skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I will give some ideas, I will be honest.

1. I would change the bee in the front page to a non moving image. The tilt it's a bit annoying and it is not useful.

2. I don't think that the red colo(u)r fits for a baby/child page. I would change it to a more appealing light blue combination.

3. Color scheme again, I believe the red on the footer is different than the red on the header. Choose one...

4. A bit more about the bee, you have a bee holding some portraits with a 15 yo child, maybe you can look for a better mascot that suits all ages or focus into a narrower age range.

5. What is joognu and what is weaver? Why the "w" logo is in a different typography than the "hand made" text?

6. After the login. The colo(u)rs are really horrible, red, purple, pink, blue, green... It's ok to have different colors for different products but I think you should change the way you present them, this way is very intrusive with the main theme.

7. It's really hard to guess what is going on into the user page. I have clicked "weaver" and I don't know what to do... I just want to add memories so, what the heck does "time to gift" mean? I just want to share a photo of my boy playing baseball...

8. Why do I need to select a "bucket" and why is it useful to me? I think it would be better to place an "add photo" and then let the user choose the age of something.

9. I have more comments but... If you want we can talk by email (professorturing -at- gmail - com )

Really, your page design and your usability is a mess (don't get me wrong, the page works and the technology looks great). I think it will take some time to redesign these errors.

You should have hired an usability consultant.
I am absolutely opposed to governments subsidizing corporations but I am equally opposed by attempts to offset it with more bureaucracy and market manipulations. I understand that this is a US vs. France thing but it doesn't change this for me. I would be in total opposition to special legislation for products produced in China by government subsidized companies; a very similar situation.
You'd rather the minority rule? You have some fantastic idea for government that doesn't involve pissing off anyone? You whine about mob rule and democracy as if it's evil or something when it is in fact the best form of government we've figured out yet, despite it's flaws. What the hell is wrong with you? Are you some wackjob hiding in a bunker somewhere plotting the downfall of the government?
First, burden of proof is not a concept that's relevant before criminal charges or a civil complaint have been filed. You don't need to prove that there is something in the encrypted partition to bring charges. Circumstantial evidence is enough.

Second, in an actual trial the author would have to unlock the encrypted partition. There is no right of privacy against a court. If there is disagreement about what's in a box, people aren't going to sit around arguing about burdens of proof and burdens of production. The court is going to order the box be opened and the issue resolved definitively.
I think a better question is "at what point does anyone get to tell anyone else that their morals must match?"

I'm glad we can agree that Lavabit's action were unlawful... but please don't quote me out of context. "There are rules" was with regard to there being certain rules that need to be followed in order to qualify as a legitimate whistleblower. If you would like to argue that those rules need not be followed then I'll respectfully decline.
Making a list and including yourself is a time honored internet marketing move. And it works. And since the list is actually useful, why not?
GCHQ faces legal challenge in European court over online privacy
I'd never really heard of prediction markets before this post. Does anyone know the reason prediction markets are legal but other forms of online gambling such as poker are not?

Edit: Apparently they've just recently started using real money at some prediction markets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market#Legality
The cashew
Absolutely; it sucks, but much less so than any other option.
Speak for yourself @jbooth, I'm opposed to government interference in the employment market.
Linked from the original article is a case of a judge ruling patent exhaustion[1]:

Helferich's patents cover the delivery of content (alerts with a hyperlink) to a cell phone.

The issue is not with cases like this, the issue is with bullshit patent being granted in the first place. They need to get rid of software patents, and wishy washy crap about how X could do Y if only we had money to build it rather than just dream it up. Invent something, build it and then let it be patentable.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/judge-sticks-end-users...
Intel launches Arduino Certified board Galileo
Is this list focuses on "commercial projects"?
I would like also to know websites to promote your open-source initiative (like openhatch.org)
I'd be happier if this page hadn't blasted music into my conference call.
Revenge of the Tinkerer
Fun little puzzles. First 4 went pretty quickly (~8:00) and then the last one took ~7 minutes Googling around for this so I could test if a variable was an integer...

n===+n && n===(n|0)

Wish I could see my answers after the fact though!

Edit: Read the initial requirements of the puzzle, it says sum all the integers, not all the numbers. People using (typeof i[x] == 'number') just got lucky because the test-cases didn't exercise the full requirements of the puzzle ;)

// i will be an array, containing integers and/or arrays like itself.
// Sum all the integers you find, anywhere in the nest of arrays.
I wish a sociologist or anthropologist would comment and explain formally what this is but I'm thinking it is something along the lines of a thank you or appreciation not being quantifiable. Where as putting money (or something quantifiable) on the table communicates some sort of value.
mmm...

... | sudo \bash ...
?
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Currently, SeaLion agent is meant for 64-bit machines only. 32-bit agents coming soon.
It was a kinda cool thing, although I got some strange behavior when I was using `match` for determining whether the input is a filename - my regex was /.\../ (and so I did var match = i.match(/.\../) ), and match[1] was undefined - turned out match[2] was what I wanted, and it was present, but the behavior was incorrect in the reporting console in the game.

I finished this in 4 minutes.

Edit: looks like HN doesn't like asterisks
A year from now people will be wanting the shirt instead of $150, because it'll be 'cool' and a visible way of showing off instead of just having an extra $150 in your account.
It is a script that you can audit if you don't pipe it straight away into bash (with sudo!).

I don't know Sealion and they can be amazing and all, so don't get this comment wrong.

If they want to support Linux systems properly, instead of using a script like that, I would recommend them to use packages and add support per distribution. Each distribution has different tools to add and manage services, and there are different ways to boot the system services. It's not just adding symlinks anymore because upstart and systemd, etc.

Also I'd love to cleanly upgrade/uninstall/etc their agent, so add a repo and I'll install your agent with more confidence.

How do I know I don't like how they install their agent? Because I didn't pipe the script directly into bash.
If you deploy from git, like many of us do, and you're in the middle of pulling down dependencies from github ..

It's happened a couple of times. We moved to our own private server with forks of any dependencies we need.
Close, if you replace the Swagger's WADL/JSON with Markdown.
Learn To Write Clean Code
typeof n === 'number'

It didn't actually require differentiating between integers and floats, just numbers and other types.
"6 minutes, 21 seconds for all 5 levels. Well done!" I feel like I should have done better considering JS is one of my primary languages.
Their status page [1] still indicates a 99.85% uptime in the past month, and before this and yesterday's problem, their status page was mostly green across the board for a couple of weeks. It depends on your requirements, really. Nobody can guarantee 100% uptime.

[1] https://status.github.com/graphs/past_month
But you can't turn off codegen in a JIT compiler either, unless you're interpreting code, so that requirement doesn't fundamentally make GCC and LLVM impractical. It sounds like LLVM either doesn't have very many optimizations or their backend needs work.
http://what-if.xkcd.com/65/

Given this XKCD article, I would suggest the probability of a battery fire after an accident is around 1 in 26.
>he had signed up with his real name //

Seriously?!

Like "hey guys I'm starting a server for the illegal trade in drugs, but it's on Tor so nobody will know who I am, sincerely I M Anidiot".

Oh and just in case my names not distinctive enough here's my Gmail account so you can trace back all my IP connections and verify when I'm online and such.
Hornets kill 42 people in China, Many wounded
That was fun! I just got in to work so I was properly sleeping. I also rarely use typeof, so I had to look up that 'integer' and 'array' do not exist :)
Also, what was really annoying is the use of 'i' for the argument. That's what I exclusively use for the 'for loop' index! Tripped me up a lot, I had to consciously remind myself every time I accessed the array.
Last 'also', the font is WAY too big for my small screen, the comment never fit in, I had to scroll... So I think I did bad, 12 minutes. But still fun :)
Is there any non-commercial vs. commercial distinction? I.E. do I pay the same price for my EC2 instance running tmux+weechat as my multinational enterprise software employer would pay for a production server?
Infoleak in advertisers systems shows you're worth less than PSLatte
LOL. This is one of my favorite page of article comments I've ever seen on HN.
Your suspicion is incorrect. "Pen/trap device" refers to a "pen register" or "trap and trace device" as defined by 18 USC §3127(3-4):

(3) the term “pen register” means a device or process which records or decodes dialing, routing, addressing, or signaling information transmitted by an instrument or facility from which a wire or electronic communication is transmitted, provided, however, that such information shall not include the contents of any communication, [...]

(4) the term “trap and trace device” means a device or process which captures the incoming electronic or other impulses which identify the originating number or other dialing, routing, addressing, and signaling information reasonably likely to identify the source of a wire or electronic communication, provided, however, that such information shall not include the contents of any communication;
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The most important feature I see is that it's automatic. This will save a lot of time, which for businesses is rapidly worthwhile. Even when you can have a link checker running in the background on your own machine, it's still very distracting.

Comparing it with the one or two automatic link checkers in existence, my goal is quite different from them. They have stagnated and are designed around HTTP status codes. Unfortunately, that's not all there is to the web. Links can (and far too often do) break completely without returning 404—they may redirect to a 200 OK "not found" or "under construction" page; there's more: links can be broken because they go to different content. Detecting changes like that is also valuable and is one of my many longer-term goals.

Another idea that I have which I haven't seen anyone else using is link hash checking. Getting sent to the wrong part of a long page is often as bad as a 404 Not Found.

Finally, my goal is to ensure that if a link ever existed, it shouldn't be broken: someone else might be linking to it. None of the competitors have anything like that, either, focusing on the current state of your site.

Those are just a few of the things that I have been working on with it.
Yeah, I'd like a better explanation myself. I feel it, but I can't really explain why.

It seems like there are just two distinct modes. When you do something for free, you're basically doing a favor, and you get pleasure from being altruistic. Once you get paid, it's now an exchange of value, not altruism, so you only get pleasure from being paid. If the pay is small, you'll feel upset because your end of the bargain is based entirely on that, while if you're doing it for free, you switch over.

I could be full of it....
> But against whom was a crime committed.

As with any crime, it was committed against the State.

> If you pretend to have a sister and I order a hit on that figment of your imagination then have I committed a crime?

Yes.

> So whilst there was conspiracy it was not against a person

In the US (and, for that matter, most of the rest of the world) crimes don't have to be "against a person". England went through a few years in the late 1970s where a conspiracy to commit an impossible act was not a crime, but specifically amended the 1977 law which a 1978 court case found implied that effect to remove it in 1981; to my knowledge the impossibility of the prohibited agreed-to act has never been a bar to conspiracy convictions in the US.

> It seems that if the conspiracy were against a person who never existed and were adjudged to be a crime that writers would be similarly guilty when they plan a storyline in which someone is purposefully killed.

A writer planning a story line involves neither two or more people agreeing to commit an unlawful act nor one of taking a concrete action to put that agreement into effect, and so contains neither of the elements of the general crime of conspiracy, independently of the impossibility issue. So, no, they wouldn't be guilty of conspiracy, independently of the issue at hand.
Also, he hardly even promoted it... "relatively new, easy submission." Pretty tame to me.
> typeof 5.4
"number"
Seconded. I personally prefer the simplicity of the existing arduinos, but if someone needs one of these boards then why not use a raspberry pi or beaglebone that have mature ecosystems?
...put it on a CD...

There should be a standard virus-laden ISO image specifically designed for "compliance" with court orders.
So what you're saying is that you're the kind of person that needs to be paid to not be a dick? Uh, congratulations?
If it leads to a better outcome, does it matter that it's blackmail? It's the age old moral question of do the ends justify the means. Like most moral questions the correct answer is not yes or no but "it depends." The real loser here would be the company with the retarded security policy, and they deserve what they get. If they have a bug bounty program, then naturally the ethical thing is to report the bug through the correct channels. If they don't then their users are the ones silently paying the price. If you wanted to be squeaky clean you could simply refuse to accept the highest bid if it wasn't from the company. In that case I really see no moral downside.
Maybe now it's the time to stop buying software when there are plenty of other open-source options to take into account. It is a step forward indeed but they will have to invest more in skilled people to support these choices.
That's the right attitude! :3

/s
Exactly. When that comment came from a Yahoo employee I caught a glimpse of what I think the company's attitude towards security is. To me it seemed like there was no understanding that by not taking care of the little things that are lurking in the dark it can cost the company big time. Yes, I know this is an employee's personal opinion, but still...
That's some nice moral gymnastics to make selling exploits to criminals to mean that you actually did a favor to their victims.
Inexpensive SSDs for Database Workloads
Geek Mythology: What Tech Startups Say vs What They Actually Do
If it's any kind of audio/music/instrument project, you can post it to one of the groups on:
http://www.reddit.com/user/diydsp/m/digi_instruments
Unfortunate. It's a bad habit to get into. Random forum goer pastes something in, you're used to installing via this method, you'll execute it without thought. Boom. No longer your system.
LLVM's instruction selection/legalization infrastructure is very sophisticated, very generic, table-driven, etc. Most JIT compilers use more ad-hoc and quicker mechanisms to get machine code out of IR.
The proof against what you are saying is the fact that the French government passed a law to force the market to be more "socially minded." If the "social-minded" European person was the majority, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
So the Palestinian founders should call it an Israeli company?

I have no idea of the agendas of the CuBox founders, but given there are Jews I know who do not support the government of Israel, and here someone asked the question, I think it's fair to give an answer.
Why not just do the same for physical locations? You walk around a parking lot checking car doors, or maybe all the doors in an apartment building. If you find one unlocked, you text the owner and some local thieves so they can bid on the vulnerability...

Usually, behavior that would be shitty if done offline is just as shitty online. There is a fine line between freelance security research for bug bounties, which is basically crowdsourcing security testing, and rank extortion.
Yes, fortunes. Great. So much better than the async setTimeout patch he's giving a hard time to that will let plugin developers actually build useful tools.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/-4pqDJfHCsM

The inanity of the comments in that patch discussion have me reconsidered switching from vim to something else and I've been using vim for nearly ten years. I can't believe how disappointing it's been to see that patch discussion play out as it has.
MIT and Harvard open the path for a real-life lightsaber
Funny, but sheesh, are some of these outdated ;)

hundred-and-one symptoms of being an internet addict:
194.

Your business cards contain your e-mail and home page address
political blogspam. It's just a regurgitation of the product site, with a confusing note about Israel at the beginning, which seems to be the only point of the post. Why not just link directly to http://cubox-i.com/ ?
Indeed. I wonder how many people actually read these websites where lots of people spam a link to their new "startup" and where the content is nothing else than just a collection of links. I think the answer is: no one.
Hehe. I wish OSX had individual program volume controls... On Windows 7 I usually have flash process volume on 'off', unless I'm specifically watching something.
Speak it out loud to Siri!
I have't used ServerDensity, but on the surface it looks like Sealion is primarily focused on showing you raw output.
Hmm, I am using the Dev channel Chrome. So, it might be not in the stable (or even beta) release? It definitely worked for me when I tried it, though!
If you alert() something inside an infinite loop it doesn't seem to be able to detect it (nor does it show an alert box!)
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I tried it out on two of my API servers and it seems to work flawlessly. I'm impressed with the beautiful style of your website.

Honestly I'm not willing to pay $19 a month for more than two servers though. Maybe if it was around $5 a month per server it would be worth it. As is the price is high enough that I could take a few days of work and create and run my own logging system for all my servers and while it wouldn't have that of an pretty interface it wouldn't be costing me $400 a month.
Are you seriously using NoScript? I thought it was a myth.
Your target would be SEO. Warriorforum.com, blackhatworld.com, #Seochat, etc.
Agree, but how would you feel if you got an Addison-Wesley t-shirt instead of a check for $2.56?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check
As someone who put all his cards in Rails for a few months to develop an app - to find out my company wanted it rewritten for lamp stack -- I am extremely LUCKY that I found Laravel-- it is Rails in all it's glory minus some popular gems, --but it's growing (500+ packages already) and Laravel 4 is just awesome to work w/ ... If it weren't for laravel, I'd drop php altogether..though for enterprise Symfony would be worth a look -but I currently don't need anything beyond Laravel.
17 minutes, 47 seconds. slow poke here.
Fun distraction. For me it was:

30% figuring out the answer, 20% not having my editor shortcuts available, 50% figuring out how to check if a value is a certain type.

Am I the only one that gives their functions preconditions that the input is good? To me, throwing up when you're passed a non-number to a sum method is correct behavior.
Would be great to see some solutions.
This typeof stuff (and having number instead of integer, string, etc) was the hardest part of this for me.

Normally javascript function inputs aren't this messy.
Your fault for not paying attention during a conference call...
You probably should reconsider the choice of your tools. I certainly would.
I couldn't find that anywhere on the site.

You really need to mention that in the title.
Ok we're seeing these ones popping up quickly these days (osmek.com) here's my thoughts,

Short: not bad!

Long:

What we need here is not osmek or prismic or insert-random-new-thing, but it is a sane interface.

If you think you are good go solve that problem.

The whole point (mostly) of these services is to decouple content from presentation yet when every new service designs their own revolutionary API you just end up tying yourself to that specific provider.

The major problem is to get people to agree on the same thing of course.

But if that does happen then imagine the kinds of freedom it will bring to you.

A very simplistic one could be defining standard JSON objects and then building a CMS that works with those objects, then allow people to bring their own data.
"2 minutes, 32 seconds for all 5 levels. Well done!"

The "kill screen" song is stuck in my head now.
Yea, this is what I realized once I saw the puzzle was throwing junk data like "false" on #5.

I mentally skipped over Justin_Time's solution, figuring I would just hit a float error case because it was going to be a stickler about integers.
Yes, I am not arguing that. What I am saying is if you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys.

You need to compare a $360 with a $360 phone, and you need to compare a $700 phone (iPhone) with a $700 (Samsung S4/Sony Z1/HTC Onc etc)
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If this was an article stating that the US govt. passed legislation which ultimately made prices higher at IKEA, I would be furious. Footnote, I reside in the US.
The use of 'i' set me back a bit, too. Caused me to go into an infinite loop at one point.
It looks great. But I don't run any servers at the moment - I'm just an annoying stickler for the truth in marketing.

Thanks for your response. FWIW I think it just needs a line like "our related Yog line of products are trusted [I'll let you have that one!] by 30,000 companies". Assuming that you can verify 30k different companies are actively using them. It's actually got a double edge too as it also tells people that you have other products in this space that will transform their daily drudge of server maintenance in to a veritable nirvana ;0)>
Agreed; hopefully the people who got upset will get some clarity from this and everyone will come out ahead.

Personally, I think it's ridiculous that this was blown so far out of proportion, all because someone went above and beyond with his own resources trying to thank reporters. But then I don't have both sides of the story and, frankly, I'm not going to go looking for internet anger to figure it out.
4:20.
don't surf the web on a conference call. problem solved.
Ummm, no.

Resisting evil is good. It's not like he destroyed someone's business or muzzled somebody's free speech.
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