skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"new technology tends to be developed by people trying to make their fortunes."

Please don't buy into the propaganda. I think you are confusing invention with smart packaging and marketing what was already developed. None of the technology we see today were bootstrapped by individuals or private investors. As a counter argument I will direct you to this talk.

http://www.ted.com/talks/mariana_mazzucato_government_invest...
You should start at once
Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=y&prev=...
Thank you for posting this, it's a truly incredible read.
The one provided by x3270 was originally copied by a Georgia Tech student (IIRC), pixel by pixel, from an IBM terminal. The one I made was created by retracing one of the x3270 bitmaps using FontForge so that it could be comfortably used as a monospaced font in modern setups.

I wish I had a functioning IBM 3270/9, but those are incredibly rare.

Legend says the 2260 (an older terminal family) had its video signal generated on the terminal controller (another box where you plugged your terminals) and the font bitmap was actually visible, implemented in ferrite core memory.
Technology and consumership
This one was awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers:_Planet_of_Zoom#Pla...

CGA graphics(!), and pushed the monophonic speaker on a basic XT further than anything I'd seen at the time.

Unplayable on "turbo" mode :-)
oh absolutely, and I try to be as solemn as possible about it:

"I used to be a web developer during the Browser Wars, man ... A veteran, yes. I remember being happy when we could develop for IE7 compatibility ..."

(embellish with stories about getting up at 4am, walking barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways, etc. as you see fit)
> #define int INT

This makes it somewhat obvious that you can't change how basic types work in C++. On the other hand, JS's dynamicity makes for some interesting situations, as seen here. I wouldn't consider it "awful" but it's certainly a language with more "deep complexity" than appears at first glance.
>I hardly know how to respond.

You could respond by dropping the know-it-all attitude. Look I'm not an expert and I'm probably wrong on some things. That's why I'm trying to gather info from a bunch of sources on this, and also why I'm not taking everything you say at face value. But even if your facts are correct you aren't going to go around convincing people by being an arrogant prick and calling articles you disagree with stupid. Get the fuck over yourself, you aren't a god damn child and your ego doesn't exist on the internet. If you don't feel like discussing these things with me then don't. Why do I want to continue this discussion? Because I'm learning from it. Clearly you already know everything though, so I guess if you don't want to say anything more just stop.

1. Ok, but does that change the points he put forth much? Isn't the EROEI of either method still economically viable?

2. If the EROEI of clathrate methane was little to negative, then why are the Japanese throwing so much money at it? There must be some potential at economic viability for it. I didn't see anything in my 2 second google search that gave a good overview of it's economic potential, but if you have a source that gives a better picture on the EROEI then by all means I'll take a look.

3. Yes I noticed the graph, but I was kind of assuming that a lot of transportation in the next couple decades will move from petroleum to electricity. Perhaps that's somewhat of a stretch, but I think we are already trending in that direction somewhat. I'm willing to admit I'm probably overly optimistic about this though.
Heartbleed Bug: Millions Of Android Devices Are Vulnerable To End-User Hacks
Nar, he means a land-value tax, which is raised from time to time in the UK.
Break: A Conference That Questions the Edges of Design
> Where you get that stuff: the robots are designed with CADnano, which is free software: http://cadnano.org/

I'm sorry, but there's CAD software for designing DNA structures now?! When did this happen? As someone tragically unaware of recent advances in the biosciences, I'd love to know more about this. I see the structures in screenshots of their CAD software, and then micrographs of the resulting real DNA(?) but how do you go from A to B?

Edit: Actually, for anyone reading this: what resources would you recommend for getting up to speed on cell biology, modelling of DNA and the like for someone with a solid science background? (I ask as someone who's done a lot of computer modelling, but more from a solid state physics point of view) I'd just like to be able to read articles like this with a slightly more critical eye...
Yes. I read someone recently who advocated for ensuring your child got in trouble in school quite early on - for something non-violent, minor (maybe uniform infringements or talking in class) so that they could see that the whole world won't collapse if they do something their teacher disagrees with.

One of my young child's (c.5-6 at the time) teachers made their claimed authority explicit in demanding that they be obeyed "first time every time" without the chance to question or consider what they were being asked - that's a bit too close to demanding mindlessness for my liking, terribly arrogant too.
This is a false equivalency. There would still be entrepreneurs if our top tax rate was twice as a high as it is now, or more. Everyone wants to get rich, and everyone believes that they need eleventy billion dollars in order to be happy. But most entrepreneurs and inventors make things because they like to make things. Most successful ventures start with a question, "Is X possible?" or "Wouldn't it be cool if...?". Some of the people who ask these questions also put a lot of focus on money because it's a convenient measuring stick for success in our society. This doesn't mean that paying slightly more in taxes would cause them to stop wondering and experimenting, though it might seem that way.

I find it hard to believe that there would be no facebook if Mark Zukcerberg was worth $15B instead of $30B, or no Apple if Steve Jobs had paid a few billion more in taxes. If money is the ultimate goal, then why are so many billionaires joining Bill Gates in giving their fortunes away?

During Eisenhower's time the top tax rate in the US was over 90%. We didn't become the Soviet Union, gravediggers didn't strike and innovation continued. I don't know if a 90% tax rate is necessarily socialist, but it wasn't the end of capitalism either. The idea that higher taxes stifle innovation is unproven and unproductive. If the super rich were willing to pay just 10% more, perhaps the super poor would have the opportunity to hold up their end of the deal as well. This real estate issue and the other symptoms of income inequality could become manageable problems instead of simmering conflicts.
Belgium bans Uber, threatens €10,000 fine for each attempted pickup
The chargeback is one of the most attractive features credit cards offer customers. It's one of many features that CC companies have used for decades to make sure that nearly everyone has one or more debit or credit cards.

Dealing with chargebacks is one of the costs that comes with being able to accept a payment instantly from billions of people.

There are ways to mitigate it though:

1. Make sure you include a phone number on your CC statement line so they can easily call to verify the charge

2. Get a short, obvious domain, like X-charge.com where X is your domain and list that so that people reading their statement can instantly see what it is
More info on their relationship with Debian: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/relationship_with_upstream

"For various reasons Tails tries to diverge by the smallest possible amount from its upstream projects, and especially from Debian"

"We try to push our changes upstream when we need to modify software we ship. This often requires us to write code in a generic way, rather than implementing ad-hoc hacks to fit our specific needs: e.g. we often need to make the stuff we need opt-in and add configuration options."

The official term for this is "Debian derivative" rather than "fork."
InFORM – a tangible display from the MIT Media Lab
Freelancer.com Pays $3.2M To Buy Digital Marketing Marketplace, Warrior Forum
Although council tax is paid by tenants (as it's a tax on residents rather than owners) it impacts rents. The burden of council tax is thereby shared by both tenants and landlords.

Two similar apartments on opposite sides of the same street can have significantly different market rents just because they are in different boroughs, and those boroughs have vastly different council taxes. The classic example in London used to be Wandsworth vs. Lambeth.

Council tax, although based on properties, is meant to be a tax on residents, to put towards local services like police and rubbish collection. It was created after a previous tax (dubbed the 'poll tax'), which taxed each individual, regardless of the size of their abode, caused protests.
I used to think this too, but not any more. If you sign something, you're taking responsibility for it. Period. It applies to me and it applies to the employer. No exceptions.

The exception you're describing is where the employer is hopelessly naive and unknowingly signed and gave me a contract they didn't read with horrendous terms, and they're very apologetic when I ask them to amend it.

Well, that actually happened to me once.

I thought everything was fine when the terms were amended, but the guy who hired me was still hopelessly naive.

That ended up SERIOUSLY coming back to bite me in the ass as he ran out of money, panicked, hid himself and didn't tell anybody what happened. Eventually he told me that he ended up not paying me because he couldn't.

He was a nice guy and he plainly felt awful, but that wasn't much consolation to my bank account.

So yeah, the when there's a possibility you're negotiating with somebody who is either hopelessly naive or evil, I don't really care which they are. I don't want to work for them either way and neither should you.

In general the ones who intentionally put the clauses in weren't necessarily the most awful places to work in the world, but none of them were job opportunities of the lifetime, and I wouldn't have felt bad passing any of them up.
Whats the communities opinion on Serf? How does it measure up against Etcd?
Seriously? And all of those {} that you type in Java-land, they're magically easy to type? Which is of course a red-herring, because neither is enough of a drama to be taken seriously. You deal with it for a day or two and then forget about it.
Thread (YC S12) - Help change how men buy clothes
How would you have found the bug without it being open source? You think companies pay for these open public audits on proprietary software?
You're absolutely right, have an upvote. I had transputers on the brain. That raspberry pi compute module has me re-visiting all kinds of old and interesting alleys. (See: http://jacquesmattheij.com/raspberry-pi-as-a-poor-mans-trans... ).
Ask HN: Why haven't online auction/general-marketplace sites been disrupted yet?
This question (title) is born out of frustration in trying to teach my mother how to use eBay on her iPad to do simple occasional buying/selling.

Needless to say, it hasn't gone smoothly. I can't believe the complete and utter disconjunction between the various areas of the site, let alone between the apps and website. It's barely usable.

And whilst I understand a lot of the headaches and hoops they force you to jump through are to cover their own backs in attempts to protect both buyers and sellers, it's still just a complete mine-field.

Is there any good reason that sites like eBay, Craigslist, Gumtree, etc haven't been pushed aside by a sleek, modern, UX-focused SV-startup yet?

I could easily see eBay being what MySpace was to the social-network space in 2007.
The problem with tests is that they reflect what the test's author was thinking about. When auditing something you especially look for things the code's author did not consider. If you do your review only based on the tests instead of really thinking the code for yourself, you might very well miss the kind of critical mistakes you should be trying to find.
This is the specific one referenced in the article[0]

[0] http://www.xfamily.org/index.php?title=File:America-the-whor...
The law is the prime example of horribly messy domains. Thankfully, the law is also human-made, which means it can be changed (at least in principle). We have wasted enough human-millenia already.
Found late, and found in a an error-prone environment.
This weakens the oft-implied "proof by open-sourceness", and has brought up some criticism on how open source projects are ran and incentivized.

Doesn't mean "Open Source sux", just some nuanced criticism, ok?
I can't really believe this - if both parties agreed an alternate contract was made orally then the court would effectively rule against both parties in favour of supporting a knowingly false contract?

FWIW the Wikipedia definition, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_corners_%28law%29, contrasts sharply with your use and doesn't really seem to speak at all to overwriting of terms by further contracts.
Actual PDF
https://opencryptoaudit.org/reports/iSec_Final_Open_Crypto_A...

Die slideshare, die scribed.
Smaltmetrics.
Ruby gem that parses comments and turns them into a beautiful style guides
Hologram is a Ruby gem that parses comments in your CSS and turns them into a beautiful style guide.
How to Hide a DIV using jQuery
>This may just be crotchety old man talk, but sometimes I wonder if the extremely protective child-rearing (particularly in schools) that seems to be abundant today will make future adults particularly susceptible to this kind of bullying.

Teaching children to respect authority figures will make them susceptible to this kind of bullying.

Exposing children to physical assault is not going to be any help whatsoever during future contract negotiations. Probably it will be a hindrance, in fact.
Well, with the exploits for this vulnerability now showing up everywhere i almost feel bad for the people that still have not-patched servers lying around.
> It's actually the same amount of code in either case.

Which cases are you comparing? I was just saying M+N ≠ M×N, and that solutions that forces M×N are bogus.

> If this is possible (which is very problem-dependent), then it's just as easily solved with inheritance.

True. Then again, you don't need the visitor pattern.
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Does pono's 24-bit audio matter? Hear for yourself.
Instead crowdfunding this Liquid Feedback should be adopted more internationally and any funding should be put into development of LF for better adaption. Loomio is a joke compmared to LF, the guys did not seem to think a lot about the stuff they want to support. It is obvious that the platform can not scale to thousands of people, the boldly advertised example groups are a joke if you take look at it.

Liquid Feedback is serious work. And decision making processes are serious, too. People who think that LF is "too complicated" probably have not realized, that decision making processes in real life are even more complicated.

LF still is not solving all problems. For deep research of problematic decisions there should be a good integration of documentcloud or a similar research tool.

However, LF has realized some good concepts that work for big and very big groups.

Loomio guys should optimize Liquid Feedback and adopt to their needs.
Abloy has patents on many of the unique features of disc locks and keys that make them harder to pick.

In this case the patents help prevent unauthorized duplication of "secure" keys.
Nice. Unfortunately my solar system was stable for about 40 years and then descended into a nightmarish world of Earth bouncing around the solar system in what would have been a horrific experience for the citizens of the planet. On the plus side the visuals from the multiple planets veering close to destroying it would have been a sight to remember. Well, remember for the short while that remained before the atmosphere either froze, was burned away by the sun or stripped by the gravitational field of a giant planet.
Porting GHC: A Tale of Two Architectures
Gigmit.com
People working in the music booking industry will know the following: writing and answering numerous e-mails per day, having thousands of phone calls and still not knowing every thing about the booking deal or not having all the material and information they need to complete the gig or the tour.
Now there is gigmit.com, which is an easy to use online platform for artists and promoters to set up and arrange gigs between each other.
Whereas artists create an artist page and fill it with life, promoters and organisators set up their promoter profile and insert gigs that artists can apply to.
Every thing at one sight: genres, artist photo, social links, sounds & videos, biography, members, location, founding year, technical and catering rider, played & upcoming gigs, discography, press material and the booking fee.
All this can be seen on the artist page - a useful tool for promoters to ease their decision whether to book the artist or not.
Every thing is handled on the same page: From setting up a gig to having the final contract in your own hand, gigmit negotiates its users through its interface.
How they make their money? Promoters pay a fee to gigmit.com, which is low and fair enough.
So start booking now!
Samsung Galaxy S5 Zoom will be called the Samsung Galaxy K; April 29th
Digispark Pro – tiny, Arduino ready, mobile and usb dev board
I put a dwarf star in the middle of the Sun (it placed it right next to it), and while it does destabilize the sun a bit, the rapid rotation of the dwarf star stabilizes it overall. The planet doesn't rotate in an uniform way around the two stars either, but it also seems stable overall, thus breaking the 500 year limit, at least:

http://postimg.org/image/jepystvbz/
> “People always say it sounds too good to be true,” says Wesley Chan, who led Google Ventures’ initial investment in Cool Planet. “That is exactly the kind of company I get excited about as a venture capitalist. We’re in the business of making big bets.”

The bizarre logic in that quote made me think of this laugh from the Scorpio episode on The Simpsons:
http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F23.html

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> Hank: Good afternoon, gentlemen. This is Scorpio. I have the Doomsday Device. You have 72 hours to deliver the gold or you'll face the consequences. And to prove I'm not bluffing, watch this.

> [activates a remote]

> [an explosion occurs near the UN building]

> Man 1: Oh, my God, the 59th Street bridge!

> Man 2: Maybe it just collapsed on its own.

> Man 1: We can't take that chance.

> Man 2: You always say that. I want to take a chance.

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Also, anyway to validate Chelky's claim that Woz used his technology in building the Apple ][?
You have it all mixed up, my friend.

Some people want to think that a village idiot doesn't deserve to live a miserable life because he is a village idiot.

You're certainly pulling a lot of strawmen here. Come to think of it, almost reminds me of Fox News. They have a habit of demonizing the other group, just to make themselves feel better.
"jurestrictions", can't tell if typo, clever pun on jure, or unknown legalese. Google gives me 2 English language pages with it on, a blog and a forum thread - I'm going with typo for "jurisdiction".
Surprisingly addictive.. http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2821551
That's why it think these kinds of contracts should have very strong limitations since as it stands now an employer could potentially make you sign a contract that would effectively make you unable to earn a living and survive for years or own any intellectual property you may have developed in your own time for the purpose of say starting your own business.

They could cripple you if they wanted to.

To be honest there's not much difference between this an slavery and when signing is the difference between putting food on the table or starving everybody is a slave.

Of course you could always not sign but not everyone has the luxury to do that i would argue most people don't.
The disastrous spending of recent decades has been private spending funded by borrowing not public spending (although arguably the government should have tried to be more counter-cyclical than it was). The recovery happening at the moment is due to borrowing restarting and accelerating and is also the first steps towards the next crisis.
How Sass 3.3 Will Solve Your Problems With Responsive Design
Opened Pandora's box of Cache Poisoning
the inequality is not the problem, it's that when one person does not have enough because another has too much.

people pretend that wealth does not increase the cost of living for the poor, but it does. And the poor should not be penalized for this.

Even the village idiot should have a place to sleep, though the very valuable Einstein bought all the houses.
The tax rates the rich pay are lower, but the overall percentage of the tax take paid by the rich is higher. The richest 1% paid 20% of total tax in 1997, 24.4% in 2007 and 29.8% now.

The UK competes with many other places for where the rich want to live. France has had a disaster with their recent proposed 75% tax rate.

The same goes for entrepreneurs - would you register your startup in the USA if the tax rates, especially on capital gains were massively higher than elsewhere? It's also a question of VC capital - would they let you.

It's better for the USA to get it's cut of Facebook's success rather than drive Facebook into a tax haven and get nothing.
From what I seen so far, it seems like an alternative to bootstrap or foundation, although it's not a traditional CSS framework like the ones before.
Has anyone looked into thwarting timing attacks by using Selenium to run web tasks at random times?
ECMAScript 6: Jump in, the water is warm
Airline apologies for porn tweets
Hollywood-style surveillance technology inches closer to reality
My current manager uses Excel and I don't have the slightest idea of what he's registering or communicating to anybody.

But, as you say, if he was a good manager, he would be communicating anyways.

If the management is not so good (or just not good at communicating?), I'd rather have a good management tool :)
Freelancer.com buys Warrior Forum for $3.2 million
No, some/most of the research underpinning the first iteration of these cherry picked technologies was paid for by the government, but the development of them into the ubiquitous form in which you and I are benefiting from them on a daily basis was purely private capitalist endeavour. Surely there's a role for government in all this, but it doesn't follow that socialism (never mind all the random crazy ideas people call socialism) is a good idea.

It's funny how the idea the fact that government provided some early foundations for the Internet somehow awards them full credit for it, doesn't apply to the private inventions such as electricity and the telephone without which the government couldn't have invented the Internet.