skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a matter of preference, however it's not a subjective thing that reading the text without spacing between the words is slower. There are tests which measure such speed.
How Y Combinator became the founder of startup accelerators
Which of those have been appointed to the Dropbox board?
What in the hell is going on?
We assumed the best pre-PRISM and we got PRISM'd. Dropbox, I'm out.

I love Dropbox, it's my favourite service that I use regularly. However, I cannot trust Dropbox with the privacy of my data now.
Thanks! That is definitely not for the pay. HTML/CSS is quick to learn and you see results right away (like wow, I built a website for my [INSERT HERE YOUR HOBBY]). Next step will likely be learning the CS basis via a MOOC.
YMMV, but I find this has more to do with the attitudes of the participants. Knowledge is not a zero-sum game, I hope to learn new things every day, and want the people I work with to help level me up. If someone wants to take the time to share their knowledge with me, I win.

If it was being said passively aggressively, I would agree with you (and perhaps you've mainly experienced this interaction that way).
Not yet. Just a peek at Github's internal build.
Al Gore was one of the key figures supporting extraordinary rendition during the Clinton administration: http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2005/11/al-gore-was-for-extrao...
Fun. Unfortunately, I think it's a bad sign when random mambo-jumbo generated by a Markov chain script looks so much like the real stuff...
I have used Kohana a few years ago, but now I moved on to Laravel.

it's true that it has fallen behind, we'll see if Ohanzee will do something interesting. But there are so many PHP frameworks, and so few that are successful.
IBM to Aquire Silverpop
It will be available at https://atom.io. It's not quite ready, but you can see a screenshot here: http://discuss.atom.io/t/linux-build-screenshot/6317
QML [1] is an interesting example of declarative programming. It allows constraints and relationships to be defined and the runtime will do the rest. Perhaps it's not as powerful as other languages but in its domain it does very well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_Modeling_Language
Then you must hate everyone. Everyone in Congress believed it. Multiple countries around the world believed it too. Good luck with that attitude.
This is more than slightly off topic but...

Whilst I agree with the sentiment of the comment you replied to, at first I read your comment, then felt a negative reaction towards your reply. My (very much initial) thought process was to try and think of a rebuttal to your request for some details.

Just taking a few moments to think (and whilst I still think that the original post is probably correct), it's funny just how easy it is to fall into an emotional reaction and justification pattern of communication.

It's hard to admit, but I'm almost certainly emotionally biased against people that I think (whether rightly or wrongly) have been directly or indirectly involved in the deaths of others. It's logically obvious that that could occur, but it's surprising that my reaction has the potential to override my (mostly logical mind) that I agree with your point and think the original commenter absolutely should provide some supporting evidence to such strong opinions.

Apologies to anyone that found this to be an overly laboured and/or irrelevant point. It felt to me like an interesting bit of introspection.
NetJs: A .NET to TypeScript and JavaScript compiler
http://i.imgur.com/pVbWMqn.png
PewDiePie – Best GTA Moments
Sorry it's only over a minute long, will be making longer ones in the future!
Spideroak
I have a 39inch $500 4k seiki tv and its wonderful, especially if you're a developer. It's the 'desktop' I've always wanted. And those 4k youtube trailers do look way better than normal 1080. Highly recommended. I wish netflix supported 4k on the computer.
Finally, Dropbox is also an NSA company. Took them quite a while...
Microsoft is still a powerful entity. Considering how irresponsibly this vulnerability was disclosed, I would not completely discard the relationship.

I am not downplaying Heartbleed's severity: everyone, everywhere, should change every passwords they care about used in the last couple years and this is the kind of recommendation you want to be spread far and wide, but spreading it before major distros have had a chance to offer patches caused a lot more trouble than it should have caused.
I am genuinely curious here, how does lunch work in an american 9 to 5? Everyone eats at their desk?
That's just one use of dependent types (and the easiest one for an audience to understand).
I ve just removed Dropbox from my life. Here are two alternates.

https://www.copy.com/home/

https://hubic.com/
Her firm [1] was already providing consulting services to DB. They specialize in companies trying to deal with doing business in Asia (South, SE and East). She probably saw that they're about to have a major expansion in those territories, invested or go some shares, got placed on the board so she can help with that expansion and get a huge payout in the end.

http://www.ricehadleygates.com/
http://www.younited.com/why.html Based in Finland, but no Linux client at the moment.
No, we don't want that. A while ago there was even a headline here that boils down to 'Illegality will not be punishable'.

This was about people residing in the country illegally. Everyone understands the headline immediately, but it's still pretty ridiculous.
Show HN: Run CasperJS scripts in the cloud with simple RESTful API
Do any Dropbox alternatives support Mac resource forks? That's the biggest reason I stick with them, as even Google Drive doesn't.
Bubble bursting for biotech and Internet companies? (Blackrock blog)
Watched the lectures a couple years ago while reading the book.. I highly recommend it to everyone looking to Be A Better Programmer. Ironically, people who would benefit the most from reading the book seem not interested by it.
> Hackers need to mature into the real world if they want to run grown-up companies.

A talk-radio slogan when Bush was elected was that "the adults are in charge". How'd that work out for you?

Really, you can't talk about being "grown-up" out of one side of your mouth while basely insulting your opponents' "maturity" out of the other side just because we disagree politically.
Given how well she did giving advice about previous overseas political issues, I'd wager you'd want her as far away from your CEO as it was possible to get without sending him to the moon.
> I'm pretty sure the 'home copy' law doesn't allow you to copy stuff from the library

But it does. :)

It is explained here: http://www.iusmentis.com/auteursrecht/nl/thuiskopie/ but it is in Dutch. It states that:
- You may make only a few copies but it's unspecified how many that is.

- The copy has to be for personal use

- You may make the copy for someone else, but this is not true for music

- You don't have to own the material you want to copy

- There are some exceptions, namely electronic databases (paper database are allowed), physical structures (no copying other buildings please!) and computer software
Modern Christianity has splintered due to the billions of different interpretations on the bible. Just because they don't promote their feelings on the subject doesnt mean they're pro-gay.

Homophobia it's core was rooted in religous teachings, no matter which one, they all have a history of Homophobia.

Your Country's efforts aren't closer to the truth, they are just more palitable for its people.

It may be a straw man to blame Christianity, but it certainly isn't to blame religon in general. I dont think I ever said "all" churches are anti-gay, but most when you really put in the reasearch are.

You seem to be more anti-American than anything else, maybe you should travel a bit more, or at least avoid the typical eurotrash circlejerks. Bush has been out of office for 6 years now. Get over it.
Feigned surprise may not be seen as "not nice" by those doing it. It's a combination of superiority, surprise, and interest in the other person. Not everyone was aware they were being a dick
I think the point is to recognize that some people, like the person you are replying to, my have an issue with drinking as a social activity. Not that you shouldn't have that as an option, but you should be aware if someone in the group is made uncomfortable by that.

Speaking to your point though, I have a friend who - no joke - hates bowling. Like, he gets violently angry when we suggested going bowling and said he'd rather sit in the car by himself if we went. Some people...
Lusail: The World Cup City.
One example: the Rand Fishkin interview. Definitely not accusing Rand of weaseling, but that moment where Andrew asks "What are you feeling right now?" cut through to the honesty of running a business. And huge kudos to Rand for being so honest about burnout on camera.

Another example might be where Steve Blank called out Andrew during the interview, and they kept that in the podcast. There's something really honest & genuine about leaving that moment in.

Mixergy has improved so much over the years. Really shows the value of practice & persistence. Congratulations on the 1000, Andrew.
LabVIEW is concurrent by default; control flow is done by linking the outputs of one function to the inputs of another. This makes writing concurrent loops ridiculously easy: just put two loops next to each other.

I rarely use it because organization is such a pain, but its "data-flow" paradigm does simplify a lot of logic.
Isn't that how courts work in most countries? Major decisions get passed down all the time by courts. Legislation thrown out, new legislation ordered. The only difference here is that it's a European court rather than a national court.
AppDirect Raises 35MM
The difference is that a) I don't give any money to Stanford and b) Stanford don't have 10s of gigabytes of my data.
Those are all fine. Actually, I forgot that sort was in <algorithm>. I was just recalling some of the horrors I've seen due to pre-C++11 fanciness. There seems to be a temptation for C++ programmers to overuse clever tricks. Luckily, with C++11 fewer tricks are necessary.

Unfortunately, the gamedev industry will probably be stuck with pre-C++11 for another decade.
Facebook is killing in-app messaging
Would it be better to ban all subtlety in human communication and reduce the expressive capabilities of speech to straight forward description?
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Uhm, as NSA and other agencies are responsible for "secure" internal comm, they have methods for that. Sometimes they get broken, probably, but thats their mission to find out, and sometimes let the enemy continue thinking their breakin is effective.

Its the same methods as in 1940, that is, classic intel methods.

Security does not just mean strong crypto algorithms.

If you find your enemy has found a flaw in openssl or some other methods which you are using to communicate - the best way forward is to continue using that - keep the enemy thinking its all good information when its in fact worthless, and move to another method for the real secure stuff, such as steganography or pidgeons.

Anyway, there probably isnt much "really highly, this kills the cat"-type of information goin on the internets, I guess one point of NSA would also be to keep highly classified information to a minimum. Think thats one reason why Navy and others have their own networks parallel to the internet. Where much secrets flow - isolate.
it's NOT ready (as far as i can tell), so PLEASE stop with the misleading title!!!

April 1 was 10 days ago!
Online games separate your public handle from your login username (typically your email address). If someone wants to take over LazerBob, they have to first guess his username.

It's nowhere near sufficient by itself, but it cuts down on the noise dramatically.

Many email addresses should be considered sensitive, in that you want any attempt to talk to them to get close personal attention from several senior people. "hostmaster@fastmail.fm" should be changed to "hostmaster-9508gdgs42x@fastmail.fm" simply to reduce the amount of noise going to it. Don't publish it in your whois or on your blog; tell it only to your domain manager.

You can't count on it staying secret forever, of course.
> [Condoleeza Rice]... normal person

Her close involvement with the current state of US national security is enough to disqualify her for a role in a company like Dropbox.
Heartbleed and LedgerSMB
What "proof" do you have that they made "boatloads of money"?
If I went around lording my specific domain knowledge over others, I would never learn anything new myself. What a waste of my life and human interactions that would be.
A place where one should already be aware of the dangers of overloading.
Good for you for standing by your principles.

This definitely puts a taint on Dropbox, for me. We'll see if that leads to action. Sometimes it sucks to be a pragmatist.
You guys ever heard of rsync? It's awesome.
I use BTSync as well and can second this. To exchange files with clients I also use Google drive and Dropbox. BTSync and Dropbox is well behaved on Mac OS X. Where as Google drive uses quite a lot of resources on a regular occasion and pegs a core...
No, it is brilliant (in the SV way) that they have no revenue. The sky is the limit and you can get funded for pretty much any amount.

Seriously, if they had been actually monetizing, they would not be able to collect the funding.

There was that photo site a few months back which closed much discussed on HN. The problem with them was that they actually tried to make money and thus VCs could see that they would not be the big hit needed.

I am only half-kidding with this.
Not everyone on the board of a tech company needs to be a techie, though some definitely should be.

There's no doubting her ability and toughness.

If she takes the job seriously I'm sure that she will do very well.
Oh come now, I worked for several companies in my life and always included regular breaks and lunch in my 8h work schedule. Never seen anyone not doing so. I live and work in Poland.
I'm more outraged by Condi's appointment than Brendan Eich's appointment to Mozilla.

Condi preached death and torture, Eich supported bigotry.

I'm sure however that nobody really give a f and the status quo will be maintained.
Yeah most of my bugs are deliberate. I like the feeling of making mistakes and seeing my boss run out of his office frantic.
Since this is HN is it possible to limit ourselves to how CR will help Dropbox to market itself in countries where governments are hostile?

Does anyone know how Rice’s firm RiceHadleyGates would help DropBox do that?

I would assume that her elevation from consultant to board member means that she has been tried and tested.
As it happens I was just looking at DB alternatives that would be more secure. The news that they have hired Condi the war criminal Rice to join their board is the clincher. Bye bye DB.
An outside explanation is that political and corporate powers tend to cross-pollinate and operate with revolving doors.

Think of what doors have opened for Dropbox now that they've got Condi. Any door that Condi could open (which is quite a few) could now be opened by them.
> The article mentions an average bitrate of ~16 Mbit/s for the streamed content.

HD 720p/1080i for broadcast is about that rate, so quality-improvement for going to a higher resolution will be quite dependent on coding efficiency.
Bullshit. A lot of the world despises that administration, and it wouldn't matter whether it was Rice, Rumsfeld, or Cheney.
If they knew about this, they used it, and they told or by other means deactivated heartbeat for sensitive systems of USA, and using honeypots to see if the Russians and Chinese have figured it out too.

Then when their honeypots attract alot of bees, is time to tell Google to seal the hole, to protect all the medium sensitivity networks and info.
My family will be migrated from Dropbox by next week.
Just keeps all your movies in the cache folder :D
I don't understand - is that because Dropbox wants to make it more clear to the world that there is a free flow of information from Dropbox to the US government?
I heard about two cases when MongoDB failed doing The Most Important Thing - storing data. No one really care about autosharding, no migrations etc. if you can't store the data. Due to some replication issue data was inconsistent.
I don't think what you're describing is a problem with sarcasm, it's a problem with people being dismissive. Sarcasm is just how they choose to express it. It wouldn't be any less toxic if that person said "Yeah, that's not a real problem" instead.
It's Absolutely Okay for Startups To Say No
Oh, sure. You can implement a curfew and shoot on sight everyone who ventures out on the streets outside government-approved schedule. Then you don't need to chip and tag them.

Or did you mean online crime? Outlaw computers, refer to above technique.

My point is, just because some type of enforcement has a certain level of effectiveness doesn't mean it's right to have it, nor does it mean that any alternative is required to have the same level of effectiveness, in particular given that it gets rid of something far worse.
No. My co-founder is a woman and she had the same reaction of revulsion as I did from hearing this news. I'm not cool with killing thousands over a lie, denying gays the right to marriage, etc. This is the last day I use Dropbox.
I take anyone as a fool who thinks the NSA is the only spy agency that does such things.
I believe it. Crafting a weapon that can be used by both you and your enemies would be pyrrhic.

The lesson out of this ordeal is probably to be as skeptical as possible of everything you take for granted. How do you know that you're secure? What if your assumptions are wrong? Try to invent ways to break your own assumptions. The best way to protect yourself is to try to defeat yourself.

Unfortunately, "ain't nobody got time for that," as they say. But if you find time, it's quite rewarding. And disconcerting. You'll wonder why we're still wrestling with these fundamental problems in 2014, and then you'll start questioning the foundations we've been relying on until now.
Gosh, if DP wasn't so convenient and worked so well. They've always given off a "not quite right" vibe from the corporate level that I can't quite put my finger on ever since the TC Cribs video [1]. The weird public responses surrounding privacy and security issues since then have kind of reinforced this feeling. [2][3] But it's so convenient and works so well you kind of quickly forget about all the fuss. And even this [4] just sort of blew by like a summer storm.

It goes to show how offering a really good service can make all kinds of principles take a back seat I guess. Let's see how many people offering to boycott DP are still on the service in 3 or 4 months now.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAfIDUTPJJM

2 - http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/01/dropbox-has-become-problem...

3 - http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-u...

4 - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/dropbox-clarifies...
Screenhero[0] solves the same problem a little better in my opinion. Very cool though!

[0]: http://screenhero.com/
It's just a response people have built up, and they don't really think about it. When I started my current job, I had absolutely no javascript experience at all. My team lead is great, and I learned a ton from him, but he definitely said a lot of stuff like this without thinking. He always helped me figure it out, but responses like this always made me think twice before going to ask for help.

I think it's just a side-effect of being in an insulated position and knowing a ton more about the subject than most people you work with.
How to or not to interview (IT)
I live and work in France, and the part about 9 to 7 is real in Paris (I currently do 7 to 5 because I like to leave early). Elsewhere in France it would be closer to 8 to 6 I think.
Days since last reported SSL exploit
Google to business XP users: We'll give you $100 to buy a Chromebook
So true. We're a bunch of horrible knowitall smartasses.
Rickrolling is better than misleading title.
Regardless of what language/platform he chooses your friend really needs to have a passion for this if he is to adequately self tech him self. By a show of hands, how many got into software development for the pay? I should see very few hands. Most of us are here because the idea of building something from scratch and seeing it to fruition was very appealing.

Whenever someone comes to me about getting into programming. I tell them they should think of an idea they think is awesome and start building it.
I have been in a similar situation where my "good will" caused one of my best coworkers to feel superiour than me and started to try to boss me around. For more than two years everything was fine because we worked on different projects. However for the last couple of months, working together on the same project, everything went down the drain.

I talked to him about big changes and new features before implementing them to hear his opinion in order to make him feel more involved but in one of those meetings, he said something like: "You wouldn't be able to do this on your own if I didn't help you. Did you learn about this kind of stuff at school?".
This was the start of a chain of events which finally led to quitting my job and taking up new one from the beginning of May.

Next time I will make sure that I either won't talk about everything in detail to my coworker or make sure that people understand why I'm involving them in the decision making.
Ask HN: What would you change on Internet ads?
How do you think the hideous internet banners could be improved?
You have just described most of the politicians that I know.
From an outside reading of what seemed to happen in that White House, I'd say "there's no doubting her ability to stay on everyone's good side by watching which way the wind blows and not standing on any principle whatsoever".

Which is probably good business -- but I'd hesitate to call it toughness.
Why would it help? ELI5 it for me. American influence is at a low ebb, and adding figures from a disgraced and frankly laughing-stock administration seems a horrible PR move. Will this help with domestic US government contracts?
I've been asked to sign a post-employment non-compete agreement several times. I never have, because I ask for a simple stipulation: for the length of time you don't want me to work in this field, you need to pay me the same salary.

Everyone agrees that this is fair, and then never mentions the non-compete agreement again.
I was a little disappointed that Factor[1] didn't get a mention in the 'Concatenative' section. Its stack effect checker takes care of a lot of the problems he mentions, IMO.

1: factorcode.org
Heartbleed Bug: How to memorise a new password
I have no issue with her sex, or her race. I have an issue with people who were part of the adminstration that created PRISM, the Patriot Act, the 'Secret Court system', and somebody who is on record supporting this. Having a say in how my data is managed.
I've open sourced http://github.com/EGreg/Q

Docs: http://platform.qbix.com

So far my company are still the only ones working on it
I'd just like to know what the hell they were thinking when they gave her the job since I don't believe that many US citizens have fond memories of her.

Couldn't she just get herself a job in the Oil/Gas industry or at some company that creates weapons of mass destruction like everyone else does after they leave a government position.
I don't think the parent cares how good a job she does or whether or not she is a techie. It's her actions as a politician he/she has a problem with. Switching away from Dropbox would make my life somewhat more difficult but I'm considering it.