skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting .ie domains is a pain in the ass. Tons of great domain hacks there but requires a physical presence in Ireland. Good work.
Well, there is a difference between fanboy and layperson - if you take 20 random people and ask them to name people who build (not fly) space ships I would be impressed if you get more than VonBraun and Musk. Maybe Branson :-). It is oddly an industry without many big names. This is in no way diminishing the big achievements.

Anyway - my first few googles lead me to the livingmoon where a seemingly well sourced article on shuttle military missions is on the same site as proof Santa Claus exists.

So from wikipedia / NASA.gov there are some reliable figures but we stand at 11 classified missions, 25 public and this seems to be still the most useful overview http://www.airspacemag.com/space/secret-space-shuttles-35318...
In short the NRO / DOD made the shuttle design cope with larger payloads, different orbits, but still the same essential missions - put spy satellites up, preferably in a way thay cannot easily be tracked.

My issue is that it does still seem to be launching satellites - in unusual orbits, yes, in secret and possibly in some other clever way - but the shuttle is just a clever satellite delivery system - it does not seem to be being used itself as a defence system.

That might not be the point I grant you, but do please point me in the right directions.
Bounden on Android delayed, needs help
> If most readers' assessment were instead, Current > Uncertain > Old, then perhaps it would be best for date to be left out of the URL and templates only to include it conditionally?

Well, sure, it would be "best" in terms of maximizing the initially perceived value of the information you are providing by negating inputs to the reader's initial assessment when they would work against you.

Of course, if the reason people's filters work that way is experience-based rather than some innate feature of psychology, the utility of that practice will wane over time and as experience alters the assessment.

> Would it be dishonest to tell you that today's post was written today, but not say when a post from three years ago was written?

To an extent, yes, it would be dishonest, especially if the whole point is to withhold information about currency only when it would weigh against the reader's assessment of value. Practices of that type (highlighting the newness of new content but avoiding discussing the datedness of other content) are pretty common, though.
In my opinion, the article is quick in lumping all kinds of groups together. Mens Rights Activists are right next to some weird Monarchy believers. As someone who follows the ideas of the former group more closely, I do not see them (except for a few fringe ones) jumping to any kind of conclusions a'la 'Monarchy!!'

I do think that what passes 'the so-called left' is in a situation where a couple of people are becoming very fearful. Because everything regarding feminism has been WAY overdone. And now actually borders on autocratic behavior.

Feminism and its very successful movement shows more and more how it is rotten to its very core. It has become an ideology that:

- dehumanizes men

- abuses and twists taboos for political gain of a few

- created a new power hierarchy that is aptly described by the term 'oppression olympics'

And I think the end of feminism is a major shift that's
going to happen very soon.

If you are not completely closed to reasonable arguments, I would recommend checking websites such as 'avoiceformen.com'. Again in my opinion, they have very reasonable positions on a core, if not the core issue of society - the relation between the male and female gender.

In some sense, I believe that people who go crazy nut rightwing might overcompensate for an ideology that turns out to be as destructive as their ideas - feminism.

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Problems I found with the top answer:

Performance management: It is highly unlikely as somebody new to the team, and brand new to management, that you can work out who the high performers are and who the under performers are within the first few weeks. If you get it wrong then by making it official and documenting by email you will get the entire teams backs up.

Not explicitly managing resources: Really bad advice. How do you know what is important within the first few weeks? Often you will only have a high level view of what the team does within the first few weeks. Try and do this too quickly and again it can backfire.
An OS X application to quickly access GitHub directly from the status bar
This creates a problem with tickets where the attendee is not the person paying for the ticket and could be one of several potential companions of the person who is paying for the tickets.

I can no longer just give a pair of tickets to someone as a surprise and tell them to go have fun. I could, in theory, give them a gift token that corresponds to reserved seats and then it would be up to them to register their names. Then the scalper can sell such tokens and we are back to where we started.
Python’s Innards: Hello, ceval.c
Calling this data science is disingenuous. There's no additional analysis of the source data beyond presenting it in a better UI.
Url changed from http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/pirates-eat-heart-rolls-ro..., which points to this. Title edited to make clear that these are designs.
I wish there was a way to share this list with a manager without seeming like a dick.
Compile-time checking plain key path strings
Microsoft is going to do something that has not been done before at E3
Two clearly unbiased and factual analyses there :)

It would take quite some time to sit down and address all the points gathered on the PSYC page. That page has been around a long time, and used to be a lot more aggressive than it reads now. At one point it even contained a quote from a mailing list post of mine, snipped to remove just the right amount of context. I'm glad to see they've cleaned it up a bit, to at least make it appear somewhat more objective, even if they still think it's objective to make technical statements like "XMPP isn't proper XML".

One of its main points is of performance and scalability. Well I'm afraid that horse bolted - for nearly a decade Google have been successfully running (one of?) the world's largest IM services using XMPP.

Regarding your second link, well, that seems to be set on comparing XMPP to IRC:

> A protocol that, despite an immense range of features, can easily be typed by a human on a telnet prompt, in real time.

Making a protocol that could be typed over telnet obviously wasn't the goal of XMPP. For what it did set out to do - create an open standard IM protocol to give normal people a path to freedom from the old IM silos that were around 10 years ago - I'd say it has been pretty successful. Maybe not as successful as one might have hoped, those silos are still around, but for political and commercial reasons rather than technical ones.
That scrolloff bounce is absolutely horrible on Mac.
Poetry Threats (magnet poetry browser game with surveillance keywords)
I got a look at this during the "Secret Beta". All in all, cool idea with using the 3d matrix transform, felt very unfinished though. I also felt that the coding style was very verbose with plenty of needless inheritance tricks, etc.

They have a huge physics library and a bunch of other stuff that is not necessary for 99% of apps. There was one demo for a basic app, and like 100 demos of various bouncing balls and springs.

I think that if they had focused on a minimal implementation of the basics necessary for apps, like menu dragging and maybe some light transforms, and really polished that, it could have been an awesome tool. Some stuff was indeed very smooth on my ancient Android phone.

Too bad they disappeared down a huge rabbithole. The messianic proclamations from the CEO were pretty goofy too.

EDIT: In their defense, many (but not all!) of these demos are much better on a phone. Don't judge it based on the desktop experience.
I think he was one of the team who was promoted and immediately started settling scores. Like you say, bad advice.
Because using a web framework that only works on mobile is not truly platform agnostic. It may be platform agnostic in that it works on multiple different mobile platforms, but a mobile first web framework is not truly platform agnostic as it doesn't work for the desktop web.
This is a great list. I wish I could vote it up more than once.

Do you maintain a full checklist publicly anywhere? I've seen some great checklists from security review teams in the past (iSec Partners, for example), but I don't know what their re-sharing policy is.
Ask HN: What Advice would you give your 100 year old self?
Imagine you somehow make it to your 100th birthday. What advice would you give? Perhaps we can all learn from this :-)
Print and leave on desk.
Arduino...
> I expect that to be true of the emerging IoT technology as well (more useful things than bad things)

It's very hard to tell wether something does "more good than bad."

But we can look at the history of technology and predict which areas of research tend to create the most elegant results. Medical technology is a great example. Alleviation of useless suffering.

It can be made good because it is, at its heart, science. Internet of Things is not so. The products IoT creates will be by companies trying to extract capital from customers.

There's no science to IoT, there's no elegant beauty, and there's a tremendous risk of extending the NSA's vision even deeper into our lives.
Static Electricity Defies Simple Explanation
Show HN: Idea management software
Ah, but they were essentially hired by the same algorithm. Had the algorithm not existed, they would have had to find another job.
The architecture is sound. But half-assing a loadbalancer impl (vulcand) instead of embedding HAProxy is a terrible idea.
It does not have a superset of functionality.

Adblock Plus / Edge has a "Fire and Forget" mode, as I described in my grandparent comment. HTTPSB does not. Hence, HTTPSB's functionality is not a superset of Adblock Plus/Edge's functionality.
On the demos page [0]:

> The PHQ4 example shows off a great parallax effect.

This isn't a parallax effect - there is no illusion of depth.

Parallax is when "background images move by the camera slower than foreground images, creating an illusion of depth" [1]

[0] http://famo.us/demos
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_scrolling
Fermi Pasta Ulam: the paradox that launched scientific computing
What everyone should do: stick to standards, and let browsers evolve.

...unless you fall into second delays because of this. but if that is the case, you are doing lots of things wrong. Lots.
Thanks! Unfortunately I don't have a checklist of sorts. Most of what check for is just from habit and memory. I have a project I'm working on that will involve putting one together but that's still a few months out. If I remember I will shoot it over to you!
Nothing seems to work right in touch IE11 on Windows 8.1, not even scrolling on the front page. Not a great showing for what's supposed to be a cross-platform mobile web framework.
The answers to your questions are someone who knows, yes, and it depends.

There is some information on that in the last week of https://www.coursera.org/course/design but if it applies to your idea depends on your idea.
Lots more Woz code floating around. I found a good chunk here: http://www.easy68k.com/paulrsm/6502/

I am (very slowly) working on including all ROMs in my AppleII emulator in source form. Most usefully, this will eventually include writing an assembler that understands multiple old-school assembler formats. I have S-C Macro Assembler syntax implemented, at least enough to assemble the S-C Applesoft disassembly. https://github.com/zellyn/goapple2/tree/master/source (This is my first-ever assembler, so the code is likely horrible. I intend to read some other assemblers for tips, but wanted to bash my way through the problem myself first.)
Embed responsively
It's similar to HTTP chunked transfer encoding :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding

And why did they choose these prefix chars ($, *, +, -) ?
Whistle Camera for Android lets you take photos and selfies with your mouth
Ask HN: How to find a project we enjoy again?
My best friend and I have been working on different projects together for more than 8 years now. Our last project was fun, but we didn’t reach our goal (1 paying customer in 3 months), so we decided to quit it. Now we are both enthusiastic to work on another project, just for the sake of fun, but somehow we have become very critical and don’t like any of our ideas.

What should we do? How can we find a project that we can enjoy again?
I feel like multicast could solve a lot of similar problems. But not every router on the internet plays nicely with it.
The slides are in the video broadcast by Fantastico:

http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents...
It was a good change. I knew there'd be a better less blog-spammy version but my google-fu failed me tonight. This is one case where the mods are right on the mark and I thank them.
The spanish might be important to a company working on an international project. However, unless you're willing to take a SUBSTANTIAL pay cut... My experience in startups is that hiring "administrative" doesn't happen until you make money.
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You can syntax highlight assembly, it's just not terribly useful since the structure is so consistent and simple to begin with.

Syntax highlighting in general is kinda silly. I'm sad that people turn their noses up at code that isn't drenched in unicorn vomit.
So Credit Suisse has enabled some people to avoid paying protection money to the US government, which is now extracting protection money from Credit Suisse.

Madness.
The second half of basic income is universal health care. Without it, nothing would change for me. I'd still have to work, except I'd have to repay most of the BI with increased taxes.

However if both were true I'd quit and work on my own projects. I don't need much more than minimum wage to survive. The biggest reason I need more money now isn't because I'm spending more, but because I have to save most of my earnings for the inevitable retirement/unable to work.
Sorry, it's just me trying to not break things :(

Slowly making it more and more stable, though.

If you now know puppet, maybe a PR or two would be on the horizon?
Are they holding these positions simultaneously?
Thanks for the audit, super helpful. We should probably roll our cert too.
In Harm's Way
New Ace Combat: Infinity Release Date with Trailer Arrives
I created a FOSS project called PuPHPet[0] to help with the learning curve. So far it's been well received!

[0] https://puphpet.com
It's also common in embedded systems since it makes for extremely compact code. The data basically gets used as "instructions" for an application-specific virtual machine/interpreter (which may or may not be Turing-complete - most usually aren't.)
Hoist – Fast API based web development
I believe that the big win here is the 'Monitor'. Having it publicly that one of the worlds largest tax havens has agreed to have a monitoring like functionality employed is a huge hit to the entire tax evasion industry. It will(should) make large tax evaders worried that other banks are doing the same thing without public notification, as parts of other plea deals.

This monitoring thing, could be a significant deterrent and informant.

This kind of thing is especially problematic for the types of wealthy that have to worry about public opinion, politicians and employees of publicly traded or well known companies etc.
I did the noob version of this with my toyota head unit. After realizing all the "apps" were java jar files and I was in over my head I noped out of my plan to remove that annoying "Please agree to these terms before driving with a navigation" screen.
At the risk of derailing this further, I disagree with this:

"It's very hard to tell wether something does 'more good than bad.'"

If you ask the population using the technology in question if its more good than bad they will answer "yes" or "no". If 51% of them think it is more good than bad, then by definition it is more good than bad.
mostly unreachable from berlin: rackspace.com, amazon.com

but I see the traceroutes failing after they make it to the US.
So it's more agnostic for mobile development than the native mobile development you're clamoring for?

Also it's really not a big step for them to polish the desktop experience. They just released 0.2.0, give it time and I really do think that it's going to be a great platform for both mobile and desktop.
> “Gnome will become a standard part of the experience of running a Groupon for both merchants and consumers, and we’ll handle any exceptions on a case-by-case basis, spokesman Nick Halliwell said in an email.

Do I understand this right? So, if you are running a Groupon, in addition to everything you would previously have had to do, Groupon is going to expect you to also replace your entire PoS infrastructure, or deal with a "special case", less optimized workflow with Groupon?

I suppose if your PoS is literally just a cash register, that's great, but if its integrated with how you do business in a deeper way, it seems unlikely that you'll want to jump on this.
Can someone explain to me how the US has jurisdiction over Credit Suisse? I see how they could have gone after the individual tax fraudsters (American citizens), but how can they police foreign banks?
And the site is voluntarily serving you their content.

Your cooking magazine argument is specious: you're not requesting the website pay your bills. The analog would be a magazine which assaults you with inserts, pop-ups, fragrance scents, a 90:10 advertising-to-copy ratio (and most of the copy is product placements), and charges you $10+ for the privilege.

Oh yeah: that's what they do. Which is why I don't buy magazines (with very rare exceptions).
GoPro files for $100m IPO
RFC 7258: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
Does anyone use a search engine to get to HN? Sure there are a few, however, most people on this site have been coming for years and these people - 'the community' - don't need a search engine to get here.

So the main point - allegedly - of Metafilter is the community. Do they get to Metafilter by going to Google first? Why would they? I don't Google my favourite destination sites, e.g. BBC news, I just type 'b' in the browser and I am kind of there. Same with HN, I just type 'n' and I am a down-arrow + enter away from being there.

I just don't see how a few changes to a search engine can instantly result in a 40% of traffic to a community site. I could understand if it was a 40% drop in new members but not overall traffic.

Incidentally, I have used the web since 1993 - twenty years - and I cannot ever remember going to Metafilter from a search. I have seen the site, and I have some perception it is like 'tripod' or 'geocities', as in ancient. Although anecdotal, I don't believe that they get search traffic in a big way or that they have done so for years. I have also never gone to 'Reddit' from a search result - community sites should and do rely on word of mouth introduction (or links).

The oft-criticised Alexa stats on Metafilter tell a story when compared to SO, Reddit and Quora. The bounce rate is high, the page views low and the time on site low. IMHO there are a lot of people that just do not like the look of the site It needs a redesign with the existing look kept as 'low bandwidth' option to allow the community that likes the existing look to stay with what they know.
I probably have made all of those mistakes at one time or another. Some of the mistakes where bad enough to nearly sink a company. Hopefully I make fewer of them now.

It is humbling to have a great team actually letting you manage them, especially when you mess up and the tell you and they let you learn from your mistakes.

When you have teams like that it is easy to manage. If you do, take really good care of your team. They are worth it.
The edge case is one where the extra bytes in a set of plain old HTML files are actually more of a significant overhead than the JS/markdown alternative, which has a higher page weight for the first visit anyway as well as making more demands on client-side renderers. (In retrospect I could have worded the first post more clearly). Mobile is hardly likely to be this edge case since as you point out yourself mobile browsers will have a more perceptible delay when it comes to generating a page on the client side in javascript (and also can't display anything until the script is downloaded which is possibly a big first page performance hit, and aren't necessarily effective at caching the script for repeat visits)
Interesting I just close the tab.

In other news is anyone else still put off by the site even when it isn't all blurred? Its kinda weird I still get a gut rench feeling looking at their logo. They got a ways to go I guess.

More seriously, thanks, sometimes they are useful and the share hack will come in handy.
More likely, and perhaps even more fun, would be a moon that was almost in geosynchronous orbit. What would be the effect on civilization and the biosphere if instead of 1 meter tides with a 12 hr period we had 100 meter tides with a 100 year period?
I've felt this way several times in the past.

What I've found is that its a good indicator of when I need to launch a new job search.

Under good management, I usually don't feel the need to share a list like this. If I do, then I can usually have a 5 minute chat with the manager to get things worked out. If that doesn't work, a longer discussion can be in order.

Under bad management, I usually feel like any attempt at change is more likely to hurt me than help me. I once took the risk of sharing the netflix culture slide deck [0] (a quick and insightful must read) with a manager. His response was that, if I was attracted to that sort of culture, then maybe I should get a job at netflix. Fail. You can probably guess at the number of management discussions we had after that.

[0] http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
I think that it's implicit that you're supposed to keep the articles up to date.
Assassins Creed Pirates – Behind the Web Experience
> they are never ambiguous in the grammar

I'm building a grammar for a sleeker Erlang here [1], and it tries to prove just that.

[1] https://github.com/fenollp/kju/blob/master/grammar/Kju.g4
OP here. Hah! I was totally planning to follow up with a vtable example soon. :)
Ascii Flowchart Tool
And the timeline is much shorter than most people think. Oil production is already contracting (conventional certainly, net of unconventional "tight" sources such as fracked oil, possibly).

Exponential consumption rate exhaustion based on GP's Annual Review 2013 is 2048-2049. Which suggests that flow rates (which sustain modern civilization) will start falling precipitously well before then.
DocSend's stats feature really helped me polish my deck by reordering and adjusting slides based on popularity and tweaking it after every view. Right now it's one of the most powerful startup tools that I have. Great job Russ, David and Tony!
Probability Density of Hydrogen Atom using WebGL
They are foreign banks operating in the United States, so they have to also obey US laws.
We were just thinking about this. Currently we send e-mail notifications on each execution to all users in the account with general details. Hipchat/Slack notifications would be nice. We've created a GitHub issue in our internal tracker for this. Thanks.

http://i.imgur.com/VEoGbqH.png