skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a lot of stuff on HN, with a slim majority being programmer-centric. HN is a place to pique one's intellectual curiosity regardless of coding background. I think there's a lot of coding stuff here because we happen to be on computers to access HN and, as people who are curious, we're likely to have already dabbled in tuning or coding for the computers we are on and other systems.
If by that you mean windows: that's no longer the case. The git Windows installer is vastly superior to hg's windows experience currently. I'm using it daily and hg integrates really well into the system now. On top of that is tortoise git a very pleasant experience now.
Domain forwarding with Nginx
No, I think the argument is that the greed and corruption of people who are not capitalists aren't as important to the outcome of capitalism, because capitalism is a system in which the economy is organized around the interests (including, inter alia, greed and corruption) of capitalists.

Which is why the socialist critics of the dominant economic system of the developed world of the early-mid 19th Century coined the name "capitalism" for the system they were criticizing.
While plenty of comments here are snarky, I didn't think that particular question was.
Freedom is a continuous unit. Just because I can take risks doesn't mean I will, or that I am necessarily "free" to do so, or that that freedom isn't highly limited (for example, I may be free to start a company with a 2-year ramp and some expected gain, but I'm not able to take 10 years with no income to pursue some ideas that interest me).

If so many people are truly free to pursue higher callings, why don't they? Look at reality, not theory. Find some answers to that question and you'll start to discover the wide and complex range of restrictions on true freedom.
Oh, I didn't know that - thank you. High upon my list of things to try is also http://www.seafile.com/en/home/.
Why does he even bring that up? There's no going back. It's like complaining that the processor is attached to the motherboard.
My tests with rackspace old servers showed that they are slow as hell, if compared with my Euro4/month Xen server at Ingate. I dont know how they managed to cripple Xen, to be worse the VZ, but they did.

The new so called performance cloud servers are in a price range, that calls for a dedicated server at Hetzner or OVH.

Sorry, no bounty: Xen should be cheaper then dedicated, and not crippled. I wont recommend Rackspace. Not even to my competition.
Protecting Right to Privacy in Age of Mass Surveillance
A number of challenges exist, one of them as you mentioned is just a matter of people having different opinions, another is peoples specializations, if you don't frequently work with client-side tools you might not have been introduced to LiveReload for example.

Prescribing an approach beforehand is exactly what I'm advocating, the best way I know how, with an example :)

I think what we need right now is opinions, mine, yours, anyone with expertise and the willingness to apply it to this problem really, so we can begin the process of iterating on it, improving it.

It won't be the best tool for every hackathon, but we can create a solid foundation.
>Long after far superior alternatives were available, the law mandated the use of Internet Explorer, which is an inertia that carries the country today.

The law does not mandate IE. The government would have maintained both plugins if people would have continued to use netscape. They didn't.
I just tried taking some shots at my desk and while it focused fast, I wouldn't say it's living up to the hype of 6 multi focal shots per second.

EDIT: It appears that they are using the MEMS acronym, not the branded product. The component itself does not look like the MEMS|Cam branded components either.

Edit 2: Just read more on MEMS and if this phone has MEMS, then the camera software is NOT supporting it. It can take up to a solid second for the camera to make even minute adjustments.
I would argue all of these people (including programmers and entrepreneurs) enjoy the game. If they win, that's awesome, if not it was a fun ride.
Nothing to be embarrassed about. This is excellent. I can already see this being useful for our less technical users who need help reporting issues.
Well (if verbosely) said.
Why Businesses Should Use Social Media For Relevant Business Connection
It's called Optical Bonding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_bonding

"The main goal of optical bonding is to improve the display performance under outdoor environments. This method eliminates the air gap between the cover glass and the display"
Google chairman: NSA spying on our data centres 'outrageous'
The issue is with browser Javascript, specifically with sensitive Javascript that has to coexist in the same runtime and even the same variable scope as content-controlled code.
So legally how can @AOL claim that @creativecommons Attribution License [CC-BY] licensed content can't be used by @PeoplePlus http://wrd.cm/HudPS7...? I'm confused.

https://twitter.com/preillyme/status/397771582367477760
That sounds nice, but it's impossible for an executive of a multinational bank to know what every employee is doing at all times.

It's not like their quarterly business review slides include, "committed fraud to increase revenue 20%."
jQuery does not actually solve every possible cross-browser compatibility issue. I still occasionally have to code around some browser issue, especially considering the lack of good plugins to support localStorage.
Entrepreneurs are no more virtuous than anyone else who works.

Of course not. They're not driven to selflessly improve the world, they're driven to make a change in the world that has their name on it. In fact, that change often has a negative impact on the world at large.

It's about ego, really.
I was just saying XML and XSLT is really cool, which it is. It's a tool that does one job, which at a time was a very common job.
Apple, Microsoft Join Forces to Impede Progress, Hurt Consumers. Well Done
Tap your iPhone to unlock your Mac
That's a solution from the provider's side though. I would have thought that it's much easier to handle it from the client side really... just pretend you did whatever verification was necessary and return the expected result.

Noone should be able to shut it down, because it's on the client side, rather than the service provider, so the retailer shouldn't be blamed.
I have a million emails occupying 20GB, and receive several hundred per day. I search my mail archive using xapian (via notmuch) on my laptop, but such solutions are less practical for phones and even some desktop users expect IMAP search to work. Indexing is definitely a problem if you want the server's store to be encrypted.
Did you read the questions that he answered n/a to? They specifically didn't apply to his situation, not incorporated, sole founder, never participated in another accelerator, and no one is only partially commited. What exactly would you want him to write in these sections?
Indeed, there's nothing wrong with using node.js' bindings to OpenSSL. It's crypto in the browser which creates the chicken-and-egg problem.
Rails may be the wrong choice for your startup.
Mehh...

Given that the overwhelming majority of YC applicants are young people and that the majority of successful startups are founded by people over 35yo, I would say that getting rejected from YC means that your life is just beginning. Now you are free to go get a real job, to learn about a real industry or two, and to acquire all the skills that you need to make a real success. And when you are 40 or 50 years old, then you can make a real go at it.
Rampant, unmitigated BS.
Really interesting. It's the principle of how the home can be more efficient and at the same time generate savings of water and money
I get more than enough rejection from OKcupid as it is.
some good tips

although i do think __ FUNCSIG __ deserves a mention along with __FILE__ and __LINE__ :)
Mercurial is a fantastic VCS system that helped me get 'into" DVCS, and for that I am thankful. Even in 2013, it feels like it has the superior windows interface in TortoiseHG and I loved how extensions for Mercurial were usually a lot more cross-platform than git since they were usually just written in Python.

That said, once I got my head around the full ramifications of Git's lightweight branching, I still think it was the better choice over named branches and bookmarks. When learning Mercurial, SVN-minded me naturally gravitated towards branches for everything because of the name, and learning the distinction of when to use bookmarks and when to use branches wasn't exactly clear until I finally understood how Git's branches worked - and at that point the thought of enshrining branch names in the history forevermore suddenly turned from an obvious "why not?" to a "why?". Git's interface can always get better, but Mercurial will always have branches that live forever in history and are named "Branches".

Still, in Bizarro-2013 where Git never existed or never got the boost from Github, I think Mercurial would have been just as serviceable, and I think that it's a great second option to present if you want to migrate to a DVCS but your teammates can't get their head around Git. Kudos to them on another release.
I'd say a comparable new piece of technology is AngularJS + HTML + CSS with JSON as the data format. In the end you're still transforming an easily-exchanged data format to a visual display, but with all of the new things that come with Web 2.0 and the thick client model.

It still can't turn a pile of XML into a pile of PDFs though, so XSLT is definitely king in some arenas.
Many native "security" solutions required by websites, e.g. anti-keyloggers and antiviruses, would block the VM. They also tend to trigger weird problems in the VM, e.g. some of them makes the entire desktop fail to respond to any events. (What?)
Everpix was great. This is how it died
Very disappointing. I've been promoting Everpix to my friends and family, and had paid for an annual plan myself.

Will need to hunt down a new alternative.
Nobody likes the "blame the victim" statements. But I also don't like the "blame the location" statements. You can't blame the event for a rape anymore than you can blame the short skirt and lace stockings. You blame the rapist.
The usual question is whether the person in the article got rich mostly because they were lucky, or mostly because they did something right, where everyone were doing it wrong. (I say 'mostly', because one doesn't completely preclude the other.)

If you ask me, Notch mostly got lucky. There is nothing wrong with that, but I don't think anything he did or said warrants the gigantic personality cult that has grown around him. That cult exists mostly because of the money he made. IMO, Tarn Adams[1] is much more interesting to listen to. Maybe he doesn't have several million dollars in his bank account, but what ho does is truly inspiring on many levels, and much closer to what people can replicate in their lives with reasonable probability.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of...
no track designer, heh. Im talking a pirated copy of 3dsmax and a lot of reading. In retrospect this might have been motocross madness #1
I think the other argument she makes is that the book is filled with "Bezos worried about..." and "Bezos believed this...". How can the author make such a claim if they didn't interview Bezos? And no mention of having a source claim this.

I am sure most of these thoughts and feelings attributed to Bezos are fictional.
How did Loren make/get the graphics for this site? I'm assuming self created in his graphics software of choice?

It's probably the most artsy personal page I've seen.
When people show up to networking meetings with a gift (book, chocolate, whatever) I know I'm being manipulated but I don't mind

One could characterize it as "manipulation," which has a negative connotation, but it could also be conceptualized as dealing with a person who brings something to the table—that is, who understands that your time / effort is presumably valuable, and that they shouldn't expect something for nothing. Trying to pay outright would be overly expensive and too intrusive, but a small thing like coffee demonstrates that the person wants to differentiate themselves from most people, and that they have something at stake.

People treat "free" as very different than "not free," which Dan Ariely describes in Predictably Irrational, and people treat exchanges in a special way, as Lewis Hyde describes in The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World.
Steam is now overloaded with "early access" game sales.
With respect to that Twain/Disraeli quote, my friend who is a professor of statistics tells me that he cannot go to a party and say what he does for a living without someone repeating it smirkingly.
High-profile investors reveal just how bullish they are on bitcoin
Worrying about strong crypto in browser JS is like installing a vault door to secure a room partitioned with drywall.
Bitcoin approaches record high
One thing that constantly saddens me about statistics is that a large amount of energy is expended using is almost correctly to "prove" something that was already the gut feel. Even unbiased practitioners can be lead astray [1] but standards on how not to intentionally lie with statistics are very useful.

[1] http://euri.ca/2012/youre-probably-polluting-your-statistics...
"Faster and safer than typing a password. Just Knock."
I think what is trying to be said is that they have to evaluate accessibility support for both Xfce and Gnome3 before finalizing this decision. Gnome is (or was?) reputed for this as you say, and must be part of the decision to switch away.
Marketing in the Time of Online Dating
Doing my college homework, if I had assumed I was offline and then only went online if I determined I was, then I might have spent half the time debugging my homework.
I think it depends on how you define code quality. If you mean it's been re-factored (for example) as much as possible, then I agree. . .you are just polishing the apple. But if you mean acceptably (to the customer) bug-free, then I think your work was worth it.
> Well, the browser already is a chat client for millions of people.

I'd rephrase it. Browser is turned into a virtual operating system for millions of people already. While it can be useful, I don't really like when that trend is pushed to the extreme and everyone rushes to run everything through the browser even without clear benefits. The point of that? I always prefer standalone chat clients (as well as e-mail clients and etc.). If some chat service can't interoperate with standalone clients, it's garbage.

Facebook can by the way, since they do use XMPP. Their problem is unwillingness to support federation. They are too selfish. So I never use their service (nor do I use their social network anyway).
The idea is "Can I, the end user, do this without the banks knowledge or cooperation?"
As someone who has been working on sort of a competitor...this makes me sad. Everpix was a great tool, such a great tool that it helped push my company in a different direction. I would've been very proud to build what they did.
I hope this becomes a popular maxim - fed up of offline not working for productivity tools (not necessary for other types of apps, but Trello is a shining example of this omission making productivity apps near-useless).
That's ridiculous. Someone comes up with a spec, and if a company doesn't redo their systems to implement it and connect to others with it, they are sabotaging it?
It is impossible. The features required to make browser Javascript safe for crypto aren't even on the roadmaps of browser vendors.

Your reason for using browser Javascript for crypto --- here, Recurity's JS PGP implementation --- is the same as every other JS crypto project's reason: doing everything in the browser makes it easier for users to adopt your project. You are not the first person to point this out and you won't be the last.

The problem is, you acknowledge one side of this design ("it's super easy for users") and ignore the other ("it's fatal to security").

Here, you even acknowledge that there was a simple mechanism available to you that might have marginally improved security (packaging the whole application as a Chrome extension). But that made your life too hard! So you abandoned that idea and just made all the crypto downloadable from the server on HTML pages!
Lumosity celebrates 50 million members
What is your definition of done?
He does say that it's off by default, so I don't think that your speculation about his thinking is warranted.
Additional reporting about why they're shutting down:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-d...
This relatively old webpage[1] talks about the possibility of side channel attacks in javascript(among other things).I believe this applies to Phonegap.

[1]https://hellais.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/how-to-improve-java...
> We can’t keep building apps with the desktop mindset of permanent, fast connectivity...

That's just silly. A lot of apps are rightly useless without normal connectivity, like checking the weather [edit: for current conditions], or sending e-mails, or Facebook, or shopping on Amazon. There's no reason for these to work offline.

I mean, an app is pretty much online-only, or mostly offline (like most games, for example).

I don't see a big middle ground between the two where online apps need to be made to work better offline. And the few which do (which involve syncing data), seem to work fine.

So... I don't get it. What is "Offline first" trying to accomplish in the real world?
Clang-Cl - A Clang Replacement for Visual Studio's cl.exe
DigitalJack might claim to not be a programmer, but if s/he knows enough to ask "Why can't you just digest or hash the JS?", that's pretty programmery.

Besides, "Programming" is a large spectrum; I know jack-all about javascript but am comfortable building CRUD apps in C# and am in the intended audience of "don't build your own crypto because you're an idiot" blog posts. I consider myself a programmer (even though I have a lot to learn) and had the same question in my head as DigitalJack.
The pseudo-Biblical writing style reminds me of The Book of Mozilla[1], perhaps the coolest browser easter egg in existence, which, sadly, Chrome decided not to implement.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla
Yes. I prefer donations, and AsieLauncher got more money for donations than it ever would from adf.ly for the next 2 years.
Infinio launches storage performance accelerator.
Very cool, I actually made a basic version of this (only implemented increment) with Go for the same reasons, just drop it on a server and run it.

My implementation would output a chart given parameters:

/chart.png?metric=whatever&time=12h&interval=10m

Are there any plans for easy output of graphs?
Everpix is being shut down on Nov 5
Money debt is always recorded in the books and included in a regular (monthly) assessment of the business's value. So why do we not do this with technical debt? Instead it gets swept under the carpet until its impact is so overwhelming that only rigid processes and tight sprint deadlines allow new features and bugfixes to get done.
Just 10 minutes ago I wrote an email of appreciation to the boss of someone who I think is doing a good job, out of the blue. People do write thank you notes, directed at a person's boss, from time to time even if you don't.

I think Jeff Bezos and Amazon have changed the world of commerce (online and offline). Imagine what kind of world it would be without such efficient online e-commerce as an option.
The Stanford Startup and the MIT Startup
I just wanted to chime in and say (though possibly off topic) that Loren is an extraordinary developer. I saw penflip on ShowHN when he first posted it, and before that when it was simply an idea he threw out here, and immediately signed up. I began writing a book on Clojure using the platform and I couldn't be happier. He also is great at engaging users. Just look at the twitter. He's personally helped me multiple times and even contributed to my project.

So, if you're looking to write. Use penflip. It's awesome. But this really goes to show YC is a cutthroat place to try and get into. It really is amazing how much this system pg has started up has inspired. Just think of the entrepreneurs who have sat and thought of ideas because they know networks like this exist. It's truly an awesome thing for the world.
KitKat issues aside, there are a few minor concerns with the phone that seem to be causing the most issues:

The vibration motor is at the top of the phone. This is causing some people to complain on XDA that the haptic feedback is weak or non-existent. When you run a vibration test its easy to hone in on exactly where the motor is located which seems a bit off to me.

The speaker is absolutely anemic. I 'feel' the sound vibrating the back of my phone more than I can hear it through the single tiny speaker located at the bottom of the phone. Companies need to start emulating the HTC One and place the speakers on the front.

Otherwise the device feels elegant and the texture allows for a softer grip that allows longer use without getting crab hands.

Now KitKat (and specifically Hangouts) is a different story altogether...
Why no microSD?
They are sabotaging the only interoperable open and free protocol (which is an Internet standard developed through IETF). Did they propose anything better? Not even close. Even Google which boasts that their Hangouts are superior and thus can't use XMPP didn't open their protocol. So who cares if it's better then? E-mail is way far from perfect, yet it's open and interoperable. So everyone supports it. XMPP is the only developed analog for instant messaging. And all those selfish jerks of companies can't agree to support it. Or develop anything better if they don't like it.
Actually, most of the changes revolve around "let's make it easier for modders to make mods" and "let's work on areas that we neglected". Private messaging systems are used a LOT on servers.
+1. Most people have an old mountain bike in their garage, with double suspension, low tires, and a chain that's nearly totally fused together. They hop on that thing once and have a miserable time barely going faster than they would walk. That's enough to turn them off for another 5 years.
This project helped me learn python, and ultimately ended up getting a job with python, I think that this project and the people who motivated me to build this, made me the python developer I am today :).

https://github.com/LuRsT/Pendium
Everpix is shutting down
Surely this impacts Apple's sales in Korea. Amazed they haven't invested more in making a Mac technical solution for this.
How trustworthy is that I/O device?
Isn't cash more popular than Liberty Reserve and just as anonymous? (Albeit more cumbersome to transmit around the world.)

So isn't your argument also that cash encourages crime? And if so shouldn't it be abolished so that we can prevent activities that damage society?
There's no way to tell whether or not that "gut feel" is accurate without proof. Often it's right, but occasionally it's very, very wrong (cancer risk and Bayes theory provides a good illustration: http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-intuitive-and-short-e...). Consequently it's still worthwhile proving things even when they're seemly obvious.
Everpix was one of the best $5/month I spent. I would have been willing to spend far more for their services. I wish they would have tried to bump the price up to save the service. Having one place for all my photos made me exceptionally happy. Even my wife absolutely loved Everpix.

I guess I need to find an alternative... what are they?
Two big questions:

1. How do you revoke a compromised signature comitee certificate embedded in the browser extension?

2. How can you prevent a hostile browser extension from hijacking the validation process?