skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always felt it was this kind of thinking that puts Emacs at odds with the UNIX philosophy of do one thing well. Unless your one thing is everything-you-can-do-with-text.
The blog post had a lot of errors, and was read by a lot of people. Those errors are the kind that lead to bigotry.

It's worth correcting each in turn, carefully and rationally, because of its widespread circulation.
"Addresses being flagged and becoming useless" is not a solution to spam, as it happens already currently.

In particular, even if everyone suddenly agreed to reject every mail without this deposit (which won't happen), the proposal allows for setting up a new address, making the (small) deposit, blasting a million emails before it gets blacklisted, and using a new address the next time.
In that case it would be more appropriate to use "Dr.h.c. Richard Stallman".
I think it's just for good-old-day's memory. Just like Super Mario.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%E6%AF%94%E7%89%B9%E5...

买(buy)比特币 or 卖(sell)比特币 search volume too low.
As Linux user forced to use OSX at work I've settled on VOX [http://coppertino.com/vox/] as suitable player for OSX.
Of course. I agree with you, hence the "Today" in the last sentence. Tomorrow it might be other kinds of states or similar entities. The first sentence was however badly formulated.

So it's true that a stateless society would need to defend against groups of thugs or similar just as we do today. This would probably be done in a decentralized manner rather than a paid centralized institution like today. The idea is to build a society that people would want to defend.

So hopefully people would organise against thugs that claim private property rights, or also risk being exposed to them themselves.
WebGL Debugging and Profiling Tools
Haha ah yes, I remember being amazed by a friend who could convert WAVs to MP3s faster than ripping the CD to WAV. Good times.
I remember a base Pentium 90 laptop struggling to play MP3s in Winamp, not massively high bitrate either. I could just about play MP3s on a 486 DX2 66Mhz (and discovered MODs etc. at that time too - smaller to download, using floppy disk and a school's internet access).
I was amazed with Grip and its ability to rip and convert straight to MP3s, but it took forever. Good times using RH 6.2.
Cookie Stealing on Customer Internet Connections
As others have said. The fallacies needed to be addressed. The author of this response did so quite succinctly. Well done to him.
Full-featured Scroll-Shooter in 0 lines of javascript
Agree, the thread's hilarious! My favorite so far:

I think our interface will be so different
from actual Word that no one will get confused.

Yes, I think there's a fair chance of that.
Someone Forced World Internet Traffic Through Belarus and Iceland
Origin & discussion: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ru&sl=ru&tl=en&u=ht...
ERD PORN
Oh, you’re an SEO expert? How did you come up with that title?
Well not in the post WW2 germany my grandparents lived in.
> Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
> Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.

It made me wonder what's free-er about an ordinary phone call. Presumably, most of the software the phone companies use is also proprietary.

Does it become less non-free if somebody else runs the software? Or maybe it shifts the moral burden of using something non-free to somebody else?
1. It's easier to hide even the fact that you have some Bitcoins. When you buy some Bitcoins for cash from random people on the street and keep in different wallets (or even "brain wallets"), no one would know how much do you have. In case of Swiss or any banking account, there's always a paper trace somewhere. And recently US was cooperating with Swiss to uncover all accounts belonging to US citizens.

2. Even if someone knows that you have some bitcoins, they don't know where they are stored and how keys are encrypted. "Civil forfeiture" or "freezing account" are very cheap and are used a lot. Irrelevant against Bitcoin savings.

3. Legal force is more costly than "civil forfeiture", but then you can always multiple ways to preserve the money: by sending it to someone else you trust, by locking it up in multisig transaction with someone you trust (who is outside jurisdiction), by saying "my hard drive has crashed" etc.

In other words, the cost for anyone to confiscate your coins is much higher than with paper cash and even higher than with bank accounts.
A Cyprus university is first in the world to accept bitcoin
I enjoyed this rebuttal.

http://ulobw.tumblr.com/
I call this realism.
Thank you - I always looked down to Foobar2000 (it looked to basic for). But now I've downloaded it and it looks great !

Thank you for the tip. The facet plugin is great - exactly what I wanted.
That's not the signed warrant canary - the PGP signed message lives at https://mediacru.sh/transparency/warrant-canary.signed.txt.

josemanueldiez@InfiniteImprobabilityDrive:~$ wget -qO - https://mediacru.sh/transparency/warrant-canary.signed.txt|gpg --verify
gpg: Signature made Fri Nov 8 12:48:13 2013 CET using RSA key ID 5044F2FC
gpg: Good signature from "MediaCrush Administrators <admin@mediacru.sh>"
Native english speaker here. I consider CV reviews, phone screens, in person interviews etc to be part of the 'recruiting' process which encompasses basically everything before the candidate signs a contract and becomes an employee.

So 'recruiting with interviews' makes sense to me.
Intel Demonstrates Why Linux Is so Much Better than Windows
You don't need to "cooperate" on a email system in a way blockchain requires cooperation (with strict following on one protocol). People who need to transfer and store messages will pay for it. Bitcoin makes it easy and cheap. That's it.
Winamp shutting down after over 15 years
The famous media player Winamp will shut down next month, over 15 years after its initial release. Though Winamp eventually lost popularity, in the late '90s and early 2000s it was one of the go-to media players for listening to local music or radio streams. In 2002, Winamp's maker, Nullsoft, was acquired by AOL for over $80 million in stock, where it's remained in development until now. A Mac and an Android version were even released in recent years, though they never found the same fan base that its customizable Windows client did.

No reason is given for Winamp's shutdown, but its popularity has certainly waned: simple, built-in audio solutions like iTunes are now ubiquitous across platforms, making Winamp a far more specialized app. In a retrospective published last year, Ars Technica reported that Winamp had existed for years on life support, but that those involved didn't believe it was dead yet. Now that it's nearly gone, those who want to relive old times should head over to Winamp's site before December 21st, when it'll no longer be available — its famous motto, of course, will always live on somewhere.
The deposit is £500. (About $800). Candidates need to get over 5% of the votes cast.

http://www.parliament.uk/about/mps-and-lords/members/electin...

There might be some seats with very low turnouts where a decent campaign by someone wearing a monkey costume could persuade apathetic voters to turn out to vote, getting 5% of the vote and possibly winning.

The traditional protest vote is for the Monster Raving Loony Party. (Loony here is "lunatic", not the bird.) While seen as a nonsense party some of their policies have found their way into UK law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_...
Totem : PHP Library to calculate a changeset between two states of a data
Public, driven by greed, will also invest in Bitcoin sooner or later as a better "store of wealth" and eventually a more liquid currency. We see it happening in real time. Don't lie to yourself: everyone sees 10x or more increases each year in number of hands willing to hold bitcoins long-term and not throwing them out on every temporary "bubble".
Isn't there an option for decentralized P2P communication?
> do you wear a suit when you press the power button on your "mine" so you can feel like a real grown-up intellectual

don't be silly, a suit would get dirty
Apple's iBeacon & Macy's - Win or fail
For a more surreal online-request-artist I give you Jim'll paint it [http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/].

BTW the name is a reference to a British kids TV show called Jim'll fix it [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim'll_Fix_It] which has recently become somewhat tainted [http://www.theguardian.com/media/jimmy-savile]
I always feel stupid after clicking on a link like this and finding somebody's self-advertisement. It's like one of those "Click here for the best instruction on how to loose weight", but for developers.
Sorry, should have pasted the full quote. Edited.
mirven does seem to have gone quiet (on Github & Twitter).

Two more up-to-date forks can be found here....

- https://github.com/jtarchie/underscore-lua

- https://github.com/mark-otaris/underscore.lua

NB. The jtarchie fork seems best because its got 59 stars & 5 contributors.
I'm working on an own player which supports >=MacOSX 10.6.

Maybe it is already usable enough for you.

http://albertz.github.io/music-player/
Wouldn't it be possible to implement an option to send a really small amount per wallet per week? This would prevent people from flooding the blockchain, but it would still allow to send small amounts.
"Fix it right now"

That came across to me as super snarky and entitled, despite you having a point. Rewrite it right now.

(See? Now, I actually don't think you meant it like that, but if I was the OP I would've taken that badly. Food for thought!)
I think this is one of the reasons why it should become standard practise to provide code implementations of described algorithms. It not only provides an executable demonstration of the algorithm but as importantly an alternative description that may be more accessible to other audiences. It can also be used as conformation that was is intended is indeed what is being done.
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This is a reply to a comment posted by graue on 2013/11/21 at 06:00h GMT.

> Hmm... did this site get served a secret warrant last week? Or did they just forget to update their warrant canary?
> https://mediacru.sh/transparency/warrant-canary.txt
> (Note: the date 08/11 is written European style meaning November 8th, as you can see if you go up a directory.)

Hi, just wanted to let you know that we haven't, in fact, been served a warrant.

The failure to update the canary was due to my own mistake, and I'm terribly sorry about that.
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Coming soon: how to throw crap up on HN and see how many people waste 2min on it.
He's still drawing! Here's the one I ordered in 2010: http://www.horriblelogos.com/coding-robots/
Stallman has a page on this that explains why he says this:

http://stallman.org/skype.html
It's silly to say that buxom woman is 'sexualized.' That's just prepubescent pedantry. I will say that it's interesting that neither the breasts or buttocks have any motion, they are 'bolted' down, which doesn't give a good impression of the frameworks' capabilities.
A quick glance at D3's source code confirms what I suspected: all it does is call setAttributeNS on the DOM. So the re-rendering isn't really its concern, but the browser's.

As for performance, I believe the focus is on the user's performance, not the computer's.
Indeed, I'm going to give this one a spin for a bit.
My advice is to do a SaaS product of some form. You can do it in a low key sort of way that doesn't take much of your time (or make you quit your job or neglect your family), and it will generally make you more money each month (unless you're doing something strange that churns all your existing customers away each month).

Avoid anything ad-funded, such as blogs and whatnot. The ability to write software is way more lucrative than the ability to write words. Leverage that if you can.
Until something like Ekiga does multipart conference calls, a minimum of 10 nodes and more voice only, then it is hard for me to switch from something like Skype.
It's not mentioned in the body copy, but if you look at the URL slug it's there:

https://github.com/blog/1698-weak-passwords-brute-forced
Tagging HN posts - #c22XGPpkLvs2vhop
I'm just curious if it works to link to a HN post via searching for a tag in it's title instead of it directly - as you may know such upvotes are ignored.

Testcases. I expect both to work. Let's see.

With hashmark
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%23c22XGPpkLvs2vhop

Without hashmark
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=c22XGPpkLvs2vhop
each time I see a new font, it can hardly compete with consolas or menlo

even the old lucida console is better than all those free fonts.
Junk mail was (is) common even in the physical world where there are printing costs and relatively high postage.
Reminds me of the Five-Minute Logo guy - I actually prefer these, but both are superb.

http://www.vonglitschka.com/5MinuteLogo/
I think we're almost at the point where we all live in this secret state reading the same media and suffering the same banks. It doesn't matter what country you live in or who you vote for - the results are the same. People fought and died for this 'democracy' 70 years ago and it's rotten to the core. Every time I see a politician, I'm looking at a loser, someone who is useless and not part of my life at all. Just a mouthpiece of a failed state.
My thoughts exactly. Glad to keep it expired.
This will likely be buried beneath the upvoted comments, but does anyone know if there's a backup of the entire skins and plugins database?

Would be a tragedy to lose all the brilliant work that's been created over the years, even if I don't use Winamp anymore.
Not working yet. Might need some time as the index may be updated every once in a while.
What about TeXmacs [1]? I'm not a heavy emacs or (La)TeX user, but when I tried it it felt amazing, with the best of both worlds.

[1] http://www.texmacs.org
Volcano raises new island far south of Japan
This is not the Prisoner's Dilemma - the "prisoners" are allowed to talk to each other and coordinate in this case. Say all the farmers in the US sign an agreement not to use antibiotics. They also pay a small fee for policing this agreement amongst themselves to make sure that nobody is cheating. This gives a result completely different from that of the Prisoner's Dilemma.
I'm hoping this is a joke, otherwise

> Could people please start working on the features that are needed?

sounds far too like the completely detail-less requirements we get through from our clients like "please provide robust MI".
OTOH he wrote software you and I probably couldn't... and gave it for free.
according to antirez, redis does not (and will not) support LuaJIT. Even though at one point there was someone who had got it working. From experience I know that replacing Lua with LuaJIT, even in a statically compiled project, is quite easy. The reasoning is of course that lua code for redis shouldn't have to do a lot of processing, and thus won't benefit from the extra performance (it also shouldn't run long enough for the JIT to come into action).
How to show more products in the Prestashop Specials module
SOOMLA Dashboard - A complex single page web application.
TLDR: This blog post is weak and poorly reasoned, but I share some of his concerns.

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I hadn't read the original article, so I won't comment on how shitty it is or isn't. What I can say is that this blog post is definitely shitty:

1) S?he first says that boards with more woman do better. But the causality is probably the opposite: if a firm is struggling it will get the best guys to fix their problems, but if your firm is cruising, you can be less careful with the seats (and also it's easier to attract the relatively scarce woman in tech to a successful firm)

Moreover, he completely misses the author point. If you have less woman in tech, then by construction you will end up with less woman in tech boards, because the pool to pick from is much smaller.

2) "in Sweden and Finland, 30% of board seats are held by women".

Of course, firms in Sweden are not doing so voluntarily: "the Swedish Corporate Governance Code of 2004 has a voluntary goal of parity for all board members of listed companies. Companies are obliged to justify the composition of the board through a comply-or-explain mechanism." [1]

This renders his point completely moot...

3) " So men, who have had a position of power over women for most of western history, really can’t understand how unfair the world is, and they think their power over women is deserved"

This feels a lot like those crazy "check your privilege" Tumblr posts, specially the part about deserving their power over women.

--

All this being said, I do agree that you can't really distinguish nature from nurture. Maybe men are more competitive because our culture views competitive woman negatively? Same for math, and so on. But the original author never said that men being more competitive was because or genetics or the way kids are raised in our culture. He just states it as a well backed observation.

Also, I am also not convinced by the "men are better board members" argument. There is a lot of research saying men and woman are different as board members (Eg [2]), but I wouldn't say that one group is better than the other. Instead, the answer likely lies in the fact that the talent pool (of people with experience in the tech industry) has a lot more men that woman.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/files/womenonboa...

[2] https://sites.google.com/site/patriciafelicitasfunk/home/201...
Winamp proved that offer sensible playlist management and multi-format support and you can't go wrong.
I only wonder two things: why Winamp wasn't bagged by the big players earlier, and why the other players (i've only tried the free/freemium warez) still don't get it.
Plus there is a Greek version[1] which makes my life a lot easier.

[1] https://github.com/cosmix/Inconsolata-Hellenic
This is part of the reason bitcoin is succeeding. Early adopters become like investors. There never was an explicit quid quo pro, but overall people involved early in bitcoin ended up owning a bunch of bitcoin.

Anything that increases adoption increases demand for bitcoin and benefits current owners-participants. Cynical is a cynical way of describing this. Interest doesn't necessarily mean sociopathic. It's good for people to have an interest in making bitcoin successful.

Our current sensitivity to financial bubbles is confusing here. Currencies are basically always bubbles. They have value only because and to the extent that people believe they will have value in the future. To make a new currency, you need to make a bubble.

IMO, what bitcoin needs is exactly something like this: uses as a medium of exchange. A lot of the current interest/value is centered around bitcoin as a value store, if that's what we want to call the current speculative investing. To really make an impact as a currency, people need to be exchanging bitcoin for goods & services.
You can choose to be denied a freedom, quite obviously. If you choose to use Skype you are granted the ability to make free Skype calls. You are denied the freedom to:

* Freely distribute
* Modify
* Read the source code.

Among others, so it's a trade off. One that Stallman disagrees with and believes denies you too many freedoms.

Stallman is a weird guy, and hardly a pragmatist. But I don't think the things he says can be described as Bullshit, they are largely internally consistant. And to be frank, given the NSA revelations, I think we need rather more weird idealists than less.

Dr new299
This link made me realize that Alaska is fucking huge.
“My primary motivation,” Thoman said, “is because I don’t like playing games at low resolution.”

I thought that quote was great. The modding community always amazes me for their frequent dedication without any kind of financial reward or recognition.
Are we really going to care that heart surgery is no longer viable when deadly pandemics are spreading around the world killing percentiles of the population?
Vox is nice but completely useless to me until it gets gapless playback.
Winamp’s woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself - HN discussion (2012)
We already have a food surplus.
I plus one this, (happen to have a google plus account)
Need luck.
I am iOSer, do you find iOSer?
Chrome Developer Summit 2013 – Day one review
On a Macbook, the scroll wheel equivalent is the two fingered scroll and that doesn't seem to work for me (scroll the page).
Check this out, see BTC are going to China (and other countries) in real time.... it's all buying: http://fiatleak.com/
HTML and CSS are very, very explicitly not WYSIWYG. Their specifications are crystal clear on this point. The same HTML document can and should be displayed differently depending on device.

Your ebooks are also not WYSIWYG. They're also specifically designed to display differently on different devices, and according to user preferences for things like font, text size, brightness, background, line spacing, etc..

WYSIWYG is exactly the opposite of these formats, and does not depend on the device. Postscript and PDF are WYSIWYG.
At this point you can't trust the government to even bother to lie to you; just a no comment, as if it's none of your fucking business. Carry on eating twinkles and let us protect you from The Bad Guys.

Wasn't there a time when people accepted the risk of random terrorism as being small, but worth it for our freedoms? I 'd prefer that over "trust me we're doing this for your (our?) own good".

At this point you can't trust the government.