skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I was convinced it was a phishing attack of some sort. Bruce Schneier with a new website? Waaaah!?
Uh, no, I think that even if Eich had "merely" spoken out against gay marriage, there'd still be just as much uproar.
Perhaps, but I would prefer to see some evidence rather than rely on an appeal to authority.

If the size of your resource is e.g. 100KB, and you have 10 different versions, then your responses are 1MB each -- 9 times larger than they have to be. This can result in significant bandwidth costs, depending on your number of users and their behaviour.
History is History
I'd really like to suggest my recently opened-source ERP project Stockor, but it's not quite there yet accounting wise.

While it does have a full double-entry accounting system inside it, it's not fully exposed to the user right now.

It currently does purchase orders, invoicing, and writing checks just fine. It's just a bit opaque on creating ad-hoc GL postings and modifying the balance statement.

If you're not in a huge hurry, check out stockor.org in 3-6 months :) Contact me if you have further questions or would like to beta test some stuff.
As someone who works at SpiderOak, cloud storage isn't easy and requires a different infrastructural mindset than a traditional software vendor.

Out of the 4 of our peers you mentioned, two are sizable companies in their own right but are dedicated to their essentially one product, and the other two are products produced by giant mega-corporations that have room for product teams as large as us, Box, and DropBox put together.

It ain't easy, being cloudy.
Life in New York without a Smartphone
Not if you use HMAC
I wonder if ReactOS could position themselves as an upgrade path for Windows XP users, now that Microsoft is ending support?

"Switch to ReactOS--run your legacy apps out of the box, and stay current with security."
Here is a simple technique you can try:

https://cucumber.pro/blog/2014/03/23/story-readiness-board.h...
True, and fees are often way lower for debit cards as well. Not sure what it is in practice, but here's an example:
http://www.cardfellow.com/blog/debit-card-charge-calculator-...
Why did they go half way, though? If you're going to dumb down things, why don't just say "scientists found that" instead of giving a distorted view of the experiment, popularizing a wrong idea of what real science actually looks like?
I never said it was about privacy, per se. sentenza wrote that here in Europe, there's a separation between private and professional life, in that people aren't professionally judge by actions in their private life. I argued that such is true, but that at least in the subset of Europe I live in, contributions to political campaigns are not considered to be part of the private sphere.
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hmm... I'm normally 34/36 (w/l), they are usually on stock and my size hasn't changed in the last ~20y. But actually I like 34/37 more with some shoes. The 34/38 jeans were rather hard to find, and then I had them custom shortened a bit.

Now someone make more tall ladies please... ;-)
Supreme Court strikes down overall limits on campaign contributions.
how do u share a file encrypted using encfs with someone else?
I must admit that, more than once, an Ubuntu upgrade killed my audio and I had to go and fix it myself. It's really painful that a distro that wants to be number 1 is so broken at times.
Isn't it just theft of services?
Now the fun question; are there any anti-forecasters? People who guess wrong so consistently and powerfully they're as good as super forecasters?
Wish I could find it now, it was linked to on HN between 6 and 12 months ago IIRC, it was on an issue tracker or mailing list archive. A number of the devs were in favor of moving to git, it was shot down but was an interesting discussion and appeared to be serious. Git was a better fit for some particular use case in the workflow on Hg trunk, but now the details have escaped my mind.
Silver lining in the cloud (sorry could not resist) why don't you optimise for site deployment and then resell the service?
Good shortlist of resources here: https://medium.com/great-reading-for-startup-founders/62ae4b...
Also, cheers for plainly linking to your public key!
This title is incorrect. 'Openbaar Ministerie' is the Dutch public prosecutor, not the police.
Hi, Mark. I'm curious at what point Haskell lost you, if you can identify that. I'm asking, because I'm also learning Haskell at the moment, but because I'm also interested in teaching and I'm thinking about how certain topics could be taught better.
Note that he did not apologize for his actions, or say that his actions were wrong.

"Words are wind."
Thanks for posting, and great work so far! Unfortunately, I encountered a few deal-breaker issues with Zed. So here are a few criticisms, if this helps you improve the project (but by no means let this detract from the current success of a great project!):

1. IMO you're using the wrong text matching algorithm for file search. This is pretty critical, considering it's the main interface for opening files.

Zed seems to search for simple text substrings only, whereas both Sublime Text 2 and Xcode look for the longest common subsequence. This is huge, for me at least; in Xcode or ST2 I can type the first few letters of one of my files, followed by a few more letters from different words in it, followed by ".cpp" and it finds the file.

Zed (as is) is completely unusable to me, because my project folder contains many similarly named files (.h, .cpp) as well as a ton of other source files from external libraries/modules with similar sub-words with what I'm searching for which for some reason always show up first and saturate the search results. With Zed there's no way to narrow down to what I'm looking for besides typing in the full name of the file. With ST2 or Xcode this is not a problem due to LCS.

2. This is not your fault necessarily, but it's a big deal to me: Text rendering is slow in Zed (and in every other web-technology-based code editor I've tried, e.g. Light Table).

For example, scrolling is even choppier than Xcode. The primary (if not sole) reason I moved away from Xcode to ST2 was because Xcode's horribly laggy UI was driving me crazy.

This is a bit of a personal rant, but we're living in an age with multi-gigaflop CPUs and multi-terraflop GPUs, yet we have somehow regressed to a point where scrolling (of all things) is laggy? IMO this is absurd, as an industry trend in general. For this reason, I generally dislike the trend to write everything (including local apps) in HTML/CSS/JS. These technologies really weren't designed to support this sort of complex dynamic UI. While it's quite impressive what's possible despite this, the stress of forcibly warping HTML/CSS/JS to accomplish some of these UI feats shows through as horrible inefficiency.
It's good to be periodically reminded that "FREE! FOREVER! CLOUDCLOUDCLOUD!" is hot air.
It didn't say 'death to all colored people' either back in the day. Just the color of their skin made them different. Now, just who someone chooses to love. Why do I feel the need to defend myself? But okay, in case you're wondering, I'm married and have been for 14 years after beeing with the same girl for 7 years during college. Yeah, thats long... In my country same-sex marrige has been possible for years. I teach my kids they can decide for themself who they wish to love.
Engineers in NYC earn 49% more than the average city-wide hourly wage.
I said I was jut going to ignore this downthread, but I just can't help myself. Feel free to dismiss it as "another emacs dweeb pointing out they've been using alien technology since the 1970s".

http://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-editing.html
Curious to hear what that 90 day plan looks like. I'm in a similar position.
Hi, first off, love that you've decided to keep it open source (lack of open-source code is what pushed me away from sublime into the arms of my current mistress, emacs), keep up the good work!

Can I digress into a feature suggestion? This is no small one and I don't really know where it lies on a feasibility scale. One thing I'd really like would be the ability to turn whatever text-box I'm writing in into a frame of my current editor (I currently use edit-with-emacs). I looked into writing a chrome-extension (which is the only way I can think of to accomplish it) with ACE editor to do this but I didn't have enough time.

My thoughts are, since you use a web based editor, you can use javascript to replace the input box with a resized frame of your editor, the next requirement is importing your personal user settings from your chrome packaged app into the frame to have it working there (I currently don't know how you'd accomplish this, maybe some integration with google drive which you already have for your notes?).

The main reason I think this would be a useful feature is vim keybindings, I use them for everything and feel less productive editing text without them. Being able to integrate the IDE that I use and am used to into every text box ubiquitously on the web seems like a huge win to me.

Sorry about the digression, it's just I liked the sound of your application and wanted to share the one thing I've been missing online (which is a web-based editor where it's extensible, and can be used on any site, I do realise that there is a big gap between your project and my feature suggestion, just wanted to make it.)
Here is his response to that question on the mailing list:

http://mail.tarsnap.com/tarsnap-users/msg00846.html
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> Ok, so I work 80 hours per week - it just doesn’t feel like it. Working 80 hours per week only sucks if you’re working on something you aren’t passionate about. Trust me, I’ve tried that.

This isn't sustainable. It's likely not healthy, either. It doesn't matter how fun you're having while you work 80 hours per week, it's not good for you. Most successful businesses grind away for years before they finally become profitable. The rocket-ship success stories like Whatsapp and Instagram are the exception to that rule. The whole mentality that you need to work yourself to the bone in the name of "passion" to build a successful business is poisonous. Even if you happen to be one of these super humans that can sustain that amount of work more than a year it's likely that your co-workers are not. It's also likely that they will not complain about it because they don't want to seem like the weak link. All the while, though, it will do damage to them and to the company in the long term.

Maybe working 80 hours a week is a sign that you're over-engineering. Simplify, focus, and work less. The product will likely become more focused, less bloated, and have a much better chance of surviving over the long haul.
In .nl I use MoneyBird.nl to do simple invoicing (€10/month).
It's about "NT-series". Windows 7, 8.1, XBoxOne, WinPhone 8 are all Win NT series operating systems. Each newer version brought some improvements.

So it's not about ancient Windows NT 3.5. ReactOS aims compatibility (Win32 apps and drivers) with more modern Windows versions.
According to one of the developers, the fault lies with github

http://www.reddit.com/r/PopCornTime/comments/2207zd/popcorn_...
While I do agree with you somewhat, I'm willing to give up to be called an engineer by others to stop all of these new engineering disciplines from appearing: political engineering, social engineering, market engineering. With this logic you can apply engineering to anything you do. Engineering used to be a much nobler and much more respected calling, not so much anymore.
I believe there was no vote
Agreed here. Also a point on large repositories (most of my work I prefer to do in Mercurial but there are cases where I would prefer SVN). Mercurial at least has only a minor learning curve from SVN, while Git seems to me as if leaky abstraction is the rule. Mercurial also has far better audit control features than Git (it possesses a good superset of functionality here, including two different branching systems, one of which is designed to make it easy to audit long-lived branches).

The big problem with a DVCS is that if you are doing asset control on a lot of binary files is that when someone clones the repository they need to clone all versions of all large binary files. This is a mess. Checking out a revision and working with it is far cleaner. For example, if you are doing a lot of work on, say, PSD files, you probably don't want to use a dvcs generally as it will use needless disk space and network bandwidth for marginal benefit.

As for your 4th point, there are plenty of times I refer people to use wget to get the latest version of a file on svn from a specific branch. This is actually a very nice feature. We are looking at moving LedgerSMB to github and their subversion support makes this decision easier in part for that reason.
It's nice, simple, usable. But whenever I maximize the app window, it just goes fullscreen. Is it supposed to be like that? Or is it a bug?
There's nothing major, and everything is already known (you could even have it already). Threshold (Win9) visions are going to be interesting.
Charge for the installer. If I want to use a tool I do not want to try to compile it
This seems like a lot of work for a joke.
I think the main feature haste is providing is Haskell to JavaScript compilation. That will increase your productivity by

1. Enabling you to lean on the compiler when refactoring.

2. Decreasing the time you spend debugging.

The fact that it will split your program into client and server side parts is scary though, and interesting. I'll have to investigate further.
Ubuntu pushed pulse before it was production ready -- I like that they did that, because it accelerated the production-readiness of a great idea with buggy implementation, and I'm using debian where stability matters anyway :P
Seconding Xero. The freshly released Stripe integration has sealed my decision to park my invoicing and time tracking there, instead of trying to manage 2 or 3 different apps.
>Can’t some random person fork the project and attempt same thing? Yep. Worse, they can fork the project, and create a proprietary version and start selling it.

If you released it under the GPL, then they would not legally be allowed to make a proprietary version and start selling it. Also, the GPL does not prevent you from selling your software: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
What's that? The sound of a bot ripping through all of the LinkedIn accounts...
You really want something that is orders of magnitude slower and several times as expensive?

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-09-04-why-tarsnap-doesn...
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Humour is subjective.
Maybe the NSA came for their files and they don't want to shill on their users but also got one of those security letters so they can't say anything about it. Maybe this is a heroic move for us against the US government and we'll never know. Might explain the hasty timetable too.
If you judge a company based on its hiring team's practices, you'll probably rule out a lot of great companies.
'Emoji Nation' Is Art History, According To The Internet
"Just because you believe that gay rights are as fundamental as women's suffrage does not mean that, as a political issue, gay rights are as decided nationwide as women's suffrage."

That's exactly what that part of your sentence says, unless I am reading this incorrectly.
"Our strategic priority for Ubuntu is making the best converged operating system for phones, tablets, desktops and more"

I guess a server OS is also not a strategic priority. Oh well. What is a good Debian-based server OS that is a bit more up-to-date than Debian (and also a strategic priority for its developer)?
If one of your objectives is to increase readership/viewership, have an email sign up field on the side bar and at the bottom of each post.
What You Need to Know Before Switching from Eclipse to Android Studio
My first big idea
Or if SCTP firewall issues are the only thing holding you back you can use RFC 6951; SCTP over UDP.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6951
That's what surprised me as well, but maybe the FBI intervening in the case was what pushed them to not honor the wire transfer.
The Illuminating Javadoc of JDK 8
I find these funny. Not helpful to anyone at all, but funny.

Article says: "Sure, you might have implemented a new feature "in less than a month", but why did you start in the first place?"

90% of developers reply with: "Oh dear God, I don't make the decisions. As far as I know, some AE was golfing with some d-bag client/customer who, between jokes about breasts and baseball, mentioned 'Wouldn't it be cool if your product...' and now I've been told to make it happen."

Article says: "Use all that freed-up real estate to describe how you made it better than anyone else could have."

Self-aware developers reply with: "Well, actually, someone else probably could have done a better job. I'm good, but I'm not the guy giving talks and inventing technologies. That guy doesn't need to write a resume. That guy shows up in jeans and a t-shirt and walks away with an offer 3x my salary."

Article says: "what was the impact of your work...in numbers?"

90% of developers reply with: "HAHAHAHAHAHA. You think we kept analytics??? Good one. That's a good one."

Article says: "You resume should be devoid of personality."

I reply with: "Please die in a fire."

Article says: "Answer this: what kind of job are you looking for?"

A confused developer replies with: "But still write my resume in exactly the same way whether I'm applying at a Fortune 100 company or a 5 person start-up?"

It was at this point I stopped reading, so if there's more ridiculousness at the end, well, you have more patience than I do.
That's exactly their aim. From a recent HN submited article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7511825), the soon-unsupported Windows XP is still with 27% compared with less than 10% for non-Windows operating systems on general-purpose computers. That amount of usage is supposed to be supported on various degrees by a binary-compatible option like ReactOS.
Full disclosure, I work for Kashoo, but yeah... Kashoo. Super-useful for iPad-toting entrepreneurs. http://appstore.com/kashooaccounting Double-entry accounting (aka, makes your accountant - and god forbid - the gov happy)... but still easy to use (fresh for iOS7). Again, full disc: I'm a Kashoo'er.
And there's always going to be a political aspect to recruiting. If you believe this terrorism stuff is overblown and most other countries keep themselves to themselves and aren't out to get us, you probably won't be signing up to be a CIA analyst. But if you think terrorists and communists are a big threat to the country, signing up with the CIA would seem much more important.
If someone is stealing electricity to mine Bitcoins, it's quite plausible he's doing other illegal acts like "money laundering"
One option is building an open source framework to be the base for your commercial projects. Rails and Django started this way.

What XChat does is charge for the official Windows binary[1] while being open source. I think something like this would be a good option for Zed.

[1] http://xchat.org/windows/
> Creating an anonymous function to map across a lazy sequence wrapping a persistent data structure doesn't have a chance in hell against a native for loop on a native vim list

... until this thing actually gets traction and one decides to integrate a native TimL interpreter into vim alongside VimL (making this implementation a shim for older versions). Of course this would create two competing standards (until vim 8?) but the more than reasonable out of the box interop and readily available usefulness and unleashed power (you mentioned macros to alleviate pain points) makes it a honestly very reasonable scenario compared to python/ruby/lua bindings, which are honestly foreign and require an external dependency.

All of this is a sign of a brilliant hack: immediately useful despite having to bear with some caveats, with a clear path towards the future. Thank you sir.
A shame, you missed the application window for the Silicon Valley Internship Programme (http://www.siliconvalleyinternship.com). It's programme especially built to send UK tech grads to Silicon Valley startups. Maybe apply next year?
> It just reduces the size of the crowd and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics.

Why do you assume that what's in the NPR article is all there is to it, that there's no info, technical or other, left out?

Of course they thought of that, and checked. There's no regression to the mean, the elite group further improved, their estimates were 65 % better than the overall crowd.[0]

[0] http://www.economist.com/news/21589145-how-sort-best-rest-wh...
I feel the same. As a developer I'd like to just develop HTML5 Apps and be done with it. But as a user I always, ALWAYS, prefer an App over the website, even if both do the same thing. I don't know why but HTML5 Apps don't feel as easy, responsive, fast and integrated as the average Android App. I always feel a little tighten up when being in the browser, even the App is designed exactly for my screen size. Therefore I also decided that if I develop something for the phone it must be a native App.
I find the second paragraph disappointing, but unsurprising. "Our strategic priority for Ubuntu is making the best converged operating system for phones, tablets, desktops and more." My hope is that the next design fad that out-fads the current "make my 30 inch high-res monitor look like a 3 inch screen" fad will be a step back towards actual usability. Convergence is a usability nightmare.

I'd rant more, but hey this is free software so I'll just switch to another distro.

viva la divergence.
This paper addresses the pre ASIC landscape. Stealing power from standard systems to mine bitcoin right now would be a complete waste of time, you would get almost nothing from the package with even a ridiculous amount of standard systems.

All heavy duty mining nowadays is done by ASICs, even high end dedicated GPU farms can't compete, letalone the kind of machines likely to fall victim to a botnet. If someone did try to hijack those ASICs, you can bet the people running the mining business would notice, assuming it were even possible.

It's interesting how this might apply to an altcoin that actually manages to crack the problem of CPU only mining that a few have tried, however. This particular niche will always have this as a potential problem going forward.
Justices strike down political donor limits
Thank you for your constructive comments. I can work with this :)
Almost everyone will have at least one completely up-to-date copy of their files. It's just a matter of signing up for a competing service and re-uploading. Four months seems like a long enough time to accomplish that.