skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile the libertarians and liberals will fight over "this is just the inevitable consequence of the monopoly on violence that the state represents" and "clearly this means the government must have killed Aaron Swartz and Steve Jobs and that it's only a matter of time before the murder-squads come after you."
You literally said the exact opposite of the point you were implying throughout the rest of the discussion. We were talking about ways to live cheaply. Then YOU were the one that changed positions and said we were talking about someone making the minimum effort to save money, which as you rightly pointed out could mean someone not saving money at all. What is the point of discussing someone who doesn't save in a thread about saving money?

A native English speaker would not make the mistake of using a colloquialism that means the opposite of the literal definition when the very disagreement is about the effort it takes to save money. You can live by yourself in the bay area and still save money. Remember, you were the one that quoted $2k/mo for rent.
It's called "lip service". It's quite possible for people to assert one thing but in actuality be part of a system that systematically drives contrary to that assertion. You know, kind of like how our founders held those truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and then codified slavery in the next breath. Just because we say women should do X doesn't mean we've actually created an environment that nurtures that outcome.
And just in time, too, for a good chance at rapprochement - the Salafists and Israel's conservative faction may see face-to-face on foreign policy for once.
It's in the publishers' best interest to set a suitable RRP value. Too high and their sales would be eaten up by used copies (which aren't subject to this same law).
A lot of "you should do this" posts on the internet can be summarized as, "people like me are pretty dang great."
Then perhaps there is a third category: an act of terror.
> I value my right to speak freely and not in representation of my employer.

You fail to understand two things. The first is that you have no such "right". You are speaking as a representative of your employer when others perceive you to be. What you or your employer think is irrelevant.

The second is that this isn't about you. Whether you must take responsibility internally is up to your employer. But whether your employer must take responsibility in public is not. It has nothing to do with your "rights". You don't have a say in the matter.
Fascinating announcement. I love the boards, they have an interesting mix of hackability and programability. And they are clearly in response to the Raspberry Pi success (although much of that is the price point, RasPi type systems have been available for $200 - $300 each for a long time and don't get the traction of a $35 system :-)

I found the Arduino Yun [1] to be perhaps the most interesting board (nominally $52) which is a very inexpensive Linux setup with an Arduino adjacent. You can even load sketches over WiFi. Its interesting because you have a much more sophisticated computation engine acting as a glorified serial port for an 8 bit micro.

The parallels to the original microcomputer explosion cannot be over looked. The Altair 8800 was introduced as a "real computer" using chips designed for calculators and embedded systems which engineers could build and use much more cost effectively than the minicomputers available at the time. Here we have Arduinos which have an approachable level of complexity and a cost (< $50 seems to be the trigger point) which makes them useful in the education/hacking role.

On the specific announcements the TRE is the most interesting to me as I've got BeagleBone Black systems (one is running the Hue lights in my office) to Arduinoess and Pies and the "sweet spot" is definitely somewhere in the middle. Not enough pins on the Pi, not enough compute oomph in the Arduino. A number of things then are a blend of an Arduino and a larger system, so the TRE, the Yun fit that niche which the TRE being a more programmable on the Linux side version of the Yun.

[1] http://store.arduino.cc/ww/index.php?main_page=product_info&...
Range == set of outputs which the function can produce.

In any language, a type defines a set of values and some semantics for manipulating those values. It so happens that our way of defining common sets is to build a function whose range is some useful set.

Actually any gene (ie, expression) has a product range. It doesn't even need to be a function. So the range of the constant

[%foo %bar]

whatever the subject is, is always [%foo %bar], ie, the pair [7.303.014 7.496.034].
I know but that's after you know you've been signed up because you received a call at 1AM. How do they let land line users know they've been signed up?
No they don't. This man has given up his livelihood. Google could shut down their (free) e-mail service, probably without having to fire a single employee.

Yes the amount of intelligence they could gather on each of their users would undoubtedly suffer, and so their ad revenue might eventually lose a bit of growth, but life (and business) would go on for Google.
Thank you! I see. I agree with you. Definitely thinking about adding them ;)
Gal is fine, if a little forced. Person would probably be best here though.
If a man did this, would it generate the same publicity? I am genuinely wondering, I'm not trying to troll.
Personally speaking, my trust in Google hasn't changed.
I don't trust sensitive data there because of other agencies, but if the world changes because of Snowden, I will happily continue to use (most of) Google's services.
Actually, users are able to cancel requests on the browser. All they need to do is close the page mid-request. You can try it yourself: write a server that takes 10 seconds to reply to a request, fire an AJAX request for that resource and kill the tab. The request won't make your browser hostage to the server's delay.

And that's where this implementation fails: it makes it possible for a misbehaving 'async' call (not really async, just timed) to hijack the editor and make it unusable. I know that can be done in the editor as-is, but considering that writing asynchronous/multi-threaded code is way harder than your usual linear Vim plugin, I think it's better to wait until there's a proper async mechanism instead of setting a subpar precedent.
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The pictures and UI are pretty cool, but right now, there's almost no functionality besides seeing some nice pictures of a particular model that you're interested in.
That's a great heuristic. Reminds me of Keith Rabois's advice: select an early stage startup by evaluating who your manager will be.

"If your manager is stellar, at a minimum, you will learn and stretch your abilities. Moreover, if your manager is an outstanding engineer or director of something or first-class entrepreneur, he will have many exciting opportunities in next 1–10 years and if you are talented and display an outstanding work ethic he will be begging you to join him at his next endeavor."

From: http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-is-the-best-way-to-evalua...
Thanks! We love Pocket :)
Facebooks existed before facebook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
I agree. I think the problem is conflating the dark grey market[1] values of vulnerabilities with their white market values.

Reportedly there is a lot of money in the security vulnerability dark grey market at this particular moment in time, and that seems to be pushing up the perceived monetary value of these vulnerabilities.

But if you think about it, it would feel an awful lot like extortion for a researcher who's found a vulnerability to allude to the grey market value of a vulnerability in a responsible disclosure discussion. This is kind of what the community is doing by consistently bringing that point up in regards to rewards for such responsible disclosures.

At the end of the day, if the researcher is virtuous, then the black/grey market value of the vulnerability is irrelevant, and so acknowledgement of the issue, followed by rapid action to close the vulnerability, and optionally, a token of appreciation is plenty of reward for the disclosure from a moral point of view.

Now, I'm not naive. I believe that people respond to incentives and when you're talking about incentives, then the black/grey market values do come into the calculation. But that's a purely amoral and pragmatic optimization problem, and therefore not a proper object for the moralizing that we've seen regarding these programs.

I don't have any particular issues with pontificating about how a particular company could be more effective if it increased its bug bounty rates[2], but any pseudo-moral outrage is hollow because it's founded on the assumption that moral and immoral disclosure are relatively equivalent options.

[1] That is, it's not always technically illegal, but I think that the market is fairly universally regarded as antisocial if not a major threat of the day.

[2] Though it would be very difficult for a company outsider to actually accurately determine the value of responsible disclosures to a company. There are a whole lot of vulnerabilities in complex software, and really, any particular disclosure is essentially worthless. I would imagine that the real monetary value of a given disclosure is orders of magnitude less valuable to the vulnerable company than it would be to a potential attacker. For the vulnerable company, they still have a vulnerable product after fixing the particular vulnerability, but for the attacker, they have a successful attack vector by having knowledge of the particular open vulnerability. Also, I can't imagine that the value of a particular vulnerability is proportional to the company's revenue/valuation/etc. which is the metric that seems to always be trotted out when talking about how a particular company's reward program is not generous enough, especially with regards to "billion dollar companies"
It's like he wrote the last two paragraphs before he took the drug, then never bothered to change them.
I like the idea, but I'd rather have a less glossy and more data-focused approach. How about searching for 0-60 times, limit by 4 seats, limit by price, sort by aggregated reviews, etc.?

I'm pretty familiar with Porsche's lineup (I own one) and the 911 listing is pretty useless (http://showroom.is/porsche/911/). When I click on a 911 Turbo S, I see photos for a Carrera 4 that costs half as much, etc.

A frontend to a MySQL instance where I can fire off queries would be far more useful, frankly. Just remember to sanitize input. :)
If you say "what they are trying to do", we understand that this process will take place as time progresses. It's implied in the verb tense, that's why verb tenses exist. So "moving forward" never adds any meaning when used in its current corporate-speak fashion. Hackers should respect language.
AgileBits has relatively few options here-
Their writeup is available at

http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/08/08/1password-3-dropbox-syn...

They claim that Dropbox deprecated their existing API, so the software broke on it's own. AgileBits did not disable the integration, upsteam changed.

In the same way that Netscape 4 can't talk to SPDY-only websites, 1Password 3 can't talk to the new dropbox API.

I haven't found the doc from Dropbox that describes an API change on Sept 1 - They did do a V0-V1 change this year, however, and AgileBits' story is plausible.
You are misunderstanding things. A dollar amount automatically puts it into the paid category, because it is comparable.
Are you happy with the browser support?

In my browsers, 1Password 4 still works less reliably than 1Password 3. Manual completion (I don't use auto competition) sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. In the former case, the user credentials get listed but not inserted. The issues occurs more often in Chrome than in Firefox. It might be just me of course.

In any case, I am already in contact with the great AgileBits support team. AgileBits is one of the companies where your support mails are taken seriously.
What is the source for " Most car accidents happens when people are traveling large distances or coming back from unusual places such as parties and bars (not home-work commute)" when most of the data I've seen says that most accidents occur within 5 miles from home and that only 1% of accidents occur further than 50 miles from home.
Hey Thomas,

Thanks for the comment. Some great insights here.

Honestly what we have on Showroom right now is not useful. We put this on HN to generate exactly what has happened here: opinionated discussions about what people really want / need from a shopping experience. It's clear (to us) that there can be innovation in this space, and there are a ton of ways to do it.

The thoughts you have are similar to what we've been planning for a while. We want a visual representation of trims for a model - how do they relate to each other, and how do they relate to similar vehicles?

On top of digesting the data that we have (which is a lot), we're going to aggregate stuff from around the web - YouTube reviews, blog post reviews, etc.

Anyways, thanks again for your comment (and not just saying stuff like "this is shit", like other commenters). This is exactly what we posted here for.

Stay tuned :)
A well-defined media-type does much the same thing and is what REST is centered on.

An API based on HTTP and schemas rather than media types for content definition/validation is more like SOAP than REST.

OTOH, an API based on resource-oriented hypermedia could incidentally use media types that are defined in terms of schemas, and still be REST.
Really? Which courts accept polygraph results as evidence?
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Unless you are extending the compiler why would you care? GCC consistently produced faster code that LLVM

If you are extending the compiler, why would you want to allow companies like apple and oracle to bottle up you hard work and not give anything back? Either by not giving the code back or by patenting parts of the functionality they add and then suing you when you try and use them.
As silly as those two propositions might seem, at least they don't contradict each other!
Transport Tycoon for iOS
Woo, thanks for the nice words! Search as in filtering the hot feed or site wide?
He can hide behind his libertarian agenda all he wants, but instinctively he knew what he was doing was wrong at multiple levels, legally and above all, morally. Otherwise he wouldn't be operating on Tor..... or hiding anything.
Not everyone will be able to pull a Jennifer Dewalt. Attention is a zero-sum resource. As more people attempt to get front page on Hacker News for their self-promotion, fewer and fewer will end up getting that exposure. Also, the signal to noise goes down.

Let's see the quality people can produce, not just quantity. And let's focus on the quality, not on the people.
Hey Jen, did you ever do a blog post on your hosting setup for 180 websites which mix simple html/css/js + Rails + Node? That would make an interesting blog post too.
Run your own mail server.
I'm 5'10", and unfortunately some of it comes from a long long neck and a fine head. A well known coach once called it wasted height, as it doesn't help any in basketball. Things got a little worse with the fact that my upper body is disproportionately longer than my lower body. Doesn't help your jump any, but at least it gave me some reach - 7'3" with my arms extended.

And so, I needed a vertical leap of 3 feet to grab the ring. The happiest day of my basketballing life was after some weeks of pumping iron (leg weights), I did leap and grab that ring - once. It was such a thrill.

That was way back in college. I wish I'd gone all the way like Brandon did. But hey, I'm only 50 now, and still playing basketball. I'm inspired. I think I'm going to go for it again. ;)
Microsoft has done some extremely limited bug bounties, but zero on the web side of things. Google, yes. But there are tons of major sites that don't have them, even the engineering-focused ones. Twitter being a great example.
By the way, what's with all the hate on Ben Pierce?

Take his Software Foundations book. It opened up Coq in a very practical way. No crazy typing rules or category theory. Just straight programming and simple proofs. That's a world where previously the few who entered were sucked down a rabbit hole of theory, never to return again.
I feel terrible for playing video games now.
I like the welding thing in particular. Its of little use to me in my life, but just the learning process was of benefit.

Its a different kind of focus when you know that a wrong move will electrocute you. (230V AC arc welding). I learned a lot about my own learning style that day.
What rappers think about video game consoles:

http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=Nintendo%2C%20Xbox%2C%20Play...
I knew about the 2%/5% but thought it was a pretty fair deal. The amount of advertising that this brings to a many of the companies on the show is worth a ton. Some of the food or plain merchandise companies where all the sharks passed have updates where their sales have grown enormously.
Ask HN: Why is my comment [dead]?
I have submitted few URLs in a comment thread and my comment is showing as dead,

Here is the comment,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6490472

What could be the reason?

You may need to turn on your showdead option to see the comment.

[EDIT: It is not dead anymore. But the question remains, what could be the reason? too many URLs?]
I am upset by this as well. 1Password 4 for iOS didn't seem like a useful enough upgrade to make me pay full price (again). And then since they pulled 1Password 3 from the store, they couldn't update it when Dropbox changed their API.

The new feature in 1Password 4 for Mac that has me interested is shared vaults. Now you can finally use 1Password as a password sharing solution for a business. This has been on my wishlist for years.
I would like examples of Obama authorizing the assassination of journalists/activists/etc., and not someone who's been called the "bin Laden of the Internet". Its much easier to be outraged about extrajudicial killings when the target isn't linked to Al Qaeda.
micromanagement != QA
Is CMD + \ an easily reachable shortcut on American keyboards?

On my Non-American keyboard, CMD + \ equals CMD + Alt + Shift + / …

I have never used the setting so far. The current setting in 1Password on the Mac I am using right now is CMD + S, that does not work of course. I guess I changed it years ago since AgileBits is very unlikely to have chosen CMD + S as shortcut for Non-American keyboards. I changed the shortcut now to CMD + ALT + 7 …
But all that stuff will only work with safari in Mavericks right?
Because it's a career with limited advancement opportunities, stressful work conditions, and and low lifetime earning potential? Because we can choose a careers that are far better in all of those dimensions and more AND are demonstrably socially welcoming for our gender?

You might as well ask why there aren't more millionaires going into fast food or Ivy Leaguers in migrant farming.

(my point of view, as a former high school math teacher and current software engineer)
Government officials in the US are often called czars. It's not an item of propaganda, it's just an informal way of talking in English.
Show HN: The first JS component to world's phone validation and formatting
I actually find it refreshing when people mock or criticize HN on HN. There is too much orthodoxy here, too much defensiveness when that orthodoxy is questioned, too much indirection where a plainly stated opinion would suffice, and a lot of people don't have a sense of humor about themselves. (Watch this get downvoted by people proving exactly my point.)
But the only reason they couldn't update 1Password 3 to the new API is because they pulled it from the store -- in order to force all users to upgrade for $18.
They sold it to Marvell.
I stand corrected. Was probably overcome with lazy emotions that prevented me from doing any actual work to find out :)
Many cities in Belgium (Mons, Charleroi), UK (Manchester, Liverpool ), France (Lille) are like that. Major work is done in the center, with peatonal areas, cleaning up of buildings, parks, rework of public transports, ...

That being said I don't know what France is doing here. I just suggest that at country level there are more concern than just the physical book market.
Thanks. That was inspiring to watch.
This is work of pure brilliance!
Either Lavabit's founder is lying or this Wired article is wrong[0].

Per the wired article, the government asserts that “The representative of Lavabit indicated that Lavabit had the technical capability to decrypt the information, but that Lavabit did not want to ‘defeat [its] own system,’"

Itis only after Lavabit refused to just decrypt Snowden's email, that the FBI demanded everything and the judge makes that assertion.

Of course, the Wired article might be wrong. However, I cannot think of a single legitimate technical reason why Lavabit could not break their own encryption for a single use. The encryption and decryption was done server side. This means they can pull the key out of memory. Worst case, they can grab Snowden's password/key when it goes to the server.

[0] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/10/lavabit_unsealed/
Regarding the NBA chart: "Jordan, Kobe and Lebron":

> Rap and professional sports have always gone hand in hand, and we can see the evolution of rappers’ favorite basketball players:

"Jordan" keyword for example would more often be used in reference for Nike shoes, so not a direct representation of the sports players popularity.

/pedantic rant
Canadian football also allows motion towards the line of scrimmage, which increases the tempo of the game & fun factor for the fans.
I think that your irritation comes more from your own holy cows being criticized, rather than some general favor toward intellectualism.
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You will be delighted to know theres a "drug czar" in the US. It sounded weird to me, too.
It needs a triple-equals, because false == 0, but false !== 0
This is why no one wants to hire Millenials
In other words, Real Soon Now http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/r/RealSoonNow.html
My personal moral opinion is that it would be extremely good if there was some way to make the kids/embryos with Down syndrome be cured, preferably before birth (because earlier in development there are less irreversible changes).

And if we had such a cure (as far as I know, we currently don't and won't for quite some time), then not applying it wouldn't be okay - not using that cure would be pure evil, and comparable to torture or, say, forcibly denying someone their eyesight or hearing or limb.
On this note I, during high school, worked at a large multiplex movie theater for about a year. During my shifts we had three car fires break out in parked, unoccupied cars. This was considered totally normal by both my employers and the fire department.

This stuff is clearly happening all the time.
The parent post did not imply anything of the sort. It was explicitly and clearly comparing the severity of fires, not the frequency.
> we don't just accept "oh, that's what the market will bear" for things like unsafe working conditions or workplace sexual harrassment.

I would.
Whereas Teslas are only vulnerable along the entire underside of the car. And don't require an ignition source.
People who judge others are the worst kind of people.
AFAIK there is still no way for a messaging app on iOS to reliably run 24/7. As a result, most messaging apps use their own server for new message notifications. If the app is not running, you get a notification and you can open the app to read the new messages. That of course means a MITM-like server …
I didn't ever claim otherwise.
Hey hey, let's all play nicely :)