skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really hope this takes off - it would be great to use at events!

Yobongo was trying to get this going a while back. For some reason they focused on specific cities (Austin, NYC, and SF) instead of using a generic 1-mile approach like this. I was always disappointed that they got aquirehired - their app died on the vine.
Cool concept. I would change the phrase "Don't Play With Yourself" to "Don't Play By Yourself".

It's semantics, but to me they have totally different meanings!
"Every piece of content created: mobile camera roll, instagram, facebook, vine. Every piece of content consumed: amazon, itunes, netflix, spotify, rdio. Every place you go. Every dollar you spend. You won’t start with 100 services, but you’ll get there soon enough. Some people will be obsessed with adding more data"

And therein lies a potential headache. What if the API for those 100 services break? What if just 10 of them change their API every month? Are you going to update them? And oh btw, you're gonna keep doing this before you actually have paying customers.
You can lock the screen with control-shift-eject (if you have an eject button).
I rather like Chris Cunningham's interpretation of what it would take to perform Aphex Twin's "Monkey Drummer" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB08leFMRnM
Folks interested in using Recurly.js for subscriptions (which I personally love) will also be interested in the sample app I'm starting to push on GitHub (work in progress, but will be updated this week):

https://github.com/thbar/rails-recurly-js-sample-application
Take those requirements in reverse and apply them to an already employed NSA person -- then send them out to apply for jobs as an asset.
It is the right tool for mixed JS and Java codebase.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
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> steal the fob

And this is why this is worse than a phone-based solution. With a phone, it could require you to unlock the phone before it can be used to unlock the computer. Sort of TouchID-by-proxy. With a fob, it can't authenticate you.
You have no idea how happy it makes us to hear all of that. Not just some validation on the concept, but also the build requests. Funny enough, we have discussed everything on the list. But to address it one by one.

1)We will be making adjustments to the registration screens. No worries, it will get easier.

2)We are going to make it so you can invite facebook friends and share game creations via twitter or facebook posts.

3)We are refining the backend to process quicker.

4)We may have league integration in the future. Not sure just yet. However, in the near future we plan on implementing a process to easily split people up into teams. We have discussed the ability to have re-occurring games which could be turned into league/tournament play. Who knows?!

5)The check-in feature is on certainly on the docket!

6)Gamification features will be coming with the 2.0 version late 2013/early 2014. Check out our blog (http://leaguewarrior.com/blog/) for updates there.

7)As for esports, we will base that off of demand. If users seem to want it, then we will provide it.

Thank you again for taking the time to check it out.
It's currently at #10 on the frontpage. http://imgur.com/ZuIUSGl.png
Wait wait wait!

Requiring very strong encryption may help make spam email computationally infeasible.

That alone might be worth it!
Closing the lid will put it to sleep, which is not always what you want to do.
I was recently shopping for a car, and I will tell you now, I did not see a single one that had a front seat with no displays or controls besides the steering wheel, pedals and speedometer.
Fiber optic links are not so easily compromised. Not without service interruption, which will raise quite a few eyebrows.
I have that one on my shelf. It's decent, but it doesn't cover anything that the other two don't. Compared to Engineering a Compiler, the Aho, Sethi, and Ullman book goes into more depth on the theory, and the Appel book has a better breadth of topics. It's not a bad book by any means, but I'd recommend that if you only have the cash for one book, go for the Appel book.
Hm, I guess that's a point. If you're intoxicated, you're intoxicated at the most dangerous bit of your drive. If you're playing with your phone, you might be picking relatively safe times to do so (at an extreme, I've been known to check things on my phone if traffic is literally stopped).
Consider Sally Smith, our hypothetical employee. She worked for several government and military agencies for years with a concentration in data center security. She has top-secret clearance.

Before the Snowden revelations came out, I'd have strongly considered Sally Smith to be a good fit for a position dealing with data center security. Who wouldn't have?! Years of experience at high levels securing data centers? Letters from generals and senior government officials attesting to her qualifications? Sign me up right away!

Post-Snowden, I'd start believing that Sally Smith is far more likely to be Sally Spook, an active NSA employee experienced in data center infiltration and with an impeccable cover story.

The only thing that keeps Sally Spook away from our data centers is Google's hiring processes & internal security, and is that really enough to stop a determined adversary with all the advantages of the NSA? I doubt it.
The problem isnt the part that you can see, the Front-End. The problem is the legacy systems on the Back-End that need to talk to each other. And if one of these requests time out, the whole request fails, doesnt matter if the 5 systems before responded it has to go through the process again.
Bioengineering and synthetic biology will never be like electrical engineering, but some of the differences can be exploited.

For one, you can use directed evolution to optimize a biological system without relying on rational design.

For another, biological development is massively flexible. Consider that when you evolve a longer arm, you don't need to mutate genes to ensure you have longer muscles, tendons, nerves, etc. In fact, you can grow an entirely new arm by just initiating a limb bud at the correct time in development. By contrast, in electrical engineering all design aspects are "rational" - when you change one part, you must change the other parts to compensate.

Modularity and reductionism are "problems" only in the sense that they reflect differences between our engineering strategy and the substrate we are trying to engineer. We must discover the engineering principles that match the substrate.
When reading the title: Stalin's ropes I was expecting something more cruel and dangerous like an article on prisons or tortures or something. What a relief to find out that it's about city transport, though it Is dangerous now as they haven't maintaned it well and the breaks should add the security to those ropes. I doubt if I dared to use them unless wishing for the adrenaline rush.
cmd-opt-eject is also an option

Edit: this is actually to sleep the whole machine I think
Startup Marketing Tips from an Engineer
I almost created one of these, except for news. Hyper-local news is largely missing - I was going to mash up Twitter, Instagram, and in-app updates to help people get a sense of what's happening immediately around them.

This is actually a great idea to solve this problem though.

The news use-case is for city life. When you hear a gunshot or a car accident occurs on your street or you see smoke off in the distance or you hear music playing nearby or you see a drove of cop cars driving by - how can you find out more about that?

News doesn't have a hyper local channel, but it could.

This app points at a bigger market - the "directly nearby" market - that really has only been fully tapped by mapping/location-sourcing applications.
Experience with a Globally-Deployed Software Defined WAN
How are you collecting the reviews? Web scraping?
Thanks for the interest. Let us know if we missed anything in the above reply.
If only there was a way to remove the hundreds of private insurance companies they have to interface with. I assume they each have their own flavor of EDI, greatly adding to the complexity of this thing. (I have had to write interop EDI stuff with some insurance companies a while back and iirc they were snowflakes)
so, a few thoughts now that we have a room created for midtown NYC:

1. no push notifications? seems like a no brainer to have this when a new user enters the "room" (i'm calling these chat spaces that) and when a new message appears. suspect you'll get more re-engagement

2. why do I have a ribbon next to my username? see: https://twitter.com/daveambrose/status/395630523961577473

3. photos! would be good to share media in addition to just text. maybe for a v2
The class is good, but very time-consuming and spends a lot of time on theory. Expect to spend at least 10 hours a week between lectures, quizzes, and the project.
Brakes are computer-controlled in many cars these days, such as the Prius. The computer chooses between engaging magnetic brakes or the hydraulic system or routing force directly from the pedal to the brakes.
> Is that video admissible in court?

Yes, assuming the recording can be authenticated. Typically this is done by having the person who made the recording testify under oath, for example, that 1) she was there and witnessed what happened; 2) she made the video recording (explaining how); and 3)the video recording is an accurate representation of she witnessed. This is a routine practice in trials, mainly with respect to photographs [1] but also videos such as surveillance recordings [2].

[1] http://apps.americanbar.org/lpm/lpt/articles/tch06061.shtml

[2] http://goo.gl/awjn8V
Would there happen to be a PDF or eBook format of this?
The problem isn't that your product is too engaging. The problem is it's not good enough for your users. In your example, you don't have enough users in your app to make it more useful. The solution isn't to make it less engaging - it's to add more users. To make it more useful.
"Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World"

http://www.psmag.com/magazines/pacific-standard-cover-story/...

... culture probably plays a strong role. Americans have a very different standard of fairness than a lot of the non-western planet.
Be a Good Designer, Be a Good Client
It is possible to project directly into the retina:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/09/avegant-retinal-hmd/

Definitely dangerous but I see a lot of potential in the technology with the possibility of true retina quality resolution.
I went to play Fujiwara no Mokou's Theme through my Roland Atelier AT-30 [1], but the MIDI file (at 194.4 MB!) is a tad too big to fit on a 3.5" floppy disk.

It's got a pretty decent sequencer, and had no problems playing Circus Galop.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVuNg9XWcBA
Well if you don't desire equality for all under the law, if you prefer special privileges based on gender or another arbitrary aspect, then you certainly aren't a feminist. I won't argue that point, but I hope you understand my meaning of egalitarianism. I've often seen it confused with advocating weakness when it in fact means that everyone is treated fairly and given equal opportunity. I'm interested in what kind of position you do hold about how society should be structured. Perhaps you prefer a meritocracy, but that would require egalitarianism as a base state.

Feminists advocate for the rights of women but not exclusively so. We advocate equality and address inequalities. Feminists support men as well when they are victims of inequalities. Of course, feminism is a broad movement and not a dogmatic cult, and therefore you will find those who do not support the rights of trans people, but they are not representative of the majority of feminists.

Since its inception in the 19th century, feminism has expanded to address all aspects of gender in culture and identity. Many feminists like myself do not consider gender to be a binary position but a spectrum of cultural expressions. It is therefore impossible to advocate the rights of women without advocating the rights of men because no one is entirely "man" or "woman." No one fits neatly into static gender stereotypes. The rights of trans, intersexed, and genderqueer people are extremely important as we move forward.

In the long term, I feel it's especially important that we question traditional gender roles because we have an increasingly powerful ability to manipulate our biology. We will see increasing amounts of people with bodies and minds that do not conform to our expectations because they are fundamentally different, and we need to develop a cultural understanding for relating to people who do not conform to our preconceived notions of gender expression.
Depending on the State it may also be illegal to film an officer who is stopping you.
Mozilla is not removing VP8 support.
Crimes against Humanity?
I only made the distinction because someone pointed out that it's difficult for government agencies to get in legal trouble unless US citizens are the ones being harmed.
Yes, absolutely, I agree with you. But just because you were ex-NSA does that mean you can no longer work in related work? What if you built their data centres, and you took a job at Google and tasked with building their new data centres. Do you just "forget" what you already know? I understand you may be under NDA to not discuss your previous work, but that doesn't meaning you can't make suggestions or plans without explicitly spelling it out, esp if your employer knew your background and you may not be able to speak about it openly.
Setting up a Python development environment on Mac OS X Mavericks
The contempt you guys show for millions and millions of people because they prioritize privacy differently from you is really distasteful.
I think the time cost of implementing this would be more than 40 euro, unless I enjoyed the process of writing it -- and it's pretty safe to say that most products are marketed to people who wouldn't enjoy spending their time reimplementing them.
The NSA could, however, get a law passed for like $1M that makes this practice illegal, if it isn't already.
Given the complexity of the system, the most shocking thing to me is that how little time they had to actually build it. And from what's been made public there was virtually no time for testing (load testing was certainly absent). It should been "turned on" months before the public go-live to iron out all of these issues.
While there are several review site management services out there that offer services that sweep bad reviews under the rug, we believe that excellent customer service is what makes a good business great. We run our business with that mindset, and encourage our users to do the same.

Currently, when a negative review comes in, we notify the user and provide advice on how to properly handle it. In the future, we will be incorporating some more advanced sentiment analysis to notify users of negative mentions on sites that don't offer a star-rating system (Twitter, Facebook, etc).
I only had access to the Gemfiles. There's a disclaimer line near the top of the post that tries to caveat the Coffeescript/SASS numbers appropriately.
Anyone gone through the checklist yet?
http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
JuicyCampus for the mobile age. And this time administrators banning it from campus wi-fi won't do any good, with everyone on 3G and LTE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JuicyCampus
It's strange to drawn a nose on a smiley...
"Bistro was designed with Proxima Nova, Adelle & Coquette typefaces and developed using Sublime Text 2 on a Mac."

What's the benefit of telling people that it's built with ST2?
> libertarian obsession with the gold standard

I think it's more of an aversion to fiat currency, than an obsession with the gold standard. The jury is still out on that one, we haven't even broken the century mark on that.
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Looks like there are "areas" to unlock.
Having the right data be effortlessly recorded is key. If I have to manually input data, I'll forget to enter things and my data will not be completely accurate. Plus, if I don't get immediate value out of the system, I'll stop entering data all together because it's not worth my time.

But, with the new wave of smart watches, glasses and other smart technology there is an opportunity for that data to be easily imported into a personal analytics application.
- What about if you wanted the software to run as a mobile app?
> I invite you to research EDI and then report back here. Assuming you're still alive.

Which EDI standar ... ohhh I see what you're getting at.

When you look at it like a single point aggregating all this information from all these separate insurance companies, it's amazing it works at all.

When you look at the website failing the way it is though, you can't help but ask 'did they even test this thing' even when you know better.

When you look at it from a user point of view, it's too bad it appears to not work at all.
>Google owns tens of thousands of miles of it

If this haven't already I imagine they will be hiring security forces to patrol and inspect.
I gave recurly a long look. It has some great features (specifically the dunning). In the end, working with Stripe was cheaper and less hassle, though I've just pushed out the dunning hassle.

Thanks for the sample app, I'm looking forward to seeing what you've done.
From the talk that just finished at Inboxlove, it appears they will use XMPP for transport, some JSON and encrypted cloud storage.

You receive a message via XMPP that an email is waiting for you on the cloud storage (similar to MMS). This is also a good solution for the spam problem, I think.

They have a working prototype, a whitepaper is forthcoming and the community is welcome to improve the new standard.
Security is based on threat model. The spooks have capabilities that far exceed the threat models most companies assume from private blackhats. You think it is obvious to assume in hindsight that the government would dig up and tap your dark fiber, but you don't think it obvious the government would plant spies to do in-side-the-data-center taps. Now what? Encrypt all data between switches? The Soviets didn't think their undersea cables could be tapped either, and no one can claim they were insufficiently paranoid.

My point is, I don't want Silicon Valley in an arms race with the US government. The government is supposed to protect its citizens and companies, not work to undermine them. Google is working on rolling out better security, just like they eventually rolled out SSL everywhere before most other companies. They are at the forefront on this, but it still takes time and costs money. But even though they are spending time and resources on this, I would still like the US government to cut it out.
We aggregate all of our reviews and mentions through a combination of web scraping, API integrations, and manual scraping.
Why would have they treated their own fibers untrustworthy?
Really great idea. Attacking any segment of brick&mortar businesses with this kind of product is a big opportunity.

I tried doing this before with SquidCube but it was a bit too broad, and lacked the required focus to be compelling.
Nicely done. Looks boring at first glance, but a few idle clicks and suddenly it's compelling.
I’ve enjoyed reading your post but I’d be more interested in seeing how you go about fleshing your ideas out. I personally keep a similar list but have trouble taking the ideas from rough works to completed business plans. I’d love to see what processes/frameworks other people use.
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Ask HN- was the site down this morning?
I was unable to access it until around noon central time here in Houston. Was it just me?
The thing that bothers me about Rails is how much stuff is "on" by default. I like to have enabled every single accessible endpoint in my apps by hand to avoid security issues.

I'd love for there to be a variant of Rails or even just an add-on that made a Rails app totally "mute" and then you had to enable every tiny thing by hand or in a config file so you knew every single vector into the app and what dependencies there were. Rails has had enough security issues for me to be that paranoid, and at least with Sinatra, I have a bit more work to do but I know I've tested every single hole I opened up.
I remember reading this when he first published it (as well as everything he ever wrote for "Embedded Systems Programming"). Jack Crenshaw is my favorite Rocket (Computer) Scientist!
I'd welcome any suggestions for improving the set-up guide, so fire away.
Great concept, I hope it can get the user base to take off. What sports do you support?
We've always known that we need to model the 10^14 synapses (and their strengths) that connect neurons. The dendrite trees that connect these synapses to a soma have at most another 10^14 branching points, so modeling them all explicitly, in the worst case, only doubles the model size; but it might also give also significant possibilities for optimization, if these 'dendritic' calculations can be modelled as a simple formula.
They appear to be talking about this thing:

https://silentcircle.com/web/scimp-protocol/

I thought we didn't want to use the NIST curves (like ECC-384?) anymore... seems something like Curve25519 might be better.
Telling our users the tools we use doesn't provide any benefit to them. That being said, we are huge fans of ST2, and this seemed like a better alternative to screaming about it from the rooftops :)
After seeing the criticisms of Dropbox[1] on Hacker News, I'm much more analytical of the stereotypical "critical top post(s)" when introducing a new project. Getting candid, constructive critical feedback is certainly one of the values of posting on HN, but criticising that a product or service is just a combination of known technologies is an incredibly weak criticism: it could be applied to any innovation.

Here's my litmus test for whether something has already been done: if I asked ten random people to solve the problem this thing is trying to solve, could they name a product that solves it?

Ex:

* "How would you have a folder on your computer that stays synchronized across multiple computers and is accessible online?" -> Dropbox or Google Drive (not an acceptable answer: "I'd set up rsync to run as a daemon syncing to a VPS on each computer")

* "How would you send public messages to people you didn't know in close proximity?" -> Popcorn Messaging?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
- Yes, I believe so.
- It was down 3 times for me today.
I made a house out of butter yey!!!!
I never knew that... thanks!
Yeah, people bitch about client-side because it's what they can see. But they are mostly just dumb inefficiencies that are easily fixed. (And if you were doing a sane rollout, you wouldn't be worrying about this stuff because you only have 10K users at once. Save the minifying for later.)
Show HN: Metro-style Google Analytics app
I am from Houston and I noticed the same.
An alias for bash

gitdiff() {
git diff --patience --ignore-space-at-eol -b -w --ignore-blank-lines $1
}
Django and Python hackers needed to help fix healthcare
I'm restarting work on it in December. but the path to launch should be fast.
I think in those sorts of situations, when the people are actually in a position of power over their government and thus able to effectively prosecute it, official charges are typically not bothered with. (or if they are, nobody bothers actually proving them during the 'trial'.)
Sealand - a "country" on an abandoned British platform