skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people don't spam the form

Use captchas; a rather obvious solution, but mentioning in case you overlooked it.
MSFT announces Surface Pro 3
Ask HN: Why use new Rails Variants feature when I can use responsive layouts?
Rails has introduce Variants in 4.1 but not sure why I would use that in place of responsive layouts. Why would one be better than the other for any given instance?
Well, sure, just like the FBI has a choice to use the statute to go after either terrorists or whistleblowers.

Justice always relies on human discretion, for better or for worse, but it reflects on us all which cases we call which.
Yes... but documentation does fall out of date, so YMMV depending on the product and your hiring rate.
Joost van Dijk (https://twitter.com/jwvd/), the guy who created this, is only 17. Looks slick! Any feedback on it yet?
My guess would be a stutter; I have seen this in high-pressure work environments.
> For a completely average US citizen, I don't think NSA spying has a practical impact today, at least directly -- it's almost all future risk.

While I think it's true. The keyword is direct. Though it should be mentioned that indirect impact is measurable, now.

> 1 in 6 writers has avoided writing or speaking on a topic they thought would subject them to surveillance. Another 1 in 6 has seriously considered doing so.

Source: http://www.pen.org/chilling-effects
Most developers don't have a choice in the supported platforms of the product they work on. If your product targets Windows (and it will if the customers demand it), you don't have much choice!
I always understood literate programming as a tool for teaching and not as a tool for writing software.

As I've written more and more about code I wrote, I've found myself inventing weird ways of making sure the code samples are compilable, runnable and correct. I've done it enough that now I'm considering using a literate programming tool next time.

(To be clear, I'm not referring to traditional API documentation with examples. There exist good tools for testing examples without resorting full-hog to literate programming. I am referring to more general prose whose aim is less specific than documenting an API.)
I agree with you, but I find it weird that Goolge is seen as a privacy respecting company.

People happily give up privacy for neat services like Facebook or Google or whatever, and some of these have caused actual harm to real people by leaking data.
Does it only support Triangles? What about buffers? Rendering individual triangles is not efficient if you have anything more than a simple scene.
We do in fact have full-blown graphics modes in the terminal and have had for decades. You can switch xterm to Tex4014 mode at your leisure, although this might not have been the graphics you had in mind. I believe you can _still_ pay money to HP for the pleasure of using decterm, which emulates the VT340 and other REGIS-protocol terminals.

One of the craziest hacks on graphics terminals was NCSA Telnet. It supported multiple detached Tek terminals as well as a raster graphics protocol called "ICR". It had its own TCP stack built in, and could offer these features even on DOS. One of the weirdest rigs I ever saw was a guy at college who browsed the web, with graphics, using NCSA Telnet on a PC/AT running PC-DOS, at a time when that computer was at least 10 years old.
I was showing how rayiner's claim about "promise to break the law" businesses was wrong, not claiming a particular defense for Lavabit.
Google builds amazing security technology, but also amasses huge amounts of information which wouldn't otherwise be centralized and retained. That's a lot better than people who only amass lots of data but don't build decent tech, and worse than people who just build awesome tools. I'd still put Google as a strong net positive, including the performance multiplier the Google tools give everyone. Even Facebook, which builds none of those good tools, and is essentially just a huge data repository, is kind of a net positive in that it brings people together to communicate. (that's a bit more debatable)
Thank you very much for fixing this!
What happened to storing the oops in EFI variables? You can store much more data there than you can convey through QR codes displayed on the limited screen space.
I like DDG, but have to ask, what is the revenue model? Is it going to serve ads eventually?
great idea! I'm going to try this
No they aren't. Plenty of poor people speed, and they get ticketed at the same rate, more or less.

A real tax on affluenza would be fines that are scaled to your net worth, with a minimum value. Say, from $75 all the way up to 1% of your worth.
Would it not make more evolutionary sense to remain reproductively capable for hundreds or thousands of years?

The motive for genes to reproduce does not end after a single set of offspring. In fact, I don't think the motivation is even reduced.
DDG already serves ads, but without tracking. I disable Adblock Plus on DDG to allow those ads to appear. It's just a small text banner on top of the search results (marked as "Sponsored link").
video ram, efi variables, nvram. All those should still be accessible.
Assassin's Creed Pirates – Developer Challenge
Create a custom shader for the pirate ship from the Assassin's Creed Pirates web game using the Babylon.JS editor. The grand prize is an Assassin's Creed Collector's Black Chest Edition and an Xbox One.
I like the mac pro trash can icon
Gobolinux implements exactly this.

It's never really taken off.
I have to call bullshit on that. You're not renting in SF what's equivalent to a $1.5M home (which is roughly what 6k a month in mortgage + taxes + etc will get you) for 3k a month.

This excess for investing doesn't exist. Its in fact cheaper to buy in SF every month then it is to rent.

Trulia has a really cool tool where you can mess with the numbers yourself

http://www.trulia.com/rent_vs_buy/
In iOS 7, you just tap on the top bar and the Safari navigation buttons appear.
Have you all benchmarked very large clusters? Would love to see how this helps.
That is a lazy retort to make against someone who has listed specific grievances with a specific place.

If you are thinking of moving someplace different but cannot think of anything specific wrong with the current place, yes that is a classic grass is greener mistake.

But having lived in several places, each one has drastically different positive and negative attributes, as with any relationship. You wouldn't tell someone to stick with a partner who was beligerent when any number of other people could easily fit the bill, but somehow people talk as if a cty is totally interchangeable with another. That may be true with some specific options that share the same negative and positive qualities. It is not generally true.
Because, as far as I can tell, they are images and not an actual font. Bitmaps are pixel-doubled on Retina, which makes them blocky.

Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation
He's didn't mean obligatory was the wrong word. He's saying we could have done without the xkcd.
MP4 video stream, direct from the PBS CDN:

[SD] http://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/frontline/69be704d-8ed9-4...

[HD] http://ga.video.cdn.pbs.org/videos/frontline/69be704d-8ed9-4...

(It wasn't working for me, so I played with the Chrome debugger)
If you are interested drop me a line. We are looking for smart people
Mathematica or Maple worksheets, maybe?

I haven't really used either, but they seem to go a bit in that direction. Although they are strictly sequential, I guess, so maybe not.
Remote Working: One Does Not Simply Spend a Year Without Pants
Nobody wants to farm in this day and age.
An unusual hardware architecture: Associative Processing Array (2011)
Oh, I know that. I was just wondering why the images aren't rendered for HiDPI screens. Other popular websites do this just fine.
Papilio: open source FPGA Arduino for education, hobbyists, engineers
Backing up your point, the following appeared in SF Weekly (one of the alt-weekly newspapers):

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/03/how_san_francisc...
Error whilst connecting. Emailed him hoping for a response.
A smaller block also gives you less room to maneuver when designing modes of operation; for instance, it can be tricky to implement CTR with a 64 bit block --- the convention is to split the block into "counter" and "nonce", and you need enough space for the counter that it can't conceivably wrap.
Unfortunately defer is broken in bunch of browsers - doesn't preserve order, etc. As a result, if you need to preserve order, you're better off with the async function queueing pattern.

Also, if you need to wait for DOM/CSSOM, then you can still use an async script and just install an event listener for DomContentLoaded / DomInteractive / etc., when it loads.
Show HN: I've built a Hacker News Client for Windows Phone
I would like to present HackIt! - a Hacker News client that I've built for Windows Phone 8/8.1.
It was just approved and published to the store last night: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/hackit/f96b7128-974d-4cba-8c43-41461865a0f2

While the app doesn't support all features from Hacker News yet, I would like to continue working on it and improve them, hopefully, with some feedback from users on what they would like to see in this app.

The app contains at the moment:

- Listing of News/New/Ask HN items

- "Infinite scroll" type of loading

- Viewing posts and clean in-post navigation.

- Viewing comments

- Log In functionality

- Account view and submissions

- Post and comment upvoting, downvoting, sharing and mailing

- Replying to comments and placing post comments.

There are also a few things that I am planning to improve/add shortly:

- Support for Windows Phone 7

- I am not sure if post/comment down voting works at the moment because my account doesn't have enough karma for it :)

- Account comments

- Support for multiple accounts

- Live tile with account notifications

- Some improvements in the user experience and design (at the moment, comment actions such as upvoting do not give any feedback to the user)

The trial version contains all "Read" functionality and I've added a paid version (USD 1.49) which includes all account interactions.

Please add some comments/feedback/criticism. If you download the app I look forward to any feedback on your experience.
Macbook laptops were insanely popular 6-8 years ago. They had the best hardware, well integrated software, and access to the bash shell and all the favorite unix utilities. OSX had support for Internet Explorer and Linux didn't really.

All of the Ruby on Rails web developers switched to Macbooks at that time.

The author sees all of these people using OS X and wonders why they would pick Mac now over Linux now, but that's the wrong question. The reason that everyone is using Macbooks is because everyone picked Apple six years ago.

Notice that this thread is full of people who switched to OS X laptops in 2007, but they no longer see the competitive advantage and they're switching back to Linux.

http://paulgraham.com/mac.html

http://paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
It's an interesting question. I think you'd need at least:

* a way to define scheduling requirements on a process level (beyond current, coarse, priority settings),
* bounded process message queues (this would be handy in soft-realtime Erlang),
* deadline accurate receives,
* accurate control over resource allocation

I've been meaning to sit down with some theory and think through this more analytically, but the above are my BART thinking-time derived set of requirements. I'm sure there are cases--some which would be obvious, in retrospect--that are not covered by the above.
It doesn't really require much of the individual MP or Congresspersion, just their office.
I agree, what does anything have to do with the Microsoft Surface? As I can tell, it has virtually no traction for "work," which makes it entirely irrelevant outside of the flood of fanboys in announcement discussions on the internet.
Google roll out Panda 4.0
Much as a Democratic Peoples' Republic is likely to be none of the 3.
The NSA is very much not interested in directly disclosing their capabilities. It could be they already had the information but wanted parallel evidence construction.
https://github.com/unconed/TermKit
how large of a cluster do you need?
Show HN: Retro – Instagram app for iPad
The Millionaire Cop Next Door
65% of Nobel laureates had at least one mentor who was a Nobel laureate
Every Little Byte Counts
My experience with bug reports to Knuth were mixed, although number one obviously was most important to me.

I got $2.56 for an error in content in one of his books. Actually the very first word in the very first sentence on the very first page (well, Arabic 1) was wrong. At least nobody can claim that he didn't get that far!

I got another $0.32 for a bug report which he actually demonstrated to be invalid, though he counted it as some kind of input or improvement. Oh, and he threw in a T-Shirt with the MMIX instruction set!

The third bug report was turned down without explanation (I think he actually replied "sorry, but no cigar").

The fourth bug report was also turned down and I even felt a bit insulted: his MMIX book says on the back cover that all programs are in the public domain, even though they all carry copyright notices with restrictions.

Knuth accused me quite harshly (IMO) to be some kind of Stallman fan talking nonsense about licenses and did not acknowledge the bug.
That's probably the guy he mentioned in another interview: the one who's cashing one cheque every year.
Ubuntu 13.10 on a ThinkPad X230 works flawlessly in this way as well.

When I first got this machine, I also ordered the docking station with it so I could plug my monitor, mouse, headphones, and phone charging cable into that instead of the laptop. I can drop my machine into the docking station, and either open the lid (out-of-the-box, no-config multi-monitor display) or not and everything just ... works. It's amazing.

I don't have a dog in this OS fight but just wanted to throw that out there.
He and his OS seem pretty much alive http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/ChangeLog.html
I always thought Derek Sivers covered this well with his Delegate Or Die essay:

http://sivers.org/delegate

If they've got the time to answer the questions, then at least that answer should be documented. Even if they don't have time to document everything, you can at least document the parts that people are actively asking / unsure about, and having a fresh pair of eyes document the system can be helpful (can make the documentation easier to understand for newbies, who are the target audience for documentation usually).
Wait, did you just call broadband internet a "utility"? As in a Title II utility?
That loads the page fine but video does not load : "Crossdomain loading denied."
I think they were hinting at coercion.
Very good clarification. I am indeed someone who got serious rotator cuff tendinosis from doing 100's of pushups a couple times / week. Took about 18months to fully heal, and my shoulders still aren't quite as good as they originally were.

Some people can definitely get away with doing tons of pushups, but I am not one of them!
Great idea, looks better than libcaca approximation.
The FBI Is Struggling to Hire Hackers Who Don't Smoke Weed
There was some limited testing today of 25 machines. Tomorrow I'm going to try and spin up about 60 concurrently to see if it falls over.
16/17 isn't that impressive, it's when most people are doing work here in Australia for programming out of TAFE.
I probably enjoyed this post more than any other I've read so far this year, and would have enjoyed it every bit as much even if it had not mentioned one of my favorite authors of non-fiction. Whether we have actually lost something or not I can't say, but at least it seems certain there are no more Noah Websters, just as there are no more Bertrand Russels, etc.
I would like to say that this is a remarkable change in rhetoric from an organization that has been lousy with dogmatic principles since its founding.

yes, there are non-marijuana users that are fit for those jobs. yes, the fbi could pay better to attract talent.

this is a fed agency (the fed agency) saying they are thinking about letting crazy wingnut pot smokers help them defend america.

this is a meaninful change in organizational behavior that is worthy of note.
Ask HN: What tool do sites use for Mac titlebar screenshots?
Hi HN, I noticed that many sites have screenshots of their app or site with pseudo OS X-style title or menu bars, but I can't for the life of me find what tool they use. Surely there's something out there to easily produce an image with it at the top.

For an example, see DuckDuckGo's whatsnew page that's on the frontpage today: https://duckduckgo.com/whatsnew

https://duckduckgo.com/assets/whatsnew/answers.jpg
My thoughts - I'm going to be super blunt to you: You've contributed nothing at all other than repeated app store links, and everything you've made is a ripoff of something.

I'm a kid too - what you're doing spamming knockoff apps while using a title like ^ accomplishes nothing but makes people dislike even more.
But what does it say?
Terry Davis Uses This
Because no volunteers have done it yet.
Oh, I was referring to the [dead] comment, not Terry nor his OS.
The mathematics of life is exponential growth. Two begets four begets eight and so on. So if you happen to die from old age after the fifth or sixth generation, the effect on how many copies your genes make of themselves is marginal.
hopefully this archived properly: http://cl.ly/2Z1L1o2t0o3n

firefox zip of html + files.
Damian Conway on Teaching, Programming Languages, Open Source and Our Future
It still has a keyboard bug (tabs switching doesn't work with Ctrl+PgUp / Ctrl + PgDwn when there).
I have seen this survey before and I have to say I am a little suspicious of how they came up with this pullquote. I do not understand how the 11% who responded "have seriously considered" is presented as "1 in 6 have seriously considered."
This is from Question 12.a in the survey.[^1]

12 Over the past year or two, have YOU done or seriously considered
doing any of the following because you thought your communications
might be monitored in some way by the government?

12.a Avoided writing or speaking on a particular topic

%% | Response
------------------------------------------
16 | Yes, have done
11 | Have seriously considered
70 | No, have not
3 | Not sure/Not applicable
---+--------------------------------------
27 | NET Yes/Have seriously considered
73 | NET No/Not sure

"Have seriously considered" is not even "1 in 6 respondents excluding the respondents that answered 'Yes, have done so.'"

I hope I am missing something obvious but as far as I currently understand the survey/math this quote is fucking shameful. Getting popular support for privacy protections is not going to happen by giving up the moral high ground. It is hard enough to fight against the "weak on security issues" label, it is going to be next to impossible to overcome "weak on security AND cannot be trusted to tell the truth."

[^1]: Page 24 http://www.pen.org/sites/default/files/Chilling%20Effects_PE...
What did you launch when you were 17?
FBI chief says anti-marijuana policy hinders the hiring of cyber experts
Ya, I remember an amusing story from someone who would register to stores with <storename>@<hisdomain>.com. Then he got a C&D letter from one of the stores demanding that he stop using their trademark in his email address.
This brings to mind another silly requirement for parody in the Google ecosystem, requiring "(Parody)" after an account name. Consider the case of Jesus H. Christ on G+: http://goo.gl/6UEsEj.
Plain old xterm has a VT340 mode (`-ti vt340`) that supports ReGIS. I'm not sure whether it is complete enough for games to work.
Minicart.js
I get really bad, out of sync video streaming performance from them (from CloudFront, on Comcast Business 30M); it's weird because it's only an SD stream. (Sad because their content is amazing; I guess I'll find a torrent, although Part 2 isn't up anywhere yet)
OR maybe Hacker News 2014: where people grew up to look past their fanboism and review a product for what it is.
Yeah, but something that removes the friction of going from 0 sales and 0% conversion rate and a handful of sales at 1% conversion rate is huge. Most people never even get far enough that changing the logo would be meaningful.
I'm conflicted by Levison. On one hand, I support what he's doing. I also think that he's raising awareness of a serious issue.

On the other hand, I have exactly the same issues as you. I don't think that his case holds up to serious scrutiny, and I don't think he's presenting himself in good faith.

It's been frustrating to me to try and figure out what exactly is going on at the big name tech companies. Levison's story is used to justify the assumption that essentially all tech companies are compromised, legally. Personally, I've seen an overreporting of very tenuous links such as Google being linked to In-Q-Tel, and an underreporting of things like the NSA division at Dell.

Maybe this is just a PR move on Levison's part? Trying to emulate Kim Dotcom as an "Outlaw Privacy Rights Hero"? I don't know. I'm onboard with decentralizing everything, I try not to pass judgement on individual companies. Yours' is the first and only comment I've read so far, though, so I'm curious to see the rest of HN's thoughts.
That might also work in its favour as how would an eavesdropper know that the same png on cloud a marked clean would exist on cloud b with a secret message encoded? They'd have to assume that each instance of the same meme is unique and that significantly reduces the effectiveness of automated search tools.
Not among the microsoft fanboys, clearly, which is the entirely point.

But, you know, why don't you go ahead and regurgitate a Microsoft market phrase since that apparently trumps actual facts. Note that I'm the only person who actually cited a real source with hard numbers in this discussion, and I've been the most downvoted. Go figure. I suppose we've already established that actual facts are irrelevant to you people.
Open Source Opportunities in GIS Summer School
Citation?: 25 Food Things Only A New Mexican Would Understand
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/new-mexican-food_n_...

A: It was yellow when I drove through it.
I just had a BBS days flashback to RIP: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_imaging_protocol
Now if only I can afford to go.
It's the standard problem of tradeoffs in evolution.

Strong is better than not strong. But a stronger model comes at its own fitness costs: maybe it requires more energy upkeep, maybe it sacrifices speed, etc. At some point, fitness benefit from additional strength is less than the fitness cost of the weakness it must accept.

Likewise, an infinitely-living, infinitely fertile organism is better (more fit) than a finite one. (The environmental cost is not a problem for those genes.) But the costs of having it eventually exceed the benefits: perhaps it requires a more robust replication process that's too energy-intensive.

OTOH, if somehow you could reduce this error rate that leads to aging without having to sacrifice in some other way, that would be a mystery.
>It's my preference to use a laptop on lap

Gotcha. Here is that video on Youtube if you are still interested [1]

[1] http://youtu.be/ZfvhKBp-Chw?t=42m
How World of Warcraft Might Help Head off the Next Pandemic
You know, I've read easily a dozen articles on Levison, and I realised just now that to this very day, I've never read his warrant canary, nor did I know that it was his warrant canary that first broke the warrant request to the public.

You don't happen to have a link to either of those, do you?