skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use NoScript because essentially every browser exploit in the last decade has had javascript as a necessary component. Running the minimum amount of javascript protects against even zero-day attacks.

I say web developers who put their convenience ahead of my security are bastards.
Seems more a problem of celebrity than anything.

Do what successful authors, artists, musicians, actors (anyone creative) do: Don't listen to what others say.
Don't use spotify, but anything to avoid Pitbull is fine by me.
I wish legal counsel was more easily accessible.
I maintain a tiny project that is called the freeware index and Instead of using a website I simply created a subreddit

reddit.com/r/freewareindex

I started it a few years ago with zero web design knowledge and have learned a bunch.

basically I am a computer tech and it was a pain in the ass to keep up with all the good software that I used so I solved it by building the freeware index.

at this moment there are 2 ways to get the entire index and one of them is via a Google spreadsheet. I recently discovered Google script and wanted to use it to expand the spreadsheet. with Google script I wanted to create a linkable row or sheet instead of the entire spreadsheet. Or somehow separate each sheet into a neat page on the blogger site I put up tariqghrayyib.blogspot.com.

the only reason as to why its so small is because I have restarted the project at least 4 times from scratch and this is the farthest I have gone so far simply because I made the subreddit where I can get more exposure.

if anyone knows Google script and can help that would be beyond awesome
Many people trying to make "classic" RTSes miss critical points about feel and gameplay which makes the games very unsatisfactory to play for somebody who tried SC2 with its polished engine. Partnership with Day[9] might be just the thing that they need. Graphics are passable, but it's enough. Many players play SC2 on low graphics for readability of screen already.
Reddit is visited by tens of millions of people of virtually every demographic. Corralling them as "internet nerds" seems a bit like you're trying for some bullying yourself.

In any case, talk about much ado about absolutely nothing. A bunch of people said silly things, largely under the assumption that it was no consequence (that no one was hurt, etc): In many ways the comments on there are performance art. It is the most astonishingly meaningless thing going, and really the purpose of this entry that we're discussing is the chap talking a moment to extend that fifteen minutes.

Above all other things, internet communities is what makes me cynical about humanity.

People declaring their cynicism about humanity (or trite variations like "faith restored") make me cynical about humanity.
Sure, we all know that we should ignore people that get us down. It's a lot easier for some than for others to put that into practice.
I know this may sound super paranoid... but I'd rather just show up and show my support. This whole giving my info thing makes me think that somewhere there is a list of people the government is deciding to label "terrorists" or "traitors" or "watch list". I don't see any details about where to meet and when and what not.
I wonder how many of these developers who are working all day with headphones on will eventually develop ear issues? If the volume is up too high, it's a good bet that they'd eventually suffer hearing loss, but even at low volumes, it doesn't seem like having your ears covered constantly would be a healthy thing (the increased temperature and humidity in the ear canal might promote bacterial growth, etc.). It would be useful if someone were to do a study of the long-term health effects of wearing headphones all day.
California Regulator Passes Ridesharing Rules
Most people try to maintain a good quality network of peers that they can tap later on. All situations are of course different, but I've almost always moved from job to job by reaching out to my network and seeing what kind of positions were open.

That being said, the kind of person that tries to browbeat you into working an extra month with threats isn't a person that will be helpful in the future. Some bosses burn bridges when their employees have the audacity to quit. So don't worry about those kinds of people.
Cheers, it doesn't affect me personally - I just know from experience that some companies are vehemently anti-(L)GPLv3. It doesn't help that FUD is spread about it from both in and outside the FOSS community.
Since apparently everyone uses nothing but gmail, I think I am in minority by using Thunderbird consistently through years.

I use gmail, yahoo mail (through an extension), connect several pop3(I tell it to leave messages onn server), imap servers for work (for which emails are occasionally harvested and sold to spammers somehow..) and my own mail server (Hey, I am a web developer. No excuse to not have a el cheapo vps with webserver and an email servers combo), local maildir and mbox delivery for testing crap I write, several newsgroups and a shitloads of RSS/Atom feeds. It also has some xmpp integration of dubious usability. I also have Lightning extension which is supposed to behave as a calendar but I am a disorganised person and rarely check email by contemporary standard of every five minutes, whole day. Oh, and local spam detection.

Sure I look forward to Mailpile (just checked the marketing blurb) which promises to not show me ads and perform faster than "cloud" while offering all the features that should exist in practice to justify calling itself an email client. Competition is good and thunderbird is going senile by every passing day anyway.

I hope they won't spin off their custom web server as a standalone project too.
I don't think it is accurate to just sum up "hipster culture" as obscure, or even obscure and retro. It is more nuanced than that.

You could dress up like a 1980s goth kid, which is retro and relatively obscure these days, but I don't think many people would consider that hipster. I think anime t-shirts are similar, even where anime is obscure (also, I think outside of college campuses, anime is universally more obscure than many people believe).
Maybe This Is Why Warhol Stuck to Soup Cans
Rare footage of 1950s housewife on LSD [video]
This link will jump you to the right timecode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8OhDX...
There is a verbatim search option now which undoes some of the damage of this. But I agree that Google search has actually degraded over the past few years from the point-of-view of the highly sophisticated searcher (it may have improved or stayed the same for the masses).
Traxis and Matchbox PRO Remote Controls
Antennagate was a myth. They didn't change anything about the antenna, as far as I know, yet somehow the whole problem just disappeared.
10 BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS YOU SHOULD STOP NOW
Which one do you mean?
Most of the well-know "unix-style" command-line tools, such as grep, sort, etc. actually have very high performance. Their relatively constrained use cases allow the authors to implement decent algorithms and optimizations (e.g. sort uses merge sort, grep uses all kinds of optimizations: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Augu...)

In contrast, when you're building a custom pipeline in a high-level language, you're optimizing for simple solutions and are not likely to get better performance unless you hit an edge case where the standard tools do really poorly.
> 30 years ago there was far less software, but the software there was usually worked without any problems - the code was a lot smaller and consequently easier to understand

Pardon the intermission, but this is one of the areas where node.js shines IMO. I can read the complete source code for a very complex application, or at least know that each module has a reasonably-sized source and is readable if the need arises. Very small modules and using composition is encouraged, not restricted to a fringe community, and you also get to share tooling and libraries with the browser. All that on top of a friendly, functional language. It really feels like a step forward.
Thanks for the feedback (Firebase Community Manager here). We're working on improving the documentation. Feel free to email me at sara@firebase.com if you have more suggestions.
This document has some bullshit example: Identifying users by zipcode and gender? huh?

"Imagine that a covered entity is considering sharing the information in the table to the left in Figure 3. This table is devoid of explicit identifiers, such as personal names and Social Security Numbers. The information in this table is distinguishing, such that each row is unique on the combination of demographics (i.e., Age, ZIP Code, and Gender). Beyond this data, there exists a voter registration data source, which contains personal names, as well as demographics (i.e., Birthdate, ZIP Code, and Gender), which are also distinguishing. Linkage between the records in the tables is possible through the demographics. Notice, however, that the first record in the covered entity’s table is not linked because the patient is not yet old enough to vote."
One of several worthwhile remarks in the article:

"For all the hateful words that were lobbed at me, it barely ever bubbled over from the world of online forums and websites."

This is also true of political forums. Many people complain on-line, but these people rarely show up at the council meeting to actually make a real-world difference.
Okay, perhaps they just blatantly ignore their training? In which case they probably need to fix the training, or something. Are you sure all the personnel that work for the hospital system (or private practice) gets HIPAA training? There's plenty that work with sensitive data that aren't physicians.
OpenSUSE Looks To Switch To Btrfs For Next Release
How did "Many Flaws of" become "Curious Tale of"? Are linked posts not entitled to a point of view?
Isn't that called cyber-squatting? It would be bad to do that if a domain name was trademarked and you buy the generic top level name. However domain real estate is a strong business. The most expensive domain to date is "Sex.com" and buying domains to resell is no joke. You can make some money and lose some as well.
I use to come to HN because people argued intelligently. Now people want to justify dumb pandering comments. What a bummer.
I can't help but feel that a large portion of the current "geek culture" is a collection of appropriations from a different group, selected for "authenticity", similar to criticisms of the wider hipster culture.

I wore thick-rim glasses because 1. I didn't/couldn't care about fashion 2. my parents didn't have the money for nicer frames and 3. I actually could not see without glasses. So yeah, when I see thick rim glasses being worn _because_ they "look geeky," or worse, without even any lenses because the person has perfect vision, it annoys me a little bit. Because I got treated like dog shit by the exact same class of person who now dresses in a parody of my life as a frivolous fashion decision.
Agreed. In my experience the worst bullies are always people who are "paying it forward".

That bully who stuffed the smaller kids the locker at school? He was probably being bullied at home by bad parents.

Works also with "internet nerds" with a history of being bullied. Give them an ounce of leverage and they will lord it over other people, they just tend to engage in psychological bullying instead of the physical kind.
Tictail API launch focuses on UX
Posthaven launches post by email, and is self-sustaining with your support
If You're Programming a Cell Phone Like a Server, You're Doing it Wrong
I found it interesting that the redditors - or, as some might say, the "straight white male neckbeards" of Reddit - quickly turned apologetic when they heard the full story, while the enlightened feminists at xoJane ignored the new facts and persisted in their vitriol.
It's very presumptuous of you to assume that "hipsters" don't actually enjoy the things they do.
The peregrine falcon videos linked to in the article used a "808 #16 HD Key Chain Camera" attached to the bird's back with a little harness. While they are much larger birds, I suspect something similar was used for the golden eagle video.
What does "cool" even mean here?
"it's interesting to see how readily internet nerds - the people who are disproportionately to have been bullied in the past - engage in it."

My theory has been that the downtrodden are pissed because they're on the receiving end, not because it's wrong, evidenced by many examples of them engaging in the same behavior when the opportunity presents itself. Whether it's immigrant minorities or geeks/nerds, the pattern seems to come up time and again.
Yes. Not like you can just nip to the Pegasus galaxy and nick a ZPM...
Who is "Artillery"? By the headline, it sounds like that's a company I should know.
Why "thank god"? I'm not trying to be snarky or rude, I'm wondering what's so bad about it?
They should know and expect that. It's a pretty standard request from enterprises' IT and/or Compliance depts when signing deals that involve storing data outside the firewall.
I'm not disagreeing - just it's pretty clear the main concept that got through was "sprint".

had a rant recently on
Particularly obnoxious is when the most popular comments are in the vein of "most people here are being idiots" or "'the hivemind' disagrees with this, but..."

Really? Most people? Then why is your comment the most popular comment? (Hint: because the majority of people like to believe themselves superior to the majority of people. 'If everyone is being dumb but me, then that means I am unusually smart!')
nice post! i'd like to make a shameless plug for Drake, a 'make for data' workflow tool.
https://github.com/Factual/drake
Boston will be there in force.
Stay tuned in the next couple weeks for announcements on rally location, march route, and confirmed speakers.

FWIW, it seems pretty unlikely that you could make it to the rally without leaving a trail. If you drive, you'll probably get scanned by a license plate reader. If you bring your phone, you'll be tracked, if you use a credit card, that'll be recorded, and in DC you'll probably walk in front of a security camera that is or will be connected to a facial recognition system.

I completely understand your hesitation, and I can't say that I haven't thought twice before saying certain things since the Snowden revelations. A lot of people have declined to sign up for the Restore the Fourth NYC email list because they don't want to "end up on a list."

The way I see it, we have two choices; we can accept a world in which we are afraid to take political actions (like RSVP'ing to a rally or putting an email address down on a clipboard), or we can scream from the rooftops that we're not going to allow that world to come about. If enough of us take the second route, we'll win; if too many take the first route, it will be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

/endrant
Fedoras come off well with the right outfit, sure. Most fedora-wearing nerds don't get that right. If you do, more power to you.
How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air (TED Talk)
Do you add clients as named insureds on that coverage?

If not, it's not really worth the paper it's printed on for your clients.
Never used nodejs before - is node's packaging system different from Python's or Ruby's?
Uh, they did. They added a whole bunch of new features, actually.
Am I the only one who doesn't even remotely know who this guy is ?
Actually, stereoscopic vision is overrated.

There are many hits our brain uses to make the 3D model of the world we have on our minds. Stereoscopic vision is one of them, but really just kick in for objects nearer than you arm cam hold. For distant objects, our brain uses other hints - that's why people aiming at far objects close one of their eyes.

One of the strongest is the parallax effect, specially for medium distance and relative distance between objects. If you doubt it, look at this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

Relative size and color fading works well for big distances - this is the prominent effect in parachuting videos.

These are only two mecanisms, and immersion is not only about 3D sensation. Full periphery vision is of great value for this (IMAX, anyone?). Sound hints, brigthness, contrast, and a lot of other hints also help our brain making the 3D model.
I worked on that idea as part of a team for a while. As I recall, it wasn't so much the SMS sending, but the interface design. Without compatibility with PHRs (Personal(Electronic) Health Records) transferring the notifications would be cumbersome pretty soon.
Related story: After updating to iOS 7, Google Authenticator lost my AWS 2-factor token. The reset process requires me to hand over my drivers license, proof of address, and a notarized affidavit confirming my identity.

As cleartext email attachments.

So anyone who gets into my GMail Sent Items folder has enough to take out loans in my name, get into all my hosting accounts, etc. I requested a GPG public key but the rep didn't have one and wouldn't create one. Wouldn't even let me send an encrypted archive and share the password over the phone. It had to be email attachments or a link. I went with Dropbox so I can at least shut off the link later, but anyone in a position to observe that email could have already downloaded my identity documents.

I appreciate Amazon's resistance to social engineering there, but refusal to use email encryption in the single most sensitive kind of email I will probably ever send is just awful. Companies that require cleartext transmission of proof of identity need to be held responsible for the identity theft that inevitably occurs as a result.
I always find it interesting how people are eventually drawn towards the things they are naturally talented at. In this case, he is an excellent writer and so perhaps this flash of inspiration to write stories for people wasn't as sudden as it may have seemed.
Gecko makes your phone smarter
If you do some kind of guerilla performance art, going around in public doing weird stuff, then most people will probably not realize it's a performance.

Expecting otherwise seems irrational.
The header doesn't cover the whole width of the page 1920x1080, fyi.
Is there a recent jailbreak? I googled and am getting lots of paid options, but not sure I trust those...
I obviously own my very own Rorschach mask... Problem solved. You're welcome.
I like Fred George's developer anarchy in this regard - especially the concept of micro-web-services. they are the equivalent of a unix command - do one thing (well) and join up with MQ. if you make a service small enough you can be confident of putting it up as a prototype and rewrite it next weekend in node.js
Smokescreen: Smoke Tests for Ruby
I agree, saying something is HIPAA compliant is meaningless. I am aware of HITRUST[1] and believe it's the closest thing to certification, do you have any experience with it, or are there others?

[1] http://www.hitrustalliance.net/
"cycle of abuse"
Where are you? In Canada you don't have to give ANY notice to leave. It is done out of consideration for your employer and their need to replace you before you leave.
How does the artillery platform work? How can we use it and what will it cost us? It looks awesome :D
I'll be there, for sure (driving from Florida if anybody wants to carpool). This is exactly the kind of movement that gets the attention of our leaders and is the logical progression from the previous Restore the Fourth rallies.
Without Apple Radar numbers next to each and every one of these pictures, this is just unnecessary, mean-spirited trolling. "Hey, look, iOS 7 has bugs! LOLOLOL."
I like your StartupVeteran.com im sure you can sell it.
I made a domain purchase of Shadenvy.com in hopes to start an e-com site. However it has been put on the back burner for another project. Good luck
exactly like paragliding.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zr6gf1OejE

Ps. If you fly laminar air from the ocean there are hardly any collapses, regarding speed ~ 40kmh
the iPhone 5C package is a love letter to the art of graphic design. use of color, layout, typography, and form to create a device that has the soul of a printed magazine. at least, that's what i gather.
The declassified fashions of East German spies
This is very useful, thank you.
The wall
You also have to consider the context; the xoJane post was about a breakup, and it's a natural tendency for people to demonize another person's ex as a way of providing emotional support (not saying this is ideal, but it seems pretty common).
Presumably. Nothing like 10k lines of legacy PHP with 2-3 lines of globals at the start of each function.
Nintendo of America isn't even "just a few miles" from Microsoft. It's almost completely surrounded by the Microsoft campus.
Sorry, I see that now. Thanks.
The video is here:
http://blog.docker.io/2013/08/docker-hack-day-6-lightning-ta...
The situations aren't exactly analogous. All reddit had to go on was a photograph, whereas xoJane's userbase were told the story by someone directly wronged by this guy. (At least as they perceived it.)
Also, and possibly more importantly:

Each subreddit is a dramatically different place. Subreddits like /r/politics and /r/worldnews have devolved into very stereotypical circlejerks or very blind pro-snowden fervor.

And, with the reach that some of these larger subreddits achieve, it's naive to assume they are not actively manipulated. There's always rumors and occasional wisps of evidence of intentional bias being enforced by moderators in secret.

It's best to judge reddit by community, especially for subjects like "news" where there are several different communities with very different approaches in practice.
Author summarizes the rage quite well:

"The reaction, then, had nothing to do with hipsters. It was a hatred of people that need to stand out for standing-out's sake. That realization was at once positive and negative—people didn't hate me because I was a hipster, they hated me because I looked like I was nakedly desperate for attention, and had gone about that attention-grabbing by glomming on to marginalized trends."

I believe that statement would be true even without the "glomming" part. Societies seem to both love and hate attention seekers. We pour accolades on attention-seeking celebrities, but scowl at neighbors who buy flashy cars or ride a Penny-farthing (I had to look that up) seemingly only for the attention.
So far it sounds like they did. The main criticisms of iOS 7 are, as usual with new Apple products, from the edges of the digerati. I'll see what my wife says when she gets it on her new 5S.
I find it odd that on this site so much discussion goes on about:

* Helping the homeless

* Getting women into tech

* The cost of higher education in the USA

* Giving the poor an equal playing field

And yet, this article doesn't get even a single comment in over 2 hours.
Step back for a minute: why do you want to learn programming ? To build out an idea you have ? Or to get a job as a professional coder ? If former, you don't really need to learn coding - consider hiring others to do it, look at odesk.com or elance.com or craigslist.com. Product Management is an equally interesting / important skill.

If latter, and if you really want to be coding for the love of it, get real serious and focus. Figure out what area (systems ? web ? mobile ?) and just code. If web consider devbootcamp.com. Otherwise get a book and write code. I'm not a huge fan of online tools. Coding is like driving. The more you do, the better you'll get. No one can teach you.
Great comment on my history of the field... Except I also studied this in university and I am a designer as well, who also reads books, articles, and academic papers as well.

If you want to argue that designers should be knowledgable about all aspects of product design, I agree. But graphic design != interaction or product design.
I find it sad, no, completely pathetic that java needs to use such monetization strategies. It's a god-damn shame.