skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the position that cryptozooligists never "abandon any discredited evidence" to be unfair. They're talking about a whole demographic here. There are likely to be more reasonable cryptozooloigists that disregard discredited evidence, and would happily admit to hoaxes in this area.

I think the majority would hacker news would be with me if I said that, on the whole, cryptozoologists are a little nutty. You don't need to resort to political smear tactics to say it.

However. You do need to use smear tactics if you want to create outrage. If that was the articles objective... then... good job I guess?

As a side note: squatchers is a great name.
The founding fathers were very keen on keeping all three branches under control using each other. It can get messy. But this idea comes from the UK, back when Parliament was a means of balancing the power of the King:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_of_the_purse

In the case of the US it's put into place so the Executive Branch cannot wield too much power. Sometimes a lot of power is good. But quite often throughout history, too much power makes it ripe for abuse.

Usually what happens is they come to an agreement but this time, like a few times in the past, they didn't come to one before the government would furlough non-essential staff members.

It's ugly, but it's a work in progress. Since we have a purely representative form of democracy the best the American citizen can do is vote for new Representatives, Senators, Judges (sometimes), and Presidents. Oh and of course YELL FROM THE ROOFTOPS :D
One argument that Latin is superior to mathematics because of its moral (not linguistic) advantages is found here: http://www.classicalliberalarts.com/library/whylatin.htm
"Why Latin and Greek Must Be Studied", under section V. "Because Classical Literature is Morally Superior to Mathematics".
And with iOS7 they're going to have a harder time wiping it because phones are now locked to your Apple account. So they need your Apple account ID and password to wipe it.
Nope – not at the moment.
I think everyone in the company, at an early stage, should have a mindset of ensuring things are getting done, rather then working X number of hours. It should never be about the number of hours your working - some weeks it may be 100 hours, then some weeks it may be 30 hours. It should always be about building a great company and finding those people that are passionate about the same, family or not.
Also, it is discrimination to actually not accept candidates based on whether they have kids or not. We never ask family/personal related questions in our interviews, as it is against the law to do so.
NSA collection of American communications? I bet that's not shut down.
Apparently that can be defeated with Photoshop.
The article is confusing 'independent contractor' with 'consultant'. All the points are true for 'independent contractor'. For a 'consultant' they're not even in the same universe.
The reason why youth is preferentially valued is that wisdom is not: the youth work within existing systems and frameworks with agility and without questioning them, they don't yet have the experience to deeply challenge those frameworks.

It's not that there are no older people at companies, it's that there are few at the top, who don't want to be challenged. They want people who will efficiently follow orders. The best kind of person to follow orders is one who doesn't even know how to begin questioning them yet because he simply does not have enough experience yet.

Ironically then, the preference for youth exists in order to prop up old paradigms. This is a cultural artifact of the current era not some timeless principle.
Workflowy was designed with bullet points in mind. It's primarily a webapp though; no native desktop application but they recently came out with mobile apps.
Took my Dad to the mall yesterday
We did eventually get bodies, but only fairly recently. We had scraps before that, but those were often dismissed and had their aberrant characteristics ascribed to mutation or decomposition. In hindsight we have identified them as being of colossal squid, but that was anything but accepted at the time. It wasn't really until the 2000's and a live specimen was discovered that it was generally accepted that these things were real.

And, again, my point isn't whether Bigfoot does or doesn't exist. But whether the logical argument survives such abstraction. And I don't think it does.

The inexistence of bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest doesn't really speak to the (un)likelihood of the Yeti in the Himalayas. Nor does the lack of evidence for elves and goblins in Europe speak to the likelihood of an Orang Pendek.
The last sentence leaves out very important points made in the struck-through versions about valuing the time of your audience. I am currently looking for more information-dense delivery mechanisms, among other things. The struck-through versions provide vivid illustration of the point, which provides a kind of information-density. Words are not your only medium, not even in copy, much less online generally.
I think I agree with most of what you say, but the point is, not being open source is a non-starter right out the door. Open source doesn't give anything a pass, but without that at a bare minimum, we can't even begin to take it seriously.

But I wouldn't really be worried about backdoors for something like this, just incompetence. I don't think anyone is taking it seriously anyway.
Incidentally I just released my me-too static generator. It's targeted for academics, with all the features an academic expects (hyphenation, LaTeX math support and so on). If anyone's interested: https://github.com/lrem/phdoc
Fingerprint authentication is just like a door lock on your house. It's not going to stop a determined criminal (because they can just smash your window), but it's a pretty good way to stop casual attempts at intrusion.

I agree that the touchID shouldn't be used for authentication with everything and I think Apple agrees, which is why they haven't opened it up to 3rd party developers.
You handwave around the fact that obtaining high-res photos of the finger (i.e., lab setting) is not exactly easy. How would you propose this occurs? It's not like this is some widely-licensed implementation - the devices are highly personal/coveted and don't store the image in-device (just hashed representation that can't recreate the print).

The CCC could have used a stray fingerprint (say on a glass or the phone itself) but didn't. I suspect they would have demo'd that if they could have made it work reliably or even at all.

Your slippery slope argument seems faith-based and doesn't answer the big questions I posed above. I don't see Samsung or Moto going fingerprints anytime soon - and if they do, Apple is there with patented tech waiting to sue them if it's at all similar. Widely varying implementations of the same thing with possibly different exploit angles - does that seem like a security epidemic to you?
Animo.js : manage CSS animations
It's probably more feasible on iOS than most platforms, since it forbids the users' freedom to run their own software. Thus, it is unlikely people will compile this themselves for distribution, since distribution would be so useless.
ThisPlusThat.me (word2vec-powered conceptual relationships)
Wow. How did you use your floss card to prevent yourself from being killed?

I'd love to hear that story.

(I'm taking the word "literally" ... um ... literally here)

:-D
A lot of people have already given their fingerprints to the US Govt - children whose parents enrolled them in "kid safety" programs, teachers, anyone that ever applied for a position of public trust or any kind of background search, people that have applied for concealed carry permits...

The US Govt probably has 3-4 sets of my fingerprints in various data stores across several agencies...and I'm no one special.
This is missing a single word: "Sometimes."
With iOS 7, when you select "Erase All Content and Settings", it will disable Find My iPhone after prompting you for your Apple ID password.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818
That's assuming they've never had to debug one of their programs, ever. Even with a distaste for braces and semi colons they will have to eventually look through the compiled code, or run through something like js2coffee.
1. The Google web Designer is not bad.
2. It't more intuitive than Dreamweaver--by far.
3. I think they should deemphasize the Ad functionality.
4. They should offer a few basic templates--maybe be I missed them?
5. Templates were important in my learning curve. Trying
to memorize WC3 examples didn't work for me. Experimenting
with a template helped me a lot--plus I could put up rudimentary websites quick.
6. If anyone from Google stumbles upon this; remember you
have multiple generations of people out there that would
love to learn how to put up a web page.
7. Put up some video tutorials. You are hemoraging money,
but I've noticed you seem to depend on customers to post
"how to videos", or maybe hire some out of work 30-65 year
olds to produce the videos. Some of your older users know
how to communicate without using too much tech lingo--isn't
that the purpose of ths Editor? If their videos do the
trick pay them, and don't expect them to move to your campus-let them work at home. Working at home has some benefits.
Risky politically?

In practical terms, it isn't that risky. As has been pointed out, this has happened before. The U.S. hasn't defaulted on its treasury bills. The Secret Service doesn't stop protecting the President. Federally-funded highways are still operating.
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Isn't one of the points of containers is that you can have many small containers that run 1 application? If that's the case pricing per-container seems... very expensive.
Shockwave effect is a big contributor to traffic. Even moreso than accidents/road construction.
my Mom was a translator for various technial companies (Data General, ftp software, PTC). A lot of translators at those businesses would do freelance work for a translation agency.

The agency she worked for is still in business although she doesn't do work for them anymore.
http://www.linguist.com/

Alternatively, find a native Hindi speaker and ask them if they know someone.
Microsoft Privacy Chief: Ceased carrying a cell phone & staunch open source user
I love this idea. You can still get to make money and the rest of us get to benefit and contribute. I like this particularly for games, where the content can not be as easily duplicated as say a business app. Creativity and all that.
Last I looked (a few years ago) ios forbid open source apps on the store, has that changed?
The CIA has been accused of drug trafficking on a number of occasions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffic...
Ask HN: Angular coders, how do you maintain SEO of an old site?
We have an old php site that we are thinking of moving to Angular + Rails. We have a lot of good page ranking now that we cannot lose. I have heard about prerendered HTML and Google/Bing for AJAX sitecrawling, but I'd like to hear the experience of the HN crowd. Have you had successes in such migrations?
It's from recommendation to recommendation.
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You also see that the author doesn't know how to use commas.

Taking writing advice from someone who doesn't know how to use commas is like taking cooking advice from someone who doesn't know how to boil an egg.
- You
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- No
- In the clouds (syncs incl mobile) & less structured
curl https://getanomalous.com/install.sh 2>/dev/null | sudo bash -s your_app_key your_api_key

Please do not use this kind of install solution! Piping arbitrary commands to an elevated shell is very bad. People who know better won't use it, and people who don't know better will have their "this is an acceptable method of install" bias confirmed, leaving them vulnerable to losing control over their machines.

Provide packages, please, not arbitrary tarballs from s3.

With regards to the MySQL plugin, I don't see any checks for active threads versus max threads, deadlocks warnings, InnoDB status warnings, replication status, long running queries, etc. For actual host monitoring, I don't see anything about load, disk usage, logged in users, memory usage, processor usage...

In short, I don't see anything particularly useful if you're actually monitoring a MySQL host.

Sorry if this seems abrupt, but if you want someone to pay for a Nagios replacement, it has to be an actual replacement for Nagios, which this does not actually appear to be.
+1 for Uptimerobot. I've used it for 2 years or so now and it works great.
Better would be to just have the Scope class take a single function to run and establish multiple stack entries for them. This would be my version:

#include <cstdio>

template <typename tFunc>
class ScopeFunc {
private:
tFunc mFunc;

public:
ScopeFunc(tFunc func) : mFunc(func) {}

~ScopeFunc() {
mFunc();
}
};

template <typename tFunc>
ScopeFunc<tFunc> on_return(tFunc func)
{
return ScopeFunc<tFunc>(func);
}

int main() {
auto first = on_return([]() { std::puts("first"); });
auto second = on_return([]() { std::puts("second"); });

std::puts("Hello");
}

Note that this is C++11, using lambdas. Also that the output will be reversed from your expectation since it's a lifo, but that's probably actually what you want for real deferred behaviour and not text output.

It also optimizes nicely, which yours may not because the loop unrolling may be complicated and there's a higher chance of aliasing of the function pointers in the vector:

0000000000400600 <main>:
400600:	53	push %rbx
400601:	bf e4 07 40 00	mov $0x4007e4,%edi
400606:	e8 b5 ff ff ff	callq 4005c0 <puts@plt>
40060b:	bf ea 07 40 00	mov $0x4007ea,%edi
400610:	e8 ab ff ff ff	callq 4005c0 <puts@plt>
400615:	bf f1 07 40 00	mov $0x4007f1,%edi
40061a:	e8 a1 ff ff ff	callq 4005c0 <puts@plt>
40061f:	31 c0	xor %eax,%eax
400621:	5b	pop %rbx
400622:	c3	retq
I have a family and wouldn't reply to that ad at all
It might be cheaper than you expect once you apply good VC.

Might not; but that's what VC about.
Well, that explains today's 'Show HN: "Who is hiring"'
Awesome. Happy to give my $0.02 on any number of potential verticals. My is email is my HN name at Google's mail.
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This fills me with signifiant unease.

So we have all this data here, ready for mining from corporate or foreign interests (ok, well the ones not already in bed with the USG) and all they have to do is attack the weakened infrastructure.

If I was a such an outside entity, a few million spent in forcing the shutdown sounds like a well-spent investment so I can swoop in and pick up the pieces.

What a clusterfuck.
You underestimate the compiler. This formulation might be tricky, but the version I just posted (adjacent to this post) definitely leaves the compiler knowing exactly what's going to be called when the function exits.
Robotics and Art Combine in Latest Viral Video "Box"
Have you considered swapping out Word for OneNote? Granted, it won't break your dependence on Microsoft, but I've found that OneNote is superior in how it handles images, and it's SkyDrive integration is better than Word's so synchronizing your notes across computers is a lot easier. I've also found that OneNote does outlining better than Word.
They were also accused of creating the "superdollar" aka the "supernote": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar

But you can see it's all speculation, based on things they have not said, etc.
The "writing/journalism crowd"? What is this new prejudice? There is no such "crowd," nor, if there were, would they share the features you describe. What an absurd generalization.
Samsung inflates benchmarks on the Note 3
A good example would be the Golden Gate Bridge (at least they used to do this, I haven't been to the west coast in several years).
"If I had more time, I would have written you a shorter letter." —Blaise Pascal
TouchID has some tangible implications for markets where some security is needed and convenience is already compromised. For example, my corporate policy disallows pattern lock and requires I use a pin. This is majorly annoying and is enough for me to consider a different device.

The big enterprise market is an awesome place to get a foothold in - they are not really price-sensitive and hate change. Not that Apple has any problems in that segment, but extra lock-in doesn't hurt.

Where this becomes semi-dangerous is in assuming that now your phone is ironclad and you can store whatever on it totally unprotected. The best route to safety is to make informed decisions based on your own risk-tolerance and not be a lemming.
I just sang this to my sister. She laughed, but doesn't understand. God, we're nerdy.
"Us founders are blitzing 80+ hours a week."

This is where most people with a family would stop reading.

"If you're young and energetic, come join us."

That is border-line ageist. The rest is a half-hearted apology that won't entice a normal person to want to work in the advertised conditions.
www.healthcare.gov 's Backbone site is busted. Should have used knockout. 500 on https://www.healthcare.gov/ee-rest/ffe/en_US/MyAccountEIDMUn... and they didn't handle the error.
Martin Kleppe: 1024+ Seconds of JS Wizardry
To be clear - it's not about the scenario where NSA is already out to get me. Obviously in this case the cost of getting my fingerprints the traditional way doesn't matter anymore. It's the scenario in which NSA gets interested in me because a) I made it easy for them to mass-harvest my fingerprints and b) they happen to get a false match on a terrorists' ashtray or whatever. I'm not convinced that the (hypothetically mass-harvested) material from the camera and microphone has comparable potential for such a false match.
The most important distinction. Someone who wants your hardware doesn't care about the data, and will wipe the phone (although this is where iOS 7's Activation Lock comes in). And, if they want your data, they will figure that out, too. Touch ID is just a deterrent, same as a password or PIN, just to varying degrees.
Yes, but surely there are ways of achieving the same thing without laying off the people who write the army wage checks, for example. Whatever your views on the use of armed force, I think we can all agree that paying the people with the guns on time is generally considered a good move. And shutting down a large section of their own economy in the middle of a financial crisis is just beyond insane. Why can't they sign the budgets 6 months ahead, or something.
Wow, you and me both...
After spending the summer working on a project using Firebase, Angular, and D3, I definitely would have appreciated more articles on using D3 with dynamic data. Thanks for writing this up! I hope it helps some more people down the road.
No, to him Touch ID is the same as Face Unlock and both are just cute lightweight toy features.

He asks: "I don't see what this adds over face unlock."

I answer: "You can use Touch ID to buy things."
All of those are part of the environment, and, consequently, addressed by the premise "if every child is in an environment that lets them develop and flourish to their fullest extent".
Ironically, the reverse is true for alert() popups.
Ask HN: $10k in legal fees for a seed round – is that a joke?
I'm reading http://venturehacks.com/articles/debt-benefits (cost section) and http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/2007/05/13/who-pays-legal-fees-in-a-convertible-note-bridge-financing-and-how-much-does-it-cost/. What I'm getting is that you'd be lucky if you paid under $10k in legal fees for your seed deal. Is that a joke?!!!!!

I'm a student at Pitt, and am starting a website (http://www.collegeanswerz.com/) to make better college reviews. I'm looking to raise about $60,000 in the next few weeks so I could pay people to answer questions. It seems ridiculous for me to pay 1/6 of what I'm raising in legal fees.

Am I missing something? Are these sorts of fees typical? If so, how does that make sense?
> but can probably lift the print right off the phone itself

What utter unmitigated rubbish. It is extremely unlikely that even a fully qualified CSI would be able to lift a full print from a mobile phone, let alone one that that can be reliably reproduced in the manner CCC described.
What do you mean?

Windows Phone has the best mobile programming environment there is. The tools are much better than anything you can find for iOS and Android. I know, I programmed apps on all major platforms.

So is it a developer success? I would think so. Is it a consumer success? Not really. But it's consistently gaining marketshare, and is becoming quite popular in Europe.

And no, I don't work for Microsoft.
How about, "fingerprints are pass codes that I don't have to enter 200 times a day, which I currently do"?
Plausible, perhaps. Still outrageous.
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When writing about technical subjects, however, you often need redundancy. People sometimes misunderstand concepts. When they do, the only thing that will alert them to their error is the second explanation crashing into the first.
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