skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real question being why did they have 178 employees?

It sounds almost like they were following the Digg engineering approach rather then Reddit's.
Quite true. Were it not for that I would have been in the "wait and see" group as well, and I suspect I'm not alone. Those "wait and see"ers wouldn't have jumped in and the whole campaign wouldn't have had such a newsworthy boost right of the gate.

Either way, very interesting to watch it unfold.
This sounds totally useless as a 3rd party service due to how obvious a target it would be but a simple encrypting proxy or MTA config would be pretty useful for self hosted setups.
They could, but I expect their "worse is better" attitude will prevent it.
"What Vim or Emacs plugins are they using to improve their process? Do they pop out of their text editor and type rdoc or pydoc into their shell? Do they fire up an interactive REPL with irb or python? ... asking them how many windows there are in San Francisco."

They don't care about Vim and Emacs, they are not Python devs and they don't live in SF (talking about the other 90% of devs naturally).
I found your semicolon quite confusing there - it seemed to suggest that there was some relationship between being a theist and dying of starvation.
Sounds like Rift needs a reverse version of Google Glasses inside of it! A camera on the front would show a small screen of what's in front of you IRL.
Fedora 19 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
http://www.linkedin.com/vsearch/p?f_CC=1668979

A lot of "brand strategists"
Technological standards are only half the battle. The rest a mix of regulatory differences and the history of how the market happened to unfold. No European carrier was ever faced with attempting to build (and thus finance) a network for a continent-sized country.
My work around that operates more like the original (i.e. does not cause img's to flash), built with AngularJS - https://github.com/RobK/angular-blink
Like others have alluded here I want to start building my own apps on a home server and sync them with Cloudant and/or CouchDB on a VPS I purchased. I particularly curious about PouchDB because, like you, I have eventually consistent data. But I also want to sync stuff off my phone and to other devices. There a few things I was thinking of.

Anyway, it is really really cool to hear what you were doing. I have very little experience and rediscovered CouchDB out of boredom, and really want to use it and get back into a failed attempt at learning Erlang or an a BEAM byte-code and/or Erlang-VM compatible language (Lisp-Flavored Erlang or Elixir).

Anyway, you give me some hope for the first part. Thanks.
Isn't it fucked up when someone suggests that someone's life might be at risk because of some data he had (and completely had the right to delete) and it doesn't sound utterly ridiculous?

This is now the world we live in.
Lying under oath (or even when questioned by the police) is rarely a great idea. Because even if they can't prove you did anything illegal, that can still use your lie to hang you.
It is rather hard to imagine a situation in which one would have an external monitor that is plugged in and no way to plug in the Edge as well
I would use MediaGlobulin.
Go's GC is non-moving, exactly because they can't precisely know what a pointer is and what is just some random int.

So it's basically as if all objects are pinned in Go.
I don't expect that to change. There are probably tons of Go code out there which will break in response to a change.

I guess it will be pushed back to some mystical "2.0" release, along with Generics.
It's 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from terrorism
It was likely agreed on (possibly via contract) to meet the compliance policy of the government agency. So I could see breach of contract. I don't know about legal precedent for logs per se, but there is precedent for retention of other files. For instance HIPAA involves some well known regulations around keeping and destroying medical data.
It'd be interesting if we saw a browser actually version-compatibility break, in the sense of "HTML5 supported, HTML4 won't even render."
Amazon operates in China and Japan.
QAMA - The calculator that makes you think
I hope other board of directors will learn from Marissa Mayer being hired as the CEO of Yahoo.
The most convenient old way of quickly accessing an inbox was inbox_nickname.mailinator.com -- this still works today.
All Scandinavian countries do implement EU Data Retention Directive just as well.
Was rambling on twitter about the same... https://twitter.com/tracker1

Thinking, you register an "address" which can only be registered/announced once... that includes a public key (software generates private key)

When sending a message to someone, the entire envelope of a current email will be encrypted against the recipient's public key. That is the "msg", from there a crc32 of the msg is generated as a "sig" (signature), then a bcrypt of (address + sig) is generated as a "conf" (confirmation of intended recipient). The message is then addressed to a crc32 of the address... this allows for enough uniqueness so that super nodes don't get flooded, but still allow for some routing and query ability.

When you open your client, it connects to the DHT system, and then requests the sig/conf for any messages to crc32(address) then does the calculation locally to determin if a message is actually for said user. It can then request the actual message.

After N days a message should be deleted from the dht systems.
Do you think that knowing arithmetic is that important?
http://api.genderize.io/?name=Αλεξανδρος

This throws an error and gives us a very pretty stack-trace :)
Leetspeak: .Net (mostly) conference in Stockholm, Sweden October 2013
I don't know if the OP update his posting but both URLs work just fine for me.
(Ad hominems?)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6178980

You're assuming that I haven't actually done my homework and am making an off-the-cuff statement based upon media exposure, when the facts of this matter are that I have done my homework on this topic.

(Obama on domestic surveillance, 2007)
http://youtu.be/ZVUwUCe1e-A

(Why we don't trust the government)
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/restoring_tru...

(The Terrorism Delusion)
http://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/absisfin.pd...

As the facts are, and looking at the situation objectively, the sustained reaction to the 9/11 incident is uncalled for, especially when the US has gone through previous decades which had seen exponentially more terrorist (lots of bombs) activity on US soil than any time since, yet back then the government didn't overreact and implement such excessive measures as we see today, in commercial airports where passengers are treated like criminals in a prison, in our electronic communications, and our financial records.

I, personally, have never called for the abolition of the NSA, but rather would like to see less intrusive measures employed instead of what they're doing now.

Where is the probable cause for the interception, collection, and storage of my electronic communications?
Where is the probable cause showing that I might be a terrorist?

There are conditions which are supposed to be met when the government wants to violate my 4th Amendment rights, and to add an exception for "National Security," where no exception exists, equates to denial of civil rights, so when it's done on as massive a scale as we see case now it's a gross breach of the public trust and people have a right to voice their displeasure with the actions of their government.

To simply sweep this under the rug would be the most unpatriotic thing you could do, and justifying this obviously unpopular program by citing terrorism is disingenuous when viewed from a chronological perspective.
Fast Probabilistic File Fingerprinting for Big Data
When will the TC disrupt hackathon SF tickets be available next?
Not to mention it's beautiful. They are starting with a billion euros of R&D that Nokia essentially threw out.
Why didn't this get pushed to Front Page is beyond me.
... is not used in that context.
Show HN: Raspberry Pi Google Music Controller
Are they running one Mac OS X instance per Simulator or is there a way to run multiple Simulators at once that I don't know of?
The analysis seems to be based more on Venkatesh Rao's fairly lengthy "Gervais Principle" series rather than MacLeod's cartoon per se:
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
The sheer volume of bikes is much, much higher in Amsterdam.

The culture of beat up bikes is not typical for the Netherlands, except maybe for student towns. Also, it is much cheaper to get your bike "fixed" in Amsterdam, so old bikes are kept going longer. ("fixed" being a bit relative because of the cultural difference, bike shops in Amsterdam will use duct-tape if necessary)

The middle-class mommy "bakfiets" was typical for Amsterdam until very recently.

Car ownership amongst people who can easily afford one is much lower in Amsterdam than anywhere else in the country. Nowhere is it that hard to get around by car than in Amsterdam, and in most places it's hardly possible to live without a card.

The total disregard of cyclists for traffic rules, including ignoring red lights and not having any lights at night is typical for Amsterdam.

Lots of outsiders (there are barely any locals left in the heart of Amsterdam) have turned cycling into a bit of a cult. Outside of Amsterdam, cycling is much more "normal".
Sorry guys, nice flat design and everything, but I'm on fiber and on a brand new MacBook Retina 15", and it is _sloooow_.

Good idea, but slow like this, not acceptable.
The guys at work think I have superpowers because I can do rough calculations in my head without resorting to a calculator. In the middle of intense discussions about systems architecture it's a real bonus to be able to get the numbers quickly and without suspending the discussion in order to punch things into a calculator.

They say that discussions go faster and are more free-flowing and productive because they don't have to stop and start constantly.

Of course, I work in an engineering-heavy field, so my experience won't be typical. Even so, your question carries overtones of the "when am I ever going to use this?" question that causes math teachers all over the world to despair of ever getting people to understand that it's not about the facts, it's about the ability to think.

Being able to do mental arithmetic effectively is one aspect of being able to break down problems into small parts, and retain some pieces while working on others. The skills involved are clearly related to those required in programming - seeing more than one way to do things, working through long chains of reasoning, combining tiny operations into large and complex calculations. It's plausible that practising those skills in small, concrete settings such as arithmetic can help foster the abilities required in larger and more abstract settings such as math and programming.

You'll never need trig if all you ever do is flip burgers, but I use it all the time in computing margins of error in safety critical operation of 30,000 tonne tankers and nuclear submarines. There is a middle ground.

But it's not really about the tools being used to learn, it's about the skills you acquire on the way.
maybe have from:crc32(addr), to:crc32(addr) with two envelopes.. the outer would be encrypted against the recipient's public key.. so that the recipient could get the sender's address and their public key to decode the rest of the content...

I'm not sure how such a system could combat spam.
<blink> as the most hated?

what about <marquee>?
Can you tell us how this works? A ton of Mac Minis Streaming iOS simulator output to a HTML5 canvas using vnc or something like that?
Only this who have functioning bells...
The number of people with "brand" in their title is amazing.

Is that a fancy title for someone who interacts with the tumblr community? I noticed they're located all over the place.
How about all reporting of sentences including a) the cost of the trial, and b) the cost of the sentence?
as someone who (wisely or unwisely) depends on my email account as an online datastore, the prospect of it just shutting down overnight and my losing everything is terrifying. which probably means it's time to start some sort of active backup mechanism, but more to the point i do wonder if any of lavabit's or silent circle's clients ran into the same predicament.
Also, what prevents the guy from setting up that service in a European country (Switzerland is not subject to EU laws)?

I don't see why his 10 years of work would be lost.
Unfortunately, I cannot find a clip of this from the movie Ronin. One of my favorites with Robert DeNiro as a criminal or spy, and not even his own gang of crooks are trusting of him. Among my many favorite quotes (I am reviewing all of them and laughing; the movie is a goldmine [0]):

Spence: You think too hard.
Sam (DeNiro): Nobody ever told me that before.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122690/quotes
what is this, virtualization for ants?
A lot of sites forbid the use of mailinator.com email addresses.

Which is completely useless since there are numerous aliases, and you can also point your own domain/subdomain to it and have your own mailinator inbox running on you@spam.mydomain.com
I hold the opposite opinion: if Amazon shopping lens supports Ubuntu providing their awesome operating system, it's very well they have it. Also I don't see a distrust point at all, hey it's a click away to disable, some commands away to uninstall.

Why so particular with Ubuntu, do you e.g. distrust (and stop using) Google for displaying ads? What about Windows/OSX which are orders of magnitude less trust-able than an open source OS. If you don't like a more mainstream consumer Linux then why not install Arch or Debian or Bodhi and refrain from badmouthing?
Excellent. From a usability standpoint, please design a blank state for the content area on desktop, it is not clear at the moment. @publicfig "EDIT: I would honestly like to see this scale on desktop, just because it's a pretty great interface for Hacker News.
" also backs this up.

How?
Instead of the orange, make it light, and add label + icon, (like in Mail.app) to show nothing is selected. Just my 2c.
MD5 message authentication for the site. No PFS (ephemeral key exchange). Mixed content. I couldn't find a statement where the servers are hosted. Not exactly encouraging.
We thought about this for raygun.io. In the end, despite being a an error notication service at our core, we thought it was a bit of a dick move to try and hold off people who used mailinator.

Treat others how you want to be treated: If I wanted to use mailinator to sign up for a service I'd be miffed if they actively blocked it.
Bluepass: an open trust no one password manager (fundraising)
I just tried it, and it is currently rather slow, but I suppose that is the HN effect. I signed up for a free account nevertheless, because as luck would have it, I'm working for a project right now, where this might come in handy.

However, I couldn't find any documentation on that, but do you also support iPad apps? I can see that that would be a tad more difficult due to the higher streaming data bandwith.

Nevertheless, great app, I like the idea.
You defend your own ad hominems with more ad hominems?
How do you know that I am misinformed?
I've read everything that I can get my hands on regarding this subject.

Then you go on to confuse the sentiments of one Russian for the policies of an entire nation?

Who's being ridiculous here?
CEO here. We are running on Mac OS X and you can run multiple simulators by using multiple user accounts. This is a part of our approach but not all of it :)
It would be quite useful if both of you explained your +1 and -1. Is Bitmessage bad, or did you just dislike the +1?
Oh, that is genius.

But I have problems believing in the existence of conspirators though. Opportunists, yes, but not conspirators. Our species blows at foresight.
CEO here. Thanks so much for the feedback. Yep, we are currently being slammed. Glad to have you on board. We do support iPad - checkout http://docs.app.io for a few options and ways you can use the service.
I used this the other day and it was significantly speedier.. i'm guessing it's the HN effect. Cool concept.
It does run on Mac Mini servers. We don't use VNC, but rather our own approach to make it work. We used to be called Kickfolio, and this Quora thread has a nice response from one of our other co-founders, Chris. http://www.quora.com/How-Does-X-Work/How-does-Kickfolio-work...
White noise has distinct statistical properties that allow to mitigate it's effect on detection of meaningful signal. E.g. filtering white noise from audio stream is a very common operation.

Sending packets to all contacts at random is a form of introducing white noise, vulnerable to signal processing techniques known and used from 1950s.
emdowling you are inexplicably hellbanned and all comments are dead, perhaps contact HN admins so you can take part in this conversation?

[EDIT no longer hellbanned]
Its a shame that it is so slow, especially when its pretty amazing to be able to do this in a browser. Perhaps whilst the HN storm is taking place a less intensive demo could be implemented.
FYI emdowling (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=emdowling) from app.io is replying to comments here with useful info but his account seems to have been hellbanned. You can turn showdead on in your HN profile page to read what he wrote.
Disinformation, doesn't actually help, if you blacklist based on destination IP and MX entries. Using alternate domain won't help, unless you also run TCP proxy or forwarding SMTP server. Even using different IP and name with light TCP relay proxy, gets revealed during handshake.

Burp, nuff said: "220 mail.mailinator.com ESMTP Postfix"

Also see: https://ssl.trashmail.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5421#p78...

Of course you can add alias to your own mailserver and domain(s) alias to your own mailbox or set forwarding to mailinator. Then it's quite hard to find out if messages are really sent to mailinator or your own real mailbox.
Author here. It's accurate. And will update every hour, if they change it.
But they weren't being prosecuted, how is that obstruction? How would they prove that it was "evidence"?
I don't know where you live, but here in the Netherlands even for these disposable credit cards you need to present a valid passport/id.
@emdowling - your comments aren't showing up here - maybe because your account is new? The service looks awesome btw!
What I find interesting are the claims Penrose[1] and others make about human versus machine intelligence based on Godel's results.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_artificial_intel...
Because some compilers do make use of that hint in useful ways. They're just not required to, nor are they required to do so in any specific situation, much like the register and volatile keywords.
Well, there's ideas like Participatory Society, but people criticize it for being too far in the "blueprint" spectrum. (http://www.zcommunications.org/topics/parecon)

Can't please everyone. :)

If that's a bit too fundamental, then consider Terry Kupers' argument in favor for rehabilitation. This situation is quite simple: instead of solving the problem through humane institutions (like childcare assistance, lifelong education, fiscal policy to reduce unemployment, drug rehab), we use the prison system. Which is not only expensive and violent, but it clearly makes the problem worse. (http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S130328)
I didn't mean to have an overtone. and I agree that practicing calculation may develop memory and reasoning. But so does programming, playing certain computer games and so on. But I still wonder if being able to do calculations is a required skill.
You're asking this of a government with a growing record of retroactively rewriting laws in its own favour?
"The point is if it's going to be that insecure, Chrome should make more of an effort to make it clear"

And what's a better way to make it clear than actually showing the passwords ?
This Recycling Bin Is Stalking You
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It would be nice if there was an extension to SMTP which allowed the receiving server to inform the sending server of the recipients public key, so that the message could be encrypted at the sending servers end before being passed on. That way, the receiving server wouldn't see the plain text.

Silent Circle had a feature where people could upload their public keys to their keyserver and then Silent Circle would encrypt any outgoing email to that person with their key if it wasn't already encrypted. Something like that, but more automated.

As for meta-data, when I looked at Silent Circles services, they were adding Received headers to email which contain the senders IP address. I know that's common, but it's certainly not required. Even Google don't do that with GMail. There was definitely plenty of room for improvement. How about a mail service which packs the entire message including headers into the MIME body of a new message before enrypting. So the original message headers are all secured too. It wouldn't look as nice in the receivers mail client, but it would be much more secure.
That should be their headline, I didn't get what they are doing the first time I saw the page earlier today.
Do you need a degree to be a coder?
Do Not 3D-Print: MIT Hackers Duplicate “Non-Duplicatable” High-Security Keys
Look at the outrage caused to some people when we suggest that someone's life should be saved with free-at-the-point-of-delivery health care.

Now apply that to giving people adequate care in the community and see heads explode.
Right, but my email service is not likely to suddenly disappear overnight (like post) and also isn't owned and controlled by a large corporations in the same pocket as the US government (which isn't even my government... but seemingly still has access to my emails...).
no idea the point of this but seems at first pointless