skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd title, interesting article. Almost didn't read it, glad I did.
I couldn't load a website last night until I disabled HTTPS everywhere. Chromium kept saying it was waiting for the extension. I guess now I know why. Are there any alternatives?
If I can make a suggestion from my limited experience dealing with the older folks in my family - there's a number of older folks who see the current situation as you age as basically a binary choice: A) you stay home and maintain independence at the risk of having something bad happen to you or b) you go into a assisted living facility and give up your life and independence in exchange for better safety.

It's interesting to watch how assisted living facilities have been trying to mitigate b). A number of facilities I've seen recently are structured more as apartments where nurses, doctors, and additional care are on call when needed. Residents get to design their rooms when they move in, bring in their own furnishings, etc. It's trying to straddle a middle ground between a and b.

Similarly, I think amulyte can be marketed to families as peace of mind and care - and to the older folks as independence. This little button lets you do what you want without worrying about how someone will get to you if there's an issue.
Actually, I couldn't replicate this error. Would you mind giving me your platform / browser details?
Wow. I'd love for someone to do this with luggage on a flight.
The Third Core’s Revenge
Got it. Will work on that... Thanks for the tip!
Same here, had to disable
I would think that this is why PL research if very relevant here; until we have an 'intelligence' advanced enough to distill from our chaotic talking about an intended piece of software, I see a PL augmented with different AI techniques to explain, in a formal structure (with the AI allowing for a much larger amount of fuzziness than we have now in coding; aka having the AI fix the syntax/semantic errors based on what it can infer about your intent after which, preferably on a higher level of the running software, you can indicate if this was correct or not) how a program should behave.

With some instant feedback a bit like [1] this at least feels feasible.

[1] http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2010/11/programming-with-natu...
New 'Nova' Star Explosion Spotted in Night Sky: How to See It
If you do a lot of inbound, another thing to consider is difference in pricing practices:

SendGrid and Mandrill inbound is currently complimentary to customers.

To receive an inbound email via Mailgun, you pay once for it to be received by mailgun servers, and once for it to be delivered to your webhook.
Ouch :/

Well, post yours and I'll upvote it ;)
Thanks. And here is a productive way to protest.

As a peaceful protest / 4th Amendment exercise, please consider attaching an encrypted file with EVERY email you send from now on.
It's easy enough to do using TrueCrypt.
It needn't be a file the recipient needs to decrypt, or keep.
You needn't even remember the password.
If everyone did this every time they send an email to anyone, it would flood the Internet with literally millions, then billions, of encrypted files, thereby demonstrating our resolve to maintain some level of privacy, and protecting most if not all of us "fish" in the "school" from the "sharks" who prefer to eat us one at a time (a la Edward Snowden and Ladar Levison).
When fish in a massive school move together in coordinated ways, it frustrates predators.
If this idea seems worthwhile PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE
User squeezes wrt54g router into Keeway Hck3r 150cc scooter 
I love how the sticker says "Linux Inside"
This was my favorite game at the time (I was 6-7 years old). I had no idea that it had anything to do with the cold war until today - I thought the missiles were coming from aliens or something.
Ya, the plugin causes lots of problems. It can mangle headers on XHR to sites that aren't using https. Spent a day debugging problems that turned out to just be https everywhere.
"Anyway, if I were on the NSA's office, watching everyday comments on Hacker-News ..."

Wait, wait. You're saying there's a way to get paid to read HN all day? Where do I sign?
Instagram virus creates fake 'likes' and followers in lucrative marketing scam
Cool, let's stay in touch because I also think that user-generated content is the way forward, and I agree about MusicXML.

Just need to be clever about it and make sure it's not too arduous a task for the user to upload something. Please feel free to email me or tweet at notezilla.io@gmail.com / @notezillaio and we can stay in touch / discuss further, would love more input!
The PITCH IT tour will stop in the following cities
I don't understand. So with this setting people are artificially limiting their battery capacity to 40%, in order to preserve capacity they're not going to use? Meanwhile you'd have to ride a battery pretty hard to grind it down to 40% health, it'd take many years probably.

I'm not sure what the average lifetime of a laptop is, but I'd be surprised if it's more than 8 years. What's the upside if the battery is well preserved at the time when the device is being replaced? Let's say with normal usage the battery will perform at an average of 80% over its lifetime, that's still better than 40% - for the same money.
Thanks for the heads up, I will fix it this weekend along with a few other things - I didn't anticipate this level of interest so there were a few details (including that one) that I had overlooked ;)
Thumbs up! Well honestly I find calls really old fashioned.
There is a empty MVC and Webforms project. Your wall of text of rant is basically due to your own ignorance. The option for empty project is there. I can't figure how anyone can miss it.
A Huge Doubt Over Facebook Mobile Payment, Will It Work?
What grinds my gears is that Americans seem to think half the population of the world lives in their country. Demographic distortions are worse than the geographic ones.
Man I loved DEFCON. I played it for hours and hours and hours.

The cool "5 million killed" text popups really gave you chills.
> Where do I sign?

Follow the path to the dark side [1]. They have cookies.

[1]: https://www.nsa.gov/psp/applyonline/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM...
I can't confirm this is related, but I'd had browser / XOrg issues on Linux, including error messages related to HTTPS Everywhere:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/6ZBjctvo...

Even after a window manager restart (which addressed other issues), re-enabling HTTPS Everywhere killed page-loading.
Twitter seems to really rag on rails but at the end the graph looked pretty good to me for their old architecture at the 95th percentile given their traffic.

Most sites won't even get 200 reqs per second total, and it's great to know that rails can pump that out on a single machine for a non-trivial app.

200 * 60 = 12,000 reqs per minute

12,000 * 60 = 720,000 reqs per hour

720,000 * 24 = 17,280,000 per day
I use Pomodoro quite regularly. It works really well in most use cases for me - except when I'm deep into writing some code. I can't get myself to stop after 25 minutes - and then I'm suddenly thrown off my schedule and not managing time anymore.

I haven't really experimented with getting my work pomodoro for more than 25 minutes yet - I think that something like a 45 minute pomodoro may help me for the coding sprints.

You can get a lot done in 25 minutes if you turn off all other distractions and also you know that you will be back with them (email, phone, HN, Twitter etc) after a few minutes.

As far as books/timers etc go, I just use a kitchen timer or my phone or a webapp like Tomatoes[1] and I haven't read any books on it other than the wikipedia article.

[1] - http://tomato.es/
Very interesting - I wasn't aware of this! Looks like this could provide a solid first cut to the partitioning process. Thanks for recommending...
And you would be earning a fraction, say $120 per month

That's impossible, because around here the minimum wage for an adult working a full time job is around 10x that figure.
That "mixed content will be disabled" could very well have killed a lot of pages, though it's not clear to me if this would account for other issues I was seeing (apparently some sort of memory overflow in "bo map" on my graphics card/driver).
> Assange is pretty good at crypto

Not really. He gave a moron the password to a publicly distributed insurance file instead of making a new encrypted file just for him.
Startup is still on unstable condition. So you will work harder when you work on startup. But if you want to learn a lot, maybe you have to.
I don't see the issue with "brogrammers". I can understand people from the outside thinking that all programmers are nerds with 2 inch deep glasses with no social life at all. But actual programmers should know better.

What now? "familymangrammers" and "hippiegrammers" and "athletegrammers"?

Makes no sense to me...
> Reasonably foreseeable outcome.

In German law that's even intent.

The weakest form of intent, and not always easy to distinguish from wanton negligence, but still.
Just a little rant about marketing babble:

> we have over 20 (summed up) years of experience

Experience doesn't work that way. It's like with pregnant women: Having two pregnant women doesn't mean the baby will come out in 4.5 months.

Having 20 1-year experienced coders can lead to good solutions - because there are 20 people who can throw in their guesswork and some of them might hit the jackpot. But you can't count on this to be replicated whenever you need it.

As a customer I'd rather know the time the company successfully exists in the market place and not the accumulated age of the staff.
The address on [2] also shows Copenhagen (København).

People move around Europe a lot these days.
our company let's you choose between macs and pcs.

quite necessary as we develop mobile apps - just how would you develop for iOS without a mac?

we have a lot of ubuntu and win7 running on those macs, win8 now necessitates new hardware due to touch.
Thanks!

As for Audacity, can it recognize the beats automatically?
The book is a free PDF on their site and you can use any old egg timer (or any of the number of free pomodoro apps).

It's a fine technique if you're working in an environment where you're free from external interruption, worked very well for me.
iOS development necessitates OSX.
It's a matter of manners, and being the nice guy vs. being a "bro", IMHO.
Yup, you could say the same about 'bro accountants' or 'bro janitors'.

I guess people have a problem with 'bro' culture rather than with 'brogrammers' specifically.
Analyze your iCals (e.g. Google Calendar) and print your availability.
>incredibly fancy syntax sugar
In JavaScript yes but the way python handles async stuff is not 'fancy syntax sugar' it is actually very clever - I'm not saying Javascript should do things the way python does, they are fundamentally different and I actually quite like callbacks in javascript but I think you should be clear that your comments are made in relation to Javascript (assuming they were).
Lessons From Monks About Designing The Technologies Of The Future
I would be happy to release parts of it as open source, and also very happy to consider implementing functionality that allows teachers to - for example - create lessons for their students.

How about you email me at notezilla.io@gmail.com and we can chat more? Would love to learn more about your thoughts and how this could be useful to you.
That's true, but at least it didn't ALL go to waste. "Star Wars" provided some engineers with interesting experience.

Homeland Security and hundreds of thousands of Blackwater contractors is like taking all that money and shoveling into a bonfire. The only "spinoff" I can think of is militarized policing. Ugh.

I suppose the lesson is that bad things can always be done even worse.
Agreed, have heard this from several people now!
You're right about the marketing sum - It's just an opener for my insights.
Don't miss my bad & good parts posted some time ago:
http://usersnap.com/blog/bad-habits-in-web-development/
http://usersnap.com/blog/good-habits-in-web-development/
How Do I Know If My IMAX Theatre is Real 70mm IMAX or lieMAX (Digital IMAX)?
Ask HN: who wants to do a biz dev deal with 5KMVP?
We are prepared to give you 10% of every new contract you can send our way.

We are also open to negotiations.

Let me know your thoughts - either here, or email me: marc+bizdev at 5kmvp, subject: biz dev HN
Darwinian Entrepreneurship
dtby: Your comment is hidden as you're account is "dead". I realise you already know this. I would be interested in seeing what you've built... Contact details are in my profile, or you can reply here again.
Agreed, I'd have a much better idea of the team's experience if they said something along the lines of "we have X people, each with over Y years of experience"
I'm using metrica.yandex.com to study user behavior (mouse movements, etc) - extremely useful and free, and in my opinion far more telling than Google Analytics!

I can highly recommend it. You need to activate their WebVisor functionality to get access to what I just mentioned.
Or a lot of HNers mapped all IPv4 addresses at once with a new tool.
Please elaborate so I can fix it ;) But yes, not entirely bug free yet.
Usability of notifications
jewish proverb/saying: it is better to be young, rich and healthy than old, poor and sick.

all your efforts are to look younger, but this is lost as your youth is long gone. if you think you made great use of it by sitting at the office... well not even sure how to comment on this.

let me rephrase it: guy in 911 in his 50s even in great shape is a little bit like a woman in her 50s in great shape who just had a boob job done.
Score One for the Open Source (or maybe not)
Here you are :-)
We have 5 people, each with over 7 years of experience.

Ooops, it's 35 years. I should stop under-estimating.
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Why drone makers have declared war on the word ‘drone’
It's like you didn't read my comment — how functions like wtfFriendAction help reusability?
Retrospectives: John Maynard Keynes, Investment Innovator
Intel throws its weight behind HTML5
Everything looks so clean and organized. If this was done in the US, especially via UPS, it would look a lot different.
Things I've learned about getting users since launching 10 days ago
Study challenges theory about left brain/right brain behavior
That's quite the app! Thanks for sharing.
What about Haste? https://github.com/valderman/haste-compiler
Oh my that was it! I had been wondering about it and disabled plenty of extensions, but not this one. Also made me realize that I should use Firefox more often again...
While the result isn't great, it's a neat algorithm, and it will actually do gamma correction correctly. Sampling and weighing the four pixels will not, unless you specifically code for it. And looking at the history of gamma correction in software, most developers don't care about that.
I was actually wondering the same. Maybe they have to build X number of features of fix Y number of bugs?
WebAPIs – Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
Why We Cheat
Working on her desktop?

Or maybe, to paraphrase a sibling comment, she's working on the blacktop?
Introducing GistBox Clipper
It is Denmark, very likely Copenhagen.

I am Danish and recognise things such as Danske Bank, in the beginning of the video, Post Danmark and so forth :)
Probably worth a (2004) tag.
Thanks for your efforts. Others are working on similar projects.

I'm not sure whether this applies to liamzebedee's concepts (haven't read enough yet) but may apply to the trsst scheme: I just want to point out that there are really three problems to be solved:

(a) prevent unintended parties from reading messages - this is handled as well as can be (as far as we know in the present state of things) by strong encryption. It also requires avoidance of reliance on third parties such as CAs.

(b) correct identification of intended interlocutors - I believe the CA system, and any central-"authority" system, are worse than useless for this. The only alternative that has a realistic chance at the objectives is a "web of trust" based on side channels, individual judgments about who's who and who's controlling their own keys correctly, and watching keys and behavior of parties for consistency over time.

(c) obscuring who's talking to whom. If Alice publishes something on trsst, encrypted for Bob, it may be unreadable by anyone but Bob (assuming 'a' and 'b' are sound) - but if the adversary Nancy has extensive, sophisticated powers throughout the network, then Nancy may be able to track the posting of the message to Alice and the reading of the message to Bob. Then Nancy can track them down and coerce their secret keys, trojan their PCs, or "disappear" them (not in USA, you say? wait for it).

If I'm reading this correctly it handles (a) and (b) to some degree but I'm not sure it addresses (c).
I wonder how long time the package spent time in transit, and how much time it simply spent idle.
Discrete Cosine Transforrms
I think you're incorrect to say that. You're recommendation makes no sense. You're saying 'hackers' should do what a mixed bag of 'developers' and 'designers' are doing now, because it's inevitable they will be anyway in ten years time, because 'PG' said so.

Picture it, self proclaimed 'hackers' all aping each other. All uniform, non distinct from the general population. What would then make them predictors of the future? There would be absolutely nothing unique about what they were doing.

I'm right in assuming at least half of these are designers and not developers.
It's particularly doubtful that 'hackers' are going to swarm on to apple hardware over the next ten years given the mac tax and apple's propensity to lock it down.
Here’s Why Federal Workers Don’t Want Obamacare
> The NSA does not keep a "file" on you

...if you are an American citizen.

That's implicit in "Domestic matters are the FBI's territory. The NSA is tasked with strictly foreign surveillance", but I wanted to be pedantic since the debate on NSA surveillance seems to take surveillance of foreigners as something completely natural and in no way wrong.

But honestly, assuming we get to a point where the US government has a file on every American citizen, does it really matter if the file is with the FBI and not the NSA? Of course the rules and laws covering the two agencies are different, but ultimately, it doesn't seem like the US government is very interested in strictly following the law.
Hehe ;) Well, it will probably be just slightly off in between the places where I have partitioned the score!

I think Chrome for whatever reason will make it "less off"!
The usability question is crucial for secure comms on a NSA-infested internet - it must be "easy" for non-technical people, but such as to not obscure anything, nor impair configurability, for more astute users.

But usability is a posterior issue. The first thing is to get the principles right, then usability can be applied by putting on the right interfaces. And I don't think there is any consensus about a good design yet. See my reply on another comment about the design of this system.
They broke it and removed it temporarily, nothing to see here.
ycombinator.com is an odd place for you to advance that notion
The way I see it, political power grabs are simply a continuation of wealth accumulation. Money is limited in its value, but it's the best universal proxy for value that we have so people often equate them. It's better to see money as path to things that are actually valuable, such as food, water, shelter, and the ability to provide these for others or to hire them to do things.

If you think about wealth in this abstracted sense, a notch away from money, then you can see how basic trading dynamics might apply.

Yakovenko modelled the trading dynamics in a perfect game of chance (coin flips determine winners and losers). Something interesting emerged.

http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/12/7/075032

What it shows is that if everyone starts with the same amount of money, after a bit of random trading, their wealth is normally distributed (this is obvious if you are familiar with the binomial distribution). A few people are doing well, a few are doing badly, and most people are around where they started. As the trading continues though, it turns into a power curve where most people are doing badly and a few are taking everything. Its the same thing that happens when a rich man sits down at a poor man's poker table. He can keep putting him all in on every good hand and he only needs to be right maybe 1 in ten times and he wins everything. There's a runaeay effect after you hit a certain point.

Of course, things are a lot messier at this higher level interpretation of wealth since its harder to attach numbers to wealth in the form of political power, good health, and other factors which have a compounding effect (good health and political power help you make more money, but they cost money, so there's a feedback loop, but you xan equate them for simplicity). This is why people complain about a shrinking middle class.

The good news is that human life is messy we often allow our relationships to balance things out. The bad news is that we have gotten better and better at sterilizing our social and physical environments so the past might not predict what's coming next.
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its a DL advert, but they did this on a ATL->JFK flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocbxS5aWUSo
Yes, that's correct. Yet, the NSA is doubtless collecting information on her.
same here. disabled long ago.
Java: Still the Most Popular Programming Language
And that's why we have http://publicsuffix.org/
Lossy PNG
Is Warner Bros. Distributing Malware?
Done. Cheers!
I feel like this is the minimum set of skills to be a founder (tech or non-tech) in any startup.

Doing this for a founder doesn't really help them come up with the insights needed to iterate on their idea.

Coaching them through the mechanics of these concepts, as well as providing regular feedback and helping them interpret their results would be infinitely valuable though.
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Here, here. Last night I checked my commit history for my side-project and noticed I started it over six months ago. There were frequent gaps of up to three weeks with no commits. It was my New Year's resolution to ship stuff, instead of jumping into learning something new every two weeks. Each of those long periods of time could've been a great time to start something new. I can finally see the light at the end of the tunnel and I owe it to myself to keep pushing.
Apple Unexpectedly Seeds iOS 7 Beta 6 to Developers
Really useful post, thankyou.

Specifically for me, the part about wrestling with focus... I tried Pomodoro a while back but assumed it was something you just either 'got' or didn't - it didn't seem like something anyone without ADD would have to work for. So when it didn't quickly work for me, i just threw in the towel. Maybe I'll give it another shot.
<pedantic>_Generic is not a macro; it just is used a lot inside macros. You should see it as a switch on the type of its argument.

This also aren't templates; you still have to write all those variants for a function, and give them unique names.

More importantly, I think this is worth the hassle. Before this, you couldn't really do

typedef double number_t;

and then easily call functions in the standard library such as sin, acos, or pow without having to worry about the actual type of that typedef. _Generic allows library developers to hide the ugliness of having different names for similar functions. That might have been possible using preprocessor metaprogramming, but it certainly wasn't simple.
That looks clever and useful, I wasn't expecting that. I do maintain a few aliases to jump around, but this looks more efficient. Not sure though if I'll like "jump foo" better than simply "foo" that I use now, but maintaining those aliases is a pita.