skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is totally right - that page is A/B tested to high heaven and is targeted at the mainstream car buyer (aka "typically less internet-savvy") who seem to respond best to that kind of layout.

Trust me, they tried a bunch of different Web 2.0-ish layouts and they all lose to these kinds of generic-looking pages. Sad but true.

Source: previous TrueCar employee.
The primary (or even only) advantage of hash-based password management is it's stateless nature. Once you begin to introduce files (ie extra state) to support the system you might as well use fully randomized passwords stored in file.
Patches accepted -- The language is young, and I have certainly not added all the features that I want. For example, generics should be able to provide enough runtime information that I could do something like:

pack = std.packbits(some_struct)

and get efficiently packed values.

Memory ordering, visibility, etc -- I'd love to have that added. I haven't figured out what exactly I want that to look like. Give me ideas, and I may very well implement them.

SIMD is just a matter of finding time, I think. I haven't put much work into making exposing intrinsics yet because, let's face it, the generated code is slow right now, so optimization should probably start there. General usability (eg, DWARF output, profiling, more sanity checks) is also a priority.

And I'd like to be self hosting before I do too much feature growth.
There's no better deterrent than racking a shell into your shot gun.
The person you could be hiring
American news have been covering it as well. I don't watch TV news so I can't comment there, but at least NPR has had lots of coverage (albeit lots of it comes through their broadcasts of the BBC) and it shows up in Google News as well.
I will disagree with the rest of you people and say that I thought it was hilarious, it made me laugh. It didn't make me think less of Ukrainians or fre5h in particular. As other GH commenters said Героям слава.
Interestingly, this also puts ISPs at a severe disadvantage for ratings if they decide to do net neutrality violating throttling on youtube or netflix. I hope every bandwidth-heavy service starts publishing reports like this
Google isn't close to a monopoly in the legal sense - especially in the online video delivery market. This will shine a light on ISP data handling and throttling.
Gentrification May Actually Be Boon To Longtime Residents
"We are a team of 7 people building a calendar with love & passion"

Love and passion?
I'm in the USA, am I'm aware of it - but only because I listen to NPR on my commute and I'm signed up for the Quartz Daily Newsletter (qz.com - I recommend it). Unfortunately, neither are hugely popular news sources in the US (outside of certain circles).
I don't know how this could be antitrust. On the contrary, it seems like it would be protected as free speech.
> they haven't really hurt anybody (this time)

The implicit threat, made explicit.
Quite often videos are buffering on my 80 Mbit connection at home - however when I switch to tethering with my phones connection, there is no problem. I always had the impression that providers try to cache or throttle Youtube video downloads. So I really appreciate that Google is doing something about it.

On a sidenote, the biggest german provider was trying to get money from services like Youtube for delivering their content. This rating turns it upside down :-)
How Capitalism influences our morality
The ultimate Startup Marketing Strategy
A common business model today is to threaten customers with lawsuit after the exchange of money for software has happened.

As a author, I want to decide if I can accept having my work used in the above mode. I think such threats can cause quite a bit of harm, and there are many notable cases where ordinary people has had their whole life physically hurt by it.

I can see how many developers want to decide for themselves if they are going to use the "threaten customers with lawsuit" model to earn a living. But it is no ones right to decide for me if they can use my work for it.
Ukraine must not have significant oil fields.
Just don't be naive and understand that you are supporting not ukrainians but some (minor? worst?) part of them.
> specifically on a touch screen device with a soft keyboard

But also rather ambitiously includes the use of autocomplete using a physical keyboard.

> 7. The method of claim 2, wherein the keyboard is a physical keyboard that is not a part of the touch screen display.

Which appears to describe a nearly identical system to the one used on www.google.com and in many other places; also for which examples of prior usage almost certainly exist. At first glance, I don't see anything that would prevent this patent from being asserted against a laptop manufacturer.
If taken at face value, it suffers from the same problem as "The Godfather", i.e. the picture of a perfectly consistent, always working system. That fit nicely into notions of the totalitarian state popularized about that time, and lasting into the 1980s and beyond. The alteration of the leading Communist regimes into whatever they have become--how do you characterize the PRC?--has not entirely destroyed the appeal of these notions.
Your perspective on "usual servility" is underrated.

I read the flyer, too. Kind of a PITA to rotate it, but:

It's just their perspective, mostly PR-style publicl-available history of projects for that particular developr. It's worthwhile to read, to remind ourselves to be respectful of the larger scene, rather than just the dollar signs.

Still, it's hyperbolic in places. I think their view would be more persuasive if they talked about "the kind of world we want to live in" rather than leaping to "evil." It would also be more persuasive if they discussed more ways everyday people can avoid giving power to their "opponents." Mom and Pop are much more likely to starve Google by switching to DuckDuckGo than to "take down surveillance cameras."

However, I don't think it's utter crap. Both sides in this issue have some large, philosophical questions to consider.
So it's another bookmark synchronization tool? Looking at the page it seems like firefox isn't supported, and neither is (shudder) IE. Not that that last one is much of a loss, but lack of support for Firefox basically makes this dead to me. There's also the issue of support for mobile browsers which is pretty important (and probably the hardest problem to deal with).
Could A "Consciousness App" Change The World?
No offense taken whatsoever. I agree it's an important and unsolved topic, and I myself still have a few old OpenBSD posters from my teenage years :)

Having grown up in a family of "starving artists" like they say, I see a lot of parallels between open-source development and, say, music, painting, dancing etc. There are many people who produce art as a "gift" to society, without financial motives. This almost always comes with a tension between the quality and intensity of your work and how you will earn a living. Perhaps you have the luxury of not requiring payment for your work, because you have another source of income - but then you might be limited in the time and energy you can invest in your art. Or conversely, you wish to focus your entire time and energy on your work, but find out that securing funding from your artistic work (whether royalties, donations, salary or grants) quickly becomes a job of its own - it is common for artists to feel that the grind of securing money for their work has become their primary job. Some discover they have a knack for it, or just get lucky, and find immense commercial success. There is a commonly held notion that commercial success is inversely proportional to intrinsic artistic value. But of course it's hard to know for sure since that is such a subjective thing to measure. Is Justin Bieber's art "less good" than the local rock band I watched last night? It depends who you ask :)

So why is it difficult for artists, sometimes immensely talented and critically appreciated artists, to secure funding? Obviously a complex and immense question. In some societies the notion of paying someone for art is inexistant, because everyone produces art on a daily basis as part of their culture. In our society, it is accepted to pay for art as a service, but only to a point, and following rules that can be hard to decipher because they rely on guessing other people's emotions, like fashion or the capital markets.

At the end of the day, I think part of the problem is that art, like writing open-source code, is an enjoyable activity. People like to do it. Many people turn out to be good at it. Some people even pay for the privilege of doing it. Which means it will always be a buyer's market.
All true, but that makes Xcode a proprietary IDE, not a proprietary compiler. Apple doesn't make a proprietary compiler.
Show HN: LavaSend - SnapChat for documents
LavaSend allows you to send a document, currently text based like PDF/Word/etc but plans for other stuff in the future, and you have full control over what the receiver can do.

You can make the document die after a few seconds/minutes/days, like SnapChat does with pics, or you can allow them to open the document x number of times. Once the conditions are met the document is securely destroyed on all devices and the server.

https://lavasend.com

Common Questions:

Q: How can you promise security against screen-shots, screen-recording, etc.?
A: There's never going to be a 100% for sure way to protect yourself from someone copying something you send them. Our main goal at LavaSend is to protect our users, and in that respect case law on the use of screenshots is sketchy at best. No digital record of the conversation exists after the requested conditions are met for deletion to be subpoenaed by a court of law.

Q: What is the problem you are solving?
A: The problem being solved is being able to send a document to another person without fear that the document can be used against you, mainly in a court of law. In the example of a lawyer, they can send their client documents for review without those documents being subject to legal data retention laws. I also foresee LavaSend being used in ways we never expected or intended. The idea of private/secure communication is widespread.

Q: Its fairly easy to lock a spreadsheet, word document, or PDF, so what makes LavaSend a better option?
A: Locking a spreadsheet doesn't keep it from being unlocked by the receiver and keeping it to use against you.

Q: Are there any services that lawyers currently use similar to this?
A: There are several services that promise secure end to end encryption of communications, including documents, but none, that we have found, in a SnapChat type format.
Well, it doesn't support mysqli_, which is a very common family of functions, especially since mysql_ is being deprecated. But a lot of stuff does run, as long as it doesn't need mysqli_.
Gallows humor is when the person about to be hung cracks a joke. Not when the people watching crack a joke.
Clickable link: https://lavasend.com
Wow, that's pretty shocking. It's HUGE news in Europe.
If you can't or don't want to watch the video, Thumprick is a browser bookmarking service like Google bookmarks or pinboard.in.

Tag line: "Thumbprick: A Better way to bookmark"
This is why as an American I go to the BBC for news. US news is just glorified talk shows and entertainment.
The easy answer is a god quality password manager. You use that to generate passwords that are as long and complex as the sites / services you use will allow.

You then generate a Diceware passphrase. It's easy enough to learn a 6 word passphrase.

You can combine a passphrase with a Yubikey for 2FA.

There are risks and problems.

We don't know how secure password safes actuLly are.

It's hard to maintain these across multiple platforms.

It's hard to integrate them with existing software flows - Chrome remembering passwords or OSX keychain for example.

Yubikey is almost brilliant, but the small miss means it's actually very crustratig to use.

Edit: this also doesn't cover what happens if you suffer a brain injury or die. You need some mechanism so people can admin your affairs in those situations.

Edit2: you might want to use a spycoin if you travel across international borders.
What about if youtube.com's CDNs are overloaded and slow? Will you blame your ISP?

This is the problem with such ratings systems -- they're inherently one-sided.
Just checked it. I really liked it.

Hope it goes viral.
I don't have any characterizations of these kids. I don't live in SF and don't understand the problems at all. They definitely seem misguided from an outsider.

It's not at all a fallacy that being white & male in the US provides privilege. If nothing else the incarceration rate among African-American males in this country means that if you are born African-American there is a significantly higher chance that your father is incarcerated during your childhood than if you are born white. As the child being born white you have the privilege of a higher chance of an non-incarcerated parent. It is just luck of the draw.

Diversity & privilege are not the same things. They are orthogonal issues. A Japanese-American has a certain set of privileges as do European-Americans & African Americans & Africans for that matter. Just because a place hires a lot of Indians does nothing to mitigate the lack of privilege for African American boy children.

Finally, your experience may be completely different than mine, but the Indian colleague's I've had did not come from horrible conditions. Quite the contrary they were among the elite in their country, born with dramatic privileges.
Quite right it is the chairman of the board (or in this case the president) who is effectively the boss of the C levels and its the boards responsibilities to look after the share holders a CEO/COO/CFO is just another worker.
Not me. I like a little humor in dire situations.

But the comments themselves are tired and not funny. They seem more like shills for karma or whatever is of value in their community.
What about the people who worked just as hard and still can't afford decent housing in the area?

Just one aspect of the privilege you enjoy is the fact that one of your passions in life happened to lead to a high-paying job. I and almost everybody on this forum enjoy this same privilege. This is a particularly insidious one because it's so hard to detect in yourself and admit to. When you're the sort of person who started programming at age 12, with no clue that it would one day lead to a financially prosperous life, it's hard to identify with someone for whom the stars just didn't happen to align in that way.

It's a lot harder to "see a target and hit it" when you have absolutely no interest or passion in the target.
Where is Rosetta? Interactive model of the Solar System
Erlang Binary Garbage Collection: A love/hate relationship
Airbnb profits prompted S.F. eviction, ex-tenant says
Maybe I'm going about it all wrong, but I'm having a hell of a time compiling in Microsoft Visual Studio.

Anyone else having luck?
Hey guys. For those concerned, please support ukrainians, Euromaidan is in strong need for financial donations http://www.helpeuromaidan.info/donate
You living in sweden is why you've never complained.

BT is outright shocking (probably infinite is ok, however this is in response to Virgin deploying fiber- and they're directly competing- thus! in area's with fiber coverage you get a choice of BT or Virgin, in the other areas.. well, sucks to be you!)

I get, on average 150KB/s with around 1s latency at all times (when it goes lower than 1s I celebrate)[0].

I live in the tech part of london, seriously confused as to how this is acceptable, but a leased line to bring me up to your speeds would cost me more than I earn in a month (I checked).

[0] http://www.darkscience.net/quotes/126/
This article misses that the browser version of installing an app on a computer is bookmarking a web page in your browser. With cloud syncing I can even take my bookmarks with me across different computers.

In their example, if I came across a useful website called 'Stayful' it would be bookmarked and available for quick access the next time I'm planning a holiday.
Ukraine is all over the front page of CNN.com this morning when I went to read it, but I have the "international" edition set for my preferences.
This part was particularly interesting "We often deploy servers within your ISP's network, vastly reducing the distance the video has to travel and minimizing the chance for congestion."
From that very article, "Yushchenko was declared the official winner and with his inauguration on 23 January 2005 in Kiev, the Orange Revolution ended." Democracy worked.
HackerNews ranking algorithm works in the really odd way.

How this happened that after few secs this went down from #1 having more than 200 votes.

Is it an algorithm after all?
Show HN: Clojure/Enlive Static Site Generator that keeps your HTML intact
Pinterest Is Getting Serious About Search
Precisely. Keep proprietary software out of Linux. The main reason we can get people to switch to Linux is freedom. If it becomes as full of closed programs as Windows, we won't get anyone to switch because there's no reason to (and no benefit). It's FOSS or nothing.
> It is imported (attached to hardware) by Samsung so why should it not be their legal problem?

Following that path, do you think hardware manufacturer is responsible for pre-installed software e.g. Asus for Windows, and that companies should sue Asus instead of Microsoft?
How will they technically do it?
I didn't read the by-line initially, got about two paragraphs in and thought "Jesus, is this by Dvorak?" And it is. And I smiled.

I remember howling with laughter at his anti-mac articles more than a decade ago, and this is funny for the same reason. Dvorak has always been utterly incapable of thinking from any perspective other than his own. For example, his hatred of the full screen mode for applications is almost certainly born from being a power user with a multi-monitor setup or a large hi-res display (that's how I see things too, but I also understand that the UI needs to work on things like a Surface or an ultrabook). Oh well, it was fun reading him again anyway.

As many other people have pointed out here, the main thing MS needs to fix is the pricing point and the ridiculous number of options. It's an OS, stop with the Ultimate Edition nonsense and just sell one version of it at the lowest price point that works.
There's also this 24/7 stream: http://videoprobki.com/eng/camera/70-nezalezhnosti-majdan. It shows Maidan Nezalezhnosti and a good part of Khreshchatyk from above (through a robotic camera originally intended to stream live traffic).
Google Fibre will soon top the list.

Well played Google .. very well played.
I've noticed the same people that are crying about the gentrification are the same people crying about the new buildings killing the culture of the city. It seems like they just want to kick all the new people out and just keep the status quo.
I just published the generator. You can see the relevant HN post here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7103742
Slashdot founder CmdrTaco is back with a news recommendation app called Trove
Meanwhile, in rural England, people desperate for internet access are bundling four DSL lines at 1.4 MBit/s downstream each. BT has re-established its monopoly with being the only provider of FTTC, a major step back from the LLU days of ADSL. But none of this matters, because even if you have fast internet, the government is working hard on expanding the existing censorship to make it useless (just this week folks couldn't download an update to the popular game League of Legends because it contained a file named VarusExpirationTimer.luaobj).
Isn't that kind of the point of a protest? The threat of revolution?
Everyone is saying that you can opt-out, which makes you a non-Weblock enrolled customer. That is not in question.

The problem is the opt-out bit, that you are by default enrolled in at a cost of $2k a year.
Or, even better, a neutral 3rd party that reports throttling for many services/domains.
I'm unfamiliar with ISP scale networks - where is the actual bottleneck for them? One of the large ISPs in the UK is Virgin, and they have their own fibre network. They also throttle Youtube.

Is there only so much data that can go down a fibre line? Is it the routers (I'm not sure if calling them routers is correct?) that lie between the main backbone and the network connecting a street/apartment? Is it the hardware in a handful of large data-centers?
thanks for the `worst' part
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See the last paragraph. I am assuming you could use random, real addresses, and split the winnings 50/50 with the real resident.
I don't work for Apple and have never seen Xcode source, but my guess (based on what I would do) would be that Xcode invokes Clang/LLVM as libraries rather than a standalone binary, in order to keep persistent state. In principle GCC could present such an interface, but in practice FSF policies prevent it. The point is that the static analysis can be used directly or by other tools (there is a web interface, for instance); it is not restricted to Xcode.
Don't you imagine it is easier to keep a level head in a confrontation when you are confident of your ability to defend your person, should it become necessary to do so?
Dunno.

I recommend looking up the evolutionary purpose of laughing. Then apply it to the people who used humour in this instance. IMHO, its a perfectly natural response. Appropriateness is there for irrelevant. Certainly not an issue by which one should get one one's high horse and judge others by.

As such, I have to ask: Is it appropriate to judge such people?
i just hope they don't just go from one dictatorship to another, that is, eu membership. the most noble thing i've seen so far is protesters wearing gear and going against those thugs who call themselves police -- they're cowardly on the wrong side, the establishment's.
In other words, Google thinks a PR campaign and angry customers is cheaper for the same bandwidth to edge networks than just paying the owners of those networks.
As I'm watching these news from Ukraine, it makes me really sad. People getting hurt on both sides (a couple of police officers were attacked by molotov cocktails and got burns, really horrific). All the while politicians sit in their offices and give orders. The saddest thing of all is that all this fight will eventually be in vain. Whoever comes in power next will be corrupt or even if they themselves are not corrupt, then they wouldn't be able to get rid of an endlessly corrupt apparatus.

People fighting governments in protests should really understand one thing: they feed the beast with their own money. If they want to have any influence whatsoever they should organize not to go protesting, but to stop paying taxes and stop using corrupt currency. If you do that, then at least everyone will be able to see who initiates violence (and it will be the state trying to take tax money by force) Unfortunately, people are wired to fight individuals, because it's easy to identify them and see some actual paths to fight them. And most people reject the idea that they don't need rulers to make peace and order. Until they keep believing that, they will keep fighting and losing these battles against their owners. History predominantly is on the dark side, showing that most protests either lead to civil conflicts and wars or don't lead anywhere.

There's this joke I once heard: there are more good people than bad people. The problem is that bad people are better organized. That is very true.