skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PMail rhymes with EMail and shortens from PrivMail... perhaps more punchy? It seems to roll off the tongue easier...
Maybe a tagline of "Drug taking communists in space!" puts potential backers off? ;-)

As far as I know the only people who seem keen on the works of Mr Banks are the BBC (TV version of The Crow Road and a Radio 4 version of the Culture in The State of the Art).
It's almost as if there are legitimate reasons not to have 100% of your attention focused on the road, that aren't simply attempts to rationalize unsafe behavior.
One fairly major reason is the economics of the nuclear fuel producers (who also tend to be the people building the power plants). Simply put, enriched uranium fuel pellets require huge resources to produce, and are !&^" expensive. Moving to Thorium would remove a load of their revenue stream, as it is a much simpler fuel to produce (well, for the liquid fuel reactors anyway).
"does anyone have a good one on the role of color in fashion?"

"Blue is in fashion this year" from The Language of Fashion[0] might fit the bill. It has been several years since I read the book, but I remember it being quite difficult to get through.

The rant in "The Devil Wears Prada" is fairly correct from a more practical standpoint. We're talking about things like trend development[1] and trickle-down theory[2] (in the fashion sense). If you only read one book on fashion it should probably be Fashion-ology[3].

"Perhaps if college and high school students were given the chance to peek into the whole world of opportunity in written expression, the humanities would see a resurgence."

To be fair I'm not sure these fairly traditional elite universities are representative for all schools.

[0] http://books.google.se/books/about/The_Language_of_Fashion.h...

[1] Chapter 9 and 10: http://www.prschool.ge/img/every_day/Fashion%20Marketing.pdf

[2] http://www.margaritabenitez.com/trends/lectures/TRENDS_CH03....

[3] http://books.google.se/books/about/Fashion_ology.html?id=LUW...
It used to exist, it was called Rhetoric. It was one of the major academic areas from ancient times until recent centuries.

Going from the literature-based native-language curriculum to one with Rhetoric and Literature separated out would be a big change, with much resistance - you're right about that. But such changes happen, and economic/political conditions may force such an evolution sooner or later.

I agree with the parent that the mixture of these areas is problematic. The pg quotation above is perceptive.
Yea, these don't work for me either. Clicking "Find opportunities", clicking on one, then clicking back also shows just a blank screen too.
I think it is the concept "anything with a temperature change greater than 0.1 degree Celsius per second would produce the effect" is very interesting. Building a device to do that is not a big deal..
Loans are terrible because they put huge burden on people who didn't succeed (or haven't succeeded) yet. What you want is a loan which is only paid back when you succeed... but wait then you will have many defaulted loans then so you need to collect more on successful ones... but then people who are just barely successful are still under big burden... what to do... I know! We can try a progressive scale: the more successful you are the more you pay, you are well off anyway. This surely looks like it's going to work... let's try such loans in case people got ill as well or if they don't have anything to eat or if they want to acquire education at young age or if they failed for w/e other reason and need a loan like that to have another chance. Sounds great, let's do it...

After many years of implementing our idea we see problems: the people who benefited from our loans don't want to pay them back! They claim they didn't need the loans in the first place (they are so small % of their net worth now.. surely didn't matter much) anyway so they want to cut subsequent loans as well... worse yet they acquired a lot of money and then power and influence so people who need those loans can't do much about it. Worse yet: the people who don't want to pay the loans back want to be the one managing them so they can pressure people who didn't succeed...

You surely don't want that... imagine a country like that.
As long as the loan transforms in a gift in case of no success it takes the danger out of the loan (from the entrepreneur's side of things)...
I'm simply criticizing a person who took a completely inflexible and dogmatic position, namely that "A person operating a moving vehicle should have 100% of their attention focused on the road." And further stated that all arguments otherwise were simply attempts to rationalize unsafe behavior. All I'm doing is pointing out that this implies that arguing you should be able to e.g. turn on your headlights is "rationalizing unsafe behavior" according to that metric.
Here's the full quote: "Do not try poach our staff. The whole team/office can hear when there is a recruiter on the line trying to do this. This makes both the person you’re speaking to uncomfortable, as well as the team around him. Do not do this."

I guess this means that it is impossible for a developer to have a conversation on the phone that is not announced to and/or overheard by everyone in the office? I can see how that would make a developer uncomfortable, but it's not really a selling point for working at that company.

I also have to wonder - do managers at this company have private offices where they can have private phone conversations?
The Wayback Machine let me down again. Until I waybacked the Wayback Machine.
I think he was suggesting that, instead of sending the private key to this web server, the check they're doing could be implemented client-side, thus avoiding the need for the key to transit the wire.

I haven't been able to access the site though, so I may be way off in my understanding of what it does.
Interesting that some companies really advertise on the oldest domain, http://symbolics.com. (Or it's fake so others want to advertise, too.)
It often is, but I'm in pretty decent shape. I cycle regularly (my commute is 34 km one way), am not overweight and eat decently. For as long as I can remember, I've always started sweating very easily.
Having read most of the other Culture novels, I'm actually reading this one at the moment, a fantastic read so far. I love the Culture novels, the universe that comes with it and all the intricate societal considerations.

I've been thinking about, hell, craving for a screen adaptation of the Culture novels, though instead of a movie, I think it should probably be a show. It'd have to be really well done, there are a lot of things to take into account and I'm afraid a lot of TV producers/writers might cheapen it. I'm thinking the likes of HBO might be able to pull off something like that.

I remember Iain M. Banks saying he was really worried about how TV writers might represent the ships, among other things, and I can totally get that. I can't find the source for this now, sorry, I thought it was in this http://nuwen.net/culture.html (amazing read by the way), but a quick scan didn't bring it up.
I often cross my legs whilst sitting and currently my leg is touching the desk.
Rearview compliments these services, and is not intended as a replacement for them. While there is overlap, the scope is different.

Pingdom will tell you that your engine just threw a rod. Rearview will tell you your rods are knocking before that happens.
It would be really cool if they parsed the issuer from the certificate you provided, and informed your CA that your private key was just compromised if the key matched.
A Swedish guy rooting for thorium? Odin's beard, how surprising!

(Jokes aside, I've been in love with this idea since my high school studies of nuclear engineering. I know a lot of these things didn't pan out eventually, but I still find that sad.)
Living in the U.S. and having gone through the effort of attempting to create a startup, programs, money, mentorships, etc. are out there, but you have to have a real drive and be able to brush off rejection. I don't think the process should be free of negative consequence and adversity. Both help weed out the people who won't be able to handle the more important challenges.
It shouldn't be extra work. It's actually less work because it encourages you to play to the browser's strengths and to separate your concerns. It keeps rendering speed high, it makes it easy to debug issues because you can switch off JS to see if the problem is with the underlying HTML/CSS. If one JS component fails it doesn't take down the rest of the site, and so on.

Your website should work in IE7. It's a legitimate browser with real users. This doesn't mean it needs to behave exactly the same way as IE10, but a visitor to my site using lynx should get some level of use out of it.

Again, this helps you massively in the long run because the browser scene changes all the time. If you work hard to make your site work across the browsers you know about, it's more likely to work on the browsers you don't know about, or the ones that haven't been invented yet. (It took the iPhone to take Safari from a browser that nobody cared about to the browser everyone cared about pretty much over night.)
https://blockchain.info/address/1JqjU7zBvbhyrDFjtJG6xAwMm5BU...

Watching with interest... xD
Wow, so we aren't moving to thorium because it would cost less than uranium?

Sometime, economy freaks me out even more than politic :'(
In my currently non-existent freetime, I'm a Graphite co-maintainer (check github). If you have any improvements or suggestions, please feel free to send us pull requests. The current pull requests are a bit of a mess, but I blame myself and will be getting around to merging a ton of them "real soon now TM".
Wernher von Braun once said that the most difficult step towards going to the moon was gathering the will to do it.
It's really annoying that 25% of the page is taken up by the "Join Now" "Learn More" banner at the top and that there's no way of hiding it. Why ruin the user experience for people just because they don't want to sign up for your site? As someone else mentioned below: having to click through twice to get to the article is obnoxious as well. Other than that nice job.
Great concept and good implementation.

One bug report - The font selection scroll bar becomes hidden and un-clickable for me often in Google Chrome 30.

http://imgur.com/6nohjWD
It's definitely a 1-sitting book. Don't pick it up if you have any responsibilities the next day.
There are alternatives:

1. Singular "they"

2. Avoid pronouns with something like "the candidate" or "the developer"

3. Goofy, non-standard gender neutral pronouns like "xi"/"xis"/"xir"

4. Alternation and patterns - "he or she", "his or her", "s/he", /s?he/

Using "he"/"his"/"him" as gender neutral is more common, and most people will be understanding about the usage. However, I find it unprofessional in the context of a job listing. I always go with some combination of #1, #2, and #4 above. I like #3, but few people are familiar with it.
I like this one. We should have a HN poll. :)
Your €500-700 gets you a replacement motherboard for your existing N900. Thinking about it, it’s not a bad solution: most people this is aimed at will already have a N900 they remember fondly. Pity you’ll still be locked to a resistive touch screen though.
So I tweeted them earlier and just got this response:

"Hello, the tool will be removed from all our websites within the next 30 minutes. Thanks."

https://twitter.com/MrTrustico/status/395905251313586176
Show HN: Chrome and Firefox plugins for BeeLine Reader
No, but creating the recipe is making music.

You are assuming that more "soul" (whatever you mean by that) is better. I argue that often it is worse: I tend to dislike classical music where the person playing the music adds too much personal flair (or "soul"), because it makes it sound different to what I expect the piece to sound like. To me that added "soul" detracts from the experience more often than it adds. For that reason too, I organize my classical music solely by composer: If the performing artist is "too noticeable" for me, the piece won't stay in my library, and so I have no interest in who the performer is for the classical albums I keep playing (yes, I can hear the cries in agony from people who considers the performer important).

And electronically generated music is not sheet music. It is more akin to a recording of a performance, even if that "recording" was not live. It embodies what the composer intended the piece to be, rather than being a mix of a recipe from the composer and a musicians interpretation of that recipe. And I am perfectly fine with not having someone else meddling with the composers vision.

(I do listen to a lot of remixes, and that is different in that they are different enough to the originals to be separate works that I can enjoy that separate expression).
Hahahaha I love this... that far supercedes any of the other suggestions - by an order of magnitude :D
Show HN: WhiskChat - open source Bitcoin chatroom
> the federal agency responsible for providing health care services to tribal entities

Wouldn't that be the IHS, which is underneath HHS? Suggesting a general disdain for security within the HHS?

Healthcare.gov is underneath CMS, not IHS, but I don't think it's unreasonable to conclude that the overarching body, HHS, has poor security practices.
A better question would be "What's a good tool to get web traffic estimates?"

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/techcrunch.com
I stopped reading at "3.5" TFT, 800x480, resistive"
Hello,

that tool will be removed from all our websites within the next 30 minutes.

Trustico Online Limited
I totally agree that welfare institutions themselves are in no position to judge. I firmly believe though that institutions within the ecosystem like VC firms or accelerators could take up that role.

As for the income. I believe that (at least here in Amsterdam) the average startup founder that is bootstrapping lives on an amount that quite resembles welfare income. (if not less)
If I could get a product at the end of it this would be fantastic and my ideal device. I'm glad it's much more achievable than Canonical's approach.
"This is not NSA breaking into any databases. It would be
illegal for us to do that. So, I don't know what the report
is. But I can tell you factually we do not have access to
Google servers, Yahoo servers. We go through a court
order."

Very specific wording. Interesting considering the leaks indicate they're tapping communications between servers, rather than breaking into the servers themselves
Ender's Shadow, I think you mean
What do dead bodies mean in dreams?
Read Ender's Shadow as well. And probably the other main-line Ender stories. None are a difficult read - you'll breeze through them in a weekend.
Power over USB: charging a computer connecting to untrusted data-sources
An aged domain typically has higher page rank. I imagine it has a ton of backlinks from just existing in that time. Companies pay for its page rank to be funneled into them by association.
Just do a basic income and forget about all these complicated schemes -- one for workers, another for students, another for entrepreneurs, another for retirees, another for single mothers, another for disabled people, another for farmers and so forth and so on.

If you insist you can make it means tested (either through income or assets or both), but in any event we shouldn't be wasting time and energy infinitely dicing up people in more and less "deserving" categories. The whole point of a safety net is to catch everyone.
Amazon drafts off Netflix with order for hour-long drama pilots
The Numen:  A Wrist-able Device That Creates Energy
I'm with you. I loath that faux-freindly tone; it immediately signals "unprofessional". How these start-up marketroids got it in their head that over-familiarity from a stranger is "hip and engaging" and not "creepy and insulting" is beyond me.
Reminds me of the movie Watchmen, they said that was unfilmable as well. It was probably a tougher screenplay to write imo.

e: grammar
When we did our Show HN a couple months ago, people when we were going to have browser plugins. We now have plugins available for Chrome and Firefox, and they support multiple font sizes and custom colors. Please let us know if they work on the sites you read, and how we can make them better!
But it even has "rest" in the URL! You mean that doesn't make it RESTful (rest-full?)
Defend them against what? How could one seriously blame them for this, how are they not a victim, just as their users are? Yeah, they could have encrypted their internal network sooner. Just like someone who got robbed could have learned martial arts or taken a different route.
What's wrong with computer scientists?
Jesus this is absolutely brilliant.

Occasionally I do sites for my business partner and the endless tweaking of fonts to get them how he wants is a pita.

I can throw this at him and he can give me back the CSS, fantastic!.
I couldn't get it to work in Chrome ("keyCode of undefined" errors). This is similar to something I wrote for Automattic recently.

I was pretty pleased with how I tackled annotations across block level elements. Essentially you find your range's start and end containers, and if they match you can just range.surroundContents on them, but otherwise you surroundContents multiple times, once for the start container to its end, once for the end container, from its start until the end of the range, and then for every block element in the middle. Fun stuff.
I think this idea will appeal to people who can't eat -- such as those with cancer -- as an alternative to products like Boost and Ensure.

I can't see myself or any of the people I know replacing food with a drink, but I definitely see room in the meal replacement market.

Best of luck to Soylent.
In a lot of programs, students aren't required to. In others (my undergrad, where I had a CS major) the business majors were required to take 7 or 8 classes in the humanities, but they were mostly 101 level classes in 300 person lecture halls with multiple choice exams. This isn't what's implied by "teaching critical thinking" that the supporters of these departments use to justify their jobs.

Even where they are required to, I think it can be useful to go deep on a subject (say History or Psychology) as long as it's paired with something practical (say Economics).
does anyone else notice that the person pulled said they were 'genuinely speeding'? as in they didn't notice the change in speed limit? personally i find the idea of that as an excuse pretty reprehensible.

its a very reasonable step to assume that a computing device attached to your face is not going to help you pay attention to such things - this one data point supports that claim (it is still one data point, but this is the only safe conclusion to draw realistically). in these cases i think 'better safe than sorry' - you will get in trouble for reading a book, using your phone or even smoking a cigarette if it is distracting you from driving. Google Glass is nothing special in this regard - aside from its popularity amongst vocal hipsters on the internet.

also, don't get me wrong, i am in favour of speeding - but i knowingly break the law when i do it and will have to live with the consequences...

still curious to see how this plays out, but utterly convinced this is a case of 'your own stupid fault for doing something stupid'.
10 Questions To Avoid a Classical Business War Room Scenario
The "War Room" then and Now.
Facebook may start logging your cursor movements
I like your suggestions. I have tried and quickly abandoned so many of these new dime a dozen frameworks. They claim to work like magic, but, usually right off the bat, with the "hello world" example, I find myself thinking, "Why do I have to do that every time? Shouldn't it do that for me?"

Also, there are the frameworks where you have to install every package manager and library (which I've never heard of) under the sun and then follow instructions like "Just jimify Belch in your Crandal project..."
Duetto: a C++ compiler for the Web going beyond Emscripten and Node.js
The last time the sonnet enclosure came up it was determined that the bandwidth of thunderbolt is simply not yet enough for a high end graphics card (especially if we're talking about upgrading years from now) and the enclosure itself did not provide enough power (only 100-150w). Not to mention there are no reports of this actually working with any graphics card, let alone a high end one worth upgrading to.

Just to demonstrate the bandwidth of PCIe3 x16: PCIe1.1 x16, PCIe2 x8 and PCIe3 x4 all provide around 4GBps. That's right, not 4 Gbps. So that's 32Gbps times 4 for a grand total of 128Gbps over PCIe3 x16. In comparison, Thunderbolt 2 at 20Gbps is very constricted.

I'm not sure the external GPU route will ever be useful for professionals, but I'm hopeful that it will become a more viable option for gamers who want a laptop that is light and thin, and the decently portable option to plug in a midrange graphics card that would work way harder than any integrated graphics could.
I disagree somewhat with this, if it needs to be secure end to end, then the server just needs to support that protocol. The question is, if you don't want to leak any metadata, then how do you put it in the right mailbox? You need a pub/sub type protocol where you can go in and grab the messages meant for you, but the server must not know they're meant for you and you must be able to do so completely anonymously. How do you achieve that? Exchange certainly can't be configured for that, so you need to replace it with an entirely new (and hopefully open source) mail server that supports most of the Exchange functionality - server push etc.
Naive? This is a proof of concept, and it makes people feel cooler. Dehumidifiers use significantly less power than cooling. The peltier they're using with a 30% duty cycle would require about 30W per person.

Dehumidify a typical room: 500W
Cooling a typical room: 2000W
I'd rather use this

1PtQmxewNJWYeDUieM2cLqU9XcAoBEfWaQ

You send the money there, it sends you back the double amount.
Since the project seems to have an educational bent, what would the proper REST interface for it look like?

GET:

http://restcountries.eu/rest/alpha/ee
would be
http://restcountries.eu/countries?alpha=ee

http://restcountries.eu/rest/name/norge
would be
http://restcountries.eu/countries?name=norge

That seems right, right?
All of the sporks I have used have tines that are too short for proper spaghetti-twirling. Also, their bowls are always so shallow that it makes soup a chore to consume. What kind do you use?
I did, but it was all but comfortable.
It actually detected any life forms in a room with medical grade temp sensors coupled with a kinect and then found 'hot spots'.

It wouldn't follow you (although that could be done); it was stationary and one of the big requirements was safety (don't want a robot arm slapping you in the face while coding).

Unfortunately no, the source isn't on github, although I should put it up there.
Ha - #69 = my first name - kai.com - registered by Intel - I guess they are looking after it for me : )
This is a TED talk by the creator of think.com: http://www.ted.com/talks/danny_hillis_the_internet_could_cra...

He touches on his early realization that he could have taken a ton of domain names & made some money, but that would have gone against the spirit of the internet at that time (i.e. don't take more than you need.)