skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, it's not that. I can't get it working either and WebGL is working fine here. They're using Modernizr and the 'Modernizr.csstransforms3d' property seems to be returning false in my browser.

Maybe it's because of this bug? https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/issues/590

Edit: actually, it does seems to be a blacklisting issue. You can check in about:gpu. In my case I was running WebGL via software! If you're curious you can see the full list here: https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chrome/gpu/software_renderin...
Agree, except I'd amend it as

The success of MySQL can be tied directly to people using "database" for things where what they really need is "network filesystem".

The success of SQLite can be tied directly to people using "database" for things where what they really need is "filesystem".

Interesting that it's the same dynamic at play.
Silk Road fallout discussion
There was a time when the trade-off was:

1. The government lied and pretends not to engage in domestic espionage.

2. To support that lie, the government didn't do much bad stuff with the results of its domestic spying.

3. Thus, the domestic spying wasn't a big deal.

I think we're past that point now.
Further proof libertarian ideals are naive bunk. Once we take all the rules away, suddenly even the gentlest nerd becomes Walter White.
This is true, but because of completely different toolchains it's very rarely the case that this happens. Flash, at its height, was being used with tools like Flex to build full applications. Adobe provided interface libraries for you to substitute native controls for its own (inferior) versions. Nothing like this exists yet for the tools you mention, and hopefully never will..
Climate Corp doesn't forecast the weather.
I'm curious. What websites do you currently pay for access to? Any?
http://blockchain.info/en/tx/4a0a5b6036c0da84c3eb9c2a884b6ad...
Ego, perhaps.
I look forward to encoding other NP-hard problems into bin packing problems and hammering this API. Just kidding.
That is sick! Oh...that feels like it definitely belongs in this hack. Great stuff.
Thanks for the image link. At a quick glance, it reminded me of PHPMySQL, but I guess most, good, web-based admin UI's will have a similar layout and functionality.
Interesting. Someone should build a browser add in that shows logged out views of LinkedIn profiles even if the user is logged in, with the ability to toggle between the two views.
Do they think we are stupid? I mean I know it costs them money, I just don't give a shit.
That's contiguity but alignment is a different thing. At a certain point though, the two things become one and the same. On the one hand, you could put in layout optimizations in a GC system. On the other hand, you can use things like shared_ptr and effectively write your own GC even.

I guess the debate really isn't an A vs B thing. It's just a spectrum and deciding which side of the spectrum you want to start on.
Technorati does this:

http://technorati.com/search?return=sites&authority=all&q=be...

It only catalogs blogs, as far as I know.
Yeah, but you can do a simple change and suddenly it's derivative and you can licence it as GPL.
Samsung Galaxy S4 isn't bad looking either. I'm also a fan of the Sony Xperia line up.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!
In previous postings DPR has indicated he inherited the site from the original owner, it would be funny if he knew they were closing in and sent the phony papers to the first DPR in an effort to give himself some time to escape.
Or just use a static site generator? It amazes me how many rarely updated sites use Wordpress when the people who run them are more than capable of using something like jekyl. I guess the themes ecosystem etc around Wordpress is just too big to pass up?
I am not trying to shame anyone, and yes, I am involved in researching solutions for a project that aims to help people in poverty empower themselves through providing data processing services. I also accept lower wages to be able to work on projects that are beneficial socially and have rejected offers to work in industries like high frequency trading that were very lucrative. I have spent hundreds of hours volunteering in my life teaching reading, ged, and esl in low income and even volunteered to teach ged material in a jail. We can all help in many ways, but the main point is having good regulation and rules is beneficial to capitalism. The best solution would be proper regulation of mturk to make sure that all businesses are on a level playing ground, whether they use mturk or another solution that at the moment may be more expensive in order to ensure minimum wage. But until that regulation happens, or mturk ensures minimum wage, I won't use mturk for any project.
Ask HN: What are consumer insights you've had from conversations with users?
I have some examples from my time as product manager in a startup in my post here:
http://blog.konotor.com/post/60092185504/the-value-of-real-conversations-with-your-users<p>Would love to examples from others, if any!
And it reduces junk in the log.
You would get the same hardware support from Debian or pretty much any other distro. If they had strict control over the hardware I would say roll their own kernel, but they don't, so a distro like Ubuntu makes sense. But I don't think the price of dealing with working with Ubuntu would be worth it over using something like Debian. Also, Google was using an Ubuntu based distro for Chromebooks, but they have since switched to Gentoo due to problems of working with Ubuntu.
SSGs are good if you think of them in advance. In the short term, such as when one is unexpectedly on the HN front page, switching on caching is the biggest payoff.
"And the average bid is high because ... government."

I'll admit that I was skeptical when people said that "everything is different this time because ... internet!", but I think your application of the theory is much more elegant.
I guess it depends on whether you believe cryptographic currencies have significant use cases outside of criminal enterprise.

If, on the other hand, you believe that the greatest value of bitcoins comes from their use by criminals, doesn't that make your investment in them a touch morally questionable?
Someone should put together a timeline from the affidavit. It looks like a lot of pieces start coming together at the same time in June/July.

The fact that they intercepted his fake travel documents during a routine search of mail at customs when they were already that close to him seems unlikely.

But maybe I'm reading this wrong, or maybe they actually do intercept a high percentage of fake passports moving across the border.
The Lean(est) Startup
> 5. Homer sends to Lisa the transaction and Lisa adds some inputs to the transaction
> as it happens in this example:

At this point, has Lisa paid Homer yet? If not, what will force her to do so?
Because numbers like the following are less clear:

- 1.0833 years old: 13 months

- 1.4166 years old: 17 months

- 1.8333 years old: 22 months

So, is it easier to use years on the clean decimals and months whenever it gets hairy, or to just settle on months?
ahh yes, the creepy gone wild stalker story
The exact question I had ... though I guess if they're tracking all network data, then they could have just gone back and looked up the history of the SO post.
I'm not but usually in a case where a bunch of suspects are rounded up they will announce the sting operation publicly to make sure everyone knows they are on the job. I assumed they didn't because the FBI was built on publicity and it's part of their institution. But you might be right, they may be doing this to just shake the tree or they've already moved on people.
Yes, but apparently highly intelligent hacker types with a geeky humor? That plus I wouldn't call her 'fat' - I'd say she's at the upper limit of what's healthy for a woman her age. Do we give Wozniak or Newell this treatment, both having a way unhealthier weight than her?
Ask HN: Moving from PHP to Django, setup & host advice?
Hello HNers!

For years I've been building my side projects in plain PHP. However, I recently decided to learn Django after reading everywhere that it's better than PHP.
It's been only a few days since I've started learning Django, and I'm already convinced that it's awesome: clean syntax, database-abstraction API, auto-generated admin, MVC, etc.

But there are also a few things that I really have trouble with:
- Installation/setup/configuration. It took me way too long to install Python/Django, and then to understand how to deal with static files [1]
- I can't find a host for my Django projects that is simple to use [2]

I mean, all of this is trivial to do in PHP.
Since I'm not really comfortable with these "sysadmin tasks", I'm considering to switch back to PHP.

Any tips on how to make this less painful?
Thanks!

[1] Actually, it still doesn't work properly...
[2] For example, Heroku, that is supposed to be simple, has a long documentation for Django that is scary to me: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-django
I think you're talking about anarcho-capitalists, not necessarily libertarians.

I agree that it's a baffling world view though.
I have emails from both of these individuals in my inbox from a few years ago.
There are already people lobbying heavily for all the shitty things I could see a tech lobby lobbying for. MPAA/RIAA, protectionist labor unions, 'military-industrial complex', etc.

Tech lacks representation though, particularly compared with how much lobbying much less affluent industries manage to do.
KDE brings a lot of goodies like KIO. You don't have to use the desktop in question, just install the libs.
They will most likely use a much more light weight WM underneath (say Openbox) instead of Unity. If you don't have a WM handling some things and just start steam in BP mode your cursor stays around :P
Unfortunately, we live in an age where its politically incorrect to remotely hint at genetic determinism. Men and women are exactly the same. Dumb people and the ultra smart are exactly the same. Articles that contradict this don't get much traction in the media and certainly don't get on the front page of HN.

We're probably a generation or two away before we can accurately look at these issues without activist groups and other political groups declaring them invalid because of misplaced idealism.

Somewhere there's a modern day Galileo saying "but some children are born smart!"
> For example, MySQL accepts both ' and " as string delimiters.

That is, in its default mode, MYSQL does not accept ANSI-standard quoted identifiers (supporting only non-standard use of backquotes for quoted identifiers), and instead treats double quotes as equivalent to single quotes for strings. (Of course, MYSQL has a non-default option to support the standard.)

PostgreSQL, OTOH, supports the standard out of the box, and treates double quoted material as quoted identifiers.

Neither behavior is more finnicky, one is just standards-compliant.

> It's very fun trying to get around PGSQL not understanding what you want to do while MySQL understands

This would appear to only be an issue if your only RDBMS experience is with MySQL and you are adapted to its quirks, since if you have experience with other DBs which adhere to the ANSI standards for basic behavior, MySQL will, by default, be more likely to not understand what you mean than PostgreSQL.
Red Storm Rising was what turned me on to Clancy. Then again, in the 1980's the idea World War III was a bit closer to home.
Sorry, that should read 7.4.
Canonical's target market is mobile devices. I suspect they will be testing a complete mobile stack. As mentioned above in this discussion, there are 4 example phones that already have functioning images.

Shuttleworth probably knows how to keep his Dell working, and will possibly be sticking to LTS releases.
1. I've never felt TOR was secure. I think the American
government knows exactly how to track down a suspicious
IP.

2. I think they left SR alone, because they have bigger
concerns-- terrorism, foreign surveillance? They still want
the world to think VPN's are private?

3. If you can't make money in this system-- I understand.
I don't think I've every met a wealthy person who wasen't
a psychopathic hypocrite--usually with a very advanced degree. I live among these hypocrites, and it's nauseating.
I won't even start on how many parasitic people in Marin
County start up nonprofits, and no one bothers to find
out how much they make--all legal.

4. If you are going to do something that could land you
in jail Don't Tell Anyone What You Are Doing. That includes
the person you bed with......

5. Never take advantage of the poor, animals, children, or
the environment. It's pathetic I needed to make a list, but
some of you repress what you are doing.
The solicitation is a crime. There was a transfer of ~ 1600 btc noted.
Dropped from 140 to 114 in just the few hours since the story broke.
I quite like the idea of projectwonderful.

It seems to be very heavily used on webcomic sites I frequent, and I haven't seen a bad ad yet.

I also like the idea of purchasing time on a site, rather than using targeted ads. Meanwhile, the hosting site can discontinue the ad if they feel it doesn't match their culture.

It's more analogous to renting a billboard from a friendly business you like, rather than hiring a bunch of people to follow your customers around with posters.

It just seems like a stand-up way to do ads.
Google Web Designer
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6470426
Alleged criminal conspiracies. If the prosecution of an alleged criminal is undermined by his being able to afford competent defense, we've got a bigger public policy issue.
SEC to make stock-market trading data public
Response to what?
can you elaborate how would you use an blog search API? like what post/gets are you looking for, what/which blogs etc?
SQLite is a great replacement for MySQL for many of the same reasons and in many of the same circumstances where MySQL is a decent replacement for a non-MySQL RDBMS. Its lighter, simpler, and less overhead for simple tasks.
The intercepted fake ids too -- After being observed requesting them.
I'm not quite as rabid as a lot of HN commenters are about this entire issue, but the following passage is near-comical:

Balancing the competing interests at stake, the Government has taken a number of significant steps -- above and beyond what the law requires -- in order to promote transparency and accommodate the the legitimate interests of companies. For example, for the first time, in the winter of 2013, the Government agreed that companies may report the aggregate number of NSLs they receive, in numerical ranges and on a periodic basis.

When you're trumpeting the fact that you oh-so-graciously allowed companies to report the number of gag orders they received as some sort of great leap forward in transparency, it's a bad sign.
So this is interesting:

> Keith Adams has been gracious enough to run a "wc -l" on our main codebases just now. Fresh data! We're roughly in the 70/30 area for PHP/C++. Both codebases have grown a lot in absolute numbers since I joined, and most interestingly the ratio was somewhere like 90/10 four years ago. We've scaled up a lot since then, hence the increased emphasis on infrastructure.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1nl9at/i_am_a_member_o...
> 3) Later in 2011 "altoid" made a post on bitcointalk with his email address, containing his real name, in it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47811.msg568744#msg5.... If you search the name on Google it doesn't show up, but if you look at the user's page you can see it in his posts.

And a few post below someone says:

> I'm interested Ross

Spy film discretion here.
Smalltalk: Swimming with the fish
I dont understand what the purpose of this is. I thought the whole point of REST is that it is discoverable at runtime. If you have an "API Spec" doesnt that mean the server owner is now beholden to that spec; that changes to their resources would break compatability with any client written to conform to the spec?

I thought everything you needed to write a REST API client is included in the media-type specification and the rel profile?

For example, the spec for the HTML media-type details that link elements with the rel type of "stylesheet" should be resolved by HTTP GET.

My understanding was that (in the example given) you write a spec for your music description media-type e.g. MUSICML, and register it with IANA (because media-types MUST be registered with a central authority). Then your client only need make a HTTP OPTIONS request to see that the Content-Type e.g. vnd.example.com/musicml+v1.0 and the methods allowed on that resource.

As long at the client uses the described rel profiles appropriate to the media-type MUSICML e.g. the spec specifies that the rel type "play" should HTTP GET the specified WAV file and play it in the client, then the server owner is free to modify the API endpoints as they wish.

I never understood why people insist in adding more layers of cruft on top of a perfectly adequate transfer protocol (HTTP) that is almost always worse and brittle than what the existing protocol already provides.

(don't get me wrong, I appreciate that hardly anyone does rest properly, but that doesnt mean WSDL-flavour-of-the-month will have as much uptake as HTTP itself!)
That's a really good point — the lack of a common content interface is pretty tricky.

I've really like http://www.silkapp.com/ for this sort of thing. I think their API (http://developer.silkapp.com/) is great, and they have neat tools for editing structured data
Clickable link without tor:
https://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion.to/
Who are these thousands of people the US gov't is about to seize and lockup?
If such a lock existed (it doesn't, AFAIK), I would certainly want it on my door. I would still seriously consider it even if it was dramatically more expensive than a regular lock. Just because there are trade offs in security doesn't mean that anyone should be content with the state of the art and not push for improvements, or push against regressions. I'm not sure myself, but people see TouchID as a regression.
I'm just assuming it was sloppy grammar, similar to "We have two sizes, large and small, they go for $5 or $10."

Without the 'respectively', it's ambiguous whether the clean or non-clean were the cheaper of the two alternatives.
I have a friend who runs Zuldi Co has probably spent month and months (and thousands of dollars) looking for a solution like this. He sells point of sale ordering systems so waiters and waitresses can take orders and accept payment at bars/restaurants/casinos etc.
Piano Hero
> as well as a lot of fun bugs (like my cursor randomly turning into a 20x50 block of randomly colored pixels when moving between monitors).

This bug also occurs occasionally on Windows with the ATI drivers, it is not a Linux specific bug.
His actions were so sloppy (according to the evidence listed) that even if was living somewhere else, they would have found him. And places that'd make it really hard for the USG to prosecure are not places that you'd want to live in the first place.

He should have operated as if he lived on the DEA's front lawn.
It'd be good to see more client libraries. PHP is popular but having more will help enormously with adoption. Even just stubbed out libraries on Github can be a useful starting point for the community to build on.
How can it be so much cheaper than AT&T? It seems almost too good to be true, no?

I'm paying double that for way less minutes/data!
This makes up for a good movie plot. I guess he can have some money in prison, when selling the story to Hollywood.
Talking to kids like an adult -- what a concept!

I'm glad this article came out, and getting this method more in the mainstream.
Kia Motors Announces Plans For First All-Electric Vehicle In The United States
So, Agent-1, based on your training and experience, can you conclude, Agent-1, that simply because someone uses a pseudonymous username to conceal their identity, Agent-1, that they are a criminal?
I understand the psychology behind being shocked at this and everything thinking he deserves jail time, but given the War on Drugs and the way the US Justice System works with respect to drug charges, I would imagine that that one violent crime charge is likely to be a drop in the bucket in comparison to all the victimless crime charges for drugs.

However, what I am surprised by is the fact that there wasn't really any focus on his facilitation of arms trafficking. I would imagine that those activities are more likely to cause actual harm to society that we should be worried about.
Intelligence is entirely environmental: if your environment contains nano- and bio-tech that will rebuild your brain to be physically identical with another person's, you will have the same IQ.
Creating a Markdown tag with Polymer
Things Sex Education Should Have Taught Us But Didn't
I think specific parts of tech, lobby specifically, for their specific interests - and those specifics aren't aligned with other players.

Far be it from me to understand the finer points - but to my mind, youtube isn't a whole lot different from megaupload - but you can bet Google has top class lobbyists and lawyers, whereas megaupload did not.
He'll go down for it all.

They'll stack the charges so high you a helicopter to see over 'em. He'll either plead it out and get fifty or fight it and get life. His choice.
Seriously awful. All of my instagram shots are blurry/grainy. The upside is that I've had a reason to practice sniper-like breathing techniques. Not that it helps with photo quality.

What's weird is that the preview snap might look fine, but what gets saved to the device is always really poor.
What do you mean by "more readily"?
Calm Down Anxious Programmer
All of the backbone providers use ISIS. OSPF does not scale as well (# of vertices).

I am the IGP principle at a Tier 1.
Useful, Usable, Desirable
> you can use things like shared_ptr and effectively write your own GC even.

This is hardly the case, especially on modern multi-core hardware. Writing a GC that works well in a concurrent environment is a huge undertaking. And unless your system is very simple, you'll often be better off with a good general-purpose GC.

A shared_ptr introduces a lot of contention.
I don't know, but I frequently open up incognito windows to see people on linkedin.
I stipulate that a practice of deliberately undermining defenses is problematic, but that doesn't respond to my question. What's the right public policy? Let's shift the frame to someone unsympathetic at the head of a lucrative conspiracy --- a murderous cartel, say, or an arms dealer.
As do a lot of other people.

The HTTP DNT process at the W3C was supposed to fix this, but it got derailed by the DAA (the Digital Advertising Alliance).

You can manually stop this tracking with AdChoices. Click on that weird little blue icon that's in most ads, and you'll be able to disable tracking by DAA members.

Notably, AdChoices doesn't entirely prohibit tracking - I think you just need to be "minimized" to a certain extent. AdChoices is stupid, but it looks like we won't get a real solution in DNT unless something changes within the next month or so.
Retina iPad Mini faces delay
A hoard, surely, rather than a horde.

Hacker News readers are a horde.
The newly-released documentation is a hoard.

Assuming this is correct:
http://grammarist.com/spelling/hoard-horde/
> Haswell/Iris have very good OpenCL performance.

Not on Linux. Intel only supports using OpenCL on the Xeon Phi coprocessors if you're using Linux.

Iris OpenCL support is restricted to Windows.
The criminal complaint says that he used the same username to publicize the site as well as on Bitcoin forums, where he listed his Gmail account and asked for help. From there, there's a whole lot of coincidences.

They also got an image of his server, but no details on how they found the server are given. The complaint notes that another user warned him "an external IP is leaking", so the FBI might have found a weakness in his PHP setup. All it'd take is one command on the server...
WHAT???? More spoilers!!