skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are great. I did not expect to learn something new given that Lua is a very simple language but I actually did!
It's a subtle difference. Web startups tend to release individual features before they're polished. Apple releases products that have fewer features than one would expect ("launch before perfection"), but the few features they do have tend to be polished.
lol, thank you so much
That is a lot of our tax payer money at work...
would you prefer the web server did static spelling analysis on all body elements?
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Congrats Sandeep! I think your application is well written.

One thing I think you guys should consider in your target market is mobile app developers. Also consider looking at Backend-as-a-service providers like StackMob/Pars in your market size estimations.

Good luck!
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This is very interesting.
Wish hacker news had more hacking the human body articles.
The silk road did work like an escrow where SR would hold the bitcoins until the buyer finalized (FE for short). Bitcoin would have an internal tumbler that would generate multiple addresses and would make it difficult to track the transactions.

Most vendors would ask for early FE or no product would be shipped but that was too risky for most buyers. FE was supposed to occur when the buyer received the product and gave it thumbs up.
This kind of news should encorage people to create and use better tools for find and fix vulnerabilities in software.
For distributed SCM, I've got enjoyment out of darcs documentation over the years (ie: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_theor...), and fossil (http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/permutedind..., specifically http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/tech_overvi..., http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/concepts.wi..., http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/fileformat...., etc)
This may happen to be true for some businesses, but it's not necessarily true. Some toolsets may make it hard, which raises the I. Others make it easy or free, so people naturally do it. The smaller the I gets, the more likely a given R is worth it.

I also think it's easy to underestimate the R here. It's very hard to detect things like brand damage and lost leads, especially when somebody turns up on your site once, thinks you guys are chumps because of a bad first impression, and never comes back. Whereas the I is obvious, because the cost is all internal to the company.

The two factors, alas, reinforce one another. Link rot isn't an obvious problem when setting up a system, because nobody is linking in. By the time the problem becomes noticeable, the system is hard to change, making the cost of a fix high. And that trains people to treat link rot as unimportant, deepening the cycle.
I might have something for you - will check with the boss on Monday about potential privacy issues.

If I don't get back to you by Tuesday then please send me a reminder email.
Why would you stop reading? Are spelling errors that outrageous to you?
So how does Tails[1] stack up? It seems to thwart most of those attacks.

It block non-anonymized traffic and makes permanent changes difficult. OTOH, privilege escalation bugs happen frequently on Linux.

https://tails.boum.org/
Attending school is not the only way to cultivate yourself and make yourself a better person; knowledge is vast and free.
Maybe, but I'd be surprised if Google didn't port their apps over to this imaginary platform. My larger point is that now that a rich UI is becoming a commodity, non-software/platform factors will become increasingly important e.g. manufacturing, distribution, etc.
I suspect at least some of those savvy college students and young techs would be buying in the street market if SR didn't exist.
Recall this line from Blade Runner:

> Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.

These people's job is to fight (their government's definition of) terrorists. It's not automatically in the job description to develop a nuanced view of terrorism, of various categories of hackers, etc. -- except to whatever degree it helps them to understand their enemy and thereby stop them.

People often do this even in jobs where the stakes are lower -- if you're running a struggling grocery store competing with a SuperWalMart, WalMart are the bad guys, even if the people who work at WalMart are perfectly nice people just trying to earn some money to raise a family.

Having said that, yes -- it's obviously particularly dangerous to go around branding anyone you have a problem with a terrorist.
The author is Fabio Mascarenhas (http://lua-users.org/wiki/FabioMascarenhas) so he certainly does know. Just makes it more disappointing, though :P

Well, at least the code archives and homework pages are indexed correctly ;)
Many of these apps, have no equal on other platforms.
In this blog post, I discuss the recent screencast I did with the Docker team. It was a ton of fun.

This may give you a sense of how I use containers, how and why I find them useful, and a practical example of doing deployment a different way.

Candid feedback (please, don't hold back!) is appreciated.
Sounds like corporate housing. Most large companies have them.
Testing Ruby Motion apps with Travis CI
You can buy melatonin online in the UK from Biovea http://www.biovea.com/uk/product_detail.aspx?NAME=MELATONIN-...
I assume your child is grown up, because 10 hrs of sleep a night for someone with an infant is absurd. And unfair.
Playing devil's advocate here: how is this change in a specific location any more "proof" of ocean acidification than especially cold weather in a different location "disproves" global warming?

Aren't both of these cases instances of cherry-picking?
With the best will in the world, even with non-technical clients it's hard to not let slip some technical language.
Historically, pen/trap is much less controversial than the "Room 641A" crap, so even if the legal department examines every request (which isn't true for every telco), nobody fights any of them. This was actually the source of the unfortunate "if the phone company knows who you call it isn't personal information" theory. Each telco treats this as just another line of business, and they send invoices to law enforcement agencies. "Modern" switches are smart enough to track called and calling numbers without the installation of actual old-fashioned "devices", so I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the price of this service has decreased. However, this is such common knowledge in telcos that I'd be shocked to find it isn't common knowledge in courthouses. So, the judge is either ignorant or dishonest.
So basically you're saying "don't fight it; you might lose"?
Firefox is non-free due to trademark protection, but that's VASTLY different to being non-free due to being a paid download, or being closed source, or patent licensing, or restrictive licensing terms, and so on. It's almost irrelevant to the parent poster's comment to claim that.
First of all, I didn't read linked article. Which is wrong of course. As usual, I'm basing on comments in this thread.
So you want to do type system without PL theory of modern age. Awesome! Seriously, interesting experiment.
Unless you already have read TaPL in which case I fear you would antagonise ideas described there.
However, there is a non-merit, non-technical problem: dismissing PL theorists is sounds like dismissing PL theory (wrong implication, but that is how humans are I believe).
And this will put you into JS/PHP/whatever-back-to-the-trees basket and your ideas will be dismissed just because of this wrong association.
Which means, that you will distorted results of your experiment.
How do you plan to alleviate that? Or I'm wrong somewhere and it is non issue?
I walked them through my opinion of how technology was changing media and creating open, global platforms.
>We can have Liberty or Security but if we pick Security over Liberty, we'll lose both.

I hate this false dichotomy. It simply isn't true as we give up a wide range of liberties in order to live in a safer world. That is what laws inherently are, rules that limit an individuals ability for the greater good of society. Whether is it preventing people from driving down a highway at 100 mph, whether they can grow and consume marijuana, or whether they can expect that all their internet communication is 100% private, we simply need to do an analysis of the costs and benefits to figure out if a particular liberty is worth giving up to give us a particular level of safety.
But it does not do any back-end piping to the actual web?

Also, why compare RoR and AngularJS - completely irrelevant technologies.
Thanks for your interest - the optimization guide is planned to go over everything I have done.
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Do Publishers Know Where Their Ads Are?
Why would Google do that? They would be helping another rival platform get market share.

Google is releasing iOS apps because there's no way Apple is going away soon.
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I support sales of digital data. I don't support using unethical methods to prevent violation of renting terms, which always comes out of the mere idea of using rental for digital data.

May be you have ideas how to enable renting of digital goods without resorting to unethical preemptive policing? Until anybody comes up with such, renting of digital data will remain a bad idea.

To put this in perspective. When you rent physical goods, do you find it acceptable to be tracked while you use them with some hidden surveillance mechanisms?

But I honestly consider renting of digital data stupid anyway, since it's pointless. There is a valid reason to have renting for physical goods - it allows reusing of the same object and removes the need to make another one which is costly. So it lowers the price for the user of the object as well. Digital goods have none of these issues at all. They cost nothing to duplicate. So renting them simply has no point whatsoever, and is used to reduce usability and out of paranoid fear of piracy, not because it's making anything cheaper and reusable.
> History is very clear on this: the biggest enemies of justice have been governments and state sponsored entities, every single time.

If that were true, which it isn't, why did humanity create governments?
> Once the computer is successfully attacked, it secretly calls back to a FoxAcid server, which then performs additional attacks on the target computer to ensure that it remains compromised long-term

It would be nice if somebody could honeypot them to find out the vulns and malware types they are using.
Nice charts, but terrible editorializing.

The relevant Tweeter/Twitter post is titled "The Sheer Idiocy Of The Markets In One Chart" as if the idiocy was on the part of the market rather than on the part of the participants.
This looks great. However, 5 Gb is the same amount of free storage as is given to every user on iCloud, so you won't save much space on your phone by being a free user on Loom. On the other hand, 50 Gb costs $48/year on Loom and close to $100 on iCloud. Another alternative is everpix.com, which offers unlimited storage for $49/year.
Sure, and everybody who has read the spec knows that. Alas, that's 1% of your user base.

For the rest of your users it wouldn't hurt to say, "You might see something different if you're logged in." Or if they are logged in, saying, "Were you expecting something different? Maybe you just don't have access yet."
MongoDB is not a particularly good database. But it is a pretty good in-memory cache that can persist to disk, which is a valuable technical niche. It's a small change in perspective (that is betrayed by their marketing) but has a huge impact on expectations, use and value.

I would have named it something like MongoCache.
I think that's a pretty serious exaggeration. Designing tools to let you spy on Tor traffic has to be in a separate category from designing bombs that could kill millions.

Besides, are there no ends that could justify these means? I think the means are altogether reasonable given the ends. Put aside whether you think the NSA is genuinely pursuing its national security mission: If it were, wouldn't it make perfect sense to figure out how to attack Tor?
"no Android tablet has really taken off"

FYI, Android tablet has larger market share than the IPad now.

If you're narrowing it to just one brand/model, you're right. But Android tablets in general are selling a ton.
Ok, I'll bite. What are the dis-benefits?

Which human rights do you specifically want to lose?
Since nobody has come up with a DRM system that doesn't depend on a central service that can go away or change its terms, all DRM-based content is effectively rented. What is unethical about renting something? If you claim that your customer is "buying" something, that they will then "own", then yes, that's outright fraud. I am absolutely against that. But if it's a service, what's the big deal? You can sign up for the service or not. You don't have a supported platform? I guess you can't do it. Nothing new or surprising there. Find a different service, or find a different way to entertain yourself.

If you want to talk about the death of ownership and the rise of rental, and how that might be damaging, that's a fine an interesting topic, but I don't see how it's about ethics.
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Post-children I try to go to sleep at 10pm (been an "owl" for most of my life) and am forced roughly awake at 6.30am (if I'm lucky).
1) It's currently first on the front page 2) Complaining about voting is really tedious to read about
Almost all of that stuff you list is actually waaaaaay easier than you give it credit. Setting up a programming environment is not hard, and is done in parallel with programming. Don't like that font? Change it here. Want this hot key to open this because you're tired of clicking the menu every time? Then do it.

I started off learning Objective-C; I had an app in mind and the only one that could create what I wanted was me. I learned. A string? That's just characters in order. Float? Any number that could have decimals and that wasn't an integer (though it could be 5.0). An array? Just a list of objects in a specific order. A hash map? A collection of objects where a tag signifies what object is at that location. DEAD SIMPLE STUFF. This is easy-peezy work, and very easy to abstract in my brain. I had an app on the store in 3 months and 10,000 downloads by 6 months. My app was a hugely naive undertaking, that I pulled off, despite not knowing shit about programming and setting up systems before going in. It calculated the best drink specials in my college town. That's 10,000 downloads in my college town.

I've continued programming, because I like making stuff, and have random ideas that are usually fairly easy to experiment with and get working.

Now I'm an iOS Engineer.

I have a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design with a minor in Advertising. No knowledge is unattainable, or more sacred than the others. I'm sorry you think what Jennifer has done is just impossible to do. It's not.
We're applying to YC with this for YC'14 and would love your feedback. The end goal for the product is to use all your interest and conversation data to create a personalised feed for you. Over a period of time, publishers would be able to write to it and hence you shall see a feed where information would come to you without the need to search, follow or like anything. We're still a few weeks away from launch but would really like some honest feedback so that we can work it into development than the other way around.
Hey now. Filibusters are an important check of the minority party on the majority's power. If they were utterly abolished, you should expect to see far more extreme legislative actions far more often than we have before. :)
> Yeah, AMEX used to allow one-time use numbers with its Platinum Corporate Card (maybe other cards as well). But, they stopped years ago. Don't know if it was hard to manage or if I was just the only one using it, but I loved it.

Very few people used it

But there is an additional problem, from American Express's point of view. Virtual credit card numbers are patented by Orbiscom, which was acquired by MasterCard in 2009.
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In this space there is also http://www.quantconnect.com.

As a concept it can take off for sure, but not sure the Bloomberg comparison is fully accurate.
You shouldn't be divulging information like this ... now all the terrorists will shave and we'll be toast!
>That way prisoners wouldn't get the vote

Why is this a good thing? Prisoners are still citizens. Disenfranchising them only serves to further alienate them from society.

Time and again the ECHR has served as an important check on breaches of the European Convention by the UK. But a few examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_and_Grady_v_United_Kingdo...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders_v_United_Kingdom

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Bournewood_Community_and_Me...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutherland_v_United_Kingdom
Wow, it looks good. I might use this next time I'm looking for a hotel. I would love this as an addon in Chrome, so I can use it while browsing hotels. Unfortunately, most of my trips lately have been to Russia, and you don't cover those.

One nit pick, the 'staff' filter seems to cut sentences in half, usually ending in the word 'staff'. The actual comments about the staff seem to follow the word 'staff' in the reviews, thus it failed on the few reviews that I looked at. Still, there were over 400 reviews for the particular hotel that I looked at, so it may have worked better in other reviews.

I'd also be curious if it gave more weight to more recent reviews. Staff can change quite a bit in two years.
What's unethical is not renting, but the DRM part which always comes with it. See my answer below.
Anecdotally, melatonin works wonders for me when traveling.

I take 1mg of melatonin between 7 and 9pm in the target time zone's frame, usually starting the day I travel or sometimes the day before. This translates to taking a pill at noon or so in SF before flying to Europe. I follow that up with a pill on the first few evenings of a trip.

I've been doing this for a few years now, and the only remnant of jetlag on such trips is that I feel terrible around 3pm in Europe, which translates to 6am. So I'm guessing that my natural not-yet-shifted sleep cycle is rebelling at that point and trying to convince my body that I just stayed up all night.

Of course, I am an n=1 population size, and the routine has worked so well that I haven't dared to do a significant time zone shift without it. So it could just be me, or it could be the placebo effect. And I'm perfectly ok with that, as long as the jet lag stays at bay.
I don't think your fears are justified by the article. The first thing you read is a pull-out quote that says:

>Tor is a well-designed and robust anonymity tool, and successfully attacking it is difficult.

Maybe you're referring to:

>The very feature that makes Tor a powerful anonymity service, and the fact that all Tor users look alike on the internet, makes it easy to differentiate Tor users from other web users.

Your kind words about the Tor project are accurate, but they have never claimed that it's possible to reliably hide Tor use.

The next sentence is:

>On the other hand, the anonymity provided by Tor makes it impossible for the NSA to know who the user is, or whether or not the user is in the US.

There is no Tor exploit or new information here. The NSA has enough resources to recognize Tor users in the USA enmasse, as well as single-out individual connections. From this point on, FoxAcid works the same whether you're using Tor or not.
I'm still not finding much value in the slippery slope arguments I lampooned in (parent (parent)), and the overheated rhetoric around the subject shows no sign of cooling off since my prior comments, some of which admittedly were not well considered.

That said, I was not previously aware of watermarking as a viable alternative with meaningful industry support, and it has consequently replaced the (relatively clean) DRM interface under discussion here as the value bound to 'least-harmful-option.
Looks like a nice app, but this statement is far from true:
"There is no channel for music discovery outside of what the majors pay to put in front of you." A new music discovery site gets posted to HN at least once a week, many of them built off the soundcloud api.
As well, you are only one of many apps that has tried the voting up/down for songs route - thesixtyone.com was one of the first but they have since moved away from that.
Anyway - keep up the good work, just don't fool yourselves that this is anything new.
Apple Siri's ID blown. She is Susan Bennett.
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Yep, same here. Had it 2 times this week. Here's what I had active:

Siri

iPad app

Facebook

Seedrs

ShareThis

LinkedIn

Pay With a Tweet

Dropbox

and 2 more that I never noted down.
Cold Fusion gelato:

http://coldfusiongelato.com/site/home/

Mmm
Every time I see a github project for installable software, the first thing I want to see is a screenshot. I realize that's shallow, but it is what it is.
The creator of CoffeeScript actually merged my pull request to fix coffee steam
But if it is for running ad hoc data mining on relatively small amounts of data, wouldn't a traditional SQL database do the job just as well? Especially with with features like the JSON support in PostgreSQL.
I've been lurking on Quantopian for a few months. The algotrading community is secretive. Currently, you code in python which is then saved and run on their servers. I fear Quantopian copying the best trading strategies for their own use. Even if you black box the code, all Quantopian needs is I/O with your program. What's to stop this?
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent
of the governed,
After watching the presentation, I can think in two things to make TOR better, from the point of view of the anonymity of its users:

* Better education on how users can browser carefuly (no javascript, no plugins, updated browsers)
* More nodes.
I love the spirit of this, but I would never put it on a serious site.

I put things on the web so people can see/use them. If they come to my site, I want them to get what they're looking for. If I'm going to serve a 404, it's either because a) I screwed up, or b) somebody mistyped something. In either case, distracting them with something else can only take them farther away from their original goal.
In my experience, the Packt books have always felt as though they have had very little editing and review (things you'd never see in a technical book from e.g. Addison Wesley or Prentice Hall). So if the book seems great it's probably due mostly to the author (which is fine with me if the book is cheap).
RubyMotion 2.10 Released with Bug Fixes
Sure these folks are smart and have all sorts of powerful weapons; what are the odds that someone out there could successfully repurpose some of these weapons? What is the likelihood that vulnerabilities exist in the NSA's systems? We can never know since it's all secret. If someone does take over these systems we wouldn't know that either.