skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flask author wrote a long list of great articles about it, but even then, the span of topics covered and integrated by miguel's tutorial made it a very worthy read.
or decrypt.py ;) https://github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt
Puppet (and Boxen for help on OSX) can do this for you with appdmg package provider:
http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/type.html#packa...
Matt Cutts did not answer this one. Which begs a question. Why is Matt here? Obviously not to answer real concerns. He has been sent by Google to handle public relations issues. He has zero credibility.

This anonymous claim may or may not be true, in part or in full, but it has far more credibility than Matt.

It is quite understandable that people who have had an unhappy experience with Google may not want to come out publicly. If Google can block AdSense with no transparency, what else can it do? Google can drop you from its search engine -- then you really have no other advertising choices. Have you seen the Senate hearings? Google has done exactly this. http://www.searchneutrality.org

I know from experience that Google suddenly suspends AdSense accounts at any time, and does so when the amount due is near the $100 minimum, then holds that money indefinitely but never lifts the suspension.

The internet is overflowing with complaints about AdSense. Is this just one big conspiracy? Course not. This is the frustration of thousands or more people who were burned by Google's unprecedented policy of never providing support.

Until THAT changes, Google is the guilty party, no doubt.
Tron was pretty amazing in not faking it. A post that bubbles up to the front page usually several times in a year is Joshua Nimoy's write up for the effects he did for tron (http://jtnimoy.net/?q=178)

Incredible stuff and an enjoyable read.
The college where I work has a bit of a reputation now for sending police to the thieves door with a nice printout of where the phone / iPad is. It also helps we have a good set of security cams. I have noticed we seem to have had a long period now where the little thieves know not to take any Apple product.

I figure its a big city vs little town thing.
Back in the olden days, computer interfaces were an ASR-33 teletype. Movies showed that. But when computer terminals graduated to DECwriters in the movies, the sound effects were still ASR-33. The ASR-33 sounds persisted even when using glass terminals.

Since then, the ASR-33 mechanical chugging sound has been replaced with a high pitched beep, but the text appearing on the screen still made 'printing' sounds.

It's only recently that that has started to fade from movies.
This was (thankfully) pre 9/11 (though my story is somewhat tangential) - I can’t imagine what might have happened if it had happened after:

At the time, I was in the US as an Australian citizen traveling on a Visa Waiver. Your passport gets stamped and the Visa Waiver document is stapled into your passport with the instruction that it should be removed upon leaving the country (and normally done by airline or immigration staff upon passport check).

I flew from St Louis to Paris, and didn’t notice / didn’t think about this. Flew into Paris, and if you’re familiar with Europe, especially at the time, passport management was “lax”. I didn’t receive a stamp in my passport - and they certainly had no interest in the US Visa Waiver.

Traveled into Spain, same thing. Back to Paris, same thing. Flew into New York JFK, and got pulled to the side, interrogated, detained.

“So, according to your passport, you never left the country by any licit means. You have no stamps in your passport from any country in the meantime. And yet here you are, arriving back in the US on an international flight. Let’s come back here and talk."
Ask HN: Example Wireframes
Does anyone have a link to some really good example wireframes that explain a complex web application? i.e. the kind of document I send to my novice friend and say, here, create something THIS detailed describing your idea, then you can hire a programmer to build it.
Could you base your arguments with some facts? I work in international company and don't find Chinese in the top risk taking colleagues (Americans win big in this area). That's equally anecdotal like in your case but since it is different experience it would be interesting to hear where you experience comes from.
but the weed?!
Not the OP, but I've moved a lot of my file hosting from both Google and Dropbox services to a self-hosted install of OwnCloud. Unfortunately, one of my preferred ways of using Dropbox for sharing single files directly without an HTML interstitial page is not well supported by OwnCloud.

I, too, have stopped using Google+, and did not replace it with anything. I have gotten rid of my accounts on all social networking platforms.
Adam Rutherford attended an Alpha Course and did a series of posts on the Guardian's Comment Is Free about it, if anyone's interested:

http://www.theguardian.com/global/series/alpha-male

Sounds like the usual credulous nonsense to me, by YMMV :)
Admittedly the "hiding functionality" kick that developers seem to be on these days is starting to get rather grating...
There's a blithe decadence in insisting that the details of movie-making fantasy conform exactly to your expectations. It's also suspicious that the complaint is aimed at mainstream movies, rather than, for example, pornography for a male audience. Would the author want more realism in porn? Should there be more dates in porn? Awkward moments where the conquering male can't decide whether or not to pull his date's chair out for her? An inner monologue wherein he wonders if she's hot enough, chides himself for being so shallow, and then unconvincingly reassures himself that he's not that shallow and he still finds her attractive even though he's in the mood for larger breasts?

Of course not, because porn is fantasy that has as a crucial element the affirmation of male power, validity, and competence. Those elements of "realism" would detract from the purpose of the medium. It's the same with movies. In the climactic scene where the protagonist is on the cusp of capturing the Macguffin, what the plot needs--and what needs therefore to be quickly, visually, and unambiguously communicated to the audience--is that the protagonist or the protagonist's allies have been granted access to the god-like computer system that unlocks the whosywhatsit. "ACCESS GRANTED" does this. Is it realistic? No. Does it matter? Nope! Like an exploding car or a space fighter that banks like an F-16, it communicates to the audience in a way that is immediately recognizable and plausible on a time-scale consistent with the pacing of the action.

Complaining about the lack of realism of coding sequences in movies certainly does not identify you as a "nerd" or "smart person above pop culture." It emphatically identifies you as an unimaginative dork and a boring pedant.
Yeah, perhaps I was a little harsh. Don't get me wrong, I like Weird Al. I probably could have phrased my comment a little better. I should have said something along the lines of, "In my experience listening to Weird Al, it doesn't feel like he explores a lot of the English language."

Your link is cool, thanks for sharing that.
I don't really understand why you can't expose a stable ABI right from the first C++ layer. It shouldn't be any harder than making such ABI in the third layer, and will avoid many extra function calls which don't come for free.
While it doesn't mention punycode directly, it has paragraph referring to IDN:

Why don’t Chinese web addresses just use Mandarin characters? Because that’s a pain, too. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which sets the rules for web addresses globally, has periodically hyped the expansion of domain names to include non-Latinate scripts, but Chinese web sites have yet to take full advantage. Some devices require a special plug-in to type in Chinese URLs, and even then it takes longer to type or write out characters than to input a few digits. Plus, for web sites that want to expand internationally but don’t want to alienate foreign audiences with unfamiliar characters, numbers are a decent compromise
True, but most so do most email clients, and this still would be breaking her rule of "refus[ing] to communicate with anyone whose email address consisted of a string of numbers".
Honestly Google hasn't really become toxic yet. If something changes where I know for a fact that Google having my information is detrimental in some valid way, then maybe my opinion will change.

The main thing is that I decided to use Google. I don't even pay Google for the service. If they want to use some information to run ads that might hopefully be relevant, then good for them. I never click ads and I usually use ad blockers anyway.
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I don't really see any mention of demographics in the article. The "boomer" swell explains a lot in all three of these economies (US, Japan, China). The US was just about 13 years behind Japan in terms of the peak of the boomers hitting their mid 40s (maximum earnings and spending). The Japanese hit stall and decline in the early 90s, and the USA did pretty much the same thing on cue in the early 2000s. China's demographic decline is going to be especially sharp.
I actually disagree with the blog. I don't work for Google but I think my parents would be better served with just knowing which domain name they're on rather than having to parse through a huge url.
Show HN: ParisHilton.js
Surely you cannot expect a religious argument to do well in a scientific forum.
Not at all. Most of their products are awful, but search and email were the most hard to leave behind. Having used DuckDuckGo and my own mail server for almost three years now, I'm quite comfortable and see them as superior, not inferior.
Information Asymmetry and Power in a Surveillance Society
Also Big L
The estimate of vocabulary size here is based on the number of unique words used. This seems like it is strongly biased: if two artists have the same size vocabulary, but one has released more albums and thus used more words, that artist will probably have used more unique words. To underscore this point, the number of unique words used by Aesop Rock is half of the estimated vocabulary size of the average college student, although to be fair that estimate is the number of words that an individual can recognize, not the number of words they use. (Edit: the bias is somewhat mitigated by the fact that the same number of words is used to estimate the vocabulary for each artist, but the bias is not dependent on sample size alone but also upon the size of the artist's underlying vocabulary; see my comments below.)

The underlying problem is one of estimating the cardinality of a multinomial distribution given a fixed number of samples. In isolation this problem is ill-posed, since it is always possible that there is a word in a given lyricist's vocabulary that he uses with very low frequency and that is unlikely to appear in any sample, but with appropriate prior information it may be possible to obtain an accurate estimate.

This is not my field, but a brief Google Scholar search shows that there are several papers on estimating vocabulary size, or equivalently, estimating the number of species based on sampling. There is a somewhat dated review (http://cvcl.mit.edu/SUNSeminar/BungeFitzpatrick_1993.pdf) that details some methods of estimation (in this case, I believe we are in the domain of "infinite population, multinomial sample" with unequal class sizes). The paper notes that there is no unbiased estimator available without assumptions on the distribution of word use frequencies, but some of the proposed estimators may be more accurate than the naive estimate used here.
> On a certain day, 278 people entered the park.

I didn’t test this with robots, but I tested this with humans (first year university students). It’s more difficult than expected, because it has to be translated as 1 * X + 1 * Y = 278, but neither of the “1” coefficients are written in the text. It breaks the “easy” algorithm that is “copy all the numbers in the matrix, and hope that the solution is related to the problem”.
It depends on if you are counting hardware costs or software costs as well. The rough estimate I heard recently is that an hour of programmer time costs about the same as an hour of a 100 Teraflop computer.
I submitted this sometime ago when I first launched it, but it's recently undergone a fairly major redesign (basically a full rewrite of both the front- and backends).
So how many people are going to clone this repo and then submit it here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686054

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7686077
That's not what I wanted to point out. To write a POM, you don't need to know the XML specification. If you want to write a Gradle script, you don't have to know Groovy. You just have to use the Gradle DSL which is fairly compact for most plugins. You make it sound as if you have to learn a whole new programming language, and if that was the case I would agree that Gradle sucks! If you want to do something more specific, then yes you will have to learn Groovy, but at that point the time will be spent well. Also, most of the time Groovy is weakly typed Java with lambdas and no semicolons. I think you've already spent more time arguing about not wanting to learn Groovy than time you would've needed to learn said amount of Groovy.
The term "parody" is often misused, but I was using it correctly here. My post was a parody of what I perceived to be anti-White bias. This did initially cause some confusion, but all of the criticism I received was by people who recognized the intent of my post.

A more direct version would have gone something like "Imagine if the author had portrayed Jews, Chinese or Africans living in the US using the same insulting caricatures, or conflated their relative ethnic homogeneity with literal inbreeding..."

If you would prefer the latter style of presentation, I will try and avoid satire/parody as a stylistic device.
This is important to note. As a huge ruby fanboy, one of my favorite things about the language are the shortcuts and syntactic sugar that are provided to make things easier.

I saw the decline and got a bit worried, then came here and had those fears assuaged. I do wonder if the LOC difference has anything to do with people getting more familiar with the language and doing more things in less code.
What's more is that expecting realism from Hollywood productions is, quite aptly, unrealistic. Hollywood films aim at targeting large masses of people. As such, their medium is in creating exaggerated escapist fiction with intense SFX and formulaic plots that do not require thought to follow, but can instead be passively consumed.

If you want realism, then start watching more art films and start supporting the independent film industry.
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It's still much better than pasting HTML and/or JavaScript taken from a random website all over the computer screens. It's the most common "code" I see in the movies and TV series made in this decade in last 10 years.
Creating your Pyramid Plugin the basics
If that was the case, then emphasizing the domain name within the url would address their needs, while preserving the full url for anyone who needs/wants it. I'm looking at Firefox's url bar as I type this, and the url text is all medium grey except for ycombinator.com, which is black. There is absolutely no confusion about what site I'm on, and no need to parse through a huge url.
What's wrong with bolding or otherwise emphasizing the TLD plus one more level of the domain? I wouldn't even mind (I would, but I'd get used to it) the url bar showing com.ycombinator.news/item?id=7694967 to avoid super long subdomains obscuring the main domain. But forcing a click to show the full uri? That's going to eat up a lot of aggregate developer time.

It also does nothing to address a major problem: companies using alternate domains for their services. It does me no good to know what the real domain is without any other distracting information, if I can't tell whether than real domain is trustworthy. The browser would have to maintain a map of trusted organizations and domains they're known to use, and show the trusted official domain in place of other domains. Which is problematic for several reasons (not the least is the effort required to maintain such a list), and could lead to additional security problems in edge cases (domains transferred to new owners, etc).
Nice. I'd love to see templates so you can easily customize depending on what kind of environment you want so you can start from zero. E.g.
1. Development
2. Design
3. Engineering
4. Management
5. General use

It's probably just me, but it seems like all of these require too much investment time before you have something usable for future use (replicating your current environment).

Which brings me to this, how about a script that analyzes what you already have installed and creates this set up for you which you can customize to easily add/remove packages/apps/installers using Boxen and similar? Anyone know of such tools? My MBP is full of crud after using SuperDuper!/Time Machine for several years to start new macbook setups and installing new versions of OS X on top of the old OS.
You don't even need a share button. You just click on the domain thing instead of the search area and it works exactly like before.
> -b /- root(b^2-4ac to the tune of Pop Goes the Weasel

Woah. In the UK the most we got was SOHCAHTOA: "Smiles of happiness come after having tankards of ale", or "Some old hag cracked all her teeth on apples".
On Chrome hiding URLs to protect users from phishing
I would be afraid if my goals are to procreate and perpetuate the human race.
I've talked to many founders who seem to forget the basic "economic laws of the universe". You have to create more value (if you're feeling pessimistic, more perceived value) than you take to get something out. It's crazy how many founders get excited about how much they've raised, or at what valuation, while forgetting that basic fact. Every dollar you raise is one you need to put to work more effectively than the general market. A high valuation is basically a "discount" applied to any value you create, the higher the discount the more value you need to create to make the equation balance. It's scary to see founders that have significant exits (>$100m) walk away with very little, because they didn't manage to make that fundamental equation balance.
The trouble with HN's archives is that most of the 1.5M stories [1] that have been submitted are junk, so it can be hard to track down the gold. At the same time, there's a great deal of gold there, including much that never got the attention it deserved. We've been toying with ideas about how to reclaim some of it.

[1] The number is 1,472,221 as of two minutes ago, if anyone cares.
As the article explains, though, including some realism in the way a movie depicts computing achieves the very same goal as the noisy explosion in space or banking starfighter. If there's too much physics realism in a space movie, people will notice that it looks "fake" and their suspension of disbelief will be disrupted. Space movies have dogfights because war movies have dogfights, so people know what to expect, and the plot is advanced. Back in the 1960s when computers were unknown quantities, you could put whatever bullshit you wanted up on the screen and that was fine. But now that the majority of the movie-watching public has a pretty good idea of how computers work, having a "hacker" enter some kind of 3d virtual reality world to hack the NSA is perceived as ridiculous, even for Joe Sixpack, as if the movie depicted a scene in a McDonald's wherein the characters talked to a Maitre'd and ordered Steak Tartare and Chicken Tikka Masala. We all know enough about restaurants to know that's bullshit, even someone who's never eaten in a four star restaurant.
I think the term you're grasping for is "Lowest Common Denominator."
Gmail is the only thing that keeps me tied to Google. If there was an easy way to host my own email server with two-factor, I would do it today.
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I don't know which part of my post said that I completely agreed with and thought everything that happened in the world preceding the American global control was good. You are criticising a non-existant point in my post.

I am criticising all interventionism, not just American interventionism. I sort of made this obvious when I criticised Soviet interventionism.

>I mean, I'm not saying America really is the "shining city on the hill", BUT let's call a spade a spade here : American hegemony has been pretty fucking great for America, for Europe, for the whole world. Denying that makes you a moron, nothing more.

For the whole world? Really? What parts of the world, exactly?

As far as I can see, about half the world's population is in the absolute shitter and still very unstable, not made better by the military interventionism of the USA in the middle east for example. The progressive attitude we have here in Europe and that they have in America is not consistent throughout the world. In fact, the socio-economic situation of a lot of the world is very, very bad.

American "hegemony" as you call it has only been good to the US' closest allies and trade partners. China, Russia and India to name three big ones have had to develop by themselves independent of American support. In Europe, I think the leading cause for no repeated big wars is European cooperation and the lack of other political systems than the democratic one. While the American support is relevant, Europe at the time committed to preventing future wars, and to be honest no doomsday prophecies like the Versailles Treaty was made this time.

>Let me state the blatantly obvious here : without American power being unassailable, maybe not globally, but at least on every ocean, our world will get a whole lot worse, very fast. Very fast. Once it happens it will take half a millennium to get liveable again. Can you at least consider for 5 seconds that knowing nothing about history and just having lived the last 30 years might not provide an entirely realistic view of how the world works?

What makes you able to say for certain what the world would look like if this and that didn't happen?

>And if by globalized society you mean the UN, I suggest you check out the UN's successes.

Globalisation is a process mostly independent from the UN. Come on.

>No offence but the "globalized society" is not just a disaster, many people would have been better off living under a dictator ordering a genocide against them than with the result of having the "globalized society" that is the UN interfere with their affairs.

Globalisation, unless EVERY single nation on Earth adopts isolationism both economically and socially, is unavoidable.
I love hearing these kinds of stories. It makes me appreciate how much easier it is to ship and build software nowadays.
Just as it would be unreasonable to require that anyone who drives a car roughly understands how an engine works, it would be similarly unreasonable to require that anyone who uses the internet roughly understands how addressing works. It is of course true that your car ownership experience will be greatly enriched by understanding roughly how an engine works, and that your internet experience will be greatly enriched by understanding how addressing works. But neither should be a prerequisite.

You underestimate how subtle the concepts underlying addressing are, probably because, like many technical people, you have understood how URLs work for so long that you can no longer remember what it is like to not understand them.