skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HMW: http://hmworship.com/ - on offline WEB App for song lyrics/chords.

It's really cool because most of the current chord sites lack the one critical feature for the mobile age: offline usage.

And also it's amazing because it's built entirely by volunteers and the users are evangelizing it themselves. We have never spent a dime on salaries/marketing or anything else. 100% bootstrapped.
Such a class of information doesn't exist. I tell them, and then I expect that anyone else who might be interested will find out. The information is no longer secure.

The key to operational security isn't that no one ever finds out; it's that no one finds out until it's too late for them to stop you. Perimeter security is a war of attrition: you will take losses and you don't get to pick them.

I have confidences I've given to friends. I don't expect them to share those secrets with others, but I'm also aware that they very well might, even accidentally. (Or the sharing got MITM'd.) Thus, instead of using shared confidences as magical shibboleths to friendship, I use them as the first step on increasing my comfort level with sharing them publicly. For instance, I was extremely ashamed of the fact that I watched porn when I was a teenager; now I can say it freely on a public forum with my name attached. There are a dozen steps of infosec stepdown that occurred as I grew up between then and now.
My father is 81 and very happy with linux mint that I installed for him a few years ago. He only uses chromium.

Recently he bought a new laptop and the first thing he asked me was to install Linux.
Does it have RSS feeds?
Old-school Gmail: Getting back your 'Compose Mail' screen
One or two bedroom apartment? It's still a pretty crazy rent from what I've seen of (advertised) London salaries (it's almost as expensive as here in Bergen, Norway -- but here you almost have to make an effort to make less than £32 247/year if you work full time).
Induce a little stress first - say, put yourself in a cockpit with a few hundred lives to protect - then try a reading experiment involving both styles. I think you'll find that in high-stress environments, the less noise the better.
A VC wanting to be paid for a pitch, in Bitcoin, is incredibly weird sounding.
My Thoughts on WSGI
I realise you just picked an example, but shooting at some guys in a ship with a Jolly Roger is quite different to operating in an area full of civilians via camera. Civilians are hard to tell apart from combatants (although the US seems particularly blind to civilian/combatant difference judging by leaked videos). I don't think you could argue that the US is operating within international laws. It's striking countries that can't stop the incursions and don't want them . The country only protests feebly, as the US props the governments up. This increases the level of resentment. The US drone strikes a few of its so-called enemies (very little info is released, so no one really knows who's killed), whilst bumping off a few civilians that got in the way. Its not hard to see the vicious cycle.
That would be great as well!
Plastic precursor doesn't simply appear out of thin air.
Weird thought of the day: a true, full REST interface seems remarkably similar to Gopher.
Probably could, but at this point I don't want the overhead OpenStack brings along.
Anyone know how this compares to qbittorrent?
The new one has a setting that boots to desktop, if that helps any.
Does it have categories/labels? Priorities? There absolutely needs to be a features list on the homepage.
Do they have examples from Sweden? Because my impression is that it works pretty well there (especially if you compare with Norway).
Gold Price Manipulation
I'm technical and I don't enjoy ordinary implementations of public key cryptography!

Good job, and good luck!
There are better things than Excel, Gnumeric for example.

The main issue is that there is no drop in replacement for Excel. There are spreadsheets that do calculations, statistics, scripts, etc... better, but there aren't any that can perfectly replicate Excel and perfectly read XLSX files right now...
> I tried to convert my 25 year old brother as well, but he switched back to Windows after a month. Despite being the youngest, he hated learning a new system and preferred Windows.

I've found this myself. My Grandfather loves Windows 8, my mother absolutely hates it. My Grandfather loves his new Android phone, my mum hates Android and refuses to use anything other than her iPhone.

Younger people may be more "tech-savvy", but at least anecdotally for myself they are the ones who hate change the most. Perhaps it's because the older crowd have fewer preconceptions about how things are "supposed" to work?
Good advice, thank you. I appreciate it.

On your first two points, this is not too far off from what GitHub does (and what I plan on doing) - the main difference is the nomenclature. You call them notebooks/blogs/documents, I call them projects, GitHub calls them repositories. The model is the same, though. FWIW, I'm calling them 'projects' because it's confusing to have multiple names for essentially the same thing.

The "first one's free" concept is interesting, and something I'm considering. However, I'm not entirely sure I agree with 'no one wants to publish half-finished' - Leanpub (http://www.leanpub.com) is built on this concept, and seems to be successful. Another argument is for open source and community-driven projects [1], which could be considered to be always in an unfinished state.

[1] https://github.com/HoTT/book
The author argues in a separate article that terrorism is not about terror: http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror
Marty Sullivan figured out how the biggest companies avoided billions in taxes.
Bullshit. That's just your own very subjective opinion of UI preferences.

I personally really don't care at all for the ridiculous glassy look of Aero in Windows 7; it's ugly to me.

I think the biggest problem with Linux is that many people plainly prefer what they're used to. Additionally, if you're a so called Windows "power user" you have vested more knowledge in the Windows ecosystem - specialized knowledge that is useless in the Linux world. An older person doesn't have this specialized knowledge, computers are all the same to them. THAT'S why it's easier for them to switch. They're used to being n00bs and knowing little about the OS they're using. It really doesn't matter which OS it is.
After my nephew's laptop (Windows) stopped working two or three years ago, I bought one with pre-installed Ubuntu for him and introduced him to Open Office and Gimp. During the first few weeks, he missed some of his games, but he got used to it pretty fast. No he is using it for studying and everything else and I never heard of any problems afterwards.
How is it profitable? Do you get a commission from Amazon?
I recommend installing Console 2: http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/

And msysgit (https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=full+inst...) which includes the "git bash" shell. It's got almost all the basic unix tools installed by default.
Not anymore. It's flawless for myself (iMac from late 2011, MacBook Air from 2009).
That's a shame, the start screen is very useful place to organize shortcuts to your most often used tasks.
I use oblytile to generate custom shortcuts and I have (organized by location / purpose) 12 shortcuts to start a ssh/rdp session to a remote server. It also has shortcuts to spotify/outlook/xencenter/vsphere and gmail.
Spent a lot of time this week working through the Learn you a Haskell tutorial. Definitely getting bored of adding numbers, each exercise and example is so trivial that it's hard to get curious and go down a rabbit hole that teaches you a lot.

I'll try this out this week. Thanks for sharing!

What I'm wondering about is how you arrived at the 48 Hour number?
Yeah I thought so. Do you see any solutions to that? like putting a piece of hardware at the very end overriding or substituting the printer's control board, that would be able to decrypt the gcode and directly control the motors and extruders or the final electronics. I'm imagining this piece of hardware would work like the horrible hardware keys: the 3d file or gcode wouldn't be sent if it doesn't detect this hardware at the end of the process.

How hard do you think that would be? I imagine that for open source 3d printers that would kind of easy...
There is a business in there if you solve this ;)
http://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Haskell-the-Hard-Way...

I wasn't crazy about LYAH or RWH. They're both spreading too little butter over too much dry toast.

Haskell the Hard Way is small, dense, efficient, and enjoyable.

I think one of the more popular, but fundamental, mistakes in teaching Haskell is in thinking that the more important "revelations" are easier to convey if you hide them in a sea of noise and that doing so is the only alternative to impenetrable white papers.
Manpage like resume
I wouldn't put much weight behind Mark Cuban's words. He makes statements like the one you quoted and the next thing you know, he invests in a patent troll that's suing Google for hundreds of millions.
I haven't found anything better than using Transmission[0] as a daemon and Transmission Remote GUI[1] for the adding/removing/management.

I can manage the downloads from any internet capable device from basically anywhere.

Adding CouchPotato[2] and a branch of SickBeard[3] to the mix make it brilliantly easy to download just about anything, automatically, without searching for anything other than the specific title that I'm looking for.

[0] http://www.transmissionbt.com/

[1] https://code.google.com/p/transmisson-remote-gui/

[2] https://couchpota.to/

[3] https://github.com/xbianonpi/Sick-Beard-TPB
My mother recently had me adjust the Gantt chart she created in Excel. She works for KPMG as an accountant.

There's a large difference, unfortunately, but it's the edge cases that the difference lies in. Some professions rely on those edge cases exclusively however.
> This surveillance is now seen in Latin America as a threat from the classic "American Imperialism"

Funny you mention that, cause Latin America has always been treated as a colony by the US. Recent detention of the Bolivian presidential plane is a good example of this arrogant attitude.

There's less prominent, but a similar condescending tone towards Europe, which for decades has been a puppet in the US geopolitical games. It could be tolerated while the threat of the evil commies existed. That threat is long gone, but militant ambitions of the US remained.

After the decade of wars, kidnappings, tortures, drones, and general world policing by the US, Europeans and other nations have had enough of it. I see a wave of anti-American, pro-nationalist sentiment on the rise. It is unfortunate, but rightly deserved.

The irony of it is that it is the military and security complex that will cash in on this development. More threats means more money and more power, which is less freedom for us, the people.
Since mountain lion added full screen mode I haven't had a single window maximized, what I do use though is bettertouchtool with window snapping enabled. It's pretty much windows 7's snapping feature that allows you to drag a window to the side to snap to that half of the screen, works really well.
People see America as a protector of human rights? Really? Do these people read anything?
Overbite has a list of plugins and clients that work on most platforms.

http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/
i'm a big fan of Bezos, honestly, but to say that pricing your products in such a way as to make >$100 billion in cash is a "mistake"... that's just crazy talk.
I'm working on Business Card Maker(http://bizcardmaker.com/), a very simple client-side business card generator that can quickly export PDF or JPEG.

It's definitely not as cool as most of the stuff here, but it's real easy to work with, that's why I'm hoping it will be helpful for people with no technical skills and small businesses.
I'm tinkering Click or Treat with http://clickortre.at a silly little halloween themed game with absolutely no point. Has got a halloween soundboard though :)

It's cool I've used it to start learning AngularJS. It's also cool because my daughter enjoys clicking the little ghost.
> Why do I, a user, care that it's difficult for Ubuntu to do something that Windows does?

It's not Ubuntu that can't do it. It's the hardware manufacturer that refuses to do it.

I personally choose to vote with my feet. I only buy computer hardware/software that works with Linux. If someone refuses to support Linux, they don't get my business.

If everyone does this, eventually everyone will support Linux or go out of business.

There isn't anything that Linux can't technically do. It's simply a matter of who is willing to support Linux.
It depends what you class as cheap. I work in Barcelona, and my rent is affordable, but if you compare the IT wages here and in London, I regularly get contacted about jobs paying around double what I earn over in London. I have been looking around for new jobs, but it seems I am already pretty close to the top of the salary range here.
US bugged Merkel's phone from 2002 until 2013
I've had that experience with Windows (7, as it happens) myself. That said, I also agree that there are a number of rough edges that haven't been smoothed out, which frustrates me. That's why I'm getting involved in development with Elementary OS :)
Totally, my error for not adding value with some additional information in my last comment. Thank you. :)

1) some introductory material on receptor theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptor_theory

Yes, I know Wikipedia, a more comprehensive intro to basic neuro is "Principles of Neural Science, 5th Ed" (http://www.mhprofessional.com/product.php?isbn=0071390111)... It's large book but the de facto standard.

2) a reference to some basic pharmacology with respect to opioid receptors that includes a summary discussion on receptor interactions (i.e. full agonists/antagonists/partial agonists):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK64236/

3) some explanation per the specifics of the mu receptor (click on this only if you are truly thirsting for knowledge on the mu receptor):

http://www.iuphar-db.org/DATABASE/ObjectDisplayForward?objec...

Have a nice night!
It's an interesting idea: that the real problem is that things are really tough for beginners now, and since women are more likely to be beginners, it hits them harder as a group. But if so, you'd also expect a chorus of young men complaining about their experience in tech too, which I just haven't heard much of. After all, even if women are disproportionally beginners, beginners are still disproportionally men. (Come to think of it, I've never heard a woman complain that all the tutorials suck either.) I'd be curious to hear otherwise, but my impression was that the state of online programming education options are the best they've ever been.

So I doubt your theory. And so it seems that either those tutorials have a more intrinsic gender bias (defensible but needs defended) or the problem has nothing to do with tutorials on the internet and has deeper and broader causes, which is my default position. Or, like you said:

> Somehow I don't feel like tutorial writing is the missing link to fix the gender gap in our industry.
It does, at least for hardware I've installed that requires a proprietary driver -- on first boot, it pops the screen asking to install it. That's my experience anyway.
Mint is just as heavy, unless you're talking the XFCE edition.

DE's matter more than the distro when it comes to the amount of resources consumed...
Cannot argue with the results. The whole concept is "impossible" to begin with since even if LastPass hid the content for the development bar (on the LastPass UI) they would eventually still have to submit it to the third party site and you could use the Network tab to grab the raw HTTP request right out of the air.

So I am fine with this weakness. It doesn't impact their core product. This feature is still vaguely useful for less technically literate people, but maybe needs some kind of disclaimer.
The reason Craigslist can't be beaten easily is because it makes less money, just like how Wikipedia can't be beaten easily because it's non-profit. Twitter as a for profit company can't afford to make less money.
This article is good. If you liked it, you may also like this narrative take on consciousness and brains: http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm.

That said, the part about (computational) capabilities seems unwilling to contemplate any but the most rigorously-established facts, leading to completely irrelevant estimates. It's fairly obvious that the limit on human intelligence is not Goedel's incompleteness theorem; it should also be fairly obvious that humans do not process 10 ^ 11 * 1000 = 10 ^ 14 bits = 100 Tb per second (this combines Wikipedia's number of neurons in the brain and the article's bits/second/neuron), not in any meaningful way and definitely not in the "10 ^ 14 yes/no decisions per second" that the article gives as a definition/explanation for "bit". In fact, the article picks efficiency, rather than efficiency times mass, as a measure of intelligence; it's not at all obvious why this should be so, in a simple computational model - bigger computers do tend to be faster, after all. (On the other hand, animal intelligence seems to be better predicted by brain mass per body mass.)

Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any better analysis that is still fairly rigorous; does anyone have suggestions?
The notes in this case were actually on paper. The list of sources was on paper too I think - they were taken without her knowledge during the raid, and only returned later.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/25/report-armed-feds...
Because ten years ago you had to partition your HDD with fdisk and configure WiFi network by editing /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.

I'm pretty sure none of the nontechnical users mentioned here would be willing to do that.

Ubuntu moved lots of configuration to the GUI, making it easily discoverable and usable for people who don't already know where to look for things. Ubuntu may be sucky, buggy and inflexible, but it's much easier to use than old-style GNU/Linux.
Get an all-Intel Thinkpad. Everything works out of the box except the fingerprint sensor, which works with a single apt-get install...
I see many people against windows...I have 2 PCs one with linux(programming) and windows(gaming)..Windows is not that bad for programming as well...its just the set up for your coding env matters....i do sometimes end up programming in windows after playing some game..so i have some tools etc installed which give me almost equal experience of doing it with linux...saying that i still prefer linux laptop for coding, one reason can be addictive games missing in linux...
The only reason I keep a windows machine around is because of Word/Powerpoint. I can get ork done with these. Open/libreOffice are pale copies.

I also played some games like TF2 or Age of Empire, but the former is now playable on Ubuntu. Steam is doing an impressive work.

For programming, I prefer QtCreator to Visual Studio. I regret QtCreator can't be used with other languages like D, Go, Java.

I don't think I'll make the switch to windows 8. My father 82 bought a new computer and Dell only sell Windows 8 on these. This costed him a lot of time to adapt for no justified benefit.
I still don't understand why is twitter going for IPO? They have zero innovation, Vine is apps for wasted people, Twitter users are not growing...

$10 Billion is a lot for twitter. Facebook story was different cuz it has user locked into its system.

twitter should not be worth more than $3 billion
I'm a Pro-linuxer and never have any Windows machines near my home.

So this means, Ubuntu netbooks and laptops all around and my mom and sister is very familiar with Linux. They are using these easily.

Once I found out my sister tried to install wine via source code :) She needed some windows software for some firmware update and all her research lead her to wine and source code install. The thing is she did not asked me anything about the whole process.
How does Swedish rent control work? Because in San Francisco it only applies while the same person is living there. So old tenants keep their "original rent" with small inflation linked increases, while new tenants pay the much higher "market price".

So in the same apartment building you have a new tenant paying $3000 and an old tenant paying $400 for same size apartments. I.e. the new tenant is overpaying to subsidize the old tenant who is underpaying.
That was my experience with Ubuntu as well, then I switched distro. That mess gets too much hype.
For iOS, there's GopherBrowse[0]

[0]http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gopherbrowse/id478840815
Odesk is not that bad
there is a never ending stream of complaints and horror stories about odesk.

my experience is different.

I am using odesk for the last 4 years spent there tens of thousands of dollars,
most of the time it is incredibly useful. granted i had some failures but with "normal" hiring I had higher failure rate and each failure is much more expensive.

the biggest power of odesk is the speed of availability. within minutes i get many qualified contractors. ready to work.
speed unmatched.

last week i ordered a logo from a contractor on odesk and 24 hours later costing us 44 dollars, i got a logo for my new startup. (there was a full process of selection)
this logo would cost me hundreds of dollars going the normal path and will take forever. (you can see the logo at www.glue.im)

a while ago i got in trouble while administrating a server, 15 minutes later I had a great guy, a knowledgeable system admin to the rescue - problem solved. he also showed me what i did wrong $12.
now i use him to save my time.

as you can see English is not my native language, 3 hours before deadline for ycombinator submission, I need a quick English fixer
30 minutes later Evan from florida is with me on skype going over the document. $50 incredible job for the time he had.

ramen profitability - at glue (http://glue.im) we try to keep burn rate low while supercharging our code writing. with Odesk and our charm,
we keep burn rate < 5k while having 3 full time employees writing code + 1.5 founders. (the other half founder is writing this) we develop our mobile app on Android, iOS, and Tornado backend together.
with a diverse team from England, Ukraine and Bulgaria.
In a perfect world, yes. But I think this is yet another signal to the people that we're not living in any utopia and it's time to protect oneself against the intrusions of the government.

Free speach is now a right that the people must enforce.

A hackerspace in Malmö Sweden are suggesting workshops for the public to teach them the use of open tools, encryption and secure communications.

It would be nice if other hackerspaces around the world joined in on this idea.
People who are saying stuff like patent doesn't mean anything as long as you have good community and network effect don't know what is going on here. Facebook owns a patent for activity feed. Theoretically Facebook can sue Twitter once Twitter goes public. Although it's not likely going to happen and it will be settled somehow even if it does happen, it's still an important factor for investors.
Hey Robert. I definitely know Silverescent as that's made using the same technology. I really admire Lulu because they make some great products.

The improvements we have made are in the feel, finish, and performance areas. You'll find a slightly higher percentage of silver in our fabric, it is lighter in weight, and the feel of the fabric is improved.

If you like Silverescent, you'll love what we're making.