skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Mozilla is not profit oriented, they just care about their mission: Moving the web forward and keeping it open.

This was my experience with them ever since Firefox 1.0 came out in 2004 to liberate us from Internet Explorer. They really care about open Internet, user rights and privacy. And they stayed true to those ideals all these years. Something you can't say about many big name companies on the net today. In fact, I consider them a fair replacement for the early Google that we've lost to the forces of evil :)
Comparison of File Transfer Application Speed
Full disclosure... I work for Infinit, but I'd be happy to answer any of your questions.
BrewCrate is the perfect mix of tech & DIY - Homebrew by subscription
I was thinking of combining the two, seeing as I have more Lego than is healthy for a 41 year old. :-D
Could you please post some details about what you mean with them monitoring your site's traffic and performance?

I found the code for the "anonymous survey", but you have to submit it manually.

Edit: I think you might mean the news loaded remotely in the Admin CP upon every login. It's injected in the page as is.
Users of Maps, iWork and Final Cut Pro might disagree.
Add this to wherever you setup your bash prompt:

source /usr/local/git/contrib/completion/git-prompt.sh

source /usr/local/git/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash

GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE=true

export PS1='\u@\h \[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]$(__git_ps1 "\[\033[01;33m\](%s)\[\033[00m\]")$ '

source ~/.profile

What this does is add a git style prompt anytime you are in a directory managed by git. On the prompt it will show your current branch, what state it is in (+'s/*'s show if you have changes), if your are merging/rebasing/cherry-picking/etc...

The source files may live in slightly different places on your machine depending on where you installed git.

This above also adds tab completion for git commands, branches, tags, etc...

Also, see my .gitconfig for aliases I have put together from various places on the net:

https://github.com/matwood/cfg/blob/master/.gitconfig
The Sunshade for Google Glass A 3D printing project
Some good points there. I've always kept an eye on such business practices.

I worked for a SaaS ecommerce outfit a few years ago and they sold their stuff to all the competitors in the same market space. After a bit, they yanked it with 28 days' notice and went into direct competition with them. Assholes. Strikes me as the same sort of company.
ZK: open source Java framework for building web and mobile apps
Happy 25th birthday, Sega Genesis These are your baby pictures.
Why Google has Broken Many of its Promises about its Search Engine Results Page
Yup! Actually I also released the soundtrack for free/pay what you want here

http://codeherdstudios.bandcamp.com/album/asteroid-smash-ost
It is a joke isn't it. "Security" lol

There are 2 types of websites. Those which are important enough for you to remember a password for and those which aren't. Well the 50 or so which aren't important enough have one password and this password has been compromised at least 5 times this year. As far as I know people haven't been logging into my accounts but I guess there is nothing stopping them.

I find it really difficult to understand how this happens so often. In many cases it seems like security is an after-thought and procedures are poorly implemented.

If it is true that the vulnerability exploited has been in vB since version 4.. that means it has been there for 3 years! I wonder how sophisticated it really was? I wonder when the vBulletin last got an external security audit done..
Not working really well here (Firefox 25). The balls sometimes touches the floor and the game keep going.

Pretty cool btw.
Death of a Professor
Pick an oilfield tool, and it was probably made from scratch in the US.
I don't think it was ever really that pronounced with Apple. People really did buy into the "don't be evil" thing, and they really did think Google could do no wrong.

I'm still convinced that the major disaffected group are people who used Reader :)
Develop Wordpress plugins, themes with Docker
This is the same setup someone might use with Vagrant. Just much faster, thanks to lxc and docker.
A superior person’s errors are like an eclipse
Attacking this problem is one of the primary goals here at Exocortex.

In the short term, you can use our Alembic Crate tool to assist with transferring your assets between tools.

In the long term, we're working on clara.io, a web-based replacement for SoftImage/Maya/3DSMax. Think how much easier would it be for tooling if all your assets were web-accessible with nice web APIs.
is the source to this available anywhere?
Airlines have green-light for 3G and 4G on board aircraft in air.
Google blocks child porn in 100,000 searches, plans filter for YouTube
Original reporting following up on this story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6407321

The story turns out to be much more complicated than what was originally circulated.
World War II veterans are treated as heroes by damned near everyone in the U.S.A. -- including those who are anti-war/anti-military.

Incidentally, in Russia it's largely the same outcome: WWII survivors adored, post-WWII veterans scorned.

It's interesting how forced conscription and a global threat causes a civilian population to revere its then-military.
Taxis are services for affluent, impatient people. UberX is cheaper than a black cab in London.

I said Bitcoin has the potential, not that is was actually there. Already being used for "not necessarily "bad" transactions, but illegal nonetheless" transactions is a powerful endorsement already. I see the potential of Bitcoin, not as a savings currency, but as a transaction currency. Right now, making an electronic, verified transaction is the exclusive domain of banks and fraught with annoyance and danger. In Denmark, an electronic bank transfer takes a day. If you need to real-time transact with someone without credit (ie. trust), you need to use cashiers cheques (which are expensive and have a fixed amount, so no haggling) or cash. Or you need to buy into the ridiculously expensive and painfully over-regulated credit card network. And still deal with charge-backs. In the US, someone can more or less trivially steal all your money if they get your account number. The UK is mostly sane, there's even a mobile app for doing instant account transfers (PingIt), but then add international to the mix and all bets are off.

Bitcoin is a plausible infrastructure for secure, almost instant peer-to-peer transactions without getting the banks involved.

Also, it's a neat technology for people who don't appreciate having their savings "manipulated" for their own good (in reality, mostly other peoples' good).
Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government(2012)
We're close to universal adoption of the CSS calc() function
Nobody, including Peter Sunde, is saying that tech or cultural changes should begin in the government. The point is that technology alone is not sufficient.

> that change can typically happen fairly easily

Now who is being naive about politics? No significant changes to the law are easy.
Do television and electronic games predict children’s psychosocial adjustment?
Sorry, I'll phrase it a bit more straightforwardly: if it came from Murdoch, it's much more likely to be a lie.
This is awesome, I've been excited about Lighttable since I first heard of it. I wish it was in time to back it.

It get's better with every release, can't wait for the finished product.
Awesome file transfer performance, guys.
I really like tools like these! The one I use for Haskell is hlint[1].

1: http://community.haskell.org/~ndm/hlint/
You're basically saying he has no proof, and therefore what he said only amounts to an opinion, and can be dismissed as such.

The thing is, it doesn't matter whether he's got proof or not. He's free to present his thoughts, and you're free to ignore them, or perhaps more productively: consider them.

Extremely few discussions are formal debates. So instead of behaving like you're in one, how about just listening to what people have to say, and evaluating whether you think there's any merit to it, or whether it might be true, etc?

Someone says something, you react to it. Then you say something, and someone reacts to what you said.

Now let's go through his post as an example:

>>> Of course, for the people that matter (especially advertisers) can see through it.

- "Hmm.. Well, I guess that's certainly possible. Perhaps even likely! After all, lots of people are complaining about Google+, and it really does seem like Google is doing their best to count everyone using YouTube as a Google+ user. Advertisers are likely to notice what's going on, just like you and me on Hacker News, and they won't like it."

>>> Some content producers are already moving away from YT, at the same time AdSense is the one that still pays the best.

- "I suppose moving away from YT would make sense for an advertiser that's fed up with Google's behaviour. Hmm.. I wonder if AdSense actually does pay the best. Maybe this guy knows something I don't, or maybe his claim is inaccurate. Oh well!"

.. Maybe something like that?
A Lot Of People Have Already Left Clinkle
I tried MyKolab last week and it went terribly. I so wanted things to work out but I feel the service isn't ready and in the end I had to give up.

Documentation is very sparse and in some cases out of date. Even sign-up was problematic for me, since it looks like you are forced to have a PayPal account (you don't, and can use PayPal as the payment processor only).

I had to contact support to ask for help signing up, and the steps they gave me were not possible to follow. Options for a bank transfer payment simply did not appear until many hours later. Imagine you added an item to your cart in Amazon and when you went to check out it was empty. Delete & re-add, still empty. Wait 8 hours, come back, still empty and no way to complete the purchase. Randomly, the item finally shows up the next day.

I got through it finally and switched MX records. I logged in to the webmail interface 2 hours later and had errors 'Server Error: SELECT: Mailbox does not exist' then later 'An error occured(sic). An error occurred while saving'. Another support ticket, emails inbound bouncing, and no reply for three hours and I was all done with MyKolab.

I still want a service like this and am actively looking but a big part of it is the product has to look totally professional and the company must have their shit together. Let's face it, if your goal is privacy and the adversaries are Google and random three-letter agencies you have got to inspire confidence and this company is a long, long way off.
Not likely - the higher up you go in government, the more stringent they are with passwords for government provided services such as email. The NSA is probably the highest up there with that.
You're forgetting: (c) parallel construction lead to the "simple police work" success.

It possible that this wasn't such a cut and dry case of police work, and instead the police were handed leads that came from the NSA work.
Videos from European Common Lisp Meeting 2013 (1st part)
I would be perfectly happy with in-flight phone calls being expressly prohibited without any technical justification. Can you imagine being forced to spend 6 or more hours next to someone with a bad case of glossolalia?
Steve Jobs: Top books to read
They've now replaced it with "You can make money without doing evil".

https://www.google.com/about/company/philosophy/ (point 6)

Presumably the written bit is "but that's not to say we won't anyway".
Apple, Microsoft Join Forces to Impede Progress
Show HN: A simple Perl script that displays swapped processes on a Linux box
Ask HN: What tools or frameworks needed to make a Pocket Trains Style App
The game is here : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pocket-trains/id635931971?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4
I am not talking about the pixel art style. Just the game style. (tycoon style i guess)
I have been watching on this CMS for some time, great job!
What are the files encrypted with? How does the recipient get the key to decrypt them?

2 gigs over a local network: your Dropbox stats show it slower than Drive. Why isn't Dropbox's lan sync working here?
He's probably more optimistic about democracy as a force for good, because the Western European governments he's familiar with have attained a closer approach to democracy than most of the rest of the world. In the US for example, the two-party system, most media being controlled by a few corporations, and general corruption make 99% essentially powerless to change anything.

The internet itself is a counterexample to his thesis, but does not disprove it in general. This technology took off before government could seize control, and it has taken 20 years for the forces of suppression to get a grip. And even today, secure communications are still (barely) possible despite the state efforts to surveil everything, because of technical workarounds of state/corporate power.
Ask HN: Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill Hacker News Meetup: Who's Interested?
Hey Hacker News readers in the Triangle! Who's interested in starting a monthly meetup? Is there one already? If not, send me an email if you're interested, and also reply to this thread. If I get enough interest, I'll arrange something and start another thread when we get a date and location.
To highlight the fact that this kind of posts gain traction on HN in the first place. Kinda shows how HN's audience has changed over the years. If only HN was curated or moderated more strictly, then this kind of posts wouldn't get far up the feed.
Interesting idea. Needs logic gates? I find the idea of a gate level ALU sew into a sheet of fabric to be intriguing. "My bed quilt is a working 8x8 hardware binary multiplier".

A game of life automaton in the form of a bedquilt would be interesting.

These strange ideas would seem to be a logical extension of the basic product concept.
When I was a kid we had kits for entire computers, radios, modems, test gear and stuff.

What happened to that?

Not impressed with flashing LEDs on string.

----

Edit: Add a rant as people seem to miss my point:

Well all the kit companies disappeared as people learned to assemble prefab stuff and purchase ready made consumer electronics made by the lowest bidder.

I'll probably get downvoted for this but...

My real problem is that people want a quick fix now rather than actually learning something or constructing something of complexity. About all you get now is someone plugging an LED into a prefab arduino and crudely hacking together some prefab C functions and it's the next best thing since sliced bread, requires a whole blog about it and much circle-jerking from the maker crowd about how this is the next greatest flashing LED contraption.

Put a 555 or a couple of transistors, capacitors, resistors on the table for a simple astable multivibrator and bricks will be shit. Even the basic maths for working out which resistor has to be used in series with an LED to limit current has to be canned in an iPhone app these days.

This is a cult of people assembling Ikea furniture, no more.
The rise of the sharing economy and what it means for you
Can anyone explain cases where the Monte Carlo optimizations wouldn't work in a distributed manner? Most of the examples of Monte Carlo that come to mind are path dependent pricings of financial instruments. That seems to be an easy one to distribute the computations. As long as each path gets it's own processor, you can average the prices at the end.

What's a good example of where this breaks down? I'm thinking weather simulations, but I don't know the domain well enough.
I've been wanting to learn Clojure and recently bought the book Clojure Programming (not to be confused with Programming Clojure) and I'm curious to know if others believe it is a good idea for a Clojure novice such as myself (lisp and JVM novice too) to use kibit while learning. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
What were your thoughts on XenForo?
Wifi on flights uses less battery, is likely faster, is a better fit for the small environments of flights, and because it bypasses the carrier routing (and business politics) should be faster and possibly more secure.

Im perfectly okay with having wifi instead of 4g.
Apparently people are upvoting the article without reading it, or have very bad reading comprehension.
$1 goal? Is this a project in need of funding or HN marketing ploy?

The product seems great. Not sure I see why it couldn't go on its own without the hype machine.
Julia has that: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/metaprogramming/
https://github.com/jbckmn/bckmnNode/blob/master/public/javas...

You'll need special permissions granted to access the real-time GA API, though. Wrote about it here: http://www.bckmn.com/blog/stark-lines
FizzBuzz is also extremely easy, yet somehow a lot of applicants seem to fail that. So, any running code would probably elevate you above people without any code.
Executable and Linkable Format (ELF)
Google, Microsoft modify search to exclude more child pornography results
Python Web Applications With Flask - Part I (updated)
having some of the largest rights-holders in the world identify your organization's destruction as a significant revenue opportunity puts you in a rather haphazard spot. if you don't have a war chest, you're not going to have a very fun war. we've all seen how these corporations have acted. they have been stockpiling legal weaponry and applying it belligerently for a decade. something about a lot of hammers and you look like a nail.
JS Library from Facebook, for building UI interfaces
Sadly, I've found it on rockpapershotgun. Sadly, for I bet no big media would ever get interested in this.
The files are encrypted with RSA using the recipient's public key. In other words, Infinit never has access to the transferred data.

We compare the file transfer feature (not synchronization) which is, with Dropbox, the right click -> get a link. The LAN sync only applies to the synchronized folders which is another use case.
I find LightTable to be a great tool when it comes to get a first impression of clojure. Installing, configuring and getting the grasp of emacs, or configuring Sublime Text with SublimeREPL can be a lot of hassle under Windows based OS. LightTable helped me to save a lot of time here.
David Cameron - My Commitment To A Safer Internet
Disdain is inappropriate, but so is automatic praise. The media wants to paint this picture that members of the military choose to serve for altruistic reasons and that we need to celebrate them all. This may be true for some, but I think the majority are in the military more-so because they think it's their best option for starting a career.

Additionally, the justness of military conflicts these days is far more questionable than in the past. Doesn't this make it reasonable to be more critical of the military as a whole?
> The problem is that a lot of people in Industry think they are hiring for analytical skill but they are really hiring for knowledge.

Completely agree. They'll toss the resume of someone who is an expert in graph theory, because they really need someone who knows machine learning, completely unaccepting of the fact that someone willing and able to become an expert in graph theory can probably do the same on machine learning.

This all plays into the current trend of businesses not being willing to train employees.
Thank you. It is always a work-in-progress, but it (hopefully) gets better with each release.
Oof. I must be in the minority here. That shiny, 3D logo looks pretty bad to me. Like, a 'New Super mario Bros' kind of bad.
Kibit looks neat, I haven't tried it. I think the generally applicable advice is to get comfortable with the core first, then add tools and libraries at the speed you're comfortable with, making sure that you understand what each component does.
The Bitcoin Delusion
Missing IE 11.
Search Twitter for “users.tar.gz”, then go and download the file.
I'll respond.

I've been an early adopter of most of the products google has made available. They're consistently ahead of the curve with only a few exceptions. Youtube is technologically ahead of the curve, talking about the bandwidth and processing that goes on within that service is mind numbing. But other than what they've managed to accomplish on a technical scale with the service, everything else has been lacking. First and foremost I would say that unifying sign in with the rest of Google's products is a no brainer. But people have even been fighting that on Youtube.

Google+ is their identity service, first and foremost so all accounts are being moved there. If you don't want to use the social aspects of it you don't have to. I'd suggest you do because it's really convenient.

They are investing a lot of money into context awareness. They already know who you are. What you search for, what you like, what you want to know. They know your name phone number and birth date. Putting this identity service into play just brings all of that up to the surface and gives you some control.

If Google wanted to be evil at this point they wouldn't need to give you Google+ to do it.
Roaming charges tend to be regulated in Europe so you will likely know what you will need to pay.
So I guess leet speak has evolved to such a place where traditional publications like the Washington Post are using it sincerely in their headlines.
This looks really, really good. the UX is pretty sleak.
I'm switching from Leaf to Sputick for a few days and see how it goes. Only needs some work on those media queries.
I think you're looking for Tindie https://www.tindie.com/
These are "assumptions" that almost zero real people actually assume.

No, that's pretty much the default assumption of the statist. It sounds like you just don't like the term.
Another point about kid vs adult socialization is as a HS kid approx 50% of my classmates were in my possible dating pool, whereas entering the adult world the possible dating pool evaporated to perhaps 1% or so of my coworkers and general social network, because so many are happily married, three times my age, sausagefest male:female ratio, whatever.

So showing off to your social network to get dating attention suddenly becomes pretty much worthless once you're not a kid anymore, which has a pretty big impact.
It's weird you say people can't be trusted. Do you really think that's true? Some people can be trusted. Some can't. People tend to follow based on charisma more than anything else. Unfortunately I think charisma is a really poor indicator of trustworthiness.
Having done both in my parallel life of animation, I can attest that hand drawn animation takes less time. :)

Having said that, there is a huge opportunity to make a good storyboard/animatic tool out there, because current solutions are, to be polite about it, shit.
A free, open, introduction to geo
Are these browser plugins? Are any browser plugin password generators secure enough to be used?
What would be fun is if planes formed their own 'Iridium' style network, communicating with the planes in front and behind them on their flight corridor, with airports as base stations. Only data need be carried (no voice) as who really wants people yapping away on a plane?
The transmitter on the plane would need to assume a plane roughly 100 miles or so in front, it would be roughly pointing in the right direction so the inverse square would apply to that, rather than the deal with the satellite where the 'bird' is 20000 or so miles away, at some angle above the equator, that has to be pointed at with some complicated servo arrangement. The TTL should be improved with an ad-hoc above the clouds network too.
Actually "Pravda" means justice. Not only in Russian but in other Slavic languages as well.
I note that the overtone jazz composition has been updated since this presentation was put together. :)
ugh, cos md5 squared is twice as secure as just once - why not md5 x 10 to be uber secure?