skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While several of the examples posted are egregious, I also find several not all that compelling.
Are all the tests canned? Wouldn't people be able to figure them out ahead of time and prepare the right answers?
Writing simple Winamp Plugin was my first C++ experience about 10 years ago and it was amazing.
Pinterest Launches a Travel Channel to Push Users from Inspiration to Booking
Annecdotal I know, however: pager duty is the only service we rely on that has yet to go down on us. These guys are solid!

I like that tip on how to simulate a slow network too.
SPDY is a good idea in general, but the average web site shouldn't be expected to see the same gains that a Google property (which is tuned like a mofo and which is usually hosted entirely through Google-controlled domains) will:

http://www.guypo.com/technical/not-as-spdy-as-you-thought/

HTTP's high-frequency back-and-forth shuffle is a good thing to eliminate, but most of the time, there are more serious bottlenecks somewhere else.

You can play with it easily enough in FF: set network.http.spdy.enabled to FALSE and see if Google News really seems any different to you as a human being.
The Hyper-Efficient, Highly Scientific Scheme to Help the World’s Poor
I don't think it's relevant to the point I was making especially if we both agree that one cannot, in fact, expect first amendment protection for falsely yelling fire in a theater.
I disagree. Haskell is notoriously hard to read if you're not experienced with the language. However, even ignoring the syntactic obscurity this is easier to understand if you're not too familiar with the langauge.

map _ [] = []
map myFunc (first:rest) = myFunc first : map myFunc rest
Show HN: I finally have a website
"Good artists copy, great artists steal."

That one?
Interesting that this is in London where the majority of office workers don't drive to work. Don't know if this would be as successful elsewhere in the world, where more people drive and hence would be reluctant to drink before driving home.
I'd be really interested to find how much money this guy has made since he setup this site.
A lot of these actually aren't bad.
Of course the surveillance is about control... It seems so obvious to me that I don't even give it much thought, but I think there are far too many variables affecting the current state of affairs, regarding the NSA, surveillance, etc. It wasn't just one event, one government administration, one legislative change or one technological advancement that got us into this mess. Several factors have converged to create the current police state, but I ask: Why are people suddenly so upset about finding out that the NSA has found an efficient means to surveil the populous when so many organizations have been doing this for years?

Nobody was getting upset when Google was reading your emails; Facebook was reading your private messages; Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile were tracking your calls and geo-locations... All for the sake of more efficiently marketing to you. Advertisement is just another form of control. They don't tell you or force you to do or not do something, they just efficiently convince people to part with their money and make those people think that it was their own idea to do so all along.

All these concerns come down to whether we collectively think these practices are right or wrong, and it is becoming more difficult to make these judgements without a bias and it's difficult to continually evaluate whether your bias has been externally affected by these business practices.

The reason why nothing is truly being done about this massive theft of privacy is because people are complacent with the idea. We can't truly get upset that our governments are taking away our privacy when we have been giving it away to private corporations and religious organizations for so long.
The about page made me laugh, it's worth a look...
http://www.horriblelogos.com/about/
Deep Web: The Untold Story of BitCoin and The Silk Road
This part is a little weird to me:

"Let’s be extremely generous and say that, on average,	3,000 Americans die every year from terror attacks [...]

The government has yet to prove one credible example of a legitimate terror plot that was prevented thanks to mass surveillance. If they want to insist that spying makes us safer, this would be good information to know."

Is that not evidence that to some degree, the surveillance works to keep terrorism down? One of the biggest deterrents to committing a crime is the certainty of getting caught. I realize that people have blogged about how to circumvent a lot of the security making it seem pointless, but I assume even the appearance of security would make it seem like less of an appealing idea to a would-be terrorist.

EDIT: I should say "interesting" rather than "weird." This post is assuming the psychology of a terrorist is similar to a white collar or petty criminal, which obviously isn't always the case. But maybe it's not too much of a stretch to say it doesn't stop senseless violence or serial killers from committing similar acts of terror.
Also

http://www.horriblejingles.com/
In case you skipped the article it contains this nugget:

Take this example containing functional composition and higher-order functions:

reduce(operator.add, 0, map(function(x) return x^2 end, range(n)))

LUA converts this into 10 lines of assembler (2 jumps). Also, the LUA compiler is directly generating SSE.

Anyone have any good benchmarks comparing simple functional examples in LUA with Clojure or Common Lisp?
Isn't it more banal and just people using budgets and extending their influence within the community that decides the funding? Bad metrics create weird outcomes, etc.

Pick any government agency at random. You'll find weird spending, baffling ideas, inefficiencies, power struggles with other agencies, etc. That agency will try to define their role in a way that maximises the money they need to do that job and that claims authority for that particular area.

I imagine the NSA feels fine about what they do. They probably have a bunch of techniques that they've rejected as being too intrusive or too constitution-violating. Something about "Overton Window" fits here - you hear about Guantanomo and you think "Hey, we're not torturing people like they do there, so we're better".

Add weak oversight, and a favourable exploitable atmosphere about a bogeyman ("THE COMMUNISTS!" "TERRORISTS!" "DRUGS!") and it's easy to see how an agency ends up going too far.

Going too far if you regulate children's play areas or the size of holes in fishnets doesn't mean much. Obviously, going too far when you're NSA ends up with a really bad situation.
Awesome initiative. I sincerely hope this triggers an avalanche for more to follow for the sheer betterment of the hacker community worldwide.

Thanks.
Wow. It look really, really nice. And the "irregular" handwriting effect is just subtle enough that it adds just a bit of nice "texture". A friendly-looking monospaced font is not something I ever expected to see! The spacing and balance is perfect.

It looks great, I'm tremendously impressed, and could easily see this become a standard font for showing code excerpts in blogs etc., especially.

Plus, pretty hilarious name. :)
Sports startup funding round is 1.5 million validations for Squadio
It is very cool to open source your software. That being said, I'd recommend you work with a native English speaker on your marketing if you plan to pursue another startup. The copy writing on the marketing site is bad enough that your code never mattered.
I think it's more about money. Wherever there's an opportunity to do the following: 1) make money and 2) keep control of the flow of money, there are people who would do it at the expense of others.

I see this in Congress and a lot of government leaders not just within NSA.

Look at Treasury, DEA, etc for examples.
I used to live with a designer who independently came up with many ideas that we ended up seeing show up over the years. He had come up with this video idea of people's thoughts bubbling over their heads, nothing special, and in the short term a Toronto Dominion bank commercial had the exact same thing. Many designers read/resource all the same sites, it's no wonder there are similar designs. I figure this explains some of the "less compelling" duplicates, perhaps it was just people thinking along the same lines?
Looks like several cases of drunk.
I don't think I said (and know that I didn't mean to imply) that excess methionine causes cancer.

Methionine restriction by avoiding methionine rich foods doesn't strike me as harmful at all, since there's still plenty in even a vegan diet. And in my case, I said pseudo-vegan -- it's more a mindset than dogma.
>"Ramp up"
How is this 22/hour? It says 105,000 per year which @ 40/week is roughly $50 an hour.. Also, I have 2.5 years web dev experience, and sadly only earning $15 an hour currently, not too many Rails/Laravel jobs here in Dayton, OH.
The difficulty with proving bleeding edge results in mathematics is normally not that the question is particularly advanced or difficult to understand, but rather that if it had an easy solution, then it would likely have been solved by now.

The only times I can think of where this is not the case is after a major, yet easy to understand, discovery makes a lot of formerly hard problem easy, or a field of mathematics that is either young enough, or uninteresting enough that it has not yet had significant time devoted to it.
Ask HN: Best way to do user authentication for web application?
A team of developers and myself are designing a web application and I am in charge of user authentication. I want to provide options such as Facebook Connect and OpenID via Google, Yahoo, etc., but we also need our own authentication method if no one wants to use either of those options. I really really want to avoid password authentication, but if I have to I will do it. Do you think SRP would be a better option, or is there something I am overlooking that would be easier for the user? Thanks
Heh, I'm listening to the album in their first screenshot. Gotta be a good sign.
Yeah, makes you wonder if the 'horrible' part is just his angle.
I am a native English speaker. I appreciate that the marketing site is lacking in a lot of ways, but I didn't see my English as part of that problem.
Which in itself is attributed to many - I first heard it via Stravinsky, but apparently it's not Picasso's either.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/06/artists-steal/
There was no ramping up of mass surveillance because of OWS.
If there was an explanation of what it does in natural language (which is often done on many wikpedia articles) then it would be fine. Even just the ability to copy and paste the symbols into google would be great, but it's just an image, and a non-math person won't know what they are called.

I still think that raw math is unnecessarily cryptic and unhelpful, even when I understand the symbols fine. It's like reading source code without comments or named variables or indentation of any kind. Actually that's pretty much exactly what it is.
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. For one thing, I didn't put enough energy into any of the non-dev aspects of the project. Also, I started writing the code before I had really validated the product properly. I had some recruiters which were interested, but most eventually turned out to dislike the idea of scaring away their prospects with tests, and didn't see it adding enough value. It was even harder to market to individual companies looking to hire.
Facebook bug bounty: secondary damage bugs and fairness
Reflections... interesting perception
Peter Pawlowski's work on Foobar2000 is / was great. Winamp did the trick, but after 2.95 it lost me.

That said, it's sad to see the name go.
Winamp was better than Burger King.
Leonardo Da Vinci's piano heard for the first time after 500 years
Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund
How could that possibly be effective?
The code samples are just bad and many are very outdated. I generally just read the header comments now and hit SO if I need more.
One of the biggest deterrents to committing a crime is the certainty of getting caught.

Maybe for you, personally, but not for a genuine terrorist.

Saying that domestic spying deters someone with a deep hatred of a country from committing an act of terrorism is like saying that gun laws reduce gang violence.

There is just no way to deter the will of sufficiently motivated person or group of people.
I thought most wikipedia articles use a "where..." beneath every equation explaining the symbols. I could be wrong though
Couldn't someone use that to send false orders and then leave them there until they are cancelled? in order raise the price?
Would like to see it closer up in construction and operation.
Java may be going nowhere fast as a language, but the JVM isn't going away anytime soon.
Can narrow it down pretty quickly.

168 pages * 10 per page = 1,680 (there appear to be 200 jingles or so)

It's likely most people are buying the $5 or $10 version, with a bias toward the $5. Generous $7 per * 1,680 = $11,760

And if you had to ballpark it overall: $10k to $15k.

The only way that isn't a good ball park estimation, is if he's doing a lot that aren't getting posted to the site.

An interesting comp would be the I Want To Draw a Cat For You guy: http://iwanttodrawacatforyou.com

He has done 14,300 in three years (at $10+ per). Cat guy is of course treating it more like a business, and likely has a broader appeal (cats / pets vs logos).
I tried this, but it was never quite great. I'm very happy with Clementine which is cross-platform for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Sure thing. I love open source and we had no reason to make it closed source. We've been open source from day one.
Uh, actually I work in the SF and Valley tech scene and know it intimately and extensively. You somehow want to have us believe this is a widespread and accepted practice - it's not among any reputable groups.

The liability issues alone make "listing" drinking alcohol at work during or after office hours as a "job perk" even more moronic.

But do feel free to list right here on HN the startups who proudly list beer drinking during office hours on office premises as a "perk".

There are many of us who do business in the tech world who will consider that a public service announcement of organizations to avoid doing business with.
Affordable voice-controlled robotic arm mounted on a wheelchair
Bits of this remind me of nvd3.js

http://nvd3.org
I agree, but which designs on the subbed site are less compelling?
I am probably naive, but I still doubt the ability of the US Government or even the National Security State (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security#National_secu...) to be tightly wound enough to advance together to attack our civil liberties in concert. Look at what a mess they've created in other aspects of nat'l policy.

Rather, I believe this slow but steady institutional creep against our civil liberties is mostly the work of independent bureaucrats who realize that by expanding their individual silos of power (i.e., expanding what their departments surveil and parse), they're a) keeping open the funding spigot, b) expanding their personal power and c) solidifying their job security. "National defense," since 1776, but especially since World War 2, has always been a bi-partisan rallying cry, after all.

In practice, the guys who get on TV (also known elected leaders), try as they might, have very little control over what actual policy is implemented in the realm of national security. They're just appealing to our most base instincts to remain elected, I think.
They brought MP3s to the masses. RIP.
Quite a few of these follow established design principles while remaining creative, quirky, and unique.
Of course it's an angle. You can't sell "not bad" without an angle.
Every Politician in DC Deserves to Be Shot in the Head
Yes/No?
GPS now to monitor Boston police department
Finding Your Way with Sass Sourcemaps
This in combination with vistaprint/etc has virtually limitless options for ~$25-per-printed-item.
mpd with ncmpc has brought my music very close to me - just a couple of keystrokes away.

Regarding Winamp, I've always loved it's tagline "Winamp kicks the llama's ass" (or was it butt?).
Because its your own post. . .
Tim Minchin had something to say about this ("if you open your mind too much your brains will fall out"):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFO6ZhUW38w

I doubt I'll change your mind in one post, but: Eminem's music, Eminem's culture is the exact opposite of the entrepreneurial enlightenment culture that breeds success.
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I couldn't resist buying one for a friend who low balls be to do graphic design.
All the USB ports should be sealed with epoxy...
Is that not evidence that to some degree, the surveillance works to keep terrorism down?

Look, all this talk about surveillance is a red herring.

Since 9/11, I've been diligently praying to Zoltar the Space God every day, begging him to put a stop to Islamic terrorism on American soil.

And as you point out, it's been working great. The lack of attacks is evidence that to some degree, Zoltar is powerful and benevolent.
This is really excellent, thank you.
China and the soaring price of Bitcoin
Can you elaborate on how you're gauging success for your project?
if bitcoin were such a great currency mofos like u wouldn't have to constantly compare it to USD just to figure out how much it's supposedly worth. If i sold you a magic rock and told you it's value would be multiplied by 10 every year you'd fk me with a splintered baseball bat.

yet this is bitcoin, so people believe because... well because they've wasted so much damn time and money setting up server rigs to solve contrived hash equations. real currencies don't have to incentivize/trick their user-base in order to grow
Isn't his math incorrect at the 10% value?

He solves for $2,3809.52, shouldn't it be $238,095.20?
To your last point, I guess I would say that it seems like it would put a heavy burden on the police to regulate all activity that we would make illegal. Can you imagine a beat cop driving his car out to the farm to verify if illegal antibiotics were being used? The example is purposefully ridiculous, obviously.

If we create a specialized arm of the police who specialize in things like air pollution, crops, etc, are we not just recreating the same government entities that are being railed against?
Bitcoin price is heavily influenced by public interest, which will show up in Google Trends and some other places

I used Trends, MtGox order data and a few other variables plugged into a spreadsheet that I updated every hour to successfully trade through the last Apr-March bubble and exit 6-12 hours from the top[0].

It doesn't work as well during this price hike, since the growth is coming from places that we can't see as well and aren't as transparent.

[0] https://twitter.com/nikcub/statuses/321811312587972609
CMU to start NYC campus
yea well of course... the early adopters want to convince the whole world to buy bitcoin, they just have to make that dare seem convincing. Hope for his sake he takes his money out before the bitcoin apocalypse hits
Well, as of earlier today, there are 8,947 media blobs on the site. Additionally, we recently hit 100k uniques [1] over the lifetime of the site, and a few thousand today alone. We maintain this level of traffic fairly consistently. Of course, we're still getting started. The site is only a few months old.

[1] We publish reports, including analytics, here: https://mediacru.sh/transparency/

EDIT: Original post title: "We open-sourced our successful startup"
The current zoom tool is a scroll wheel zoom, not a box selection zoom. Guessing that might be the issue since others have run into the ambiguous description as well. It will be labeled more precisely in master in a few days and in the next release as well.

If that is not the issue, please file a ticket on GitHub!
Define "helping out / getting involved", since that is obviously not the same as "free". It's important to be clear on expectations up front so neither you nor those who take you up on your offer feel taken advantage of.

Free is great, but it may require someone giving up on a decent housing situation and then have to find an alternative situation if things don't work out between them and you. When that happens, they are left trying to find a new housing situation in a city notorious for low housing availability.
Awesome, thanks for sharing! Cheers
It's the serifs. Kerning you can get away with if the letter spacing isn't egregiously small, but in this case the letters are practically touching.

Some people find it easier to process, but I never found out why.
Another option is to look at credible free lance sites such as odesk, elance etc. Generally you can search for contractors with 1) top notch past feedback in projects of area you are looking for 2) scores on relevant tests on those websites 3) Interview candidate and possibly assign a paid test job.
too thin...courier old is easier to read no?
To the person who downvoted this, care to explain why? I would expect Alan Kay to agree with this.

The 1-to-1 relationship is the reason we have "div hell".
Ah, fond memories of downloading MP3's via irc DCC :)
Do you know why crocodiles have red eyes? Well, that's to hide in tomato plants! Have you ever seen a crocodile in a tomato plant? Never? Yeah... Because they are impossible to spot.
I'm in India, still a student, and I can only speak for the situation in my university, but in my class, a 80%+ student once asked me how to disable the antivirus. Another 80%+ student thinks cryptography and email spoofing are the same thing. This is from last year CS graduates in one of the better private colleges in the state.

A student in IT uses google to search for google, then uses that to search for facebook.
Another good student couldn't write a "separate the digits in a number" program.
Another top student couldn't write a "selection sort and then select alternate elements" program.
The top nerds use drag and drop programming.
A friend who runs an IT outsourcing company told me about all the candidates with fake experience certificates who can't code a Hello World program.

All these people have impressive academic records - Good GPA, graduation from a reputed university, research papers, internships.

That's not to say everyone's like that, I've seen great programmers too in my college, but the majority of people I've come across fall in that category.
I think the operating profit for Oct[1] should have a negative in front of it.

[1] https://mediacru.sh/transparency/2013-11-01-Financial-summar...
i like your post
Thanks for pointing that out. I'll fix it up shortly.
Coinbase has talked about fraud a few times. They obviously have a strong interest in preventing fraud, since they would be left holding the bag, if a massive price spike were followed by a massive drop.

They reportedly prevent about 3% of orders from going through for that reason (and I seem to recall there was someone complaining about it here in a previous HN thread, as they'd run into the fraud filters and couldn't place an order as rapidly as they wanted).

They also limit less verified accounts to buying (I think) 1BTC per day, so someone doing it to manipulate the market (rather than simply by BTC fraudulently) would need to create hundreds or thousands of fraudulent accounts, back them up with a US bank account (or some other supported funding source), and then get past the fraud filters.

To raise the daily buying limit you have to verify a credit card, and perform other verification steps. I think it's more careful than my bank about security; at least on the surface.
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