skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry through a third-party proxy service powered by Spotflux. You're right that if it was powered by us, it would be sketchy in terms of a privacy improvement!
Europe vs NSA: Know thyself, know thy neighbours
An introduction to Array Languages
I can't wait for Taibbi's expose on bad programmers. "Fixed size linked lists are a leading cause of integer overflows."
A trampolined state machine reads OK, where each state is the next transition function.

But generally, you want tail recursion...
4 Ways to Fit Your Mobile App Into Your Business Strategy
Lets all hope the NSA has not injected back doors into NGINX!
I'm not sure what you mean. The Haskell vector library doesn't use any compiler side intelligence.

If you mean loop merging, the Repa 4 library does something pretty interesting called series fusion. But it also needs a compiler plugin so that it can do that optimization internally.

I'm actually working on my own vectorization / fusion friendly numerical tools in Haskell. One philosophical point that's pretty darn important Is making it obvious and clear how to get good performance in a robust way. Many auto vectorization codes (eg try auto vectorization in clang) require a bit of work to tickle correctly. So in many ways, I think the best approach is to encourage idioms that don't require compiler smarts.
I've been using Varnish for this: it's even simpler and has the advantage of having a non-broken HTTP cache module so you can use content negotiation and caching at the same time.
Heybill: Huge Tax Season Time Saver - Automatically fetch your invoices
Search. We earn revenues whenever you make searches via Epic. Note though your searches are always private and sponsored/unsponsored results are only based on your query and rough geo-location. We will base any results on tracking or allow any searches or browsing to be tracked. It's not really required either -- Google tracks you and saves your data to target non-search ads (search ads via your search term can be naturally targeted)!!
I see under the download button it says, 'more versions coming soon'...happen to know when us linux users will get some love?
This can be extended to other mediums - I try to only do business with companies that have minimal advertising (such as Vanguard and USAA). Think about it for a moment: where does the money for television advertisements come from? If you're a current customer of a company running TV ads, you're being bilked, and if you're a potential customer, why would you want to do business with a company that will bilk you just to get more new customers?
"least amount of hassle, pain and blind rage" - I find that comical. My short experience doing android development has been nothing short of a headache which I eventually rage quit, but more power to you if you find it easy.
Thanks! Yes, only for Epic as it integrates all our services. A lot of things in Epic are only available in Epic:-)
Here in Chicago, SpotHero is taking off like crazy.

What do you think they have done differently to be so wildly successful in the same space?
I like the japanese title
友達の友でしょう？
(tomo-no-tomo roughly translating to "Friend of a friend")
Good point -- will do from now on!
Interesting choice of name considering http://epic.org/
WTF??? Guys, wake up! If it is not open source, it does not protect your privacy. Period. We see how other companies got coerced into breaking privacy for some dollars. The company-driven closed source development is flawed as long as we grant governments this power.

What we need is not yet another startup that tries to make money on our private data (yeah, read Epic's FAQ how they make money). We need a stack of hardware and software you can easily trust. My dream is to use a computer that is produced on an open design by one of hundreds of fabs that would call out a competitor that puts backdoors into the chips to boost their own reputation. My dream is a software stack that is completely signed by tons of trustful developers with the possibility to easily add my signature after bit-reproducibly compiling code I checked. If this comes true, people will identify easier the packages that were developed by companies only and find ways to replace them for a trustworthy stack.

Open source apps distributed via Android market for example are closed source apps compiled by the developer from code he maybe shared and that was possibly modified by google running on video-audio-multi-sensor-bugs with several agencies having a direct wire to them. If you still use windows, your PC is not better than that. Think about it. Thanks to Snowden we can finally talk about these issues without a single person calling us paranoid.
This article hits very close to home: Given a finite amount of time, what's more important for your children's studies, face time at the school or helping them learn 1 on 1? Clearly it's the latter. What I find so strange about the Bake Sale mentality is that it is a very inefficient use of everyone's time. Someone who works 200 days a year and makes 100K has a time value of $500 per day. These bake sales rarely give a return near that amount of time spent. Better to write a check, skip the bake sale and help the kids study at night.
Not sure, was the comment unclear? I was trying to say that my university education helped me appreciate things that I wouldn't have seen as valuable had I only had vocational or self-taught experience.
Add WebRTC powered video chat to your website with 3 lines of code.
What type of work would you do with that? Are there any libraries available for real data analysis with JavaScript?
>We will base any results on tracking

I think you meant, "will not" rather than "will".
I wonder if the recently discovered problems with non-unique key parameters could be the result of the cooperation of particular network gear vendors with NSA.

https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.conference.pdf

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...
Looks like fun, I am excited to try it out tonight
Am I the only one that thinks the stock photo used for this article is ridiculous?
>No, it's time to kill passwords.
>don't persist my login

You say no, but it reads yes.
"Simpler, yes, that doesn't make Apache complicated. They're all simple."

Didn't you just contradict yourself? How can it be simpler and all be simple? Simpler implies one is greater in simplicity so which is it?

FWIW, we were running Apache 1.3 with patches on OpenBSD. For us, using the 2.x branch wasn't possible without staying atop the modules for code issues/vulnerabilities. Considering other client expectations, we didn't have the resources to audit everything like that. The fact that OpenBSD 5.2 included Nginx by default was a nice plus for us too, but we started the move before then.
Yep, nice changes. I've merged them, thank you!
Privacy isn't "free", you're right. Epic supports password saving -- since it's the user's choice, we determined that we could leave it in. Many things can be done in a private way, so for example we have implemented local address bar auto-fill, so you can type "f" and have facebook.com appear but it's not based on your history nor any query to a web server. We will be building in more such services to make using Epic both private and convenient!! Epic does by the way auto-update for Windows though we hope to make it optional in the future for the extremely privacy conscious. For the Mac, it will give you a pop-up when there's an update so it's just about as simple as auto-updating.
There is probably a backdoor for government agencies anyway.
That seems like an investment in advertising, more than looking for a free investor. In this case, it's more economically feasible for the small potatoes firm than the big fish. 5% of a firm worth 20K - that's $1000 for a ton of advertising. 5% for a firm with traction work 20 million - no way!
I think "it's" working.

"Negative" publicity is better than no publicity.

Look at us! We're talking about Yahoo! now.

EDIT: My point being: perhaps it's not about their logo or the importance of a logo and many of you aren't seeing the bigger picture/goal/objective...
Win this $1 bounty: MySQL archiving query
I'm the author of the post, if anyone has any questions (or corrections :-)
I was close to getting a seizure. (On a mac using Canary)
Yes, I think the semantics of c_str() and data() effectively require that it is stored contiguously.

Although it is still possible to make it faster by overallocating in the same way as std::vector, but at the cost of more memory use.
> Due to other unnecessary government regulation. Regulations always have a snowball effect.

This is simply not true. If it was not regulated at all, the situation would be worse. This is an industry that has a natural tendency to become mono/oligo-polic. (Similarly to water supply inustry.)

> That's the customer's problem, not the government's. It benefits customers who do make optimal decisions.

That deserves a longer discussion but I'll try to sum it up. One example of a regulation that helps customers make better decisions is that misleading advertisment is banned. When I say regulation, I mean that the customers collectively decided that it would be better for everyone if misleading ads were banned. There's absolutely nothing wrong with this.
I have been trying to wrap my ahead around Makefiles for the longest time, but it never seems to click.

Like I can read the tutorial and understand the individual parts, but I can never really remember them or really what I am doing.

Take for example, I am trying to build a completely unique project something that's never been done before.

But I have no idea how to make the damn thing from scratch.

Basically I want to get Clang/LLVM working on my STM32F4 board(Cortex M4), so that way I can try py2llvm and see if you can do Python with good performance on embedded targets.
Really? That's partly a surprise, given the public nature of the BBC, yet also not a surprise, given the value of the airtime one gets, even with a lame duck of an idea.

Got a link/reference for this 5%? If not, how did you learn of this?
I just see them as realistic. Of the people who use the internet, only some will find out about you. Of those, only some of them will care. Of those, only some will be willing & able to pay, etc.

The thing about flipping the funnel upside-down is clever, but I wonder how much it has to do with scale. Word of mouth can be a great driver of growth when you're small, but what about after that? Plus, the same effect applies where only some will pay you. So I'm not sure how different it actually is.

I agree that trying to make money from stuff you built often involves doing things with various degrees of grody-ness. I think what the author has done here is to think about that in a way that he finds palatable, and that's certainly important. But I wonder how much of this is about changing perception rather than action.
Thx for the useful and succint article.
Thanks for the update to the pressure cooker/backpack article - nevertheless there was a police visit based on his googling which is a bit scary. There are many dangers you could imagine if what you search could be used against you (assuming it's not private).
I think that's definitely part of it. I think in the US there's another effect where parents view school as an extension of their social circle. This is especially true of affluent suburban elementary school parents, some of which become their children's driver and social/athletic assistant. This behavior is viewed as helpful in solving the American "public school problem" but in effect prevents kids from becoming more independent.

I don't think anyone is complaining about working parents in poor school districts being overly involved. It is in those districts where we need the most improvement.
Yes, I definitely get the feeling of "breaking news! multi-million dollar logo consultant believes everyone should buy logos for 10 million dollars!"
The C in CMS is for Content
Sure, but it stop the problem (as an ancestor post says) of charging a subsidator X and charging others X×1000. Since X×1000 is capped, it's less of a problem.
Mozilla's Persona seems like an option. You can self-host and it seems to do what you want.
It is a normal transition for childhoods filled with reading. I read about 10k pages a year until I graduated university.

For a hacker, it is normal to not subvocalize.

I think it is also one of the reasons that we hate meetings so much. An email can be written at about 40 wpm, and read much, much, much faster. So past 2 or 3 people, the dominant strategy should be text, unless sidechannel meaning is needed (where emotions are involved or whatever).
Soon we hope...we LOVE linux!!!! We're also a bit paranoid about backdoors and use linux often ourselves...
These tiers are widely known about in the algorithmic trading community. There is marketing materials on Reuters site outlining the advantages http://thomsonreuters.com/machine-readable-news/ and if you are event trading you certainly pay for this.

If the 4th secret tier exists, that would be a bigger problem but there is no proof of that in the article. It is all speculation.
Sick of swiping your face? Google Glass gets a remote control.
You should play 0ad and comment in their forums giving concise feedback!
How great do Yahoo's investors feel that their CEO is spending her time on trying to be designer instead of streamlining and turning her company around.

Yahoo! Stock:
Oct. 22 2012: $15.77
March 18 2013: 22.01
June 24 2013: $24.07
July 16 2013: $26.88 Marissa appointed
July 18 2013: $29.66
Sept. 5th 2013: 28.23

I'm not sure how commentators are extrapolating that this is the sole focus of Marissa as CEO.

If Mayer was so excited about literally tilting an exclamation point 9 degrees to the right as some sort of liberating self-expression, can you imagine how up-tight people must be over there now?

Perhaps, as the GP states, she is appealing to the demographic needed to drive business versus its shareholders.
This is really the need for the hour. I always loved chrome but never felt being tracked. Thats why i always used firefox instead. But this is exactly what i wanted. Also, being an INDIAN, i feel proud.
The Z-80 has a 4-bit ALU. Here's how it works.
We have the same sort of law, of course. It's illegal to sell yourself into slavery, illegal to sell human parts even if they're yours, illegal to grow and sell marijuana to your neighbor (um, well, that one's changing).

So clearly there are contractual acts that are illegal. This one isn't, and I find it odd that people would expect it to be, especially given that people don't otherwise seem to care about privacy at all - as long as somebody in arguable authority says it's for their safety from Bad Guys.
Sounds awesome. I'll definitely use this instead of the browser project whose TLS stack is maintained by one of the best known crypto software developers on the Internet, and run by the company that has almost singlehandledly mainstreamed TLS forward secrecy.
cURL - the most secure way to browse the internet.
Hating funnels seems sort of weird to me. Especially in this case, where it's just a model of an idea. There is nothing inherently evil about the concept of a funnel. He even makes that point when he turns it upside down and claims it as genius. The act of the trying to force people through the funnel on your timeline instead of theirs is where the problem is. And that act is going to be a problem no matter how you are modeling the customer acquisition process.
It is definately simpler to configure Nginx to reverse proxy, Apache needs a few more lines of configuration.
Bitcoin donation address please!
Assuming I understand this correctly -- and I could be wrong -- but I don't think that the pump thing would work for this use case. I think it's used for other applications. In this scenario, it needs to be to a DB next to these small agents. So spinning up an Oracle instance for each isn't really viable. Also, the agents aren't necessarily in labs that have the nice Oracle deal that CERN central has.
It does save the school money though. We have a lot of volunteers that otherwise would need to be paid staff. Crossing guards, valet attendants, playground supervisors, room parents (to assist teachers with stuff).

It also helps build a community. Volunteering in your kid's class along with other parents is a good way to get to know the families you and your child will be sharing space with for 9 months.
Well, for the unenlightened, which one is that? Firefox? Chrome?
Epic is open source...anyone who wants our source code, just write us!! Sorry we've been struggling to get the product ready and hadn't prepared to release all the code yet but will do it fast. Chromium is a huge code base & we're a small team so we hadn't gotten to it yet.

We don't make any money from anyone's private data or any data (period). We make revenues at this point exclusively from searches you do via our private search engine & always protect your searches' privacy.

Thanks for other ideas...others can comment...
Why don't they use proper HTML5 instead of this tag soup?

https://gist.github.com/jeena/f62232da7d6ac964d403

The rest is a matter of CSS.

[Edit:] moved the code to a gist
The cognitive load of understanding apache is greater than that of nginx; at least initially. And given that we're talking about people who are already taxed by the cognitive load of running a massively multiuser Wordpress installation...
And Oracle Corporation's business practices, of course. They alienate their own partners.
What Entrepreneurs can Learn from College Football
Given that the display is happening from Google's server, then clearly there is absolutely no way for that to work without Google opening the file!

It's richly bizarre that people have just today started to think about this process...
Great job on the snarky comment buddy -- that'll definitely set me straight!

Silly of me to consider it useful for people to check if things have been submitted before re-submitting them to the same listing/news source.

Also, way to ignore my point, this article NOT cool. It's Elon Musk propoganda (and I think the guy is awesome) -- the real hero here is the Leap Motion controller, and not enough is being said about it.
> It looks exactly like it.

That's kind of unfair.
Sorry not our proxy. A third party proxy powered by Spotflux.
First Genetic Evidence That Humans Choose Friends With Similar DNA
The author fails to make an important distinction about the people that created the logo.

It's one thing to say that a design agency came in and designed a logo in a weekend. It's another thing to say an internal design team bared down to create a logo in a "weekend" (in quotes, because Marissa may simply be using the term to mean done in a short timespan).

I've worked on both the agency and client side, and the huge difference is that an agency comes in and has to learn very quickly about the client's business (more often than not getting it wrong the first time around) while the people working at the company live and breathe the company culture day in and out. At an agency, you're often jumping between a few clients, but unless you've been the agency of record for a number of years, it is simply not possible for you to have the depth of understanding that an internal marketing team will have. What an agency CAN bring is some fresh outsider thinking not colored by the company's history, but there's no reason the right people within the company can do so as well.
Show HN: the government sent me a traffic sniffer
Is anyone else on HN participating in this FCC research project to measure broadband performance? [1] I signed up for more information when the project was announced, some time ago, but a few days ago the device arrived. Technically, it is quite an interesting little box.

It's a generic consumer device, shaped like a wireless router, with an antenna and five RJ-45 jacks. But it works more like a bridge, plugging in between my existing ADSL modem/wireless-router and any wired devices that used to be plugged directly into the existing ADSL. No changes needed to be made to any of the wireless devices in the house---the antenna on the new device sniffs any wireless networks in the vicinity.

It came with a printed copy of the GPL.

There was no configuration required except to plug it in. Within a few hours, I received an email announcing that it had successfully phoned home and offering a login to the web site where I could view graphs showing the results of measurements on my broadband connection.

I've not examined the software in the device yet to figure out what all it's actually doing, but I can't help wondering [2].

[1] http://www.samknows.com/fcc_and_samknows

[2] Two years ago there was a brief discussion on HN about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2837451
Well it's balancing a couple more moving things in your field of view against not looking at the road I don't know if the results are in yet but I suspect (with about medium certainty) keeping your eyes on the road is likely to win.
I remember when Epic browser was Firefox based; used to hang a lot. But had very nice features - India specific.

Could you try to implement those features now also?

Please provide users a link to full-size download. Otherwise it would be a big turn-off.
Video Friday: Crossing the Alps, DRC Robots, and Kirobo Goes to Space
NSA CryptoKids - America's Future Codemakers & Codebreakers
Agreed -- I would love to see an example of a binary tree.

As a matter of fact, I was struggling with Stack Overflow problems when constructing huge kd-trees recursively. I read this article a week ago, but failed to translate the pure recursive formulation of constructing a tree into a tail-recursive one -- since the recursion goes two ways instead of one

Here's an example from Wikipedia:

function kdtree (list of points pointList, int depth)
{
// Select axis based on depth so that axis cycles through all valid values
var int axis := depth mod k;

// Sort point list and choose median as pivot element
select median by axis from pointList;

// Create node and construct subtrees
var tree_node node;
node.location := median;
node.leftChild := kdtree(points in pointList before median, depth+1);
node.rightChild := kdtree(points in pointList after median, depth+1);
return node;
}
The difference is actually pretty massive.

See http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Web_Server_Performance_Comparison for instance.
Construção da Torre Muqarnas na Arábia Saudita Aproxima-se da Conclusão
Chrom(ium), the open source foundation of chrome
We're thinking of ways to improve moving code from a notebook into a module. One idea we're currently hoping to develop is a 'modulify' function/button, which will save a cell to a Python file and replace the cell contents with import statements.
While I agree that many are blowing this out of proportion, there are data analysis tools that can transform a few isolated data points into a complete profile quite quickly.
http://www.devopsfriday.com
They should really state this more prominently in the campaign! Reading it, I was thinking something like: 'well, this is pretty, but what are the chances that they actually release it in the next 3 years or so?'
As someone who was there early on writing documentation and helping in IRC it's extremely nice to see the article mention how volunteers really got this projects documentation off the ground. Hats off to nginx for sharing that tidbit or to the article author if he researched that independently.
It's worth noting that China has a 90% literacy rate so while they speak may not speak Mandarin they still have some ability to read (and of course use their local dialect): http://world.time.com/2013/08/15/what-the-word-toad-can-tell...
Native DRM support in Internet Explorer 11