skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> "During a single day last year, the NSA’s Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation."

I wonder if this is any indication of the security of the services (i.e. Gmail much more secure than Yahoo)?
How about doing it in 3 stages:
1. Brief free trial (1-2 days) with no CC required.
2. Next, your typical 30 day free trial, but require a CC.
3. Paid service.
I absolutely doubt that graphical programming, even in its best implementation, will be about solving "code" puzzles.

Regardless of the interface, programming is "work", linking up different interfaces, checking edge cases, conform to protocols...

It would feel more like glorified data entry than solving chess puzzles.
"I still think there's better use for that land than raising cattle on it."

Are you claiming cowboys are herding cattle in the streets of Manhattan? Or "everyone" wants to move to a cattle ranch in the middle of nowhere in Texas but they just don't know it yet? You could work your argument either direction but I don't think either will work very well. Farmers and ranchers like money just like anyone else. If they could subdivide their land to city slickers at SFO/SV square footage prices I think they would...
Improvement implies progress toward an objective moral standard. I believe in one, so that's a fine statement by me, but then I also believe that each generation has moral strong spots and moral blind spots.
I sit in front of Visual Studio more hours in a day than I sleep, and by and large, I love it. But I can't for the life of me understand why the mapping diagram would help. I suppose in some unfamiliar code it may help me get up to speed faster, but this seems like a rehash of exporting UML to Visio?

I cannot afford Ultimate, just Professional, so I admit I have no hands on experience with the tool.

What JetBrains product is comparable?
Someone pays for it.

I don't think anyone is under the illusion that education is free. However, it benefits society as a whole, and not everyone may be able to afford it. So, it is often in the interest of society to make good tuition affordable, regardless the background of a student.

Of course, it is also beneficial for the student. But for that we have the tax man :).
Actually the IDE I'm using - JetBrains's Intellij IDEA is made in Russia and I think it's the world leader in IDEs.
Unless you need that rent difference because you make less money than a programmer.
600GB is huge.

That's half your steam library. As in, you could re-download literally 50% of every Steam game you've ever purchased in your entire life.

It's also not a hard cap. It's just a warning light. If you go over 600GB, police do not show up at your house and cut off your internet service. It's simply an goodwill indicator. If your routinely jumping over 600GB use, you ought to be paying for a higher tier plan, like a 'power user home plan'. (If you restore your entire backblaze and steam library every single month -- something is wrong)

But otherwise, I agree with you on many of these points.

- Nightly Speeds : If the lines aren't saturated, your free to use as much as you please. (ISP's have to pay for that connection 24/7, so if it's not in heavy use, your free to run wild. Won't bother me any). This is done already.

- Non-guaranteed top speeds : This is also already done. Plans are advertised with separate dedicated and bursting speeds. Just because Comcast is deceptive on advertising, doesn't mean all ISP's are.

- Metered : I personally am fine with metered billing, if the price is right. However, literally no regular person is ok with this. Unless your super technical, you won't know how much bandwidth your using, and won't sign on for this plan. (especially now that Verizon / Sprint / AT&T charge $15 per gigabyte, people are conditioned to flinch whenever they hear anything remotely similar to 'metered billing').
One more would be to never give up even if you may be dead 3 hours later.
>> The idea of 'deserving' is sort of predicated on their being some sort of higher guiding force sorting us into piles... Maybe worry instead about whether or not you're using those gifts for some good.

Objective, higher-force kind of good? Or "however I define it" good? Because everyone does the latter, probably even serial killers. "He deserved it," they say.
Agreed. College is wasted on the young. When I was there, I had no idea what an absolute privilege it was to have an environment completely geared towards your own personal enrichment for 4 years - and I had a better attitude than 95 percent of the kids there. I wish someone could have tried to get that through to me: how much tougher learning is when you've got a wife kids, 50hr job, etc...
Kinematic Models for Design Digital Library
There's quite a bit of hyperbole in your comment. You certainly can't get every book ever written online. You can't see any skill you feel like on a youtube video. And watching a video doesn't teach you the handskills - it's merely the start of the process. There's no video that teaches you what it feels like to tie a ligature at just the right tension, for example.

Romanticising the past is certainly an issue, but just because we have fancy tools in the present doesn't make us masters-by-default. We can clearly do more than previously - just look at the inside of a computer. But not only is the answer to 'who are the masters?' changing, we need fewer masters overall, thanks to modern manufacturing process. Only one designer can make thousands of articles that are shipped all over the world.

As for lathes, they go back at least hundreds of years by way of English bodgers, and likely much further back than that. And the lathe made by a bodger is going to be cheaper in terms of how long you have to work to get one that a machine lathe purchased in a shop.
In the '80s I was working on a (never released) system I called FlowPro, but EGA adapters and 8088 processors weren't really capable of the kind of DnD I wanted. The idea was that flow-charts would be turned into code, with some meta data added if you wanted specific variable names etc. (instead of the words used in the diagram's box).

Then in the early-to-mid '90s, I came across a product called Prograph that ran on both Windows (I did a lot of programming for WFW with it) and Mac (OS 8 I believe). I loved that system, and realized it solved some of the syntax issues I had using flow-charts, but it still never really took off. The concept lives on with the Marten IDE though I'm not sure how many people are actively using it.

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

http://andescotia.com/products/marten/
Users will use Excel.
That is the closest thing we have to graphical programming that works. They don't need to understand data structures, just columns and rows. Anything more than that, and you need to understand new concepts. By the time you understand these, drag and drop doesn't gain you much over typing.
You may argue that it's biased and cherry-picked - presumably as opposed to all these counter-arguments like "I've seen worse around Brooklyn" or "I happen to have a lower crime rate than NY in my 100 thousand Russian town" :))) That's solid stuff fortunately, no cherry-picking going on.

However oops, overall statistics also tend to show that Russia isn't doing all that great

Eg. Human Development Index, which measures the standard of living based on a wide variety of data, doesn't even place Russia in the world's top 50.

It only does slightly better than Cuba or Mexico. Or is this evil, imperialist dollar-paid propaganda too (this one never gets old) :)
Nobody's mentioned what's pushing firms like Softbank to look for bold overseas acquisitions.

Japan has a major government debt crisis looming, and the only way out for the Japanese government is to print Yen plus financial repression. Large, profitable Japanese firms like Softbank are desperate to insulate themselves from this (and maybe even profit from it) while they still can. Converting Yen to overseas capital looks like a smart move at the moment.
JointJS diagramming library 0.6.4 released
The idea of graphical programming seems in a lot of way like graphical mathematics.

Works in some cases, but not in all.

I used graphics to represent databases, and their relationships, because it's more easily understood than several hundred lines of code. It fails to tell the whole story though, and thus only serves as a thousand foot view of what is going on.
Little dunder proto
I have to refresh the page to see the score change (FF24, ubuntu). Also, if the page is too old (e.g. if you read the article and spent time considering it), then your vote might not register.

So, refresh (to get a fresh page), vote, and refresh again (to see your vote reflected in the score).

OTOH, HN sometimes experiments with karma thresholds and various tricks. So that might be it if the above doesn't work.
Alas, I think death and taxes will both stop him there.
Their hiring the Dixons guy was sort of astonishing. Dixons/Currys/PC World is about as close to the opposite of an Apple store as you can get.
It's definitely among the best, but I believe Visual Studio is better.

Still, not enough to say Russia is the world leader in software development. That title still belongs to the US of A for now.
The Snowball I read said that Buffett had a difficult time raising money because no one took him seriously. Once word started spreading around that "the kid" knows what he is doing that is when people started approaching Buffett.

Buffett was running his own business even when he was a kid and was earning more than his teachers.
It's not propaganda, it's the truth. I'm originally from Russia and it's like that, or much worse.
Personally, I would prefer an IDE/debugger that allowed me to visualize my data really well. This ought to be a lot easier also - I've done some simple scripting with GnuPlot which has given me a lot of mileage. But imagine being able to put a breakpoint anywhere in your program and interactively browse your trees, dictionaries and arrays using OpenGL-accelerated real-time graphics. I don't understand why xCode and VS aren't putting more efforts into things like this.
I remember "why ruby is an acceptable Lisp" - that was a fun read. This is an equally fun rebuttal by Steve Yegge http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2006/04/lisp-is-not-accep...
Boehner is refusing to allow Congress a vote to finance the government. This is not the same as Congress refusing to finance the government.
this annoyed me too!
The question of time is deeper than this. Why is it that your brain or for that matter any physical system is dependent on it's previous configurations? Why is it that there is such a thing as previous? The mathematical descriptions of reality we have devised are symmetrical in time...

I can imagine a universe where alternate number like systems are more appropriate as heuristics for day to day living. Why should every universe be easily described through isomorphisms to the infinite cyclic group? Why could a universe not be more easily understood (compressed) within the minds of it's inhabitants with systems which are non-abelian groups? Perhaps you could say that there can exist no universes where intelligent beings can exist which contain aspects which are compressible using such systems. But you would have to prove it.

I think the arrow of time question is very interesting, I would love to see and understand an answer to this before I die.
Hey, I sent you an email. Not sure what's wrong here. You just scroll once and go to the bottom of the document then? Maybe some hyperactive css rules?

EDIT: OK, should be fixed now. There was a nicescroll jquery plugin in there, which was providing extra scrolling. Thanks for the heads up!
Announcing AWS Activate
That seems strange. What happens if two attribute directives ask for an isolate scope? Does it give them the same one, or just fail?

I used isolate scopes in the article because I thought they were easier to understand, but I'm thinking of updating it.
Well, life outside Russia's big cities really is completely different than the Moscow megapolis, I've seen that and the article illustrates that point quite well.

And read the article - it's not anti-Russian in any way, it simply shows how economic inequality looks like.
I love this comment, it is like a poetry!
Completely off-topic: 6ren is there a good way to send you a private message? I'd love to send you a quick note if you don't mind sharing some way to get into contact (im stukearney@gmail.com)
Another issue with this article is it ignores a fundamental human trait that can be demonstrated through a number of consumer industries - people like choice.

While setting defaults in stone and never changing them might work if some people like your choices, being flexible has always been the greater path to success.

Witness the car industry, fashion industry, PC industry, etc... For better or worse, we like having alot of choices available.
It depends on the service; if it can be used for malicious purposes (hosting, emailing spam etc) or it carries a liability then definitively ask for a credit card.
I go to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547669,
vote to e.g. 0, button disappears, reload page, I get the same points (and buttons) back.
For journalists, writers, analysts: Twitter Heat Maps for studies
Hi,
My team recently launched service to monitor Twitter for keywords. It is available at http://vertabox.com

Last year we did twitter heat map that was covered by top media such as Mashable.

It was because of interesting interpretation of the data. We scanner 'good morning' and 'fuck you' terms. It was interpreted as study to define where most polite and rudest Americans live.

Now I want to ask community for new interpretations and study ideas.

I offer to run our scanner for any keyword within any country and collect data for 1 week. You can use result information to do your own study and analytics. Our system scan Twitter for tweets with given keyword, extract top media, top users.

It is possible to define two terms for one project and to have comparison map and charts. Example - http://vertabox.com/projects/love-you-vs-fuck-you/compare?date=2013-10-13

Email me at obondar gmail com with your ideas on what study you would like to do. I will set up scanner for you and will provide all the results and support in your study.

Please share this to whom it might be interesting.

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"- Never discredit teams in YC if they are still showing up to the events together and seem to be working"

Is it accepted to discredit them/talk crap about them if they're not doing this?
LOL @ 'relatively successful and stable economy'. Their economy is entirely based on selling off natural resources (sell 5%, steal 95% for yourself). When those resources run out, entire country will be bankrupt.
Source: I'm from Russia and know what I'm talking about.
Why Entrepreneurs Should Create $1000 Startups
Ridiculous really. You use a new address every time, a single one for a company is not the way you're supposed to do it for many reasons, not the least being that you can't tell who paid for what.
Not so stable now given the lack of economy growth and perspective of cuts amidst growing oil prices and diving into recession. Russian economy outlook is less than bright for a few years now.
Ask HN: What would happen to your project if you unexpectedly died?
I work on an iOS app by myself, and it's been picking up some traction.

I'm the only person who has the source code, and I have the only copy of the key needed to publish to the App Store. I encrypt my hard drives. It occurs to me that if anything ever happened to me, simple updates to keep it working with new OS versions would be impossible.

I'd like to form a contingency plan to ensure my users could at least get updates for new OS's and my family could continue to get the revenue. However, I don't have any close friends who do iOS development, and I'm not sure whom to trust with my code and keys.

Has anyone else ever had to solve this type of problem?
Create your own git server easily with Chef and the Vagrant AWS plugin
While I'm no expert on either, having seen a few product demonstrations of both could you explain why you feel Clarisse is equivalent to Katana? I understood Katana to be a renderer agnostic lookdev tool. Clarisse has it's own high performance renderer and seems to have a broader scope.
It's a toe-dip in the water by a very large swimmer. A good sign for Bitcoin.
But Visual Studio wouldn't be the same without the great ReSharper :) By the way, Google's recent Android Studio - the best Android IDE, which pushed Eclipse aside - is a customized IntelliJ Idea as well (they made a deal).
Stories about Detroit are not presented as stories about the entire US.
I'm taking this as a weak hint that Apple is moving away from what I wish it were. Burberry sells useless stuff for lots of money. I was hoping Apple would try harder to be genuinely useful.

Still, it's a big ship and this hire won't really change anything. And to be able to be useful, Apple are also going to have to be able to extract money from fools.
Third database dump released
Kombu 3.0 released [Changelog]
"MM" is the accepted suffix in the financial world, where each M stands for "mille", or thousand.
You wouldn't think such a major search company would allow one to watch movies or listen to copyright music free of charge just by clicking the 'movies' or 'mp3' search tags, but Baidu does (at least to residents here; I'm not sure if the same is possible for people outside of China).
That's the abbreviation most often used by accountants, fwiw. M = thousand, and MM= thousand thousand
10 Spectacular Movable Bridges
> And yes, we will be talking about Zombies - not human zombies, but zombie ants whose brains are hijacked by an infectious fungus.

Can't beat a sense of humour. That right there made me want to s ign up.
I can still flag things - both posts and comments. Could your flagging history be perceived as excessive?
Auth against a REST API
We used Geckoboard for a bit but stopped due to their terrible support and high pricing
I thought it was "common knowledge" that there's a 500 karma threshold to upvote? However, I couldn't find anything "official" right now, other than a reference under:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2242385

(I thought it was in the faq? Did I miss it?)
If many people are willing to pay lots of money, I don't think things they sell are useless.
I can postulate that there is absolutely no way a purely graphical representation of code will be the future. The same way we do not talk using pictures.

A graphical language would be best used to display structure. Bonus points if it allowed changing. The rest, modules if you will, can be better described by text.
Sounds like this is what you want - https://github.com/Element84/vdd-core/wiki/What-is-Visualiza...

EDIT: Or even http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iUm_Cqx2s
Umarells
Interesting for us though, to see the transactions as they come and go...
https://coinsheet.net/sh3vHPeZXJ
Amaze project aims to take 3D printing 'into metal age'
Brendan Eich (JS inventor, Mozilla CTO) on stage at dotJS in Paris, Dec 2nd
Good sign for Bitcoin. Very good. But not as good sign for the USA.
I think this is a dark pattern that actually works. You sign up for a free trial with a CC where they promise you can cancel anytime. Your plan is to cancel before the trial is over but you forget it and start paying. It happens to me all the time.
The captain is perfectly free to do what he wants how he wants with his property, the boat. His boat is useless without crew. The fishermen crew are not his owned slaves (although there are people working to fix that in the USA in all but name) and if he insists on sailing into hurricanes and killing half the crew, or not providing food/water/fair pay, they're perfectly free to raise hell and refuse to work and encourage everyone else not to work until the captain agrees to reasonable demands. He owns the ship, not the crew. If the captain says "I'm going to be a bit reckless and kill half the crew and pay the other half so low their family starves, but I will make an extra 10%, so you'll like it"... well, no, they won't.

The fisherman can't build their own boat because the captains have added enough rules and regs and .gov payoffs and what boil down to bribes in an effort to reduce competition. Its not a free market and the captains like it that way. No surprise there's a wee bit of backlash. If the captains don't like backlash, try not being a crook, then start complaining.

BTW its OK if the captain is pissed off about people "stealing" his capital even if they aren't. To a first approximation a fair and reasonable deal doesn't require everyone to be perfectly happy, just more or less equally unhappy. I'm sure the union fishermen are about equally pissed off at the captain, seeing as he kills about 2% of them annually by being cheap/risky and half of all captains are of course below the median thus they're jerks to work for.
Strange.I just checked my upvote doesn't count either.
There's ~1.5 billion credit cards out there. By definition, every startup is going to ignore pretty large segments of the addressable market (e.g. people who only speak languages not familiar to the starting team). Starting with an addressable market of 1.5 billion is not a bad thing.

Payments are complex and can be extremely localized. This is IMHO not a battle for an early-stage startup to fight. Credit cards are as close as there is to a de facto international standard; go with those to start.

Also -- in my experience, people without CCs reach out and ask for alternate arrangements if they want your service. This is an appropriate time to make sure that e.g. companies that require a complex PO process are spending enough to make it worth your time.
It would be rather trivial (if not constructive) to make a throw away account, submit something, and upvote it. It'd be pretty easy to correlate any upvote with an a personal upvote (not to mention how easy it would be to "disprove" that upvotes worked: no change on reload) ?

I'd argue this whole shadow ban idea is a bit of a dead end, and it should just list this stuff on the profile page or something.
When open source invests in diversity, everyone wins
Imagination reveals their new CPU offering
Update: this has been fixed, so I'm happy now. :-)

I utterly hate, loathe and despise the scrolling and keyboard hijacking on this article. (Yes, I really do feel that strongly about it.)

I pressed Space and what happened? I got taken an entire page down, rather than not quite an entire page.

So I pressed Shift+Space to go back up and what happened? I got taken another page down, rather than back to the top.

So I pressed Ctrl+PageUp to go to the previous tab so that I could report these issues and what happened? I got taken one page up instead.

Scrolling with my laptop's trackpad isn't working smoothly at all, and quite unpleasantly. Ditto with the arrow keys. The whole experience, in fact.

Please remove this behaviour and let browsers do what their users expect.
I recently just changed the payment tool I was going to sign up and use because they asked for a "numbers only" password. This is not flimsy, I would surely forget any password I had to create with this restriction.

If your startup is on a competitive market, with no unique service only you provide, I would make it simple, letting the users make their choices.
Surely people who already have over 200 tweets, must have certain character similarities, e.g. a bit of an ego, assuming people want to know the crap they tweet.
There is no JetBrains product like that, I just wish they had, because they have a potential to build something lightweight. Best use cases for me personally are the visual dependency graph and method call diagrams when dealing with poor-quality code (huge classes with a lot of method dependencies). I would pay a hundred bucks for this, but not a thousand dollars.