skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Domain names were free until 1995.

Is this really true? My memory says differently, as I remember being in college 1993/1994 and having discussions about the economics of speculatively purchasing domain names. And the economics were certainly not "free".

But I don't have a source I can site.
I'm assuming it uses WebRTC; it won't let me into the site past the front page as I don't use Chrome.

Which is sad, since the Mozilla and Chrome teams work closely on developing WebRTC and ensuring compatibility.

Edit: found some more info in the source of that page. This is their configuration guide:

1. Open the URL chrome://flags the latest version of Google Chrome.

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and enable "Enable screen capture support in getUserMedia()

3. Restart browser - that's it

So, yes, WebRTC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnBvi8uXsq4
I makes some noise, at least at the higher speeds.
That's a shame, I can recall some great posts there, particularly the "Climategate" ones that actually investigated tech aspects of the story no proper journalist would bother with.
We use winston-filerotatedate for winston logrotation.
There has been a lot of interesting development on the secure chat front lately ( secure circle, textsecure, heml.is, cryptocat etc ).

Not sure if bittorrent chat will be very interesting. Most secure chat clients encrypt on the client side so the server won't be able to read your messages, so not sure if not having a server is that big of a win here. I'm also guessing metadata would be exposed to various people on the bittorrent chat p2p net.

The one I'm most excited about right now is bitmessage. It is the only chat protocol that I feel is really revolutionary. It is also a p2p network, but the interesting thing about it is that everyone on the network gets every message ( obviously you have to have the correct keys to decrypt the messages that were meant for you ). So its impossible for an observer to tell even who is talking to who. Also they have the concept of public chans , which I think are a good mechanism to draw users. Bittorrent could do the same thing here.
sharing access: something you can't do with physical keys.

Except by, you know, sharing the physical key, or having more than one copy, or using more than one lock linked together, etc.
a) The lock does not fall off. It basically grants you the permission to lock and unlock directly from the lock. Imagine replacing the keyhole on your lock with a button and everything is the same. You don’t even have to touch your phone. Leave it in your pocket.
b) You CAN share access with other remotely. But both people must have internet access on their smart phones (most people do)

Wheel locks are great don’t work everywhere. People don’t consider them safe. The other problem is that they may not be compatible or fit with all kinds of bikes. You don’t to pay for data plan on BitLock. You just need to have internet on your phone.
Goodbye Windows, Hello Chromebook
The question could be asked in another way: why do Americans smile so much in photographs, compared to many other cultures? Right now.

This research seems quite insular.
My own basic conclusion is included in the first section, the bits starting with "The confidence interval excludes zero, so one might conclude that n-back does increase IQ scores. From a Bayesian standpoint, it's worth pointing out that this is not nearly as conclusive as it seems, for two reasons:..."

As it happens, the active-control-group studies seem to be converging on zero, so I don't even have to appeal to priors. But if the result had been to find, say, d=0.4, I still wouldn't believe it: it would be more likely that the IQ tests are being corrupted, or publication bias had caused this, or fraud was involved, than we would have found a simple WM exercise which genuinely increased IQ after countless failures.

I do, of course, want to finish up the details (correct the Clouter data, and include the Seidler et al 2010 and Colom et al 2013 data) before I write up any kind of definitive conclusion & do a post-mortem of dual n-back.
Yahoo is a survivor.
Yeah, they really ought to work from the version of robots.txt archived along with a given snapshot. If the legal owner of the content wants it taken down, they can submit an explicit request for that.
What you're both describing is socialism, insurance is opt-in socialism, pure and simple.
http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...
The concept of loyalty being a one-way thing is fundamentally flawed. If you're "loyal" to someone or something that isn't loyal back, it's not loyalty, it's stupidity. Loyalty requires reciprocation.

The reality here is that companies aren't loyal to their employees. If a company isn't loyal to you, you can't be loyal to it. It's that simple.
Educate them.
I've never heard of that. You could probably script up something. Brain Workshop lets you specify a set of images to use, so I could imagine writing a script to extract the images of the next 30 flashcards and dump them into the folder each time you start up BW, and you would n-back with that...

I would be fascinated to hear how it went.
1. exercise
2. no more caffiene
3. justgetflux.com
Congress Finally Reaches Compromise Deal On Inert Gas
Javascript doesn't really have good tooling but at least if you don't like it, there are dozens of alternatives, just like in any other software space.

What I just said in the previous sentence is (NaN === NaN).
I dont know.

That is rather the point though, isn't?

There are many other countries whose authorities would absolutely care to detain foreign nationals over being smug.

What makes you believe that some individuals within the NSA are not of that type of person?
The problem I have with Tox is that it's 90% hype and 10% product. They spent all their time working on a nice website and building hype. That "screenshot" on the front page is a mockup, the Tox project isn't even close to that degree of completion.

I'd love to see them succeed, but I doubt it will. Especially with the recent falling-out among their primary developers.
Messaging with JMS and RabbitMQ
Right, but libraries consist of many other things, including ORM or testing suites. There aren't many great ORM libraries written in C, and you need the test suite to work in lua because you're testing lua code. In general, the world of lua is pretty small, probably smaller than languages like Clojure or OCaml.
Basic round-robin priority queue consumer in Go
I got the birthday notification one my most beloved teacher, and he passed away more than a year ago.

It is a bitter sweet moment indeed. Im kind of glad i got the notification really.
1. Speed and space can be difficult to predict without considerable experience.
2. The libraries are not as extensive and tested compared to conventional choices such as Java or C++.
Apart from the fact that it's pretty much impossible to find a job in cybersecurity unless you have some wanky certifications.

When I was younger I tried to break into that world and it was pretty much impossible. Companies I contacted to notify them about their security flaws seldom replied (and when they did, it was never to thank me)

On the other hand, I could always find buyers for exploits in alternative markets, or credit card numbers, or rooted servers.

My moral compass prevented me from going too deep into that stuff, but I know people who ended up setting DDoS -for-cash services, etc. (and they/we were just kids !)

I get it that you're trying to sell courses here, but come on...
Yeah. Fund this project, not some silly thing on Kickstarter.
Low quality texture map with seams and bad filtering at the poles. Big perceptible delay on camera movements. WebGL doesn't make a subpar gfx demo cool.
Your passing wouldn't cause it; and it could happen to anybody. However having it happen after you die is going to have an emotional impact on those who are still alive. How would it feel to open up facebook and see that you have a message from your deceased spouse? Not very good I imagine.

I think it is entirely reasonable that some people would want to prevent this from happening.
Now I can say today I learned something new. Had never heard of something like that.
What annoys me is the author has grown up surrounded by amazing tools and support allowing him/her to get into programming and is complaining that his/her particular choices have disappointed.

The world doesn't owe anyone satisfaction. It's up to the individual to find what makes them happy. Maybe some jobs aren't all that satisfying, in that case at least you now know this and can do something about it. Want to be a NASA computer scientist? Guess what, you can!

Lamenting about the 'golden days' of software where it was all tucked away in labs is short sighted. There are SO many more opportunities to do SO many more exciting things. Software is in its infancy, the real world changing tools are still to be discovered. Apply yourself.
The "challenge" strategy can be intensely satisfying, but can also be very frustrating if that challenge is not shared by everyone on your team.

I've approached problems with goals like trying to do everything in a declarative functional style, and not passing nulls to avoid having to check for null. It's worked great, until we hand the code off to somebody else, with a new requirement, and that person breaks all the rules not because it's a particularly hard problem to solve, but just because they don't care.

It's an issue I'm currently working through right now, and I'm not sure if it's something to write a style guide/manifesto for, or if there's a better way to enforce it, or if it's just not a battle I should be fighting when dealing with an outside vendor.
Hell no. These are the same people who didn't want to be bothered to write syntactically correct html. They view specs as nuisance and standards as cruft.

I code Javascript only because I have to, but its a miserable language.
An argument can be made that if people have disappeared from our lives entirely that indicates neither party was truly interested in maintaining that relationship. A friendship worth maintaining is worth maintaining even when it's not easy or convenient.

So we keep in touch with these people we would ordinarily have forgotten about, or perhaps had an occasional thought about but not cared enough to pursue. Is this change encouraging a meaningful relationship, or just a superficial one?

Deleted my FB account once I had the realization above. People I speak to regularly, I speak to regularly regardless. Not surprisingly, none of the 'long lost' contacts I picked up have kept in touch with me since then; nor have I attempted to keep in touch with them.

Which just serves to reinforce my point - when it was no longer convenient, we stopped keeping in touch. Which means that neither party actually cared enough to pursue it.
I see someone suggested Beeminder in the comments of your post (thank you, whoever that was!). Also by the creators of Beeminder (me and Bethany Soule) is TagTime, which is related to your idea of periodic prompts. We call TagTime "stochastic self-sampling" or "time-tracking for space cadets". It's not super friendly (a huge pain to get working on Windows, for example) but it's on github here: http://tagti.me

If you don't want to deal with TagTime (and I don't blame you) then just hooking up RescueTime to Beeminder is a great way to go. Here's what RescueTime says about Beeminder:

http://blog.rescuetime.com/2012/11/27/give-your-productivity...
So you are misinterpreting Einstein by modifying his sentences, the actual quote is from 1934 and together with the parts you omitted is:

"If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and Christianity as
Jesus Christ taught it of all subsequent additions, especially
those of the priests, one is left with a teaching which is capable
of curing all the social ills of humanity."

Wikipedia at least didn't omit the parts that you do -- you omitted "If one purges the Judaism of the Prophets and" and "of all subsequent additions, especially those of the priests, one is left with a teaching" -- so you're more malicious in this occasion, intentionally omitting Einstein words which are important the parts of the whole sentence.

Completely different context. Try to purge the teaching of both from the later additions -- almost nothing would remain -- the earliest written records of Christianity are Paul's writings, and he was a main priest. The Gospels are even later written, obviously by priests too. The rest of the Bible is even later, everything written by priest. Of course, once the humanity would accept such a purge (to drop everything written by priests) it would result in much higher level of global consciousnesses and therefore curing of social ills.

And again the "Spinoza God" quote is published 1930, his 1954 response is clear "I do not believe in a personal God." and "If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." That are his words in 1954 written by him directly, he died in 1955.
Of course, this has happened for as long as people have been able to travel. Before the Internet, you'd move to a different city, and maybe you'd keep in touch with some people but for the most part, you'd never know what happened to most people you knew. Because as soon as they moved or changed their phone number, getting back in touch was limited or involved a certain amount of research.

The difference now is that people who are in the acquaintance-Internet friend spectrum can still be reached easily with an email, a tweet, an instant message… if you wanted to. So they always feel kind of "there" even if you don't actually communicate with them. Until, like the author, you try to reach out and they don't reply back.

It's kind of an interesting thing of online "friends": you can be in touch with somebody in a chat room or a forum for years and feel like you know them well (at least in the context, you've known them), but they can just disappear one day and you won't know if it's because they died or just moved on to other things.

I was thinking about that about a guy I've been playing Words with Friends for probably three years. I only play with him because I know we're about the same level and it's hard to find players like that. (we were matched randomly) But I don't know anything about him except for his first name, most likely his birth year (based on his username) and possibly the fact that he lives on the East Coast based on the time he plays his turns. If he were to stop playing, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference from him being dead. It's a strange thing.
The only difference is the "hold the whole market first" strategy requires more capital.

That's not the only difference. It's not even the biggest difference. The major difference is that in your scenario you have a big unhedged exposure to the market (your p&l depends on the performance of A,B,C) and in the case of just shorting D you don't (doesn't matter what happens to A,B,C). That's a pretty big difference.
I feel the same way. I've been working on an open source clone of btsync because I don't feel like closed-source products can be trusted.

I've just documented the protocol so far, so there's no working code yet, but it's at https://github.com/jewel/clearskies.
Is there a reason you linked to ycombinator.org instead of ycombinator.com?
Range Rover Runs Over Bikers in NYC
Love the filename.

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ATH

Ah the good old days.
Uh... okay. If you want to call it that, that is fine. Not sure how that is relevant though.
Socialism is a lot more than a single economic exchange - its a system. Perhaps what they're describing is cooperative or risk-sharing. But its no more 'Socialism' with a big-S than its Monarchy. To quote Billy Crystal - I eat a burrito - I'm not Mexican.
Some time we involve in busy life and forget to meet our lover one, No day's Messaging,email,chat,FB decide our relationship. Why not we understand they are just source of contact not interaction.
Vvvv DX11 full implementation announcement (by mrvux)
Ask HN: What Happened to Chez JJ?
I was just looking at Chez JJ's website and they no longer have any of their Mountain View or Millbrae places listed. Anyone know what happened?
Ah, thank you. I've been trying to work out why no one seemed to be mentioning it. I flicked to Chrome, used a proxy ... still greyed out without any explanation.

Google are seriously bad at web design and copy writing it seems based on this.
Range Rover Runs Over Motorcyclists In NYC
Any change you could publish it? I would love to have this myself
Delighted Customers Made Possible by Modernizing Business Automation
Retroshare has awful usability. I am a smart person (yeah yeah), a programmer and a hacker and I ended up with two and a half accounts. Between two machines in the same local network it transferred files with 15 Kilobytes/s. I had to find random posts online to figure out if a blue non-descript icon meant I was sharing files with the world or no-one or if it was the green icon or something else. It looked so promising but turned out unusable.
The post in question specifically talks about catching client side errors in browsers, for which there isn't any real alternative to JS.
Private and volunteer fire departments actually work really well, but that's mainly because people genuinely want to be firefighters -- it's a fairly unambiguously good thing, everyone is always happier when they show up, and they tend to get more women than virtually any other blue-collar profession (a stereotype, but from interacting with FD people, it's pretty much borne out by experience.) It doesn't work as well in big cities, and doesn't work in a place like SF because SFFD also does all the EMS calls (which tend to suck, and require much more hours of actual work, training, etc.).

A rural or suburban volunteer or private fire department is fine, much more so than privatizing police forces.
This reminds me of Hackers for Charity which connects bored hackers with charities who need IT help. It keeps the teens from hacking systems they shouldn't, and gets them something to put on their resume so they have an easier time getting a legit security job in the future.
I hate to point out the obvious but valuable NSA-type traffic is text and voice...I doubt they care 'bout youtube and netflix streaming traffic. I'm sure in 'absolute terms' that statement is true but it is a lie of omission.

I'd be willing to bet 0.00004% is probably close to 100% of all the metadata that crosses a router used by a US-based ISP or an international fiber line owned by a US company. :P
Getting the stack trace is usually painless if using jQuery. The large majority of code runs inside an event handler registered using jQuery, so there is a single place to put a try/catch within jQuery and ravenjs/getsentry do that. It also overrides window.setTimeout for the same reason.

The article doesn't mention my biggest problems:

* about half my reported exceptions are due to injected third party code. We use https, but browser extensions and plugins run JavaScript within your page. Some of the time it is obvious the exception is in third party code because of the script name or exception text, but even then it causes a lot of noise.

* With a single page app, we are extremely keen to monitor and diagnose communication problems. However often error logging will fail if the connection has failed. We use getsentry so that at least we are logging to a different domain, but ideally we need to store errors offline and forward them once getting online again.
What alternatives to JavaScript are there for browser-side scripting? Even things like CoffeeScript and Dart only translate into JavaScript and still use its runtime.

We just have to continue to improve the tooling.
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You are correct. In fact, Commodore Basic had more of these shortcuts which allowed you to type in Basic commands really quickly. If you LISTed the code all shortcuts were changed to their correct command names. Kind of stenographic coding. Never saw anything like that later on with the 'modern' programming languages.. Maybe someone should bring this approach back :)

Edit: found a list of the keyword abbreviations. More then I expected/remembered.
http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/BASIC_keyword_abbreviation
Doh! Good catch!

Our docs team has updated the help links.

Thanks,
Google Web Designer team
I would probably reach out to the EFF first as a sanity check before taking such a step.
For live debugging there's still a need for some way of getting the source locations you're interested in into that quickfix window. Not that there aren't probably plugins &c that do just that, but it doesn't fall out as straightforwardly as parsing build errors.
In modern (as opposed to old) photography, smiling is often forced and awkward. As a serious photographer, I don't like posed photos at all, except from people who are comfortable and expressive while modeling. For most people, I prefer candids. And in my candid work (which isn't necessarily representative of the world at large), people tend to either look serious, or be laughing. Smiling is less common.
Mystery of Medieval Mega-Volcano: Solved
This is close to blogspam. I think the source article is better: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/09/18/the-serious-and-the...
Imagine there's a button instead of the key hole. press it once = open, press it again = close. If you are out of range, press it = nothing happens.

The lock just does't pop.
Hey, author here. When I first found out about my secret profile, I was fairly upset, and it took a little bit to put into words why I was upset. (It's public data!) The real reason is I don't know what they have. Even Facebook at least allows you to request a copy of your data, and other similar sites are employee opt-in. There's nothing in their Privacy Policy about the collected - only for customers.

There's barriers to find out what exactly's scraped, and what data of mine they're selling to other companies. I have to question - is it even legal to scrape my contact information and sell it? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but I'd like to at least know what's being sold here.

I should have a call this week with them to discuss further, after which I'll update my post.
Have you ever had a really, really good hamburger bun that set the burger apart from almost any other burger you've ever eaten?

If you have, why not describe it as "artisanal"? Some bread really is good enough to warrant a special description.

Likewise, the iPhone 5c is a really, really nice plastic object. I know next to nothing about plastics, but I do know that the 5c is set apart from, say, this Handspring Visor that's (for some reason) on my desk.
Isn't part of the problem the fact that Ruby is ridiculously slow? I'm not even trolling, I am a Ruby programmer, I've used the language for about 5 years now and seeing friends of mine run their 200+ files test suite in under half a second (C programmers), I can't help but think about how nice that must be to be able to run your tests when you want to without thinking of the consequences (and yes I understand comparing C and Ruby is ludicrous, just pointing to the fact that Ruby is still extremely slow and would very much benefit from a good speed bump eventually).

Cause slow tests as a symptom pretty much means that if you're not an excellent programmer then tough sh*t, testing will be slow and painful, which ultimately drives people away from those good practices.

Also, I find ironic that Rails (as a framework that is supposed to empower people and make them efficient) is, according to many comments in this thread and "tech pundits" conducive to the kind of tight coupling and dependency that will lead to bad design choices and slow tests.