skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If it was a hoax, then we have to invoke Jules Verne and his time machine."

I wonder if he meant H.G. Wells, or if that was a reference to Back to the Future III.
I think the iPhone version is a little nicer, but it does have a retro feel to it.

You can watch on YouTube to form your own impression. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZx6fLU5ulw
The book is almost completely about regular joes in regular relationships not getting what they want out of them, and consequently out of life. It's not about wannabe Casanovas trying to break world records of number of lays. There's plenty of literature on that subject, but all of it deep down boils down to simply regaining masculine confidence and learning how to be a healthy male in a society where men are brought up and educated by women.
What's that based on ?

I use both Uber and Lyft frequently and, for me, Lyft has been always cheaper for the same trips.
Why Blacksmiths are better at Startups than You (2012)
These are the oldest human footprints ever discovered in Europe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkRVJNmWmT8 - this happened to me on Wednesday night (filmed with a Drift Ghost, a better camera for motorcycle helmets though).

Capturing stuff like this is worth it.
In chromium I have a feeling the reactions are a little bit late. In firefox it's better I think.

Hit areas of the pipes are a little bit too big. Or it's too fast to see what happens. edit: Pretty sure there's something either wrong or unexpected behavior in the game.
The article confuses two things: 1. Live interception of SMTP communication going in and out of Lavabit and 2. Interception of the encryption key to access the stored emails.

The first would be relatively easy, in that the post is correct. But what the warrants actually requested was the stored data of an account. Lavabit provided these, but they were encrypted (as per design of the service). The FBI then wanted the keys for the stored account data. And for that Lavabit asked for 3500USD which is reasonable, because there is no off the shelf software to grab the POP3 or IMAP password in the handshake. Especially as the TLS endpoint and the software decrypting the stored account data with the POP3 or IMAP password was probably the same, so there is no plain TCP traffic in the internal network containing the key.

You can see that the FBI asked for (2) and not (1) in the transcript of the court hearing, page 50 of the cited pdf http://cryptome.org/2013/10/lavabit-orders.pdf . It is a really entertaining read btw.: The FBI agent and the judge bicker about whether or not Levison should be asked right there in court if he would comply with a warrant (about the TLS key) they haven't even served him yet.

> THE COURT: I don't know, Mr. Trump. I don't think I want to get involved in asking him. You can talk with him and see whether he's going to produce them or not and let him tell you. But I don't think I ought to go asking what he's going to do and what he's not going to do because I can't take any action about it anyway. If he does not comply with the subpoena, there are remedies for that one way or another.
I tend to prune my tabs regularly, so I'm rarely over 15-20. I'm also rarely under 4.
Khmer Rouge comparisons? GMAFB.
I don't understand why you insist changing operations like create, update and delete should be HTTP GET. That is a security nightmare.
Look, I'm so bright that people can't look at me without wincing. (At least I assume that's why they can't bear the sight of me.) But even after decades of experience, I still find programming difficult. It's not just people issues; it's technically demanding, too.

It wouldn't be if I had just gone on writing orbital mechanics software in Fortran decade after decade, getting more automatic with each passing year, but that's not what "programming" means to me. Every decade or so there is a sea change: corporate mainframes > personal computers > database-backed websites > online economy > mobile > ?

Within each paradigm, there are new platforms with new languages, APIs, libraries, and tools that matter. Yes, I learned years ago how to manually lay out the logic for looping and branching and recursing and callbacking. Like manual-focus Nikon lenses, they're all still useful today.

But it's maddening that the advanced skills that give me leverage in one era are built into the APIs, libraries, and frameworks of the next and no longer give me any advantage. It's maddening that no matter how much I learn, every new team seems full of people half my age who know far more than I do about the tech stack we're using, and I have to wait for the next technology pivot (sometimes more than a year!) to obsolete their advantage and reset the game yet again.

Having to rebuild your skillset over and over is both a technical and emotional challenge that makes software development ("programming" in the real world) hard.
Part of the "corporate experience" is working with teams on existing code under strict deadlines. That's not something you can just learn on your own, unfortunately. I would, hands down, take the 32-year-old in this scenario (all else being equal).
I see the list of bug fixes and see great promise. It is likely that most bugs affected more than one particular program. Assuming the bug fixes themselves aren't introducing too much new code (which will inevitably contain bugs itself), I see Wine as stabilizing, not losing the battle.
Well shit, you're right, I'm an idiot.
The iOS version is muxh nicer in my opinion, this is just a knockoff
And I can put that delete URI in an <img src=""> and have your browser or iPhone email automatically destroy your document before you can stop it.
Brackets is actually a very good code editor. I never use live preview.

I do, however, do rails with it. This includes everything: ruby, erb, CSS, sass, JavaScript/coffeescript, and even handlebars.

Live development is it's least useful feature (for me), and Brackets should get more credit for the rest of it.
Are endorsements faked? I've deleted my account, but next time I would ask your uncle if he actually endorsed you for X, because I have a strange feeling they are completely fabricated.
Python Resources for Newbies
Unfortunately this is a total rip / the original is here: http://marksteve.com/dtmb

Disclosure: Mark Steve and I work together.
I use it to run AnalogX's PCalc (programmer's calculator). I haven't found a match for it on Linux or Mac. Python/IPython REPL is better for the history, functions, and variables but I haven't figured out a good way to replicate C arithmetic rules when it comes to overflow/underflow/finite bit limits. It would be neat if I could somehow "type" variables/literals to C types in Python.
> Not sure how the Mill is going to make my ruby webapp go 8 times as fast by issuing 33 instructions instead of 4.

8x speed is not being claimed, 10x power/performance is. That could mean that the app runs at the same speed but the CPU uses 10% of the power. A lot of the power saving probably comes from eliminating many part of modern CPUs like out-of-order circuitry.
You're not addressing the strength or fragility of the artifacts though.
WhiteRa on HN! You made my day : )

Just a quote while we're at it..

>> We make expand and then defense it.
Thanks for your great effort. I've used Wine quite a bit, and have benefited so much from it that I bought CrossOver, just to support it.

I've been a fan on Wine since I tried it, but I think this article on OS/2 from Arstechnica argues very well, on a historical basis, for why Wine unfortunately won't be helping getting people to use Linux on a large scale.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/11/half-an-operating-sy...

"OS/2 ran Windows apps really well out of the box, so they could just write a Windows app and both platforms would be able to run that app. On the other hand, writing a native OS/2 application was a lot of work for Windows developers."

"The second lesson of OS/2—to not be too compatible out of the box with rival operating systems—is a lesson that today’s phone and tablet makers should take seriously. Blackberry once touted that you could easily run Android apps on its BB10 operating system, but that ended up not helping the company at all. Alternative phone operating system vendors should think very carefully before building in Android app compatibility, lest they suffer the same fate as OS/2."
> Anyone can 'program computers'

Often with the most hilarious results.
Flappy Bird developer is making $50,000/day with in-app ads
Wow you reading Yergin's "The Prize", which won the Pulitzer Prize award and think that you know everything about the oil. You is actually an idiot. I can recommed you Jarred Diamond, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse:_How_Societies_Choose_... who also had his, how do you call it, the Pulitzer prize. This proves everything. Keep denying the obvious. This was proven useful.

> You're the one doing "manipulation". You made the bold statement that "ALL"

You is imbicillic criminal, not able to understand the message, after I chewed how ALL is consumed by cars? I have told you not to approach me before you figure out the %% of oil "spent on the fertilizer".
One way is to figure out how much taxis and limos are paying for insurance.

The insurance companies already spend a lot of effort trying to quantify those risks.
How do other foreign currencies compare to bitcoin with respect to this paragraph? Surely that doesn't mean it's correspondingly illegal to trade RUB for USD within russia, but i'm not sure what the salient difference is
Why did you blatantly steal from Mark Steve's version?
How I learned to stop worrying and love a less private Internet.
Boto v2.25.0 released, addressing "How to Save 90% on Your S3 Bill"
> -Right now, everybody's needs are being met by the
> combination of x86 and ARM (with some POWER, MIPS, and
> SPARC on the fringes). These are doing well enough
> right now that very few people are going to want to go
> through the work to port to a wildly new architecture.

That's not true at all. The biggest high-performance compute is being done on special parallel architectures from Nvidia [1] (Tesla). Intel trying to bring X86 back into the race with its Xeon Phi co-processer boards [2].

[1] http://www.top500.org/lists/2013/11/

[2] http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/xeon/xeon-...
I made a skin for the original: http://cheeyoon.com/post/75677698649/flappy-doge

Check reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/1x2csr/remix_my_c...
The financial loss for missing out on compounding of the matching funds for few months is likely much lower than the financial loss of passing on the increased cost to the employees.

That was the choice being made here.
Contrast this with stack ranking and other metrics for developers and PMs. Can you now see the OPs reservations about such a system? Particularly as the article critiques the system as flawed.
Aren't they closing because of the Russia issues announced today?
As a Jeep driver I agree, they're definitely not appropriate for shuttling around most people.

If you can find the niche of uber customers who want to go offroad though, maybe you could make a fortune.
Great to hear! Krita is one of the few art programs that has real-time tiling, which seems like a great way to work on textures: http://krita.org/item/196-new-wraparound-tool
What if the annoyances of conference calls happened in real-life meetings
Well,to be honest, flappy birds itself is an awkward copy of a much better game, so I guess its a tradition.
Krita's just lacking a OSX build. I've been using the windows build for a while. Krita's focus is on digital painting. I would say Krita is more comparable to Corel's Painter instead of Photoshop.
wow! I didn't know this thing is still around. At this point, doesn't it make sense to make OSXE? I know it's not as catchy as WinE, so how about OXE?

Kidding aside, I think the world needs an iOSE on windows and linux
> And people who willfully confuse a couple dopey activist legislators from the state's goofiest city with the entire state can

We're talking about a state legislature and governor which did in fact just ban lead bullets, a state legislature and governor elected by the entire state.
Spacewar 4.2 online (masswerk.at)
You may now play version 4.2 of Spacewar! (the earliest known digital computer game) online at http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar -- make sure to select the right version from the "Version"-menu at the top.

(There are also version 3.1 and version 4.1f, the latter being the version apparently run at the CHM.)

To my knowledge this is the first chance to play a version online that requires the PDP-1's hardware multiply-devide option.
I, too, was annoyed by the omission of any relevant details.

I did a little searching and came up with some nice details about the ISEE-3 communications system here: http://mdkenny.customer.netspace.net.au/ISEE-3.pdf
Also, this submission is not following the terms of the license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License)

Original github: https://github.com/marksteve/dtmb
Clickable URL: http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar
Definitely at least an 8/10. Look at all the replies.
But Atlassian dreams? :) Good for you guys.
How public-spirited of you to open-source someone else's code.
I had the exact opposite reaction - I was surprised at how accurate their recommendations were, at least for instant video.
This impatience to project my own point of view onto everything cost me a lot. I don't dismiss my ideas now, but I try to investigate people's history and current state of affairs. Maybe they didn't think about it, but even then, they're not in a position to handle a change, or even the idea of a flaw that may be fixable.
depends which laptop, but usually between 5-15 each.
i also have a VM and two remote desktops going on at work... do those count as part of the total? :)
I'm (currently lol) a Verizon FiOS user from Orchard Park, NY (just South of Buffalo) and I thought you might like to see my results so far:

Feb 6 2014

06:30 AM ET: AWS East 31.52 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 26.92 Mb/s

15:30 PM ET: AWS East 41.37 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 27.13 Mb/s

19:30 PM ET: AWS East 3.97 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 26.74 Mb/s

19:40 PM ET: AWS East 8.26 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 26.21 Mb/s

20:15 PM ET: AWS East 1.70 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 25.55 Mb/s

21:00 PM ET: AWS East 4.62 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 27.18 Mb/s

Feb 7 2014

06:00 AM ET: AWS East 31.56 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 27.33 Mb/s

12:45 PM ET: AWS East 31.11 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 26.60 Mb/s

17:15 PM ET: AWS East 30.50 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 26.13 Mb/s

20:00 PM ET: AWS East 2.44 Mb/s; Linode, Newark, NJ 29.54 Mb/s

I plan on running it a few more times tonight as well as throughout the next week or so until they admit this isn't just a "coincidence" :-)

Reply on here if you'd like me to contact you with all my data in the future. Thanks!
It's a dream job for developers

Really? I'm not so sure, AFAICT Github doesn't have any new or interesting problems to deal with. It's just a Rails app that's constantly developed on. You can do that, well, anywhere.
Follow up to:

http://www.appneta.com/blog/s3-list-get-bucket-default/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7184179
+1 on age. Also, don't tell people your ethnicity.
Because nobody uses CNC machines like that.

The problem with metal fabrication is that a good CNC machine is at least $50,000 and more normally $250,000 or so. Combine the fact that the shop owner wants that machine running 24/7 to make bank, the fact that an error in the steel can cost you $20,000 in raw materials, and the fact that a single programming bug can damage the machine and you have a recipe for very constrained, conservative usage.

Contrast this to 3D printers: "Huh. That sucked. I'll print it again." Material lost: Under $1000. Machine damage: Nil. So, you'll print all manner of crap until you get it right.
ASTROIDS goes disco in a new teaser video
minfo() { info "$1" --subnodes -o - 2> /dev/null | $PAGER; }
What's even more unsettling than the fact that many companies have this attitude towards their employees, is the degree to which members of HN unquestioningly defend this practice whenever the subject comes up. As long as only Uber does this, there really isn't a problem. But it will be a problem if it happens everywhere.

I am not saying that this is a black-and-white thing. There are certainly nuances here, and in a purely economic sense, humans are often interchangable. The problem starts when this attitude uncompromisingly becomes part of how companies (read: people) do business. A purely utilitarian, "amoral", selfish attitude to the world has bad ramifications if widely adopted.

Keep in mind that giving the boot to everyone below a 4.3 average rating means that if only one out of three customers conclude that your service was perfect, you will have your contract cancelled with no warning. It's easy enough to say "just have perfect performance, or otherwise just get another job" when you have a 5-year STEM education, grew up in a happy family and don't suffer from any serious condition or illness.

But not everyone has it this easy. If this is the future of employment, there need to be simpler options for people who can't perform significantly better than "average" most of the time. You might be safe in your software development job since you can't easily be replaced, so you boss won't fire you if, say, you go through a really messy breakup and perform at 50% capacity for six months. Everyone in an uncompromising performance-measured job will be canned under such circumstances. And having a tough time is something that all people experience once in a while.

As long as everyone could have their basic needs met when unemployed: Sure, make whatever labor structure is the most efficient. Otherwise, there needs to be a certain degree of compromise.
IOS Periodicals
Apple seems to be plateauing in terms of revenue, and although google's revenue is still growing I'm wondering how long it can last. There is only so much advertising that they can squeeze out of the internet. If you look at youtube, they have been putting in more and more ads in the last year which has helped boost revenue, but now there is nowhere left to go.

As for their non-advert products: how big a market is the thermostat market, and what are the chances that Google will somehow screw up Nest? Google isn't exactly very good at customer service, and you need that for hardware.

As for these amazing robots, we've been hearing for 50 years about how robots are going to be making our lives easier at home, but it hasn't happened yet.
Hey ! Pretty cool, anyway to use add keyboard management ? Makes too much noise to click everytime.. But cool version !
Especially Windows support is cool news. I am following etcd project, it's serious and can change server configuration world. Thanks Alex!
Dogecoin Creators Talk Surprising Success, Scams, the Future and Pronunciation
Personally, I think he'd make more money at $400-600/hr if he could also get some kind of manager to handle the interactions with clients; it doesn't seem to be what he enjoys, or is particularly good at.

Completely agree. I'm not doing security, but my hourly is similar, and it was a game changer for me to have someone in a manager-like role working with me. Client relations are a huge time suck, but are also absolutely necessary. If he can find someone (or maybe someone on HN should volunteer), it'd be more than worth it.

BTW My manager takes a flat 15%. I'm much happier, clients are way happier, and my total income has increased as a result—not to mention another person is gainfully employed at something they're good at and enjoy. A win-win all the way around.
> If Uber were more concerned with providing a living to its employees, then they likely wouldn't last very long as a profitable business.

Well, in a competitive market, something has to fall to the cost of the inputs required to produce it.

Whether it should be Uber's profit margins or driver's wages is probably a value judgment.
Sorry for this, I'm edit read me file this :

This repo forked by : Don't Touch My Birdie http://marksteve.com/dtmb
Perhaps you can extend the F1-score[1] to be an F1,w-score that weights errors based on some measure of distance from correctness.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_score
I'd say .app is probably a shoe-in. The other short ones have a pretty solid chance of seeing real use.

The long ones, not so much. How popular are existing TLDs like .info or .name?

Given sufficient time, maybe the others will amount to more than an unabashed cash grab. But not this decade. Probably not the next, either. And at that point, you're talking about a situation where "remembering a domain name" is even more of a broken process than it is today.

How will we connect to computers on the global network of fifty years from now? Two hundred? I'm betting it's not going to look like http://blog.johnjohnson.photography or whatever new list ICANN releases next time they want to play.
It would be very interesting to implement something like this atop FUSE[0].

For free you get the ability for the player to use any existing command line tool you want. You could easily make strange and artificial directory structures. And you can dynamically change and detect changes in the filesystem.

[0] http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
Either way, I enjoyed the underlying sentiment:

when you're trying to analyze text from documents of uncertain origin, one of the most powerful tools is to look for information that would be known to someone living in a particular place and time, but that wouldn't have been known to "outsiders" (ie, forgers) until after the manuscript was discovered. For example, if you find that a manuscript discovered in the early 1900s uses the right statistical distribution of names from a particular area in the 1600s, and that name distribution was determined from more recent archaeological finds, that suggests the document was written by someone from that time and place.
Mark Steve's version is open source so it is okay to blatantly steal from it. However, the author needs to fulfill the criteria set by the license that Mark Steve chose.
Depends on where you are of course. And there are any number of other sites for learning than what I list; you'll decide which are best for you after you've soaked up a bit of whatever you're studying.

Be sure to notice the stackoverflow info page at the end of each of the four items below. They're all four pretty good.

In order of employability (IMO)

Java - https://www.java.com/en/ - http://stackoverflow.com/tags/java/info

C++ - http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ - http://stackoverflow.com/tags/c%2b%2b/info

C - http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html - http://stackoverflow.com/tags/c/info

Python - http://python.org/doc/ - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+tutorial - http://stackoverflow.com/tags/python/info
What are you on about? All the relevant information is there. What need is there for details? That would be interesting, sure, but it is not in any way necessary when simply reporting on the state of this mission. Something the linked article does.

Not everything needs to always contain all information.
HN is too easy a target.
Tim Cook: Apple 'Spending an Enormous Amount' on 'Macs of the Future'
a program can still generate the score that a musician plays sincerely
Connecting Data Dots: Reporter for iPhone – App by Nicholas Felton
it[']s rapidly surpassing everything GIMP spent a dozen years trying to pull off.

Standing on the shoulders of giants certainly makes it easier to see.