skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I'm speaking as someone who grew up driving in the era of smartphones and readily available GPS so even when I personally drive, I depend HEAVILY on Google maps. Like I'd really be lost without it.

I guess not relying on GPS map routing is something that I cannot fathom. It always impresses me when friends can just rattle off highway routes and directions.
What licence is FA under?
Icon fonts are awesome, thanks for taking the time to create these. For those interested I have a post/example project on my blog on how to use them in iOS6+. http://kenrikmarch.com/posts/4
Hi there, I'm the developer of Flamingo. This is something that I considered during the development process but with the Mac App Store, sandboxing, and the overall difficulty of designing a good plugin API, this didn't make the cut for 1.0. Once things stabilize a bit I'll have more time to experiment with things like this. It's only 1.0 :)
USA Freedom Act Text. Reformatted for easier reading
KDE is usually very nice, and (believe it or not) the Linux Kernel (Just make sure you know EXACTLY how to send patches and so on).

Although lately I haven't worked in anything, would like to hear about more great opensource projects.
Yep that's the one. The whole web is image heavy these days so this will affect everyone. We have a lot of older computers on our network, this will really help.
Nice man I like the idea, its loading a bit slow for me just now but I recon that's cause its reached front page.

I'm working on something using IMDB information as well right now, hope you done mind If I share it. It's getting an overhaul right now and more features are being implemented as we speak.

http://filmfortonight.com/
http://skimfeed.com ...made by me!
WalterBright I have a great deal of appreciation and respect for nearly everything you've said in this thread up to the point where you declare to have "faith" in Boeing and the FAA. Engineering critical systems and faith of any kind don't belong together.
Why aren't we seeing any electromagnetic signals from any of these systems?
Agreed. pacman -Syu is a godsend. Of course that's just the face of a great package manager and packaging. In many ways on Arch you could make the argument that it just works.
Not a shit what, exactly?
Personally, I have no real love for the "desktop" paradigm. Give me Xorg, Evilwm, and some Xterms.
Have you read http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb ?
I understand, but it's not always so cut and dry. Seeing that a popular almost identical non-controversial product is doing the same thing without any legal action is a vote of confidence in my book. Having been part of a hobbyist organization who has had experience with dealing with large corporations who hold copyrights (in music), I am privy to information you might be surprised at what companies choose to let slide as unofficial policy.
Really nice idea mate, well done.
Gnuplot 4.6 – do « Gnuplotting
the guys who care are probably working nonstop...anyone with skin in the game (meaningful equity) will work their asses off. but this doesn't translate cleanly into hours worked. i also somewhat harshly believe that lazy founders should forfeit the equity and quit altogether. tech guys focus in spurts and work whenever they want (as they should!); and if they know what they're doing, they also properly manage the risk of burn out. so a tech guy who's hustling will prob code for ~40 hours but also do a ton of background research and toying around throughout the week to make his product better. non-tech guys consider networking work, so the number of hours doesn't mean much. working that biz dev relationship from 10pm-2am doesn't count! i've certainly seen teams come together and work insane hours to meet a deadline, or fix problems...but unless you want to see tons of mistakes, this type of schedule is hardly sustainable. as a rule: in a normal environment, balance is crucial.
For me personally it's image editing software. I need to be able to collaborate easily with graphic designers and manage my personal photography. Adobe's tools are the industry standard and what I need to collaborate with others.

That's the single thing holding me back. If I could have photoshop and lightroom on linux I'd switch in a heartbeat. Until then OS X will probably remain my main desktop.
This is the problem with Uber.

Most drivers, don't give two shits about the job. And it's hard to blame most of them if you understand the dispatcher-model they generally work under. It's very cut-throat and has high pressures.

While this isn't an excuse on Uber's part, I think it's where Uber can step in and improve things. Originally Uber's goal was too make Taxi's an app. They've succeeded with that. Now they need to improve quality, and not necessary the quality of the app, but the drivers. They have to force a cultural shift through an antiquated market, where education levels are highly variable. They should test a drivers knowledge about Uber and ensure they know what customer expect in terms of service. On the flip side, it should be very clear to the customer what they should expect in terms of service.

They also need to improve there mechanism for feedback. They need this because they must force out bad drivers. It's single handily ruining their reputation.

Uber is great, the drivers are variable.

All that said, I live in a city and almost completely replaced my taxi usage with an eBike, so I hardly use the app anymore, but when I was a regular user (10-20 rides a month). Classical dispatching companies were much more reliable then Uber.
I could see a service that just accepts any HTTP you send to it as being kinda useful for early testing of client-side software. Personally I'd just use netcat, but maybe a service would be easier for some people.
Agreed. Spaces circa 10.6 was so much better than the crap we have now. But it seems like Apple is at least fixing their regressions for the first time since 10.7.
According to this article you don't follow those rules either
Why they push for five stars: apparently you get fired if your star rating falls below 4.6 or 4.7 (can't remember which.)

Source: Uber drivers, so biased, but have you ever seen a driver with a 4.5 rating?
Yes. and thanks for demonstrating the user disconnect I was just referring to. the internet is big, so it's an easy thing to fall into.

for better or worse some places java is the one sanctioned way to sign into online banks and sign official documents online.

Having your browser constantly telling you that you can't do that anymore, completely out of the blue, tends to cause dramatic reduction in browser usage in those areas.
This is the same as saying, "Your web site has a slew of bugs in the JavaScript for signing up for the newsletter and the CSS is terrible and that's why it doesn't validate credit cards properly. They never point out the actual code that causes the acceleration problem - they just malign the code in general. Looks like a lot of lawyering by people who want to squeeze more money out of Toyota.

Besides, why would bugs cause more problems when the driver is elderly (http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/26/toyota-acceleration-elderly...)?
Uber, at it's worst, is still far better than any experience I've had with traditional cabs.
Virtual desktops ....
I always thought this would be useful for switching
between different contexts, like work vs. personal,
but I’ve rarely used it in practice.

I'm a virtual desktop addict. If I may, I'd like to share how I use mine, so that you might perhaps find them more useful in your own work. I have dual monitors, and four virtual desktops (in XFCE, but that doesn't matter).

Originally, I used only two workspaces (email/reading, development), and this has evolved a bit over time into 4. What I like about using virtual desktops is that I have a spatial mental model of where each thing is, which helps me ensure I don't mix up dev/production, and helps me avoid alt-tabbing to find what I want. I make extensive use of my window manager's ability to maximize on the left or right half of a screen. (This would probably not work well for me with a single monitor, unless it were a large one.)

1: E-mail/calendar on the left monitor, automated build system output on the right. This is for things that are semi-important but which I don't want to regularly have interrupting me.

2: Web browser with the app I currently am developing, and my console window on the left monitor, full-screen IDE (PyCharm) on the right. (I also put emacs or a terminal on the right as well when writing extensively in those.) This workspace is where I spend more than 80% of my time.

3: Github on the right screen, for pull requests, code review, issue tracking. I use this for a context-switch from developing code to reviewing it. I'll also use this workspace when babysitting a code release, to help ensure that I don't mix up local stuff with remote stuff.

4: music player. I stream music, so I rarely need to look at this except to change channels.
I meant 'cool' more as in 'hack-value'.

Our product (Interactly) is virtual video interactions, so our main value prop is being able to see real people respond.

In that context we figured it would be interesting to see if we could include a 5 second GIF intro right into the notification email; mostly out of curiosity just to see if it would technically be possible.

I was surprised to find out it was mostly feasible, but you're right that it doesn't make sense beyond the fact that it would be a cool gimmick.
> The large-scale re-urbanization of which our not-so-humble source author dreams would be a task that would require the entire sustained effort of the entire working population of this country, for decades.

Sounds like exactly the kind of jobs program the country needs right now.
Asumming that a subset of moral questions have black an white answers (or nearly), couldn't the study just look only at those questions?
It's best to just have keyboard shortcuts for each space (Control 1-4) rather than move left to right. Even if you are moving in a 2x2 virtual screen you usually still have the inefficient diagonal case.
You're teasing, right?

dig devnull-as-a-service.com

; ANSWER SECTION:
devnull-as-a-service.com. 1481	IN	A	213.95.21.200

http://whois.domaintools.com/213.95.21.200

Whois Server:
whois.psi-usa.info
ASN:
Germany AS12337 NORIS-NETWORK noris network AG (registered Mar 22, 1999)
IP Location:
Germany - Bayern - Nuremberg - Noris Network Ag
Domain Status:
Registered And Active Website
Not being good at ffmpeg, if I were to run it on a file with subtitles in the file (The most recent episode of an Anime for example), would it burn the subtitles in?
There's also the issue of the historical economic legacy of the Licence Raj - state planning often leads to built in corruption as circumventing state bureaucracy becomes the only way to get something done. It gets overlooked semi-officially because officials like the results it yields. Just because you change to a more freer economic system system doesn't mean that ingrained culture of corruption goes away.
Russia was very similar in the 90s.
Love it ;-). Now, here is a crazy idea: The burgercare just got passed, everybody was hoping for lower burger premiums, but instead they doubled - in fact co-pay at the restaurant went up as well! Anger, confusion. Now imagine, people find a way to look at the actual cost of a burger, maybe by looking at some restaurants that show their prices. People dump burgercare and rather pay directly - at least for the triple mac to save money. they find small restaurants that sell them burgers directly without burgercare. they find out that they won't be penalized if they don't sign up for burgercare as long as their tax witholdings are near zero. Pathway to a competitive high quality burger market?
that's very silly.
It does not get any better than pacman for sure, but I'm pretty happy with apt-get update && apt-get upgrade :)
Ben also wrote a great post describing how he built Ionicons: http://ionicframework.com/blog/building-ionicons/
Hi everyone. Joel here from Buffer.

Some of you might have heard about our security breach on Saturday. I just wanted to leave a quick note and clarify that this MongoHQ security breach was the method used to obtain our users' access tokens, which led to the wave of spam on Saturday.

This is a key final piece of our investigation which brings it back full circle. I'm very happy that we have been able to gain the full understanding and can be confident there is no backdoor.

I want to be clear that this is still our fault. If access tokens were encrypted (which they are now) then this would have been avoided. In addition, MongoHQ have provided great insights and have much more logging in place than we have ourselves. We’re also increasing logging significantly as a result.

I've updated our security breach blog post with this information. If you want to see the full set of events, take a read here: http://open.bufferapp.com/buffer-has-been-hacked-here-is-wha...

Let me know if you have any questions about this. I'll keep an eye on this thread.
You should try TotalSpaces. I can't speak for it, but it appears to replace the functionality lost from 10.6.

For me Spaces in 10.5 and 10.6 is as good as any *nix WM and better than several due to the linear wrapping behavior (on a 2x2 grid any workspace is accessible via directional key from any other.)
It would be up to the parser to implement the standard without a vulnerability, but a protocol is a language and a language can be designed to be self-referential, hypocritical, inconstant etc, making a conforming parser impossible. A lot of these so called "living standards" are probably not "evolving" so much as partially classified.
Clearly very large, floating Laser Tag arenas. Presumably a new employee perk.

[Edit: Also plausibly used for some sort of Hunger-Games style interview process]
Is there some kind of lagrangian programming paradigm where systems have many paths toward lower levels of energy at any point in time ?
We mass converted the PNGs to improve loading time and forgot about the text images. Those have been fixed now.
Pity devnull.io was already taken.
I've noticed this too on my first gen retina macbook pro. I switched back to firefox from chrome this summer and it's been a notably better experience.
To answer my own question: Somedays I do somedays I don't and type really depends on attitude -- somedays I might listen to the Les Mis soundtrack, or Lord of the Rings, or Titanic -- other days Scorpions / Kansas / Rush / Yes, other days Beautiful South / Smith's / Morrissey -- I haven't really quantified though whether I'm more focused while listening to music, or while not listening to anything...
We are giving access in first week of Novemeber .
I've had a similar "total clutch failure" before.

1993 Mustang's have a plastic ratcheting mechanism that picks up slack on their [very heavy] clutch cables.

The teeth on the plastic ratchets eventually wear out (duh....)

If you're FORD, you design it so that this piece fails catastrophically, releasing all tension on the clutch cable. (Instead of, say, hitting a bump-stop that keeps some minimum amount of tension on the clutch cable.)

No tension on the clutch cable = no clutch.
No clutch on the OEM T5 w/ a stock-spec clutch = good luck with the next downshift.

(For anyone interested: firewall adjuster + aluminum clutch quadrant = sweet deal.)

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However I'd still argue the purely mechanical systems are _objectively better_ in that they lend themselves to preventative maintenance.

Had I thought to look: I would've seen the _very_ worn teeth on my clutch quadrant.
I knew the clutch cable was old, rusty, and starting to bind in the sleeve, which probably led to the wear of my clutch quadrant.
As for a throttle cable: not only can I feel it binding in the pedal, but it's fairly easy to visually inspect a throttle cable or spring for faults, rust, etc.

In addition mechanical fixes are all radically simpler. If my throttle is sticking, I lubricate the cable and replace the return spring. If your computer controlled throttle is sticking: you hope it's (A) an actual bug and not intended behavior, (B) a bug that the mfr. is aware about, (C) a bug that a patch is available for, (D) that the ECU flash can be applied free or inexpensively.

Say you're an enterprising embedded electronics engineer and you wanted to fix it yourself? If you try to modify an automotive computer: you've just tampered with an emissions control device. Your car is no longer street legal in the United States.

Purely mechanical systems by their very nature are perfectly transparent.
Proprietary computer software is almost always a "black box." -- Due to federal regulations though: you have absolutely no legal way to repair or replace it on a street-driven vehicle. You are stuck with software you cannot see, understand, or control.
Mandatory SSH keys mitigates the brute forcing risk, and turns it into a nuisance. My employer presently has this arrangement and has done so for a while. Bastions only get you in the door: different entrances for different environments, users keys are only propagated to the machines they need.
You guys and your fancy HTTP services. Discard should be enough for everyone. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc863
Why Ubuntu does not deserve a Big Brother Award.
That's what I was thinking. Seems lightly odd.
Hm... who used to be able to afford cars? Cell phones? when they initially hit the market. I remember last year going to a radiologist, for my wife's ultrasound. The machine looked like a desktop, I thought pretty cool, the thing gets smaller. I asked how much it cost. The nurse said it they bought it for 50k USD. I almost fell off the chair. Year 2013 - an ultrasound for 50k. Sounded like progress backwards. Obviously, there are incentives at work that raise the price in health care, and less forces that would let them fall. Great example is that recent article in the NYT about the 5 artificial hip manufacturers in the US that basically run a cartel.
The middle click paste really hit home for me. I recently started working at a mostly Apple Big Co. And the middle click paste is sorely missed. Maybe I can find some equivalent but I always just took it for granted.
Skype is also among the NSA partner companies.
It really depends on the kitten. If you are ever in the market for one, a visit to your nearest cat/kitten rescue centre will illustrate just how much of a unique personality each kitten has. Some sit on your lap and purr almost instantaneously, some are very nervous, some are playful, some mischievous, some seem to love kids, some don't etc etc.
Wow, this blows my mind up, thanks for posting. Immediately had a look if it was already discussed on HN and to my surprise it went completely unnoticed! So here the links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5397123

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5125339
I'm exactly the same way, with emacs occupying one, remote ssh's another, a browser another one, root windows elsewhere, xchat in its own, and so on. I now have 10 of them.
This is in no way a bashing of Linux. I love linux, I use it daily, but it's the desktop that I have issues with..

I've used Linux as a Desktop exclusively from 1999 to circa 2008. When I finally gave up. I think it was Ubuntu releasing buggy PulseAudio which broke the sound for me that was the last straw.

I still use Linux as a desktop occasionally but I just don't have the patience to deal with the weird quirks anymore. And there were plenty of quirks over the years.

I never understood why Linux went with Windows inspired ctr-c and ctr-v. For me especially since I do most of my work in a terminal window it was always counter intuitive. Shift-Ins is problematic on laptop keyboards and even on full size keyboards it requires both hands.

Each year (or so it seems) Bryan Lunduke does a "Why Linux Sucks <year>"(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSxX8a_TC7I) and I love it.
When I saw that millisecond-faster copy/paste was item #1 I kinda lost interest in the rest of the article.
> Things like setting up dual monitors used to be such a major pain (for me) or hardware support like for a bluetooth dongle.

Dual monitors have got much easier over the last 3 or 4 years, at least on ATI. No clue about nVidia. .. and Intel graphics have always been rock solid on Linux.

Before I got my 30" screen, I had 3x 19" spread over 3 different ATI cards. It worked like a charm once I allowed Ubuntu to auto-install the ATI proprietary drivers.

> I had some problem with an intel chipset that kept crashing a laptop in 2005. I tried debian and suse varieties with no luck.

Ugh .. That sucks.. Not sure that would have had a (reasonable) workaround :)

> but I can't do things like VPN into my job because the software needs windows or mac.

Another, that sucks. I've had no problems with OpenVPN, Cisco IPSec, Cisco AnyConnect, Juniper NetworkConnect and probably a few others on Linux.. But I'm sure there's still hundreds of pieces of VPN software that don't have linux versions (or re-implementations)

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Sadly - 99.9% (plucked from thin air) of Linux issues are due to proprietary software/drivers/etc. Of these, a good majority are easily replaceable with cross platform solutions. Pity :(
> You can't look at the facts, the history of the world as we know it, and conclude that there is a stable equilibrium where nations cooperate peacefully without anyone making them do so.

You also can't look at the facts and conclude that there isn't - you can only conclude that there hasn't yet been such an equilibrium. We have been running more or less democratic systems of governments more or less successfully for some number of years now, but there was a point in time before that where you could have said "you can't look at the facts, the history of the world as we know it, and conclude that democratic systems of governments can be successful". Making conclusions about the future based on the past doesn't work, all you can do is hypothesize.

I suppose you probably meant that the odds of a stable peaceful equilibrium seem very low based on historical evidence, and I'm just being pedantic.
> And I think that you are wrong, particularly when you consider this based on dollars billed by emergency rooms, not patients seen by emergency rooms.

The statistics are that all emergency care expenditures totaled accounts for about 2% of all medical expenditures, or in any case no more than 10% depending on who is reporting and calculating [1]. And, not all emergency room visits are emergencies by far [2] and many patients are swayed by things like advertisements for emergency rooms.

Sources:

1) http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2013/oct/...

2) My ER doctor wife
I'm missing emoticons … ;)
Huh, I've always thought of chatting as the default in taxis (though not limos). Drivers seem to usually engage in small-talk with me, at least in California and southern Europe. I'm so used to it that the first time I took a taxi in Scandinavia, where the default is no chatting, I was sort of weirded out by the awkwardly silent ride.
Yeah, perhaps I am not arguing my point effectively. I am not trying to convince you, though. I am trying to convince other HN users that might see our discussion.

And I never asserted that web was built on marketing. Marketing is an emergent property of social systems in general and web in particular. You cant banish marketing, but you can amplify the good aspects. And to do that you've to have a rational discussion on the subject. Which I dont see even on HN.

Your condescension is not lost on me and thats fine. But your second line sounds just like something fictional illuminati member in a Dan Brown book would say. What day do you remember, again?
Can you explain why this is better than allowing access using 2FA over HTTPS (with a non-crappy set of cipher choices)?

IE What does the VPN buy you, specifically, on the employee side?

(I understand entirely what it buys you on the other side of the equation, such as a smaller attack surface, i'm just trying to understand why you would think having a VPN would have made this particular case more secure)