skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting idea might be an "revive" feature on dead posts that shows that post and any other dead posts from the same user (with an indication that they are "dead") -- but only to the user that clicked revive. If you allow those posts to also be voted up, it might even work into a community-based method for reversing bans, both on a per-post and perhaps, with enough votes on enough posts, per-user basis.

Obviously, only users browsing with "showdead" on would see and be able to interact with dead posts.
They talk about Heartbleed and other attacks, but fail to mention the security of emails, especially during transit?
Microsoft has been throwing huge amounts of money at this problem for over a decade, and Microsoft's systems are not perfectly or even (if we take a hard, dispassionate look at it) acceptably secured against serious attackers. And I think Microsoft does a better job on this than almost anyone else.
I'm not rich or single so I am really not the target market here. But something about this feels really gross. I can't figure out how this was allowed. I've lost all sense of what is and isn't acceptable these days. It seems to change daily. It feels like not too long ago a couple guys lost their job for making a joke about dongles and forking. I fail to see how that was worse than this.
Ugh, this sounds so cringeworthy. Something about the commodification of those women, even if it was done willingly.
A sample size of 117 is not enough for a conclusion.
It seems taking users out of your app / off your website to sign up or purchase something would be detrimental to conversion rates.

(I don't know about you, but I can't think of anything more distracting than my email inbox.)

I know it's not popular on HN, but we already have a simple method that removes passwords: OAuth.
> He's banned on HN for frequently being aggressive and using offensive language, especially the N-word (which may not mean the same thing to him as its historical meaning).

Or it may very well mean the same thing to him, which is the most obvious interpretation of his comments. His comments using the word are obviously using it in a negative way and many are clearly racial. He very well may not understand why it's wrong, but the meaning seems to be there.
> You want to give Terry special treatment because he's ill,but being ill doesn't make his comments not awful, it just makes me judge him less severely as a person.

Exactly, you got it perfectly.
Its one and the same, plus if you care about LibreSSL and OpenSSH than you need to care about OpenBSD because of the assumptions that code makes and what needs to added to the ported code to make it safe on other platforms.
Staying creative
"Sebastian Riedel"++

Thanks for this mojo!
>(i) try to solve an important problem that has bugged people for millennia

1. it has bugged almost everybody else for uncountable millennia before people :) So if it were a problem, the evolution would have already solved it. Which brings us to the next point :

2. it isn't a problem really, it is the solution that evolution came up with to make sure that blobs of organic matter move their a&&es, tails, tentacles, ...
That's the kind of thing that's easy to say on a message board and colossally unlikely to match your revealed preferences in reality.
He has apparently been unbanned. I have showdead off but can see his comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7816725

I strongly oppose unbanning him. He is severely mentally ill and frequently posts random off-topic rants. Even more worryingly, some of his comments are extremely offensive (I'd say intentionally so, except I'm not sure he has the capacity of intentionality.).

His one redeeming feature is having enough technical ability to write an OS. That is absolutely not a reason to tolerate regularly posting content that would automatically get the poster banned.
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That's a super good idea.

I suspect such a mechanism already exists, it just isn't public because the comment that inspired the poll (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7817137) is now no longer dead.

Now what about this one :) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7819070

It's 'on topic', has a sense of humor and no profanity.
HandshakeJS rocks. I'm using it on my app I just launched: kadre.co
It does have batteries on board however after its long life they appear to be dead.[1]

1 - http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1697/1
Orassabenda sounds like a girl who wants to kill her parents.
It's not restricted to SyncStorage, but to the open-spec'd RemoteStorage. Check it out:

http://remotestorage.io/get/
http://xkcd.com/960/
Why not add your child as an authorized user on your credit card and let them get their own Uber account?
When you know you're banned, you are very slightly less inhibited than when not banned, LOL.
Great post. Specifically on the "I can tell in five minutes whether I'll like someone or not part," getting into local maxima is definitely possible but it's not a bad place to be. The folks at that level are great folks and one is able to discern them with less work. I've found, though, that some folks that I initially got a negative impression from turned out to be really great people, outside of the "5 minute" criteria, though it took some work to get there.

So as with any case of potential local maxima, my approach is to spend more time with some of the folks that fall outside this "5 minute" criteria, to a) meet a more diverse group of people and b) improve my "5 minute" criteria so that there are fewer false negatives.
That's true. After all, back in the 1980's I could just google for those reviews!
Sorry I was not clear enough. Projects like Serval Mesh not only are useful when something bad happens in the communication system, but also when companies, like cruiser companies, want to stop you from communicating with a reasonable price. So if a family of N members want to communicate using phones inside of a cruiser, the phones will all connect to the GSM cell in the ship itself, that costs like a lot of money per minute in roaming fees. However there is a wifi network in the ship (also super costly) that Serval Mesh is able to use in order to let your family communicate free of charge (you don't need to really access the internet service provided via wifi, just to connect to the open/free internal wifi network).
It sure is!

I'd love to see some more technical details but according to this article:

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/0207083...

Goddard claimed that they couldn't rebuild the hardware that was used to talk to ISEE-3 at reasonable cost.

The Space College project are using SDR: http://spacecollege.org/isee3/isee-3-reboot-project-status-a...

And they used their funding to buy some custom amplifier gear to send to Arecibo.
There was an interesting discussion of the problems of Persona here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243141
(this is kind of in the middle of a conversation but has the first post by Saurik which is the interesting bit)
All the public information is available here: http://spacecollege.org/isee3/
Does it not work for btsync? Just curious why you would mention Dropbox and drive when they have the same privacy concerns. Or are you wanting to move away from ever note for another reason?

Edit: tagspaces page says it works with bts.
So, does the cake have a recruiting message encoded in it? :)
Self-righteous spam police
If you're watching a video and your connection becomes slow, it prompts you to take a look at the report to understand what's making it slow.

It's not a direct phone number, but a reasonable number of average people will hopefully take a look while their video is buffering and start to understand that their ISP may be the reason YouTube seems slow.
Shouldn't downvote someone for pointing out a fact - it does point to O. I've messed about with it in Photoshop to make it point more at the Z but it ended up looking visually unbalancedso I guess there's some designer's license at work here.
Funding, as always, seems to have been the issue.

If NASA doesn’t have the money for it (or thinks they have better things to do with the money), they can’t do anything. The explanation of not having access to communications equipment is more about the cost of restoring that ability, not any claim that contacting the probe would in principle be impossible.

The message is more or less that they don’t just have some device standing around they can flip on and sit some intern in front of it for a few hours to get this going. NASA wanted to express that substantially more effort would be required.

It seems that many people (including people at NASA) are donating a lot of resources, time and money to this project. That’s why this can happen. But NASA can’t budget with the expectation of receiving donations.
I came here to tell about haker dojo and you beat me to it. In Bay area Hacker dojo, agile entrepreneur meetups happen. Once a week (Fridays?), you give update to others in the meetup on what you accomplished, what you plan for the next week and what your stumbling blocks. I believe this is a great way to keep pushing yourself forward. Apart from that, you should consider working in a co-working space so you can meet like minded people.
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Ah, for the markov chains I'm assuming you mean by individual letter? Either way, cool project. How old was your niece at the time?
After more than 30 years I'd have to consider any batteries suspect... Much less ones that spent their time in space.

Considering it was meant to spend its life at L1 it may not have any batteries. Then again it also doesn't have a computer so it should be fairly robust.
sorry if someone already posted it, but you can also get an estimate on where they live :)

http://jezebel.com/map-sixty-years-of-the-most-popular-names...
Good point, I am fully open to your version... my premise was for it to be fully intended for emergencies -- as the basis for that type of additional account.

I.e. so as that it is not to be thought of as something a kid would easily absentmindedly abused by a teen.

Maybe there could be several types of child accounts:

Full access, but noted as to who was using the service by name of assignee in the app.

Limited child account "only uber X and only for destinations in whitelist or certain radius"

"Emergency uber": from source to home/hospital only for use to escape drunk party friends/feeling sick/[other emergency]

Thanks for the input.
Design commentary in comments seems to be taboo here lately.
EDIT: After reading the article, the novelty there is that they entangled particles separated by 3 meters. They didn't achieve any unusaly long entanglement time. That won't (or, at least, it's not trivial how it would) lead to better quantum computers, but could lead to qbit transmission and cloud quantum computers, as the authors say.

The original:
From the abstract, they found a way to "freeze" entangled qbits, so that you can transport them, and read later.

For the confusion here, just remember that you can not transmit information by reading quantum entangled pairs. You can use them to make a quantum cryptography key exchange, that's still as subject to man in the middle attacks as symetric crypto, and you can use them for error correction in quantum computers (for what this one may be HUGE).
Well, one of the bugs that got fixed in LibreSSL was reported to OpenSSL with a patch which was not applied. If they ignore that stuff, then you have to fork.

http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00008.htm...
Xavier? Logan? Guess someone wants to have his son grow up as the Wolverine.
agreed. They are still human beings after all!
In response to this post, TempleOS wrote:

"When you know you're banned, you are very slightly less inhibited than when not banned, LOL."

Which is a fair observation.
I work for Google, so not really concerned about the privacy of Drive.

The main reason why I don't want to use Evernote is because I want to store my notes in plain text files, so I can keep using them even in say 50 years.
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Not everyone wants to / has the resources to do so?

The point was to create a way for a teen to be able to use uber in a way that would minimize abuse on the part of the teen.
First, the state of the art of "taking technical interviews" hasn't changed in the last 10yrs at least. This is, when we as an industry are harbingers of "change".

The bottom line is that the interview process is time consuming, expensive and often not the aspect of your job for which you will be held accountable for (i.e. you get fired if you are unable to recruit).

An interviewer in such a case, has no incentive to carefully think about the process. Usually the interview time during his/her day is not the prime task at hand and he/she has to run to "other meetings".

In such an environment and time constraints, We come down to our rote notions of what "intelligence" means.

If you are interested, I would recommend these two very well written articles:
1)http://code.dblock.org/five-ways-to-torture-candidates-in-a-...
2)http://code.dblock.org/how-to-reject-engineering-candidates

Lastly, I wish you luck if you are a so called Front End engineer or worse, a female engineer in this industry. Its really rough out there for them in special.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go and practice my bit manipulations.
Okay. But Promises already provide asynchronous try/catch blocks, and you could have used those as the basis of your API (and as first-class objects that get returned), rather than inventing a new API and set of objects.

> I believe that flow control in the future will be done with generators; check out https://github.com/visionmedia/co for example.

Generators and promises are both types of flow control that will be used in the future: they're both in the ES6 standard. In fact, visionmedia/co already supports promises.
I should have mentioned that

1. I am already using set -e
2. That `err` function has an `exit 1` as its last step,
which forces the program to stop running when combined with the first point.

> Now, on to your shell script example: in practice you'll never see an error because both grep and sed return true even when no matching or substitution is done.

That's not what I'm seeing:

> echo "hi" | grep "bye"
> echo $?
1

I'm typing that into my shell.

Thanks for the reply, it was very helpful.
Maybe this is a dynamic that tends to emerge anyway, the only difference in this case being that it is direct and not subtle?
When I've wanted to use Dropbox (or Drive, etc) to sync app data that needs to be in a certain place (game savefiles, mostly), I've had good luck just moving the data directory to my Dropbox and then symlinking from the original location. That should be doable on Android with any old terminal program, though you may need to root the device just to install basic command line tools like "ln".
If you believe this, you have no idea how schizophrenia affects its sufferers.
I have played poker with Jennifer Tilly a handful of times at wsop. After looking at her Wiki, I realize I was around 15 years off her age. This has less to do with the fact her name is uncommon for her age, and more to do with the fact she doesn't look 55.
You'd make an amazing PM.

"Hey, how should we deal with resetting people's passwords and keys when they forget them?"

"Tell them to get a safe deposit box"

"And when they're traveling or really need a report and the bank's closed?

"They shouldn't have lost their keys. Stupid lusers."
I started writing tech articles last year. I was in a career rut because I'd stopped being the tech at work and was now a manager. I convinced myself I didn't have time anymore to be technical. After I started writing, I realized I had to immerse myself in the tech I wrote about before composing my articles. Now, I learn a new technology (or a deeper aspect of one I know) every week. Strangely, I find more time to write code, build applications and test features than I ever had. This got me a new role, no longer managing but as an application admin, doing technical work every day. Bottom line, writing about tech got me thinking differently, reminded me what I love about technology and why I thrive in technical environments. Staying creative touches on many levels, so I'd say learn, learn, learn - read and find out what is going on in the world you love, and after you've learned something new, tell someone about it.
Neither the idea nor this article seem to be helping to encourage girls in technology.
> Yeah, but people can also read behind the lines.

Or, IOW, can insert their own bias into their interpretations without supporting evidence.
Honestly, that seems very fair. Because of the way retina screens upsize images you actually get a clearer view of how it looks at 16 pixels in a standard screen by being served the 32px when using a retina one.
Such a startup already exists obviously: http://www.thelocal.de/20140417/new-app-helps-johns-find-pro...
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Very nice. I used v6502 a lot as the article shows, but the real fun comes with the cycle-stretching, which AFAICT can't be simulated using v6502.
Just LibreSSL. Let OpenSSL die its deserved death. Portable LibreSSL will do wonders.
Or, more realistically, you could:
1) Be part of a network of people who shared their own reviews, or
2) Consume one of the many wide-circulation publications that carried curated reviews from known reviewers.
I would call it more "design complaining" and it honestly gets tiring because in every single thread there's someone complaining about how a header or slightly too thin font or or less-than-perfect margins or some other minor nitpick makes the site "impossible to read".
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Absolutely yes: I was just showing an example, not the most optimal code :)
Ratios close to 1 are tolerated, the real problem is when that ratio approaches numbers like 2:1 (~66% male).

It's hard to have a happy town when a third of your population will wind up alone.
The tutorial Apple made to teach people who to use a mouse in 1984
Canadian engineers?
It is even harder when there is an ideological block. In the first case, you get stonewalled, and ultimately ignored. In the case of ideology, you get shouted down, mobbed, and subject to various preemptive attacks intended to discredit and demoralize you before you even get to make your case.
Problem: How do you identify what the keywords in a search term mean. A word like Shingles can mean shingles roof, or shingles disease or shingles concept in search engine. For this, you first start with a known set of documents (known means their type, whether business, science, sports, etc is known), and index them. For each word/phrase, you compute the proability that it belongs to a certain category. For example, when you see Shingles, you say 50% is disease, 40% is roofs and 10% is code. Depending on your understanding of the user, you will most probably present health related results at the top of SERP.

Btw, its not my idea...I was just an employee!
I think you mean "excuse". Anyone who's ever attempted to sell anything will tell you of customers who say "I would buy it if only you turned it upside-down and painted it blue" but don't cough up when you do. Similarly, every single person reading this uses SSH daily but will go "ah, uh, but Theo's a dick!" as their excuse not to cough up.
> underutilized resource like male techies of SV

To me it felt more like the underutilized resource was the hot women in NYC. But that would be too degrading to the women. So they couldn't possibly take that angle.
Is the important part the text/call before hand? I can imagine this being implemented at the payment level. You could have a credit card that required authorization before any use. You could ask your kid to text you "I'm lost and need to get home", you send your bank a verification code then they approve the next transaction (perhaps with a time limit, a day would suffice). Then they could send you the transaction when it happens.
I did specify "fantasy" for a reason. If you're writing fantasy you want your names to sound natural yet unlike anything your reader will seen before. Hence why I guess many names in fantasy novels (I'm thinking Song of Fire and Ice and Wheel of Time) are pretty much a normal name with one or two letters replaced.

I'll keep your link in mind though - for my own writing which is in a non-fantasy setting.
Here's a good write-up on the Fedex logo..

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1671067/the-story-behind-the-fam...
> I can't figure out how this was allowed

Why wouldn't this "be allowed"? More importantly, what is the entity that would or would not be doing the "allowing"?
This sounds a lot like what TerraNet (http://www.terranet.se) are doing.
Actually, service B is modeling a failure. What I meant in my previous comment was that adding more machines for scaling is not only more expensive, but can add significant latencies if those machines are using a distributed cache (as each would invalidate the other's caches, creating more misses). It's always preferable to utilize fewer machines better.

I would say that the risk Quasar brings is no different from any 1 year old library. It's young, so test it well and introduce it carefully gradually to production. The bytecode manipulation Quasar performs is vastly simpler than, say, JRebel. Quasar does not change object layouts or any such thing. It simply injects code into suspendable methods to copy local variables into an array and back.
Well they are showing only ability to maintain a HD stream, not absolute speed. Any decent wifi network should be able to get at least 10mbit, so it won't impact HD streaming.
Nope. Works even if you use an address without http, but beginning with only "//"
Do you for one second believe that it would be the first?
> Then you become the steward of the project and continue forward. ... The answer was to fix the perceived problems in OpenSSL and make it as solid as it can be. It's splitting talent and resources unnecessarily.

But that is what the fork is, OpenSSL with new stewards. What is your objection? That they are using a different name? That they decided to remove certain platforms which were a maintenance burden? That FIPS is broken by design and therefore isn't a priority? I imagine the OpenSSL team disagrees with the LibreSSL team on all of these issues. The only option was a fork.

> Right now, native libressl only works on bsd's, when openssl codebase works on many os's. There are ports being made, which will introduce more bugs.

One step backwards, two steps forward.
> But something about this feels really gross. I can't figure out how this was allowed. I've lost all sense of what is and isn't acceptable these days.

My slow path to conservatism.
Heh. Fork the Cookbook does this - with a 1 hour auto log out. It didn't go too well with our users.

What I learned from FtC is that people are so ingrained with the idea of passwords that single factor auth doesn't really fly.
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None of these replace TrueCrypt. One thing that made TrueCrypt interesting was that you could use the same volume on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Items listed in the article are Linux only.
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I like to see TempleOS's posts but I think the system works quite well as it is.

He posts with the knowledge that he is banned (rather than creating a clean account), so I would take this as a deliberate policy of his choice. I also don't think he would remain un-banned without being treated as an extreme special case.

Poll wording is significantly biased towards the author's preference, i.e. 'please do this' vs 'definitely do this'. I fall on the latter side but not enough to agree with 'definitely'.

Edited to add: I agree that some option to reanimate valuable comments would be good; this applies particularly to TempleOS but also to other banned users.