skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The democratic, lobby-based, "law-for-sale" system is systemically disadvantaged to the classic survival of the adaptable.

Odd, I was reading a history book the other day and took note of this passage:

"The other wrong lesson [the philosopher William James] thought people took from On the Origin of Species is, in effect, the flip side of the first. It is the belief that evolutionary science can lay a foundation for norms–that natural selection serves as a kind of "bottom-line" arbiter of merit. This is the doctrine of "the survival of the fittest," .... It makes the logic of evolution the logic of human values: it suggests that we should pursue policies and honor behavior that are consistent with the survival of characteristics understood to be "adaptive," and it justifies, as "natural," certain kinds of coercion."
That sentence works until you start thinking about the likelihood of herding those cats into any action as a community.
I picked up an Ikea Gerton tabletop that's going to be made into a desk this weekend hopefully. It's got kind of a butcher block look, and I'm really looking forward to it.
Couldn't agree more. That dude hadn't done anything in 8 years since he and Steve started reddit.
I like and have used Tarsnap in the past, but it's not like other providers prevent you from uploading encrypted archives, they just don't encrypt them themselves.
Unfortunately lots of stuff runs under there including, but not limited to:

GitHub for Windows and dozens of apps it installs in there
F.lux
Anything installed with ClickOnce
Chrome
GMVault
Xamarin's Android Support
Markdownpad
SkyDrive
Join.me

Assuming that everything in there is a virus is too much, I think.
The Coming Changes of K-12 Science Education
That's pretty much how trading systems work.
Great question. You can download all your stories at any time (pdf and mp3), so you're never locked in. I spell this out at www.storyworth.com/privacy.

These stories are really important to people, so it's really important to me that people don't lose access to them.
Why "engineers first" matters
Thanks for all the info!

It seems possible that torturing animals for days on end could be fatal to the victim. I hesitate to suggest to try adding doses of sleep to this diabolic regimen, for fear it would be attempted.
Lavabit legal fees fundraiser reaches its goal
I tried implementing this solution and it has a lot of difficult side effects. Shortcuts on the task bar could not run (with the exception of Chrome oddly enough). If you select run in IE it fails because it saves to temp and some installers failed as well, again because of the use of temp.
Unless the end user is very saavy or has an onsite IT this seems that the better solution is rotating backups.
Alternating days to external hard drives that are then disconnected is the best mitigation.
I am a "liberal" and a huge fan of The Economist. I don't find this to be an accurate assessment. Someone else already linked to their climate change stance, and in my experience their economic stances are generally supported in the academic community.
It hasn't been updated in a while, but CoRD has been my goto RDP client for a long time.

http://cord.sourceforge.net
I would imagine that Apple can also say "this developer ID is owned by this person, and we just blacklisted another one owned by them", then proceed to blacklist all of the IDs they've generated
Right, but that's about a certain IDE not the language itself, regardless of whether it's TS or JS. Sublime text does that for any JS file, as does Vim with the right plugin. I bet whatever IDE you're using will do that with bare JS. It's not "guessing" with JS completion any more than it is with TS. Again, autocompletion has nothing to do with the language.

> Sure. It just requires more time and money.

Care to back that up? I'll wait over here. Oh, unless you meant that it would take more time and money for you. Then sure, I agree.
Hows the book sale going, Alexis?
Ask HN: Live Hackathon. Creating Online Markdown Editor for API documentation.
Hi guys,

We are a San Diego based startup that is doing a hackathon this weekend. We are working on an internal project to publish and maintain documentation without any software installation. Over the next 2 days we are doing an internal hackathon to celebrate a co-founder's birthday. We would love to get your feedback.

Check out the description of the hackathon project here: http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/ome-docs/DOCUMENTATION.md

Help us decide which of these potential features we should implement on 10/17 and 10/18. http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/ome-docs/DOCUMENTATION.md#feature-ideas

This is a LIVE HACKATHON, so we'd love it if you can pop into the chatroom to learn about how you use documentations. http://tlk.io/ii_hackathon
Gosh, what about the whole Military-Industrial complex, which transfers billions from the public treasury into high-tech research and development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSJjlaggbK0
Or for PowerShell:

dir -Path "$env:userprofile\AppData" -Filter *.exe -Recurse > "$env:userprofile\Desktop\FoundFiles.txt"

Useful if your corporate security policy, like mine, has disabled the command prompt but left PowerShell intact.
Actually, the reasons were disclosed:

[1] http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

[2] http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses...

[3] http://www.newamericancentury.org/Bushletter.htm

You might find the signatories of [1] particularly interesting.
Zero configuration (no config.rb), a lot of preprocessors besides Sass/Compass supported (like LESS, HAML, Slim, CoffeeScript and so on).
GTA V Mindf*ck
Haven't they just simply acquired one of the popular 3rd party RDP clients and rebranded it?

http://www.macworld.com/article/2053689/microsoft-taps-itap-...
> .. patient is NOT the one who pays directly for the drug ..

Ok, I can accept this argument. Basically, there is an incentive to trick the system. Unfortunatly, I am not a doctor, and as such I do not have the experience to judge the effectiveness of various medical treatments and give an example how well or bad the pharmaceutical industry is really treating us.

What is the the real gain of our health risk insurance systems? I know enough people who are dependent on daily medication of strong systemic substances, and they can live a life without too much suffering while not worrying that this flow of medicine might stop because their bank account is empty. In some way, society has to step in when individuals - even in large amount - fail to live within the system.

Having said that, how would it be possible to improve this status quo?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6221724

g3 62 days ago | link | parent | on: Show HN: Virtual Machines in the Browser
Just give me one more month, I'm almost there ...

The last month always takes at least 60 days. Strong work!
"Chrome for Enterprise" is a standard MSI that installs in Program Files for exactly this reason.

They have had it for ages, presumably to answer your mentioned complaints.
And that good reason is?

EDIT: If I want to run/update something (Chrome) in Userland, why should an OS security model stop me? My guess is, Microsoft have successfully confused a common business requirement with a security one.
Was Veeva a better VC deal than Twitter?
Thanks for avoiding the strawman "denier" nonsense, but I think you're looking for the phrase "CAGW-informed-legislation critics."

Why would a rational person criticize the assumption that climate changes?
The time for negotiation was before any of the legislation was passed, not at the moment of implementation. In fact, there really has been no compromise at all. The only "compromise" the Republican caucus was able to extract was more stringent income verification of those people who requested financial assistance paying for health insurance. Considering Cruz and co. wanted complete dissolution or delay of the ACA, I would say that this whole display was a complete and utter disaster. The vast majority of his (Ted Cruz's) own party was not behind him. This was simply political posturing for his own presidential aspirations.

You are correct that we are simply kicking the can down the road, but this sideshow was not the way to handle it. Holding the "non-essential" employees of the federal government ransom is ridiculous on its face. What did they expect the outcome was going to be? That Barack Obama would accept a "compromise" that would neuter his landmark piece of legislation? His magnum opus? Please. This is 110% politics.
Obamacare Conversion Funnel
I built my own desk last year because of the expense of a new desk and the fact that all the desks I looked at weren't quite the right size for what I wanted.

I'm now using a sit-stand desk: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/the-geekdesk-writin... , which was pretty expensive, but I would find it hard to go back to sitting exclusively, or forward to standing all the time.
Quicksort implemented in Swearjure
This is Travis from the team doing the live hackathon. We'd love to have people stop by the chat room and offer feedback. We'll also check this page somewhat regularly.

Right now, it just views markdown documentation, pulling from GitHub. We'd like to add a tie in with Github's issue tracker (issues / questions about the documentation), some customizable styling, and an inline editor (so you can edit your documentation inline, and it'll push the changes back to your repo).

We're planning to open source the whole thing once we add issues, inline editing, and fix a few bugs.

Clickable links:
Project Description - http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/ome-doc...

Feature Ideas - http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/ome-doc...

Live Hackathon Chat - http://tlk.io/ii_hackathon

Looking forward to hearing the community's feedback.
Cool, I tried the linux gui OS and games worked.

sudoku and snake worked really well, but pong seemed to graphically expensive
Cool project. Can you elaborate on the difference between this and JSLinux?
Where can I get plans?
Data Mashing and Mapping with Google Fusion Tables
It's also not auditable: Tarsnap, while not OSS, has easily available source code for perusal and personal use, if I recall.
Congrats! Glad to hear a fellow surfer making it :)
I'd like to see this explored more. I can wholeheartedly agree that the US government is hugely problematic–that's not exactly a big concession–but that's not a challenge. The challenge is in defining a better system and then getting us there.

My own explorations are currently dealing with the latter by deliberately presuming that half of my ideas won't get implemented and making sure the rest are functional despite that.
This. I love Chrome, but their target market is using Windows, and asking them to click "Yes" to upgrade Chrome (or leaving this question up to the administrator) is not a barrier worth circumventing.
Angel - the first open sensor for health and fitness
People actively look to credit other people's success to anything but their work all of the time. Just this week, such a webpage was heavily discussed on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6546325

The submission attributes Bill Gates's success first and foremost to his grandparents and parents. This is part of a very common pattern of attributing success to everything but work.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5204329
Out of how many of the big ones are using scripting tools/language-to-language translation though? Hint: much more than you seem to be aware of/think.

Whether its Google Web Toolkit/Java/C#-to-Javascript generators, Closure templating, Haskell/Clojure/etc. mini-languages, TypeScript, etc. (Job Ad Requirements are one of the great ways to see all this stuff)

When you start working on big applications (e.g. I worked for 5 years on a huge electronic HR application covering everything from timesheets to recruitment to content management to CRM with multi-country, multi-language, multi-regulatory, multi-company, multi-site, multi-thousand users requirements) you realise JavaScript has serious shortcomings...although I still really like the language the tooling and knowledge advances have really, really helped.
Another Security Blunder Takes Down Another Dark Web Drug Emporium
well that sounds more like a standard libertarian vs. socialized angle which is IMO a different issue.

I don't see how guards walking around could have much of an impact. if they aren't looking in my bag, I can have anything in there, and once in the confined environment of a plane, I can do a lot before any air marshal shuts it down.

Lots of the comments here point out that airplanes tend to be the target because we're not talking about "killing lots of people" as we are about terror. Airplanes have been determined to be a greater catalyst to "terror" than other venues.
The amazing thing is it works (slowly) on my Nexus 4. Great work!
As an amateur coder I started commenting in my code only recently. There are two main reasons for this, to enable others to read my code more easily, and secondly to enable myself to read my code more easily.

printf("If you use C macros");
int _i=1729;
while(_i--)
printf(" that are defined in terms of other C macros");
printf(", you will be in a world of hurt "
"unless you have good documentation written by a human.\n");
I watched the whole series for the first time only a couple of years ago. I started it just because, as an old Amiga enthusiast, I remembered about that show from some article I had read years before on a magazine about 3D graphics.

The first two seasons were just OK, but after that something clicked, and the show became really engaging. With some loose ends, but it made me pleasantly waste much more time than I should have on it :)
As an economist I assure you that if I noted a correlation between head clubbing and capital accumulation I would take offensive and defensive steps to protect my head. In fact most would, leading to a nice little equilibrium where head clubbing is not a worthwhile strategy. They may even form a protection racket, and call it "Police".

Economics is not the study of capital, it's the study of trade - which incidentally is so natural we even observe it in the animal kingdom.

Few libertarians would deny the need for at least occasional collaboration, but that is not the same as government. Governments are universally wasteful of resources, susceptible to corruption, resistant to changing needs, and have a nasty habit of claiming absolute moral authority on things...which in turn has a nasty tendency to start wars. It is, objectively, a limiting and archaic system that does us all a great deal of damage.
While VS 2013 has much better C++11 support it's not close to full compliance. The Visual C++ team have decided to work on C++11/C++14 together which is slowing C++11 a bit.
Here's a blog post laying out their plans.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2013/06/28/cpp-con...

There's also a quite detailed talk by Herb Sutter on channel 9 as well.
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/2-306
Not actually a fallacy, even the informal kind, despite the Latin name.
Given all the talk about "Open access" and reforming peer review, one of the most important things to fix should be publication bias. Positive and negative results both need to be published, along with all the tools and data.

Does anyone know if there are groups aiming for that standard?
Here are some general stats from OPM on federal employees:
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-docum...
Indeed over the long term modules isn't a bad idea as the interface requirements and discoverability would benefit massively from better tooling, a la optional typing.
Get the $5 pocket clip from leatherman.com.
15% are in the DC metro area:
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-docum...
the "no active threat" argument by itself doesn't get us very far. By that logic, we should remove security at Fort Knox because it never gets robbed.

Security needs to be proportional to the risk. We know there are plenty of people who would make off with the gold in Fort Knox if they could because hold-ups and bank-robberies happen all the time.

We do know the level of risk that the TSA is defending against is minuscule because of these basic facts:

(1) The TSA is not catching terrorists: No TSA action has ever resulted in a conviction on terrorism related charges. To the best of my knowledge, the only actual arrest on terrorism charges turned out to be completely bogus.[1] Meanwhile they crow about stupid little things like the guy with a funny looking water bottle.[2]

(2) The TSA is not deterring terrorists: Someone bent on spreading terror doesn't just give up because good security scared them off - they find another target.	There are all kinds of high-profile soft targets: Shopping malls, the line at the airport, bridges, tunnels, movie theaters, derailing passenger trains, etc. It does not require much imagination to come up with a very long list of easy targets.

But so far we've seen just one effective attack like that - the Boston marathon and it was super easy for those guys to pull off. It is so easy, yet it is a once-in-a-decade event. That is unequivocal evidence that for all intents and purposes nobody with the ability to carry out attacks is actually attacking us.

Given those two facts, we can have very high confidence that the TSA is not providing useful security.

[1] http://www.clickorlando.com/news/TSA-exaggerates-claims-abou...

[2] http://boingboing.net/2008/07/30/tsa-proud-of-confisc.html
This is so cool!

I have one problem with it though, it doesn't seem to support my keyboard. For example when I try "*", it writes "-".

I'm using a Turkish Q keyboard and Chromium on OS X Mavericks GM.
nobody is being induced to do anything

"Induce" may not have been the best word; I didn't mean to imply that manipulation of the sort you describe was going on.

What I meant was that the whole point of HFT is to get information about the market state, and act on it, a little bit faster than others; which means that when you make a bona fide offer based on your HFT algorithm's understanding of the market state, that understanding is based on information that the other party to the trade does not have, which means that the other party might accept a trade that, if they had the same information as you do, they would not accept. That is asymmetric information. There doesn't have to be any skulduggery going on; it's a natural consequence of what HFT algorithms are designed to do.

why should it be curtailed?

I'm not saying it should be curtailed; I'm saying that it's a shame that so much talent and effort goes into a zero-sum activity, and that that fact is a big part of why ordinary people distrust the financial system. In other words, HFT is giving other more beneficial financial activities a bad name. The right way to change that is for the financial system to police itself.

I think that is a dangerous standard to enforce anywhere.

I agree, and that's why I think the financial system needs to police itself, before it gets policed by others who don't agree with you and me that such a standard is dangerous to enforce.
Yes you can. The United states are my go to example for this as well. There are a number of White Supremacist groups in the US, which (mostly due to rule of law) are contained from ruining multiculturalism as whole (they probably have significant local effect). But they still are free to hold their beliefs and practice them (amongst themselves).
waiting for docker.js
> AMDs like Require.js or CommonJS

That stuff is terrible to use. There is quite a bit of boiler plate involved and there is lots of overhead in general.

Secondly, there are about 10 somewhat popular module formats and they aren't compatible which each other.

I rather do this stuff declaratively. If it's baked into the language, your tools will understand what's going on and there also won't be any compatibility issues. Naturally, it's also way more convenient to use. You just import something. Done.

> doesn't need static typing or other features from TS/Dart

You also don't need a seat belt or airbags. If you don't make any mistakes, you'll be fine.

However, from a pragmatic point of view, these static checks are very handy. If you rewrite some parts of your code, the analyzer will tell you if you screwed something obviously up. It catches all the stupid mistakes, which means you can fully focus on the logical ones.

With JavaScript/Python/etc you have to run the code and actually hit that particular branch to trigger some sort of error/exception which will eventually help you to identify the actual issue.

You should just give it a try. Try any language/IDE combination which offers good tooling. Tooling can remove a lot of friction. There really is a point to all of this.
Has anyone attempted to run this using Wine?

As long as you keep all drives (/ or ~/) unmounted, I assume it would be `safe' to test it.

Might be a simpler environment to analyze CryptoLocker in, as apposed to a full Windows install.
Does anyone else get annoyed by the fact that when you page down you miss stuff because the banner at the top isn't considered in the calculation of how far to step?

Why do web designers break this most basic function?
For programmers or IT related people, you can easily compile kernel 3.12 with in 10 commands. and reboot.It will give you latest kernel.
1. install git.
2. get linux kernel from Linus tree.
3. google how to compile kernel and compile it.
4. restart.
Note: ubuntu will elegantly handle GRUB2 for you.
That means when you reboot, you are able to choose what kernel you want to use.
Try this, and you won't need to wait for UBuntu 13.XX 14.XX for new kernel you want to use.
This may be helpful: http://www.salesforcefoundation.org/sharethemodel
Re-reading of the article, I don't see where the TSA claims that known future terrorist plots are the rationale for their actions, though perhaps this is something that was claimed to which this article is referring. My understanding was that the TSA's rationale was based on actual events that have occurred, e.g. 9/11, shoe bomber, underwear bomber, the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plo...) which was the impetus for banning liquids through checkpoints, e.g. these are actual plots that were executed or discovered prior to execution. Using the facts of actual plots is a more compelling argument than claiming "we know of more plots" which turn out to not exist - I'm not seeing that claim being made here.
Being in that position is not unusual at the young age of 23. I'd suggest looking for a full-time position first, getting some experience under your belt, then trying the contracting thing.
Just when you thought "I've written an x in JavaScript" can't get any more insane . . .

Still, this wins the Nobel Prize for awesome.
Keep us updated when you do. :)
holds q

Better than I thought.
"...sound and fury. Signifying nothing."
Same here. The 4 different insurance products I've used in the private sector are much better than I ever had access to as a government employee.
I wrote a blog post about all my past failed projects:
http://founderbynight.tumblr.com/

I have had the same problems and I think the main challenge to getting them done was:

1. Completely agree with ScottWhigham...I had solved the problem in my head so it wasn't a challenge anymore

2. Didn't do enough research about existing solutions, companies so I got discouraged when I discovered better solutions

3 I didn't think it was a good enough project/solution to begin with so I wasn't motivated to finish

4. I had a very good job that I enjoyed so I really didn't need to get the project finished

My current project (http://www.pixtulate.com) I really believe in, I love what it does, how simple it is and how many designers it can help. That drives me every night....I feel like I am finally working on something truly useful.
Heros of the Storm