skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get a Nexus and use something like Moonreader+?

http://www.moondownload.com/
Google has a strange disincentive to buy Uber -- since Google Ventures invested, Google really wants someone else's money to provide that exit, otherwise they're just moving money from one pocket to the other.
The numbers make it easier to play, it's obvious that 2 4s will combine into an 8. Not so obvious what 2 colours or doges will combine into.
Well this is all very humbling. I'm a mostly "managed language" weenie at the moment, but I swear I've read the phrase "ownership semantics" in reference to something in this neck of the C++ woods. Rust is shaping up to pass the Alan Perlis test quite handily as a language worth studying.
Sad this isn't an announcement of a new /0day board that serves as a pastebin alternative.
welcome.md says "1. Atom is free during the beta period. "
you can change title to "free beta"
"The thing about metrics is that they’re all connected to each other. You have to look at your entire pipeline."

This is so true - even vanity metrics have their place in the big picture. When you hone in on one thing and ignore other factors it can be terribly misleading.
2048 in Emacs
That's a good place to start. Basing it on the list monad instead of the option monad gives you traversals with monoidal summaries.
What if LLVM based JITs with NaCL style security were available in all browsers except IE? (I'm just assuming Microsoft will drag their heels.) Then an LLVM IR based bytecode could become a standard bytecode for browsers.
I actually use Outlook as an RSS reader. It's not very good but it works and that way everything is in one place.

Also, I think Outlook is much better than any other mail/calendar client I've ever used.

I read HN, Reuters, Re/Code, Atlantic and New Yorker in Outlook. I love the mostly text-only experience and am finding that I read content in a less prejudiced way when all the color distraction is gone.
None of them will seed on your behalf, though.
CORRECTION: It was pointed out by /u/teraflop that the Bittorrent functionality and Requestor Pays functionality are incompatible on the same bucket.

Indeed. S3 also has the ability to have the requestor pay for the bandwidth costs of a object retrieval. You could, for example, get the object free from the swarm, and pay for the last few MB/GB if it was unavailable from anyone else.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/RequesterPays...

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonDevPay/latest/DevPayDevelop...
Perhaps I have an incredible tolerance for it but I can work white happily with three children making a lot of noise, one of which is a mini tyrannosaurus.
The Jobs to Be Done framework is
paramount imo.

http://jobstobedone.org
Sony's 185 TB cassette tape
Tutorial: Getting started with cartero
The Long Tail of Open Source (And You)
lodash is a replacement for underscore, so it's definitely not as bad as all those '$' libraries. Just make sure lodash gets loaded after underscore, since it's a superset (and faster)
Did anybody manage to get this working on 14.04?
I got past the initial node-vs-nodejs problem, then got loads of errors on script/build and I can't go any further.
Unless the long-term value of Uber is much greater than their $258 million investment. Is it better to exit? Or be the leader in urban mobility (and the revenue that comes with that position)?
want, atom with python support for a simpler version of ipython notebook!
> Because nobody (for large values of "nobody") cares for asm.js.

The most important games companies - Unity, Epic, etc. - care very much about asm.js. Unity is going into beta very soon. Expect to see games after that.

> So the fact that it beats V8 on something: a) V8 does not implement

jsc also does not "implement" asm.js, in the sense that both v8 and jsc do not detect asm.js code specifically using the asm.js type system. Yet, jsc beats v8.

asm.js code is going to matter because games matter. Those games are using plugins now, but plugins are going away, and asm.js is the best option after that - that's why the games industry is adopting it.
It's probably a big part of why they invested in Uber in the first place.
Having self-driving Uber cars would be pretty amazing and cheaper.
I was doing

Model.find_by_something(params[:value])

if you format params[:value] a certain way, you can get a column other than 'something' selected.
That would be very sad.

It would preclude using so much code in extensions, for no particularly good reason.
Re: the heated arguments, exactly the reason for my parenthetical comment earlier :). Thanks for the pointer.
Surely you mean /usr/bin/node instead of ~/bin/node...?
No worries. :)

Yes, see, in C++, you still need to think about ownership, the compiler just can't help you out. One way of thinking about Rust is "C++, but the compiler understands ownership and memory lifetime."

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Rust-for-CXX-programmer... is a bit outdated, but you may enjoy giving it a glance.
Things You Cannot Unsee (And What That Says About Your Brain)
And the great part of open source imageboard software are almost abandoned.
Metaphor: "Content" Is a Powerful Black Woman
Board games are great because they are one of the last refuges of shared attention.

I'm personally a big fan of Axis & Allies, Puerto Rico, Castles of Burgundy etc. There's something really nice about people coming together and focusing on the same thing.
Actually, the exact point of the article would be that Russia, under Putin's wily leadership, has gotten much better about invading using non-physical force, or at least highly obscured physical force. We are instead the fools making the exact mistakes of a Russia from the 80's.

Its interesting to watch occur, as Putin is currently so much better at the game than we are. You talk about it like we're interacting with the slow bear, when in truth we're now facing a strong, beloved dictator, who has largely consolidated dissent on his homefront with a clear message of nationalism / longing for the USSR, who is adept at manipulating geopolitics, and who excels at "showing" people the right choice, rather than telling them.
I'll go so far as to say that we haven't done enough with making things fast on multicore processors except with IO-bound tasks. The current architecture of multicore processors stinks for achieving anything but the "embarrassingly parallel."
Yeah, I actually paid for it back in the day.
"Requester Pays buckets do not support the following. [...] BitTorrent"
>I don't understand the concerns about theft and ethical issues about profiting from this. The license on GitHub says I am welcome to copy the source, modify it, and sell copies.

Because 2048 was a version of 1024 but he didn't realize until later that 1024 was a version of Threes which was a commercial product in the app store. So he kinda sorta MIT licensed someone else's commercial product.

They do have a tiny mechanical different but it's much smaller than what you normally consider a clone.
I have a unique password for every single one of my accounts (including computer logins and SSH keys). Each password is randomly generated, and meets sufficient entropy to withstand sophisticated attacks from even the most determined hardware, government entity, or organization.

I store all my passwords locally in an offline encrypted database. I absolutely will not store my passwords online. The moment AES is broken, is the moment some rogue LastPass employee steals your encrypted database, and attemps to crack it, using the current break(s), to get access to your accounts.
Neovim seriously has me so excited that I could scream like a little girl.

On a list of software projects I wish existed, a modernized Vim would be numbers 1 through 10. I enjoy core Vim, but the pain of Vim's limits when adding in new functionality with plugins (like pauses running Syntactic checks, or the hiccups and lack of smoothness of every autocompletion plugin ever) are a downer.
The 25 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers in the U.S.
There are build instructions for Linux and I think even Windows as well. I think Ubuntu is currently the main target on the linux side.

Edit: Just double checked and there are Windows build instructions at https://github.com/atom/atom. Although I haven't actually tried to follow them, so I'm not sure if they end in a usable build.
$ apt-get install nodejs-legacy

(or make the symlink yourself.)
Thanks for the post. I suspect the creator of Flappy Bird had similar feelings of shock, worry, being overwhelmed, and the need to defend himself -- but was unable to get to the point of reconciliation.

I thoroughly enjoyed 2048, played several variations, and even made one myself with photos of raptors :)
> but they certainly seem to care about asm.js performance above and beyond generic JS performance

That doesn't follow. They certainly care about it; it's now in the Octane benchmark suite, which means they think it's representative of code that should be optimized for, but it's only part of the suite, which means it's just one more style of code that should be able to run efficiently in a modern JS engine.
You're confusing "free" in pricing with "free" in freedom. A free trial creates a completely different type of community than free and open code. GitHub could have just provided a closed binary for free if they wanted to go the Sublime route.
In social bees and loners, a hunt for the genes behind social behavior
because real world people don't program because it's fun, they program because they need to make money.
I love this concept, and the general potential of the sharing economy to minimize waste though. I'm curious, what are the legal barriers to sharing food that you have come across or anticipate?

Perhaps it's different, but with prepared food, I've read about a lot of challenges starting up because of all the liability issues. I've heard of www.leftoverswap.com, www.shareyourmeals.net, www.feedingforward.com. There's also a SF-based nonprofit called FoodRunners that does donations and claims to be protected under a Good Samaritan clause, but I know that when I asked my old company if it was OK (i.e., sufficient legally to make them feel comfortable donating the tons of corporate lunches leftover), they couldn't actually find this clause.

In any case, I'm fully supportive because I believe incidents that do happen will be few and far in between and people are rarely intentional, but just wondering how hard this will be to enact.
Ask HN: How To Dethrone Google? 
Would it be systematic? For example, would a company have to compete in the search space first. Would that even be the best avenue to become the world's largest data aggregator?
Tbh I haven't yet paid for any online course. I strongly believe that there are many quality free online courses out there.

But Udemy has great reputation. I strongly recommend you to take a course so as to be able to form your own opinion after all.
I'm still trying to find out why a great company like GitHub would shamelessly copy Sublime Text 2. It's one thing to say we need to build another text editor because nothing out there gives you what you need. But to say we need another text editor and then copy Sublime... What the heck is that?

I installed it today for the first time because this was the first time I didn't need to be in a special club to use it.

I opened a directory of source that ST opens instantly. This thing took 5 seconds to open. Then when I quit the app, I get an "Editor is not responding." message. Everything feels sluggish.

This is progress people!
For the uninitiated (like me 20 seconds ago):

A language that doesn't change the way you think about programming is not worth learning. - Alan Perlis
Regarding #3:
I'm actually annoyed seeing my friends who all play 2048 on their phones. Not even the one Gabriele made, some clone by 'Ketchapp'. I often tell people about Threes but they've never heard of it. I show them Threes and then say that "it only costs $1.99" and straight away they basically tell me to get lost because it costs money.
De-anonymization is a real concern. (warning: pdf link)
http://www.cs.pomona.edu/classes/cs190-2012/netflix_deanon.p...
I don't really see how the title of the article matches its contents. Sure, they figured out how to super-impose the NSA logo onto stock photos of Google, but you usually need actual evidence in order to report on something.

The article's claims seem to be:

- The NSA is in communication with tech companies and is attempting to make friends with them (duh).

- The NSA worked with unrelated tech companies to maybe-maybe-not fix a BIOS issue (why is this in the article?)

- The NSA periodically invites Brin and Schmidt to "security conferences" where they are presumably cozied up to by second-tier brass. Brin and Schmidt don't seem to think much of these invitations as they both declined the one that Aljazeera managed to get its hands on.

So, uh, what?
Yup, I updated my reply above. You can get the list but then you still have to manually go through your codebase to make sure you aren't joining the table with the potentially dangerous column name with that exact table.
Corrected and cited. Thanks.
> Can you imagine the conventional wisdom for IE being, “Don’t use it, ever.

That is accepted conventional wisdom among most techies I know.
The easiest way to get started is to turn your current employers into clients. Talk to your boss about moving to freelance and tell them you'll be working from home. You'll have to make sure to keep your rate high enough (it will look higher than your current salary, but won't be).

Pitch well and they'll usually go for it as it's cheaper to have a contractor working than a full-time employee.

I've seen this done successfully multiple times, and never seen any employer turn it down.
S3 will only do so because you're paying by the MB. It's not a free service.
At Neumitra we're building around a data co-op model. It's a data cooperative.

You don't have to share your data but when you do we can better show how you relate to others. So if you tell us you have high blood pressure, we can show how you relate to others with high blood pressure. If you don't, then we can't.

All of our technologies are being built to assume no data sharing too. In that case, we just show how you compare to yourself.

Curious to hear feedback...

EDIT: If you disagree with the data co-op, please say so!
"If these marketplace lenders don’t run afoul of regulatory issues, security disasters, or other problems, they could present a powerful competitive alternative."

I hate to be cynical, but it's not difficult to imagine the mega banks getting their friends in Congress and the Fed to tamp down these alternative lenders with some strategic new regulations designed to "protect consumers".
> Boneheaded cookie auth—we simply stored the bcrypted password from the database in a cookie, which was all that was required to pass PHP auth.

Wh... Why... Who...

How was that ever OK?
That watch is a basis watch ($200) missing an optical heart rate sensor.
I'm lucky my mother's maiden name is 32 characters, including caps, numbers and special characters.
Excellent point that I hadn't considered.

In which case I guess it is just a numbers game like you said.
On the flip side, as an introvert, this is exactly why I love working from home. Especially as more and more start-ups and even large companies are starting to adopt open floor plan practices, I've really felt my productivity take a dive because I hate working with any kind of peripheral distractions.

And I'm social enough that I do prioritize hanging out with friends and seeing people on the weeknights and weekends so it's a good balance.
For points 1 and 2 coursera.org has a great set of courses on algorithms[1], Taught by a Princeton professor. I started the first one a couple of months ago, but had to drop out because of time constraints. I've re-enrolled for the upcoming section. It has a companion book, Algorithms[2], that I bought which was a great help. I don't have a copy of CLRS[3] But I've heard it is also a great reference and is on my amazon wishlist. Other than that, MIT's OpenCourseWare[4] also has the entire CS degree online for free. It's funny, reading your post I thought I hide sleep posted or something. You seem to be experiencing exactly what I'm going through. I'm also 27 and don't have a CS degree. I am highly motivated though, and have no problem hacking at this stuff on my own. I've talked to a bunch of CS majors who actually still feel inferior after they graduate so other than helping the impostor syndrome[5] that I suffer from, I'm not sure that a degree would do me a lot of good. (With the exception of padding my resume and getting me in the door for an interview).
[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI
[2] http://amzn.com/032157351X
[3] http://amzn.com/0262033844
[4] http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
I actually wonder if this is going to slowly lead into a revolution in the pen and paper space as well. It has definitely been increasing on the indie side in recent years, with places like Drive Thru RPG doing a decent business, but its still mostly dominated by a few huge folks such as D&D, or the World of Darkness games. Part of that may be the time commitment that's necessary though. Board games really need only about an hour of your day. You can show up at a random meetup, sit down, play a game, and then hit the road if you want. The buy-in for committing to an RPG is significantly more deep in terms of time, the people, and your personal effort.
Far better than either is:

(fruit (id 10) (name orange))

At least IMHO.
Vagrant 1.6 released
Is he wearing a black shirt and bluejeans on purpose?
Overtime I just found myself being more productive and 'happier' while using Sublime. A lot of that comes from the extra functionality it offers (built-in and from numerous plugins). Eg, Markdown preview, image preview, color picker, various project search and management features from SidebarEnhancements.

I still love Vim and use it for editing single files or whenever I remote in to another machine but this new generation of text editor / IDE hybrids just fit my project workflow a bit better.
Not main, but I stopped using ST for it.
I think commute time is another important consideration here. For me, the commute some days can be 3 hours round trip. Which means that by working from home, I can afford distractions, and being a little less disciplined, and still being overall much more productive!
Several tech bloggers/writers (Ben Horowitz of a16z is probably the most prominent) have taken to using female pronouns when referring to unspecified tech leaders (CEOs, founders, high-level engineers). This is a way to combat sexism and unconscious bias in the tech community - by sorta jarring you out of your expectations of what gender a prominent tech person is, you're made to consciously think "Why wouldn't a woman be in this position? Why is my default assumption that a high-performing engineer is male?" Much like your post.

Anyway, I support this trend and I've been known to do it myself sometimes. It's a little disorienting when the hypothetical subject of a thread flips genders halfway through, but the person is only hypothetical anyway, so why not?
As a developer submitting to Show HN, there are some projects that I expected to take off and some that were mere novelties. Two of my biggest projects were things I didn't expect to make a bleep, yet the project that I considered most useful [0] never went anywhere

[0] https://github.com/kolodny/nip
At Neumitra, we were surprised by how quickly the data gets boring. So we've been pushed to build data integration into most things you do on your phone. We show how music pumps you up or cools you down, how some people really are difficult to talk to, and how places cause and relieve stress. To us, these are the killer apps of health metrics - how the ways you live your life affects how you feel.
Well, on the other hand I worked in a company which lived for about 14 years of such VC money. They never made profit and all VCs got mad. But I, as an employee, got paid a handsome amount of this money and I guess I'm not the only one.

So I can understand that some people think VC money is for the founders.
You could send a T-Shirt or a candlelit dinner or something. The current bounty just seems insincere.
And, before long, the road will be jammed full of Gübers...
Google’s Matt Cutts: Over Time Backlinks Will Become Less Important
I think we disagree on the definition of elephant in the room, the issues are most certainly discussed, but they are not addressed.

The bitcoin faq regarding deflation basically says "we don't know what's going to happen", and regarding volatility the current solution for merchants to cope with volatility appears to be "convert everything to fiat ASAP".
By far my favorite use of Hangouts is the crossword puzzle app. It's much better than having 5 people try to collaboratively solve a crossword in person.

I have no idea why I haven't seen more games like this in Hangouts...
GitHub's reputation is conflicted at the moment. It has had a lot of support, but some events do raise warning bells. Only time will tell whether they are actively ensuring their work environment is something I will continue to support. The exit of Tom is a good sign, but since we can't know what terms there were, the only logical thing is to hope they are good to their word.
Google maps integrates with Uber
Opera had paid versions, then ad supported versions.
Yes, that's it. Unfortunately, not quite enough to rely on full time. I would love for it to be, and I've thought about building a broader community to gain a larger audience and potentially cover my income. But I just don't have enough time to dedicate to side projects now, having a young family and all.
Exciting opportunities in financial tech. Banks and their products have barely evolved, and new players with Silicon Valley aesthetics and execution are coming in and eating their lunch.
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This is great. Before long it will be more rare for a site/company to not have a bounty program vs. having one.
New Asyncio Module in Python 3.4
Probably a good practice. For my current project, I've been careful to never commit any API credentials or other secrets to the repo, even though I don't currently have any intention of making it public. It's harder to know what you're missing, though.
Social media and the new world of work – my take