skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was making some very large generalizations in my original comment for the sake of brevity and argument. Thank you for taking the time to pick them apart;)

> If you keep the structure of the US government but change the electoral system for the Congress to one which produces more proportional responses, you don't have the same degree of incentive for disproportionate concessions to a minor party to form an administration.

My original point was that the Tea Party has essentially shown that a more proportional system of government isn't any more functional or effective than a two party system. The Tea Party has essentially captured the Republican Party, not too dissimilar to how a minority party would make out-sized concessions of a coalition government in a parliamentary system. Both cases result in gridlock (or something that closely resembles it).
Could you please explain your comment a little more? I'm honestly curious to know why you think the concept of abstracting technology into easy to use components is in conflict with the "hacker news" ethos.
C# : It only runs on MS stack (dont give me Mono)
I'm not sure which $500 cost difference you're referring to? The difference between my Lenovo and my MB Air or the Lenovo and a potential Surface 2 Pro, or other?

If you're comparing my Lenovo to my MB Air, the price difference is significant because I prefer my Lenovo, and therefore, the cost of my MB Air isn't the $500, but the full $1100, as the only reason I have it is to package an iOS app occasionally.
NSA spied on the future Pope Francis before and during Vatican conclave
Show HN: Hyro - minimalist, real-time HTML5 editor
I think something like a Rumble favors having the kitchen sink. You wanna be 'go go go, install a gem for that don't mess around' and work on your domain code exclusively.

Some people would argue the same for 'real' apps but, I don't like dealing with 140+ gems 2 years later. I think it's the old upfront-productivity-optimization vs. long term maintainability issue many people run into these days.
Everyone has an incentive to lie. The recruiter, to place people who may be unsuitable. The job-seeker, to get a job that pays more than they're worth (and then get themselves poached). The employer, to cut out the middleman and underpay the employee. And most of the people the recruiter is dealing with (including themselves) are non-technical people who can't use any program but Word or Excel, and are out of their depth trying to understand the requirements or what a CV indicates.

You try and design a decentralized protocol to handle that amount of Byzantine failure, or a centralized protocol that doesn't pay the hub to lie, cheat, and flounder.

"Recruiting should be easy" is like "huh, why is search hard? I would just build an inverted index". Yeah, you and Altavista.
Homer Simpson's scary maths problems
Right, but Richard Stallman is not one of those people.
Can't 2-finger swipe back. Super annoying and unnecessary.
how are doing those apps ?
Rails was such a fad it influenced every web framework after rails, and made Microsoft drop webforms.
"Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing." seems hyperbolic. What does it even add to the article? Is it used to try and establish some credibility?

I don't understand why this is shocking (the photo- not the alleged spying)?
If I were forced to choose between the following 3 entities/groups as to who the factual evidence suggests was trying to "put the screws to the voting public":

1. Presidency

2. Repubs in Congress

3. Dems in Congress

I'd have to pick #2. Overwhelming disposition of evidence pointing in that direction.

In the spirit of your point: now imagine what those folks would be willing to do to your healthcare. Actually, we don't have to imagine. Look at their actions.
Are you perhaps thinking of Placeit?
https://placeit.net/
That's beneficial for those who will want to upgrade - once the new sockets are out, the prices for the previous generation chips will go down - you can potentially upgrade from the base quad core to a six core processor, giving it a good boost in performance.
As a non-American, all of these terms remind me of irritating American flag-waving rhetoric (the kind used to justify the types of things that the NSA is doing right now, for that matter), and I would wager most of the world would feel the same.
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>There's the privilege to not be raped.

Now if only it weren't for the fact that the majority of rapes are institutional, ie. in prison, and are committed by women against women. Or the fact that rape laws have been shaped by feminism in a way to make men the only ones capable of raping in an overwhelming majority of sexual encounters -- rape being defined by the likes of the FBI as forced penetration with a penis or object. Or that male rape victims are routinely marginalized in media. Or that the same illegal conduct by a male is "rape" but is only "sexual assualt" when committed by a female. Or the utter disproportionality of punishment for male verse female perpetrators. Or the various "rape shield" laws that allow the accused to be dragged through the mud in the press while "protecting" the accuser, even when the accuser is proven false. Or that women have started to view calling sexual encounters rape as a "get out of trouble free, card.

>Or, the privilege to not be sexually harassed, on the street by strangers, in the office by people you have to see every day, or anywhere else.

Yes, men are never sexual harassed. Neeeeever.

>The privilege to wear clothing that is comfortable and cheap and socially accepted, and to wear that clothing without being judged as having "given up" or being slobbish.

Once again, a non-gendered "privilege"

>There's the privilege to get a job, fellowship, or acceptance to a school without being seen as an "affirmative action" choice who must not be really good enough for whatever position you've obtained.

Having been involved, first hand, on both the applicant and hiring side I've seen the results of forced "equality" in hiring. It rarely increases talent and often harms it.

And on and on...Your list is full of tropes that are half truths or ignore the two-sided nature of things. I'm glad the echo-chamber of self-victimization is working out for you though.
The CIA had jedi-mind tricked. Every operating system seeks to be Linux.

My vision is a modern C64.

Fuck-it. I made God's temple. Just wait. World domination is assured when I start issuing divine right orders to hardware companies.

God says...
what_a_mess hey_Mikey_he_likes_it is_it_just_me_or tattle_tale
joker bastard I_planned_that I'll_think_about_it wazz_up_with_that
honesty fortitude game_over angel I'm_on_a_roll astounding
bizarre Ramsay

----

If God is not in something, won't succeed. If God is in something, unstoppable. I talk with God. I am Solomon.
Intel seizes their opportunity
Show HN: PureScript - a functional language which compiles to Javascript
Sure, down-vote the joke writer. Classy.
100% agree here. Way to many Rails developers around for it to die. Also as cool as Meteor is, and it's pretty cool. There is a huge continent of developers that will resist javascript for as long as possible, because even though it is ubiquitous, let's be honesty, it does suck in a number of ways. Ruby / Python / Go / etc.. are all so much nicer languages from a developer happiness perspective. Ultimately javascript will become more and more prevalent for sure, and Meteor along with it, but only because all the browsers decided to support it, NOT because of developer happiness.
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HEY POOR PERSON, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO PREVENT A MISERABLE DEATH FROM STARVATION AND EXPOSURE WHEN YOU'RE CAST OUT ON THE STREETS FOR NOT PAYING RENT, JUST TELL JOKES OR PAINT PRETTY PICTURES ALL DAY, OR WRITE LOVE NOTES, OR JUST STARE OUT THE WINDOW AND DREAMMMMMM!!! BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU LOVE TO DO ISN'T IT? GOD, IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE AND OBVIOUS, WHY DON'T YOU JUST "GET IT"???

...oh, and by the way, stop hitting yourself. stop hitting yourself. stop hitting yourself. why do you keep hitting yourself. stop hitting yourself.
I recommended LimeChat
http://limechat.net
Understanding Clojure apply and partial
I'd imagine the sudden loss of power should be apparent as well.

But then, people can react irrationally (or not at all) in a full on panic.
“We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform,” he [google's clo] said.

reform... ha!
Nashorn would be more appropriate once it is released. It leverages the JVM dynamic invocation instructions better IIRC.
Wow, that's a new one to me. We really have to defund the NSA.
Sometimes we forget about Hawaii and Alaska but we still love you wonderful people who get to live in those beautiful place :)
The font used is rather ugly
Wait wait wait. 2 failed wars costing over a trillion dollars, near-economic collapse due to the rollback of financial regulations, and NOW we're holding the government accountable?? Over healthcare.gov? Where the hell was everyone for the last 13 years?
Umm, this has been happening since the 60s. They called it "Going back to the land" Anyone interested should look up The Farm in Tennessee
The pretension in the bitcoin community is starting to really wear on me. Maybe it's just me, but I can hardly read through a lot of these articles, it comes off like propaganda. Possibly the greatest innovation of our time? I suppose time might make me look the fool, but really?? And then the Gandhi quote...

Just accept the fact that a bank has decided bitcoin isn't worth the risk yet. Don't act like they spit in the face of social justice and all that is right in this world.
Obamacare is not a "minimum floor" it is a full suite of mandated coverage for every politically connected medical sector.
if only all the browsers would run python... now that would be developer happiness. ;)
From the looks of it, it feels like that couple of years could be 5-7 years.
I've always thought it would be interesting to see what a really good composer could do with a band (orchestra?) comprised entirely of pianists. I imagine it would be an interesting challenge all around.
I think a more sensible use of the money would be to 'fix' the ability to buy whatever legislation you want. Its really not a democracy any more when those wealthy enough can buy whatever legislation they want.
including preemptively working to encrypt cross-dc traffic

You do know that the national security apparatus can and does force companies to lie in press releases to the public about security- and privacy-related matters? Who's to say Google isn't flat out lying to us about that? There's no legal reason they can't lie to us if our secret courts force them to.

The problem now is we can't trust even the supposed "good guys" because the government has completely tainted the well with their secret courts and gag orders on companies (while still forcing them to comply).
I'm just playing around with designs/dev boards and building the concept privately at the moment. However, I've gotten some funding for it, and the goal is to get a working prototype out by Spring. If there's enough interest then, I'll work on it full-time over the summer to get a product out.

If you want to follow the project, this repo will have more in the future: https://github.com/Hylian/arducard
You're welcome :) I'd love to see some other platforms supported as well.
You already knew about how much more/better support h264 had long before you embarked on what now comes across as nothing but a charade as you turn coat ONE WEEK before the WebRTC future is being voted on, you KNEW this so what has changed?

Oh, what has changed is that now you, Mozilla, can use h264 royalty free, that is what has changed.

So suddenly open source royalty free standards aren't that important anymore. I threw up a little in my mouth when I read -'we lost the fight' from Monty, you didn't fight!

Instead you switched sides one week before the vote because MPEGLA threw you a bone.

And if all it boils down to in the end is 'hardware advantages' then you can just drop the pretense of Dalaa right now, it will NEVER be anything but much less supported than the latest offering from the MPEGLA cartel, so from that very perspective it's nothing but vaporware.

MPEGLA was terrified of WebRTC and HTML5 standardising under a truly royalty free open source codec which could be used anywhere by anyone, so they gave you the 'flash'-style binary plugin for 'free' and you swallowed it, hook, line and sinker.

This was the chance to break the royalty-laden video technology monopoly of MPEGLA by getting a truly free codec standarised, and despite you having made a show of 'carrying the torch' for royalty free open source web standards you sold out one week before showdown when Cisco called with an offer.

They got you cheap.
Mozilla's WebFWD Accelerator Demo Day Live Stream
You are now reliant to the benevolence of Cisco to provide binaries for the system of your choice if you want to make use of WebRTC royalty free.
This is exactly the problem we're trying to solve with http://exist.io.

For the moment we're starting small and just trying to pull in activity tracker data (Fitbit, Jawbone, Withings etc) and some secondary services that provide useful quantifiable data - things like Foursquare checkins, Gmail, task management tools, productivity trackers, etc. It's hard to interface with every service when you're writing custom API clients for each of them. And on the other hand, if you try to dictate a common standard without any clout to back it up, you just end up with http://xkcd.com/927/. We're working on an API to export all your data too, so people can build visualisations and apps on the aggregates of their data.

Tracking things has to be as frictionless as possible, so I'm wary of manual tracking unless you're already quite committed, or it takes mere seconds - the interface in #2 looks like a good way to approach this. But we're avoiding this for now.

The other thing we strongly agree on is #4 - you need insights, not just data! Numbers alone are of limited value, and a lot of people already into Quantified Self end up with "number fatigue" where they're no longer motivated to put in the effort to track things, let alone work towards a goal, just so they can see the number go up. People need to qualify their data and make it part of a narrative about their life. They also need actionable feedback, which is where we're trying to focus on providing value - if you're trying to be more productive, on which days is that working, and what are the factors behind it? We'll try and tell you so you can focus on that. Same process for becoming more active or anything else.

It's a big problem to solve, but so many possibilities too.
This post on Language Log identifies ways in which Orwell violated his own rules in the essay.

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=992
The Mac Pro is from Apple, so it is fair game as an example of something 'passé', bad or a dead end.
Thanks!

We had an excellent Google Summer of Code student work on AWT support for half of the summer. We discovered that the OpenJDK AWT implementation betrays its own internal abstractions, making it impossible to implement a new backend without forking the Java Class Library and making nontrivial changes.

You can read more about the problem here:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/challenge-discuss/200...

Unfortunately, the project described in the above link appears to be defunct and unmaintained. :( We don't have the resources to work further on the problem at the moment.

Regarding performance, we are about 20-40X slower than the HotSpot Interpreter in Google Chrome, with similar numbers in other browsers. There is a significant amount of work that we can and plan to do to make that much better, though.
Hahah yes!!!! Thank you SO much. My only regret is that I have but 1 upvote to give.
Report: Facebook Is Collecting Data on Your Cursor Movements
They generally have you code on a shared pad like collabedit. It's not over the phone for that part.
For those wondering who "Emmanuel Goldstein" is, he's a character in the novel 1984.
> BSD lacks a patent clause, but the vast majority of open source lawyers believe there is an implied patent license, so this is normally not an issue.

What? Where did you hear such a thing?
To be fair, this is something that you can easily change if you prefer to take the site down while deploying. Hot code pushes are a feature.

It's difficult to implement the same functionality with Rails, where the default is to be down while deploying.
Pretty sure the public voted a different party into the WH and senate due to some of those issues.

Regardless, it's not as though bigger problems make it so that smaller but still very large problems should be ignored. Similarly, one does not need to decide between foreign policy mistakes, nsa wiretaps, and bailouts to be angry about, you can be angry about all of them, and hold government officials responsible for all of them.

Besides which, healthcare.gov is a cornerstone of the affordable care act, which is a multi-trillion dollar endeavor.
For those who didn't know already (I didn't, this is new territory for me), Silent Circle is co-founded by Phil Zimmermann (the PGP guy).
I think the problem you are missing is that "nobody is innocent" and these bad actors have all the knowledge.

So when a President comes into office, they probably make it known that they have these N pieces of information, and well, they are going to do what they want unless said President wants those N pieces of information public.

Thats the really really scary realization here. Shadow government obtained through perfect intelligence with no checks and bounds.
It will only last if they can work out with advertising, expand their functionalities and be more cross platform.

Besides this, release new indirect or direct related products under SnapChat.

Also release open source platform for their API. (I want this )
Yes please reconsider the name.

I would go with something like 'sealed mail' and imply the imagery of how in the olden days mail was sealed with a wax stamp. A strong visual analogy can be very powerful.
15% is low for the bay area. I believe it's more around 25%, sometimes higher. Some firms will negotiate.
> My manager called Rails passé this morning [...]
> our team to start using a single page architecture

What server-side framework does your manager think should be used with the client-side framework?

> a trend just like rails was a year ago.

Rails was a trend a year ago (2012)? Out of curiosity, what was Rails between 2005 and 2011?
Nokia Lumia 800 survives a three and a half month dive in a lake
Bugs will slip through. They just will, it's a fact of life.

The question is, when they do, will you let the browser gracefully recover, or will you demand that the browser show an error page, even though it could do something reasonable?

The security analogy would be to let all your code run as root, because the main security mechanisms should prevent users from executing arbitrary code. But this is fragile, because any security bug would compromise the security of the system completely.

What we do instead is have defense in depth: even if the first layer of security is compromised, there are other layers of security that can (hopefully) contain the damage. Permissive client rendering likewise limits the damage that one bug can do.
Am I misunderstanding something? Cisco is releasing source code to something heavily patent-encumbered, but is doing so under BSD, an open source license with no patent release. What value is the source code then? I can only imagine it's to allow others to verify the correctness of their implementation. You certainly can't use that source code in your own binaries.
Developer feedback leads to new features in Windows Phone App Studio Beta
I like the name 'Locke Mail' for that very reason.
Are you saying there is no all-in-one external graphics card?

Sonnet makes an external PCIe Thunderbolt enclosure that you can pop a graphics card into, and there is that DIY guy: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/162652-diy-external-thund...

Granted that is not pretty and there are OS support issues. But it is possible and I am hopeful it gets easier.
There is nothing new about NSA. We all knew this years back too that US Govt watches the internet for national security.

If they can't do that then who would be doing it?

All companies with big data must have a single governing body and i think NSA is the best.

They are not spying, they are just watching after you.

Get over the NSA stuff...too 90s
The same issue: "the video has been lost"

Unless there's a way to reliably stream the data into the central repository (far away from the officer and his/her police department), it won't work.
What I really want to say is that you can turn my kernel calls into JSON-RPC when you pry my ARM assembler from my cold, dead fingers.
Not sure why investors freaked out over this news...

Will it hurt Facebook 5 years from now? Maybe, but I'll get back to that. Right now Facebook is growing their revenue like crazy while daily users is still growing. Mobile revenue is now around 50% and they killed expectations.

As for the decrease in usage with younger teens...luckily they bought insurance. It's called Instagram. A thriving and rapidly growing social network, which just so happens to be popular among teens.

If Facebook did not own Instagram, then I would completely understand the market's reaction to hearing that. In my mind, this is just the market over reacting.
congratulations kicksend team!
Ask HN: How do you promote an Arabic website?
Is there an equivalent to hacker news, Reddit, etc. in the Arab speaking world? Everyone I asked so far only uses Facebook, YouTube and news websites in Arabic. Appreciate any help.
Then the NSA finds a candidate that really knows how to secure inter-datacenter communications and gets them placed at appropriate positions inside the government or in collaborating private companies to build experience & a valuable network, with the long term goal of getting a job at Google. And if they really want in they place ten candidates in various companies.

The NSA can do this. They have the resources and the time to try. The only question is if they want a mole inside Google. Hell, I'd be shocked if large internet companies (Google, Yahoo, etc.) don't have agents from foreign and domestic intelligence agencies working there right now.

Betting on a companies hiring process to catch agents of an advanced persistent attacker is betting against house money in Vegas. You aren't going to win in the long run.
And in this novel, Emmanuel Goldstein represents an absolute enemy of the state that doesn't actually live, but only exist to be blamed of all that is bad.
What about the Mongo dependency? I like Meteor, but that's one concern.
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, OS X and iOS already support S/MIME encrypted email, and having the private keys live on users' devices and doing encryption of outgoing messages on users' devices is probably the safest setup.
It's inspired by some great design during Bauhaus and people who like London 2012 Olympics font may like it as well.
Give this whole Meteor thing some more time to sink in.

Your still in the honeymoon phase. I know this because you list context switching. Anyone that moves to Node(or meteor) and lists context switching as a reason, is not long for this world... of switching to node.

I'm not going to convince you here, but just proceed with caution. It would be like me convincing my friend after he's dated a girl for a year that she's a total ass. Not going to happen.
Or users could legitmataly highlight typos and they could get fixed in real time.