skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Biggest problem with the game is that the sizes are too close. Several times I assumed i was the same size with more rings inside of me or even bigger than my prey but the fish i touched actually killed me. Too confusing and obscure currently but the concept is great.
I have heard speculation that it is Omidyar, which feets his personality and post-ebay activities. He has been funding investigative journalism in Hawaii for a few years now, has a ton of $$$, is interested in changing the world, etc
The ZenPayroll post disappeared pretty quickly, too.
Not arguing at all that things have inherent value, but the challenge is having an objective way of putting a dollar value to those activities.

For example, does a backup generator add any value if the electricity never goes out? Do you only assign it 'profit' if electricity goes out? How do you calculate the value of the downtime if electricity does go out? Does it encourage people who've worked on setting up a backup generator to 'wish' for outages?

It's a challenge. Even if you do have answers to all of these questions, there will always be levels of subjectivity resulting in politics, and the effort involved will be itself an administrative workload of which the 'profit' would be difficult to assess.
I tried switching to (Iced)CoffeeScript to write tests (using Mocha and Sinon) for a Node app (written in JS). It went something like:

Week one: this is awesome. It's so clean!

Week two: asynchronous stuff is still an utter pain though. Hey, what's this IcedCoffeeScript...?

Week three: Wow, ICS is great. My tests look like Ruby & rspec now!

Week four:
ICS produces unholy Javascript and unintelligible stacktraces. I've lost count of how many hours I've lost trying to figure out which line triggered a test to fail. Let's switch back to CoffeeScript and use async.

Week five:
Still fed up not being able to identify which line failed at a glance, and have been bitten more than once by CoffeeScript's indentation causing subtle errors, which is easy to confuse if you do any copypasting within `describe` blocks.

Week six:
I'm just going back to straight JavaScript. It's a pain but it does the job.

I've since given up on being able to write tests in Node.js with the same elegance/ease as I can with Ruby & rspec.

I still dig CoffeeScript, but now I only use it for client-side stuff. And as for IcedCoffeeScript, that has found a place in my toolbelt for small scripts, where its speed to write and lack of noise are worth the trade off in maintainability.
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I would like to know what other people experiences are with regard to Hostgator. Honestly, I chose because I didn't know many other options at the time but I've never had any sort of trouble and their chat assistance is pretty awesome.

I would like to know if I'm actually just lucky or if other people have had this experience too.
Read the book Negotiation genius: http://www.amazon.com/Negotiation-Genius-Obstacles-Brilliant...

It will answer a LOT of your questions directly. I've gotten really good at negotiation after being bad at it, and this book was great.

Read it tonight.
Tread lightly :) hehe

But yes, nothing worse than passive-aggressive management.
author took only dirty facts, that's the propaganda.
I'm russian and I admit it's a wild country. But Gypsy.. calm down, they never were even called russians.
Is it reasonable to paraphrase what you're saying as:

When developers are more expensive than servers, rails makes sense.

When servers are more expensive than developers (because of scale), Java/c# start to make sense.
This is why I don't ever tell them what my current salary is. They will do this to you. If they didn't know, it could have been a different story.
tldr;

https://github.com/rossjones/alternative-internet
Has "Lisp hacker" also developed separately as a phrasal noun? "Unix hacker?" "C Hacker?"

The term "hack" extends to sloppy implementation. I wrote about that here:

http://paulgraham.com/gba.html

but the word "hacker" doesn't simply mean someone who produces hacks in that sense.
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Yeah, but no one thinks that babies are good investments. Lots of people seem to think that houses are.

I've heard people describe renting as "throwing money away" more times than I can count. I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that about not having children...
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Plus $25 for the software to actually use it.
Some people think, rightly or wrongly, that home ownership:

* Results in citizens that care more about the neighborhood

* Nudges people into saving for retirement

* Allows the average Joe to take advantage of inflation (this is true IMO). House goes up in value, so does their net worth.
Forward secrecy in this instance does not matter one bit.

Presuming they've imaged the drives with their encrypted mail, all they'd have to do is a half-dozen line patch to the code to log the passwords to disk as they come in.

Then they can decrypt everyone's private keys, and decrypt everyone's mail, PFS or no.

Anyone sending their Lavabit password outside of their own home is simply asking for someone else to decrypt and read their email.

If I had been a Lavabit customer, I would see this cipher suite as him saying-without-saying that this service is suspect and is to be avoided at all costs.
azakai answered this already, but it's nested deeply below: Firefox gives a console warning if asm.js compilation fails. In fact, it also gives a console warning if asm.js compilation succeeds! So there's never any doubt, and JS semantics are maintained.
Russians will never adopt gypsies traditions. We hate them. There is no traditions at all - they are drug dillers and thiefs, nothing more.
Thanks. This is great.

Could you please also allow downloading data as CSV or Excel?
Show HN: Simple aggregator that scrapes hotels, hotwire, airbnb, jetsetter, etc.
i just searched for the name (since it meant nothing to me; turns out he founded ebay) and there are reports saying this - http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/uk-usa-security-gre...
Funny a while ago a friend suggested we should version law texts and publish it, this is even better.
I have three instances at rackspace cloud, and all three have 100% uptime for 4+ years. Could not be happier. Of course, running debian stable might have some to do with that.
Now to commit the whole NATO Phonetic Alphabet to memory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
Responsive Web or Native?
You’re welcome! It’s not directly possible, as technically Markdown isn’t a templating language. It’s explained a little here: http://harpjs.com/docs/development/partial#markdown

Depending on what you are trying to do, you could have your Markdown files “wrapped” in a partial, and do whatever you need to with the metadata there.
I predict that the year of desktop Linux will coincide with the death of CISC.
...the fastest we could tell the remote hand to press it would be one light year.

Time is measured in years, not light years! b^)
I'd love any feedback, especially missing features or sites that you think we should include.
very nice, lots of good stuff in there. Thanks!
I think it's interesting that when talking about apps, people take this perspective. When talking about economics and social justice, the same people are quite reactionary.

In my experience, of course.
>Again, the category isn't bad, all the major players in
>that category are crap.

But, you could state the same thing about bigbox stores, and any large retail experience. You'll never get the boutique experience with an entity doing their best to squish profit out of volume.

All the 'major players' get a bad rap collectively but only because bad news spreads fast, and reputations get destroyed for random instances of bad news.
Rackspace is the best that our company has ever used. The expense is a factor, though, and many smaller sites aren't willing to bear that burden and that is where the likes of Media Temple comes in. They host most of the smaller sites we manage and I've been quite happy with them. That said, anytime I've had to deal with GoDaddy it has been a huge pain in the ass and I am not confident that this move is a good one for Media Temple's users.
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Foundation is very solid - just raised funds from top tier VCs and the team is experienced. Shoot an email to developers@pocketpanda.co or enter your email at pocketpanda.co/developers. Alamgir (runs the dev network stuff) will be happy to discuss at length and see if there's a good fit.
$525,000,000,000 reported payment fraud in 2012
The real evil is that it's impossible to be zero-beta to housing, because even if you own your house (neutral position; renting non-owners are short) you are still exposed if you need to move. Unfortunately, I can't see a real fix for this except for more remote/mobile work.

One thing Europe has that is good is a lot of public housing, even for middle-class people (like typical renting programmers)-- not just US-style "projects". This is great because it keeps the price down on the private market as well. You still need to build enough to avoid scarcity, of course. Otherwise, you end up with hellish queues.
I do have one problem with part of this article.

> From a purely technological standpoint, these two scenarios are exactly the same [...] Neither of these differences is visible to the company’s technology - it can’t read the employee’s mind to learn the motivation[...]. Technical measures that prevent one access scenario will unavoidably prevent the other one.

Emphasis on the last sentence - since this is only due to implementation in the chosen example.

As a counterpoint example, a system that allows for user data access only after a request has been made to access that data, the request is recorded in a request log system of some sort, and approval for the request goes through the appropriate checks (legal and procedurally) at which point it's signed off on and data access can occur.

(The counter-counter-argument is that technology isn't perfect and someone with the right access could potentially get around it ... but enterprise key management is a real thing, folks)

In this sort of system, the "intent of the employee" piece is encoded in the checks/approval piece as long as you make sure the same employee making the request is not the one with approval rights and that legal representation gets included in the loop for these types of accesses.

In this situation the hypothetical criminal syndicate would have to mount a larger and larger attack involving more people and greatly reducing the chance of it happening.

A government, however, would just pile on the legal requests and increase the number of employees involved until the request could be potentially be satisfied. By doing it this way, you make it unlikely for the government to il/legally pressure a single individual and instead involve your company's legal representation and a larger portion of the government's legal apparatus in determining if the request is valid - and in the meantime create some sort of documentation about the event (even if you can't publish / talk about the documentation while you're going through the courts).

The only advantage in defensive design where you literally cannot access your customer's information is that it absolves you of knowledge of what any one specific customer is doing. However, you increase your risk exposure to your services being used for illicit purposes (as defined by whoever is bringing a lawsuit against you), potentially being shut down, and potentially losing money as a result.

Some companies are ok with accepting that cost (in return for something that you can't put a price on) - most aren't.

There is a big difference between no employee can access the data and no single employee can access the data.
I've been a delighted Rackspace user for over a decade (!!) now. Recently switching from dedicated server to their cloud service.

They also have a startup program where they'll subsidize $1000 of hosting for six months:
http://rackspacestartups.com/
> I generally end up recommending Dreamhost too; it's not great, but it's better than what you'd get for the same money anywhere else.

It's notably worse than a number of other commodity experiences I've had.

Dreamhost aggressively oversells. They're hardly unique in this, but they admit and embrace it like nobody else I've seen.

Because of this, DreamHost accounts have two sets of rules: the ones they sell you on, and the other ones they're counting on you adhering to in order for everything to actually work. If you break the unwritten rules (even if you haven't broken the written ones), they will shut you down (sometimes without notice) and accept your cranky departure if you're unhappy about it.

Or maybe before then they'll have a severe service outage that causes you grief, make a funny blog post about it, and despite your amusement, you'll get the sense that something wasn't really addressed and leave.

If I had to recommend any shared hosting I've been on, it'd be Hurricane Electric. Over the decade I kept a small account there, my experience was the opposite of Dreamhost: they may have given less for the price, but they stood totally behind it (and a little further) and were always up.
I'm Russian too but I see there only dirty facts. I live in Saint Petersburg now, but I lived 27 years in 2 another cities, small towns. One if them is rich, without gipsies, full of green woods and with clean streets. So yes, Russia is not a best country, but this article is a pure propaganda. I like story "Vasily" on Vimeo - there less propaganda and more true.
Exclusively addressing one point of an argument does not magically concede all other points.
I might have missed something (honestly) but where exactly is the author hijacking anything? Are you suggesting that posting meta-discussion about HN on HN itself is hijacking HN? (And it's not your fault if it's upvoted.) If so that seems a bit crazy.
So... github wants to be wikileaks?
Speaking from experience - This isn't nearly as foolproof as one would hope. I used that process to back up my music collection in the early days and have discovered that optical media/drives aren't nearly as durable or compatible as one would hope. Years later, I'd found a large portion of my collection was unreadable by all but the original drive that wrote them. And several of the disks have suffered aging failures.
Either that or the market finally wised up to the fact that Path is managed by asstards who don't have a shred of respect for their customers.
Hey lubos, I have a company & I do most of this by hand. The reason is that I tried different apps but I got lost in them & gave up on them.

Have you thought on maybe making a walkthrough screencast for tech guys like us from zero to doing the whole accounting through your app?

Thanks for the app, great job :)
You really only need to memorize it if you're going to speak it. If you're only listening, then you merely have to know that each word represents the first letter used to spell that word.
The color scheme is very Apple-esque (iOS 7). Not as much of the brushed aluminium from iOS 6 (and 5?).
Why bother? It's intuitive enough: "Alpha" => 'A', "Bravo" => 'B', and so on...

English > NATO may not be easy without memorization, but there's no need to memorize anything if you want NATO > English.
It would travel at the speed of sound in the stick material, since you are transmitting a compression.
I don't know if I'd go out of my way to blame their horrible panel on upsell attempts, or confusion. I think they honestly hide most advanced features away because they don't want to invite an extra 50,000 phonecalls a day.

The less trouble a user can cause, the better -- particularly at that scale. For more advanced users it merely invites frustration, however.
With or without ephemeral keys, when people log in, the servers will, at the time of login, have access to the passwords of the users — the same passwords used to decrypt the private keys which can access those users' encrypted email messages.
BTW: Petrobras uses, argh!, Lotus Notes. There were a lot allegations that Microsoft and IBM cooperated with the NSA and inserted backdoors in their products.
So...what's wrong with the script command?
In work I accidentally discovered once that Microsoft Word (and Excel) supports three-way-merges natively, so there's at least that for non-TeX folks.
My condolences! I love the industry :) It can often be a thankless one, but I derive such a massive amount of joy out of serving.
Love this post! Really don't think it's about what / how you communicate but the thought that is behind it.
Yes, that's exactly what I mean.

No problem. I look forward to watching your progress :)
The on-site editor on GitHub was a really great addition of recent.
Congrats again Erica! :)
My experience is the exact opposite. My wife and her brother are the only set of siblings among their cousins (of which there are money, because their grandparents had a massive quantity of children). The financial repercussions of disobeying the law are fairly severe, so people don't generally bypass it.

I wonder what the explanation could be for our radically different experiences. Mine is all around Beijing, is yours perhaps out somewhere less urbanized?
VirtualBox is one of those projects that is a very important part of my daily use. But somehow I feel that it doesn't get much love from the open source community. Is it just me?
To expand on the retirement bit - a purchased home is a huge portion of most people's retirement savings, from a net worth perspective. Not having to pay rent makes it much easier for many people to get by on just savings/pension/a social security check every month. Assuming, that is, they've been able to pay off their mortgage by then.
You may be right... I'm not willing to login to godaddy right now (have to dig up credentials), but their marketing materials on the unloggedin site are much improved over how I remember (six or eight months ago?). The services are differentiated better and the value-adds for each service are actually related to that service (rather than the aggressive cross-pollination of service offerings).
um ok... (fixes media site ASAP) hehe
No, I'm talking about the things which Clojure is really good at. Macros, embedded domain-specific languages etc.

Try doing something like core.logic in pure Java.
A friend and I are about to launch a personal finance app, and I would absolutely love to integrate this. Right now we just support banks that support Direct Connect. Any chance I can get in? ;)
Tried it on a phone with Firefox and Chrome browser. Works fine directing the fish with the finger - though sometimes you do not see the fish because of the finger. Maybe using inclinisation of the phones to direct the fish is a better idea - kind of like doodle jump.
Tell me what an idiot I am on Hacker News

You brag too much in that post and come off as somewhat douchey, but reflective and intelligent. Also, you're one of the better writers that I've read (and I've written professionally) and that's not an easy skill for most to master, so kudos on that.

Also, it looks like Nickler is solving a real (and unsexy) problem. So, respect.
Hmm, well to make a community-driven website, but actually only with the content that the moderators deem worthy, is a good way to piss off users and to not make it change the world. It makes HN mediocre.
Apparently, quite a few have already in advance of the announcement -- however that's all hearsay.
Any and all answers to this question would be appreciated, even those that just qualify as 'promising' and 'active' (as opposed to mature). All I know of is nagios really.
Nifty! I just got two tuners so I can listen to local analog trunk systems. Any tips or recommendations for doing this on Linux?
It all comes back to you if you try screwing over the market, the market sees everything.

I love the market.
If a hypothesis doesn't contradict the known facts, how do you determine if it is warranted?

You only require evidence if you expect others to believe the same thing. I'm not arguing that anyone should believe in any religion. I'm arguing that a scientist can hold religious beliefs without conflict.

> the scientific body of knowledge, both theoretical and experimental, shows no evidence and no sign of a creator outside of humans projecting their own desires.

This seems like it would strongly depend on who you ask. I'm not even sure how you would come up with a criteria for this (although maybe that is just limitations in my own imagination).
Don't take this the wrong way but $5/month for a single static site is crazy expensive. I understand wanting to have a sustainable business but for $5 you should give customers 20-30 sites IMO.
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Here’s why everything Malcolm Gladwell writes is so compelling
A couple of somewhat contradictory points:

(1) Procedures are only as good as the people who follow them. Somebody has to actually access the data - that guy is the insider you have to worry about bypassing the procedures.

Maybe I am just not imaginative enough, but I can't think of a scenario that is completely immune to the single insider. The best I can come up with would be key-splitting such that everybody with a piece of the key would need to agree that it is a valid access request. But even then you have to worry about the process for generating the key before it is split. Even if everybody is in the room when it is generated and split, you have to worry about whether the computer doing the generation wasn't compromised by the insider to surreptitiously make a copy of the whole key.

(2) The idea of creating a system for data access presupposes that any developer must cater to the potential desires of law enforcement and make the effort ($$$) to accommodate them before they've even issued a valid court order. CALEA has put that burden on some telecom operators, but on the other hand the Clipper Chip with its key escrow system was an attempt to manipulate the market into building such access into all encrypted comms and Congress didn't even come close to passing that for government use and so the free market didn't even try.

CALEA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calea
Clipper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

EDITED TO ADD:

(3) There is also the trade-off between security and cost. We all know there is no such thing as perfect security, only an increasing level of cost to circumvent or penetrate. As you mention, a procedural system gets more expensive to compromise the larger the number of people necessary to grant access. But at what point does the cost to bribe or otherwise co-opt all those people equal or exceed the cost to crack the encryption? Just a SWAG, but lets say a well-implemented encryption system takes $100M to crack, how many people can you compromise for the same amount of money? What if $25M is enough to buy the entire company outright?

A system that is more expensive to crack because the only means of access is through good crypto is a more valuable service than one with an access procedure involving humans. Maybe that theoretical drug cartel can afford $25M but they can't afford $100M. So a user of a pure-crypto system would be safe from the cartel but one with a process for law-enforcement access would not.
At the end of it all, any business should be about creating a great connection between the end user and their solution. By humanizing the solution, and making it so much more approachable, you make yourself distinct, in a way that a rival can never beat, especially if they have tons more scale. Agree with this article entirely.
How fast can the tuner change frequencies? This will impact its ability to scan.

Can the same USB receiver function simultaneously as the signal and control receiver? If not then the HW cost is $19*2.
One thing that helps me when I'm doing hard things is to keep in mind that the difficulty I'm experiencing is one of the things keeping everyone else out.