skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What separates this from the masses?

Not trying to steal your fire -- it's pretty slick for a one-day project. I'm sure that, others like myself, would like to know the difference. :)
If you'd like to get even more speed, ensure your assets are minified, compressed and cacheable, and served directly from the filesystem if possible. There aren't any Cache-Control: or Expires: headers for those. It took nearly 1.5 seconds to retrieve https://dsowers.silvrback.com/assets/application-cb034c94e2b..., and time to first byte was 634ms.
Ok i recently realized that i had started game development at a VERY young age. Apparently i was 8 or 9 back then. Me and cousin of the same age, worked on Macromedia Flash. I am not saying we built the most amazing games back then, but it was a start. Sure I had briefcase full of pokemon cards (which i took to trade meetings) but that doesn't mean I didnt have time for game dev. I dont know about OP but for us it was never a "career" thing. It was "play". We had fun making that stuff. Amongst all the other fun things we used to do, game dev was just another one of em =)
That is the cumulative amounts that he sold I believe, which means that through 1,400 reviews the actual amount per sale is quite small (as they note, individual amounts per sale not bulk sales).

If you're talking about the course of a year or two of sales, sales in the 10s and even 100s of thousands isn't all that much if you consider the profit margin. What kind of volume do you think an eBay or Amazon seller does in a year to make $100k?
It's cool how it does the multi-user realtime stuff, but if you think about it, that's solving problems that almost every networked application deals with (latency, consistency, etc) but in more subtle ways. I'd say really its strength is just how amazingly simple and easy it is to get something going.

It's been a year since I played with it, but at least at the time the weak side seemed to be integrating with any existing systems you may have, whether front or back or middle or sideways. In those cases the magic doesn't work for you and you've got to figure out how to plumb it. (Again this may have improved in the past year.)
Dual-leadership role at NSA and Cyber Command stirs debate
Kind of OT, but this article made me wonder how much does it cost the gov't to print bank notes.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12771.htm

Turns out 5-10 cents.
Actually yea, it's too popular. I figured out what the issue was, and will have it fixed shortly. Good catch! Didn't mean for this to turn into a QA session...but hey, why not.
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I agree with your general philosophy towards ICF.
Re: the choice for Meteor, this was somewhat of a fluke. I'm not a traditional developer, and only dabbled with Rails and the like on an anecdotal basis. My past experience with things like jQuery made it easy to pick up Meteor and its basic concepts, so I just started building the app above (it's something I really wanted/needed and I didn't want to waste a lot of time inner-bickering about what tech to build it with).

I guess for your idea I'd have to see a sketch, but on the surface, yes, I'd say something like that would be pretty easy. The cool thing about Meteor is that it takes a lot of the thinking/logic out of the loop. So for example, you would have the nodes as a Mongo collection and for each plan/doc, just store their position info. Meteor/Mongo update automatically, so if say you used something like jQuery UI drag/drop, you would just have it update the given object in Mongo when you pick it up or put it down. Make sense?

My overall experience has been that I haven't gotten frustrated with Meteor like I did with other frameworks. It's not as rigid, sure, but if you take the time to develop a good design practice, it can be really efficient. Plus, having both front and backend code in JS is a serious time saver.

Thanks for the complements on design. Save for the octopus, logo, and animated gifs outlining the process (oh, and the nice header on the blog), this was a 100% solo effort.
What makes you think a guy who loves programming wouldn't be doing those things?
p2 because of perl11: 1+1=2

And 2 as the next perl, because it should solve the p5 problem, being not extendable and improvable.
And the p6 vm problem being not fast enough, and being tied to inadequate vm's and mops.

This is the idea at least.
Correct: the packet size distribution over any aggregated Internet link is typically bi-modal: a peak at around 64 bytes (acks) and one at around 1500 bytes (transfers that fill the MTU).

The article seems to me very approximate.
HBO brings its brand of 'not TV' to Google Play for a la carte purchase
Nice site. Great for the egotist in me. Didn't expect 'customer service' :)
> Have you tried similar frameworks like Derby (http://derbyjs.com/)? If so, can you compare your experiences?

I tried Derby.js because of one important for me missing feature of Meteor: serverside HTML rendering - required for search engines and also for CMS or content like applications. IMO Derby.js got it right there.

Unfortunately Derby.js is seriously lacking professional documentation of any kind: Meteor already has books and 2 very good and long enough video courses (from pluralsight and tutsplus)
Agree that it will look better, and is probably a better experience. Sadly college admissions is a game, and it is risky to ignore it.
Manipulating the scales on graphs is one of the oldest tricks in the book. It's one of the many deceitful practices that Edward Tufte talks about in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. In fact, in the chapter on "Graphical Integrity", he writes: "For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think about statistical charts is 'lie'."

If I were interested in investing in Twitter stock, I wouldn't be nearly as concerned with the growth of their user population as I'd be in the growth of their bottom line (profits). Oh, sorry, there are no profits.[1] As they say, "you can't make up losses on volume".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#IPO
That's being too generous. NEVER clip off the bottom of your bar graph. Use something that isn't anchored to the axis - dots instead of bars which then put the focus on relative position. A bar draws the reader to comparing the relative length of the bar, so if "twice as long" doesn't mean "twice as much", it's terribly deceptive.
Video and 1st assignment for the curious:

https://class.coursera.org/crypto-preview/lecture/6

https://class.coursera.org/crypto-preview/quiz/attempt?quiz_...
Ha, close enough I suppose. Thank you!
From the linked page:

> Information Required for Application
> [...]
> Ethnicity

Really? I could have sworn they're not allowed to require you to provide that. (They can ask, but only if they make it clear that the response is optional.)
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I am faintly amused that Canada is not on this PDF list of either de facto or de jur countries where English is spoken.
Its not a remote service. Its PhantomJS which is webkit rendering on your own server. Where did they say it was going to call a remote service?
Have you seen http://prose.io/?

Looks similar to mangomarkdown, and it's open source. I'm using it in a project I'm working on and loving it.

Edit: actually, I think I like the mango style even better. Didn't realize this before, but the markdown tags are hidden after you type - pretty neat. (My initial test was a few heading tags, which still display the '#' in the margin).
Interesting..but made me feel pukish!
The 'if true' language on this landing page drives me absolutely crazy. It calls into question the very premise on which the protests are being organized.
Previous discussion: 55 points, 9 hours ago, 82 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6510581
Thanks, and no problem for the "customer service." As with anything, it's difficult to find problems until it gets out there in the wild. Lots of weird stuff crops up that you hadn't accounted for.
> Do you think the government is going to put the CEOs of some of America's most popular and profitable companies in jail for an act of civil disobedience

If you support the rule of law, you should expect and demand that if it comes to legal consequences that's exactly what will happen. You can fight the law in parallel and use the trial to challenge it, but expect the consequences anyway. Otherwise you're calling for the rich and powerful to be held to a different, weaker standard just because in this case you might like the outcome.

You can treat it as the lesser evil, acknowledging that they're already held to weaker standards and that happens to be useful here, but you'd still be helping to entrench a system which is ultimately bad for you unless you're also very rich.
It loads 20 or so ogg audio files like this: http://mynoise.net/Data/OSMOSIS/7a.ogg

Then I'm guessing the EQ controls the volume. So no it doesn't generate / stream anything to you server-side.
middleman is fantastic. It does all this from what I can tell, and has an amazing plugin system, with plugins written for things like livereload so when I save a file, it re-pregenerates it and reloads my browser. It's SUCH a nice workflow especially for smaller sites.
The complaint notes that these amounts don’t count sales
going back more than five months prior to the investigation

The volume estimated is only for a 5 month period, not the defendants' entire careers. Drug dealers have much higher margins than eBay sellers, according to one source earning a 200% markup (66% profit margin) splitting up kilos of cocaine [1]

[1] http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-08-13/soon-be-disr...
I don't see any indication, either here or in the original report, that these revenue numbers have been corrected for inflation. This matters because $50 billion in 1998 dollars would be worth about $69 billion in 2011 dollars. So if the revenues on the chart are nominal, this does indeed show a drop in total real revenue.
Oh, cool! I have heard of this, but I did not know they did the rendering like this. Thanks!

edit: Ya, I still like mongo and how they make the header kinda fade out, have support for checkboxes (well folding text does), and when you are on a unordered list and press enter it automatically makes a new one. Mango has just made a codemirror mode to handle this it looks like.
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> Capitalism is just private ownership of goods + a market.

That's neither the definition used by the critics of the system who coined the term to refer to the complex system by which 19th Century developed countries directed the rewards of economic productivity to the owners of capital, nor a sufficient description of what is proposed by the modern proponents of "capitalism".

And that Wikipedia article is confused -- accurately portraying the "mixed economy" the dominant economic form of the modern developed world, but inaccurately painting it as a form of capitalism (when it is called a mixed economy because it draws elements from both capitalism and socialism, and is distinct from both.) It also refers to state capitalism as a form of capitalism (which is accurate by the original definition, as state capitalism shares the features that were originally criticized in capitalism -- which isn't surprising since both the original definition and the term "state capitalism" come from socialist critics -- but not by the definition in the article.)
The locks on most front doors are trivial to break with a bump key set: http://www.lockpicks.com/professionalbumpkeyset30-keysv30.as...

Some security is better than none, it deters crimes of opportunity and the casual thief. As with anything else if you want real security you need to do your research and make the proper investment.
Yea, I work at an ad tech company. And the # is closer to $0.60 for the US.
Dra. Marie Gibson renuncia a el Tangara School, por el Wi-Fi
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5861551
sorry about that, but it appears in italic for me. with quotes:
"The days of idealism and superstition are over. We live in a time of science and hard common sense..."
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Progressive enhancement is still better than this. The noscript element is a fallback when JavaScript is not available or turned off.

It doesn't handle situations where JavaScript is enabled, but your application failed to get the JavaScript completely to the browser.

With modern JavaScript and feature detection, the use of no script elements is a code smell.
This is an admittedly ignorant question.

Would telehash be a useful application protocol to implement this on? http://telehash.org/

It's built on a distributed hash table (DHT) routing mechanism that is inherently decentralized.
What this doesn't say, is how they tracked the guy after the intercept. My guess is that they somehow cracked more of the security than we have been lead to believe...
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Looking at the reddit thread [0] referenced in the article I am really suprised about how openly those redditors are talking about illegal drug purchases (incl. personal experiences, etc). Aren't they worried that they might be investigated?

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/SilkRoad/comments/1b6hmh/nod/
Your vote is worth about five bucks a year to Facebook. Not really a huge deal, considering most people aren't concerned about surveillance and a very tiny fraction is concerned enough to give up social networks.
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My compiler makes a stack machine byte code for intermediate code. It turned-out I had to backward construct a tree to resolve types. I still think it's good, though.
Stuff like Wordpress and Ghost exist to have a sharecrop of cheap hosting services with it pre-installed — with Ghost it just looks like JS was the language the developer (a front-end dev on Wordpress. . .) was most familiar with, And That's Fine
(Context: Using ChromeOS)

The biggest flaw I see in this (and in several alternatives suggested below) is that it doesn't support native browser spell check because it uses Ace (and in the case of alternatives, they do text rendering that isn't native and isn't detected as text). I use Markdown for taking outline based notes - and one of the biggest stopgaps is that I can spell check my work to make sure I'm not screwing up my own notes as I type during a lecture.

In that regard, the only thing I've found that meets this criteria isn't a Markdown editor, it's Writebox -- https://write-box.appspot.com/
>>What is approximate salary of a brilliant programmer in India with, say, 10 years experience?

That's pretty much a range. Anything that starts around 15 Lacs PA to 20 Lacs PA. But don't give into demands so easily. I would suggest you never even bother to hire job hoppers, which are super common here.

Look for- strong inclination for curiosity, past projects, and their interest in picking up good technical projects.

By and large the prices are a little lesser than that you would be pay to a 'Good' US programmer(I'm assuming bad programmers are everywhere).

Though being an Indian and staying in Bangalore. I would suggest you better try to get people from UK first and start up there. Regarding India operations, well these days you can't really be out of India and China(at least if you want a long term successful business). But that is for later. Start up in your own country first. You don't want to be dealing with other surprises when your company is so young.
The p2 goal is to use as much non-conflicting p6 syntax within p5, and mark conflicting parts in special lexically scoped syntax blocks.
But data and methods should be shared, the ast, compiler, vm, threads and event model ditto.

Syntax blocks also allow easier ffi and sql interaction,
{ use syntax "C"; c declarations ... } being a nice FFI language,
compared to "extern { c decls; ... }", which is also nice.

We want to use efficient signatures, methods, classes, tasks, coros, promises,
hyper operators, types, lazy lists and so in perl, regardless if you call it p5,
p6 or p2.
I've already been working on a community for high-school coders at http://www.teen2geek.com, and so once we launch (beta will be out in January 2014) I would really love it if some more guys like you could come over and contribute to the discussions. My email address is krishna.dholakiya@gmail.com in case anyone wants to talk :)
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It's like Paypal without the risk management and all the convenience of forex.
Do you have a mailing list or something so I can get development news? Cause I'm interested in hearing how this develops, the website is a little sparse still, and I absolutely will not remember to come back in a month, haha.
They've been cocky many times before. After reading this article, I'm not optimistic that they've learned their lesson.
Partially related: Is it technically possible to "blacklist" the bitcoins that the FBI seized given a great enough consensus, to make their value effectively worthless?
You are teaching one of the courses that I am interested in taking!
Yeah, and its really ironic how despite our generations addiction to such games, very few of us actually know the code that goes behind it
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I'd classify this as "notes to self" at this point. Sorry if it's rough, too informal, or flat out wrong.

Proposing to "shut off attacks at their source"... but what does that mean?

They start by talking about network access, so I assume shutting off the attacks means shutting off the network.

The article later says something about "send a simple computer 'reset' command to the attacking servers".

If he's talking about using the network, then it sounds like a network filter that can target the attacking servers. Probably not exactly a blanket 'if shut' command, but basically a packet filter. It makes you wonder what other kinds of packets they can filter on commercial networks?

But then there's this idea that they aren't even attacking the network, but that they can attack the originating machines themselves? How would you target that? Exposing a 0-day in the BIOS or OS? Some application they know the servers are running? Where's the little 'NSA reset' button hiding on all these attacking devices?

Is the government scared of using active defense? Doubtful.
Was it just not worth exposing the capability / exploit? They've shown an increased willingness to widely deploy their wares if the payoff is there.
So basically, they didn't see the payoff, and leave it to private enterprise to deal with for now. Then what's the point when private enterprise needs help?
I really want to get excited about this, but the lack of an open source-first strategy is major cause for concern.

Why not take this to ShopLocket.com or Kickstarter and trust the community to do the right thing? Something like this is a huge step in the right direction, but closed source is going to cost momentum.
I hear you. But I think its good overall. However, I think it would be nice if the kid was introduced to coding and was coding for fun and not thinking of YC or as michalochurch like's to say "VCistan." I think its good to start from a passion for technology devoid of the echo chamber politics. But he seems like he has a good head on his shoulders ... I would agree though, add more fun and less startup, at least for a few years.
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> the amount of energy released through the fusion reaction exceeded the amount of energy being absorbed by the fuel

So what? What if the fueld didn't absorb anything? What do they mean by "absorb", anyway? This article is lacking in details, peer-reviewed literature, or even the names of scientists willing to stake their reputation on this claim.

The BBC should know better.
Read the complaint PDF. Basically when they started finding stuff in the mail, they noticed most packages looked pretty similar. Went down to the post office where some of them were being shipped from, told them to keep an eye out for similar packages. Didn't take them long to track down a couple of people who were posting them, etc, etc.

Even if the buyer had been strongarmed by the feds into cooperating for a deal, I don't think they'd have much useful information to catch the seller with, apart from an account that the seller trusted that they could use to order more packages, and they would have used his testimony to link the activities of Sadler/White to the NOD account.

edit: yeah, read the whole thing. it's actually pretty simple policework.
Well, it's just patently false. It may be the case in the mind of some in the echo chamber ... but as I seem to almost regularly need to remind on HN ... there is a whole world outside the party line view of what the world is like ... namely, what the world is really like. :)
That's almost certainly because Google searches are significantly more likely to indicate purchasing intent. That means advertisers will pay more per search than per timeline view.
I, too, have been playing around with Haroo Pad. During a typical day, I'm using Ubuntu, Windows, and OSX, so I really like the cross-platform availability. While I'm a paying user of Mou, and really like it, it is unfortunately OSX-only.

Congrats to the creator of StackEdit, it seems very well done. It also seems to work really well while offline, which is nice. The biggest blocker for me is that when I need to create or edit a markdown file, it's usually a local file in a git repo. In my case, it is simply more convenient to use a native app.
This protection, though, is less like the lock on a house, and more like the lock on a diary. You might not be able to break it right away, but you can just stuff it in your bag and break it later at your leisure. Crimes of opportunity are only dissuaded when the opportunity eventually ends.
Alternative...Google Hangouts?
Wow, really cool app. It really reminded me of how much I miss the sound of rain and wind.
Reason number 1 to get an IDE for Java. Having a working [c/e]-tags replacement would probably be reason 2.
First of all -- awesome concept and execution, and great sound samples. Well-done.

> Mobile Safari iOS 6 on iPad 2+, iPhone 4GS+

But... not working on my 4S/iOS6. :(

Anyone got it working to play in the background, even when your phone's screen is off? I also wonder about battery life as HTML5 audio, vs if it were an app.

The creators clearly want to support HTML-only, according to the FAQ, but this calls for an app if anything ever did -- you want it to run, providing sound in the background, while you do other stuff (whether on or off your phone).
How did you guess? Interested in beta testing? :)

Yes to the database as the primary store and syncing to the search server then adding a "search clause" to SELECT essentially for seamless integration.
I'm not. Police don't usually go after small time users. Any good city cop can find a trap house and pinpoint the crack heads going in and out. It's a waste of resources to arrest them though, they want the distributors.

BUT I also never thought they would bust SR dealers...
> “We shouldn’t have to do this,” says Steven Kirsh, who is running the last of the three Rockridge campaigns, “but we need to do this.” He doesn’t see the Oakland Police Department suddenly getting more resources, so in order to protect his belongings, family and property value, the $82 per household doesn’t seem like much to ask, for 12 hours of patrolling five days a week. For a four month trial it will work out to less than a dollar a day.

What do you wanna bet this guy would scream to high heaven if the city wanted to tax him an extra $82 a year to fund more patrolmen?
Something tells me this would not be received the same way if the hackers who created it were male. IMO, this is more crass than the titstate app.
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