skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, yes, thanks the reply, agree with everything.

> This process only encrypts the email's body, and not the metadata (from, to, subject, headers containing IP addresses, etc). As a bunch of people have shown after the PRISM fallout, analysis on metadata alone can reveal an incredible amount of private information.

I also had the idea to have encrypted containers something akin to what you are proposing, with PGP for the body underneath. It gets complicated..

Anyway,

> Of course any solution to this problem will be a compromise between security and usability, so let's hope a number of different solutions will see the light of day, so that everyone can choose the solution that works the best for them.

I very much agree. Here's to hoping to see multiple solutions soon :)
Why is creation conflated with omnipotence?
If you have the luxury to choose from multiple committed investors (and I recommend you triple-check your assumption that these people are indeed committed), then I would use that leverage to set the bar for your ideal terms. Importantly, terms can have many dimensions: in addition to the dollar amount and dilution, you can set expectations in terms of your stage, your focus, autonomy in changing direction etc. You can also filter by personal fit with the investor, how soon they hope for liquidity, their personal track record and reputation (not the firm's), etc. Just like a great hire, you should be wow-ed and be excited to work with them.

The more explicit the expectations, the better! Get to know them, ask them about their styles and priorities, check their track record with previous entrepreneurs (not just active investments! their loyalties may be mixed and they will lack the perspective).

It seems like you also have the luxury of not raising money at all for another X months (another assumption I assume you've quantified and triple-checked), so that makes it easy to walk away if the bar is not reached. Just like any other deal, your leverage is only as strong as your plan B.

I may be stating the obvious. In any case, good luck! "Shut up and take my money" is always a good problem to have.
Building Software in Public
Easy? Think it through.....

Who?
How much?
All the same?
When?

Then imagine all the people from B to Y who see an opportunity to screw the project for huge amounts of cash. Decades of lawyers arguing in court over every conceivable point, or opportunity.

And that before environmental, and god know what else, groups get involved.

Sorry, no, not easy at all. Not even slightly.
> Let me guess: it's still impossible to minimize a full screen game on Linux or alt-tab etc.

You can hardly blame SDL for this, games are not really what X11 was designed for. Setting up full screen and asking for exclusive access to the keyboard will prevent the window manager from doing anything to it.

My solution for this problem: use a window manager that can full screen any window and switch back.

> and the joystick will still not be recognized if you plug it in after the game starts.

To be fair, 99% of AAA games don't support joystick hotplugging either. It's really annoying.

Since you have not checked whether this is actually the situation and do not properly understand the other components in the equation, I find your attitude offensive.
Remove the trailing slash (which reappears when the page loads - 304?). I guess there's multiple URLs and some rewrite magic to get to this page for maximum SEO.
When you need to study 30 plus income statements from 30 plus entities around the globe, you wonder less about the tools and more about getting it done. Then you become a "spreadsheet monkey", but that is only because nobody has been able to create a better tool since 1995.

I understand the pain of seeing people using old tech and taking hours to do tasks that should take seconds, but do not underestimate the importance of specific field knowledge and the fact that many people do not have time to learn coding. If you think about it, it is an opportunity for you to build a bridge between those 2 worlds. For example, nobody has produced yet a decent tool to consolidate financials...
The paper outlines an amortization period that shows where that price comes from. Did you not read the paper?
We're just arguing semantics here.
We already know that there are some dreadful things online. What does this tool accomplish beyond "raising awareness" of a fact that we're already aware of?
Aircraft sitting on the tarmac doesn't have to take off if it has been shot at. In the process of taking off could be more of a problem, I suppose. On the other hand, at least airports are a relatively small area to keep secure.
You can take that view, often though that will mean the customer will just find a competitor that will work with them.
LA MODE FEMININE SOUS LE CHARME DE L'HOMME
La mode féminine sous le charme de l’homme.
You don't seem to be taking into account that a much faster and cheaper train would vastly increase the ridership between any two points. If it was $30 and half an hour to downtown LA, I would visit my brother down there every other week. As it is, we see each other every few months.
Honest question: when you go to a grocery or department store and they ask if you have any coupons or a rewards card, do you feel like you're getting ripped off? I may feel like I've missed out, but never "ripped off." When I've reached the checkout page it implies this was the best deal I could find.

I do appreciate discounts, but don't feel entitled to them, especially if I'm a first time customer (or opted out of marketing emails). But maybe I'm an outlier and a sense of entitlement is the norm these days.
Instead of LA to SF, I would look at building from Las Vegad to Arizona or to Riverside perhaps? As a first line to start with and it's through the desert.

Just a thought. Show the skeptics what is possible.
The Voice of the Customer Series: Analyzing Customer Needs
Just ask him, who will do the support? It should be him and if he is prepared to pay for services.
As you can't do much without hurting your business for that kind of money.

He is trying to get 50% and let you do all the support, don't get tricked ;-)
I also missed this just now. Thought it was a one-slide site. Big down arrow please!
Point or not, I actually found it interesting. Quoting part of the quote:

You’ve got gigabyte disks; you’ve got megabyte RAMs.

The book this appears in was published 2009, though the interview with Chuck Moore surely happened somewhat earlier. But yay for triple order-of-magnitude improvements!
> a $25 minimum price point

I think, here, the rewards are more tokens than anything else; this isn't really a product-oriented Kickstarter, except arguably for people who are interested in Darling. Min contribution is actually $1; there's just no reward.

> Too high of a threshold for funding. $50k is not reasonable when the value proposition is so unclear.

I'm not too sure about this. A lot of people, myself included, would like to see GNUStep brought to parity with modern Cocoa. It's never going to be a mass appeal project, but I can see it making its goal.
And it gives the little people something to do.
Do you ever have to break out a shell to maintain them?
If I start a new multimedia project today and aim to support the widest range of devices should I use this version of SDL or 1.x?
No, because the amount will get lower and lower until it gets below the exemption threshold, at which point it will remain constant.
> Are we expected to believe that that's all it would take to get Cocoa libraries running seamlessly on GNU?

That's not what the project plans to do. Apple's implementation of Cocoa isn't open-source. GNUStep already has large parts of the Cocoa APIs implemented, but they're very outdated. I think fixing this on $50k is extremely ambitious, but note that the project says they'll be brought up to at least 10.6 (which would be good enough to allow easy ports of a lot of Mac software), not all the way to 10.9.
I like how he discredits the idea of giving opportunities to the poor by pointing out that we don't want to give opportunities to (poor) foreigners. Kind of lost the moral high ground there.
Encrypted email isn’t secure, but here are some Lavabit alternatives
Yeah, I think everyone running an ecommerce site and an affiliate marketing campaign has seen this. I don't think Kogans stats on the new customer percent are really an outlier. I have yet to see a coupon site that I could see actually provided us with any value to have as an affiliate.

We also a long time back went down the road of paying a network a lot of money based on their promises of the type of affiliate sales they could provide. The traffic was horrible, generated a ton of fraud when there actually were sales and the program was canned after probably only 100 sales. So definitely would stay away from any major investment with an affiliate network.

That being said there are good affiliates out there (like to think I have been one myself promoting products rather than ecommerce brands) that will deliver great customers. Likely though you will have to do the leg work to find them, they won't just join your program.
I'd like to contribute to this, but perhaps you could outline how you plan to go about it and if you have buyin from many other GNUStep developers? Apologies if this is in the video; can't watch that at the moment.

To be honest, I wouldn't worry too much about the rewards; most people contributing to this will likely do so because it's something they'd either like to see or would find useful themselves.

Also, any plans to address UIKit?
"Try typing backquote followed by another character."
I mean the text box at http://ngn.github.io/apl/web/index.html
If you type for instance `r in it, you will get a rho symbol, `i for iota, `a `w for alpha and omega, etc
Personal jetpack gets flight permit for manned test
What can a brain scan tell us about free will?
In the Netherlands, all assets over €21K (roughly $28K) are taxed at 1.2 %. This includes cash, bonds, stocks, real estate held for investment, paintings held as investments; everything that is not for personal use (so cars and yachts are not included, nor are second homes for personal use).

Yes it is preposterous.
Pulse - Your News. Anywhere.
There is one aspect of this NSA story that was bothering me -- I could not figure out what all of this data collection was for. The design and scope of the system does not seem to be consistent with it's (nominal) anti-terrorism purpose, and that nagged at my mind for the longest time.

I think I now have a guess, a hypothesis that seems reasonable. If it is true, it would actually be pretty cool, and whilst it does not make the intrusive surveillance any less sinister, it at least provides an explanation for the enormity of it's breadth and scope.

The security services are tasked with protecting the nation from a wide variety of threats, ranging from hostile foreign powers to individuals motivated by emergent, unpredictable terrorist ideologies -- and everything in between. Potentially malicious actors that are already known to us can be monitored -- but a far harder problem is posed by "lone wolves" -- individuals and small groups motivated to commit atrocities by any one of a swathe of destructive ideologies. As advanced technologies become cheaper and more widespread, the power that an individual has to commit mayhem increases dramatically. As a result, the security services desperately need a way to identify these people in advance -- before they commit an atrocity. This requires an understanding of human behaviour that we simply do not yet possess.

My hypothesis is this: It is possible that this all-encompassing system surveillance is actually a social science experiment on a grand scale -- an attempt to understand human behaviour -- or at least, understand it well enough that we can identify in advance (and gently dissuade) those who might otherwise, left to their own devices, be inclined to commit atrocities.

As well as an experiment in social science, this is also an experiment in political science, since it is a study of ideology, albeit extreme ideology. Hence the overwhelming need for secrecy to hide the political dynamite.

Just some idle speculation.
Hello. I'm Tom, and I made this -- more than three years ago. No idea why it's suddenly turned up here; it doesn't exactly fit under 'hacker' or 'news'!

It did once have permalinks, but adding translations in 2010 messed things up and I never got around to fixing the code. (Do try picking a RTL language, though, I'm quite proud of how that works.)

It should (I think) store the city you've requested in a cookie for next time, though. Maybe. It's really old and dodgy code.

Still, full marks for YQL for putting up with all the weather requests they've gotten over the years...
> This project is now a business seeking outside funding

Huh? No it isn't. It's sponsored improvement of an existing open-source project; it might very well be useful to businesses, but is in no way a business itself.
Ah, so you left the Perl world just before Moose -- and don't even know about it? :-)
Did you miss the energy usage comparisons in the paper? It was presented in a nice (if 3D -- Musk, Tufte wants a word with you.. ;) ) bar chart and everything.

For me, that's one of the most significant things about the whole project. I'm no sandal-wearing Greenpeace-type, but I am convinced that if we're to continue trying to achieve developed-world quality of life for everyone on the planet then we need to start getting much smarter and more efficient with our energy usage. One way is 'stop living the way we do', the other way is this (and other advances like it).
Ask PG: Can we limit reply count/depth?
The popularity of HN is only growing. This is not a bad thing, but it does mean that every discussion can and will take more turns, more different directions. I've watched as so many different online forums for conversation have broken down under the strain of a growing user base. You either end up with uber-deep threads that only the participants, if anyone, can follow any longer, or you get a dog-pile of nearly-identical responses to popular posts.

I understand that HN has always been an experiment, so why not experiment with a different way to manage the conversation? Writing a top-level post is more challenging than a follow-on reply. I suspect you'd find that top-level posts generally display more novel thought than the majority of reply posts (not all -- there are some very high quality replies -- but most).

Similarly, when a reply thread gets very deep there is a good chance that the conversation has strayed from what is interesting to the general population. At this point, it would probably be better to continue the discussion in email or some other communication medium.

I still come to HN primarily for the comments, but I find myself increasingly opening a comment link only to find a first comment followed by a page of replies to replies to replies; almost a straight line across and down my browser window. Sometimes I will scroll to see if maybe the second top-level post has a different take or covers a different question, but more often I close the page and move on...

...obviously this is just a thought. I wonder if there other things HN might try to maintain the level of discourse with its ever growing audience?
Reddit /r/forhire worked well for me in the past.
Can you explain? I'm at job and don't have that many time to read whole PDF.
Professor has to prove he built a stone fortress legally atop Beijing skyscraper
Aren't you tired of using "cd ../"
As a sysadmin how many times have you typed this sequence? I bet that in my past 20 years... billions. This might be a silly simple thing but never read it before.

Why not:

alias .='cd ../'

and voila from 5 to 1. That is what I call a quick win :-)
Voice recognition isn't good enough for that yet: hyper-cardioid mics can only do so much.
May not be true of what passes for slums in the US, but in other countries the next house in a slum begins where the current one ends. With hardly any windows to let natural light in, the indoors are quite dark even during the day. So yes, while it might not work at night unless there is a strong source of light such as streetlights nearby, it certainly does offer visual comfort during the day.
> But, as we said prior, the people that care just use OS X. Their target platform is OS X. The Linux users are happy with WINE and GTK+. There's nowhere for the project to go, and I fear that this Kickstarter will be a failed effort.

A modernised GNUStep could allow easy ports of a lot of MacOS software, both open and closed-source. That in itself might be enough to kickstart a non-MacOS ObjC/Cocoa ecosystem.
There's a lot of potential for multimodal gamified programming using tablets. A combination of gesturing, shaking the tablet, face expression, hand drawing, myo sensing, as well speech, in addition to machine learning in the compiler and for regular expression building. Within the next year a whole raft of apps along these lines will be coming online in the app stores. Big opportunity for Indie developers on the app store, you can easily charge $20+ if they're good and disrupt the emacs/vi/eclipse monopoly/monotony.
Seems to compile fine under x64 Linux and a Plan 9 Qemu VM.

Regarding the ARM, I failed to compile it on 9pi (Plan 9 for the Raspberry Pi) though I think it should be fine in Raspbian. It's possible you'll want to pull from tip to get it running in 9pi but I haven't tried it myself.
Mind you Plan9 support seems unofficial for now.
And those of us who know Perl will continue to use it as syntax and a couple of cute features is hardly enough impetus to throw away years and years of accumulated experience in the language and libraries to learn Python or Ruby or whatever else is the New Perl (tm). And I will continue coding in C and PHP because those are workhorses I'm equally expert at.

Newfags always gonna hate oldfags and their rusty (but trusty) old battle-hardened toolboxes.
If you just want microsoft's whois, do this

whois microsoft.com.

The . at the end tells the whois server, relative to root, no wildcard matching.
GNUStep has been stagnant for years, it is obvious that nobody finds it interesting. I understand that developers are willing to put up with some anachronisms to make money off iOS/OSX , but they clearly opted away from them for open source. I don't see how money is going to change its appeal.
BoXperiments for iOS, really hard game
Full anonymity can be had with the addition zero-coin. Currently the bitcoin team doesn't feel that it has a place in the main protocol, but that may change in the future.
OK. Next question - why does the verisign whois server know about arbitarily nested subdomains, instead of only top-level registrations?
> Just ... not as distributed, or portable.

... or cheap. The greatest inventions of the XX century are the mass-market and the mass-democracy.
Rather than limit the reply count, I'd much rather see a collapsable comment system. Can't imagine it's top of PG's priority list though.
There is an open source implementation of GSM baseband software http://bb.osmocom.org/trac/. Very limited hardware support though.
Yes, but there's still the vast minefield that is non-earned-income money. This is a substantial amount in many European social democracies.

If you tell me what particular public benefit you're talking about and what country it is from, I can find you an authoritative citation for this, but I am almost certain that the type of benefit you are thinking of is not income for the purposes of US tax law.

Publication 525, "Do not include in your income payments made from a public welfare fund on the basis of need [except] if they are compensation for services or obtained fraudulently."
Are we doomed?
The drab stupidity of Soylent
nagware, searchware, spyware or crapware

Considering that even the Java installer for Windows tries to install the Ask.com toolbar, I'd say it's nearly inevitable.
No, that's not what it means.

If it was that cheap and fast I'd think nothing at all about travelling between the cities a couple times a month. Not daily, but far more frequently than I do now. I wouldn't be the only one.
Thanks, I had missed it!
Who can read the doctor’s writing?
Because on a slow night, they will still get $20/hr...

I live in Europe and I always thought the tipping system in the USA is a bit backward. Mind you - we DO tip over-here, there's just no unwritten X% rule, and tipping is not mandatory. Service is always included and people are able to live from what they are paid by their employer. I do tip depending on the service (which sometimes means no tipping at all). Also in a lot of places, all tips are collected centrally and then evenly split at the end of a night without intervention from the employer (I worked in pubs as a student).
Oh no, not the BLINK tag!!! Fiends, criminals, collaborators with the devil! /sarcasm

While I share some sentiments in regards to their UI, Mozilla has done nothing but good moves so far - supporting PDF.js, Shumway, Servo, Rust, Mozilla Persona (login), Jetpack, etc. Firefox has performed admirably and I use it as a main browser.
The "reply" button is not available just after a deep post is submitted. The length of time it's gone increases with depth. This is to prevent flamewars. I think it's a good comprimise, since after a while people have "cooled down" from a flamewar but might still have something interesting they want to say.
I tried 6 distributions. 3 versions of Ubuntu, Arch, Red Hat and Mint.

They all either ran slow, were buggy, had incomplete software repos or didn't support my hardware.

(Arch was my favourite, FWIW.)
Assuming the paper's optimistic predictions are feasible, the amortized cost per passenger of a one-way ticket is $20 plus operating costs. So, sure, the round trip cost will hopefully be somewhere below $100, if we ignore the cost of local transportation at either end. This is, as I said, too expensive for most people to afford on a daily basis.

Beyond that, the paper also claims a total annual ridership of 7.4 million people, so approximately the same ridership as currently served by air travel. So, other than acting as a jobs program, in what way will this alter the economic landscape of California?
Mallorca Rocks Dirtiest Secret
This might be a bit disturbing if used by teams who work from home...
Present day Promo USB Flash Drives
USB drives are useful, important pieces of hardware in company nowadays; they can safely transfer and switch big pieces of information quickly and easily in between different individuals. Your clients, employees and company affiliates use their drives the exact same method and most likely just as typically. Think about the advancing marketing element of your drives being handed and offered out to your customers and the possible onward result. The drives can be printed in up to five colors on the case of the device permitting business branding and website advertising, while the cases can also be produced in lots of various shapes and likewise be-spoke designs.
How Censorship Hurts Chinese Internet Companies
Q & A: Edward Snowden speaks to Peter Maass
Yes I do. In that case it's a little harder to turn back but I can't help but feel a little like a chump.
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I think Musk at least sees this as an important learning opportunity that could yield information useful to both SpaceX and Tesla - beyond the goal of making the Hyperloop itself a reality.

Much like what goes on at NASA, really.
Why not? Because it changes the meaning of '.':

~$ echo date > d.sh
~$ d.sh
-bash: d.sh: command not found
~$ . d.sh
06:37:21 EDT 2013
~$ alias .='cd ../'
~$ . d.sh
/home$ Is not works!

But another alias with no previous meaning would do well - i use 'up' :)
Rust Macros: Easily create and populate hash maps.