skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about Workflowy (https://workflowy.com/)?
April Fools joke!!!
Really well articulated argument (and I particularly liked the Father Ted reference!)
Do spies and other secret agents use Tor?

I've always assumed it was developed mainly for them to use, because a US government VPN would be too obvious.

If Tor wasn't public then a could just say, look, there's a US spy at this IP because they're the only person using onion routing.

These are it's weaknesses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)#Weaknes...

Also I think Harvard caught a student who reported a bomb threat over Tor, but was caught because there was only one student using Tor on the Harvard network at the time, oops.

http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-student-used-tor-for-...
winallthefuturefightsexpelliarmus

Why not "Win all the future fights expelliarmus"? Passwords that don't accept spaces are pretty rare, and you end up with a longer password 'for free'.
Ironically, I trust Randall's graphs more than any professional-looking graphic in a newspaper or magazine.
It's just missing a way to easily add shortcuts for the contained software into the container DE.

But I think that if Microsoft releases a multiplataform replacement of XP mode, they'll turn the slow fade of Windows into irrelevance into a tremendously fast fading of Windows into irrelevance. Yep, that'd be great, and maybe even good for Microsft (they could focus on software that people actualy want - they have some), but I don't think they want it.
> You have a growing problem with police corruption in your country ....

Do we? I'm not sure.

Certainly in recent years there has been a notable increase in the number of well publicized incidents of police corruption (and use of excessive force and various rights violations). But is this because such incidents are becoming more common, or because they are more likely to be reported and/or publicized effectively?

I honestly don't know the answer. I'd be interested in hard evidence on either side.
Exactly! My cousins are raising 3 foster kids (now adopted) and their taxes reflect that. So definitely the civil union thing can handle that.

The injustice is simply in the sit-in-the-back-of-the-bus thing - that a lesbian couple should be stamped 'civil union' just so everybody knows they're not as good. Its Jim Crow all over again.
Thank you for the clarification. However, my point is that some gateways do charge according to the card type.
As a potential counterxample for when you might want to remove numbers, a couple weeks ago I was presenting a proposed analysis pipeline for some data, and what I'd expect the results to look like. The x-axis points were all fixed, and clearly tied in to numbers I had discussed previously, and the y axis had experimentally meaningful ticks at 0, 1/2, 1, and 2.

I was, in fact, told later that the xkcd style graph was extremely helpful in conveying that it was not a graph of real data yet.
NYPD doesn't really fit your narrative of the rogue police department where the racism is just a symptom. If you look at, for example salaries, it clear that the city has a pretty good handle on the police union. Stop and frisk is legal (so far), and an explicit policy of the city government. And its a policy that's largely supported by the upper classes that run the city. And the public has largely supported the increased police presence under Guilliani and Bloomberg.
Aside from some statistical reporting quibbles, I think this is a good write up. The authors essentially arrive back to a design that's been leveraged for RSS feeds for ages (e.g., Google Reader, Feedly, etc.) This isn't a bad thing since the design was ultimately data driven.

No shame in doing the experimental legwork to determine that the old way is the best way (in Prismatic's specific case).
How long emotional impressions last? I'm sure there are good folks at Microsoft, but the company hasn't changed. Like those awful, nasty political campaign ads? Microsoft haired one of the main practitioners to promote Windows:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/technology/microsoft-battl...

Or how about Microsoft's extortion techniques being used against Android manufacturers:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/microsoft-samsung-extortion...

Thanks, but I'll keep staying away and encourage others to do so as well.
Awesome!
But the secret passages do not appear to be there... :P
Hm... I've been quite happy using an Open Source tool called FreeMind. It seems to be a "tree editor", although I'm not sure it quite satisfies what this author is looking for.

Screenshot: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/File:FreeMind...

Website: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
As you get further from a square, you get less screen area for a given diagonal. A 4:3 screen with a 19" diagonal gives you 173 square inches, but a 16:9 screen with the same diagonal is only 156 square inches. http://daleswanson.org/things/screensize.htm So it's all about picking the biggest possible number for the crummiest product.
Agile teamwork makes teams, work. My experience so far.
The date on `news.arc` in that tarball is from 2009. I know a bunch of changes have happened since then, pending comments being just the latest.
2048 in 509 bytes of JavaScript and HTML
There's a lot of people who realize that being anti-marriage-equality today is similar to being pro-slavery shortly after the Civil War when there was nowhere near 100% recognition of how abhorrent slavery is/was, though not in severity (i.e. both are morally wrong, but the magnitude of slavery is much, much greater...if pro-equality advocates were more intellectually honest, they'd equate it with prohibitions on interracial marriage which, though a vestige of slavery, is more of an exact corollary).

But it's pretty clear to those of us who have no dog in this fight that the anti-equality folks are on the wrong side of history. In 50 years, not allowing gays to marry will be more or less equivalent to the prohibitions against interracial marriage that once existed and are now, almost universally, recognized as being bigoted.
Negative latencies
Never heard of this product, can you link me please? It's what I've always wanted
There is a Moonshine extension[1] that uses Yueliang[2] to compile offline in the browser, but it's quite slow. I'm hoping to speed it up a bit in the near future, with the futures I'm working on now.

[1] https://github.com/gamesys/moonshine/tree/master/extensions/...
[2] http://yueliang.luaforge.net/
Microbes Caused The Extinction Of 90% Of Species 250 Million Years Ago
Understand that stereotypes may persist because they have a root in culture. E.g. imagine some subculture in a city gets in trouble routinely. To a law officer, soon everybody that looks like that seems likely to be an offender. After a while it becomes ingrained - a feud if you will - between law enforcement and the folks getting profiled.

Why does it persist? Because culture == behavior. Because profiling works, for better or for worse.
Is this a 45 day trial period full time with benefits? Or just being a contractor with no benefits for 45 days?
It seems like a good product, but it doesn't fit my requirements because (1) it doesn't support plugins to specialize its functionality to particular domains and (2) its reliance on the mouse looks like it would make it far too inefficient for the kind of work I would like to do.

It's an interesting project, though, I'll try to check it out and see what I can learn from it.
Especially with the low screen resolution of the 11" MacBook Air, full-screen mode becomes essential. On a 27" 1440p display, not so much. I personally use full screen mode for iTunes (mainly so that iTunes is always a quick multi-swipe away) but not for anything else.

I think the animations on Mac OS make full screen mode great. Slide some fingers on the trackpad and you switch to the next full screen app or virtual desktop. On Win8 it's a jarring zoom in zoom out animation, without any ability to 'peek', at least using a mouse/keyboard interface on a desktop.
Pretty much agree with this.. although I can see application I cannot quite see them going mainstream in the same way iPhones have
Actually I think there is an opportunity here for a workstation company.
In the comments in the article somebody mentioned this:

http://strlen.com/treesheets/

Looks really cool. I always felt spreadsheets were too grid-oriented and flow charts too much about vectors and nodes. Treesheets looks like a great mashup of those two.
The author might be looking for Treesheets: http://strlen.com/treesheets/
I meant that rarely do I put the window in fullscreen mode, not maximize it. I frequently maximize too, but that still gives you the task bar. My problem was with 8/8.1's insistence on fullscreening the window.
Please share the reason.
I'm trying to make a point about technology and the rate at which it improves.

Make whatever point you want, but TFA is about an MBP subscription service. People buy MBPs for usability and reliability, not for hardware specs. Always have.

When you claim that one computer is "leagues better" than some other computer, I say "prove it - according to MY criteria as the purchaser and consumer - not your criteria as a chip overclocker."
Are you kidding? We have excellent tools to edit and manage trees: touch, mkdir, cd, mv, ... :)
Yes, I'm pretty sure this is where the FBI comes in. So the solution to this is: you agree to buy back your stolen property using an escrow service, then the FBI tells the escrow service not to release the money to a thief. Eventually you get your money back.
Created this Nutrition Calculator app for iOS (tell me what you think)
under the pillow
Heck why don't we have an xml editor, with syntax checking through a schema? This has been possible for a decade.
DOT/GraphViz [1] is very powerful. You might find it a bit unwieldy at first but, as with everything, editing in plain text is often faster than trying to use a GUI.

For extremely simple stuff, you can use TGF [2] to represent the graph and something like yEd [3] to view it.

None of these tools have any real provision for structured proofs etc., but that could be built.

[1] http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation/dotguide.pdf

[2] http://docs.yworks.com/yfiles/doc/developers-guide/tgf.html

[3] http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html
Bountysource: Mac OS X support in the official htop 1.x tree
That reads like a question I'd see on Quora. It's open-ended, has virtually no right or wrong answer, and calls for people to evangelize their favorites and perhaps even their own blogs (I realize this sentence might sound like an unequivocal criticism of Quora, which was not intended).

On cursory glance, a similar question actually is on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Computer-Programming/What-are-the-best-...
409A as a Service: Cash Cows Get Slaughtered
> Typical Americans.

Am I the only one getting extremely tired of the anti-american trolls?
The author is conflating two very different issues:

1.) Imputing the imprecision of a mathematical model through stylized graphs.

2.) Choosing a firestorm of a political topic to demonstrate mathematical modeling.
It's something that wouldn't be hard to test: just take a few polls at the prominent algebra/analysis conferences.
OmniOutliner is commercial; only for OSX; and a GUI, not a CLI. Just to mention _some_ weaknesses.
Yeah, outliners and mindmappers provide a lot of this functionality although, alas, not all, which would certainly be nice.
No April Fools tricks? That's a very big risk for a company the size of Google to take.
And Threes!'s creators becomes more bitter and sour...
Nearly every engineering class I had was really a math class in disguise. Granted, it was often a very specialized, applied math class. Although in my experience at least by grad school, math students are usually in a very specialized field of mathematics as well...just a different one from engineers.
No, although my grandma's requests - a rail on some steps for instance, or an automatic door - haven't been attended to with much alacrity. I just meant to show that the hardware is not so all-present as the requirements would suggest. On newer buildings, probably, but most of the apartments around here are fairly old and are probably only updated upon request.
This might be a nice accompanying app for a Pebble watch. Seems like it would be a pretty easy integration.
Ask HN: Should techempower.com framework benchmarks be taken seriously
Looking at the results for "Tornado" in the "Multiple queries" test of "Round 8", does this mean we have to ditch it in favour of "Flask" for example? Or should we take these results with a pinch of salt?
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But so good because so very, very plausible.
Not sure about plugins, but adding keyboard shortcuts shouldn't be hard, via a browser extension for example.

I use workflowy everyday and it's really cool; it doesn't feel very actively developed though, and that's a shame.
yes, what I'm curious about is how people do todo-lists for team discussions/projects with short time frames that span for a few days to a week.

Sometimes we also just write todos on a shared document, or a short list in a chat, that often results in the list being forgotten or lost. Not sure if anyone runs into the same problem?

personally I really like doodle poll's style of doing things, it's quick to setup, no login required - it's almost assumed that participants are being honest and wouldn't edit other people's responses, and it takes less than a couple of minutes to give a response. But a major difference between a poll and a todo-list lies in that, a poll is expected to be ignored by participants once they gave their responses; but a todo-list expects participants to constantly keep and eye on the team's progress.
Filters and labels do nothing for this problem at all, because the email still either says, "I'm here, look at me" in some way, or it doesn't, and is entirely forgotten.

The solution would be to incorporate checking the folder every time I want to read some news, which involves way more gestures/taps and intent than if I want to read news in Circa (one tap).
I don't think it's a joke really. The ticket and a couple of comments would look like one. But multiple project leaders commenting more than once and (acting as if) getting quite annoyed with each other would be a massive waste of time for the whole org on a joke that doesn't need to be this long.

At this point, I think it's real...
Algebra & rows here. :-)
Three Corner Rsync
Why do people even need to use Start button? I use Alfred on my Mac and it's significantly faster to type the name of the application instead of navigating the Start Menu. Granted, I haven't used Windows since XP.
Are you guys hiring any summer interns?
Like paredit: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit?
I've seen DOT/GraphViz before, but I think its complexity put me off a bit. I'll give it another shot.

The other tools have promise as well.
I think very few of these are actually revealed in such an introductory course, and you can gain the same insights from other topics in complexity theory (for example PSPACE = NPSPACE).
Ask HN: MIT, Harvard, or Stanford?
In a similar vein to asselinpaul's post, I would love some feedback on deciding between MIT, Harvard, and Stanford for undergrad. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to all three, so now I'm in that tough (but amazing) situation where I have to choose one.

My background is in programming and mechanical engineering, but I think big and want to do more than just become an engineer at a company. I look up to people like Elon Musk, but I also realize that shaping my life after another's would be foolish.

MIT

+ Great engineering

+ Rigorous courses and student body

- Maybe not well-rounded enough for my long-term goals

Harvard

+ Amazing liberal arts (I'm all for being well-rounded)

+ Would teach me how to work with people

- Not known for engineering

Stanford

+ Great at engineering and liberal arts

+ Amazing network in the heart of Silicon Valley

- I live in the area and go to a private school nearby (I kind of feel like I need to explore the rest of the world)

I know I can't go wrong here, but I'd still love to hear your thoughts. I'm going to be visiting MIT and Harvard for the first time, so I'll make my final decision after that.
In regards to rate limiting, it would be a much smaller number prior to block.

If it's IP based at let's say 10 over X attacker would have to lease 100 IP's.

In any case, rate limiting is the quickest mitigation prior to actual fix of the data leak in question.
Has anybody ever heard of The Alacrity Foundation? Should I apply?
Hi all,

I'm new to posting here so please bear with!

I am currently studying comp sci at Manchester (UK), graduating this summer. I have been given the opportunity to apply for a place at The Alacrity Foundation. Has anybody ever heard of them before? Should I apply and shop around? It seems like the deal they offer is quite competitive. Thanks

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Hello, I have been through a lot of those and feel very comfortable coding. However I don't think I can fully manage resume worthy projects yet. How can we get in touch?
Obvious April Fools Joke.
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Because we don't have a commonly-accepted tree file format, so an editor has nothing to edit.
It is an opinion, what else could it be? You think it is wrong, but I also think many other prevalent mainstream opinions are wrong and injurious to my rights - such as banning me under the threat of imprisonment (or being shot by the warrior police, if I'm unlucky) to own certain chemicals, or certain tools of self-defense, or even certain information, or engage in certain voluntary transactions without prior state approval. You may say it's for my own and for society's benefit to restrict my rights, and everybody comes out ahead with it. But that's exactly what the other guys say too - everybody would be ahead and society would benefit greatly if only gay marriage were not allowed. You say holding such views is despicable and non-acceptable to the point that if you use browser which is made by a company whose executive holds such views you are tainted by it. Then I ask why you're not tainted by having people supporting even harsher infringements of liberties? Should we boycott everything that has relationship to people ever supporting gun control, war on drugs, rent control, zero tolerance policies, blasphemy bans, speech codes, etc.? Should we ban people known to have socialist sympathies (and this comes as close to actual slavery as it can get - socialist governments actually implemented forced labor many times and routinely strip people of their rights) from participating in our communities, for example? How far should we go with this?
Yeah, +1 for Graphviz. Has worked well for me in the past.
Yeah I found the reference. I like your offbeat and rather non-sequitur style (what did that compiler analogy have to do with anything?), but I would have appreciated at least one earnest recommendation for reading up on office layout theories from the architectural perspective.

Guessing you're referring to something by Christopher Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form or A Pattern Language? Those predate your timeline by a few decades but I couldn't find anything else that fit. Whatever it is, I don't think it has quite the seminality in software architecture that you imply...
I'm kind of confused at the people who thought this was an April Fool joke. Really? If the announcement was on a news site or blog, maybe, but a 'Task' issue on the INFRA JIRA is hardly the appropriate venue. Although, it seems that @jimjag (the ASF director) was pretty pissed at the Subversion PMC and lead [1] for making the decision without consulting the community, just taking a vote from the committers.

Note that the interesting part of this is the move to use Git as the back end storage engine for Subversion eventually, with 'svn' being just a client API. The code is available now in the 'ra-git' branch. [2] Also, see @gstein's comment to the committer, noting that using a Git repo for Subversion code will simplify testing the new libsvn_ra_git client when it's available:

> So I'll be able to use the svn client to check out from the ASF git repo? Awesome. [...] We can dogfood svn against our own repo. Thanks, Stefan

[1] https://twitter.com/jimjag/status/450999640583053312
[2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1583639
Just glancing at the title was enough to determine this was a joke. The premise is too absurd. Better luck next time, guys.
Not all products are for everybody.

I probably won't wear one permanently but that is because I'm looking at a computer screen for a good part of the day and the disconnect from electronics is welcomed.

My phone is always accessible and I simply don't need another device to charge and to be temped to constantly tinker with.

With that being said, I'll probably have a couple of watch dev kits within the next year, just to see if they happen to be useful or if they can be used in some interesting ways that can't be done with phones.
This headline is confusing. It should say "The CIA misled government and public on its interrogation program, Senate report says" or something to that effect. (I only mention this because mods change the headlines so much that I can hope it will actually have an effect)
I agree with you and I think the salaries are quite low. I'm just being honest.
I've had a similar experience with mine. Literally struggles with copy and paste, but has taken to windows 8 (and modern UI/metro) extremely well, and has no problem with the various swipe gestures for working things. Many things- like printing- have been much easier. That said she does have a touchscreen, which I think is essential to get the benefits of modern UI-- although I still don't believe it is bad for a desktop user; just live in desktop mode all the time and only use the start screen from metro. Items are so much more discoverable in windows 8- that is, much less functionality is hidden behind context/sub-menus.
Huh? We don't need to stop predicting yet; it hasn't been long enough yet to draw any conclusions about how he's guiding Mozilla in regards to this issue.

As for IAC, I don't understand your comment at all. Why would IAC penalize employees whose personal beliefs disagree with this public action? There's absolutely no reason whatsoever to believe that a company requires all of its employees to hold the same beliefs that the company is publicly promoting.
This background from Google Ventures is one of my favorites
http://www.gv.com/lib/design-details
How do you know it was an attempt of misleading and not a simple parsing or sorting/fitlering issue in bash or whatever he used to get emails?

Maybe the file was written to via different threads using cross linked dictionary?

Do you know? No, you are speculating someone would double the size of a list as if nobody would ever figure that one out.

The bug that was filled was not even open for weeks. Again you are speculating without any facts.

http://blog.shubh.am/full-disclosure-coinbase-security/

You are comparing 'vulnerability' of a service meant for people to connect and find each other to a service that handles millions of dollars of users money.

Ridiculous.
Because televisions aren't square.