skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should Obama be held responsible for the actions of his Naval officers if he declares we should pursue missile strikes in Syria?

Um, this is not a good analogy. There's an extra layer of kerfuffle that makes this different.

Better analogy: Should a well-known religious leader be held responsible for the actions of those who listen to him? How about a talk show host?
"Why write an iOS version of a game in Objective C, and the PC version in C? Performance would be the only reason, but that’s becoming more and more of a moot point."

Why indeed, when there is a multi-paradigm C# and MonoGame that give you a combination of an actual modern language, decent performance and multi-platform access.
Rinema:International movie recommendations from viewers with similar tastes
Living like this requires chutzpah more than hard work, wisdom, or skill, especially on a pension. It's too bad there aren't enough beautiful developed locations for everyone to live out his decades slowly dilapidating through misuse and neglect. Perhaps after the robots replace us, our last descendants will live like this. They too might babble constantly in cargo-cult theories about a world their previously-tenuous understanding of which has at last escaped them completely. Until then, however, good grief.
Which is why it's so crazy there are still a few well known CISPA supporters around here.
They also ruined the keyboard in the process, no more home/end/pgup/pgdown row. I love those keys.
I saw those tweets, out of context, and they were bad. But the context is important. A 17-year-old boy decide he gets to use the girls' room now, that's a different context than a transwoman talking about almost getting beaten to death.
Cool projects.

The bootstrap one I don't quite understand. Who exactly are you targeting with it? Individual websites with bootstrap that want to switch their look up often?

The unreplied project I signed up for. It seems like a good idea and if I'm sending lots of emails in the future for marketing coverage I could see the benefit of a good reminder system for follow ups.
Point taken, and I actually try to preach that mantra myself. But I agree with jlgreco about the greater credibility our law seems to give to public figures with regard to incitement.

Certainly it's a problem I'm glad that I don't have to worry about, and I feel bad for Gabe in that regard just like I tend to pity many celebrity figures who just want their privacy back. :-/
Lots of good stuff there, thanks.
In some libraries you pay an annual membership fee, not dissimilar to the flat monthly fee paid to Netflix (and now Oyster), as opposed to the per-rental fee Blockbuster used to charge.
Hadoop tutorials video: Prepare the data for analysis with Pig and Python UDF
The more important post might be this one from Pokeraddict: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=25330375&po...
V6 turbo with energy recovery on the turbo itself. They're also allowed to use that energy to re-spool the turbo to eliminate lag. They've also hugely bumped the KERS and built it in to the throttle map - no more button for it.

I can't remember the exact figures, but it means that they have so much torque when they go full throttle it'll spin the wheels at almost any speed.

I'm looking forward to them slipping around the corners again. Also to engines blowing up, since that doesn't happen much due to 5 year old engine designs.
Sounds interesting. I could see using something like this. I'm guessing that once you've flipped the screen back that far to make it a "tablet" then the exposed keyboard on the backside gets disabled so that your knee doesn't start typing for you?
So many people have accused Ed Snowden of treason, but it seems a lot less likely that this would have happened had he not had the balls to allude to the kinds of spying the federal government has been doing on the world.

Thanks Ed, and to all the awesome people at the EFF.
In all seriousness, I just want a C API. I like different languages for different purposes, but C is still the lingua franca. You can have your Go, I can have my C++, the next guy can have his Python.

As-is, native code on Android is a cluster, and even for games it's pretty uncomfortable and filled with Java shims. Kinda gross.
it could also be run automatically when cd-ing into a directory by overriding the default cd

cd() {
builtin cd $*
if [ -f "package.json" ] ; then
npm check-vulnerabilities
fi
}

I reckon you could also use this with david[0] to check if packages are up to date.

[0] https://github.com/alanshaw/david
I very much agree.

Line height, line width, and font size, are the 3 elements of a body of large text that must be balanced. There is some basic arithmetic to this, and it appears everyone seems to ignore it. (HN's design is a perfect example of the 'meh' attitude toward readability.)

I think this article does a good job of visually explaining this balance and how to accomplish it: http://www.pearsonified.com/2011/12/golden-ratio-typography....
F1 - The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google's Ad Business (2012)
Great post. Going to add this to my list of ones to pass around to people who think killing and crushing it gets things done. Learning to survive and then thrive is just as important.

How many entrepreneurs are willing to commit up to 10 years to find their path? Supporting this is what we need more of, and not as much echo chambers.

To the author: write more. Experience over time speaks volumes.
If you have specific requests on how to make the docs for these frameworks better, it'd be great if you filed a ticket on their respective github page.
Is this based on open research or is the idea of gradients over text itself the patent-pending invention?

I'd love to integrate this with my iOS speed-reading app (http://velocireaderapp.com). Any interest in collaborating on a spin-off iOS app, to read, say, DRM-free ePubs? My contact info is in my profile.
That connect vulnerability is pretty significant. Makes me pay attention despite the fact there's no way to syndicate the feed.
You also have much better lighting and it appears that you're holding your arms further from your body/flaring your lats a bit. Not doubting that a lot of great work can be achieved in one month, but your photos don't have the consistency that lets somebody actually judge progress (and the changes you're reporting are more qualitative). I haven't reviewed your program though, so I won't try to give an opinion of that. But this sentence I find points to a big cause of achieving fitness goals, "My wife is an excellent cook and prepared perfect meals for me" -- eating healthy doesn't mean you shouldn't eat well.

For example, this can be done in one-hour:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-dixon/weight-loss-secre...
You're welcome :) Please let us know if you have ideas for improving it
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
Nikkei: Japan's largest carrier is reported to start selling iPhone this Fall
They run "on" Chrome, not in it. A separate icon, window, etc. You need to have Chrome installed, but it's different from ActiveX in that you're not going to see "plug-in missing" in the middle of a page somewhere.
Very nice!

One thing that I am looking forward to is Docker support for Windows. Would really like to see that feature.
I find it counterintuitive that this helped experienced readers more. It didn't make a difference for me in their test, and I read constantly. I would suspect this line coloring would help a less experienced reader more.
Well I actually read PA myself and so I'm not surprised to see Gabe being reasonable the day or week after his mouth gets him in trouble.

I /was/ surprised to see him get in trouble over this though as I thought he had learned to stay far far away from it by now. Here's hoping he holds onto this lesson for real this time.
" A marketer by trade, he’d tried to dabble in mineral exploration in Papua New Guinea. He lost all of his wealth, about $10 million, when his private venture went tits up. He thought the episode absurd—on paper he’s worth big bickies, then suddenly he’s not"

There is a lesson about diversification and eggs in one basket in there somewhere.
Upgraded Fermilab neutrino beam back in business
While it's possible to make MD5 collisions, finding something that hashes to the same thing as a hash of my short password is essentially impossible.

In fact, collisions on short passwords are harder than collisions on long passwords. The space of all MD5 outputs is way bigger than the space of 12-character passwords.
Is there any scientific evidence supporting this?
Autodesk and Organovo make 3D Printing Human Tissue Real
I think he's using colorful language to describe the process of abortion.
In related, but largely unimportant news, the federal government has created a tumblr account to post its surveillance-related propaganda:

http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/

and it's as ugly as anything you've ever seen come out of the federal government. I still can't believe that someone makes those graphics for a living, and still makes them look that bad.
N.S.A. Foils Much Internet Encryption
Mm, not really sure rape is a great hill to make your stand on when it comes to freedom of speech in America. It's not like there's legislation prohibiting same, much as nakedly racist language is still legal. It's just socially unacceptable because a large class of people find it offensive.

So, again, rape seems like a really poor area to draw a line in the sand. There's a vast chasm between a pain point like "I broke my leg" and "my ex physically coerced me into having sex." Remember, people aren't upset about the mere mention of rape, but jokes that trivialize it.

As far as re-victimizing you, well, that's your choice to make. I don't think an individual ought to generalize their own experience to everyone else's, whether they're a victim or not. Some rape victims may have reached a point where they're fine with jokes about it, and some aren't. I'll bet you could find a number of people with similar experiences to your own who would not be comfortable with that flavor of humor.
That's a great resource. It's been a while since I did a job search but I know last time what a mess it was in comparison to having such a large list at quick disposal. I've bookmarked it for future use.
I require no lecture about HN from you, I've been here since the beginning. I listed facts not personal experiences and I'm sorry you can't handle that and resort to lying.
How People Reacted to Computer Viruses in 1988
Totally reminds me of the days when Yahoo messenger was used, and they had that fading, gradient text. Super cool.
Only a few people were hurt by the original Dickwolves comic, and I think a realistic apology for triggering bad feelings in sexual assault survivors would have made this a non-event. Like, "A number of people have written to express that they felt hurt or threatened by yesterday's strip. Please know that we had no intention of that. We wanted to express how incredulous it is that a game can use the threat of violence, death, enslavement, and implied rape as a motivation for a quest then cast aside those people you have ostensibly just been charged with helping. It was not our intention to hurt people in the real world by discussing this incongruity in games and we sincerely apologize to those of you who were hurt."

Boom, done, wouldn't have been an issue.

NOW, what happened after that was THIS strip: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/08/13 An incredibly insincere apology which makes anyone reading question whether they have their heads screwed on straight. On top of that, they make a t-shirt for Team Dickwolves. Then Mike NEVER FUCKING LETS IT GO, for damn near three years.

Only extremely recently has he even expressed that he might have been handling these sorts of situations incorrectly and considers that he may be hurting people. Well, great buddy, but you've already screwed a lot of things up. It's gonna take a lot of work to undo the damage you've done and a bunch of people will never trust you regardless.
Wow. My mind is blown.

It almost feels like what high level programming languages are to assembly code.

Sure, we can (and should) learn Regex constructs, but it is undeniable that this library provides an unmatched level of clarity.

Kudos to Krain for coming up with such an elegant solution to the issue of Regex building/reading.
Those names may be funny, but they are really annoying if you try to do NLP...
I wonder how much money, time and resources this botnet has cost companies over the years? It seems whenever progress is made to shut them down, they build it even larger than before.
It will be interesting to see where the Dart VM fits into this.
I actually just started reading it last week, I'm a couple chapters in and it has me hooked. Glad to hear other people have enjoyed it the whole way through!
Anyone else the numerous AOL chat plugins that used to do this back in the day? e.g. http://www.tpasoft.com/fadeit/
This is very cool - I'd say change the arrow icons next to each site - it makes them seem upvoteable. If they are upvotable, then make sure that you can tell when it successfully voted (the icon should disappear).
Learn your emacs shortcuts - ctrl-A, ctrl-E, ctrl-U, ctrl-D.
Content-driven APIs and RSS feeds
I'm looking for a few content-driven APIs and RSS feeds for a mashup website i'm building. Like Yahoo! News and Flickr, which allow you to submit a GET request and get a list of items based on a specific keyword. Like getting all news about "michael jackson" and pictures of "R2D2".

Do you guys know any other public APIs and RSS feeds with such feature, without rate limits?
Did you see the Q&A? Did you read his follow up comments? He regretted everything that happened after the intial comic. You're also confusing "they" with "Mike".

Did you really see his reponse to the trans stuff as a "not sorry" response? Here are his responses, from the horses mouth
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/06/19/twiiter-sucks-sometim...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/06/21/well-that-escalated-q...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/06/21/going-one-step-furthe...
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/06/21/also6

Yeah he's made mistakes. You can take his apologies as genuine and believe he wants to get better or you can think he's just playing lip service in order to save face. Having met the guy and talked to him several times, as well as listened to him on the podcasts/PA show/strip search, I believe it's the former.
Ask HN: Is HumbleBundle's business model sustainable?
I feel like it may follow the same path as Groupon's. Sooner or later, they'll run out of [new] developers to promote, and everything will just head down hill.

Am I wrong in assuming this?
Show HN: Pauv, a P2P Bitcoin exchange
Well at some point, once the "mechanics" are mapped out, the ability to 'change' anything will be possible. I expect that schizophrenia and other mental disorders will top the list but as the technology is refined, adding creativity and intelligence won't be that far behind. I don't expect to live to see it but I can imagine that if the world doesn't spasmodically revert to the dark ages my kids will see it.
Here's how, get up from your computer, exit your door, turn left or right, move to the next door, knock.

Have a conversation with the person that answers the door. Encourage them to do the same. When you have 20 people, get them all to go down to the office of your representatives, county, local, state, federal.
Ask HN: Is my account flagged?
I have not received any points for the last 5-6 stories I have posted - and they are not being marked [dead]. How do I get off this blacklist?
This essentially bolsters the claims in this article that the NSA has "neutralized" SSL.

http://rt.com/usa/allegations-nsa-tool-decrypts-https-085/
How To Host Multiple Node.js Applications On a Single VPS
I read a lot and I read really fast too. So line skipping is a problem, especially on longer lines.

This thing combines the old Readability bookmarklet with the gradient. I saw the improvement right away, following the line is much easier now!

tl;dr - this is awesome!
Our risk tolerance and cost structure would very much matter to those negotiations.

Sure, those negotiations would happen before significant money or services are exchanged. And, presumably, we wouldn't enter into an agreement unless we were mutually satisfied. But arbitrarily deciding to withhold payment for your services after the fact, pending an audit of your workplace practices, for instance, would probably land me on the wrong end of an adverse action from you. And deservedly so.

Regarding the label you used: what makes it absurd is the notion that Patrick would be motivated by an urge to justify the actions of a 3rd party business he's barely engaged with.

I didn't (and wouldn't) claim that. I do however think that his well-reasoned, but irrelevant argument for why Paypal feels justified in holding $42,000 of Mailpile's money does indeed serve as apologism in the thread, motivations aside. If you think I'm arguing that Patrick is some shill for PayPal, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Here it pains me to cite Paul Graham's "Things You Can't Say" on the semiotic significance of deploying labels to make arguments.

And it's painful to watch. The argument hardly relies on this supposed labeling and I'd be surprised if you actually believe that. At this point you've already done more labeling, imputing of motives, and purely rhetorical arguing than you seem to think I have.
Implementing IoC using Windsor Castle
An example in adding IoC to an existing project
So, I think that rape brings up some pretty unusual feelings and behaviors.

For a while, I was in a relationship with a girl who had been raped by a friend several years before.

What happened next was: essentially all of her friends told her there must have been a misunderstanding and her college threatened her with libel for accusing the guy of rape.

Of course, this girl had one of the darkest senses of humor of anyone I've ever known, and wouldn't have batted an eye at the comic in question. I didn't find it particularly offensive either.

But it's worth thinking about why jokes about rape can be particularly difficult for rape victims. The thing is, unlike crimes like robbery or murder, victims of rape very rarely find that society is "on their side." For one thing, rapists hardly ever are held criminally responsible for their actions--this is not necessarily because we are a pro-rape society, it's just that it's essentially impossible to prove that you didn't consent to sex. And that's true outside of the criminal justice system, too--many rape victims find that even close friends and family cannot know whether a rape occurred, and choose to believe that it didn't. So the rape is compounded by the abandonment that comes afterwards.

Then you have the fact that our culture, and perhaps our genetic nature, glorifies aggressive men, men who understand that women want it no matter what they say. And on the other side, we have the fact that our culture, and perhaps our genetic nature, encourages women to engage in "token resistance"--saying no when they mean yes--to avoid the appearance of "being a slut."

I honestly do not know if this situation can be improved much. Being raped is tough because you can't prove it happened--well, I don't think the answer is to weaken the presumption of innocence. Rape is more likely because we glorify aggressive men--well, I don't think those traits are going away anytime soon.

But to victims of rape, when people call rape "literally the worst possible thing," it can't help but feel hollow. Because everyone says that, it's like a cultural tic, but when you were raped, no one came running to help you, no one believed you, no one even stayed your friend. They explained it away, they left, they told you that you were just guilty about cheating on your boyfriend.

There's this painful, terrifying juxtaposition of a society that says both: "rape is the worst thing ever" and "you were raped? well, goodbye." That might explain the reactions to what, in isolation, is a pretty innocuous joke.
Was very much looking forward to this. But I'm curious, how did they manage to squeeze in 4x the pixels for essentially the same price in just under a year? I feel like this might be a mistake or there is going to be a big trade-off somewhere else in display quality.
I think it's a reference to abortion.
Wow, very cool. Though I'd suggest refining the homepage h1 a little more - is this a wordpress plugin (I know it is - but the h1 doesn't tell me that)?

Maybe add a h2 that says: 'Get our wordpress plugin that ____'

Where ____ == a very clear description of what this does. Good move on making the key point the value proposition, I'm just not exactly sure how it works.
From my perspective this is all because Panasonic pulled-out of the smartphone races. NTT Docomo has been a reliable safe-hold for Japanese electronics companies and Docomo would have had a decent lineup for fall if Panasonic would have committed.

Panasonic's R&D was firmly centered around Japanese flip phones and the jump to Smartphone put them in an awkward position.

And so it seems, iPhone's pull was too great for Docomo in the end. I cannot wait for the official announcements.
It's really kind of sad that this sort of thing even needs to be explained to the tech culture. I can only hope that the apologists for Gabe grow up at some point; maybe when they have daughters of their own whose safety they have to look after.

It's never been about the original strip. It's always been about PA's reaction to their own community telling them that the strip was over the line. Rather than apologize, they made it personal, and set out to mock victims of rape.

It's not about free speech, and it never was. It's about what happens when a person who was picked on as a kid gets the power to bully back, even if he is clearly in the wrong.

If you have a community, you are responsible for setting the tone. That's your responsibility as a leader. Throwing gas on the fire by making merchandise, and still bringing this shit up 3 years later is not the way to be a leader.

Is Gabe responsible for his followers being assholes? No, not directly. But dredging up the dickwolves again isn't going to help matters at all. People are sheep, even the ones who think they are the smartest ones in the room.

Obviously, all the people arguing on behalf of PA showing zero maturity have never had a mother, sister, or daughter who have been raped. Otherwise they get over the intellectual arguments, and act like a human being.

All the other arguments excusing Gabe's unprovoked outburst are intellectual bullshit that no one cares about.
Help HN: Free Burrito
Anyone know someone in the startup world in SF struggling to build something and needs some help?

http://burrito.techendo.co/
Alan Turing and Security, Exploiting Innovative Thinking
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This is likely a minority view, but I have no problem with the NSA being able to break encryption, that's in fact part of their job. Decoding encryption has long been part of their mission. I also suspect they're not alone in terms of signals intelligence groups in having this capability.

The issue to me has always been how and what data they access and store, and how it is used.