skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Connor is a lovely and gentle 3 year old boy. His parents are Georgina and Wayne, he also has a new baby brother called Kye. The family all live in Westgate-on-Sea in Kent. The family only discovered that Connor has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) in March 2013.

DMD is a very rare muscle wasting disease that will rapidly affect every muscle in his body including his heart. There are many side effects along the way such as learning and cognitive difficulties, brittle and weak bones, inflammation of the muscles and fibrosis. Decreased heart function which leads to heart failure. Also he will suffer a weakened diaphragm and need the use of a ventilator in his teens. DMD will see Connor in a wheelchair by around 10 years old and most boys with DMD don’t survive their 20’s. DMD is caused by a defect occurring in his gene. In Connor’s case, this was spontaneous and could happen to any boy.

Connor is unaware of his illness and his parents would like it to stay that way for the moment. Although there isn’t a cure yet for this cruel disease, we will keep our fingers crossed that one is found before it’s too late. In the meantime, we have joined forces to create awareness of this dreadful disease and will be fundraising for Connor, in the hope that we might secure treatment, or even better, a cure for our Connor. In doing this, we hope not only to benefit Connor, but all other boys too who are unlucky enough to be diagnosed with this heart breaking disease.

His family and friends invite you to organise, host an event or make a donation. The Caring for Connor campaign needs to raise enough to send our little man for the treatment he needs. Just a simple like on face book or a tweet on twitter goes a long way.

We love him and we don’t want Duchenne to take him thank you.

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I can't upvote this enough. There are very few companies that are masters of this game. Because it is extremely difficult to build. Every stage is a painful process and there are so many moving parts. To begin with you need very high quality recordings. Successful companies have voice directors whose job is to record voice at most optimal settings (and to make sure speaker speaks is neutral dispassionate tone). And then there is the manual process of segmentation and phoneme alignment - That requires lot of human effort. Then you run the code! It will take quite sometime. Then you study the quality of synthesis. Fix issues manually (for example, if you are using concatenative synthesis, you may have to fix offending phoneme alignment based on feedback). And iterate on this. Unless you have a team, I wouldn't venture into this and rather use third party leaders.
Also see: http://www.distancetomars.com/
> e.g. Alexander the Great.

Citation needed. This is a fallacy that has been spread unfortunately.
Lua being on top shouldn't be surprising. Its entire purpose is to call into (and to be called from) C, and this case has been highly optimized.
It's neat, but Earth is 3 pixels wide and Venus is 4 pixels wide. Last I checked Nasa claims Venus is about 95% the size of Earth.
Ironic - the timing of your comment, " And given that spiped is a younger project than say OpenSSL will mean less eyeballs applied to finding bugs. " given todays announcement regarding the absolutely epic OpenSSL bug.

What are your thoughts now on not exposing yourself to all of the complexity of OpenSLL?
I don't think anyone's said it yet, but... this is what an attorney is for. This website is stupid.

It's bad enough to trust any confidential information completely to a third party, let alone a website that could lose your information or go defunct in a few years. At least disclosures to attorneys are legally protected to the n-th degree, and the business is brick-and-mortar with a known location.

Add to that the fact that a regular e-mail is something that could easily be forgotten about, caught by a spam e-mail, lost when you switch accounts, etc. The problems with this idea are endless
Don’t get Rich, Famous, or Successful
I agree entirely with your post, and I can't quite understand the hysteria in this thread. The odds of getting a key using this technique are incredibly low to begin with, let alone being able to recognize you have one, and how to correlate it with any useful encrypted data.

Supposing you do hit the lottery and get a key somewhere in your packet, you now have to find the starting byte for it, which means having data to attempt to decrypt it with. However, now you get bit by the fact that you don't have any privileged information or credentials, so you have no idea where decryptable information lives.

Assuming you are even able to intercept some traffic that's encrypted, you now have to try every word-aligned 256B(?) string of data you collected from the server, and hope you can decrypt the data. The amount of storage and processing time for this is already ridiculous, since you have to manually check if the data looks "good" or not.

The odds of all of these things lining up is infinitesimal for anything worth being worried about (banks, credit cards, etc.), so the effort involved far outweighs the payoffs (you only get 1 person's information after all of that). This is especially true when compared with traditional means of collecting this data through more generic viruses and social engineering.

So, while I'll be updating my personal systems, I'm not going to jump on to the "the sky is falling" train just yet, until someone can give a good example of how this could be practically exploited.
This is really great, I imagine I'll be using it often. I do however feel a bit cheated seeing that the demo isn't actually AJAX.
http://forum.dlang.org is an NNTP forum. You can also access it via newsgroups news://www.digitalmars.com/digitalmars/D or even a mailing list at http://lists.puremagic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/digitalm...

It works out quite nicely for us.
If it just reads the up-to-64KB after that allocation, wouldn't you expect to see the server process segfault before too long?

Of course, servers helpfully just start themselves back up again.

As for scanning for key material, I wonder how to tell that 256-bit random data is the 256-bit random data you want.
Samsung's 'Beat Apple' memo: 'Threat from Apple extremely real and urgent'
It is incredible how far voyager 1 has gone, that would be 3 times more scrolling, according to Nasa's website it's 19 billion km away

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/
Any ideas for a cheap source of SODIMM sockets?
Read the comments without having to scroll: view-source:http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.h...
I'm not familiar with go, can you tell me how to run this?

EDIT: Got it working by changing "github.com/titanous/heartbleeder/tls" to "./tls" and running "go run heartbleeder.go example.com"
all he had to implement http://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/horz-scroll-with-mouse...

also, if you hold down shift and scroll it should scroll horizontal
As a developer for Kiva, and with some knowledge of Watsi's systems, I can probably answer this question, maybe I'll write a blog post about it actually, but the short of it is, the amount of effort involved for Watsi is going to be almost invariably greater than the reward gained from community contributions. (There's more to that but too much to fit into this format).

That said, take in to consideration that Watsi is quite likely using a bunch of the open-source software you are already familiar with. You can contribute to these projects, and thus indirectly be contributing to Watsi.

What I would like to see is non-profits sharing a list of the open-source software they are using (perhaps even weighted to what piece is most important to their operation) and thus giving eager developers such as yourself a roadmap towards helping them. (Bonus points for ability to reference specific bugs in said software, but that's somewhat rare).
The classroom video clip from The Wall movie when this song plays.
Ah, interesting. It looks like they sell a grinder to chop up your old parts, and then the extruder melts them into a filament.
5 Dangers of Being Blinded by Your Startup ‘Baby’
Show HN: wurl – web curl
They appear to be patched now.
Having managed a number of largish email systems over the past few years, I've got to say that dealing with Yahoo -- DKIM and other anti-spam related issues -- is one of my larger ongoing headaches. The lack of response and transparency of Yahoo in general is a huge problem -- I managed to get resolution in one case via an executive email carpet bomb (this after repeated contacts with their support team and direct emails to the CTO/Postmaster's address).

Sadly, as much of a fading giant as Yahoo are, their email presence remains huge.
Okay, I just popped up two TextEdit windows with the same text in Helvetica and Arial. After staring at them for about ten minutes, I can definitely say I like Helvetica better.

Arial just looks clunky compared to it. Helvetica's loops are more rounded, they stand out more boldly from the staffs than Arial's. It's a much more confident typeface. Arial's 'e' looks squashed, it reminds me of a trollface. Its 's' has the same problem, though not as pronounced. Helvetica's versions are much more elegant. Helvetica's numerals are far nicer than Arial's, in particular the '1' and the '2'. The tails of the '6' and '9' daringly overhang the loop slightly in Helvetica, no such eccentricities in Arial, except for the 'f', whose top pokes out past the cross. It would ordinarily be a fine quirk, but in Arial it just looks out-of-place.
You can look at it as a service connecting bike messengers to people that need deliveries.

A comparable example is Google Play or the Apple store. They take a cut of your pay by connecting you to customers but they don't call you an employee. Where is the uproar there?
> There is precious little evidence the quran as a book even existed before the 19th century...

Citation needed. I take it you have not read the Quran. The accounts of the Battles of Badr, Uhud, as well as others are sufficient to disprove this claim.

> The older qurans aren't even in Arabic, they're kufic (which is a dialect of Arameic, and "just happens" to be the dialect a significant part of the bible is written in.

Again, citation needed. I speak, read, and write Arabic fluently, and this is the first time I ever hear such claim. Quran 12:2 and 39:28 are enough to disprove that. Not to mention all the manuscripts.
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If you want to see actual ajax requests in flight, you can take a look at the rails demo app up on heroku:

http://intercoolerjs.herokuapp.com/

It's only running on one dyno, though, so it might be slow depending on traffic.
What does court have to do with Amazon or publishers using DRM? It's not a sanctioned practice, it's their own unethical choice.
I love Vim's digraphs!

In emacs it's

C-| tex

then

\phi → φ

etc, which can be quite a bit more typing but can be easier to remember if you already know the TeX instructions for everything.

Now we just need to convince other editors to add something similar...
except.... cars
I spend an hour a day on Twitter during my Caltrain commute.

I click on links that open up a UIWebView and read articles on the web.

Does that count as one hour in an "app"? In reality, it's more like 20% in the app and 80% following shared web links.
Credits don't load. t_t

EDIT: OK they load now, servers must have been busy.

EDIT2: Credits load on the main site but not on the mirror.
Oh, would you only be able to vote in your classification and lower? If that's the case, doesn't that make it extremely hard for a crowd to overthrow a close-nit elite that refuses to upvote the plebeians?
I don't think that particular genie can be put back in the bottle.
The web is a chaotic mess and deserves the ignorance. We can't agree on standards and propagate such shortcomings and much more to the user. We have distracted ourselves with crap like browser wars, popup ads, "enable javascript for this page to work" for too long a time.

I don't see why we have to put our users through the web, just because its easy for us to develop or deliver for it.

Consumers have taken to apps like never before. Asking them to regress is stupidity. Take the simplest case of loss of internet connection. Browsers and browser apps continue to be terrible when your million dollar "UX" is replaced with an irresponsible "Page cannot be displayed" and no concept of offline experience.

Fuck browsers and mobile web. Please let's not go back.
I'm a big fan of NNTP, though I haven't used it in years.

Sadly, I think that culture and clients are likely to sabotage this. Usenet worked pretty well when it was a handful of marquee tech firms and edus using tin or gnus. Similarly, email list work pretty well when everyone's using pine or mutt, understands threading, and uses postfix response format.

The worst mess I ever saw was a list that mixed entertainment industry types with techies, using a wide range of email clients, and featured a lot of people who really liked the sound of their own voices (talked, and wrote, far too much). It was all but impossible to follow discussions, threads were utterly mangled, etc., etc.

So I'm not sure Usenet can continue to work, on a wide scale (not to mention most people don't have a client installed). Though one can hope.
>The downvotes you got (I wasn't one of them) indicated that people disagree with you. Probably by default, because they know who me and Colin are.

Doesn't that make you sad inside?
Indian Hacker defaced Terrorist Organization Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan
Building Dynamic Navbars with Jekyll
Twitch.tv is probably the biggest competitor in the gaming area... maybe even bigger than Youtube for game uploads.

edit: looks like twitch is supported, definitely as well as youtube, and includes live broadcasting of gameplay...
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/apps/Xbox-One/Twitch
>their *everthing disrupted

FTFY
Google Chrome on Windows allows horizontal scroll with shift key+scroll wheel.
I'm curious, when would you actually use this?

I mean obviously the imagination readily conjures up movie scenarios, 'if anything happens to me your nefarious plans for world domination will be sent to the New York Times!' but in real life the evil overlord could counter that in half a dozen ways.

Is anyone here looking to use such a service, and if so, for what sort of purpose?
Microsoft ends support for Windows XP and Office 2003
That was enjoyable. Save some of the odd "nothingness" talk, it was a fantastic demonstration of the freaking scale that cosmological physics takes. Think, and people have modeled these scales so well, it's hard to freaking believe.
Hey! I'm the author of this piece. This is my first tech article, and my first submission to Hacker News. Hope it's helpful for any Jekyll fans out there!
sort of, http://www.discourse.org/buy has the official 3 early beta partners. Those are solid and mature since they've almost been around a year now!

In the last 3 months we went from 500 Discourse forums to 1500+. (We screen out the obvious test installs with IPs for names, etc.) We're about to take the brakes off as we get to V1.0, I have been reticient to really encourage people to launch new Discourse sites while we are in beta. But it's speeding up as we get closer. Open source FTW!

We don't have a public directory of all Discourse forums -- we do internally, since everyone pings us for versioning, but I have been hesitant about exposing it until we're clear the community is OK with a public directory.
See also: Google benefits from centralized control.
As an anecdote, both of my parents have dealt with (unrelated) private "listservs" associated with their work.
Since someone brought it up, here are the radius of each planet rounded to nearest hundredth, with the first row provided by NASA, and second row used in the OP's visualization. Just for those interested. (Really appreciate Crito's formatting suggestion below.)

MERCURY VENUS EARTH MOON MARS JUPITER SATURN URANUS NEPTUNE PLUTO
0.38 0.95 1 0.27 0.53 11.21 09.45 4.01 3.88 0.19
0.33 1.33 1 0.33 0.67 13.33 11.33 4.67 4.67 0.33
Some already using it in the wild include:

- bbs.boingboing.net
- discuss.howtogeek.com
- discourse.ubuntu.com
- forum.greenheartgames.com
- discuss.atom.io
Doing plugins right is hard.

My philosophy is also that 90% of what you would want to do with plugins should be built in, anyways.
Generative Impressionist Paintings in HTML5 Canvas
Yahoo may be bad, but Outlook/Hotmail are without a doubt worse. Exhibit A:

http://serverfault.com/questions/434703/why-does-hotmail-sti...
The close distance between Venus and the Earth reminds me of a proposal to use a Saturn V to do a 1 year manned flyby of Venus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Venus_Flyby#Apollo_Appli...

Basically it would use a repurposed S-IVB like Skylab. Skylab has a (relatively deserved) poor reputation, but it was spacious as hell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awe6vOXURpY (I wonder if Pete Conrad, seen running around the station in that video, had seen 2001: A Space Odyssey)
Shape Hover Effects with SVG
>This sort of argument is becoming something of a fashion statement amongst some security people.

Just the ones who don't understand how good API designs can work well to solve these problems, don't worry not all of us are like that :)
Excellent work, I've always wanted to see a real world use of pocketsphinx with python. When I looked a year ago the documentation was lacking. The module system looks nicely extensible as well.
Aw, man. That was the best way for a group of friends to bond quickly. I had this funny moment with a guy where both of us ran out of ammunition at the same time while shooting at each other, then we were both killed by a rocket from another guy... memories for life
Ask HN: What tools do you use to switch between projects?
Hello HN,

I was wondering if anyone has any tools / software they use to switch between projects? I constantly find myself going between a variety of programs and associated setup to get started working on any particular avenue. For example, I'll need to be in design mode and have illustrator, fireworks, a number of webpages, and client requests open... and from there I'll need to switch over to web dev which requires closing those and opening a few terminal screens, a text editor, associated web pages, etc...

After this cycle happens a bit, I start to go nuts. Does anyone have any scripts or processes they use to control this??

Thanks!
Payback Time On Greedy Banks
A CS major in college here. This article suggests that centralized architectures seem to be winning and that Google has learnt that with experience. I have a question and people on HN might be the right people to ask this to.

Why is it that you need experience to learn whether a centralized model is better or a decentralized one? When a a team is considering alternative models (centralized vs distributed), can't you just compute the parameters of each model (complexity, network usage, availability, reliability etc) and pick the one that is better for your objective? Why do they need to trial and experiment?

I come from a college world where we are learning algorithms and systems and we can easily pick an algorithm for a problem based on complexity etc without having to implement the multiple algorithms we are considering. I find that industry is a lot more trial and error. Why is this? An explanation with an example would be great.
You may be interested in Quark, which is a browser kernel written using Coq http://goto.ucsd.edu/quark/
Go C!

Hope everyone had forward secrecy on by now.
It is awesome. At least they don't claim that vaccines are causing cancer.
A quick way to check if a server supports the heartbeat extension (won't tell you if it's patched or not)

echo | openssl s_client -tlsextdebug -connect host:443 | grep heartbeat
TLS server extension "heartbeat" (id=15), len=1
Sri Lanka News-Adaderana-Truth First – இலங்கையிடம் தோற்றது ஏன்? டோனி விளக்கம்
> We do our best to ensure loans do not cause over-indebtedness by starting with very small amounts initially, and increasing credit limits only if high on-time repayment rates are maintained over time.

Brilliantly, breathtakingly cynical! Charge a bunch of flat up-front fees, then cap loan amounts based on some opaque criteria.
Memory-Prediction Framework
Popular issues like environmentalism and LGBT rights may be advancing, but more niche yet equally important issues, such as excessive privacy intrusions (mass surveillance, TSA), software and "DNA" patents are not. And these are important issues that will shape the future.
For a second I thought this was a link to https://deadmanssnitch.com, which is a fantastically simple cronjob monitor.
> You are given a weekend to decide where you might spend months of your life, potentially in a place you've never been.

Well, I tend to think a bit about these matters before applying.
Found a Python PoC: http://s3.jspenguin.org/ssltest.py

Edit: and just used it to dump 64K from a known-vulnerable device we control. Got a session cookie. Jeez.
NASA photo captures strange bright light coming out of Mars
hmm a multi player javascript API tampering arms race game would be pretty awesome too.
I've built RPMs for 1.0.1g for CentOS 6. Based of 1.0.1e source rpms. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7s1fiuvfwma16ra/iSz3Jfh1o-
A video game can also make you open to all races. For example, when I was playing a popular role playing game I had people of all races in my party.

Role playing games in my opinion are a form of 'interactive fiction' whose outcome you can somewhat control. In short, they are also a stories.

The mode of storytelling is one of the most effective ways of communicating ideas to our mind, unconsciously, that is. By having meaningful interactions with virtual people of all races, it communicates to our mind that we are open to those type of experiences.
Ouch, pretty basic lack of bounds checking.

Even though the code got better with this fix I still wouldn't accept code that looks like this in a review. Why are 1, 2, 3, 16 not defines? What's up with the code duplication between files? Where are the unit-tests?

I'm starting to feel that a lot of software that has been around for 10+ years and is commonly used does not live up to current best practices regarding writing good system-level software.
I see plenty of words there. Visual notation is great for conveying spatial relationships, no doubt about that, and spatial layouts can work well as secondary notational aspects, there is nothing to argue about there. But would you want to read war and peace in dataflow diagram format?
And those 180,000 places is only the front door into Australia. The back door is to immigrate to New Zealand, become a NZ citizen, then move to Australia. Because Australia and New Zealand have a single labor market, citizens of both can live and work in each others countries without any special permission or numerical restrictions. From my personal observations, virtually all immigrants to NZ move to Australia once they can, and frequently refer to New Zealand as Australia's back door.
So would this explain a spam email in my hotmail inbox that had the same From&To, with no mention of my actual email in the raw message source?
That really inspiring. I have been wondering about the same. Now that I am in my mid thirty, and I never waned back on my passion on new things (new programming languages!), I am sure that in my late years, I will still develop the same passion as I am today.

Say my regards to your father
Will a guaranteed income ever come to America?
LeapJS Plugins 0.1.4 – Auto Playback LeapMotion Data.