thing for them to be doing, terrorist threat or not.

All these political and agency leaders are betting that the next time there's a terrorist attack -- and there will be -- that anybody who supported killing this program will be rounded up and laughed at. I'm not so sure about that. I wouldn't bet on it.
And is why upvotes in the first <period of time> shouldn't be weighted heavier. That only promotes easy-to-digest content.
Hey, thanks for the 'nitrous' which gives me the ability to spin up more boxes. I keep trying to get them to take my money, but I think they're trying to work the network effect thing before charging.
They do have sleeper cars but the trip between LA and SF is far too short to make it overnight.
Now when I try and log in, it says it has sent a login request to my phone, my phone registers that as a notification, but when the Twitter app opens it says I have no login requests - so still not working.
I'm not sure it virtualizes an x86 box running Windows like an emulator though.
cause with Rails, a web application is developed fast and very easy and the cost is very low.

How is that different from e.g. Django?
A new idea. Fresh concept
Both discussions are fine way to learn. You always learn, even from stack full of "meaningless" comments. Either you accept it or nor, makes no difference, you have learned something.

Learned to not read comments or proceed reading and absorbing other people expressions that you adopt/use willingly/unknowingly.

To decide importance, scale, seriousness or whatnot of discussion, it is up to individual and for his needs.

Some are more defensive of set value and want to preserve idea. Some give up ideas to change perspective and understanding regularly. Diversity makes it all interesting.
is there something wrong? I´m getting a "This site doesnt exist" error.
> This seems a little disingenuous. I bet Intellij already has great support, but the top link you give there for Sublime Text, emacs and vim doesn't really give anywhere near the level of support you get in Visual Studio. Literally just syntax highlighting! In Visual Studio you get at least error highlighting/completions/code generation/navigation/refactoring.

It's a little disingenuous to expect environments that are typically more text editor than IDE and much more lightweight (Sublime, Vim, Emacs) to have all the features of an IDE with as new as TypeScript is. Much of those features require much more work than they would to implement in Intellij or Visual Studio, which have great APIs for building plugins with those sort of features[1] even for the community[2].

[1] http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IntelliJIDEA/Custom+...

[2] http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin?pluginId=5055 (The third party Lua plugin for Intellij for example)
Pandacodium - A 48-hour realtime web apps hackathon
Yes, ~38,000 lines of TypeScript for my app (https://www.datacracker.com/).

The benefits of inferred typing is great. Mostly you just need to explicitly declare the types of your class properties, and then code that uses the properties or modifies them (like .map() or .forEach) doesn't need explicit types defined - so it still looks like JavaScript.

Refactoring is no longer a search and replace in files (and pray tests pass) affair.

Dealing with other programmer's code is no longer as mentally taxing.
Show HN: Minimum Viable Product with a hard stop
> There's no profit to be made from genocide.

There is from imprisonment.
Great Business= Great Team + Defensible Product + Scalable Business + Big Market
Amazing Mannnnnnn !
It also sounds more pleasant than "dragnet" or "fishing expedition", but if this starts by treating everybody as a possible suspect for an undetermined crime those terms are closer to the truth.

A forensic analyst doesn't get started until it looks like a crime's been committed.