skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to reuse an existing cmd window you can type in "cd " then drag/drop the directory from any Explorer shell. You could also close the shell after finishing with it.

Not trying to take anything away from your script, it has a use-case, but just pointing out that there are alternate solutions for systems that don't have your script installed.
That sound kind of like bash scripts for the web! I've been using bookmarklets [1] for that kind of thing. But extensions are probably a cleaner and more powerful way to do it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet
Pessimistically, maybe this implies that what we do and achieve has little impact on our well-being.

Optimistically, maybe this means that our well-being and contentedness is a lot less dependent on external circumstances than we tend to think. Maybe practicing gratitude as a means to lead a more fulfilling life, and less on chasing external carrots, is the way to go.
Probably why it's used as a statistical tool rather than a security tool.
Yes I fell into the "all languages" trap. Maybe "most mainstream languages" is more in line with what I meant. :P
I agree, and in the end, they finally broke the language barrier and comprehended the bug which I am sure they are working on fixing. They were able to get all the benefit of his work, why screw him on a measly little bounty?
Generating native code from html is certainly not easy.
The government fuels positive sentiment around pretty much all of its policies. It doesn't go round saying 'our policies suck' because that would provide an opening to opposition.
It's not "bullshit Terms of Service" - Facebook clearly lays out the terms of the Whitehat program.

There was no bait and switch - it's very explicitly stated that he should not be exploiting the vulnerability, and that it needs to be clearly explained.

I respect that he found a vulnerability, but he still needs to adhere to a website's terms and conditions. If the security team he reports a bug to doesn't "get it" the first time he should try again, not publicize it on Hacker News and attract negative publicity by putting it on Mark Zuckerberg's wall.
JS widgets in Haml/Sass/Coffeescript/Ruby/Mustache w/ the Asset Pipeline
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Our license is here: https://www.opendesk.cc/license -- it is CC Attribution-Non-Commercial (we dropped the Share Alike as an unnecessary restriction).

Our intent is to allow anyone to download, adapt and make the designs for free whilst retaining the right to charge a markup on commercial manufacture / distribution. I.e.: we're not just about Open Source but also about a local making marketplace that (transparently) we make a cut from, in exchange for value offered in QA and ease of purchase.

What we have definitely found is that it is not clear what exactly "Non-Commercial" means. On the one hand, we want to approve makers who commercially re-sell OpenDesks. On the other, we don't want to stop you taking a design to a local CNC shop yourself and asking them to cut it. We'd welcome both legal instruction on the validity of that position and any steer on appropriate license text.

N.b.: if you're interested in a "purer" effort to create a public domain library of CNC-able designs, check out the next stages of the WikiHouse project: http://www.wikihouse.cc/community
"...the nation’s journalists have moved a bit to the right since the 1990s, but are still considerably more liberal than the general public."

http://www.journalism.org/node/2304
Thanks for the feedback! Totally agree that calories != nutritional value.

Farther out, the plan is to allow users to conduct structured searches along all dimensions of menu items - macro-nutrients, sodium, etc. Due to the limitations of one of the APIs I'm using, I can only support a calorie parameter in queries for now. Note that once you drill into a particular menu item, you are provided with in-depth nutritional data like carbohydrates, protein, and fat.
Interactive Big Data analysis using approximate answers
Ah, you are correct. I figured I was missing something. Thanks!
ie McDonald and Burger King show up in results for default search. That's very misleading, unless you don't mind pinkslime as food.
Yes... They are using the term 'internet' here, and only use 'web' when talking about HTTPS. They are port scanning hosts, at the TCP or UDP level. That seems correct to me?
Just the first half. It sparked rage within me because if this is applied to US laws things will get worse than what I already see on a daily basis. I need to quit my job and get out of St. Louis ASAP. I've seen too many things...
This is a neat idea, I'll have to toy with using the concept for my dad's browser.
We're not talking about poor people living in Western societies, where it's possible to claim that they choose to be poor. We're talking about poor people in Kenya, where the average person is poor because it's a poor country.

And GiveWell, a "meta-charity" that studies and ranks other charities, gives GiveDirectly an incredibly high score - they consider it the second most effective charity.

This doesn't mean they're necessarily right (nor would they claim so), but a bunch of smart people have studied this topic and came to that conclusion, so let's not assume that it's just a ludicrous idea for show.
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[Slightly OT, Sketchup is the standard for sharing woodwork designs now. Thanks Google, and Trimble]

What other open source designs are there for functioanl furniture? I need to build shelving units for a warehouse, and I'm experimenting with a few designs for modular partition walls. I enjoy playing with plywood.

There's some cool stuff in Ken Isaac's book - Living Structures. http://popupcity.net/featured/free-classic-how-to-build-your...
The most important issue in terms of long-term cost-effectiveness is how much it will actually be used, and how much of the time it is actually full. High Speed Rails or any trains for that matter, are plagued by the inefficiency of having to run at a set schedule regardless of how many tickets are sold, and they ultimately don't justify their own existence in most of America. The hyperloop, aside from attracting new people who otherwise wouldn't have considered rail travel, also has the benefit of having smaller capacity and being able to adapt to demand more quickly. With no stops between SF and LA, if there are no passengers at a certain time, you just don't send the vehicle -its that simple.
General purpose computers become rarer with an increase in phones and tablets, all of them locked down.

But the reason this happens is that most people, even when the computer they owned really was a general-purpose computer, didn't use it as one. Anyone reading or commenting on HN is an outlier; we actually need a general-purpose computer, because we need to be able to do things with it that its designers and builders never thought of. But most people don't. Most people want a small and pretty much stable selection of apps, and if those apps are there, they don't care whether or not the device they're running on could also run an infinite number of other apps.
How very open-minded of you. At least consider the project on it's metrics, not on your distaste for a particular corporation.
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And not Cameron?

Blair had a plan, he managed to execute a fair amount of it, then fell apart. Exactly like Thatcher. Cameron has none. Oh yeah, "austerity", which I think the US has now shown to be not the way to go. Heh, Cameron even nicked that idea off Brown. Like Obama, he just continued with the previous leader's polices.

Sorry, both sides are full of crap. UK, US, its all the same. Its that old thing, "no matter who you vote for, the government always get in."
Don't worry. Next time there will be a candidate who promises to never be like Obama and never lie to the public. He (or she) will give you hope that maybe this time things are going to change. And you are going to be believe it, because "what's the alternative?". And then you are going to vote sincerely believing that your vote is important and the system works. And all the bad will be forgotten and the life will pass in a blissful ignorance of the fact the they got you by the balls - for your own safety, of course. It's okay, my friend, repeat after me: we are a civilized society, democracy works, voting is important, the government is largely on your side.
Give them a few days? Companies like Microsoft receive 200,000 bug reports each day, and each one has to be examined to determine authenticity. Plus, you sent it before the weekend.

It's not "disgusting"...you just need to be patient.
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The article's title is misleading. It speaks about the web mostly, not the internet (wich you can't scan in an hour btw).
To understand that Nobel, you have to understand two things:

1. The awarding of the Nobel peace prize is ALWAYS political, not just in this case. The committee is wielding a tool, that is all.

It is no use getting upset by the assumption that this committee is a moral authority and Obama got unfair special treatment. They give these prizes as a political tool or signal.

2. This prize was given in the context of a bounty of needless new wars/colonial projects, especially Iraq. You can figure out what the intended signal was from this.

Now you have to admit that our involvement in Iraq has reduced dramatically, and now at least we have a timetable for Afghanistan. But that's actually beside the point. The peace prize is given as a tool by a certain European set to exert influence. It's not a justly-given award for moral perfection.

Unless you understand these things, you are going to keep scratching your head about that Nobel prize forever.
If the Facebook security team responded more thoughtfully, we wouldn't even be reading about this as news. Instead of:

"This is not a bug" (essentially, "go away")

...they could have said:

"Thanks for the report. It seems that English may not be your first language, so to be very clear, in order to check this issue, we will need these pieces of information (A, B, C). Please feel free to reply in your language, and we will have a native speaker help translate."

If I was the researcher, the callous "go away" response would have convinced me that it would be more fruitful to sell the exploit to a spammer (who would pay HANDSOMELY to be able to post to anyone's wall).
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> Obama is a vain, stupid man who believes that he is the president of the United States.

I will intentionally ignore this line above because what you later said would apply to every elected person in any country, not limited to the USA:

> In reality he is manipulated by a small inner group of people who have the real power and who play him like a puppet. Do you really believe that a man of such limited capabilities can stage a successful campaign to become president? Obama is the biggest con ever played on the American people.

Taking that into consideration, I was still hoping that the president's role was something more positive and not completely covering up the NSA's blunders when they got caught with their pants down.
Do you need a PickTORead account to read the original article? It says "read the original" but there is no link. Perhaps it is broken?
From a British point of view, that is the most scary thing ever.
I'd be genuinely interested in reading the motivations for writing it, imho personal articles pertains to more private venues. And definitely not on HN, especially when light on content (but that's not her fault).
Oracles flagship product can be replaced by Postgres? No?

ps. Why compare with top 3 american internet giants, what's the point?
Join the club...I've never received a response from them about basic issues.

Now I am a Facebook advertiser with a $30k monthly budget...I thought surely then I'd get some responses from them (for example, when I was unable to make changes to my ad campaign, including daily budget, for WEEKS, due to a javascript bug), but still left completely in the dark.
Why would you be proud to have a black president? If his race ever entered into the equation for you, that's a data point in favor of establishing a screening process for voting eligibility. (I'm against such a thing but I often feel that most people are making completely arbitrary decisions.)

Race is just one of many things that is "wrong" with the world. The two biggest things seem to be the tendency of humans to want to kill or convert anyone who follows a different ideology, and poverty. If I had to guess, in many cases the former is keeping many parts of the world from escaping the latter.
I saw the .htaccess, but that still doesn't link the request of index.php to the request of index.php?tracker.

I just tested it by changing my IP while staying in the same browser session. After an IP change the page only displays '1' for the number of visits, exactly as you would expect when reading the code (since the E-Tag for the image is kept (and the image request updates the counter), but the index.php uses your IP+UA combo to determine the session). This code is flawed and doesn't do a thing.
Well, single or "reduced" purpose computers have existed long before the iPad or modern smartphones. Game consoles, audio players, video players go way back...

It makes engineering and economic sense to have devices dedicated to specific purposes, since economy of scale and optimization can produce devices that are better at that specific function than a general purpose one, at a cheaper price point.

Devices like the tablets or smartphones address the need of many people to have a subset of a general-purpose computer (messaging, web browsing, media player) without the added overhead of having to manage a full-fledged computer.

Functionality that for years has been available mostly on general purpose computers has become so commonplace and necessary that a (huge) market for devices streamlining the experience has opened up.

I don't think general purpose computer will disappear any time soon, if anything computers have gotten cheaper, more powerful and, yes, more free.

The choice of a computation platform (from a raspberry pi to an eight core server, or maybe an eight core server in the cloud to which you ssh with your raspberry pi), OS (OSX, Windows, a gazillion Linux distributions...), programming language, availability of knowledge has never been greater.
The real question for me is, how did an American company beat every European company to publish the leading FIFA game franchise, when the corporate culture was so hostile to the idea? It's hard to avoid the conclusion that whatever hostility US corporate culture had towards football, there was some countering factor in European culture otherwise a company on the continent would have published a better one.
Angelist?
https://angel.co/

Also in the coming weeks/months the SEC ruling that's coming down in relation to funding startups should change a bunch of stuff also (lifting the ban on general solicitation).
If you don't mind me asking, which system do you have and do you find that the GPU drivers break frequently with updates?

I'm in the middle of trying to decide between Lenovo and Apple too.
Well the prosecution was lying to the judge:

"The Drake case collapsed in spectacular fashion when the judge found that the information Drake possessed was completely unclassified, and had only been marked otherwise after it was seized from his home."
"Cares about design" implies that there is one optimal design for everything (perhaps Apple's). But a lot of design is very subjective.

Actually there are multiple distros which care about design, but they have different ideas about what to try to optimize for.
I think is different to compare openlayers in SVG vs. Canvas to graph visualization with physics like in the directed graph sample. In the last case there is a lot of extra work that you need to do in Canvas to came up with the same effects.

Is that test taking into account different GPU accelerations for SVG like in this "old" study: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/03/08/comparing-hard... ?
Excellent summary, thanks. I don't think most of the people raising an outcry over Khalil not receiving any bounty understand that the Terms and Conditions are explicit and easily accessible. They also can't just set a precedent.

"Oh, if we don't understand your bug report, just post it on our founder/CEO's Facebook wall and it'll shoot right up to the top on our priority list."

I know everyone hates big companies but come on...the argument for Khalil to not be paid is very reasonable. I respect him for being able to find the bug but it's not a conspiracy. He could have sent back an email trying to be more clear, or ask for an Arabic-speaking employee.

Plus, Facebook is not a stingy company when it comes to paying security researchers. Just look at their Hall of Fame. It includes HN's 'homakov (Egor Homakov), who wrote an excellent blog post about finding a vulnerability in Facebook and his primary language isn't English. But he still found a way to report the vulnerability through responsible disclosure and he is very happy with the bounty he received.

Everyone thinks it's so cool and "sticking it to Facebook" and that Facebook is just some big bad company who doesn't care about the small folk. It's not like that at all, change your perspective.
For the sake of comparison, the busiest TGV line (LGV Sud-Est) is signalled for three minute headways (i.e., three minutes between the front of one train and the front of the following one), and each train can hold up to 1016 passengers — 20320 passengers per hour. (And at certain times of day, it is close to operating at that.)
My point is that people asking for a monetary reward might indirectly be asking for recognition, not the money per se.

Thinking otherwise might be idiotic too, but that's besides the point.
> If it weren't for Putin's obvious lack of respect for President Obama Snowden would already have been shipped back

Huh? Got any kind of evidence for this extremely doubtful statement? Or is it just an idle fantasy of yours?

I am sure Putin respects Obama just fine; they're both consummate politicians playing their parts to the T.
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So if we were to brand it "natural" chemotherapy, we could contest these Quacksalbers?

I'm actually serious about this. Marketing is powerful stuff, and leaving it in the hand of insane people isn't going to fix the problem we have with them.

I'm pretty sure you could get some of the best in the field onto it (after all, it's against cancer), and significantly cut into their target market, making business hell for them. I know it sounds equally crazy, but i think this issue calls for alternate solutions.
Or you do send them, because it costs so little, and the hyperloop will be mainly self-powered, instead of having them wait half an hour for others to take the ride with them.
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Is this a good place to share mine? https://github.com/cosmith/grafit

I found that I frequently needed to monitor some value in a web page at work, so I made this extension to make a line plot out of any changing value: just right click on the value, select "graph this" and you have a little self updating graph in a popup.

It's still a little rough, but I find myself using it like once a week, so maybe it could be useful to some of you ;)
Ask PG: Can we have collapsable comment threads?
I think collapsable comment threads (similar to reddit) would greatly benefit the discussions. I often find myself uninterested in the top comment thread and wanting to find another main comment to read, but it is difficult to figure out where one ends and one begins.
This isn't a good summary of the events. His "lingua franca" is technically illegal, and violates Facebook's explicit and easily accessible Terms of Service.

There's nothing obfuscated about this. It's very straightforward. Yes, he found a security vulnerability. That doesn't earn you points "just cause." You still need to report it with responsible disclosure and not exploit it for the lulz and attention.

He could have done things differently - especially, he could have asked to talk to a Facebook employee who understands Arabic. Or tried to put more effort into a second security report.

Frankly, posting on Mark Zuckerberg's wall about this is childish and just attention-grabbing. It's not a responsible disclosure.
Emacs has always been a legend. It's a program that has a wider aspect than many would think! I wish it was also available on Windows.
How come the soviets were so amazing at engineering?
Can you expand on that?

PostgreSQL has spent a lot of effort on the extension framework ("create extension") to make it easier to support more external modules. If there is a particular area that needs improving, please elaborate.

Making external modules a normal part of the ecosystem, like with ruby (and other popular languages), is the way forward for postgres and has some major advantages.

For instance, given that PostGIS 2.1.0 was just released today, it would make it into 9.4 (as 9.3 is already feature frozen), and 9.4 will be released in about a year. Because it's an extension, you can install it in 9.2 today, or 9.3 when it comes out in a month or so.

Also, just plain modularity, division of responsibilities, allowing for different licensing, and lowering the barrier for contribution are huge wins. The same reasons that ruby has gems.

So, hopefully we can address the concerns with extensions rather than build PostGIS into core.
But everyone should learn to put their problems into perspective while growing up (and between first world problems and Africa there are a few shades in between).

In other comments i've seen often the word "maturity", well, not to be excessively critic, but that's not the first word that came to mind while reading that article.
Intelligence does not come with these motivations and drives, they are completely separate.

Do you know of any examples of intelligent beings that don't have any motivations and drives? (Note that "motivations and drives" is a very general term; there's no need for them to be human motivations and drives. I agree the motivations and drives don't have to be human ones; but that's not the same as saying the AI has none at all.)

There is no reason to think that a general AI would have any of these things, thus concerns about it deciding that its better off without us are completely unfounded.

If an entity doesn't have some kind of motivation and drive, how can it be intelligent? Intelligence doesn't just mean cogitating in a vacuum; it means taking information in from the world, and doing things that have effects in the world. (Even if the AI just answers questions put to it, its answers are still actions that have effects in the world.) So an AI has to at least have the motivation and drive to take in information and do things with it; otherwise it's useless anyway.

So given that the AI at least has to "want" to take in information and do things with it, how do you know the things it will want to do with the information are good things? ("Good" here means basically "beneficial to humans", since that's why we would want to build an AI in the first place.) We can say that we'll design the AI this way; but how do we know we can do that without making a mistake? A mistake doesn't have to be "oh, we programmed the AI to want to destroy the world; oops". A mistake is anything that causes a mismatch between what the AI is actually programmed to do, and what we really want it to do. Any programmer should know that this will always happen, in any program.
that's what happens when mr zuckerberg don't listen :P