skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it really only turn in one direction, though?

I hear that kind of talk a lot, usually about taxes and government programs. It seems incredibly depressing, for one thing. It's fundamentally saying that you can never win, just delay the inevitable loss.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be true, whether it's taxes or computers. Computers might be getting squeezed a bit now, but there have been far worse periods, followed by better. Go back in time to, I don't know, 1990. You want an OS for your PC? Sure, Windows or DOS? You want a wide-area network connection of some kind? We have a variety of choices for you, ranging from the local phone company to the local phone company, or even the local phone company.

Remember when you had to be careful never to tell the phone company that your second line was for dialup internet, because they'd charge you more if they found out you were going to use it with a modem? Remember when you had to worry that they'd figure it out anyway from your usage patterns, or that they'd just cut you off regardless because you were tying up a line for hours and hours every day?

I don't want to tell you not to fight. Certainly, there are plenty of problems right now, and it's well worth fighting. But we should realize that there are many ways that it can be and has been worse, and that the ratchet really does go both ways when people want it to.
The problem isn't merely that they're a for-profit entity. It's that they're a for-profit entity semi-masquerading as a charity. "RRKidz," a company with multiple large, private investors, is appealing to donors' sense of altruism to receive $1 million+ in additional revenue. The investors (not donors) are all expecting a share of the profits in proportion to their investment.
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I wouldn't expect a lasting increase more of a S curve. Movie comes out, there is a spike in Dorothy usage. A few years pass and the original spike slows down. Then the movie is seen as old fashioned and you start to see a negative trend. Then Dorothy is seen as an old lady's name so it sees an even sharper decline.
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My advice: As long as the VC's want to subsidize bad business models that cater to narrow markets, I say, take advantage of it while you can cuz it ain't gonna last forever.
Why Horror is Good For You (and Even Better for Your Kids)
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But here automation is only automating the hard part (doing the collection correctly and in accordance with company policies).

Remember, with PRISM each and every request has to be approved by the company in question before it proceeds, which is still a manual step. So the license plate reader example doesn't apply directly; Rather it might be like a license plate reader that only works when activated by a remote magistrate, only for the one car permitted by that activation, but can continue scanning that one car's license plate from then on wherever it's seen in the city until the permission expires.
Curious about the "ex-dec" mailing list. Link?
Google isn't of much help (top result is this thread)
Normally I would agree (and I hate these announce-that-they-will-announce things in general) but in this case, there's a stream that a lot of people here would probably enjoy watching live, so it's nice to tell them ahead of time.
Amazon Prime To Offer Music Streaming Service – With 6-Month-Old Songs
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Why Do We Love Manhattanhenge So Much?
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Ask HN: Can anyone decode the radial encoding on the new SpaceX Dragon V2 logo?
Shown here: http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

I'm sure it's meant to symbolize a head-on view of the docking connector, but there is obviously some data encoded in there as well.

Unfortunately, the outer rings don't line up nicely with the 100 inner ticks.
> You can't start fixing things in other peoples' source tree just like that.

Yes, you can. It's called contributing to a project. If the "half million lines of diffs" were actually things needing fixing, then the upstream team would accept them. If they are not necessary changes (such as ripping out all windows compatibility), then no, they would reject such changes.

It will take years, maybe a decade before a new ssl library becomes the "default". OpenSSL has a lot of ground covered and a lot of history. Yes, it's common knowledge that libressl started before heartbleed, but the reasons for the project being started are mostly along the lines of:

1) We don't think upstream would take these changes

2) We don't like some aspects of the design philosophy

3) We can do it better.

All 3 reasons can be collapsed into a more focused effort to fix the already existing and very good ssl library; openssl.
But it is still doing its purpose. You can just tell it what you want to see.

I wish there was a way in Google to indicate you'd like to see results from a site ranked higher FOR YOU. I imagine they already learn that when you click on that domain in two separate searches.
Accidental down vote, sorry!
Did FiveThirtyEight steal this idea from Business Insider? http://www.businessinsider.com/popular-girl-boy-names-2014-5 They did the same research a week ago.
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> You might just as well suggest that paleontology is entangled with religion because its findings offend some people's religious views.

I absolutely would say that.
I am an amateur book reviewer & blogger

You should really put the URL in your HN profile and comment.

And I regularly come across badly edited or not-at-all edited books/stories

I also write a blog about books and ideas, and I see the same things. That being said, it is possible to hire editors. I hired one for my own novel, ASKING ANNA (for the curious: http://www.amazon.com/Asking-Anna-Novel-Jake-Seliger/dp/1495...). I doubt it's perfectly edited but so far I've only gotten one typo report.

I have my favorite publishers (and editors for that matter).

I think you're anomalous in that aspect.
Airbnb was not just the website. The original network of hosts WERE airbnb people and friends. That is a huge asset for bootstrapping. And now they have real customer service- which I think is going to be the one thing (within their control) that is going to make them a success or not.

I agree a laundry startup should definitely be on top of quality control. Also, doing the laundry makes for a much better story. :> Imagine local news footage of thin dudes with sarcastic mustaches and tight jeans moving stuff from washer to dryer. That's gold.
Because you are simple-minded.
Also, pre-dating civil rights by over 20 years.

"THE ULTIMATE MEAL® and MEALBAR® are totally free of yeast-based vitamins and minerals, soy, ... or anything from China."

I can see how local is better than sourcing internationally. There is no need to support anti-Chinese sentiments though, especially considering that the copyright on the sourced website is 2003.
Not necessarily - the main reason why I don't want to store my notes with Evernote is because I want to be able to use them in 50 years, not because I'm opposed to sync them with a 3rd party server.
There is no doubt that is the intention.

The doubt is whether or not it is a good call to fork openssl instead of attempting to get changes into upstream that fix it and make it better, safer, more reliable.
Looking into this. Thank you for reporting it!

You can access the tutorial here: http://agora.sh/tutorial/
Since this thread is all about paranoia, how did you verify that anyone ultimately received the funds?
With this approach, the first partner who reveals their offer will be at a disadvantage. If they want to buy, they can offer (otherguy + epsilon), and if they want to sell, they can offer (otherguy - epsilon). (Where "otherguy" is the other cofounder's price, and epsilon is a small number like $0.01.)

To fix this, you need to have both parties commit to their prices before anyone learns anyone else's price. For example, you could require both parties to mail their offers to the company lawyer, who is only allowed to reveal them when both offers have arrived.

Of course, with the above solution, you have to trust a human being (the lawyer) to be impartial and not collude with one of the cofounders against the other. For the paranoid, you can instead use a protocol that trusts cryptography instead of humans. You could have each person choose a random nonce, publish H(price + "#" + nonce). When everybody's published a hash, everyone then reveals their price and their nonce -- you know the price was chosen without knowledge of the other party's offer. (Of course each person needs a public key to sign the hash as well, to make sure a participant can't legitimately claim "I didn't send that.")
Weather forecasting is applied physics. The systems are big, some interactions aren't known precisely, and the boundary conditions are more complex than most physicists usually work with, but weather forecasting is definitely physics.
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"There are numerous avenues that Mr. Snowden could have used to raise other concerns or whistleblower allegations. We have searched for additional indications of outreach from him in those areas and to date have not discovered any engagements related to his claims."

As a contractor, he was not entitled to whistleblower protection.
I replaced a 5k line system with a 140 line SQL query. So massive SQL can have pretty significant multiplier in main code reduction.
I have been using cryptmount for years, and I can highly recommend it. It is a friendlier, more easy to use interface to the crypto functionality that exists in the linux kernel (dm-crypt)
I think it is healthy to cover all maps providers anyway. I had a rude awakening too a while back when I wanted to do a native Android hack on Google Glass using maps, but there is none of the usual MapActivity, etc. available. So Open Street Map was the way to go. Google Maps sometimes just isn't the solution, so it is good to know many.
When you know literally nothing, it doesn't sound like anything.
Since the discussion is age, I would say digital equipment corporation which would put everyone at 40+.
There's a middle ground. The average small-time laundry operation definitely doesn't have the kind of cash flow to produce a serious challenger app.

And restaurants don't have the means to produce their own restaurant management software, or the software stack necessary to enable deliveries. But these two features are commonplace in restaurants because of white-label middleware providers.

Here in NYC I've been seeing more and more restaurants advertise their own website as a way to order delivery, as a way to get around Seamless/GrubHub's per-transaction take, and offering discounts to switching to their platform.

Both directions are viable. Wash.io and their kind can, with significant capital, eventually do laundry themselves and eliminate the individual laundry shops entirely. Likewise, individual laundry shops stand a realistic chance of purchasing middleware and cutting out the aggregator frontends.
And the average user will never see it. If Google really wants to do something effective, add a red warning bar at the top of the page that says "Your ISP is making YouTube slower. Call them at...". I guarantee ISPs will take notice then.
Designer weighing in...

Thanks! We're honestly really unsure of the best way to approach the marketing of this service. That's part of what we're doing right now is for.

Mobile is an inevitability, but focusing on nonmobile has been a more comfortable starting place for us to explore ideas. We're also working off the at least partially education assumption that a lot of the more thoughtful, comparative shopping still happens on desktops. That likeliness is likely decreasing every day though.

Accidentally skipping step two definitely decreases the smoothness of the tutorial. We'll need to get around to making it less skippable. Our quickest fix was to add a button that need to be clicked and have it away from the product so that people's cursors would not interact with the product prematurely. Development priorities are the only thing keeping us from implementing a more thorough fix. But if more people report that issue, we'll likely bump it up. So thanks for mentioning that detail.

We plan to have continued (non narrated) tutorial messages that will explain individual features at opportune moments. This continued tutorial would illuminate things like accessing the inspect button from the belt, or hovering over a decision to access it's associated workspace.

YES! Planes, trains and automobiles (and real estate) are all excited prospects for Agora. We just started with commerce cause it seemed like a more financially lucrative focus and affiliate commission systems are already in place for us to monetize from immediately.

Thanks again for your thoughts and feedback.
When you harbor some pet assumption, the entire world conspires to verify your assumption.
Good. We need to Name-n-Shame these ISP's into doing good by their customers.

There was an interesting interview with Comcast CEO the other day where he said, "[We] don’t wake up everyday and go to work and say we want to be hated.”

But then he attempted to shift the blame to content providers:

"Roberts followed up this statement by saying that Comcast is mostly hated because 'it’s the company consumers have to deal with when other companies raise their prices.'"

http://bgr.com/2014/05/28/comcast-ceo-roberts-interview/
Black discards piece after piece for positional advantage
Mojolicious 5.0 released: Perl real-time web framework
Usually I see the male version as Isidore. Isadora I've only ever heard of with Isadora Duncan.
> I'm really unclear on how the zone library is doing the magical interception of errors

It monkey patches the entry points into javascript from the binding layer (some wrapping happens at a higher level), for the purpose of keeping track of the active zone. At that level we also wrap a try-catch block around all callbacks.

> Does a library (say, one that came from npm and not the core library) have to be zone-aware to function correctly with zones

It depends. Most modules shouldn't need any modification. However there are certain not-so-common cases (for example, when you're implementing a connection pool) that the module would need to be made zone-aware. It's necessary when the module wants to call a callback (or any function) in a child zone from a parent/ancestor zone.

Right now that's not very easy - you'd have to use a Gate (https://github.com/strongloop/zone#gates). W're working on an easier API.
True, and with the population growing generally we'd see it pushed back toward that spike...
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Wow. Thank you for your insight.
As a lawyer with a former corporate law practice, for one of my side projects I created a legal service company (ameristartup.com). AmeriStartup takes the legalzoom concept, but tailored incorporation/compliance "packages" specifically for Delaware Corporations and then beat legalzoom on their prices. Great service, better value, addresses real world problems yet zero traction.

I even reached out to YC direct to try to offer the incorporation/compliance/registered agent services to YC companies at a discount, I never heard back. I think a YC company (Clerky) did/does the something similar and may already provide YC companies with these services.
Whenever I tell someone that I'm incorporated in Delaware I usually get some snarky remark about being a tax dodge. I still don't understand why people think it's a tax dodge.
If you need full disk encryption, how is appropriately configured BitLocker any less reliable, or offering fewer "security guarantees" than TrueCrypt?

The knee jerk reaction here is "omg, prism, Microsoft!". But the reality is that you have no idea who the TrueCrypt people are and their level of trustworthiness --- for all you know they work for NSA or FSB!

If you are a windows user, use the manual and use BitLocker for FDE and EFS for folder and files.
Note that the comparison page doesn't have the "zone" library we just announced on it. Zone.js is conceptually a bit different and it targets browsers.
Have you tried weworkremotely.com, or searching for "remote" in the monthly HN "Who is Hiring?" threads?
TLDR;

Use https://www.clerky.com

[I have no interest in clerky, they just rock]
Valve Steam Machines delayed until 2015
yep, its ex employees of DEC. A lot of really good people came from the Palo Alto-based DEC WRL in particular.
It's not much of a meal -- one serving contains only 170 calories [1], or 350 if you add an apple and a banana, as directed.

[1] http://www.theultimatelife.net/images/tumeal-eco21.jpg
Google probably hires more UW grads than Microsoft (and definitely at the PhD level). Back when I was an undergraduate, even intel hired more than Microsoft (replace google for intel these days).
Easily present the latest features on app updates. (iOS)
I think it is the flippant manner in which they expose the security concern and recommend a product few would actually use.
I doubt it's perfectly edited but so far I've only gotten one typo report.

Copyediting != editing. Copyediting is editing for correct spelling and correct grammar. Editing a book implies looking at its overall content, focus, structure and giving very high-level feedback. Editing is product-design, if you will, and copy-editing is more like quality assurance.
The aim of this piece was to try and highlight the benefits to being a woman in STEM. I do not think there are no gender problems in STEM, and I hope some of the people who read this post look the linked articles about the numerous issues that women face. It is upsetting that #YesAllWomen didn't get more up-votes here on hacker news.
Title of this post does not seem correct. Is this really FTL or is there an at-light-speed signal that must also occur to convey the entangled state?
Bye Bye Passwords
What Jamis left behind... for us
I feel some of these results may be misleading. I watch YouTube mostly through Wifi, where the Wifi is the bottleneck and and not my ISP. The methodology page [1] doesn't seem to take that into account.

[1] http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/#methodology
How is this PHPs fault? You're using functions that have been recommended against for well over 5 years.

If anything, it's a testament to PHP that you've managed to get a web-app up and running when you have so little experience with it.
I wonder what possessed them to choose a domain name that most closely evokes a medical condition.
Baby Name Wizard (linked in the article) is one of the true hidden gems on the internet. It looks like a fluffy website for moms-to-be, but then you start poking around at the graphs and you realize that an hour of your life has disappeared...

http://www.babynamewizard.com/

Bonus: This blog post from Baby Name Wizard is utterly fascinating. Everybody I've ever showed this to has been amazed.

http://www.babynamewizard.com/archives/2012/5/the-shape-of-b...
I really hope Mozilla take a look at bookmarks in the next major release of Firefox. It needs a complete overhaul. Trying to navigate lots of bookmarks through a menu-based system is clunky and unusable.

I see that the Firefox team are moving Preferences into the browser as a web page. This makes even more sense for Bookmarks. Laid out on a web page, you can easily order, reorder, filter, search, expand, collapse, switch to different views. Why not let users create and share "themes" that style their bookmark pages?

Plus, there are so many other clever things Firefox could do with bookmarks. For example, tell me which bookmarks I've never visited, which are my most frequently visited ones etc. Let me bookmark images (like Pinterest). But please keep the option to store everything locally and keep any stats about my bookmark behaviour local to my machine. Give me the choice of whether I want to share anything or nothing. We don't all want to save to the cloud and we don't all want to be tracked either.
Algorithm and coding questions are indeed lacking. They may end up revealing your true ability to do the job, but it's like deciding on an architect by seeing how well they can cut wood and hammer nails.

It's true that discussion of your portfolio and past work, and how it reveals your way of thinking about things and how you can tackle the company's problems, is likely to better convey your ability and value. A smart hiring manager will include topics like this in their interview. A smart candidate might find ways to inject this into the conversation.
Yes because no other PHP projects have perfectly good unit tests. /s
Looking at the presentation;
http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/#how_video_gets...

This confirms that the internet really is a series of tubes.
What, other than being a meal replacement shake, is the appeal of Soylent?

Other products exist which can replace all food. Naso-gastric tube feeding isn't new and people spend long times on that. These products exist in a variety of sweet or savoury flavours (or even "unflavoured"); they exist as shakes, soups, or "juices"; you can get them in little bottles or big tubs of powder; they cover a range of different needs (weight loss; weight gain; different compositions for people unable to cope with certain nutrients etc).

It's nothing to do with developing world. WFP already have a bunch of product which is cheaper, already being produced in bulk in the local regions, and doesn't need as much clean water.
The TrueCrypt Discrepancy (2008)
haha. exactly! :)
We Are Now In Command of the ISEE-3 Spacecraft
I skimmed, but cannot seem to see which project is being supported when they say NTP.

When you support the OpenBSD Foundation you support:

- OpenBSD
- OpenSSH
- OpenBGPD
- OpenNTPD
- OpenSMTPD
- LibreSSL

The wording makes me think that the initiative will be supporting something other than OpenNTPD
Show HN: Simplistic game for iOS written in OpenGL ES 2.0
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yes if it was only geosearch API that one had integrate with. It would be manageable to maintain API changes for 2 providers for 1 service. As soon as you increase the number of services you use your solution soon becomes non-trivially complex. Consider a travel app that uses a geosearch API, a mapping API, a weather API and a enroute data points API (attractions, gas stations, hotels, etc.) Would you suggest the app developer to code 8 API integrations, a primary and secondary for each of the services and maintain them for API changes?