skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit disappointed with all of the memes in HN comments lately. This comment (nor mine) add interesting information to the discussion. I don't mean to nitpick; jokes can be funny, but signal to noise ratio is important. Sorry for pointing out this personal sentiment if it seems inflamatory.
The problem with Wall street is they're only focused on short term profits. Google creeping everyone the fuck out for a few years will eventually take a toll on the bottom lines even if it helps them this quarter. (I'm not just talking about devs either, everyone I know thinks they're a little creepy - from my grandma to my nieces.)
Responsibility is not zero-sum - it's perfectly possible for multiple people to share different degrees of responsibility for an outcome.
The problem with KeePass, LastPass, etc. is that you need to hear about them, look them up, and install them. Things would be much simpler if the browser included a similar functionality by default.

Unfortunately, all three major browser vendors seem too busy pushing their own single sign-on schemes (Chrome: Google account, IE: Microsoft account, Mozilla: Persona). So they're unlikely to pay any attention to plain old password generation and storage for the foreseeable future. Which is a real pity because passwords aren't going to disappear overnight.
Following the source -- excellent idea. I bet most of the rest of his class has a similar searchability...
Somebody has a sense of humor:
ispy@nsa.gov
What do I need to do to get pricing from the 3D Avatar Store people?
going off-road: more and more I wish for non lisps in s-exp syntax, so you can reuse pattern matching on ast and other niceties.
You're grossly overestimating the effect of Uber and Bitcoin (AirBnB is different from the other two, and is far more interesting, IMO, and far bigger to boot). Currently, the two are little more than blips on the radar, and it is far from certain that either will ever become more than that. Uber is a service for affluent, impatient people. It reforms (if it reforms anything) the system by letting the rich play by their own rules. Bitcoin, let's be honest, is currently regularly used mostly to facilitate illegal transactions (not necessarily "bad" transactions, but illegal nonetheless). If it ever does becomes widespread, Bitcoin cannot reform the banking sector or the economy. In fact, at least in western countries, it can do more harm than good because it takes away the freedom to manipulate the currency in favor of the people.
Secure Java and Android Coding and Other Research
It's not complete yet, but yes, that's the direction I'm going in.

Most CG workflow stuff is either directed at games (completely different requirements) or 30min+ a frame rendered CG. The kind of indie performance capture I'm interested in is very much a new frontier - some people do it, but not many.
The NSA is not a law enforcement agency.
I've only worked with smaller indie studios directly, but yes, that's an excellent analogy!
It's very important now to frame everything as a 'Us v. Them'. No one cares about anything unless they are on the winning team.
Maybe we should just give up and tolerate the non-technical usage of those terms. The situation with "hash" vs. "encrypt" seems just as hopeless as with "hacker" vs. "cracker".
I'm not really sure how 3G/LTE is better than WiFi, at least in technology terms.

I've had WiFi on one flight in Europe (London to Oslo with Norwegian Airlines), it was free to use for everyone on the flight. It was very slow and unreliable though, and I spent half of the hour long flight just trying to get things to load, unsure if certain ports/sites were blocked or if it was just being slow.

That said, this problem is presumably from the connection between the WiFi access point on the plane and the satellites. I don't really see how using a 3G/LTE on the plane will be any better, if it's still relying on the (presumably small, low powered) equipment on the plane and a satellite connection.

So I'm not convinced that this is an improvement over in flight WiFi, besides a way for carriers to extract more roaming data charges from us. That said, we've also got better laws over roaming data charges within Europe coming in over the next few years too.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought I read a while ago it was being scaled back and you needed approval to get cracking on a 20% project. Either I remember incorrectly or the story was untrue.
Ticket sale for 30C3 in Hamburg, Germany just opened
Every time I open the admin interface shivers run down my spine. I don't understand how anyone can find that 'easy to work with'. I'm technical so maybe that's it.

But you are right; the competition (at least it used to be; haven't needed any forums recently and the last one I made myself) was every far worse.
People are going to steal your shit.
It's probably super relevant that the percentage of the community who has the ability to comment about neat Clojure code is extremely limited (1% maybe? perhaps even less) compared to the percentage that can comment on some techno-political drivel.
Interesting story that might affect my company. We have a large amount of sports apparel with Amazon FBA. Obviously there is a high amount of knockoff sports apparel in the industry. I wonder if I should investigate how this might affect us.

Anybody else have experience with Amazon FBA for textiles/apparel?
I am working toward a similar goal with my open source project (respondcms.com): allow the developer/designer to focus on design while allowing the end-user to focus on creating content.
Hey, it's probably not outside the realm of possibility on this site.
I also like the following: root@nsa.gov, admin@nsa.gov, ghost@nsa.gov
My point was rather meta, but it was the choice of language. "Pizza effectively for free" - lots of things about Bitcoin seem to involve people hoping they get something effectively for free.

In the case of the price volatility for hoarding bitcoin while it rises, it underscores the deflationary nature of the currency - no economic value has been contributed by someone holding the BTC, but they've gotten richer regardless. Sitting around doing nothing with the BTC did not produce any economically valuable activity - it wasn't invested or used to finance starting that pizza place, for instance.
Are you sure that email was from vbulletin?

I received the same one and it didn't come from vbulletin's domain name. If you go to the root of the domain name it says "Test page."

When you click the "read in browser" option you are taken to a page where all the links to access the forums do not work.

I thought it was a phishing attempt.
And what kind of publishing doesn't take so damn long? Be happy you don't have to hand-calligraph each page.

No need to talk about this crazy "blog" nonsense...

:)

I'm pretty sure that the future of computer graphics will look extremely different to what it does today. I've been exploring the possibilities for indie production for 16 years so far; no reason to stop now.
VistaShift & the Power of Perspectives
Bitcoin breaks $600
The ephemeral nature of Snapchat
The biggest contributor to open-source are companies like IBM. Calling IBM communist, is well weird.

If you remove extremists of each movements, seeing value in common-good has nothing to do with communism or socialism or capitalism.

The only filter you apply by looking at github is social. You select individual based on how involved they are in a community. If your company evolve in the same community that can be beneficial. If not, well it is only slightly a bit more relevant than looking at hiring a plumber based on how recognised he is in the car modding community.
I realize "hash" is too technical, but "encrypt" is a technical term with a different meaning.

If they'd just used a vague handwavy word like "encoded" we'd be left wondering what they did to the passwords and it would still be just as legible to the laymen, instead of being given an actually incorrect piece of information.

And a "cracker" is a subset of hackers. So as much as it makes self-identified hackers cringe, it is correct to say that a hacker broke into a system.

"encoded passwords".
Very cool :) As long as they make enough cheap components, this could even be sold as a kind of next-gen lego for kids to play with :)
I really want to know WHY do people posts this kind stuffs on HN. Can you tell me why?

What am I supposed to say?
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.

Can it be that the military is both the problem and its own solution?
Bitcoin doesn't have to become the currency of daily use to change the world. In fact, to my knowledge, it would function better as a Bretton-Woods reserve currency in the style of gold or the "bancor". A healthy economy would mean most transactions take place in unpegged fiat currencies, but financial shenanigans would result in people hedging into Bitcoin.
When someone outside the political sphere has paved the way for a legal change to happen by clearly demonstrating the need for the change on a large enough scale, that change can typically happen fairly easily. This is an example of the realism I'm talking about in a parallel thread. The folly is thinking that you can pave the way from inside the political sphere.
That last one seems to the be the kicker, right? Interesting...
> 30 not counting the (block x lines) of HTML

+ CSS as well

It's still impressive to see. Though I did cheat; I set my lives to 99999 then let the game complete itself like a screen saver
>FWIW, in my usage "Statism", is a reference to the assumption that by default, a problem should always be dealt with by the state, and when a problem isn't dealt with correctly, the default assumption is that it's a symptom of the state holding too little power and too few resources.

These are "assumptions" that almost zero real people actually assume.
Where are people getting the dump file from? I haven't found a great way to locate the dump file anywhere.
Comparing Content Curation Software
So you agree with me!

We're back where we started: 15M didn't succeed because it tried to fight State with State. It's counterintuitive, but you can't vote politicians out voting some other politician in. Different dog, same collar. And if you become a politician yourself (and follow the system's rules in the process), you're fighting the State with State (which IMHO is pointless).

Also: you focus on politician's blame which I think is not the problem. I think it's not the person to be blamed, but the State. The institution itself.
Looks interesting - is the e-ink screen backlit?
The Real Sharing Economy Is Booming (And It's Not the One VCs Are Cashing In On)
Correct me if I'm wrong but I haven't read anything about maximizing profit that Steve Jobs supposedly mentioned to Larry Page. Steve Jobs mentioned about a stronger focus and a plan on figuring out what Google wants to be when it grows up. Ultimately it was Larry's choice that Google is who they are now. I'm not a big fan of Steve Jobs but I don't think it's fair to say that Steve gave bad advice - unless it's written in the book, in which case, I apologize.
Alabama Court,Roger Shuler Continue To Thwart Roger Shuler's 1st Amdt Rights
I believe that as a few years ago, Bloomberg had zero terminals in china. I may be wrong, and thing may have changed, but I don't think that china is a big source of revenue for Bloomberg. Of course, I'm not saying that it is not a big potential source of revenue.
>Hi could you please make an article about color that uses color figures, work for people that can't see all colors?

I hope you are joking. Maybe after they get done doing that we can have an article on smells with smells that people who can't smell can smell.
Adding search and downvote to HN clone site
I would like to add downvote to links and comments as well as search in my (HN clone) site - www.informenos.com. Are these features already in the sourcecode and just need to be "activated"?
Facebook poke sourcecode snippet
I miss one very important setting. Hide/don't show "marked as read"
Boeing Crash in Kazan City, Russia Kills 50. Footage Caught On Camera
Android Developer Conference recompiles the future
the WHHAAAmbulance needs to be called on these recent HackerNews anti-Google rants
Apple has lost the magic
[well-known-trivial-app] in [substantially-small-number] lines of [any-high-level-script-language-with-graphics-libs]
Not really, just more risky.

With a regulated financial sector and overwatch of ISP data retention, you still need to somehow gain knowledge of the encrypted bits to deploy a quantum computing attack against them. Governments have an interest in ecommerce continuuing, and there's a limited time-horizon where you can actually mount an attack - so provided you route your transactions over "known trusted" paths, everything basically continues - especially while the only quantum computers are controlled by governments to start with.

BitCoin on the otherhand almost immediately runs into trouble, because it's entire basis is centered on the difficulty of cryptography problems. It can't function without distributing it's content widely (and indeed, completely), which means its immediately valueless - even if someone doesn't attack it, it's immediately known that at any point in time someone can simply create every coin that will ever exist and credit it to them.
Here is the referenced interview (by his father and everyone else): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Sx0E13gAo
I see - you meant a small publicly traded company, which is a lot different (and bigger than) than a small company of any kind.

When I think small company I think small business, which is significantly smaller than a $5B market cap.
Depends on whether he was named personally or not. Based on his post, a default judgment was entered. You'd have to take a look at the complaint. What the facts are in reality really doesn't matter--unfortunately--because he did not appear in a tribunal to prove or assert those facts. Don't forget that in U.S. courts (as in the UK) the uncorroborated testimony of a single witness is enough to meet the burden of proof, even in a criminal case. Whether you prevail or not is something else, but in terms of a minimum threshold, all you need is the testimony of the person who placed the order and who received counterfeit goods. The burden then shifts to you to prove that a) the witness is mistaken or lying or b) the goods are not counterfeit.

But he never showed up. Moral of the story: buy insurance. Budget for legal in the same way you budget for accountants.
>easy-to-use platform for non tech-savvy people

Hasn't this been beaten to death by now? There are a handful of decent "free" website editors out there already. They tend to produce generic and unprofessional websites because the target market isn't going to pay to have a decent theme.
Some stats for cakedayreminder.com
Just in case someone is interested. Cake Day Reminder - http://www.cakedayreminder.com/ - is online for 8 months now.

* 375 redditors have created an account
* 237 redditors have activated their account
* 138 redditors had their reminders deleted due to their accounts not being activated (double opt-in to verify email address ownership)

* 1 redditor has created a reminder for three cake days
* 3 redditors have created a reminder for two cake days

* 108 reminders have been sent since the start
* 5760 reminders have been scheduled to be sent during the next 25 years

All in all, it seems that the Reddit cake day is not that important to redditors. Or maybe too few redditors know about Cake Day Reminder ;-)
I kinda like the original solutions better. The card with picture on one side, lines of text on the other, and rolodex-holes at the bottom. I've seen about 50 different styles of this icon, and while it should probably be standardized a bit, I think people understand it. And a vector based design would easily fit into the same arbitrary bubble they chosed. No reason to reinvent something that's taken on its own aesthetic over the past decade. But good job trying to challenge status quo.
As you would expect for a processor designed for embedded systems. Everyone trying to use this as a cheap LAMP server gets what they're paying for.
How do we recreate the browsing experience post-Blockbuster? Do we need to?
How did Warner Brothers find out about this? Did Amazon contact them when a customer sent in a allegedly counterfeit DVD? Was Warner Brothers the customer who purchased the DVD?
Show HN: VisaEase.com - Review and Feedback
Not just governmental politics.

Internal corporate politics are also something that people try to bandage with technology - and it seldom works there either.
I disagree. In the end, nothing was made to happen. If you look at that list of messages propagated regarding the protest movement, blend out the trees, and see the forest, what do you get?

"THIS PROTEST MOVEMENT SUCKS." Nothing more, nothing less. A variety of particular reasons are given for why, many of which are mutually contradictory. From this we can infer that the point was never to have a civilized discussion about the protest movement, its goals, and its methods, but instead to just flame it to death.

This is the mainstream media equivalent of sitting there going "lolol dumb faggot" until the tripfriend shuts up and goes away.
Some Thoughts On Coin
Armed robbery/car hijacking with AK47 caught on camera in johannesburg
VBulletin.com Compromised
To be fair, the author should probably have added "GitHub", "GooGle", and a couple of other keywords to maximize ROI.
I really wish you'd said in the first instance that it appeared that the paper wasn't really saying anything new, and left out the implication that it's getting more air purely because it's from Google.

Not least, you might be wrong. It might be getting more air not because it's from Google, but simply because it has more visibilty in general. My feeling is that other, perhaps more scholarly, and perhaps more in-depth articles don't see the light of day simply because they are in more obscure places. You can help by pointing at other sources of similar material, and explaining why they are potentially of more value.

A single line of "It's by a Googler" was unenlightening, and to me came off as pure snark.
In ordinary usage, "encrypt" means "to change information from one form to another, especially to hide its meaning" (Merriam-Webster). It doesn't necessarily mean reversible, although in programmer jargon it does.

So hashing is a subset of encrypting, just like crackers are a subset of hackers.
That's awesome, thanks for sharing!

I hope that with the recent addition of plugins, LightTable will also be able to provide code inspection à la IntelliJ IDEA, since that's the feature I miss most.
I'm not sure if your really being "brutally honest" by stating an opinion. I personally think that the 3D logos look too busy / needlessly detailed, and I like the streamlined look of the new logos.
How do bilinguals control their languages?
either you're not seeing everything, and you're missing some details when you examine the products,

or the original copy sucked in the first place.

I can buy an original cd or blu ray and the case and the disc and everything are extremely cheap.

Just like you used to be able to get OReilly books in good quality ink and one day the new newsprint paper was yellowing right there on the Barnes and Noble shelves and the ink had a strange gloss to it.

Some original products simply suck and that's why a counterfeit can get close.
Haha, this was a thought of mine... Thanks to Mr. Snowden we've seen what their excellent photoshop work can accomplish.
Friends, non-Romans, internet people...I come to you bearing a link to the project and now company I've been working on the last few years (it's completely bootstrapped) asking for advice in a combination of a Show HN and Ask HN.

I present to you VisaEase: http://www.visaease.com

If you could spare a moment to check it out, I'm hoping to get feedback on the site in general and specifically:
- Ways to increase customer conversion
- Any suggestions on how to reach the right audience of people ready to emigrate?
- Many of the site's visitors are early on in the immigration process and not yet ready for our services.
- Suggestions on ways to improve the site design, especially the homepage which I think may need a redesign
- What do you think about the style of the copy on the site?
- We created all the copy, videos, etc. ourselves and wanted to get some outside opinions from pros and semi-pros to this part of marketing
- Do you know anyone that would be interested in freelance infographic design work (we have lots of interesting stats to share, but want to do so in a fun and hopefully aesthetically pleasing way)?
- Know anyone that may be interested in investing in the immigration space?

I've written the code for the platform that powers VisaEase in five houses and at least three states/provinces. I've worked it in coffee shops, in restaurants, on planes, in the middle of the night, in the early morning, on "vacation". It's spanned three relationships and two day jobs. This feels like a major milestone in my life so I wanted to let you know that VisaEase is finally out there in the wild, I took extreme care in getting it right. Some of the most intelligent people I know have had difficulty navigating the US immigration system for non-employment based greens cards and visas. The process is very time consuming and plagued by some bad entrenched interests (e.g. people that purposefully want to keep the process complex and jargon filled) and essentially through much back and forth with helpful immigration attorneys, logic mapping, etc. the system can accurately (in less than 30 minutes of your time in most cases) fill out needed immigration paperwork for someone without every asking them duplicate information.

The first uses for the platform will be fiance and marriage based green cards and citizenship, so if you know of an international or inter-citizenship love fest you want to help along send them to VisaEase and let them know an actual immigration attorney (even our chat is staffed by an immigration attorney, not a paralegal or general support) will also review their application for free literally saving them thousands of dollars (in case they need that extra reassurance).

Thank you in advance and good luck with your startups as well.
Please don't make excuses for it.

I've had to deal with the multi-day aftermath of an XSS worm twice. That's when you realise that it's as bad as it is. After that it was "get fucked" and move to phpbb which while is not a stellar product it seems to be put together with a modicum of common sense and has a responsive community and support.
Console Wars or Class War?
Got To Be You and Me
Very cool, how did you achieve this? Is there a write-up you could point me in the direction of?
Nah, that's an alias for the director.
Darknet: Touring the Hidden Internet's Illegal Markets
I prefer http://bmizerany.github.io/roundup/ . It works in fewer shells, but when you know which shell(s) you are targeting, that doesn't matter. It is far less magic than shunit2--writing the tests actually feels like writing shell.
I think you have me confused with someone else. I've never created an indiegogo.com project page.
So politicians are all a bunch of teenagers in adult bodies. Who would have thought?
no matter whether these rumours are true or not, does HN think that simply spreading such rumours can increase pressure on Sony/Microsoft/Apple etc to to consider the conditions under which their commodities are produced?
This looks fantastic, I've just enabled it and it's nicely grouped the things I was looking for yesterday.

To quickly answer the first thing I looked into here, it doesn't send any of your data on (there are some google analytics stuff, but it doesn't send on your browsing history).