skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Internet of the 90s wasn't as widespread, but it had a much greater impact on areas of life and people it touched

Having grown up before the age of the Web/Internet, I couldn't disagree more.

I use Youtube on a regular basis to learn about things. Of the top of my head: gardening methods, worm composting, repairing a cracked ipad screen, fixing a macbook with soda spilled on it, learning about new programming environments.

Facebook and other social media have been given much deserved credit for allowing democratic organization of an unprecedented level in the Middle East.

Wikipedia is astoundingly useful for learning things quickly about math, history, science, culture, etc.

Skype keeps my parents in touch with their grandchildren even better than I kept in touch with my own grandparents when I lived an hour away from them growing up.

You could go on all day describing companies and Internet industries that have completely changed the way people live: Ebay, Salesforce.com, CNN.com, Blizzard, etc.

After all, you didn't name technologies, you named brands/services.

The brands are the ones that dominate the services being covered, just like in the old days Xerox was a verb that stood in for the service of making photocopies.
China is the only country capable of conquering that financial challenge. Next to using SpaceX + robots, China is the only entity that can build something on the moon. It helps that they have both the industrial base (as America did in the 1960s), cheap labor and are ascendant on wealth.

Once China masters the basics I believe they'll find it much easier than most expect to build a small colony on the moon. Many people may die in the process, but that's likely to be a sacrifice they're willing to make (which many countries would not be).

If you're willing to fail a lot more often - resulting in deaths - you can reduce costs significantly and expedite the timeline. The Soviets demonstrated that in many ways space can be brute forced if you're less worried about death. Strap people to rockets and shoot them at the moon, many will make it there intact.
In principle a bomb detonator is a custom piece of electronics, as a consequence, airport security has a problem with different electronics circuits.

I fully acknowledge that "custom" and "different" are not equivalent concepts, but well, that's the rationale.
In the case of web services, sure.
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What you're saying is true at a high level. However, it isn't box cutters they're using and the situations are so radically different in every aspect that I'm not entirely sure why this anecdote is even relevant.
The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU
Prepaid doesn't mean you have to deal with credits, though. My phone is prepaid, but the carrier still lists the price in real currency, not fake money.
Did you learn something about privacy of users?
How sadly and extraordinarily elitist.
Does something have to be consumer-facing, and well known to non-customers to 'win'?
NSA Spying Risks $35 Billion in U.S. Technology Sales
What's worse?

1) Being the party/person who started another world war; 2) Being nuked without ability to retaliate (in case the executive branch is wiped out)

Most incredibly stupid decisions were made rationally, under extreme perception of the reality.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mZhbfnr...
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Homejoy is hiring hackers to change the home services industry
11 year old girl creates hilarious holiday parody of what does the fox say
If site owner visits this discussion:

Interesting story, crazy popup ads (mobile device).
It's crazy that people don't connect the NSA to their job. Their job disappearing, like Detroit style.

Stage 1: denial.
is 'Big Year' a common phrase? Otherwise you might get into trouble with the movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053810/
I remember when Ruby on Rails developers were claiming this. Yet, I couldn't find one to deliver a website at 1/10th the price...or even 1/5th the price.

EDIT: (yes, being a little cheeky because as we know the physical time programming isn't everything in building a website)
Your primal senses probably tell you that 1) is the best option, but objectively seen it's 2).
Perhaps I should clarify.

When money came into the picture, small-time ISPs and countless dial-up providers (many who offered some short time free) were popping up everywhere. They were quickly gobbled up or mismanaged to the ground as time went on and what remained was far from the competition (the more equal peers concept) as now only handful of companies control access to the world.

Your university was likely connected via early backbone which would have been sold to a company or is being maintained outside it's jurisdiction and is likely being manipulated purely for exploitation.

Commercialization isn't killing the internet. Monopolization is.
http://pastebin.com/n2c6Muhe
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It was around $15 to $20 for my family using dial-up in the mid 1990s ('94/95) for unlimited use (equivalent to maybe $7 to $10 today). 4kb / sec baby! The phone line was another $20, and you'd dial a local # for the ISP to avoid long distance fees. Never could talk my parents into getting a separate phone line just for the modem.
I couldn't believe it. It pushed pop up even when I wasn't on the navigator...
Is anyone able to verify the signature? GnuPG gives me a BADSIG error.

I was actually looking for what info was included in the signature (e.g. a timestamp), but it seems KGPG doesn't provide that. However the sig itself does not even seem to be valid, though it's probably because I copied it out of Google's cache.

Edit: For some reason, this does validate for me: https://gist.github.com/krallja/7710464
As a general principle, just treat no answer as no. Companies that use ECC advertise it. You can also look in /proc/cpuinfo to see if it's a Xeon/Opteron or not.
"That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"

/obligatory
1) Curly quotes are not a valid surrounding for values.

2) <foo bar=baz> will usually be interpreted as a value by browsers, even though it's illegal, because everything on the web is wrong

3) The browser sees curly quotes as part of baz

4) For lord only knows what reason, the most basic interpretation of that curly quote appears to be the color green. That'll be somewhere in the CSS spec. I don't care to look it up.

If you change those to straight quotes, suddenly it'll start working. Notice that JSFiddle also highlights the source differently.

http://jsfiddle.net/WGSNX/1876/

By the way, the "font" tag is over, and setting color that way is also over. <span style="color:red">Like this please</span> if you need to do inline styling.
The ones below seem very real and plausible:

Art of Funding a Startup - Bill Watterson, a cartoonist's advice

A better approach to analytics. Just capture everything

Interactive map of Linux kernel infringes on patents. Lawsuit avalanche to follow.

Apparently Yelp has a natural, almost visceral aversion to complexi

Show HN: fontBomb - Stylishly destroy the web as we know it

Google+'s Real Goal is Mars

In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do damage control

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The Unintended Effects of Reading
I hadn't ever used a REPL to facilitate my programming before utilizing Gradle & Groovy to code some build files. The REPL made it really easy to experiment with syntax and facilitated my learning as much as Intellisense used to when I worked in the Microsoft stack.
Reverse psychology against hackers/spies. Let them think that it was a super obscure, difficult code to crack.
I followed this and got credited.

In order to start a server you have to add payment details though. So step 5 is not optional.

Winner! \0/
The author applied to YC which sort of implies wanting to visit the US for a few months.
When there's a viable fusion reactor requiring He3, the economics of moon-mining will change.
Sorry, this isn't correct. Red is a perfectly valid color value. This is not about property expansion.

This is because the source uses curly quotes, which are not recognized as a parameter bracketing, and so the curly quotes are trying to be interpreted as part of the value.

Change the quotes to actual quotes and it starts working as expected.
Six months after the Thailand drive crisis, drive prices "peaked" at about double their earlier prices and began falling. Just about then, an article came out featuring a bunch of panic inducing quotes from a Seagate VP loudly claiming it might be a year before they could get enough drives made, shortages would be terrible. It felt so disgusting to me, none of it was true, the VP was just trying to encourage pre-buying and drive hoarding to artificially pump sales.
I prefer Kevin Mitnicks:

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/ranh/106709219/
> There was particularly a concern that the nuclear missiles the United States had stationed in other countries, some of which with somewhat unstable leadership, could potentially be seized by those governments and launched. With the PAL system, this became much less of a problem.

Is this for real? Its like putting a lock on your car steering wheel, while all wheels and radio has been stolen overnight.
Ask HN: What's the first smartphone?
First, let's define what I mean by 'the first'.

The first smartphone, I'd say, should be defined as the first device that was attributed to be a smartphone (either coined the term or was introduced as a smartphone) and as would have been available for purchase by the mass market (even if it was expensive). I think it could be argued that the first designed or prototyped smartphone should be considered and thought about, but I think a product that actually made it to market is more worthy of that title.

I've been looking around a bit and the most prominent out there is Simon (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-29/before-iphone-and-android-came-simon-the-first-smartphone) but not sure if that's exactly the case.

Would love to hear everyone's thoughts!
The rights you are describing are not moral rights. Moral rights belong to the artist, the photographer for example. He can say whether his work is being used in a way to hurt his honor or reputation. The rights of the person involved in the picture are called privacy and publicity rights which can be waived by the Licensor as long as he has obtained them from the original person exposed in the picture. See this case for example: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Chang_v._Virgin_Mobile
I considered it; I've done a good bit of Wikipedia editing in the past. The problem is, I have a hard time figuring out how to phrase it better without just including the Feynman quote. That's the only source, and it seems that the Wikipedia page is merely trying to re-phrase what Feynman said; there really isn't anything to the page other than Feynman's quote and the diagrams. As such, it's hard to do a good job rephrasing it rather than simply quoting Feynman.

If you can find other sources than Feynman on the shaft passer (and blog posts and forum discussion that are merely discussing Feynman don't count), I'll consider updating it with an improved description and reference to the other sources.
So is it time to start taking photos of the moon before the image seen from earth completely changes. Every time I read about the moon and mars I think about how humans are going to change the environment after living there for a while. The moon also happens to affect nocturnal life on earth, which means it will end up being an environmental issue too.
I have a site that contains the banking information and a custom number (order number or billing number) that people must put in the wire transfer. It's generated like that XYZ, where X = some random number, Y = zero-padded userid, Z = increasing number for that account. If a user visits this page, a new order is created in the background with status "unprocessed", or the same order number is used again, if it wasn't "completed" by an incoming wire transfer before.

At first, I used an online banking tool where I copy&pasted all incoming wire transfers into my web application, which would regex for all ordernumbers, do a little plausibility check (incoming amount equals the amount that was set when the order was generated; user has open orders) and set the order to "processed" and extend the account by the according amount of months.

Now, I use a VPS where I installed an HBCI client (AqBanking). It's relatively easy to set up and once a day, it fetches all new wire transfers via cronjob and sends them via cURL to my web app where the same regex and plausibility check happens that I used before.

It feels a bit weird to store your banking PIN on a VPS, so make sure the VPS is properly secured.

The VPS sends me an email whether or not everything worked and that's it.

Most days of the week, there's no problem. Sometimes, you get the wrong amount from people, some people don't put the order number, some people confuse the bank number (BLZ) with the order number and so on. In these cases, the regex parser fails and tells the reason in the email. I then process it manually. Some people think that wire transfers work instantly or that they are also processed by banks over the weekend (which is not the case). I have a few email templates to answer these requests if necessary. Fortunately, it's not that much effort and most of the time, there's no manual work to do.

I didn't adjust the system for the coming IBAN stuff yet. Have to look into that.
I hope there are options to follow /newest. There are many great stories that never make it to the front page. But I have to (lightly) disagree with swalsh's apprehension. This will quadruple the time spent on my actual work since I can quickly scan the headlines and go back without having to open a window.
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We should not touch our moon. We shouldn't extract anything from it, and we should add very little to it. Earth's weather depends on it, so unless we're trying to manage our weather and its gravitational pull, etc.. then we shouldn't touch it.. and we shouldn't be trying to play with our Earth's moon unless we need to for some unexpected solar event.
Bitcoin would permit bridging of trust networks.
If you want to have control about how your creative works are reused, then you should choose to stay with plain-old Copyright and grant (or deny) authorizations as requested.

It's a little bit crazy to say "Yeah, this license gives you total freedom to reuse this work however you want without asking permission, except when the original author doesn't like the result". Where do you draw the line? It defeats the purpose of the license.

You can make a parallel with FOSS, your software could be used to run nuclear missiles, a pedophilia network or other nasty things. I don't like it quite a bit, but the other option is a slippery slope in my opinion.
No, it's not. But that's not how the feature would actually end up getting used, is it? If you could design a simple feature that would resist abuses, 'pg would probably consider it.
Constantly replenished surface water + solar panels = rocket fuel with only 1/6th G of gravity well tax.
Just like Facebook
I wonder if the moon could be the start of WWIII.
No, the OP is correct. You're right that <red> is a valid CSS color keyword, but <”red”> is not. Because of this, the CSS spec treats it as a "legacy color value" and attempts to interpret it as a string of characters (including the quotes) rather than a keyword.
for old legacy systems, keeping /etc/ in RC is (and has been) a massive godsend.

Its nice to see a rarely used bit of software from 31 years ago still being maintained.
Once your language allows you to use MKL and its equivalents, your code will use every arithmetic unit of the CPU in almost every cycle and therefore performance-wise there is no difference which language it is. So it's all down to which language offers you better library support and nicer syntax.
I find the argument for minerals to be off at least few orders of magnitudes financially,

>"The Moon is full of resources - mainly rare earth elements, titanium, and uranium, which the Earth is really short of, and these resources can be used without limitation.

Titanium is ninth-most abundant element in the Earth's crust. Normal soil contains 0.5% - 1.5% titanium. All we need is energy for the process of separating them.

Rare earth elements are expensive but not so expensive that we need to go to the moon. After we have used all conventional mines for rare earth, we can get them from the bottom of the sea more economically (see for example: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110703/full/news.2011.393.ht... )

Uranium would be incredibly expensive if it would be mined on the moon.

In theory HE3 mining could be viable, unless investments in deuterium+tritium fusion reactor that would produce HE3 for helium reactors is better investment.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Treaty#Ratification -

"As of 2013, only 15 states (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Uruguay) have ratified it. France, Guatemala, India and Romania have signed but not ratified it."

The only country in the list with a current space capability is India.
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If we don't touch it, it eventually will go away from our earth. We should develop technology to be able to keep our moon.
In meantime, just use a systray RSS app & use HN's RSS feed. Essentially the same thing kinda sorta.
Even then, building separate deuterium-tritium fusion reactors that produce He3 for He-He fusion reactors could be more financially sound idea.
Why "for nearly 2 decades"? It doesn't explain how this stopped being the case, did I miss the paragraph where it explained that the codes are no longer 00000000?
How was that? Not being snarky, I'm just wondering what you mean.
Visualizing the bitcoin nodes around the world
Not sure what profit is from the average youtuber, but if it's $5 or lower that could work. Enough people might pay the fee instead of blocking ads and eating bandwidth.
Yes I combined two changes in the same comment for brevity. You also waive all of the personalities rights with this new version.
A closer look at the Jolla phone
May be so. I have very little understanding of any of this. What I am doing right now certainly isn't worth even this tiny bit of effort that I have put into so far. My Account Balance is 0.00016236 LTC after 9 hours.
I prepay for many services that are still able to list prices in real currency:

https://www.fastmail.fm/

https://www.tarsnap.com/

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/

The latter two do keep track of fractional charges. They deduct $0.01 from prepaid credits once that much is owed. Since you accept multiple currencies, this becomes a bit more complex but still doable. For example, let the user choose the currency to display, or pick a single standard currency (euros?) and use it as your units.

Tarsnap and NFSn choose to refund your prepaid credits if and only if you close your account with them. Not every prepaid system lets you get your prepayments back at all. I am fine with this: I am willing to pay a bit more (prepayment without refund) in order to limit my liability to the amount I intend to pay.
Did not work for me. My Billing history only has PayPal in it. I created a support ticket.

I'm sure they're busy today with all the new sign-ups, I'm curious how long it will take.
Apparently, you did. Near the end (second or third last paragraph):

"Dr. Blair . . . decided to outline it for the public in this 1977 article where he described how just four people acting in tandem could easily activate a nuclear launch in the silos he had worked in. Further, amongst other things, the PAL system McNamara had touted was barely in operation and thus launches could be authorised by anyone without Presidential authority . . . It is, perhaps, not coincidence that the PAL systems were all activated and the codes changed the same year this article was published."
For me it did not feel very invasive, but I did buy an external webcam so I could get some distance between me and the camera.

It felt a bit like sitting at an office, people can look at me there as well.
It's always a tricky thing to pinpoint when great tech first came this way. Sometimes, we're not even sure if it was great tech when it makes a splash so that may be part of the reason.

I was able to find this that corroborates with BW on the Simon :
http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/09/18/20-years-ago-the-first-sm...

If you're ignoring the "phone" bit of "Smartphone", it's basically a PDA first. So the first PDA would be the Organizer by Psion : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser

If you want to mix PDA and phone proper, the first time that happened was with the Nokia 9000 : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_9000_Communicator
What's the value of a dollar? What is the value of basic human needs? At the moment under the circumstances I live in, and trying to keep the discussion simple and plain (yes, there are complexities - establish the baseline & ground rules and proceed to fine details on your own), for sake of argument I'll accept the USA legal poverty line (which any guaranteed basic income would match) as equalling basic human income need (despite it being 20x world median income, adjust figures as you see fit) and ignoring inflation for the moment, we get about $30/day. Fixing the dollar to 1/30th of what basic normal daily needs costs seems sensible; a machine reducing those costs by 10% would indeed play havoc with the vast relativities of currency economics, but for sake of discussion let's just say whatever it takes to meet basic daily needs, that cost is pegged at $30 (or vice versa).

Yes, it's hard to discuss this as all the factors are so danged squishy. I'm trying to get a handle on them (hence my above post, which was mostly me just ruminating out loud). The real value of anything, insofar as outside human existence nothing has value, is based on the basic needs for sustaining daily existence - a value which I'm enumerating as "$30".

As for hijacking, methinks this is a quite sensible response to an article suggesting most people shouldn't work because the highly productive few should just carry the weight of everyone's needs without compensation.

As for "taxes == coercion", I mean that in the most objective way. Taxes are, in fact, paid under coercion: if you don't pay, you'll be made to suffer. You may pay those taxes with the gladdest heart and complete consent to the system it enables, but the coercion is still there.
Or worse, someone does something incredibly wrong from that address (arranges a bombing, posts kiddy porn, or so forth) and the police arrest everybody associated with the address just-in-case...
The other standard downside of kivy is the mandatory giant app footprint. Hello World is going to set you back 25mb on Android.
Well easy, it's 1)...
But thinking that there was only two viable options is stupid. (less stupid than create a password so simple for such a powerful stuff...)

Though, you are right about the danger of the perception of reality. (that why it's good, some time, to go back to the first principles)