skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Table salt vs. sea salt; is there really a difference?
Same here, but I don't love it as a solution. Kinda cumbersome, especially if you've got different groups of users who need access to different (overlapping) services. And then of course you have to communicate (and hopefully occasionally rotate) the master password(s).

Price is right, though.
If you're fluent in the language you're writing in, a combination of a thesaurus and a web search to check that words fit in where you think works well, in my experience.
Interesting to see that many of their "whatsnew" examples use Yandex[1]. Is that a new partnership?

[1] http://imgur.com/3tBrS7h
Don't worry, it will turn out to be, in fact, an aardvark. Please see the "panda bear is a racoon, oops, no, he's a bear," controversy.

The fundamental problem is that Wikipedia's editorial policies great drag on the memory hole.
http://xkcd.com/978/
I've heard this advice from other sources and I always assumed they meant that it is the wrong word if and only if you weren't already aware of the word. I use a thesaurus when the perfect word is just on the tip of my tongue but it won't come out.
How would you know I'm telling you the truth?
Looks awesome.

I always say I won't buy a tablet until it is as useful as my laptop - this is a great step in that direction with the multi position stand, 12" screen, core i7, thin and light...Will I actually enter the tablet world?
Why I Decided to Start Writing
I don't see why you have to impersonate me to make this point.
Remembering, as an Extreme Sport
I might have missed it, but has HN done any kind of review of zerobin? http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin
not sure if it changed a thing. The classic theme helps a lot though.
In all cases, the font size makes it hard to read. Seems like increasing the font size just helps. Thanks though!
Try to avoid a whitelist. It will drive you nuts maintaining it. Specify app requirements as tightly as possible, in terms of which hardware capabilities are required, and blacklist devices known not to work. If you catch all the popular broken devices, your rate of irritated customers should be very low.

This will, initially, require the same level of testing effort as making a whitelist, but will be much easier to maintain.

You may want to have the first thing in the product be a validation test and/or calibration. But you risk confusing your customers.
How China’s army hacked America
Google Drive/Docs.
LibreSSL with Bob Beck (BSDCan 2014)
I'm in the prime of my life, and I have issues with the color. That being said, I use a laptop - a combination of not the best monitor and reflections off the screen. In a dark room, it's fine. But I don't use the internet primarily in a dark room.

It's customizable, so it's not the part of the redesign that I have the most issues with, but still.
Samsung Kickstarts Gear Ecosystem with $1.25M App Contest
Not true, in the government.
If there's no other way than using a shared password, you might resort to using the gnupg suite to encrypt it (and then share it with your favourite messenger/mail client). The necessary programs are usually pre-installed on your distribution.
Assuming you're serious

Yes, but have not found anyone who is also serious and also need some funds to pay for necessary equipment.

The National Archives has lots of good stuff about Prospero, including:

"Operational control of Prospero": http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?ur...
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KeePass with triggers for synchronization, it syncs on opening and closing the db. Two factor authentication for the db files and separate db file for every unique group.
Thanks! That fixes a lot of my concerns. I hope they do some A/B testing cause I don't believe they win many friends with this contrast-free version.
It's also more pronounceable and appetizing, like the chilean seabass.
Neat. There's also a Firebug extension that does this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/css-usage/ A little rough around the edges, but it works.

The challenge, of course, is that's it's hard to say for sure that something is unused. Maybe it's only called on one page, or only after some interaction with javascript on the page.
It's nice but it must suck when faced by the behemoth that is the iPad.
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so did I!
3:2 screen ratio is a killer feature. The size (800g, 9.1 mm) is quite unbelievable as well.
Yes. I find it no different then any other product i.e.: Cars, Software, Kitchenware, furniture, restaurants. If I have a sufficiently bad experience with your product I will actively avoid you to prevent that from happening again.
All the more power to competition and diversity of choices. But I see these reinventions and makeover campaigns and I really wonder if things are going well or not.

I use search engines for a niche blog, and I have a need to keyword search certain specific terms which are not common words. I have consistently tested all the available search engines (there aren't many). And I have always arrived at the same conclusion: there is no better search engine out there then what Google maintains.

I am no blind Google lover, but when it comes to practicality of effective and useful products, you have to have the best, in order to make your case.
Biggy: Interface Semantics and The Interface Segregation Principle
Your intro says:

Smarter Answers

Answers to your questions from the best sources,
developed by our open source community.

Where is the open source repository located? I would like to browse the templates/recipes/sources. Found nothing on http://duckduckhack.com
If there is real $ saving the technology will come sooner than later.
>there doesn't seem to be any stop to them.

The benefits of a one-party state. The real question is when is the next uprising and how many tanks will it take to crush it?
To "sanction" the company that supported China's computer growth is kinda messed up. I am no windows fan-boy but how many billions of dollars were not spent on XP by Chinese companies? At some point you should invest in a Company, who's product you regularly use.

Let's not forget these are Companies, out-competing American and European businesses by costs.. not College students or teens or home users that can not afford the cost of an OS.

My point is, they should show this resentment to the US Government and not the company who let them get away with free OS all these years.
>only after some interaction with javascript on the page

That's why I will use a prefix js-[something] for elements that will interact with javascript and then user other classes for style so nothing gets removed by accident by others.
He wrote about himself and writing in a book titled On Writing:

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

So I guess if he makes statements that sound like writing advice he probably means them as writing advice.

(None of which is really a counter to something as absolute as 'ultimate authority', but maybe you could elaborate a little)
Yes, that is absolutely what I'm saying. Obviously not because it's Wikipedia's policy, but because all information is provisional. All information should be regarded with varying levels of confidence never approaching 100%.

If you ask about my breakfast, I could be lying to you or recall yesterday's breakfast instead of today's or whatever.
Just switched my default search engine to DuckDuckGo for a self-initiated 10 day trial. All the work you've put into the new layout / results look great.
Looks good, but I was expecting a screen with the same specs as Google's Chromebook Pixel. I understand that, beyond a certain point, pixel density ceases to be relevant, but the different numbers mean this is a different part.

Now, I wonder how good would Linux support be.

Also, weighting a keyboardless tablet with a MacBook air is disingenuous at best.
Sounds great! Would you mind sharing the url of your service's website?
Clickable, for lazy people like me: https://www.passpack.com/
Microsoft needs to keep at it. While this iteration is great, the platform will not flourish if they falter or take a release cycle off. Consistent upgrades to the Surface hardware, and support of the developer community is key to winning the overall tablet war for MS.
Opportunistic Encryption for HTTP URIs
> OSX doesn't have HighDPI support. They just scale everything and present a lower resolution.

This is exactly what I'm referring to as High DPI support. Maybe it's not the solution you'd prefer but it is a solution. By contrast, Linux still has a lot of fit-and-finish issues with high-DPI, even in Gnome 3. I would believe that they're going about it in a better way on the backend, but the fact is OS X is the only one really delivering at the moment.
I love this. I'm excited to share with friends. In fact I looked for a sharing button. Anyway, looks nice. It wouldn't scroll on my iPad and a button for Press at bottom right is cut off, but maybe those are known issues.
Shared Source initiative. Many organizations already have this.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/government-secu...
That's hibernating you're describing. Suspend wakes less time than it takes to open the lid and the laptop is directly usable.
I'm trying this out in AngularJS. So there's an issue with classes locked away inside templates (or building with @ng-class, anyone?), and authentication scenarios.

I'm thinking about building URL workflows (stored in arrays) and passing authentication tokens via URL.
The differentiator is the OS. One of them is for play, the other is for productivity. Comparing full Windows 8.1 to iOS is Apples to Oranges.
Write it on a post-it, walk up to the person, give it to them, then take the post-it back.

Passwords are designed to be human-interface memorized authentication tokens. Sharing it any other way than via human interaction just makes it a digital key, and real digital keys are much more secure than digital passwords. So share it via human medium, or rethink why you're using a password.
Very good job DuckDuckGo team! I was just thinking that I'd have to switch back to Google because of the poor results... but this new experience has given me some hope.

What saddens me though is that we (as in "the users") still don't have a strong guarantee on the respect of our privacy. We still have to trust the DDG team. I know there is no easy technology to do it, but still, the whole thing is only marginally better than using Google.
> If you use Windows 8 you're vulnerable to talented crackers and governments. If you still use Win XP you're vulnerable to anybody.

And government is essentially like management. Honesty: 0. Integrity: 0. Sanity: 0. That answers your question.
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"Gitchain has its own custom blockchain"
I would recommend yoga. There are a lot of reverse/inverted poses that can help ease your back pain. Plus, you will be stretching out the muscles in your entire body which will alleviate some stress on your back.

My posture improved quite a bit by doing yoga. I would go to a class 2x a week and try to do it for 20-30 minutes every day that I didn't go to class. I only have experience with Hatha Yoga (the most traditional form) and would only vouch for that. Avoid the exercise-oriented yoga classes because they wouldn't necessarily solve your problem. If you try yoga, then ask if you can attend one class for free so you get a feel for it before putting money down. After a few months of going regularly, you will know the poses and will be able to do them on your own. Let me know if you have any questions.
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This is a bit like the Java philosophy. It works, it's arguably perfect for writing huge, plot-driven, King-like novels, but using this rule diminishes the author's ability to use interesting constructs in the same way Java prevents the programmer from using interesting constructs. You could say "if you have to look the keyword up in a textbook, it's wrong". This applies not only to coYoneda but also to goroutine.

It's more-or-less obvious that it was a great rule for Stephen King, but it's not clear if it would have helped David Foster Wallace write this:

'How did you know I was interested in Byzantine erotica?'

'You seem persistently to confuse me with someone who merely hangs out a shingle with the word Conversationalist on it, and this operation with a fly-by-night one strung together with chewing gum and twine. You think I have no support staff? Researchers at my beck? You think we don't delve full-bore into the psyches of those for whom we've made appointments to converse? You don't think this fully accredited limited partnership would have an interest in obtaining data on what informs and stimulates our conversees?

'I know only one person who'd ever use full-bore in casual conversation.'

'There is nothing casual about a conversation with a professional conversationalist. We delve. We obtain, and then some. Young sir.'
Good-- you've got a huge opportunity to leverage this platform for your next act. Use this time to salt away cash, author your action plan, and gain managerial experience. Think of it as grad school, 24 months up and out.
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Hi,
For the past few months I have been writing a control panel and api for a Mumble voice service. Now before I launch the service I need some help beta testing but I don't really know where to get testers so I thought I would ask here.

My site is haithar.net and you can use the promo code hackernews to get a free mumble server to test.

Other than bug testing any other feedback on the service and how I can improve it would be appreciated.
IME, this is pretty much always a spammer trying to get their past comment spam removed.

So although I acknowledge the general message, the specifics really don't help the poster's case.
Love the recipe search! This is fantastic!
(I'm from Italy) I can use it to find places, but not many, since it uses Yelp and Yelp it's not so widespread here (for example, my favourite Pizzeria: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pizzeria+anna%2C+bussero or restaurants in Milan, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=restaurants+in+Milan).

It does seems to work with streets too (taken from the first results of restaurants, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Corso+Giuseppe+Garibaldi+68%2C+Mil...) but only big ones, It couldn't find my home.
I tried https://fluxcards.de/home from Iran and got an error page. You should at least communicate if that error page is you not finding a proxy in Iran (as I guess from looking at the list of "available" proxies that are all offline) or if that is indeed a blocking of my site for Iranian users.

My developer is in Iran and he would have told me if our project was blocked. Also I know that Iran shows some funny Qur'an quotes when you try to surf ol dirty facebook but your service claims something which I think it doesn't hold at least for Iran.
We did revert the edits after.

I agree with your "this is why you can't have nice things" sentiment, but sadly I think the petty and the vandals and the cranks will always do it, and us techies have to design in protection as default :(
I wouldn't. Authorities can lie, and often have an agenda. But I can still cite you as an authority on things that you are an expert about. And if your lying ways become known, you will lose your reputation, and status as an authority who should be cited. If, however, you anonymously seed Wikipedia with lies, you have nothing to lose.
Static website generator with Content Management using JavaScript
IME, this sort of letter is pretty much always a spammer trying to get their past comment spam removed.

You're penalising spammers, and it's being effective. GOOD.
Other than the default answer of "rarely," we've started using a shared 1Password vault. We actually end up using the notes functionality more than anything, but there are some common team accounts in there. Since most of us used 1Password already, it was easy peasey.
OTR messaging gives perfect forward secrecy. So you can't attack the history without breaking AES entirely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_forward_secrecy
The bigger attack on OTR is social engineering, you need to verify signatures out of band.

But as you say, it's better not to have the secret at all.
Lastpass. It's awesome and easy to use. Wish the UI was a little better but it's not terrible.
Broke gets old. Being thrifty is hard. It's easy to judge yourself by comparison with your peers' improving lives. Loss aversion means that any improvement you make in your material circumstances tends to stick. And once you start paying more attention to your circumstances, it's surprisingly hard to always choose not to improve them.

It's certainly possible to keep a minimalist, low-burn lifestyle. But it's hard. At 23, you're at the easy end of it. I don't think it's that most people really say, "Hey, I'd like a busy, harried lifestyle in exchange for nice material circumstances." It's that they don't have a guiding passion or enormous discipline helping them say no to every single physical comfort or material pleasure that society offers them.
This sure is a bummer for people who recently bought a Surface Pro 2 (like me). It's unreal that a 6-month old $1200 machine already is outdated
"Unknown among Swedes that alcohol causes cancer"
Oh this is great, this seems to be the most plausible reason.
A friend earned quite a bit with his music on CoinDL: https://www.coindl.com/page/author/139

It's bitcoin only though but I like the preview for music and the no-bullshit easy handling.
They put the typecover on - stills weigh less.
@jevanish you're right about the one-on-ones being the easiest way. But just doing the meeting is not enough. You would be surprised how many managers walk into a 1:1 with no agenda and are just asking "What's up?"

It is also not enough to just talk about the day-to-day. The 1:1 is not a smaller standup meeting. Just because there is "nothing on your plate" does not mean you skip the 1:1.

I generally prepare by reviewing notes from previous meetings and any goals that we have set together. Also bring a number of questions about company direction, transparency, colleagues, etc. Over the course of many 1:1s I can build a pretty comprehensive understanding of what makes this person tick and how they feel about their work and colleagues.
In the old version, the instant answer box would usually load after the results and with some delay. Very often it would materialize the very moment I click on a result, causing the content to move, leaing me to a place I did not want to visit. That was my biggest issue actually.

I can't seem to trigger it now. So I guess it's an improvement.
I am a not a big fan of all the results being down the left hand side of the page. Considering how the top fancy gadget thing seems to extend well past the right of my page with silly right arrow buttons it seems a lot of the screen is just being wasted and it would be nice to have the results at least centred.
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I clicked on this thinking it was going to tell me what substitute I should be using for /usr/dict/words. The payoff I got was much better.
I use gestures for going forward / back in Chrome and for activating Exposé, but there are two main things that differentiate it:

* Natural, responsive scrolling. After two-finger scrolling on OS X where it's so responsive that it's exactly like sliding paper over a table, nothing can really compare. Linux can't get to that point for a long time since it's limited to sending scroll wheel events.

* Palm and thumb detection that work like black magic. I have never once had palming issues on OS X or issues with resting my thumb on the pad and using other fingers to point, click and drag. I've spent days on end trying to tweak the Linux Synaptics drivers to work the same way with no luck.
My previous job required quite a bit of customer support at the beginning, which tapered down to almost none at the end (out of necessity). I just couldn't get my development done.

It was almost always hosting type help, and development slowing down was a huge issue.

I learned a lot, but primary that I'm not interested in doing that kind of support at all. I'll simply turn down jobs that require it of me, and it's something I ask in interviews. Some personnel support is fine, and working with the UX department doing testing is welcome (and encouraged on my part), but answering calls to help people set up their outlook or helping them reset their password? No way. Not my cup of tea.
It's interesting to me that the startup managed to send data through a cable network's system, successfully, and the cable network didn't even notice the "noise".
In China, many companies are extensions of the state apparatus, not truly independent. It's easy for China to see large American corporations as extensions of the US state.

Snowden's revelations about how Microsoft has "partnered" with the NSA to build backdoors for American surveillance make it more difficult to refute that view.
U.S. Charges Five Chinese Military Hackers with Cyber Espionage
What don't you like about Meldium?
They should point out that it's vulnerable to JavaScript injection, particularly if you use their servers. One simple change and suddenly they can get your key on your next access.
As an IT Auditor, I have seen one such tool at a client once and found it to be the best solution for this specific problem (if personal logins and sudo or another custom made script couldn't do the trick).

But I've also come across dozens of unprotected .xlsx and .txt files stored on group shares which give me shivers every time I see it.
Sounds like the company was already pretty dysfunctional if your team was working weekends on a regular basis. That's not healthy, and if you were my manager, I'd thank you for standing up for our lives outside of the office.
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Thanks, I certainly try to offer quality apps/games. As always the decision is the customers, I'm perhaps overly concerned/ sensitive.
Want to to hear if any of you guys have had to pull an app because its effecting sales of other apps.
So you can't make a rational argument about where I have made a mistake in my thinking?

Yet you will condemn my thinking anyway?

So you are willing to condemn based on your own prior beliefs, emotions or desires that you cannot actually validate?

That is anti-intellectual.

That is punishing virtue.

That is failing to think and reason.

That is what is destroying the world today.