skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently I was standing in a ridiculously long line, waiting to vote. I was using my phone to get some work done while I was waiting in the line and a very old woman behind me in line was mouthing off to another person waiting, "Can you believe these people using their phones all the time? I mean, get a life." She made sure to say it so loud that all 300+ people in line (including me) could hear it.

I just chose to ignore her while I continued working. Being able to work in a line while waiting to vote allows me to spend more time away from the office and with my kids. The elderly lady behind me lives in a very small world and doesn't understand people have different circumstances than her.

Reading this submission makes me put 37signals into the same category as the rude old lady that was standing behind me in line.
Yeah its not like we have to have a man with a red flag walking in front of our cars any more.

Technology does change society and politics the widespread introduction of the bicycle is supposed to have reduced the instance in inbreeding as you could more easily go courting in a nearby village.
I suppose HMV executives will obviously have to go to prison for posessing copies of Deliverance, A clockwork orange and Mad Max to name a couple.

Makes me think of: http://i.imgur.com/vEqEHxP.jpg
We're a small company, and want to provide a quality service. Any commercial use will undoubtedly require some level of support, and we want to assess those getting commercial access to insure we can support them successfully. We're not expensive by any means. We just don't want to be flooded and then have to tell users we're overwhelmed. Plain and simple.
Coin and the Pending Crowdfunding Backlash
I think (s)he meant, "Praying to god it doesn't break down on me again" while driving.
I would definitely love help! I'm still figuring out logistics, when I get to deciding on a team, I'll definitely contact you. Thanks!
If all of your team is in a single location, the primary benefits of Clara (IMO) are:

- simultaneous editing

- player links: makes it much easier to show off work in progress to co-workers/bosses/clients

- VRay in the cloud: don't pay & maintain a render farm that sits idle most of the time

- no licensing hassles

Of course, it's once your team is distributed in more than one location that Clara really starts to shine.
I agree. I served 4+ years in the Army and was deployed as part of OEF. I'm uncomfortable with the automatic praise; it's definitely not why I signed up.

However, given a choice I'd prefer that the scale remain tipped towards praise instead of neglect or ignorance.

It's true, not all Soldiers serve altruistically, but they serve nonetheless. It's fine to question the intent of our government, military, and its officers, but try to remember that for the most part, Soldiers are forced to follow orders or face jail time, and they are constantly reminded of this.

The recruitment pitch is vastly different from the reality. I remember many Tuesdays where we'd spend the day sweeping the motor pool, wondering if we really deserved the praise bestowed upon us. Rest assured, most Soldiers wrestle with this at some point during their career.
Why I Don’t Ask “Is This a Billion Dollar Business” Before I Invest
Show HN:  U.S. tax info for nonresident freelancers
OK. This was inspired by email correspondence with an HN reader. I'm embarrassed about it so it must be the right time to throw it out there. :-)

This is all about brains across borders: someone sitting in one country does work for someone who is in another country. What are the tax problems?

I'm an international tax lawyer. It's hard (and expensive) to get information about U.S. tax law in international transactions.

I wrote a quick ebook aimed at a specific type of person, with the idea of answering the U.S. tax questions he/she might have.

The target reader I had in my head: a web developer sitting at a computer in Nicaragua (hi M. D.!) building websites for U.S. customers. All of the work is done outside the United States.

Please look and tell me questions I missed. Or tell me questions you have, even without reading the book! I will try to answer as best I can. This will also help me with improving the book.

Oh. I'm trying to decide which domain name to use. What do you like:

- freelancetax.com

- brainsacrossborders.com

Thanks,

Phil.
What Can Men Do?
Really? I see:

A DIY weather station kit that feeds its data to the Raspberry Pi: https://www.tindie.com/products/tmhrtly/airpi-kit/

DIY Amplifiers: https://www.tindie.com/products/diyourfaceoff/fully-assemble...

A DIY 8x8 LED games console: https://www.tindie.com/products/hotchk155/sixtyfourpixels-lo...

DIY musical instruments: https://www.tindie.com/products/hotchk155/le-strum-hack-it-y...

TTL Tennis for Two: https://www.tindie.com/products/wmbuchholz/ttl-tennis-for-tw...
Ask HN: Do you name Markdown files .md or .markdown? Why?
Why don't any of these breakout clones bother to get the gameplay right?

Breakout doesn't even pretend to use real-world physics: The ball bounces vertically off of the bricks and ceiling and horizontally off of the walls. After hitting one brick, it ignores and passes through all others until it hits either the ceiling or the paddle; together, these make the ball much less chaotic, which enables faster speeds and longer runs.
At least legally, I agree. But the dividing line between "spy agency" and "law enforcement agency" has gotten very thin.

Beyond that, so what? The publicly stated goal of the dragnet surveillance is preventing the crime of terrorism. If "back to the basics" police work found out Dread Pirate Roberts, then why the "anti-terrorism" justification for dragnet surveillance? Dread Pirate Roberts and the Silk Road Web Site actually worked at hiding themselves in a technical, engineering, fact-based manner. From what we read, terrorists do not. At least some of them use "Islamic cyphers" and do other superstitious things in an attempt to conceal themselves.

Why not concentrate on basic police work rather than massive surveillance?
It's easy to forget that all this cool content on the Internet is made by people, isn't it?
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I don't see why you had to name 4chan into this.

They have done nice things as well, like http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/2148248/4chan-Gives-...
Hey jwarren. Thanks for the comment.

Online system is definitely an option down the road.

About the setup. Basically the only thing you need to install is vagrant. The Frontend VM has all the files and tools required to run the application on your machine.

1. Install Vagrant (with our installer);

2. Run VM

3. You are ready to go.
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Since the internet(and sophisticated algorithms) are relatively new, it's too early to judge the positive/negative impact.

But if we look through history to the industrial revolution, powerful technologies we're created, but new political tools we're created in order integrate those technologies in society in a positive way. We had the rise of democracies,wage laws and the labour movement, the social safety net, the geneva convention, etc. Without those ,we might have seen a far more negative contribution from technology.

I believe the same applies for internet technology and smart algorithm. In the wrong political context, it could be turned into a living hell.
Increase RAM, increase hard drive size, replace battery, format and reinstall OS.

One to two actually have the potential to help performance (RAM, OS), unless you're already maxed out/well maintained - but hey Wikipedia says it can help! All the while the article is a sales pitch for Atomic, and filled with bogus info like this: "RAM is your first defense against a virus." Someone kill this link?
It appears that they are a consultancy focusing on helping companies write Go apps. Sounds like what The Node Firm (thenodefirm.com) is for Node.js
OK. This was inspired by email correspondence with an HN reader. I'm embarrassed about it so it must be the right time to throw it out there. :-)

This is all about brains across borders: someone sitting in one country does work for someone who is in another country. What are the tax problems?

I'm an international tax lawyer. It's hard (and expensive) to get information about U.S. tax law in international transactions.

I wrote a quick ebook aimed at a specific type of person, with the idea of answering the U.S. tax questions he/she might have.

The target reader I had in my head: a web developer sitting at a computer in Nicaragua (hi M. D.!) building websites for U.S. customers. All of the work is done outside the United States.

As soon as I decide between Leanpub and a PDF on Gumroad I will make a PDF available for free download.

Please look and tell me questions I missed. Or tell me questions you have, even without reading the book! I will try to answer as best I can. This will also help me with improving the book.

Oh. I'm trying to decide which domain name to use. What do you like:

- freelancetax.com

- brainsacrossborders.com

Thanks,

Phil.
M.V.P., not M.V.P.O.S.
well, in the UK (except in Northern Ireland) police doesn't even carry guns.
The MS campaign is particularly egregious when you consider that it's targeted at managers. I've seen some HN comments asking why it's a bad thing to have the flexibility to work remote vs. needing to be at an office. From an employee's point of view, remote work is a good thing and we should promote it as an option. There is a risk, however, that managers view remote access as a tool to require employees to be available all hours of the day instead of the traditional 40 hour work week.

The reason 37signals is going after Microsoft is because that dystopian future is exactly what Microsoft is promoting.

As remote work becomes more mainstream it's important for the proponents of remote work to emphasize to press/clients/employers/colleagues that remote access ≠ 24/7 availability and live/work balance is still important.
Just completely destroyed mine to the point where I couldn't even get back to HN after swiping my track pad.
That's a pretty silly tact to take. Especially since being signed doesn't mean "not malicious'
Newsblur [1]

[1] http://newsblur.com
You could try our product (www.crudzilla.com)

here's a short video demoing coding in clojure and other jvm languages:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqeOS2hqtMg
You realise that nothing you wrote casts any doubt on my prediction? And that I didn't say the soon-to-come crash would be the end of Bitcoin? The leadup to the April crash looked exactly like what we see now: rapid and accelerating price increases within a few days.

BTW, I correctly predicted the April crash 2 days in advance.
What do you most like there? Have you tried the real time writing tech?
a law once called Ranum’s Law: “You can’t solve social problems with software.”
.md in github because it's shorter. .markdown when using jekyll because it doesn't recognise .md.
Check the mailing list for this. There wasn't a large amount of discussion about mobile options when I last checked, but one solution seems to be what you've already listed above: Phonegap/Cordova.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/meteor-talk

It didn't seem like there's a "perfect" solution for this yet (in any realm--it's all still evolving).
Would love for some of you guys to try it out and let me know what you think
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My favorite anti-suicide advice is 'Never commit suicide when hungover'.
It sounds subversive but I think it gets the message across by first not discounting that the other person may have valid and important problems, and then emphasizing that all states of mind are subject to improvement.

You could (carefully) curate a list of this sort of advice from people who have actually felt suicidal at one point or another and pop up a random message on demand in the app. Carefully, as most cheerful advice does not sound so good when you are depressed.
You'd have to be more specific about how the app is supposed to work. For instance maybe it can be accomplished with the Facebook javascript api, implementing it on top of Facebook. Maybe not.

Anyway, I wish you good luck.
This is just "jumping on the Microsoft hate bandwagon".
Generic Hypermedia and Domain-Specific APIs: RESTing in the ALPS
But ... It's coming from the Washington post?
I'm not sure I understand what you are objecting to (or what exactly of dmourati's response you were agreeing with) . I never claimed that Cygwin was UNIX. Far from it. However, Cygwin gives me enough of a UNIX-like environment in Windows operating systems to make administering and developing software in them almost bearable. I'd rather not have to deal with Windows environments at all, but my work requires it, so I do the best I can.

I don't have any problem moving things from box to box. If I administer a Windows machine, it will almost always have Cygwin on it. I do development and administration on them all the time. I'd be curious to know what kind of "stuff" you were moving to another box that gave you trouble. Perhaps you were talking about moving executables/DLLs between different versions of Cygwin. I keep my machines mostly on the same version of Cygwin, and I'm not developing Cygwin-specific applications, so I'm not linking to the Cygwin DLLS, so I don't have problems with that.
I think you're too quick to dismiss the possibility. The point of parallel construction is that the police construct a plausible (and, more importantly, legal) means of finding the evidence that they used in an investigation that masks its true, illegal origin. More importantly, unlike false flags -- where the only "evidence" for their use is the ravings of conspiracy theorists and some internal suggestions by government officials in the 60's -- parallel construction is a technique that we know the government uses by their own admission.

From Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...):

> The undated documents show that federal agents are trained to "recreate" the investigative trail to effectively cover up where the information originated, a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's Constitutional right to a fair trial. [...]

> After an arrest was made, agents then pretended that their investigation began with the traffic stop, not with the SOD tip, the former agent said. The training document reviewed by Reuters refers to this process as "parallel construction."

> The two senior DEA officials, who spoke on behalf of the agency but only on condition of anonymity, said the process is kept secret to protect sources and investigative methods. "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day," one official said. "It's decades old, a bedrock concept."

> A dozen current or former federal agents interviewed by Reuters confirmed they had used parallel construction during their careers. Most defended the practice; some said they understood why those outside law enforcement might be concerned.

> "It's just like laundering money - you work it backwards to make it clean," said Finn Selander, a DEA agent from 1991 to 2008 and now a member of a group called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which advocates legalizing and regulating narcotics.

Given how they talk about parallel construction, it certainly sounds like it's not an uncommon technique, so do you think it's so implausible? I'm not going to say they did or didn't use it, because the simple fact is that I don't know, but given that "Parallel construction is a law enforcement technique we use every day" that is "decades old, a bedrock concept," it doesn't seem too implausible that they would use it in such a high profile and important case.
Ah hah, I didn't realize jekyll made that distinction! Thanks for the info :+1:
I'm still surprised he backed this DRM nonsense.
> [231 points] Show /hn/: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it.

Edit: that is from "What 4chan thinks about HN":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6747373
Agreed. My modest contributions to widely used projects are at least as important as my personal projects that nobody uses.
Building a TOR wireless router with a Raspberry Pi
Wonder how much would you get if you own "Machete Kills"
Why would you say 'western europe'? I am not saying you are wrong. It's just that I was surprised to see stuff like 'blocking porn' coming our of UK, I have not seen anything like that in any other European country and my perception of this was that it's just some weird UK puritanism or something. Obviously I might have missed something.
Yes, they are great. I have met with the Webflow team (great guys).

The differences:

1. Frontend is open-source;

2. Database integration;

3. Plugins (components) create by users;

Other differences will appear on the stretch goals.
Its kind of a social network structure, bu simpler than things like FB, twitter, etc. it doesn't rely on any API, and would be really easy for anyone who knows what they're doing on the backend.
I wonder if there is any good data to support that idea, because I have similar suspicions. It's a question with important implications for policies related to sex and pornography.
> An attacker could precalculate one or more suffixes such that
H(x) == H( concat(x, suffix) )
which would then allow an attacker to trivially construct an infinite set of keys which would always collide into the same bucket. We hardened the hash by mixing in the length of the key into the seed.

This prevents making an infinite set of keys that collide, yes, but does not fix the problem completely. It only increases the request size required to perform the attack. But even with 8 character UTF-8 keys, you could generate 2^64 unique keys with the same length.

Note: IANAC (I am not a cryptographer.) But if I was looking for guarantees for worst-case performance, I'd (pretty much) never use a HashMap. If nothing else, because of the array resizing.
"This is nice and all but we are not Reddit" coming in 3... 2... 1...
Giving Credit Card Processing Away
Modular dashboard framework for Django
I have to +1 the parse.com suggestion. Their API has an Angular wrapper if you really know it well. Or, if you haven't hit the 'Angular Wall' (meaning you haven't built something of real-world complexity with it), you can use their JS SDK, which is a backbone fork.

I suggest you open source all of it, and keep HN up to date on progress. List out what the product should do, and how you want to design your models. You'll get some solid feedback.

Web iterates fast, so I'd use web rather than jumping right into native. You'll be able to show your code to coders, and show your product to social workers and those who support at-risk people.
A core.logic Primer
It's a pretty crappy story, given nothing has been announced yet (I assume someone leaked something to the Metro in an attempt to get a good PR boost at the start of the week).

I would say it is highly unlikely that whatever legislation does get passed would make simulated rape images illegal to possess (in fact, I'd say it's not going to happen).

It won't be the first - or last - time that a Prime Minister has announced some fundamentally stupid piece of proposed legislation that will never get passed, and simply is used to get some press. Cameron's government has a history of particularly stupid proposals regarding the internet and the like that never made it to fruition.

What will almost certainly happen is that possession images of actual rape will be made illegal. I suspect many people consider the latter to be somewhat different to the former (and if you don't, maybe you should stop and think about that).
Can, should, expected to...

When your other colleagues respond to emails 24/7 and only you don't, you're the slow to respond guy. It's like a 9-7 work culture. When it's the norm, it's also the expectation.

This is like the comments a couple of weeks ago on the daylight savings article. 'Why should you care what time the clock says it is. 'Just arrange a 13:00-21:00 schedule with your employer and arrange to have dinner with your friends @ 1am.'

37 Signals are making a comment about work culture. Culture is something we make together. And they're right. Working on the toilet, at your kids' football match, while watching TV is bad. Falling asleep into a spreadsheet it definitely bad.
How was it developed?
I think there's a difference between remote work in general and remote work done during time that should be personal (i.e. during weekends, during dates, before sleep). Just because someone is working remotely doesn't mean that they're working during their off-hours. In fact, I think a lot of what 37S espouses is a work life balance given to you by remote work -- just look at the ad for the book. It doesn't show people working during personal activities.
So many problems with this article. For starters, he gives apple way too much credit. He also nitpicks about RT not being able to run .net apps. So what? Get a non-RT tablet. Can you run mac programs on any iPad version? No.
I think the author is experiencing and commenting on the challenge of building business apps for mobile in general - not just Windows/WinRT. WinRT suffers from the same limitations as iOS and Android when it comes to servicing business' needs. The good news is that WFP is going to be supported and improved upon (despite what the author says) until WinRT is a viable alternative.

In the future I can see a small business owner linking all his computers together with a master Microsoft account and then buying a POS app that's downloaded to all of his computers linked under that account. If that can be done, it'd be a major leap from where we're at right now.
Well, if you have a MacbookPro with retina display here is your options:

Upgrade RAM: you can't
Upgrade SSD: usually doesn't worth it. too expensive
Replace battery: $199 by Apple

My recommendation is to sell your old Apple gear and get a new one every two years. It makes way more sense nowadays
I'd be cautious of using number of submissions as a metric for growth. It's possible that at least some of the growth in the number of submissions is caused by an increase in the ratio of spam.

In fact, a growing number of submissions can be a problem for a social news aggregator. Is it fair to assume that curation capacity will scale linearly with submission quantity? Perhaps not. Even if a linear growth in submissions represents a scaled growth in visitors and user accounts, curation capacity will only scale if new user accounts have the same curation appetite as older user accounts.

If you get lots of new submissions and lots of new visitors but a smaller number of new people voting on submissions, average quality of front-page material will suffer. It's possible there will be a positive feedback effect if older users with a higher appetite for curating content are more sensitive to a decline in quality and thus more likely to leave the site, exacerbating the problem.

When a social news site is young and small, (non-spam) submissions are a Good Thing. But as a user-driven site matures, it's much more valuable to have better submissions rather than more submissions.

I hypothesize that one solution to the seemingly inevitable decline in quality of large social sharing sites is to introduce a cost to posting new content. A trivial example would be scaling the minimum time between submissions to the user's karma for previous submissions. (For this to work without incentivizing spam via sock puppets, there would have to be heavy restrictions on posting content for new users.) The time-between-submissions could be large for less proven accounts - think days rather than minutes.

There are problems with this approach, but they may be better problems to have than the alternative.
It sounds like the OP already knows what he wants to build, he is more looking for advice on the how.
Would you say the same about Firebase?