skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lazy Coder
A nice small mashup that should help all the lazy developers (all the good developers are somewhat lazy) to find solutions for their problems and avoid reinventing the wheel. It integrates most popular developers Q&A sites and hosting services, enabling to find answers and code samples at once. - See more at: http://lazycoder.io
It looks like it's a native app with a web UI.
Show HN: I calculated the Power of the Death Star [pdf]
One can only fit 2^18 == 262144 stacks with size 1GiB into the 48-bit x86-64 address space (i.e. 48 bits is the total virtual address size).
i found https://github.com/al3x/sovereign/blob/master/README.textile
and
http://yunohost.org/ from here actually...personally i also think https://library.linode.com/email/postfix is good.
Sorry, I have no idea. I posted this to the community, because I myself often lack good map sources. Hopefully this project will help people in similar situation.
Even Musk said he reckons the price is overvalued about a month back.
Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721–1790)
They're all "real". Somebody, somewhere, traded that tick, fiat (or gox$) and bitcoin changed hands.

If you consider the 4 largest exchanges (together about 90% of the volume), then you can look at the price as this fuzzy zone somewhere between the highest and lowest tick.

If you want to know when a specific price has been surprassed comprehensively, it's when all of the top exchanges have gone over it (not just one).

But if you want to know if it's somewhat likely a specific price will be surpassed by all exchanges, then just one going over carries a lot of meaning.
MIT's Tangible Media Group: inFORM
You can see inFORM in action @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFd6WsObOu4
If the same argument can be applied to software, it's not an argument against using JS.
"It's been attempted, but the issue of storage remains the most bothering. A mailbox can be pretty big and having it distributed over the network is difficult. Not to mention spamming problems."

Not for nothing, but Usenet is a distributed email system. Yes, most people use it as a forum or a file transfer system, but once upon a time it was a way to send email. One downside was that people had to locally find a path for routing their mail through the network, though I suspect that with modern techniques that would be irrelevant. Storage is not an issue if people can download their mail. Privacy is achieved with public key encryption, authentication with digital signing.

The real issue is not spam (which is already manageable with modern spam filters), but the fact that you need to download your mail and store it yourself. That does not really mesh with how people are using email these days. This is, in my view, the big stumbling block to strong encryption -- people are frustrated by systems that prevent them from reading their mail on their friends' computers (or kiosks, etc.).
You just blew my mind. ;)
Daily scrum meetings in voice calls with about ten team members. Weekly team meeting (voice calls) for organizational stuff. We have to plan for time zone differences for that (up to five different time zones). Voice calls on different topics during the day if needed (like discussions regarding requirements). Email and messenger for things like bug reports (bug tracker also) and clarification requests or other short queries. We have face to face meetings occasionally like every few months, but very rarely with the whole team.
Today I saw this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUa7oBsSDk8#t=130 (via http://www.thisiscolossal.com/)

Could this be the first computer / robot?
Winter Olympics journalists harassed by Russian police
Is there a mailing list to track this project? I can't see any way of monitoring updates on the page.
Just read an article about it (http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2013/09/24/from-mysql-mmm-...), seems awesome; gonna take a deeper look at it. Thanks !
"Tier 1 bonus bucket at a bulge bracket one year, Tier 2 the other year."

He was at a bank, not at a startup. Since you are not familiar with bonus structures at banks, what he's talking about could roughly double a salary in a _cash_ bonus.
The sad thing is, the ES.next committee is more busy with shenanigans like macro meta-programming, which will hurt JavaScript even more, than with fixing the basics and getting this out as soon as possible.
Does this case warrant the recoil?
> "...since you deliberately put yourself in that situation."

This is the crux of the problem. If we assume Apple is being truthful in its statement, they should be completely free to make such statements. No-one should be punished retrospectively for statements that were true at the time of utterance.

Compelling someone to lie after the facts have changed seems to me a far murkier legal area (and perhaps easier to fight in court).
From the article:
"Despite what anyone tells you, end to end encrypted email is not possible in a webmail world."

From above: "it's not possible to secure well because of the 'webapp crypto problem.'"

I REALLY hate these sort of platitudes because they sound authoritative with no real basis. "Not possible" is a very strong statement. One, as a matter of fact, that I am working on a solution to.

The so called "webapp crypto problem" that you refer to is the fact that you cannot trust that the provider will change the source on you at will to initiate an attack. This can be dealt with by having hashes to identify the piece of code that has been recieved. This hash is then looked up by multiple verifying nodes which will confirm the signature. These nodes can confirm the signature by looking at the source and matching it with the hash. This way you move the authority from the single issuer to the set of verifiers. Now, if the code is open source any individual can verify the verifiers.

This is a general overview of the system that can solve the "webapp crypto problem." Yes, there are details missing, but this should be enough to show you that it is indeed possible.
And government lunch programs want to serve only low fat milk http://frac.org/highlights-healthy-hunger-free-kids-act-of-2...

We give government too much power. Parents should decide what kind of milk their kids should drink. Or let the kid decide.
Luckiliy, this isnt a DCMA takedown notice, nor does it claim to be.

Just a standard run-of-the-mill cease and desist.
C++ has a good type system? C++ templates are just a copy-paste find-replace-all hack around type-system, they don't typecheck at all at the generic level. There is no notion of type variance nor dependent types. Not to mention many warts inherited from C (like being able to implicitly cast char arrays to booleans). It is IMHO much worse than even Java's (which is also not good).
2000 called; it wants it's clichè back.
"[...] I expect that on 64-bit platforms the number of concurrent tasks will be comparable to using segmented stacks. On 32-bit platforms, with their limited address space, the situation will not be as good, but this is a calculated risk that we can live without the same amount of concurrency there."

I thought that Rust is meant to aim for a "C replacement", but then doesn't the above quote raise some concerns towards ARMs and more embedded targets (e.g. AVRs, ...)? Or maybe my hopes were misguided from the beginning, I start to think now, given multithreading etc.? I'm confused now.
I agree with you - I hate the "the science is decided" or the "economics is decided" argument for any of the examples you mentioned. Whether it is saturated fat, sea level rise, or quantitative easing, one should maintain a healthy skepticism.
It's true that Gox$ aren't US$. But that doesn't mean they're entirely fake.

The matter of the fact is that, some people are doing arbitrage between Gox and other exchanges. And this arbitrage keeps prices somewhat in line. If the arbitrage would not exist, then the prices would be all over the place and not correlate at all.

The question then is, if the Gox$ are all fake and nobody can get any, how come the arbitrageurs can keep in business? And the answer is: they couldn't. Some people get to convert their Gox$ to US$ and then use them to buy bitcoin on other exchanges to sell them on Gox.

But, not all people, for whatever reason, get to do that. And the process might be lengthy, and there's a risk that it might fail for you.

So the spread between Gox and other exchanges is the arbitrageurs estimate of the risk of selling BTC to Gox$ and be able to convert them in a suitable timeframe to US$.
Fuzzy Math Helps Tesla Report $16M Profit
But it isn't an empty frontier that the thinkers/developers are entering alone. The existing problems both commercial and legal (and not-quite-so-legal-but-state-funded-so-good-luck-fighting-that-one) will be so close behind to stop/exploit/both as to make the exploration very inconvenient. I'm not saying it can't happen, but it won't happen organically over a period of time like email did.
One could also argue that I have a job, culture and home despite the government - not thanks to them.

There are very large and practical advantages of organizing judicial system, infrastructure and other basic, hard to replace societal services through a tax system.

But history shows us that the more a government interferes the less efficient the result will be.

My analysis of the current situation would be that since all power corrupts the governments of today have become hard-handed, arbitrary in their exercise of powers and blind to the consequences. The amount self restraint that an ordinary citizen could expect from governments seems to be long gone, they pass another law, they raise the taxes and use the "social contract" as a pretext.

I am a very firm believer in non-violence and non-force and would like to minimize the use of violence and force as much as possible, advocates of statism and authoritarians in general don't seem to agree with that view.

Please see the article at the top of this thread for a good example of what I'm talking about.
It's at such a fragile point, though. Monetising a previously entirely free service is risky at any time, but there's lots more risk than usual here (fickleness of audience, existence of competitors, fundamental simplicity of offering).

We've seen plenty of startups fail at this point before; is there anything to suggest Snapchat will beat the odds?
No, there is Horde and Squirrel mail.

I myself prefer webmail.afterlogic.com
It has a free light version.
thx, I think I understand what you are saying,

my (perhaps snarky) comment was more to do with 'why be so careful' with the potential data failure (that circus handily addresses) when data is being placed in a 'leaky bucket' (redis) in the first place.
Yeah, and if you're in a startup and you have a significant equity position then you are not working for free, you are directly monetarily motivated.

Also, people act to maximize their utility, not necessarily compensation. The act of working hard and hitting deadlines is a form of compensation in itself.

Finally, lots of people work a lazy 8 hours (with lots of time spent on the phone, Facebook, personal email) and need the extra hours to accomplish 8 hours worth of real work.
I can see that now as well. The screens i uploaded was PNGs, Apple must have replaced them with pretty low quality jpeg versions :/
Great for you, but the world is a bit bigger than 'banking' (aka pure plain robbery).
It says 'web-mail' ; they wouldn't say that then would they? Maybe someone here knows more about that?
Consider this, the service probably would have been killed off one way or another. If it didn't die from a lack of funds, then it may have died from being shut down after being acquired.

I was pretty happy with clipboard.com for bookmarks. They didn't charge anything. The service got shut down after Salesforce gobbled them up.
India is quite capable of sending a rocket to Mars and fighting poverty
from TFWA

>In their report, the AAP found that they could not recommend the use of special diets for children with autism spectrum disorder because of inadequate evidence.

> A 2008 systematic review from the Cochrane Library indicates that a gluten-free and/or casein-free diet has not been shown to have any effect on the behavior or functioning of individuals with autism

> The systematic review, conducted in 2009, concluded that the results "reveal that the current corpus of research does not support the use of GFCF diets in the treatment of ASD.
Dart's one advantage is very fast development cycle if you use Dart VM in Dartium. No js compilation needed. Very well designed user APIs, Excellent modularity (with pub) and good editor support eliminates many opponents.
I'm using MailMate[1], which is a brilliant client developed by the Danish coder Benny Kjaer Nielsen. It has too many neat features to name, but the one I absolutely couldn't live without is the ability to write emails in Markdown.

[1]: http://freron.com/
In this case someone is trying to sell you the idea of work-life balance. I guess you can take it or leave it, but it doesn't seem that slimy or nefarious to me.
Ah good point.
But what I really meant, and that isn't really clear from my post: Is wether we still need the addition crap that is in a user agent string.
A user agent should be more like this: <Operating System> <version>, <browser> <version>, <devicetype>, <connection type>(high speed unmetered, 3g metered etc)
Embedded targets normally don't want segmented stacks anyway, and running hundreds of thousands of threads/tasks (which is what segmented stacks allows) is unlikely to be particularly useful(?).

In any case, this ML post is basically saying "Rust is reverting to C-like stack behaviour" (with some checks to handle stack-overflow safely (i.e. memory safety & security), the current implementation just aborts the whole process on stack overflow).
From my experience, I can only agree. Aged 24, I was given responsibly for a near 150-year-old weekly newspaper which is read by more than 30,000 people a week. Needless to say, I ended up working a quite ridiculous amount of unpaid overtime.

Keep asking myself why I put in all the extra hours. Journalism's about as competitive an industry as exists but I didn't have self-advancement in mind. It wasn't because it was almost expected even if unwritten. Nor was it because of procrastination.

The explanation that jumps to mind's two-fold.

First, circumstance and necessity. The industry's not so much shrinking as shrivelling. By the time I left in July, I had two full-time staff to produce a newspaper which more oft than not numbered more than 100 tabloid pages. To give those numbers some context, there were many fewer pages and many more editorial staff when the paper was founded in the 1800s. Jobs simply needed doing and I was a willing horse.

And second, pride. Not pride in long hours but pride in a job well done. I was a martyr to the readers' cause and I was going to put out the best paper in my power.

However, three years later and long burned out, it was part a wider culture which culminated in me leaving the company. I've drawn similar conclusions to the author when he says work long hours--but only on your own terms.
Surely the hashing solution you propose can only be implemented as an enhancement to browsers? If you have decentralised "verifiers" how can you be sure that the version they most recently verified is the same code as your browser just downloaded?

I'm not convinced the "webapp crypto problem" can be solved without changes to browsers.
It's worth bringing up Jamie Zawinski's post on the subject of GNOME (and this was the 1.x-2.x transition!), "The CADT Model": http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html

"It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8?"
HN reminds me of the early days of Slashdot - news before it breaks elsewhere, a good-natured and interesting community, me karma-whoring when I should be working... :)
Whats wrong with Google?
On January 5, 1914, the Ford Motor Company took the radical step of doubling pay to $5 a day and cut shifts from nine hours to eight, moves that were not popular with rival companies, although seeing the increase in Ford's productivity, and a significant increase in profit margin (from $30 million to $60 million in two years), most soon followed suit.[10][11][12][13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day#United_States
On the whole, I think I'd rather be spied on by an ally rather than a dictatorship.
Can't. I so disbelieve in his argument that I won't sign up for G+.

Besides, as Upton Sinclair was fond of saying, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
This really saddens me. I hadn't heard of the service yet, but it looks and sounds awesome... it's a shame they couldn't make it work :(
For me, HN has had one very big, very concrete effect: it's forced me to write more. Not write well, necessarily. Not edit, unfortunately. But write. Before I started commenting here, I only ever wrote coherently for school and never liked it. Now, after quite a bit of practice, I'm much more comfortable getting my ideas across.

This reminds me of "How to Write without Writing"[1] by Jeff Atwood. He explains how StackOverflow tricks programmers into writing more and therefore improving. While I love StackOverflow, I think Hacker News does this much better: StackOverflow posts tend to be too short and too technical, while HN posts are all over the place. HN also gives much more direct feedback: in my experience, voting is correlated with how well a comment is written and people's responses to a comment show where it was effective and where it could have been clearer.

[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/02/how-to-write-withou...

Hacker News made writing a game, and playing that game really helped me write.
the Doodle abides....and somehow I take comfort in that...
By what natural law is this true? By what will of nature or physics are you deriving your statements?

Deserves? Why does anyone deserve anything? Nature itself does not act that way.

People around the world deserve not to live in fear of their government killing them. Women deserve not to live in fear of being raped. Children should not live in fear of abuse. Yet untold millions starve, are beaten, tortured, abused, have lives of unimaginable torment and despair, and you have the gall to talk about how the privileged few should not work so hard?

How about those of us born into a life of privilege work harder until suffering is alleviated, until pain is removed, until equality is reached.
Just pushed my current status to

https://github.com/darklajid/ansible-communication

Careful though: This isn't deployed outside of test machines yet. I'm still working on the proper backup/restore scenarios, consider a couple improvements etc. - the readme outlines what I would like to do next.

Plus: While I self-host my mails for a while (without an automated setup of sorts, the one off snowflake sort of thing, so quite different from this here), I don't claim to be an expert here. Check what I did, take it as a template, don't use it without a basic understanding.

If there are some postfix/dovecot gurus out here and would like to point out obvious flaws in my setup - go ahead!
"It is beginning to dawn on me that it is amazing how _happily_ we allow any random site to go ahead and use are CPUs to do _God knows what_ as soon as we visit their site"

That's a very different issue from JavaScript cryptography though. Allowing random sites to use your CPU is the whole purpose of the world wide web - it takes CPU cycles to render static HTML, after all. The issue here is trusting that the browser sandbox is good enough to prevent that code doing anything malicious outside of the context of the browser. Browsers are pretty good at that these days.
Keep dropping, I'd like to buy some.
Some equipment might come from Israel (it's just guessing though), but I do not like your implicit hinting that Israeli developers are somehow less moral than U.S developers (because of "cultural" differences?) - especially since you don't know much about it. You seem to be forgetting which government and agency is at the center of this debacle, don't try to share the blame on other nations or cultures for developing those spying system
H Day
Your last example is kind of irrelevant, because if you're honest with yourself, you're not counting the not-work hours.
I never did get Demeteorizer to work so I can't compare them but yes the meteor bundle command gives you a Node.js app that can be deployed like any other.

As I understand it the former was created before the meteor bundle command was available.
Well, yes! Inflammatory comments are really frowned on here.
I do love the attention to detail, with the Nigerian's prince email.

Doing good software is one thing, doing it with a good touch of humor is what makes it stick. +1.
Surfly - Surf together on the web
I don't understand this. Dart is a dynamic language that gives you the option of adding types that help with tooling, documentation and some type checking at design time. At run time you can run it in checked mode and it will always tell the truth. This means that if you cover your code at all, manually or automatically then it will inform you of type errors. If you don't cover your code before releasing it then you probably are not writing anything very serious anyway. How is this worse than a dynamic language that offers you no optional typing with full checking at runtime?
I think the issue is that conspiracy theories are a natural thing when there has been a significant damage in trust - when Google killed Reader, a much loved product, and other stuff such as closing random accounts with no recourse, they hurt the trust of their developer following. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, etc. The more Google does to act like a cold business as opposed to the nostalgic developer friendly company, they become feared and resented. This is an immeasurably difficult thing to fix.
That's a fair point with your qualifier. I think a lot of people are not honest with themselves about this, though.
The Monster Truck Madness 2 website has been taken down
A few years back I changed from a 1 hour drive (with completely unpredictable queues and delays) to get to work to a very pleasant 25 minute walk - which I love.

The only problem is that having got used to this I'd be very reluctant to take a job that I could walk or cycle to - which is a bit limiting.
Its a nice positive self-improvement post, but I'd be interested in what the OP thinks has changed over that time re tone, content, titling, policies etc and everything meta.
A doctor cannot be compelled to do a body cavity search.
I'd rather someone tries segmented stacks and determines it isn't a good fit than to just discard it on a comment from something someone said. This way future researchers have more data points, whereas just dismissing out of hand leaves a rather big question mark.
How much percentage of the dart team/steering committee are Google employees? If that number is higher than, say, 50%, then that is a liability because Google as a company's intentions are unpredictable, because whether the people working on it are good guys or not (and I'm sure you are), there's a common entity that has power over you (your employer) and to some degree your work.