skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fixed and pushed. Should appear on the site shortly. Thanks for the feedback. I'll send a pull request to the template author as well.
The "stack" most people using the term today consider is barely the tip of the iceberg.

Computer programming has been trivialized by web development and most newcomers are still busy reinventing lisp.

Give it sometime for them to discover where their code is running...
I haven't tried it myself but based on the twitter chatter between @swannodette and @ambrosebs I believe so.
I haven't seen anything that they've done of recent merit in the news lately.
> I can relate to the very satisfying feeling that is making a tool that enable several projects beyond what you could do by yourself.

That is indeed a mark of good engineering.

Looking at ScummVM, I can only think that SCUMM must have been the product of truly great engineering. A single codebase, supporting dozens of games? The basic design of SCUMM has to be solid for that to be possible.

Compact, check. Extensible, check.

The other adventure powerhouse of the time, Sierra, apparently had at least two different engines. (I know there was AGI, and the last I tried, AGI-interpreters could not play all the Sierra games. Another kind of interpreter was needed for some titles.)

Now, if only Infocom had used bytecode for their games, instead of hard-wiring the game logic inside their executables. I still remember fondly their best titles: Spellcasting 101, Gateway, Eric the Unready, Super-hero league of Hoboken, ...

-deep sigh-
The biggest problem with NDAs that I've come across is that often people want to slip non-compete type clauses into them. If it is a straight up non-disclosure agreement, it's going to cost the company more to sue you than it would ever be worth to enforce the NDA, so practically it doesn't have much effect. Of course, if the company in question has huge resources, you might want to be more circumspect.
Seems to me more like you leaving your door open and then trying to have someone arrested for looking through your doorway.

If someone physically circumvents your door in order to see what's inside there's a difference in culpability.
http://ddg.gg <- fewer chars
> I'm not a lawyer, but I'm fairly certain that educational programs are allowed to do whatever they want wrt. copyright

You're wrong. Educational programs have a specific exemption for performing or displaying lawfully acquired copyrighted works in a classroom setting: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/110 but that's the extent of it, they most definitely are not allowed to reproduce copyrighted work whether profiting of it or not.
Github works on source code, which is text files.

Writers work on English text (or other languages) which is text files.

What does this do that Github itself (or equivalent - bitbucket, etc) does not?
How 5 Billionaires started, made their first mio, made their first bio
Cheap doesn't get you anything if you aren't allowed to work.
Absolutely fantastic. That's going to be SO helpful.

I really like what you've done with the colour coding and the lines to link up the boxes of explanation with each argument, but it is still a little difficult to see what's going on when you've got lots of args. With an example long command line [1] (the sort this is really useful for) I kept having to scroll up and down from the whole command line to the explanation.

Perhaps when you do the hover over, rather than just greying out the other options, you could hide all of them and only show the relevant one. It would be right at the top, on the same screen as the argument (assuming you had the res). You'd get explanation of the particular arg, along with it's position and context.

[1] rsync -vzrc -e ssh --exclude .svn --exclude *~ code/ target:/root/application
The reason I ask you to sign an NDA is not because I am scared you're going to steal my idea. We can talk in depth about the business over coffee, dinner, long weekend ad nauseam. But if you want to see the code and hear about the non-public deals then you sign an NDA.

I'm pretty sure this post is not meant to apply to real companies, but there is a lot more going on out in the real world than this straw man of cold-calling wantrepreneurs.
Nothing compared to being in a war zone. Many foreign women live on their own in Dubai, working for multinationals, by choice.

One thing is to boycott it in principle, which either a man or a woman might want to do, and another is to rule it out as an alternative to Syria.
Angular.js, Ember.js, and Backbone.js Compared
MetaCasts.tv has done a series of videos for each of the three big frameworks (Angular.js, Ember.js, and Backbone.js), resulting in almost 4 hours of videos. In each of these series we will build the same example application (and no, it's not a todo list!). By building the same application you can easily compare and contrast the different styles of each of these frameworks to help better understand which one is the right one for your next project.

http://www.metacasts.tv/angular-ember-backbone-screencasts
There was for several decades--decades in which we saw perhaps the most progressive action on civil liberties--a very real and immediate threat of domestic terrorism from factions who felt oppressed.

At the end of the day, having ceded the monopoly of violence to the government, it becomes very difficult to merely ask nicely to have your freedoms restored. More Malcom X's would probably have helped the Occupy movement, least of all because the "We are oppressed, we're starting to fight back" is a narrative familiar enough to the American psyche.
Alpha software and a username of "info collector"? Where do I sign up!?
Ooh god now I'm going to be self conscious about my typing. But seriously I was mainly just worried that Ambrose (the brains behind core.typed) might take it the wrong way. Many of the problems I had could've been avoided if I'd just taken my time and read the docs, and I don't mean for my failing to reflect poorly on his library. He took it like a champ though and released a patch fixing a few issues I hit the same night I posted.
In your face, NSA!
This was in the 1970s, a time when there was a lot of pioneer work in subsea exploration and technology. Researchers and companies were really pushing the envelope of what was possible to do under water. OH&S today would give most companies an F for their safety procedures. A lot of workers died and suffered permanent injury during these years.

On the other hand, this was all unknown territory. A lot of the knowledge regarding safety under water hadn't been discovered yet. In contrast to the space exploration of the 1960s, the private companies exploring the sea bottom didn't have the budget to put safety first. Research into the biological effects of unfamiliar breathing gases and decompression was focused exclusively on survival, not long-term sustainability. Etc. Even governments were implicitly pushing for quick development, as large parts of this exploration was a gold rush. The judicial considerations about to whom resources belonged, were to a large extent determined by the technological capability to harvest them. An example is the oil pipeline from the North Sea to West Norway, which was built in terrain which was at the time "impossibly deep" to work in. For the Norwegian government, building this pipeline was a key move in getting the ability to sell their oil on the open market.

The modern notion of workplace safety was to a large extent developed during these years. In Europe, the Norwegian offshore unions and the then-new Law of Work Environments (Arbeidsmiljøloven) were instrumental in this development. Even today, these initiatives are among the most strict in the industrialized world when it comes to questions of workplace safety.
I'm confused, why is it surprising that the CIA is the largest spy agency?
Online giving shifts for small organizations with the release of InstaGive
There's no point in me having you sign an NDA if I don't plan to sue you should you violate it.

I'm asking you to sign a document so I can sue you later. What do you get in return?

This guy says he's giving out free advice to strangers, expecting nothing in return. There's very little upside for him. So why should he take the risk, how would it benefit him?
I've been using vim for 19 years and still don't know how to use it properly. I try, then I always find some guru that does it better then I would.
Building footage
My advice: Get a cheap basic ereader. Turn off all the features you can(airplane mode works). Use Calibre. Every 2-4 weeks charge it and put books in it (not too many!). Forget about upcoming models. It's a book. You wouldn't care if a new edition of a novel came out with a different cover and font.

Mine is just for reading books (not articles, reports, emails, blogs, etc). When I pick it up, I relax. I read books. Completely different to the ADD experience of picking up my ipad. Strangely, I went back to reading fiction after buying it.
>That way still exists. All of the means of communication that were private in 1789 still are.

If you ignore cell phones and cars that constantly broadcast their positions, surveillance cameras everywhere, and that there are no sidewalks and no commons anymore, so where would you meet these people and how would you meet with them without the information being observed and stored?

The only possible goal of a system intended to flawlessly prevent 'terrorist' conspiracy is to create a system that flawlessly prevents unrecorded association and communication. The Stasi managed it with technology that was available in 1789.

This has nothing to do with computers, other than the terrible fact that they make doing this a lot cheaper.
Show HN: lnav - A fancy log file viewer for the terminal
It is very hard to copy the most important parts of a startup, even if you have some of the ideas:

+ business model innovation

+ go to market strategy

+ execution, focus and efficiency

+ iteration

+ user/customer care and cultivation

+ brand integrity and trust

+ vision

+ partnerships

Said another way, if it my idea and I am going to you, then I am doing so to brainstorm and get ideas from you too that may eventually conflict with your interests. Should you ask me for an NDA?
I've heard of a few misguided attempts to go after former employees who, supposedly, violated anti-compete clauses, but I don't recall anyone being sued for violating an NDA. I'm sure it's happened, but it's got to be rare. Usually successful companies are too busy building a great product and don't have time to mess around with NDA lawsuits.

I'm curious, can anyone recall a successful lawsuit over a violation of an NDA? Particularly with regard to early stage startups.
This is awesome; thanks for sharing.

I still feel that Quora should promptly go die in a fire, Google should de-rank them, Stack Overflow should supersede them, and users should abandon them for the good of the internet, but what do I know.
yes, but how many people would you have to kick out to make a difference?
Because the myth was that the NSA was many times larger than the CIA. The reality is they pumped money into their Special Activities Division, which is a paramilitary division that gets involved in a lot of clandestine military actions. Usually they work side by side with DoD assets to accomplish military missions. This basically changes the notion that the CIA is simply a bunch of agents working out of embassies around the world to handle HUMINT assets that do the real spying. They still do that of course but they've become a much more hands on agency.
There must be a market for a chrome plugin that lets one ctrl+click to delete a DOM element, I wonder how hard that would be?
uh... no shit Sherlock. Are there even any other "spy" agencies? Does the NSA count as spying? Invasion of privacy, warentless and possible unlawful search, yes. But the word "spy" implies people on the ground collecting information, does it not? Does the NSA makes the tools that facilitate CIA spying? Perhaps. Even so, of course the CIA spends more than anyone else, it costs a lot lot LOT more to run and maintain huge network of humans planted throughout the globe than it does to run a big ass data center.
I think it is wrong that these companies go unpunished. It would be one thing if it was an "actual" hack, but in these cases the companies are literally giving away the private information of their customers to anyone who asks for it.

That they are giving out signatures makes it even worse, as it could easily be used for identity theft. I am never using DHL again.
Am I the only one that uses my headphone socket to, y'know, listen to music?
Do you have an entry for airlines that will subtly change the month on the return calendar so you end up having to pay for a rebooking?
Frameworks for thinking
The idea that only technology nerds are aware of the NSA scandal is plainly untrue. Right now many members of Congress are upset, and even the President himself has had to provide a response on the issue. This has become front page news that any ordinary person can see as he walks past the newspaper stand.
"Once they do that, you no longer control that part of your business. You can't shut it down. You can't terminate part of your service. In a very real sense, it is not your business anymore."

Totalitarianism.
Charge $1000 per NDA signing on your terms and be done with it.
That's good advice, but I need it for work:

http://www.liberwriter.com
While I definitely wouldn't use one every day, a smartphone with e-ink screen sounds like a great idea for a more functional version of the SpareOne http://www.spareone.com/spareone/spareone-plus-emergency-pho...
I used to live next to a shelter like that, and the thing is a total shithole. Walls destroyed, stinks like hell, major crime around the shelter. A week before I left a 11 year old girl was gang-raped by the asylees. I do not blame germans who decide it's best for them to just send the asylum seekers back to their own countries.
And a domain from Guernsey, who are unlikely to mess around with things. It always baffles me when I see startups using things like Libyan (.ly) and even Syrian (.sy) domains to make some cutesy word.
If the website is yours, please change the font! Comic Sans ruins all the greatness! Choose among hundreds of free fonts on Google Fonts and embed it on your website so we can read it better. Thanks for sharing.
Someone was showing off this really incredible concept phone where the screen was BOTH eInk AND a regular LCD screen in one. Basically the eink display would constantly show your notifications, and you could turn it on (LCD) to get full apps, web-browsing, etc.

Unfortunately it was a concept by a really small company, so I don't know if we'll ever see it come to market.
startpage.com includes ads from Google and forwards you upon a result click to google.com/aclk for tracking purposes.

Please do not spread this site saying it does not submit data to Google. It does guaranteed for the ads, and knowing the search engine scene a bit I would also bet that they submit your IP and useragent to Google for every search query.

It seems recently everybody accepts those claims about privacy protecting search engines without checking anything.
We hid the 'demo' button. Our signups quadrupled.
Re: social engineering, do you think it'd be helpful to have part of your security team try, on an ongoing basis, to socially-engineer credentials out of the rest of your organization? Maybe reward the employees who figure out what's going on with a little tiny bonus, to give them a Pavlovian instinct to notice social engineering in the future?
See also Harry's post yesterday on The Verge,

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/29/4640308/dark-patterns-insi...

which is a nice introduction to Dark Patterns.

And apparently the darkpatterns.org site has been posted to HN previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5347543

The URLs lexically match exactly, so I'm not sure why dupe detection failed here.
India will reportedly ban use of US e-mail services
> but since it's generally disliked and unnecessary these days,

Maybe its disliked by start ups running the latest and greatest flavor of X, but enterprise isn't letting up any time soon on Java. Especially if there already using Oracle and its not easy to get rid of legacy stuff that costs money to rebuild. There are also people who adamantly protect the legacy stuff because that is where there job security lies.
> But the word "spy" implies people on the ground collecting information, does it not?

It does not. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spy
True, but that would need to be some kind of rebound ;).

Even ignoring sea level rises due to ice loss elsewhere and the fact that the area we're discussing already appears well below sea level, the average ratio of bedrock rise to decrease in ice shelf thickness has been running at about 1:10 in recent years.
eInk has been one of the most disappointing tech developments in recent history. First mass-market devices came in 2006-2007 iirc, and there has barely been any evolution in the display tech since. The screens are still small, slow, 16level grayscale, low-contrast, and low-resolution. eInk really had a lot of promise and hype when it was new, but these days it seems just stagnated.
This is basically a rephrasing of the meme "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product".

That meme is grossly outdated.

It's entirely possible (and happens) that you can be both paying for a product and be the product that is sold on (by having your data aggregated, analysed, fed into other systems etc).

Isn't this part of what Big Data actually means? It's essentially a way for a company to get paid at both ends (which I don't have a problem with), but it can create competing incentives between users and companies (which I do have a problem with).

This debate is far more complex than just 'free vs paid'.
The original logo reflected fonts from early 2000 and the new one is light weight font,Microsoft started using it few years back before Apple adopted it.
I am, I just reckon this is not quite the same. Some shitty pixellated signatures are not a particularly big deal
Normally I would agree, foundation first then mature into plugins and add-ons however after looking into Maximum Awesome I believe it will help new users overcome the learning curve frustration that vim is known for; very nice. kind of like a twitter bootstrap for vim
> When I sign up for an email account I expect my emails to be private, between me and the people I exchange them.

That's foolish. Ever since it was introduced people knew that email was not private. You should expect that everything you put anywhere is going to be read by spies. That's why spies exist; to gather information.

You use that as part of your risk assessment.

"Will I be sentenced to death or torture if this document is discovered?"

"Will I go to jail if this document is discovered?"

"Will my company lose business if this document is discovered?"

"Will I be embarrassed if my terrible teen-angst poetry is found?"

Then you decide how much effort you're going to use to hide the information, or the source of the information, or both.

While it's right that governments shouldn't be wasting money slurping the data of everyone it's unlikely to be an argument that the public will win any time. And even when there are laws "They" will find a lawyer to tell them that what they're doing is legal, and no-one ever gets to take them through court to show that it isn't. Oversight fails. You should assume a well-funded government is reading everything[1] all the time. I suspect that makes more of a difference if you're in $Oppressive_Regime than in the US or UK.

And if people really did care why would they dump so much stuff onto Facebook?

[1] see the mistakes that people make with creating encryption products, and using those products, it's probably a good idea to assume you've made a mistake and this government can read everything even if you encrypt it.
It's kind of staggering that a contractor like Snowden had access to information like this. What possible reason could someone at his level have for looking this up?
Rather than that I have trained myself to never click on Quora links. I never understood why they became popular in the first place but then they went and thought forcing people to register to view pages is somehow needed for success on a Q&A site.
I feel like aircraft substitutions are more likely to happen for operational reasons (the A320 they wanted to commit is unavailable because of mx/wx, most likely, and instead of taking a delay, they pull an A319). Some carriers do seem to use last-minute equipment swaps for yield management, but I feel like for UA, doing this is not a good idea — they burn a lot of time re-assigning seats and refunding E+ fees, etc. after a 320->319 downgrade, so I think it's something they try to avoid because it's costly to deviate from the planned equipment.

I think the parent poster was in part referring to operational upgrades (very common at British Airways — they will dramatically oversell the Y cabin and op-up people into J/F as needed), which don't necessarily require an equipment swap.

Another option uniquely available to European carriers that you might not have seen in the U.S. is to adjust the number of J/Y seats in an aircraft: on most intra-Europe flights, the "business-class cabin" is the same seats as the coach cabin, but with a blocked middle seat and a movable divider so you know where Y starts.

(Come to think of it, I guess BA will sometimes swap equipment to a flight with fewer classes of service — for example, the LHR-DME route can lose its lie-flat Club World seats overnight sometimes after unplanned equipment swaps — but I don't think BA does this for yield management, because it's costly to them to have to pay refunds to people they've inconvenienced.)
I must admit these bad things never happened to me because I didn't actually work the 20 hours per credit :-)
Because of Good Will Hunting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw

"You guys handle 80 percent of the intelligence workload. You're seven times the size of the CIA."
I built this extension a while ago for precisely that reason. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-elements/omjo...
Actually if you look through the signatures I grabbed, a lot of them are just a big capital "D", a random squiggle or just the same name as is published but in a semi-legible form
> discovering (...) that you have wings and can fly. And once you discover it, there is no going back. It’s addictive and powerful. It ruins your ability to be a worker bee, because you’ve tasted blood... (etc.)

And then:

> You should follow me on twitter

Isn't the whole point, to not follow but rather, lead?
You're Not Setting Big Enough Goals
UKIP, too.
Outsmarting the CERNageddon
Your signature has only every been useful as your "mark". Any formal contract requires two witnesses or a notary.

If you go to court over some contract, how much the signature looks like yours is not particularly important - it's whether or not you made it.

Stories about people signing contracts "Mickey Mouse" are apocryphal for the same reason.

The only place your signature really counts is when signing a credit card bill - something that was only ever really a convenience until a better(ish) solution came along.
Ask HN: Pre-Accelerator, worth it?
I received http://www.startupsparadise.com/ in my inbox, just wondering if it's legit.
But also nearly cripple a site's functionality aside from static content pages.
I have never seen anybody reach the hose over their car. Not sure why but I'd feel silly trying it. Like 'look at me I don't know which side I should have put the gas in'.