skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Confession: I am a novice to clojure/scheme/JVM myself.)

I admit that I have not tried kibit yet. However, LightTable/REPL is a great tool for this endeavour. If only clojure could have an error tracking report that would be comparable to the wonderful implementation that can be found with the python IDLE.. but I guess that is too much to ask?
Bitcoin at the US Senate : Bitcoin
Bay Area Floating Office Plans a Voyage
> it also limits information and analysis for China’s decision makers

In China, the officials read Internal References(, which is not to be mistaken for the Reference News, which is openly published by Xinhua News Agency, and can be browsed at public bulletin for free as it usually publishes translated and selected articles from foreign news agencies to support the propaganda, IMHO). These 'Internal References' provides news from home and abroad for certain officials with respective clearances and the subjects discussed may be sensitive and critical. You can try to imagine a printed version of Bloomberg Service provided by the System. So it may be too naive to get the conclusion that decision makers have insufficient information.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_News

2 https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/参考资料_(出版物)
Sorry, I replied above. Here is my response:

"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."
If you're looking for an engine for mobile games, checkout Unity3D and Corona
Composing a 3D scene is a lot like composing software. The objects in the scene are like individual functions that were authored separately for a specific purposes. Some 3D objects can be reused in other scenes, and sometimes it's only specific to that scene. Over time you build up a catalog of objects, textures, and characters, just as a software developer builds up a catalog of code objects. The action in the scene is the execution of the program, and the camera's view is where the output of the program is being directed to. And just as software has bugs and hacks, so too 3D scenes have glitches, shortcuts, hacks, and areas that are under construction.
Show HN: a threaded forum in ~200 lines of js (not counting firebase)
Since the post about the collaborative excel spreadsheet earlier that ran with Firebase I wanted to do something in it because it seemed pretty awesome. So here is a pretty basic threaded forum which supports user-created rooms.

And yes, anybody can delete any post or even the rooms as well... have fun?
Facebook, Still Dominant, Strives to Keep Cachet
You can't trust technocrats half as far as you can throw corrupt politicians. If you don't recognize the add-nothing-greed-crowd within the start-up community as a different arbitreur looking to supplant one unfairly unbalanced system with another where all bitcoins flow to them instead... you are missing the bigger picture of humanity within a single system inspired drugged up on egalitarianism or subverting the hegemony.

Politics, even when done behind closed doors or in the woods requires real people to commit real acts. Technocrats alter reality in ways, which to most people, which are equivalent to black magic inside an incomprehensible device connected to an incomprehensible network of related devices...
How the Nephew of Computer Science Royalty Remade Twitter
I guess it's time for me to upgrade to an all-grain setup. It would be nice if you could choose between all-grain or extract kits for your subscription, though.
It took me years to get used to people going "how are you doing?" and just walking straight past me. To me, it seemed exceptionally rude - I'd stop, and start answering the question, but the person had just walked on. It took a while to realise that in some places it is just a greeting, and much longer to not have to consciously remind myself about that...
Has there been any clarification on the tax treatment of gains from trading Bitcoins? If I bought at $100 and sold at $300 is the $200 gain treated as income or capital gains?
Sydney Opera House to devs: build our app for free, wear patent pain
Flotsam, jetsam and texting postboxes (Driftwood by Tom Armitage)
I think they're just using Crowd Supply as a way to set up a simple pre-order system.
Google doing A/B test with Ad results
Just noticed that today. Google is experimenting with different ways of showing ads on their search results..
There are a lot of economists that would argue that deflationary spirals don't actually occur, mainly Chicago and Austrian School economists.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "error tracking report" in IDLE? Either I'm missing something cool about IDLE or I am totally misunderstanding. Thanks!
I was a Google Reader user too. When it was shutdown, Feedly[1] came to the rescue in a very nice, and free, way.

[1] http://cloud.feedly.com/#welcome
You Can't Outsource Your CTO
I've wondered for awhile about this. Having lived through the first wave of tech companies, where the idea of perks was bagel wednesday and free coffee, I find myself a bit amused at the naked desire to own employees' entire lives.

As I worked with more milennials I think I've stumbled across something, and Google (consciously?) tapped into it, brilliantly. The children of the baby boomers, so eager to use social networking, or live in communes in the city (see yesterday's SF Gate) are so willing to believe in this shell of an idea passed down from their parents. They are much more social and communal than us in generation X. They're often morally adrift (religious worship is declining), financially adrift (the economy), and grew up with tales of free love. They're delicately raised to have great self esteem, but often crumble in the face of adversity or criticism. They're a brittle group, it seems. So the social nature (if my friends do it, it's ok) makes them so eager to buy into this.

I can't say it's a new concept. I remember showing up to work at big mega tech corp at 8 am (after a 1 hour commute) and being told "nice of you to show up today." I routinely worked 12 hours a day and we were never allowed to work from home. There it was forced on us, but how ever so much nicer to just gently slide into being a company man with free food, etc. Sort of like the Matrix.

That said, daycare is an important perk, I cannot deny Google the kudos it deserves for caring for parents who work for them. More companies should do this.
We do Brew In A Bag, which is about as simple as all-grain gets. It's a one-vessel brew setup, just like extract. If you're moving from extract to AG, I'd definitely suggest Brew In A Bag as a stepping-stone.
Seems your product is defining your own model/rig/animation standard in Alembic container. So do you offer C++ accessing library?

Also, for the clara.io, can I access all the data from local native programs using the API? I mean GUI-less console programs.
OpenPandora dissolved, as company runs out of money
> On the other hand, there's good reason to believe that terrorism is directed against us because we're continually pointing guns in their direction.

There's a better reason to believe that terrorism is directed at us more because of our history and continuing practice of direct support for both repressive regimes that are unpopular with large segments of their own* population in the Middle East and Central Asia than because of our military specifically (though, particulary post-9/11, our use of the military has played directly into the same animosity.)

(* or, in the case of Israel specifically, a population that they simultaneously claim is not their own and disclaim interest in governing, but nevertheless seek to control every aspect of.)

> Can it be that the military is both the problem and its own solution?

Its a secondary aspect (as discussed above) of the problem, as well as a treatment for the symptoms that doesn't actually solve anything.

Sure, we need to have a military for defensive purposes. But the US doesn't maintain military spending at a level that rivals the rest of the world combined for anything resembling "defensive" purposes, it does so to maintain global hegemony and the ability to dictate policy in a wide range of domains to countries all over the world.

That's not to say it didn't come out of a legitimate, even defensive, place -- much of it was necessary, though one may certainly debate particular aspects, during the Cold War to counterbalance the attempts led by the Soviet Union to export Stalinism. But with that enemy defeated, the military-industrial complex is now more about serving domestic commercial interests -- both those that have are part of the military industrial complex and dependent on military spending directly, and those that through more traditional lobbying seek to have preferred policies imposed both domestically and globally.
Work Can Wait
This is awesome. You should bundle this with https://github.com/zachfeldman/wordpress-haml-sass for a completely modern WordPress dev flow!
Most Monte Carlo methods used to calculate Bayesian posterior distributions are iterative, you can't parallelize each draw since it depends on the previous draw. Moreover, each draw depends on a function of all the data, so if your data is larger than can be stored on a single computer it gets complicated.

This paper doesn't look like it has a magic solution though. It seems to propose an adhoc sharding approach and then shows it sometimes works.
These guys had a launch party this past weekend, which I happened to attend. (I used to work in wine, so I try to keep in the loop when new stuff is coming out.)

I was surprised at how polished these kits were, with complete and thorough documentation, exactly the equipment one needs, etc. I signed up.

There are a lot of folks doing subscription $products, which is theoretically great (as a business you get paid every month) though I wonder what the attrition rate will be given how (relatively) labor-intensive this is. (I once signed up for Blue Apron, of those "kitchen in a box" subscriptions. But even that was a bit advanced and cumbersome for my awful knife skills, so I cancelled after the first month.)

Best of luck to you all!
Getting up the next morning if you use too much is difficult, but in my experience it's almost the opposite of a hangover; instead of the world seeming horrible and impossible to face, my bed is simply the most wonderful place I can imagine being. Keeping a caffeine pill next to the bed can be an effective countermeasure.
People already tried: http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/e17&l=en
Strongly recommend giving Feedbin a go (http://feedbin.me) - only $3 per month and a great client (plus a number of mobile and desktop apps to choose from).
Are there any plans for a Firefox extension?
Perhaps we overvalue ourselves

That is one side of the problem. The other side is, many many people (especially engineers) undervalue themselves, think that they aren't worth much etc. It is super hard to precisely know what our value is, and act/live in such a way that it is neither arrogant/proud/pompous nor doormat/depressed.

May be we should stop measuring value/worth through sheer abilities, achievements and things owned?
0 0 * * * brew update
so I can buy them as a cheaper price point and the current market gain is just people buying to making 10% gains daily and not really to use the coins as currency.
Bitcoin Goes to Washington Today
I wondered the same, and it's actually answered on the page:

Why is our funding goal just $1?

Chibitronics is an academic research project. The work to develop this technology will proceed whether or not others would like to participate in our research project. Although the circuit stickers featured in this campaign have been produced in small volumes, they were produced using techniques suitable for mass production -- we are "prototyping in production". If just one person backs this project, we're still perfectly happy to build and ship a single unit, yet we have the process scalability to meet virtually any demand.

It's a bit weird, but I guess they're using it basically to measure demand and size the initial order(s).
My mother's high school class of men were almost entirely killed in Vietnam.

She told me this and i'll never forget it: "hate the war, hate the government, but never, ever hate the soldier." Just don't do it. It's disrespectful to the sacrifice so many make, every day.

Not to mention in the world we live in the USA, most of the people in the military are from poor families, simply because they have no other choice and the army gets them an education.

We will always have an army, would you rather it be through conscription or volunteer?
Uhh...what? Maybe somebody just posted this because it's interesting to hackers.

Which is kindof the point of hacker news, isn't it?
Are You Too Old For A Mentor?
‘Rape porn’ possession to be punished with 3 years in jail in the UK
Do you think that somebody took all that stuff and buried it all underground?

Go buy it if you want it.
Sorry, what I meant was the TraceBack. It helped a great deal when learning programming and hunt those nasty bugs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/wuschel/Desktop/error-track.py", line 3, in <module>
newstrin = teststrin + 3
TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects

In clojure, you get those error reports in java lingo - I don't know how fast you can get use to that kind of error messages when you do not know Java. Now, this one is obvious, but it just should serve as an example:

clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException:
java.lang.RuntimeException: clojure.lang.Compiler$CompilerException: java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol: b in this context, compiling:(null:4:1)
And each software tool you use is a (really, really complex) library - and just like libraries in coding, some of them require quirky inputs, or have wierd restrictions, or randomly crash on a Tuesday.
2014 to be an eventful year for SSL
That decrements your lives. You have three of them so you won't die until it touches the ground the third time.
Social Media Benchmarking: How To Analyze Your Competitors In Three Steps
If it's for commercial use, use the contact form.

Otherwise, its 3 free for noncommercial web site use upon joining and low pricing, like $2.50 a pop, thereafter. WebAPI use is considered commercial, has many more features, and a boatload more for release soon. So use the contact form for for WebAPI.

Disclosure: I'm the founder.

Here's an example of what we're hustling to make public: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0vewo3j3k6326fn/Obama%20Auto-lip-s...
Apple’s ground-breaking bet on its clean energy infrastructure
The main reason is that it is so legible and readable, and assumes less of the reader than contemporary ML papers.
This seems silly to dig this deeply into this text but in what you quoted he clearly is also stating that it is possible to 'beat politics with technology'. The color of his statements are not that politics always "wins". Whatever "wins" means in this scenario.
Authentic8's SILO: The ultimate security solution
Find me the set of people who self-consciously refer to themselves as statists. Not the ones who say "statist" if asked explicitly, "Are you statist or anarchist?", but the ones who actually wave the word "statist" as their own flag for an official ideology of Statism.

You can't. The word is used solely by anarchists to mean "everyone who's not an anarchist", except that the left-anarchists decided they had more common cause with non-anarchist socialists and dropped it. Thus, the only people using the term "statist" of their own initiative are minarcho-capitalists, who use it to mean, "Everyone who's not us."

There is no such party as the Statist Party. There is, however, such a thing as Every Party But the Libertarian Party, which is what "statist" actually means.

The word is thus empty of specific semantic meaning, and is simply a smear-word used by minarcho-capitalists.
That post is rather tone-deaf about the same circumstances in the USA. Yes, China is a lot less refined and advanced about how it controls message and impression, but it's behind in many aspects, one of which is propaganda and state control. The USA is the reigning master of propaganda and image fostering; it is, essentially, even an official technique of our foreign and domestic policy.

I can't stand people who blatantly and ignorantly lack anything even remotely like self-awareness.
No offense taken :)

The information in question though, is buried in the about page, as the last category, with a title of Personal Information. If the information in a category is not interesting, just read the title and keep going.
Homage to Wolfenstein 3D in 20 lines of JavaScript (2008)
I'm a cynic and conspiracy theorist, but I can't help but wonder if this tribe of amazon merchants found a source for "new" DVDs that was too good to be true, and looked the other way while passing them to amazon.

Your cynicism may or may not be justified in this particular case, but as a general principle it's not a great idea to be an Amazon supplier. It's too easy for Amazon to say "screw you" or for buyers to scam you, as I discovered the proverbial hard way: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/is-amazon-coms-mark... .
That's the challenge of any subscription service, I think. Especially with perishable goods product loss is a real problem. But hey--what's the point of doing something easy? :).
Crate is something I'm going to be using much more in the near future - great piece of software. I didn't use it on a recent facial animation project ( the one I talk about in the article, actually ) and I subsequently regretted that decision.

I must admit, though, I'm not entirely sold on Clara yet - I don't quite see how it's going to benefit my workflow more than having systems sitting on my local network.

When you say "web-accessible with nice APIs", do you mean I can query them at a code level and get out streams of geometry data or similar?
An anonymous commenter hits the nail on the head:

"This needs to stop - creative types (photographers, musicians, etc.) have already been dragged into borderline poverty by the cheapening of their profession, now developers and other tech savvy types are going to cut themselves off at the knees for the "opportunity" to put something on their CV.

The response from the community should be this, "If the management of the Opera House are willing to forsake their own salaries, then we will provide our time for free too". When every other profession is willing to forsake the ability to keep a roof over their heads, maybe then we should accept it, until then its the middle finger for these sorts of requests."
you posted this pretty quick after the article. come back after a day to see if it actually turns out that way :)
A cloud safe from the NSA's prying eyes
Could someone (perhaps the submitter) explain why this is expected to be of interest to the HN community?
thing is if you take a modern language and add s-expressions, then you may as well add macros and at that point there's a good chance it just became a lisp

If you go here (http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html) and search for the heading 'What Made Lisp Different' it may better explain it
I'm with you. I was recruited by them just after the IPO. During the interview process I was also close to an offer from another company, and I mentioned this. I was told the process would take up to six weeks and it wouldn't change.

I was then told by the recruiter that "it would be unfortunate" if I had to abandon the recruiting process because I'd gotten another job offer. I said, "unfortunate for whom? Certainly not for me."

The last straw was when I found out that you don't get to meet your manager before you accept the job, or do know exactly what you'd be doing; and that was a deal killer. Your manager IS your job or certainly your happiness in it. I walked away, and have never been happier about that decision.
Quite impressive, but I guess I will have to test it to make sure it's not just marketing ;)
I don't mean to be rude here, but

"If it's for commercial use, use the contact form."

kind of says to me "if you have to ask, you can't afford it".

Is that an accurate hypothesis on my part? I make indie animation, but it's not all non-commercial.
That is primarily a git thing. And the reason is that your main assertion was not true for the primary developer of git. "The project is what we are interested in: the Python or C++ or LaTeX or whatever" was not the case for Linus, messing with VCS and patchsets is precisely what he was interested in, that's basically all he does.
The Epiphany logo really expressed "web browser" for me — not beautiful, mind you, but expressive. Other than that, I'm with you.
go to link11 (www.link11.de) they host servers and have ddos protection, which works pretty well.
Technology might be the only thing that can drive lasting (as opposed to cyclical or chaotic) political change.
Brand search as an optimization problem
Give me some JavaScript projects/webapp ideas. You can share your projects too
I'm sure this is not developers fault. I'm sure it's management.
if my memory is correct this is because they don't have access to $password; they get md5($password) from the client and to store that in the database with a salt need to run md5() again.
Reminds me of the idea to prohibit actors who don't look like 18 from doing pr0n.
Reddit is Growing Slowly, but Surely
So that's a huge jump from Concentration Camp behavior to tagging your instagram photos with "YOLO".

Just thinking out loud, but I wonder how much of this is due to an entire generation basically reaching the end of the escalator and not being sure what to do after that. In my personal experience, my peers tend to have had their entire lives set up for them.

Starting at 3 years old, kids are placed into the appropriate school (preschool through college). Everything is formulaic: join a club or two in high school, pick a college, etc. I feel like the majority of my peers have yet to have made a real decision when they graduate college at ~22.

Now suddenly they're "grown ups". It's time to get a job and be independent. But their entire lives have really been set up for them: all they've had to do is to execute the given plan. And all of a sudden they have to find meaning rather than just live up to some challenge placed on them by parents / teachers / what-have-you.

It's a tough transition, I imagine! The ride's over, now where do you go?

Note: I use the third person because I feel that I've been fortunate enough to have been rather independent and made my own decisions for quite some time. Maybe everyone feels that way?
I heard a story recently about a Caterpillar vehicle being made in Mexico.

Headquarters couldn't figure out why the BOM was costing so much, so they flew an engineer down there to figure out what the problem was.

Turns out most of the locally sourced parts and raw materials were being purchased at a significant premium - from friends of some of the local managers.
These calculators aren't just pulled from thin air, they use studies of various populations over time to derive a mathematical model that predicts the cardiovascular risk of a patient. The article is pretty muddled but it appears that two authors of a commentary in the Lancet are arguing with which studies were included in making the models. The big problem is that the commentary hasn't been published yet so there's no way to evaluate whether their criticisms are valid or not. So long story short, this is a crummy summary of an article that we're not able to read yet so not really worth your time.
A comparison against BTSync would be nice.