skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a question to all those of you who wrote/will write/think that they prefer forums to mailing lists - I've just picked you randomly to reply to as I don't want to spam the thread with the same question:

Which mail client do you use, and have you ever used a mail client that supports an easily accessible threaded view, like mutt? Or have you ever used a Usenet news reader, like slrn?

I really don't like web forums and very much prefer mailing lists and NNTP, because it gives me a unified interface for all the different lists and newsgroups with very low UI latencies and powerful functionality for dealing efficiently with huge discussions.

That's why my hypothesis is that many people who prefer forums do so because they have never seen/used a good/powerful mail or news reader, and only ever have used mailing lists through some webmail interface - which indeed probably is a lot worse than web forums, especially if it's high volume. So, I am asking you to provide some data to check this hypothesis against ;-)
DevOps: Dissecting Effective Developer Workflows to Save Time and Lower Costs
Shoptalk Podcast with Jule Ann Horvath [AUDIO]
OpenRFPs
Identity is key, but whoever controls the identity with a credit card connected to it...that's a useful one.

(Although actually to take a step back...owning the credit card channel still leaves the field wide open for the billions of people who don't have credit cards)
No, it's not. A maling list should not ever touch the Reply-To: header field. See also:

http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
Islam maintains that it is the religion of all the messengers (read: Submission). Abraham, Moses, and Jesus were all Muslims (Submitters).

On a side note, there exists at least one sect of Christianity that does not believe in Jesus as God.
Silicon Valley scares Americans
... because equity is gold.
Well, to be fair, I didn't have Helvetica available at the time I developed my hatred of Arial to compare. And when I look at blown-up / high res versions of Arial text now on my spiffy MacBook screen, they don't look so bad. But looking at old screenshots of Win3.1 still draws my ire. Verdana would have made Windows look so much better had they made that the main OS sans-serif. Arial's just so... pedestrian.

It may have had much more to do with the fact that Win 3.11 had shitty text display than with any real problem with Arial. But Arial really did look horrendous to my eyes compared to Verdana, on the same machine. I do think that had I had access to Helvetica back then I would have liked it more. But without a time machine it's impossible to tell.

I also grew up with computers and started looking at text on screens from the fourth grade. I'd had a long time to develop my eye for type by the time I was writing papers in high school. I could look at a page of printed text and tell which (Microsoft) font it was using, I doubt many kids back then could. I do think I'd have been able to tell Arial from Helvetica. There are quite a few differences between the two. Enough that my practiced eye would be able to tell the difference. Not that my programming day job affords me much practice in that regard.
So I keep seeing this point:

"Web applications on the desktop are way ahead of where they used to be. In a few years, it'll be the same for mobile web apps... they'll catch up to the native performance."

But this always seems to overlook another question...

"Where will native desktop and mobile apps be in a few years?"

I have no doubt that mobile web apps will catch up to the performance of CURRENT native apps. However, I absolutely doubt they'll be up to par with the native standard of their time. Web apps progress, but so do native. Worse of all (best of all?) it puts users into the habit and comfort of native and makes the standard for web increase.
works fine here

https://web.archive.org/web/20140408044206/https://blog.ipre...
I think what was meant is that since exploiting this bug leaves no trace, you should automatically consider every master key ever loaded to a vulnerable OpenSSL application to be already compromised. As nothing says this is the first discovery of the bug, one should consider that the black hats have already been exploiting this for long before the first public disclosure.
Regarding point 3. It does say "Supports and uses open source software (for advanced users)." and "Advanced users can use the expert settings as well as other software such as open-source slicers."
According to the abstract, the study was performed "under double-blind conditions"

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/3/760.full
No, the link you provided tells you what Nicaea was about. It standardised the method for calculating Easter and condemned Arianism. (Arianism denied the trinity, not Jesus's divinity.)
I'm getting to the point where I should stop feeding the troll, but I'll bite one last time.

No, I would grandfather in everyone in the city with rent control that currently has it and I would work on a legal mechanism that allows the grandfathered in right to rent control to be separated from the underlying property via a mechanism similar to one I've written about before here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437658

Rent control messes up all housing markets, reducing the quality and quantity of housing for everyone. We can't undo the mistake that has been made, so the best we can do is find a way to phase it out in a way that allows the market to recover from rent control, but preserve the expectations of those that have come to rely on it. The city needs to increase the supply of housing and the way rent control currently works acts like a lock on a database. The city currently has ~175000 locks on n properties that are essentially undevelopable until you remove all the locks on the property.

I don't want rent control. I, and even most people with rent control, would actually be far better off in a parallel universe where San Francisco had never had rent control. Only those who have been in a property for decades actually benefit. The majority pay far more than they should be for the first couple of years and then in later years end up paying roughly what they would have in the parallel universe where rent control had never happened.

Furthermore, if you lifestyle changes and you want to raise a family, you've fucked yourself out of the market you love because you can't afford anything in the market by the time you decide you might want something different. When someone moves into a rent control place, they effectively check out of the housing market like an ostrich with their head in the sand. Basically, had they been back in the housing market every few years as their housing needs and expectations changed, they would have demanded more housing supply in the city. Rent control permits people to remain blissfully ignorant of the housing situation until one day something happens that causes them to be out of their unit such as an Ellis Act eviction. At that point I think to myself "boo hoo", because if they really wanted to live in a city forever they would have either bought property back when they first moved here or they would have demanded increased housing supply long ago so that they would never find themselves in a housing market they were priced out of. People who argue for rent control are downright selfish, since they basically get the benefits of a scarce good without any of the sacrifice (like saving for a down payment) and actively prevent developments which would reduce the scarcity so that others just like them that arrive later may also enjoy the benefits of living in a city like San Francisco.
> Haskell is a good example of where if your program type-checks, there's a high chance it's probably correct.

For a value of 'correct' that includes "uses all available memory and falls over".
Centralized Control, Distributed Data Architectures
I moved from VB6 to Python.
Brett, this is total nonsense. What you've written here (without any sources) is only true for a tiny handful of high-end superstar DJs vs stadium rock bands. Some of it just seems completely off-base, like your claim that electronic music shows cost much more than others (complete BS IMHO) and equally your assumption that all electronic music is done on laptops (possible, but very far from being universally the case). There wasn't anything in there about stuff like merchandise sales, which are a major source of ancillary income for rock & pop bands but which are mostly a non-starter for electronic musicians.

Electronic musicians don't rent recording studios like rock bands, but that's because they have studios of their own, which costs money. You can make great rock music with cheap gear, and while prices of guitars, drums etc. can get very expensive, guess what, so do high-end synthesizers and other gear. Again, it's nice to think that you can do everything on a laptop, but good luck making a a dance-floor or radio friendly electronic track on a set of laptop speakers - for serious work you still need a good audio interface and headphones and speakers at a minimum. And the more minimal your setup, the more likely that getting it released is going to require a trip to an expensive mastering studio.

Sorry, but it sounds like you don't know a whole lot about music production or music business economics.
Add on top of the few bad apples spoiling the barrel the fact that certain positions and jobs create quite strong arrogant bastard self-selection pressures and it's an extra recipe for disaster. It's the same as the NSA -- people who have doubts about the system or feel like being lenient will self-select out, just like those who believe in actual privacy and civil liberties will self-select out of the NSA, creating a remnant that's filled with group-thinking evil apples.

Frankly, I think we'd be better off selecting people are random from the population at large to be in such powerful positions.
Off-topic pedantic point. Ro_gu_e is an adjective that means without guidance or lacking oversight. Ro_ug_e is a type of cosmetic, namely one for making the cheeks redder. While the image of a red-faced prosecutor screaming at his clerks is amusing, I don't think it's what you had in mind.

Sorry to distract from your otherwise valid comment.
I wouldn't call it "failing miserably." Although it doesn't appear to have been the main focus of the study, the antepenultimate paragraph of the results section does say most violinists couldn't identify whether their violin was new or old (3 got it right, 7 got it wrong, 7 said they didn't know) [0]. There aren't p-values provided for that result, though.

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/3/760.full

edit:
Also, you criticize the publications for not reading the abstract, but I wonder if you read it closely. It says "most players seemed unable to tell whether their most-preferred instrument was new or old," which seems right in line with those headlines to me.
This would be cool if I could actually scroll down to move sideways. My mouse's side scrolling is terrible and dragging the scroll bar skips a lot. :(
SecureDrop and the OpenSSL Vulnerability
This sounds very similar to what I do for web hosting reviews. For instance, take a look at Digital Ocean's reviews: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/101/digitalocean/

It calculates an overall (based on all pos/neg things said) but breaks down into components relevant to web hosting: support, uptime, price. You can also figure out who competitors are and see trends.

If you can't tell, I like the idea. I also think it's an incredibly hard problem to solve. I've done it for a small niche. Scaling it to a general solution is something I haven't been able to figure out (yet).
The right arrow key worked best for me.
In Muhammad's time there were quite a few sects that denied Jesus was God. He would have been familiar with the concept before he started getting revelations.

It's interesting to note that Muhammad also taught that a lot of other historical figures were prophets too, e.g. Alexander the Great.
Then whats the opposite of hate?
Employee rewards, and when to give them (it’s not when you think)
Here's a tool I wrote to test locally: https://github.com/titanous/heartbleeder
Well, actually, I did back up these guys - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-pr...

It's a laser-based solution, they're a small and lean team, their software is a Blender plugin and they sound competent. Also, did I mention the lasers?

What I'm saying is that you were right.
This is my biggest worry as well. I am taking a robotics class and we consistently get misprints and other mishaps with the Replicator 2, and that is a wonderful piece of hardware. I worry what kind of quality the Micro provides in a real world setting.
Yes.

This isn't the one I remember seeing a few years ago, but I can't remember what that was, and this is what is coming up for me now when I search for the concept:

http://www.filabot.com/
I would imagine this happens by itself really: once something like corruption/bullying/sadism becomes established enough in any small or large institution, it tends to drive people with a conscience away (instead of attracting them to where they are most desperately needed) - where that doesn't happen actively, that is, as a sort of self-defense against likely snitches. So over time, left unchecked, it just compounds.
It can only access memory of the process running openssl. So if you got nginx in front of your webprocesses they are protected. However anything in the nginx process is accessible (e.g certificates).
This is what investors are looking for in your startup
I agree with everything except your criticism of the art team. Product design matters a lot.
2048 in terminal
Geeks,

Have fun!!
I'm where you are. IRC and twitter together work well for me.
Open Source project pitched like a product. This is how you do it peeps!

I like this a lot and I'm encouraged to see it.
Original HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7341690
100++ Israel Websites are Hacked by Moroccan Hackers
Would you be somewhat better protected i.e. (not loosing private keys, etc) if your machine sat behind a load balancer ? The memory exposed would be that of the load balancer correct ?
This must be resulting in a lot of new gists on GitHub... is it odd that I wish I could sign in with my GitHub account so that the level saves showed up as gists under my name?
Matthew 19:17 - "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God".
It would be a bit more fun if I could read the comments without having to scroll. After ten minutes of scrolling to reach Jupiter, and being about 1/4 of the way through the solar system, I could not keep scrolling. I got the concept and was not ready to invest another half hour.
ssh frequently uses either application-level or TCP-level keepalives. But it doesn't have to; you can just turn off ssh keepalives and your quiescent connections will survive network outages.
The main problem with the OP is that it was looking at
broad averages while necessarily venture capital and
ambitious start ups need to be quite exceptional. The
broad averages say next to nothing about the exceptional
cases. In particular, the probability of being exceptional
is just irrelevant. Instead, what is just crucial is the
conditional probability of being exceptional given
the details of the specific project. So, it's just
crucial to consider the details of a particular project.

A sad part about venture capital is that it is looking
for exceptional projects, necessarily ones that will
in effect push forward the boundary of computing in
our civilization, and doing so with in nearly all cases
very poor qualifications in doing or evaluating
such projects.

And venture capital has another problem: Too few
projects on the other side of the table have much
potential of such pushing the boundary.

For all concerned, only a tiny fraction of the
venture general partners have any hope at all of
evaluating projects that push the boundary.

We should be making much faster progress.
Navigating politics and data aversion at the BBC
It's not hard to screen what's returned for chunks that look like they could be keys (you know the private key's size by looking at the target's certificate, you know it's not all zeros, etc.) and then simply exhaustively check chunks against their public key.

I just looked at one of my running apache processes, it only has 3MB of heap mapped (looked at /proc/12345/maps). That's not a whole lot of space to hide the keys in.
"when I please and on whatever article I please"

I don't think the grandparent was asking you to stay within a time or quantity constraint. His/her point was about the quality of your comment, which this forum has pretty hard-defined guidelines for [1].

I think you made a valid point in your first comment here (and I thought your feedback was valuable), but you added some unnecessary rudeness. Imagine if you met Grace at a party and she excitedly tells you what she does. Then she whips out her phone and shows you the posted page. You catch the issue you pointed out (which in my mind is a legitimate point of concern), how would you bring it to her attention? If you imagine that scenario and compare it to your original comment then it might make more sense. At least that is how I try to think about it. I hope you find it helpful and thanks for adding yourself to the list of monthly donors [2].

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[2] I am not affiliated with Watsi in any way except I am starting to donate very small amounts.
It would also be nice to have a gateway that bridges the gap between your desktops/workstations/mobile devices and jasper, so jasper can fire off commands.
Ask HN: Are the people who forced out Brendan Eich bigots?
I just happened to be looking at the Merriam-Webster definition and they came to mind. Am I wrong?

BIGOT noun [1]

a person who strongly and unfairly dislikes other people, ideas, etc. : a bigoted person; especially : a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)

Full Definition of BIGOT

a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance

[1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot
I see it more like a SIMD processor than a GPU. It's not massively outstanding, but there's a lot of value of it having an open documentation, a known instruction set.
I think it looks like its still open, but Android has won the mobile in my opinion. Here in US, we are oblivious of the stronghold that Android has in developing nations like India and China. Even in. Countries like the US, its still a two horse race. Look at Microsoft for example. Despite having a pretty innovative mobile OS, they are minor enough player to not even be considered in the article.
The #1 Paid App In Play Store Is A Total Scam
That wasn't my point at all. I was making the point that we should be encouraging immigrant visas for positions that actually create growth. i.e. The position will help with scaling so that we end up with a larger business that results in more jobs for Americans. If an immigrant moves here and works for a company that has 10 people and helps create a product that scales so that one day that company employs 1000 people, the US is better off. If the immigrant comes to the country to work at a consultancy doing work that doesn't really scale, that worker is just another person suppressing the wages for Americans who would otherwise be doing that work. An immigrant who comes here to do consultancy doesn't do work that typically generates more jobs. The consultancy can only grow by adding more people like the immigrant since the supply of people like the technical immigrant is already limited.

Second, although consultants typically make more than other software engineers, it still suppresses wages for all software consultants. The pay for software consultants in the US would be much higher without bringing in immigrants to do that work.

Personally, I don't want to reduce the number of highly skilled immigrants that come to this country. I would love to see it increase a lot more. But I don't think it benefits the United States economy and the average American citizen when this immigrant labor is focused on non-scalable activities where the labor needed is likely to be highly fungible. That only serves to increase the bottom line of the shareholders of such companies at the expense of suppressing wages for similar professionals working in the US. That's net-negative for the country, and a subsidy for those shareholders. Every one of those H1-B visas should be decided on the likely value that immigrant can bring to the US economy and not the value that immigrant provides to the shareholders of a consultancy.

IBM getting 5 more generalist software engineers is far less valuable to the US economy than 5 engineers that are specialists in some new emerging technology such as renewable energy. The decision process for granting H1-Bs should be similar to the decision process for making an investment in a startup. You invest in things that can grow.

FWIW, You might think I'm a red-blooded anti-immigration American, but I'm actually an immigrant software engineer living in the US.
Microsoft releases broad REST API for controlling Azure
Standing strong and staying Mozillian
Ask HN: Best LevelDb resources for Node.js
I've been recently getting into LevelDb, and I was wondering if there are any really good resources on how best to use it.

For those that use it heavily, can you recommend any reading or source code that you found particularly instructive?
Which means it did jack shit.

Also, it was found unconstitutional in 2010. Only "years later" by the fact that it was more than a single year. Hardly a significant stretch of time.
Raspberry Pi's computer now fits in the space of a tiny memory stick
You know what's also cheaper than an 8-bit in the 80s? Full computers today. The cheapest Windows machines, desktop or laptop, are about $300–400, from Dell, for example. In 1984, a Commodore 64 was about $200, or $450 if you include one disk drive. But with inflation, that's $451 and $1016 respectively in today's dollars.

But you could get a ZX81 for only $25, which is $56 in today's dollars. But that's about the price of a Raspberry Pi.
That is such a bad comparison that you should literally feel bad for making it :3
Edward Snowden and journalist Laura Poitras awarded truth-telling prize