skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in South Korea for a while and this "security plugin" you have to install for IE is an absolute nightmare. Some sites even ask you to install a separate application to be able to perform transactions, only through IE of course...

Truth be told, I never actually managed to buy anything online when I was there. It's like everything was designed to keep me from buying. What didn't help was that I was on Visitor status, meaning you don't get your national ID, which is required on a vast number of SK sites. Without ID, you just become some kind of virtual hobo.

It's a shame considering the amazing infrastructure there is over there. Anyone who's ever visited SK websites will tell you how poorly put together they are, both technically and visually. I've rarely seen such disparity between the underlying infrastructure and its use anywhere else.
Boot Camp is a secret weapon? It costs $70? I'm confused.

Could they not get a free VM and then download an image from modern.ie?
Ever since I bought a Wacom tablet to take notes.. all of these apps do not beat xournal. Granted I cannot use it to take notes on my phone, I don't really need it as I can only take good notes with my Wacom tablet anyway.
Non-paginated version: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/due-to-secu...
re: saving passwords in a browser: oh yeah, people still do that. I haven't for years. I leave a few auth cookies around, true, but not for sensitive sites.
Google on NSA’s breach: “fuck these guys”
That is what I mean, basically :^)
honestly though there was a pretty large gap between the time Dropbox came out and Google Drive did though, Dropbox was already established and had a large user base when Google Drive launched
Precisely the same bias that she complains about applies here: people tend to remember the extremes of history and forget the mundane.

In any case, thank-you notes from warehouse workers aren't much good as evidence that Amazon isn't treating them badly.
If you choose to be a sharecropper you must accept the landlord's rules. As for myself I'm through with it and my future apps will be Mac/Windows/Linux desktop apps. Mobile has a lot of potential but I won't bow down to the gatekeepers any more.
Wow. Just, wow. That's beyond insane.

"Based on the commit history, it took several months to create this masterpiece." ...
I'll contact you if I happen to be in Padova!
Does she have a competing book on the market? Or is she just reviewing the book with a writer's eye?
You likely aren't their target audience. My guess is they are catering to enterprises keen to move into the cloud and for whom TCO is more than just the price of the server.

Also Linode is a security nightmare and Hetzner doesn't always have instances available.
I covered this on my blog in 2007: http://kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s

My blog post was heavily covered in Boing Boing, Slashdot, Salon, etc. at the time.
Actually, giant mushrooms replaced trees in the "Beyond the Dark Portal" expansion to WarCraft II.

For example see the 2nd screenshot there: http://allgamesplayed.com/pc/warcraft-2-pc/
That's how you win a hackathon... That's the power of Floyd for me ;)
Isn't this because the US wouldn't export crypto software that supported keys > 40 bits to Korea in the 90s, forcing them to develop their own stronger algorithms?

Anyway, it's so bad that my (technophobe) wife refuses to shop online anymore because she is forced to use IE (and vastly prefers to use Chrome)
Anybody looked at the pricing of some of the services offered - e.g. end user:

help with your printer - $45 per help - $2 per minute
(guess that will always be more than the printer was actually retailing for)

General computer help $10 (per incident) $2 per minute

maybe contact your printer / computer support team first - many today have online / real-time chat features now for free.
It's like the Mafia, lot's of unwritten rules.
Our standard instances at exoscale have roughly the same performance than this new product line @ rackspace.

AWS instances generally are a bit lower in performance than rackspace offers.

Disclaimer: I work at exoscale. https://exoscale.ch
FWIW, in Italian, the "If I were rich ..." is called the "imperfect subjunctive". "Se fossi ricco ..."
Not actively, right now, but possibly in the future. Going to bootstrap and possibly attempt to monetize soon.

I wasn't even looking to YC for the funding, really, mostly just the network and mentorship.
Ruby program implementing Wikipedia's "Back to Philosophy" game
I think writing to the CEO says more about a person writing the letter than the person the letter is being addressed to. Especially if the writer doesn't know the CEO well.
Silicon Valley’s All Twttr (2006)
have you seen HBO's Girls? A character creates this app and starts a hip NYC startup
Everything You've Heard About Crack And Meth Is Wrong
Launching The Long Good Read
There's a bug report about this:

https://github.com/FoxUSA/OpenNote/issues/7

Although it was opened 39 minutes ago :)
Why to avoid shotgun clauses
When people show up to networking meetings with a gift (book, chocolate, whatever) I know I'm being manipulated but I don't mind. I'm more likely to pass them on with a good reference because I know they'll behave well if I send them on. This is despite knowing that they're manipulating me.
On Algorithmic Newspapers and Publishing
Hipster CEO
What are you talking about?

My #3 point was not that dietary health isn't important. It IS important. It's as important as cardiology, renal, etc in the curriculum. That it's "only" one week is shouldn't be taken (and is repeatedly put forth as, as the OP did) proof of how physicians don't care/ aren't trained in diet.

What does your rant about saying the hippocratic oath have to do with anything? What does that have to do with the amount of emphasis the modern medical education puts on health through diet? Of course food should be your medicine. Natural plants are also the base for some ~70% of our drugs. It's just not the only tool in the toolbox.

Then you accidentally support my earlier point that the average joe is godawful self-treating/diagnosing based on their own research. Thanks.
I would have to agree with the most monopolies are government created because, at least in the US, there are laws that actively try to prevent a free market monopoly. Plus, it's much more difficult to create a market-based monopoly because in a somewhat free market it creates an opportunity for a competitor to take advantage of factors that only monopolies tend to have if they are not government created.

But I don't see the claim of government monopolies > free market monopolies you reference.
For anyone in Sales, to be any good you have to go through something like this to depersonalize the rejection.
People often have collections of images that are kept in rars or zips not for compression (which as you say this is no good for) but for convenience and organization. Or consider e.g. the "cbr" pseudo-format, where comics are stored as a rar of images, one per page. I can well imagine a web-based CBR viewer.
I agree. Tweet-a-beer (especially for a local brewery) has more of a community feel. Tweet-a-coffee (even though I end up at starbucks almost daily) feels more like giving to a faceless corporation.
Organization of major tech companies
Cool. I'll send you an email

Enterprise is often ignored by cutting edge technologies. Sounds like it could somehow eat into sharepoint confluence enterprise wikis etc. market share. of course harder to demonstrate traction but you should consider (amount of money you make + amount of money a large existing enterprise solution loses) as what makes your company valuable.
I thought the same thing. I mostly saw the stuttering buffer.

Is the effect really worth the risk of poor UX? Seems a nice background image would be effective enough.

(I also realize this is nitpicky, but still worth mentioning. Maybe the OP didn't realize some would have a poor UX.)
Release notes for the companion GUI TortoiseHg 2.10 release: https://bitbucket.org/tortoisehg/thg/wiki/ReleaseNotes#!tort...
yeah, this is super surprising considering their business of annotating individual lines; I'd be storing the lines in a list and caching generated html, not storing the tags in with them. it's kind of weird.
http://letslunch.com/
Doesn't WFM :( (Firefox + Linux)
I think it's strange that Git seems more popular. Mercurial is a great tool. Also check TortoiseHg.

Edit: I didn't want to start a flamewar. I'm just wondering why Git seems more popular because I think both tools are very good.
Open data, big money - CIO Symmetry
> Citation needed.

Any real economist.

Inevitably, if any industry is profitable, competition will arise. Government regulation (often through corruption) is the only mechanism which ensures a lack of competition. This can be observed in any industry throughout the last 100 years.

You're right that companies can lock up the vast majority of a market by out-competing others, but this generally doesn't last very long (typically a decade or less).
I have a bunch of naval officers in my family. I recall the standard line is "During modern naval warfare, there are only two things: submarines and targets."
Thanks for posting the link to the video. Just checked. Don't see them mention the use of historical data when you first launch an app. Which was the case. My first use experience on Nike+ Move was better because I can already seeing it work based on a weeks data. Funny part was that they don't really acknowledge the fact they import the data. Argus, another application which I like for activity tracking, did the same.
Thanks, I sort of assumed this was Jeff's elementary-school-aged child. I even had an androgynous, towheaded, smiling image in my mind. ("MacKenzie" is a rather androgynous, and dare I say infantilizing, name.)
This is awesome! Really looking forward to use this!
MAN Punches Girl So Hard He Shatters Window With Her Head
Black backgrounds were all the rage in the 70s too, along with green text.
Sounds like we could really use a "User-Agent-Features" header or something similar. Or we just say screw it and make a new standard for the User-Agent header, then users can run in compatibility mode when needed.
Why Indonesian Mobile Application Market Is Best In The World
Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information
The Matchbox - one of the most exquisite thank you letters ever written
See also: http://fontello.com/

Lets you download a webfont with the glyphs you specify.
How Marvel Uses Graph Theory and NoSQL to Understand its Fictional Universe
Column, like the majority of the side-projects I've been involved in, is the result of my own personal failures & frustrations. Namely:

"Why is it always such a f^*k#ng pain in the ass to get a hackathon group organized!"

I'd like to believe the majority of the dev community is regularly participating in hackathons, they should be, hackathons are a fantastic way to put down our day-to-day responsibilities and remind ourselves why we pursued this career in the first place: it's ridiculously fun. Fun to learn, play with new tech and get a bit competitive.

You know what isn't fun? Endless discussion over which server-side framework to use, which folder structure makes the most sense, which client-side package management system to use, how to bring everyones preferences together. That stuff has a time and place, but during a hackathon? Not so much.

Column is my first attempt to make choices suitable for a hackathon: Which tools will allow us to co-ordinate effectively, to work on different parts of the project without stumbling over each other?

It's a start. Let's build tools that enable us to focus on what's important during a hackathon: winning... I mean having fun.
As much as I normally don't grant points to the Wall Street Journal, I'm granting this one.

Proposals for techno-libertarian entrepreneurial utopias on the sea are just the tip of the iceberg. After those, we have to address the property regime that makes the Bay Area increasingly uninhabitable to run-of-the-line engineers, the exclusion and marginalization of the everyday working class people who make the whole area run (see: the BART strike), and the entire underlying sentiment of "Software engineering is the master race".

When we have started thinking of ourselves as the indispensable heart of society and everyone else as mere utilities for use to exploit, yes, we have become extremely arrogant and need to be reigned in.
I've heard from several people/companies in InfoSec have copies of the database and are actively analyzing it. Shouldn't be too hard to find if you wish to check yourself against the compromised list.
>EDIT: would appreciate a reply to understand why this was downvoted.

Probably because neither of these statements is necessarily true:

>As is usually the case, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle area of consensus -- which we now know is anathemic territory for Mr. Bezos.

Also because bias is irrelevant to whether something is a verifiable fact or not. Thinking otherwise is like a reverse appeal to authority fallacy. Characteristics of the source have no bearing on the assertion, the latter must be evaluated on its own merits and verifiability alone, and nothing else. Lots of comments here about bias, none are relevant.

Also, asking for explanations for downvotes is against HN ettiquette (see FAQ and Guidelines) and usually downvoted.
Right now if you try to install it using pip `pip install Mercurial` will still install 2.7.2 version.

Do instead: `pip install http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-2.8.tar.gz`
PokerSnowie creator Johannes Levermann
And now we have Chromium-based Opera which can't call itself Opera and has to use "OPR/16" instead, and pretends to be Chrome, which pretends to be Safari, which pretends to be KHTML, which pretends to be Gecko, which pretends to be Netscape.

On a related note W3C+Mozilla are trying to document use-cases for UA sniffing:
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/uadetection-usecases
As far as I understand it, Microsoft got the smartphone part of the business. Nokia will continue to make feature phones, but Microsoft's Nokia will have exclusivity on smartphones for a set number of years.
Anyone trying out the web app on their iPhone browser (safari/chrome)? I'd be grateful for any feedback if so.
When I last compared them, circus looked more specific to managing something like wsgi workers while supervisord looked a little more "general-purpose".

This was probably a wrong or overly simplified conclusion, but I know supervisor and it hasn't let me down yet - so for now I see no compelling reason to switch. Maybe it's one of those "you just have to try it" moments? :)
You are mistaking helium (inert,fire suppresant) for hydrogen (flammable).
Passwords stolen in Adobe breach were encrypted, not hashed
Christ, dude, they're asking for a disclaimer in the description. There are true problems with the App Store review process, but this doesn't strike me as one. Add the line and get your app in the store.
Consider the fact that if you refuse to do business with a private-sector monopoly the worst that'll happen is that you'll get a slightly less-effective alternative or in the worst case go without the good. If you refuse to participate in a government-mandated monopoly you can face civil and criminal charges.

Also, a private-sector monopoly, no matter how seemingly entrenched, is always vulnerable to disruption (when was the last time you used a PC manufactured by IBM? Or were forced to use IE against your will, for that matter? And yet those were both at one time monopolies that came very close to being broken up by the justice department because people claimed the free market could never topple them). That's why that "distopian future scenario" the OP referenced didn't come about in most of the world. Other browsers came about that users liked better and despite the big advantage IE gets from being bundled with most PCs others have had success in the market. Contrast that with the difficulty in breaking a government-enforced monopoly like the one referenced in the article.
I'm interested in the performance characteristics of weak-node clusters versus strong-node clusters. I wonder what he'll say when HN hits his site?
Github + Linux kernel I think would be the primary drivers for that.

Mercurial is fine, but its hard to ignore inertia. Similar to FreeBSD/Linux.
Is the M7 data also reset on a phone reset ? Would be good to know.
So... the future should be to feature bloat browsers.

Opera already tried that. They weren't very succesful.
Debian Switches to Xfce By Default, Will Evaluate Demand for GNOME
Don't you know Apple doesn't allow complaining about their decisions? They are listening! IT KNOWS.
Git has Linus, Linux, and Github behind it.
See if you can scrape emails off public library websites They often advertise book writing month on a board and might happily add the web link.
Here's a few example runs in an imgur album if you want to see what it looks like:

http://imgur.com/a/gx4eV#0
SEEKING WORK - Remote, GMT-2

I am an ACM ICPC world finalist and I'm heavily interested in algorithmic problems, as well as network servers and website back-ends.

My main languages are Python, C, Javascript, C#, C++, Java, and Haskell.

Github: https://github.com/lessandro

Contact: lessandro@gmail.com
The implication appears to be that Mercurial is better. Is it?
Maybe move over to Ramnode, for which you'll pay something like $30 per year, or DigitalOcean, which costs $5 per month.
> Inevitably, if any industry is profitable, competition will arise.

An industry can be profitable for the existing market participants and still have a high enough cost of entry as to have a negative expected profit over any meaningful timeframe for a prospective new entrant.

In practice, this is likely to change due to changing external conditions (e.g., technological progress that lowers the cost of entry or creates previously-impossible substitutes) but there is no theoretical reason why this must be the case.
Typical of most MS bashing articles - this article is troll-bait at best and false at worst. Internet Explorer is not mandated by law.

What happened was, the US had banned export of 128bit encryption software. The Korean government said screw that and created browser plugins - for BOTH Netscape and IE - to use 128bit encryption for online transactions. Netscape died and IE remained. I guess their implementation is proprietary enough that nobody else has managed to implement it on other browsers.
The application itself seems pretty nice and solid, but from what I can see it's Just Another site to masturbate with titles. LinkedIn with coffee?

Then again I'm pretty disgusted by LinkedIn circle-jerking recommendations/connections and roles/titles.
This is exactly what I was saying about [made-for-prison] software being unleashed on the public writ large:

> But those with Apple computers — for which IE isn’t available — have it harder. Some go to Internet cafes. Some rely on their office desktops. Some dash into hotel business centers. Some hold on to their old computers and boot them up when it’s time to make purchases. Still others depend on a secret weapon called Boot Camp, a software program that allows a Mac to run Windows.

Your bar code is your laptop.
Thanks, honestly, that was my personal preference intervening too, the goal was to use something that allowed you to drop logic into a template (yup, that's a bad practice but it's a hackathon, so who cares?) and didn't scare of someone potentially unfamiliar with template languages (as you mentioned Jade is very different from HTML at first glance).

If you find anything else you think would be useful, let me know. I've got my eye on https://github.com/stephenplusplus/grunt-bower-install as a means of quickly dropping script tags in, and I think some method for simple heroku / aws deployment might be handy too.
Patchblocks - programmable mini synth modules (Kickstarter)
As much as I love to see Rackspace roll out more highly-performing cloud servers, as a customer I'd rather see stability improvements to their core systems.

Their current ("next-gen") cloud offering has had serious noisy-neighbor issues with networking performance, and the maintenance to attempt and resolve these issues architecturally caused some serious pain during two consecutive maintenance windows. ( Hour+ downtime for dozens of nodes. )

Management API availability and reliability also leaves a lot to be desired.
I'm really surprised that in the last 14 years noone wrote a compatibility layer. It's definitely possible (see the comment about tablets) and embedding crazy stuff from windows is nothing new in linux world (wine, ndiswrapper).

So what's the actual barrier to doing that? (also, why doesn't FF solve the issue since https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478839 was fixed? - it looks like guys from KISA are actually cooperating to implement the needed ciphers)
Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Facing Investors
I don't know where to start.

1) Monopolies can and do happen in the absence of regulation. Indeed, it is frequently only through regulation or direct governmental action that competition can be encouraged. (The breakup of the AT&T monopoly comes to mind.)

2) The simple fact of the matter is that government and economic policy go hand-in-hand. Governments create the currency and enforce contracts. They also set the rules for the market. Without those rules -- laws -- markets descend quickly into chaos similar to what you see today in Somalia or Afghanistan: societies driven by tribal loyalties, inefficient, brutal, cruel, and repressive.

There are no monopolies in Somalia because there is no system in place for establishing corporate charters or enforcing contracts. This requires a strong government to serve as arbiter between disputing economic interests.
Given Linode's recent security vulnerabilities, I would stay away from them if I needed security. I'm not sure who to turn to, though, maybe a dedicated box would be innately more secure.
Then watch the Fat Head documentary and be confused once again.
Agree, feels like a cheap marketing stunt by OP.
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Am I cool yet? What it’s like to own the $11,000 Vertu phone for the weekend
Well, if it is the male hormones causing trouble for part of (0), technically you could get a sex change after you have children...that would remove the male hormones and give you female hormone supplements.
Well, pylint is indeed especially helpfull when it comes to the sanity of code..And yes it is a must before pushing changes
Kernel panic when pressing alt+PrtScn+c in Ubuntu
What is this? Even when screen locked I've got kernel panic. Why sysrq is turned on by default? How can I trust Ubuntu competence after this kind of stuff.
The amazingly unlikely story of how Minecraft was born
I like to think of South Korea as a nation state, gripped by such fear-of-the-other, that they'll agree to any irrational suggestions their military advisors might make.

So then, 10 or 20 years ago, when the NSA needed a secret laboratory to experiment in, where they could blunder away at trial and error, perhaps a huge wind tunnel to test the aerodynamics of this bird, well South Korea sounds pretty good. Let's see if the pentagon can get them to agree to a few absurd pre-requisites and static global variables, while we bootstrap this absolutely enourmous program we're shoe-horning into place.
Yeah, looks like it hasn't been uploaded to the PyPI yet.
Sold sold Sold.
I find Mercurial's porcelain more intuitive than git's, yes.
You think there's an open market for bar code encryption?
Devroutes Developer Bootstrap: Your path to a happy development environment
Both. Neither. There's a tendency to mimic currently successful pricing models, almost in a cargo cult manner. Looking at the product, the potential customers, etc. and actually making a decision is harder. But that's exactly how the currently successful pricing models were developed in the first place.