skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't imagine locking myself into a service for the rest of my life in order to hear music.

But Spotify doesn't lock you into anything.
(: That's why I'm less and less active on SO. It used to be a community. Now it is ruled by diamond mods and 10k users that think they know how to run a community but don't because they judge the world from their ivory towers.
Statistically speaking, there were probably hundreds of jewish people killed by other jewish people in 1930s Germany.
Why would you know?
Well, all of my examples are for games which is quite narrow. Are they not claiming 'games' as one of their categories?
any chance I'll be able to stream to my chromecast?
I've got several colleagues considering this. As their children move out of the house and the mortgages get paid off. They've qualified for the pension (collected at 60? 55? I can't remember, it's far enough off that it doesn't affect my planning much here). They're only in their late 40s or early 50s, so if they switch to 60/80% time they'll take a pay cut, we'll have money left to hire more people. We'll retain their knowledge base. They can ride to retirement comfortably with long weekends every week.
Another syntax that tries to make S-expressions friendlier is “sweet-expressions”: http://readable.sourceforge.net/. Its main change is using Python-like indentation to allow you to remove a lot of parentheses. It is backwards compatible with S-expressions.
yeah, but it's a dry cold. Besides I don't mind the cold as much as I hate the darkness during the winter months.
Good example of that on HN: Todo Lists
A small minority will be perfectly capable of "fixing" their bit with multi-billion-dollar storm surge protection, desalination, etc. Given that the rest of humanity will be motivated by the threat of death, I wouldn't rule out total catastrophe. There are levels of survival you should not be willing to accept.
Many private rodent does require that you seed to remain in good standing.
Maybe it was just that I happened on some good intro tutorials or something, but I found Git ridiculously easy to pick up and have never really had any problems since.

I was using SVN for my job, which was crap (big code base, everything was super sluggish and branching and merging was an absolute nightmare). I tried Git on a little personal project and immediately it felt far better. We switched at work about a year later (it took days to import > 8 years of SVN history).

The CLI has some gotchas, but really it didn't take me long at all to work that out.

And say what you want about the staging area, but I absolutely love it. You can skip it if you want (git commit -a) but I think it's awesome and super-useful.
Sure, but as long as the site actually sets the password length limit on the field it shouldn't matter. It will obviously be truncated a lot of the time, but I'd rather it be truncated at thelongestpossible point.

From looking around it seems like the reason is that they wanted the visual representation of typing the password to reflect the number of characters you actually typed as you type them. I'm not sure if this comes out true, though, as I can't actually get it to work in chrome.
The point is that it's not a convention - it's a metaphor, as hnriot pointed out.
As others have said, why migrating away from LastPass? They definitely seem to be doing things properly in terms of security and I've been very happy with the security, as well as the ease of use when I set it up on a new machine.
I was disappointed by Put.io in the past, it over promised and under delivered. It seemed like an unstable app with very slow speeds. It looks like they have improved since I last used it, I will give it another try.

I use http://www.cloudload.com, it is a similar app and works like a charm.
Forth doesn't have 'keywords' per se, but i is predefined for you. It has the effect of placing the index of a 'do' loop on the stack.
Network switches don't handle most packets at the OS level, but in hardware.
ID isn't a theory, it's an attempt to deny a theory. It was devised as a way to teach children that evolution is, if not false, at least not well accepted and not as ironclad as biologists claim.

Everything you just stated about AGW falls into the same category, and is cherry-picked "evidence" intended to dispute that AGW is a fact, which for all intents and purposes it is. Neither you nor I have the ability to judge to what degree this or that deviation from predictions affects the theory as a whole. You know who does? Climate scientists. You know what they've concluded? It's still a fact.

You seem to be very concerned that you not be labelled a science denier (as well you should be), while simultaneously being very concerned about denying the conclusions reached by scientists. Like IDers, you seem to want to pick this or that small part of the theory or this or that piece of evidence, cast doubt on it, then claim that disproves (or at least discredits) the theory as a whole.

"Denial" is the correct term, here. In both cases, there are well-supported and widely accepted theories that particular groups of people don't want to believe for ideological reasons. In both cases, the drive to defend ideology takes the form of an attempt to piece together enough seemingly rational pieces of disjointed evidence to discredit the theory that threatens that ideology. And, in both cases, the attempt to deny the theory is refuted and dismissed by those best equipped to judge it.

You can claim to be a skeptic, just as the person who claims there are holes in evolution that can only be explained by an intelligent designer claims to be a skeptic, but you're not. A skeptic is not someone who disbelieves or discredits, but rather is someone who reserves judgement and attempts to find counterarguments until the preponderance of evidence suggests that a claim is valid. Both evolution and AGW are supported by the vast preponderance of evidence. Disbelieving either is no longer skepticism, but denial.
What country/state are you in? Why would this be a personal liability?
Absolutely, I'm not saying I'm impacted the most here. The situation sucks for many participants.

As for ignoring the law ... I enjoy reading books. I like paying for books, because I want the activity of writing and publishing books to be a well-compensated endeavor in my society, so I (and others) get more great books from professional writers. Removing the DRM gets me a superior reading experience (favorite reading app), which aligns well with both of those things. Having to remove the DRM is essentially a nuisance I'm choosing to put up with because I like books well enough. It's frustrating the nuisance is mounting.
You have a point regarding things that should be simple, not being simple. I'll agree that can be a problem.

What I don't agree with is the idea that you have to use all the advanced features.

Your last line hits on the idea that SVN users can't just commit, update, and get back to coding. Can't they? Can they not simply ignore everything extra until they hit a problem that the tools they've decided to use can't solve on their own?

Branching, bisecting, rebasing et al are not required in a git-centered workflow, they just make it easier to do Black Magic (tm).
One would hope to understand a little. After all, all votes are equal in a democracy.
Depending on the area you live in, with a salary like that and that level of savings, you can own a house by your early to mid 30s. A decent house here can go for as low as $100k (middle Georgia). Lower if you're willing to accept older homes and the issues that usually entails (asbestos, will need more in upkeep costs earlier, 60s/70s stylings for the interior). A single professional can make in the upper 5 to low 6 figures. After retirement accounts, you can pay off that mortgage in 5-10 years. If you don't go for the ludicrous $500k homes (or higher) that we have around here, you can live nearly debt free (in this case a mortgage no worse than rent at the decent apartment complexes). And by your 30s be debt free (I was late getting into the job market after a failed attempt at grad school, so for me it'll be late 30s, but close enough).
It doesn't get rid of the substantial opportunity cost of the money used to pay for that house. It's not at all fair to ignore that when stating his yearly expenses.

They are more like $40-50k when you include it.
Ask HN: How did you take your freelance web development biz to the next level?
A little more than 3 months ago, I asked HN what the best way was to go about securing RFP's and getting bigger clients.

In the three months between then and now, I wound up building a substantial (mid 5 figures/mo) dev consulting business business focused on single page applications for mobile and desktop. Some of the clients have been large companies (fortune 500) but there are a bunch of smaller nonprofits and smaller companies as well.

I would consider this my first successful business and while that makes me warm and fuzzy inside, I'm running into an issue where my time can only go so far. I have more projects than I can handle as a single person and I'm going to have to figure out how to either A) scale up or B) say no and accept the cap on my revenue.

I'm hoping some folks here can tell the story of how they took their freelance consulting business and turned it into a full fledged dev shop with employees/a process to getting and keeping clients.

Specifically, I'm interested in the following topics:

1) When did you know you had to hire your first employee? What triggered it/how did you go about doing it/making sure your quality remained the same?

2) Outsourcing vs. On shore consultants vs. Full time hires? What decision did you make and why?

3) What run rate were you at when you decided to staff up, how did you avoid cash flow issues?

4) When did you first build a formal system/division for sourcing/managing clients?

I have many more questions but I'd love to hear your stories and any advice you may have about the process of going from freelancer --> devshop.
The tires are going to be "square" for the first twenty minutes anyway, so unless you really enjoy having the fillings shaken out of your teeth...
Gets 5 MB/s to me in CA.
CSS A/Z
I live 10 minutes from the center of the third largest city in Australia.

OpenStreetMaps still doesn't have street numbers.

Where data is good, OpenStreetMaps is a fantastic tool. But for the rest of the world - it's utterly useless.
On a related note, Poul-Henning Kamp's 1999 "bikeshed" e-mail to the FreeBSD list (with his take on Parkinson's Law) is still a good read: http://bikeshed.com/
Don't forget to audit your browser (the thing without a version number anymore and with various metatemplates and it dynamically downloads on every load) and it's implementation of ECMAScript. But everyone already knew that.

Really, auditing this is impossible.
Using some discipline with indentation easily solves the issue of nesting table-related tags.

Also, I would gently recommend that asserting one's status is a poor substitute for discussion of an idea's merits. Dogmatism is always injurious.
I don't understand how this gonna work ? I pay them $0.99 to download files for me. Then how am I going to get it over to my machine ?

To get file(s) to my machine would it not cost me same bandwidth as it would if I were to download it myself in first place ?

Am I missing something ?
What reading do you recommend for someone who wants to learn about basic CPU design? I'm not a CS major, but I'm interested.
The chrome extensions requires putting '@@' at the start of the password field. This turns it yellow to indicate it is now active for that field.

>Sure, but as long as the site actually sets the password length limit on the field it shouldn't matter.

Yes, but in my experience sites rarely implement this. If they do, it's probably inconsistent (i.e. different limits on the login field, create account, and reset password fields).
Nice to see that they've made the Android sender apps dependent on Google Play Services rev 15, but not actually released that yet.

Guess I'll keep on waiting for the _actual_ release.
This is awesome. I'm very impressed by the concept and design. Do you guys have any kind of development blog, etc? Would love to read more about the development process, timeline, etc, and my initial googling comes up totally blank.

Would definitely use the pricing tool, and maybe the management service too if I were Airbnb'ing my place.
> mid-grade meat

This is laughable urban yuppie status anxiety stuff, which I guess is kind of michaelochurch's schtick. There is life outside of the Bay Area, ya know.

As it stands it's practically advantageous to be broke and have kids. There are a million programs and subsidies and scholarships to milk. You pay virtually no taxes. It's the middle class that gets milked.
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Let's hope you're right. I'm curious though, do you base that on actual time-to-circumvention experience with ebook DRM systems? Might be interesting to compile some data points on that ...

The exploit that's currently available to extract the key from an authenticated instance of Adobe Digital Editions for Windows only applies to a very old version of the app, so I don't have working memories of how long it took last time.
You can get a Kyocera Rise (ICS) from Amazon for $35.
> which went electronic in a serious way much earlier than publishing in general, largely abandoned DRM at a very early stage in the process.

IIRC, most of the early adopters -- who did their own PDF distribution -- in the RPG industry never used DRM at all, the very little adoption DRM ever had was among second-wave electronic companies that were using third-party PDF distribution services that offered DRM as an option (IIRC, the default option, in some cases.)
> "American prudishness"

This is just name calling, and Americans get shit on for being culturally insensitive...

Pornography is awful stuff. It exploits the way our minds work, and ruins peace and happiness. This isn't religiosity, I don't believe in the supernatural. It's just something I've come to learn as I've gotten older.
Interviewing a JavaScript engineer
Just about everyone using DRM with epub uses Adobe's offering, IIRC.
The point stands that I can't read those books on original Kindles at all. It's not like there's a "let me read the text, and don't show some graphics" option.
Jeopardy's New Champion Uses a Controversial Game Theory Strategy to Win Big
"Hey, anyone want to watch a movie together?"

Everyone pulls out their phones to flip through Netflix to make suggestions. You all agree on a movie and then someone hits play. Done.

What are you even talking about "social".
Come do mechanical design at SpaceX
For some odd reason, KeePass conforms to the OSI model, so it is trivial to circumvent by NSA, since it communicates with its resource protocols (metadata) to XKeyScore via the presentation layer.
I'm wondering the same thing. So far the only thing I can come up with is to leave out the storyboard when pushing to github. With some effort, they can still replicate it though.
Thank you -- we appreciate that!

We're going to be sharing a lot more in the coming weeks.

There is a lot of interesting data out there, and making sense of that data/making it available is one of our teams goals.

If you have any ideas, send them my way: andrew@beyondstays.com
I just figured out I could get the portable LastPass -> Export CSV, and then import that in KeePass
Temporarily Unhackable*

Historically accurate headlines to the rescue.
Evil bits could just as easily sneak into Keepass if the author wanted to. It would require someone else constantly auditing all commits along with verifying binary builds posted on the website match the current source's compiled output.

Edit: my above comment is just to prove a point. We put trust in a lot of the software we run. Software being open source does provide some safety, but very very few people will go through the effort to make that verification.
If said startup is storing any personal data, it better be important.
Does it support magnet links? This is an issue with remote servers hosting rtorrent.
If I save the database to dropbox so that I have it on multiple PC's at once, how can I ensure I do not overwrite a database that has new entries?

For example say on PC-A I make a change and save it. On PC-B I have the old database still opened and loaded in KeePass. What happens if I then save in PC-B without opening the database up? That means I just lost the one password?
Yah, it does.
How do you stream to Roku? (I just got mine, I'm new)
Its all about the activation energy to replicate the app. Open sourcing lowers that amount significantly.
If you play tennis, try out my Tennis scoring app, called Tennis Pro.

Would love some feedback!
This seems like a slightly worse seedbox marketed towards people who haven't heard of seedboxes.
Unfortunately security questions aren't much better. The best solution is to expect the user to safely and securely store a reset-key (kind of like Mozilla's Sync).

However, to the average, non-techie user this is

* Bad UX
* They won't store it securely
* They'll lose it

Another option is using public keys with some form of transition mechanism.
This was my primary frustration with the article. It notes that the "bulk" of the work in building a programming language is in defining the semantics but devotes absolutely no space to the process, tools, and tradition.

A programming language is the semantics and without a strong notion of those semantics and the interactions you end up with confusion and difficulty. For an example one need look no further than Ruby's "implementation as specification" crazyness.

I won't go as far as to say that all language creators should adopt operational semantics when building a language, but if you're serious about it then you should at least investigate the process.
Good point -- in response we'd say: 'pricing is hard!'

Its pretty rare that an individual hosts will have enough information to accurately/comfortably price their home.

By studying larger trends across a municipality, we think we can help paint a clearer picture for these hosts, both for short term price surges & also for how they should set the base price their home.
Yep, tried that. Just doesn't do anything at all as far as I can tell. Maybe it has issues with linux chromium? I dunno.

Re password lengths, my experience is that they usually truncate on the server side at that point, rendering it pretty moot. But yes, I do see this problem. I'm just not sure you're not going to run into it either way if you're practicing good password hygiene. I'd still prefer it make an attempt at adding as much difficulty to the password as possible, though.
I have been using put.io for years and I love them! Downloads from their server to me are fast and the torrents themselves are often instant.
Yes, let's fund the NSA through taxes and then pay more by sabotaging them.

Here's an equally brash idea...

Innovators in the USA threaten to become primary residents elsewhere. Let other countries bid on the incentives they'd like to enact to bring thousands of startups and leading innovators.
Well, I assume this is true of video games the same way it is true of other art, but because people keep extending copyright terms faster than they expire, it's not clear if anything will every make it to the public domain again. We are scheduled to have some books (presumably published in 1923) enter the public domain in 2019 but you never know what some lobbyists can pull off in the next 5 years.
I wouldn't do it again, and I now avoid such games. Since that game, I've spent about $50 on another iOS game, before tiring of it.

In both cases, I initially considered the games vapid, but my friends got into it, and I wanted to have stuff that was as good / better.
We use a source code repo to handle this. Not perfect but better than losing a password.
I wonder, with a tube that is of sufficient thickness and a magnet of sufficient strength, would it be possible to levitate the magnet inside the tube?
I don't understand your question. This seems to be the opposite of what I said.
So...crappy seedboxes...no thank you. I'll just go with another provider.
no SSL on signup page?
Thanks for the reply here and above! Good discussion indeed.
Whatever happened to the Microsoft Reader LIT format?
The whole thing is a head fake. Even more money will flow into the startup world when they ramp up the next level of QE.
By that logic, you can't know KeePass is safe without auditing Mono, your compiler, your checksum tool, the editor you used for the audit, the logic gates of your CPU, etc. Auditing anything is impossible.

If you can't get a copy of Firefox that you trust hasn't been altered as part of a conspiracy to make you believe OneShallPass is a legit password manager, you've got bigger problems.
You already are one.
Put.io has an official Roku app (it works great!) - https://twitter.com/putdotio/status/423135044371505152
It took some digging to figure out who is backing this. It looks like it's an org called the Tenth Amendment Center. Does anyone know who these guys are? Are they reputable? Will my money actually go to this cause?
I use a password locker.

It makes me wish there was an open standard for sites to negotiate a new entry with a password manager, something automatic in the background for new registrations.

Site could send password restrictions, like allowed and required character types, minimum length, even maximum length, though that last one would be frowned upon. The locker would reply with a preferred username and random password and add same to the database upon acceptance.
In related news, developers are welcome to cast shootings, stabbings, explosions and other gory images.

Graphic violence seems to enjoy greater protection than nudity, both culturally and legally, in the U.S. For example, there's the variable obscenity standard, which shields children from sexual images but not images of extreme violence:

http://www.communitydefense.org/cdcdocs/obscenityman/ch10.pd...
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I didn't think this would be a problem at first. But according to other developers of popular apps, it is.

In the end, I decided not to open source my app, because there was nothing ground-breaking anyway.

It's still a good thing to open-source any libraries though because it usually still takes a significant amount of effort to implement and turn into a complete app.
I’m assuming that the service cost doesn't come primarily from storage, but rather from bandwidth usage, and the increase in hardware requirements for handling a larger number of torrents.
Apple Building Out Their Own CDN To Deliver Content To Consumers
But.. if I can't purchase porn through Chromecast, where else would I ever find any?
Or for people who aren't interested in managing their own box, building / installing / maintaining the control software, etc.

Just the same way Dropbox is for people who haven't heard of NASs or Amazon S3.
The old standby, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, works you up through the basics.
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Who here can do this?
http://www.javascriptoo.com

http://www.jsdb.io

http://jster.net
put.io does have some interesting features in my opinion. One of them being that it will convert any video to mp4 which I can then stream directly to my Apple TV.

They also allow for external subtitle tracks to be added and again, it works with the Apple TV (something that other alternatives were never able to do).

Also, judging by the percentage of torrents I add on put.io that are instantly completed, I guess they have a sizeable user-base... That wasn't always the case with the seedboxes I've tried before (I'd say more than 90% of the torrents I add on put.io are completed, converted, and instantly streamable to the Apple TV)