skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty certain it's the Python side of things making it slow - I've been involved in a project which converted its PyQt interface to a native C++ Qt one, and the UI speed up in terms of responsiveness was significant.
The Vagrant image appears to be using Vagrant 1.0.X, as it requires password for NFS shares on OSX, something not required in 1.1+
Can you look? I would like to read this source please.
What would you suggest Chrome provide as pOptionalEntropy? Please be specific, and note that I don't want to provide a password every time I start Chrome.
I disagree.

Pseudonyms have in no way hindered polite, serious discussions on any forum I've ever seen. The only way to ensure the atmosphere you seek is through curated and carefully moderated discourse. Heavy or light-handedness in handling discussion will kill the atmosphere and dissuade any honesty, politeness or even truth (for fear of reprisal) even if real names are enforced.

Reddit is the way it is because its founders and moderators wish it so. Every community gets the users it deserves.

Edit: Some cleanups (not enough coffee... also it's 5:13AM here)
Tricher au Scrabble
Tell me something - would you say the sentence exactly like that in person? (Not to close friends, but people you only sort-of know.)

Or would you tone it down a bit? I hope you get my point.
Interesting tidbit: when I describe my Soviet and early post-Soviet childhood to Americans, Americans of my age are surprised that their fears of Soviet nuclear attack, civil defense training ("duck and cover"), were not unique. "Whoa, you thought we were going to nuke you?! We thought you were going to nuke us." A popular (not very politically correct by US standards!) Soviet joke of this time conveyed the cynicism around the idea that once a nuclear war began, humanity would have any hope--

Armenian Radio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan_jokes) was asked: "what do to if a
nuclear attack is imminent?"

Armenian Radio responded: "wrap yourself in a linen sheet and slowly, in organized fashion, without creating any panic, crawl to a cemetery."

To paraphrase War Games (a classic which I watched only after coming to the US), the winning move is not to play."
Is there a way to press a "super" button on chromebooks?
Look at Twitter; Almost everyone uses their real name. Even terrible trolls. Discourse is as uncivil as you can get on the internet.

Moderation makes communities; Real Names do not.
From what I heard, the BitTorrent inventor bootstrapped the network with free porn.
Hard to get worked up over this one. Of course governments try to spy on other governments.
Not when they choose a different pseudonym for each site. You only have one real name (usually).
I would say that in the EU you would have a nightmare with this bus. You'd be able to drive anywhere, but parking over night would be a major problem.

I did a 6 month stint over winter, in the UK, 'stealth' living in a converted Ford Transit HiTop LWB Van (had bed, cooker, toilet, bank of 3 batteries and a diesel heating system.) It worked well, but primarily it worked because you could pull up anywhere and park for the night without calling attention to yourself.

Showers where provided by whichever local sports centre I could find :)

Oh and this is an exceptional site if you ever want to try this http://www.parkopedia.co.uk/
> Revealing plaintext passwords does not convenience the user

That bit is not true, with a caveat.

I have a ton of low-security username/password pairs stored in FF. I find I do need to look at the plaintext passwords now & again, because I want to open one of those sites on my phone, for example, and don't remember the password (I looked up my HN password just yesterday so I could sign in on my phone, actually). Sometimes I find I've saved multiple pairs for one site, and I need to review the passwords to figure out which is valid.

I've used the same feature in Thunderbird with IMAP and SMTP server passwords, when I have an email account I've been using for year w/o changing the password, and I realize I haven't saved it anywhere else.

All of these are not hampered by requiring a master password, of course... I'm in agreement with timbl on his reasons not to allow just anyone to view these by default.
You can take my online anonymity when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

With a few very carefully selected exceptions, there is absolutely no upside for me in being recognised online, and there is a lot of possible downside - from being 'targeted' for advertising, to having my habits tracked, to being hounded and hunted in real life by people who have nothing better to do.

All the reasons for wanting to take my anonymity away come from people who have something to gain by doing so.

I do get it - you would rather not have anonymous people posting on your website, fine. You get paid more if you can provide identified 'consumers', thats awesome.

Nothing in it for me though.
That's what I was thinking as well. If Australia doesn't have proper taxation of "insanely profitable" mining companies (paraphrasing), worrying about unions seems like misdirected effort. Norway has a 78% tax on profits from the petroleum industry, and the oil companies are thriving quite well. You can't exactly outsource the mining industry.

In fact, extremely heavy taxation will help with the "problem" of unions because with heavy taxation, the mining companies wouldn't have an incentive to penny-pinch on salaries. And with higher salaries, a greater amount of the mining wealth would be evenly distributed and enter the economy where a larger number of people can spend it. This is what happens in the North Sea. As a bonus, the unions will to a greater degree spend their efforts of safety measures instead of a game of tug-rope when it comes to salaries. The Norwegian model works.

Of course, you can't just tack on a 70+% tax regimen in retrospect without confiscating enormous shareholder value. So I think Australia is more or less screwed on this front. The best you could do would be to progressively tax new minesites. But of course this screws up the incentives unless it was done from the start.
Every modern bathroom lock I've seen in the last decade or so can be opened from the outside with a coin. A quick Google suggests this is a legal requirement in public buildings, and simply a good idea in private homes.

I use Firefox, but it seems from the screenshots that Chrome has that minor barrier of clicking before they reveal the password.
I did say I am not a fan of real name policies.
But will this increase the web designer's chances to get paid? I don't think so.

While it sure provides negative publicity for the store owner, it would probably not further the career of the web designer either.
> and that I have nothing to put on my shelf.

Why do you need anything to put on a shelf?

I, for one, am glad that books don't need to take up physical space anymore.
Golden Rice: Lifesaver?
Bookmarking shell script done test first
Lightweight virtualization with LXC
For android, you could and still can get kid launcher sandboxes that prevent people accessing other apps.
Under the hood - how Git works
A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services
Rather entertaining contrast in the article:

"we need to chase after ambiguous and unsolved problems; not the problems of today, but the problems of tomorrow. we need to chase after our perception of “the future”."

compared with

"over the next year, i want to focus on consumer web: local buy-sell, event planning, recipe sharing, and reliving shared memories."

Yes, because these are truly futuristic and untapped problem areas. C'mon, dude, try something else.
"DOWNTOWN SF. 2015. QED."

As far as I know, this isn't an appropriate use of QED.
I can relate with the author's experience of moving to a new city, knowing no one. A year ago I moved from England to Sydney. Like the author, I also went heavily out of my way to take part in social activities that would help me meet like-minded people.

What she says is true: it is so hard to build up a social circle from scratch that way, while also working a full-time job. Seeing the same people once every couple of weeks is not enough. There were a number nights where I felt very lonely. It really made me realise how easy it is making friends through school/work/housemates/mutual friends.

I lived in share houses as a means to meeting people, but it is complete potluck who you end up with. The first house I lived in was with people who were very different to me, so after a few months I left. I finally found a house with a decent set of people dropping by, however I always felt like I was on the fringe of the group -- they had all been friends for years.

I believe another problem is the fact that even between countries like Britain and Australia (and even cities within those countries) there are subtle differences between the types of people in each place. These small differences from what I was used to also contributed to my feelings of isolation.

For these reasons, countries like India -- where people tend to live in much closer proximity -- really appeal to me. In most Western countries we have a very isolationist culture, i.e. big fences, not knowing your neighbours etc. and I think this makes loneliness more of a problem on quite a deep level in society. Having said that, the initial language barrier would make things hard in countries such as India.

Having said all that, I don't think that these feelings of loneliness were particularly serious in my case. I am a melancholic person, but pretty far from being depressed. I tend to think of these experiences as "character building" -- this puts it in quite a positive light for me. If I really am unhappy with a situation, then I will work towards doing something about it, which makes me feel more positive as I look towards the future. So I have my ways of dealing with this, but I can sympathise with anyone who has these issues, and understand how it can very easily become a serious problem -- given the right ingredients.
Is it a problem that unions have the power to stop the work for safety reasons? On the contrary, I believe that this is a necessity if you want to preserve the value of human life under dangerous work.

I am currently reading about the history of the North Sea subsea workers during the great petroleum expansion from 1960-2000, and the safety culture which followed from American drilling companies was just atrocious. Divers would be forced into lethal working conditions in situations where it was completely out of proportion to the importance of the work. 16-hour shifts under water, aggressive decompression tables which frequently led to both acute diving sickness and long-term delibitating injury, in addition to frequent accidents. (An "accident" under water usually means death). One time they sent down a guy who had been picked up from a pub three hours prior, who started the dive by puking in front of the whole crew. He died.

So tl;dr, giving unions the power to temporarily stop the work for safety concerns is vital if you want to make sure that the workers mostly get home safely.
There are plenty of blazing fast GUIs written in python; that's not the problem.
"Three officers on board the submarine [...] were authorized to launch the torpedo if agreeing unanimously in favor of doing so. An argument broke out among the three, in which only Arkhipov was against the launch."

Opportunity for a playwright to write a really tight two scene piece there. Doubt if we could get it up to 50,000 words[1] even if we did the 'follow three scenarios with multiple endings' trick, and even if we had the Bobby Kennedy/LBJ dynamic in the committee going.

Edit: The K-19 'incident' would have made a major psychological impression on anyone, even allowing for the high threshold that I imagine Soviet navy commanders of that era had.[2]

[1] http://nanowrimo.org/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-19
And it has "downvote" button
Thanks. Yes the upgrades are much better now.

I think Gitlab kind of suffers from the Ubuntu syndrome when they were still pushing the non-LTS release as default. Many things were not tested long enough and would cause issues for many people while they were using it.

For example after one upgrade browsing the repos didn't work because apparently the Git version hat to be a specific version. I think this was neither tested nor is the Git version mentioned anywhere as a requisite.

Or with v5.3 the Git satellites would get into an unclean state sometimes and had to be cleaned out manually.

I took quite some time to find this out too.

So my suggestion: more polish and testing and less new features.
The difference is probably that in your case you're showing self-produced evidence that you can easily and arbitrarily create, while in the case of physical shipment another party confirms the shipment.
Calibre is pretty awesome, congratulations to the team.

"Unfortunately" most of my books are non-fictional/science/textbooks etc. For the few fiction books I read, I pretty much use ebooks unless it's a comicbook or maybe some fine leather collectors item.

My main problem is that I scribble in, marker (multiple colors), take note, underline and do all kinds of stuff with my non-fiction books. I researched and the options to do all that were pretty underwhelming last time I checked. If any of you know about good "texbook tools" I'd be all ears.

I think for textbooks I'll never get used to ebooks. I also like being able to flip through them quickly, scan the content on a quick flip and so forth. The one major advantage of ebooks for my typical use cases is full text search (and theoretically links to other books on quotes and so forth).
Why not send a small postcard with the license key that requires them to sign to get the postcard? Give them an instant key good for 14 days and then make them use the one on the postcard for long term use. Then you'll have your proof (and be pretty close to PayPal's chargeback limit)
5-year-old ATI Mobility Radeon, drivers not so modern because they stopped issuing new drivers tens of months ago.
What makes you say that solutions better than anonymity should be sought?
While it's really clear who the customer is, I do not see the name of the designer anywhere.
I am talking about individual problems that make anonymity necessary, to be more precise. One reason is that some of these problems are results of fundamental flaws.
Does this work for ARM ChromeBooks too?
Wow, the NSA has just become the whipping boy of the media. Well, they deserved it. They reached too far, and now their ability for worldwide surveillance has taken a massive hit.
They should have read the tale of Icarus before going flying.
Serving Static Sites with Go
Not necessarily - if you verify your account with (your real) email, that can be used to connect to the rest of your network.

I don't believe reddit is doing this right now... but the future is long.

(Of course, you can simply not verify, or use a fake email.)
That counts, however, unless each commune is completely independent, you run into meta issues of interactions between communes. Specifically: unless we take incredibly restrictive precautions to ensure equality, there will always be some losers and some winners.
From the other posts, it seems this individual has spare accounts to burn.
"Today we present a new major GitLab version. There are a lot of improvements to make GitLab even more awesome."

I think the first sentence of every new release should at least explain what GitLab is. A new version of GitLab the tool for X,Y,Z. Some people will see a link to it in their tech news source of choice and think "oh that's interesting, let's check what it is"

Keep up the good work :D
In the North Sea, you're not allowed to lift anything heavier than 40 lbs by hand (you need lifting equipment/machinery). These rules are there to ensure that workers can't be forced to do dangerous work. You said it yourself; having strict safety procedures leads to fewer deaths.

And climbing a ladder can be more dangerous than you'd think. Imagine it's a 10-meter ladder on top of some tall-ish structure. Falling down could easily cripple or kill you. The only reason this seems like a stupid safety measure is because people do it in civilian life all the time, without thinking about the (small but serious) risk. Such risks are things you see all the time when operating at scale.
this has been up for a long time
You can export files into customizable directory structure.

If you want to arrange files to directories, you can export documents into arbitary directory structure determined by big number of attributes and even tags.
Where does she mention it in the video? You should've linked directly to that part.
I am pretty sure that, it is by design.
I remember googling my professor at university one year to find out that he had been criminally convicted for hacking the site of client that never paid him. I would never have guessed otherwise, he was a jovial guy.
Screwing people out of money quickly brings out an aggressive response in most.
The Startup Table
Sfelt table can be used for both a working desk and a living room table. Suitable for a startup setting.
No, not directly, but don't you just like 'hacking' the possible futures that could have arisen from that discussion among the three men in a tin can? Games theoretic approaches to what they could have known under the sea with failing air supplies?
You go to the log in page, the browser fills the password for you, bookmarklet to change the password field to text, there is your password.
Or "your future prospective employer is going to google your name when you apply for a job"

In which case I'd suggest you've got a very strong motivation for not posting anything remotely controversial under a real name account.
On the Cleverness of Compilers
Would it be feasible to have Debian + Darwin?
I am wondering about driver availability.. Does Darwin support all hardware FreeBSD does?
Is it stripped down to Mac-like hardware?

And in general what would i get from using Darwin as opposed to Linux or *BSD apart from the ability to run a limited amount of Mac-only commandline tools?

Also, looks like a dead project..

Also, given that Apple moves away from open source more and more [1], i really wouldn't go down that road... you'll end up surrounded by proprietary software, extensions, drivers more likely then not.

[1] https://plus.google.com/103674611711666213369/posts/7j1c2bZ7...
> Javascript is in a similar situation with node.js ported to a Cortex-M3 ARM microcontroller

Well, yes and no. Yes, there are JavaScript environments ported to different platforms, including microcontrollers. But no, JavaScript is not compiled to native code ahead of time nor does it run without a big runtime system.

While there is some technical trickery involved in getting JavaScript running on different platforms, I find the new LLVM-based languages that run on bare metal much more interesting.

Due to its nature, even the best of JavaScript implementations waste quite a lot of resources compared to native code. While computers are fast enough and have enough memory not to notice the difference, it's still consuming more battery power and producing more heat than executing native code. And it's power and thermals that have been the limiting factor of computational power for the past decade.
One article I submitted was overridden by an elder member when he submitted it.

I'm not sure what you mean by "elder member" -- do you mean someone with more karma? Someone whose account was created before the account of yours to which you're referring? An individual whose age is greater than yours? An account that makes daily posts and receives regular upvotes?

Also I'm confused about why you're spending so much effort to make yourself noticed -- it's weekend late night/early morning for most of HN's readership, which means your effort has significantly less effect than it would about 50-60 hours from now...
> But will this increase the web designer's chances to get paid? I don't think so.

Why wouldn't it? If the store owner doesn't let emotion cloud his judgement, he should figure out very quickly that it would be better to pay up rather then face further negative publicity.

> it would probably not further the career of the web designer either.

It should have about zero negative effect on the career of the designer, and may have a positive effect. Any company that has been in business long enough has been screwed before, and most people would root for the little guy in this scenario.

He has nothing to lose, and a payment to gain.
Yeah, I don't think I'd make it link to my portfolio if I just pulled a website down.
Here's What Really Happens When You Extend a Deadline
That's why you move the website to the customer's server only after you've been paid in full.

Before that it's only a showcase on the developer's server.
Hell if you could somehow pry out OS X components compatible with the build, it might run a basic OS X clone. There'd probably be a lot of hwid spoofing involved though.
The real surprise is everyone is shocked an agency designed to spy is doing just that. And successfully for a long time. I don't like it, but it is not really news - they compare spying on the UN and loved ones in this article ... is it really related?
At this point, even with my handles and nicks, that cat is out of the bag. I look at it this way: if they wouldn't hire me over something I said online, I don't want to work there anyways.
No. Just no. I am a math graduate student. I did my undergrad in India where curriculum is specialized and rigid. Long story short, I learned only mathematics. I am very good at math, but now I regret learning more CS topics. I feel like specializing too early can lead to a pretty unhappy life ahead for some.

A better idea would be to start specialized science schools for over-achieving kids. oh. wait. that's already done.
I keep being surprised that there is no real ARM netbook (samsung's chromebook and asus transformer come closest).

I think the reason is because ARM is significantly less performant than x86. You don't notice it on a phone/tablet, because the stack is optimised (it has to be!) the special-purpose OS, lots of stuff in silicon (esp video), games and (mobile) webpages are written for the platform. But for general computation - e.g. compiling - it's much slower.

ARM has optimised power consumption for decades; x86 has optimised performance for decades, so I shouldn't be surprised.

PS: doesn't ubuntu have an ARM laptop in the works? (along the lines of their EDGE phone)?
I too wish for such deals. I'd particularly like that for textbooks, where I expect to want to refer to them later on, and possibly when I'm far from my copy. I can't think of a good way to convince the editor that I haven't resold the paper version though. That would end up costing them a lot.
I 100% agree,it is all about the kind of community one wants to build. If your content is trash like in some sub reddits or 50% of the huffpo articles, you'll get the trolls.

Some more serious sub-reddits are totally clean of trolls.
Obviously good moderation works better, but that doesn't mean real names can't help.