skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting this Colin.

Once the subject of Soylent came up, I've been thinking of contributing this myself but I don't think I have enough karma to make a difference.

Too expensive for me to use as a meal so I would use it as a supplement.
I've been formulating my own mixtures for years and this is one of the helpful ingredients.
I test every supplement under extreme conditions, and this is a proven performance enhancer to me.

Currently at formulation #22 according to the label, the website still shows #21 in their JPG of complete ingredients.
Take a look at the components to see if you are already getting these in your diet.
If not, maybe that's what supplements are for.

Thanks to HN I looked at Soylent, too bad it is not free of artificial ingredients.

Add some of this to Soylent and it sure would make it green though.
Now I'm no youngster and I do remember when the original movie of Soylent Green came out. It was in response to the 1970's meat crisis, which was along the lines of the Arab oil embargo.
Heck, I even remember when the NFL was still drinking Kool-Aid and only the Gators had Gatorade.
By the time I got there they had an extreme system which made it difficult to rise to the top unless you were likely to be able to invent something as popular.
Regardless, I've not been interested in popularity but I do formulate my own sports drink too, which has none of the artificial components of Gatorade, and excels in performance trials.
Not sure if you can compare fast food to Soylent, because there are many different types of fast food and not all of fast food is bad for you. Fast food can also contain vegetables, live cultures, and various assortment of ingredients which are good for you. Overindulgence of anything is bad, fast food just makes it easier because it's easy to get, generally tastes good and is packed with a ton of calories. If you ate fast food very carefully, then you'd probably be okay.

Furthermore, there probably isn't a simple shortcut to nutrition. If you want to be healthy you need to be involved in what you eat.

I'm sure the driving force for Soylent is profit as well, otherwise they would have done years of testing and scientific studies, before releasing a mix of chemicals as a solution to food. I suspect they'll get sued down the road, there is no way to predict what long term effects this will have when someone decides to use it for years.
1985 home automation system
Is the meaning of OWASP a commonly known thing? I've never heard of it and their GitHub repository README fails to expand on its meaning.
TrueCrypt, the final release, archive
I want this to be true, but that would be a massive reversal from this poll from January http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-most-think-edward-snowden-s... and other very similar polls around that time (even as late as April) ... http://bit.ly/1jyVj6t ... so I'll wait till the actual poll hits the presses before taking this seriously.
Snapchat CEO 'Mortified' Misogynistic Frat Emails Were Leaked
Perhaps there are other ways to meaningfully compromise site security? It's not just a zero day that breaks out of the web browser sandbox and installs a rootkit, it's the hostile javascript running in the context of the page that might not be properly scoped and ends up stealing information straight out of the DOM (or stores or whatever.)
I have looked at weworkremotely. There wasn't a lot related to my skillset, but I am keeping a close look at it. I have gone through the last hiring thread and shot off a few emails yesterday, and I am waiting for the next one on Sunday.
Ah, I haven't heard of this one before. Thanks, I will have a look.
Snowden’s Crypto Software May Be Tainted Forever
This is like....seriously one of the worst documents I've ever read.
It seems that the touch screen uses infrared LEDs. Light reflects off of the finger when it comes near the screen, but I don't see any sort of receptors which would capture that reflection. Can anyone shed some light on this? (Pun only partially intended)
I don't think he's ignorant of the history of the term - he is pointing out the ambiguity of it and the confusion it can cause.
It's a community of web application security professionals of varying sorts. It's a very weird organization.
Hey dude3, I mentioned this lower in the thread, but we started dissecting this spam link network in November 2013, well before Google even bought Nest.
The Open Web App Security Project has a pretty good (but alas not very up-to-date) catalogue of common web application exploits.
Sorry, I was just trying to use you to riff.
I wonder what the success rate is now for Pitched and Funded vs just funded (Male/Female)
How can y'all not know 'bout R?

http://www.r-project.org

...just kidding, lots of people don't know about R, but check it out, because it's pretty badass!

I'd be curious to know if people still use Processing, professionally?

http://processing.org
Surprisingly it doesn't mention HN itself which is a treasure trove of data. I know there is APIs to download HN content but is there a permanent location for HN data dump (like StackOverflow do their data dump on Internet Archive)? This is a great article, BTW, anyone who wants some cool projects to do in data mining and machine learning.
Decentralized Bitcoin Exchange Under Development in Spain
Truce
I will repeat my answer here: Your point is irrelevant because to be profitable really means to be profitable on average (or in the language of statistics, to be profitable in expectation). So a business that may be very profitable 10% of the time, and unprofitable 90% of the time, is equivalent to a business known to be moderately profitable.
Consider that OpenSSL is able to look at libressl and choose the good parts, preserving interoperability (.vs openbsd only).

The reasons to fund the audit, and two full time devs, are clear.
i actually often see pretty good articles on pando.
"I have no excuse. I'm sorry I wrote them at the time and I was jerk to have written them. They in no way reflect who I am today or my views towards women."

I would like to believe that this statement is true, but that frat boy mentality is the exact kind of mind that would produce a product like Snapchat.
For whatever it's worth, many (if not most) brick & mortar laundry and dry cleaners outsource their work, as well. Very few of them will actually clean your clothes themselves, on the premises. They are middlemen. They take your clothes, ship them off to be cleaned, then return them to you for a modest margin.
Well, the best way to report spam is with our spam report form at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/spamreport?pli=1 because then we can prioritize the report along with other complaints. But you can also post in our webmaster forum at https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters or catch us during webmaster office hours--see https://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/office-h... for the schedule of upcoming office hours. Or catch one of us at a search conference (I'll be at SMX Advanced in Seattle in June and at Google I/O later in June).

If none of those work, I often pass on spam reports that people tweet to me (or when they do a blog post and tweet me that link). You can also tweet to @googlewmc (for Google Webmaster Central). Or if you add an email address on your HN profile, I'll drop you a note.
> One way to accomplish this might be for state and federal governments to take control of the prison system.

While I'm not saying this is wrong, given there is a privatized system I've always thought; If the prison is private they should pay the prisons an absolute minimum fee for running costs and large bonuses based on re-offence rates. Something like if a prisoner has held a job and not re-offended in the 3 years post release they get a significant bonus.

At the moment it there is an incentive to keep them criminals so you'll see them back for even longer stays. And given past behaviour in this industry I imagine this thinking is in action at some penitentiaries.
These people would have a hard time hiring Brendan Eich if he didn't have jquery experience.
'Per' is a man's name, in Germany anyway.
It would have to be 16,000 to achieve the necessary thrust for a workable LES with 8 engines, and this SpaceX filing confirms it as 16,400lbs:

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast...
MIT and Caltech's coding breakthrough could accelerate mobile network speeds
> I don't even know why you'd reach the conclusion that you shouldn't have useful things

A lot of things are useful. I'm sure there's a gadget out there that will wipe my ass for me and tell me what I had for dinner. Doesn't mean I need it, though. I think a simpler life is probably a happier one, and the things we find useful are often just used against us in some way or another. Instead of focusing on the things we could have that would make our lives better, perhaps we should focus on what truly matters and try not to use anything we don't need? Just an idea anyway.
Would "something with known vulnerabilities" be better?

Does everything have known vulnerabilities that are not actively being worked on?
Hiring girls is difficult (because very few work in the space)
The product you linked to has bulk omega-6 fatty acid and no omega-3 at all. It's borderline poisonous.

Pre-existing competing products do not count because they're blatantly terrible.
New Heartbleed attack hits Android devices and routers over Wi-Fi
Definitely the un-ironic use of the term "femnazi" made your comment much more persuasive.
So someone put 2.5 million Reddit posts on Github. I was thinking about doing same for the HN data I've downloaded (1.3 million stories ~ 1.7GB of json).

Does Github has any restrictions on hosting data files like this?
There's a contradiction. It's that people that want a carpenter with brown experience will NOT usually hire the car salesman with brown experience.

Is this supposed to be about education? Hiring a non-CS major? The people that are obsessed with the keywords are also obsessed with degrees and certificates.

The people that will hire the kid who dropped out of high school are not the same kind of people that need him to have every keyword they're looking for on his resume. Those people might not even require a resume.
Thanks Matt,

I have tried the first link several times with no luck. I've heard that it's a myth that it actually gets checked but seems that may be wrong :)

I will try all the other avenues mentioned and worst case will fly to Seattle to report this site in person. Site that is blatantly spamming is plaintube and is ranking for an insane amount of adult terms. I'll try to get my point across via the methods you described. It would be wrong of me to hijack this thread to get my point across anymore. Thanks for your time.
Horse feathers.

Consider that ntp.org is being funded, not OpenBSD (and their inferior OpenNTP).

NTP is infrastructure. OpenBSD is not.

Consider that OpenSSL is being funded, not OpenBSD ( and their unusable at this point libressl project).

OpenSSL is infrastructure.

OpenSSH got some funding, because it is widely used. It is infrastructure, not 3-5 people scratching an itch in a project.
How common is this style of describing changes to parts of code as "teach" and "learn"? I like it.
Former Microsoft Chief to Buy Clippers for $2 Billion
dude3, you know Larry Page doesn't have me on speed dial for companies he's planning to buy, right? No one involved with this webspam action (including me) knew about the Nest acquisition before it was publicly announced.
I am not US, but based on this comment: "The Clippers sale would easily beat the previous high price for an NBA team—the Milwaukee Bucks at $550 million earlier this year." I have to ask WHY?

10% of his worth is a huge amount to pay for something where your paying a premium, and its not likely to go up in value compared to other things he could buy.

Maybe its the billionaire version of a mid life crisis and convertible?
I'm impressed with this extraordinary Tetris hack. Not only this article is as thorough and clearly explained as it gets, but its tone is classic, understated, concise and intelligent, making it an intemporal piece. I never thought I could be this interested in the inner workings of Tetris. The amount of knowledge required to put together this hack is simply unbelievable. Assembly code, artificial intelligence, reverse-engineering and much more kept me riveted throughout the process.
Thank you for writing and sharing this memorable Tetris piece, that deserves far more appreciation from the community that's the most likely to understand this achievement. Bravo!
He suggests he won't relocate the team to Seattle (doing so would be "value destructive"). But I wonder if this purchase itself destroys the value of his own net worth. That's a lot of money to pay for what was just a few years ago the hallmark of a terrible pro sports franchise.
The difference is that Mozilla is actively working on standardizing the pieces of fxOS that we consider mature enough and for which there is interest from other browser vendors. That's not a fast process, but calling all our apis "proprietary" is unfair.

If you find that our UI sucks, please contribute to improve it!
Yeah, this is a common problem.

From a previous post from someone else on HN, I began reading about N20, which is focused on Websockets as its first class transport. I am reading the docs because this is one of its many interesting features.

https://github.com/5HT/n2o
How can I find the hardware model in Linux?
topsy still has the tweets cached:

http://topsy.com/trackback?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fst...

and for the user:

http://topsy.com/s?q=from%3Astevebarnhart&window=w&type=twee...
Oh man, is he going to rename it the L.A. Clippys?
A problem with pay by reference is that it locks you into that processor for future recurring payments on that card. If you are selling something in a fairly high risk category, there is a lot to be said for keeping options open.
Illicit auto shop in Oakland parking lot has fans, critics
Google takes steps to comply with EU 'right to be forgotten' ruling
> It's not "our own" government, for any "our own" that purports to include me. It is a junta with enough guns to have their way with people across a continent.

Virtually all governments spy on their and other countries' citizens these days, not just the US. We Germans spy, the Brits and the rest of Five Eyes spy, the Russians spy, the Chinese spy, the Iranians spy and I bet that even North Korea has quite some good hackers.

And for the rest of your comments: indeed, a "new internet" would be required. But as you can see on the adoption rate of IPv6, we're stuck with this mess unless quantum computing forces us to switch.
> It's rubbish as data, because there are almost no "pure" individuals in the US anymore, people have been mixed for generations.

It's not rubbish. You can't simultaneously discuss statistics about black incarceration or female underrepresentation in tech while also denying that such classifications even exist in the first place. The lines blur sometimes, but pretending there are no lines denies reality.

> that the government has to step in to fix things

You're putting the cart before the horse. This is a private company's data, not any specific recommendation for government action.

>Plus, it's not unbiased either because it's not in an observational state. Individuals and companies are aware of these ratios in these companies and know that they are expected to do something about it. That's not science at work, it's social pressure at work.

First, some companies just plain don't care and don't feel any social pressure because their insulated from any real feedback or criticism. Second, any social science work includes some degree of bias because we're not all robots. Saying no possible conclusions can be drawn from demographic data is unscientific and akin to global warming denial.
Napster co-founder starts Seattle ‘innovation studio,’ calls S.V. unhealthy
According to the article Ballmer has ~$20B. 10% is significant, but not exactly "destroy[ing] the value of his own net worth."
From my prospective Soylent does not taste like anything because it has never been shipped to me after receiving one notice of delay after another. I bought a week supply on Kickstarter nothing ever arrived after what seems to be a close to a year. They have missed multiple delivery time frames. I have since bought some competing products (Phood) while I waited and still wait.
In your example, the insult is clearly directed at the third person/party. This isn't at all contradictory (or relevant) to what he's saying.
Unless details of when the due-diligence occurred for the purchase, this point is really moot. I hardly doubt your board decided to drop a cool 3.2B the night before the Nest announcement.
Email added in the profile. I would be more than willing to show how you guys are sending millions of hits (daily!) to a site scraping content and buying cheap backlinks.

I'm surprised that such tactics work in 2014, and am just as surprised that I got your attention. Hacker news is a powerful place!
Pyramids Save the World
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife to donate $120M to needy Bay Area schools
"For the first one, we can search specifically for girls and just filter guys. "

Isnt this illegal?
The NBA has more of a chance than any other sport to become truly global.

American football has had a hard time expanding and will deal with injuries in the future, soccer (sic) is already global, just not popular here, baseball is an entrenched classic, and hockey has always been regional.

The fact that the Clippers went from a laughing stock a few years back to where they are now actually says a lot. They'll probably get to keep Paul and Griffin now that Sterling is gone, and due to the Lakers being bad they have a massive market to tap into.

Yeah they won't be worth more than his investment any time soon, but in 20 years? That's not out of the question. Not to mention unless you are Donald Sterling or someone like him you don't usually buy a team to make money, you buy it cause there are only 30 other people in the world that get to do it. That's priceless.
Purchasing the clippers will not decrease his net worth. Owning a major sports franchise especially one in a major market will always be profitable. You're guaranteed to turn a profit every single year. Gate tickets, TV contracts, merchandise, and profit sharing are all very good revenue source for a sports team. He also doesn't have to pay money to build a new arena because Clippers just pay rent to play at Staples Center.

Sports is one of the few businesses that will thrive under any economic condition. There will always be fans that shell out money to watch their team.
I'm in Cambridge MA and got no results, so you're right, it must be quite localized.

UPDATE: Opening the page in incognito mode, I got results. My privacy settings prevented the tool from working. And those same settings are probably preventing YouTube from working well for me.
7 seats, along with a potentially much faster recycle time on the spacecraft. There were less than 200 shuttle flights and it ended up costing $1.5 billion per flight (with everything factored in), so the total number of people who get to fly into space on a Dragon V2 should be more than an order of magnitude more.
Were you using the same browser and Flash Player versions?
Bringing up things like poverty or parental education is a red herring. An Asian student from a family earning $0-10k has a higher average SAT math score than a black student from a family earning $70k+.

(Data was leaked from the college board in 1995. I'm not aware of more current data - anyone else? Specifically, I'm looking for a data set which slices some sort of outcome score by (race, income) pairs.)

http://theunsilencedscience.blogspot.in/2013/10/black-suits-...

I'm not sure what you mean by "easing poverty" or "desperation...their families experience". Could you explicitly list what good/services poor children lack which cause them to underperform?
When black's bishop takes the knight, I don't think white could've done anything to escape the mate.
It does mean, though, that the customer has to talk to you to get a refund, and it only costs you the refunded amount.

With a chargeback, the notification from the credit card company is often the first you hear about there being a problem, and you pay a chargeback fee ($15-30) in addition to paying the refund. In fact, even if you convince the credit card folks that the charge was legitimate and you are not required to issue a refund, you still have to pay the chargeback fee.
This whole discussion, both in the article and in the comments, comes from a perspective that the only options are doing something that pays, and sitting around doing nothing. And sadly that may be the case, but it doesn't have to be that way. The United States today suffers from a severe lack of social connectedness (see Bowling Alone, etc) that could easily be improved by paying unemployed people, including the disabled, to do activities as simple as: hang out with old people who live alone, read a book to a group of little kids. PLAY with little kids. Help someone in poor health walk to the grocery store once a week. There are so many positive activities that would contribute to a better society and they don't happen because the whole concept of the government spending money to improve society has been successfully stigmatized. I won't go ranting about why.
Sorry, my impatience led me to misread the page.
Maya Angelou 911 She Didn't Want to Be Resuscitated ... Says Caretaker
My (anecdotal) experience is that the success rate of female founders to convert a pitch to funding is significantly higher - might be due to the fact that only the most talented female founders have currently the courage to think about starting a company.
Asia is goddamn massive, encompassing thousands of significant and distinct cultures. "Asian" is, to my mind, therefore a pretty pointless adjective when applied to migrants from this huge region who have moved in to western societies, and merely reflects the ignorance of the west toward the earth-shatteringly different cultures of Asia. Shame on the west.
I suppose he could give the "Dribblers, dribblers, dribblers" talk. But joking aside I've wonder what the value proposition was for owning a team (wonder why Cuban owns the Mavericks, etc) Sure there is a status symbol kind of thing but what kind of return do you get on that capital? Can you get $2M/year out of it? $20M? $200M? What is the internal rate of return from the franchise?
I'm tempted to refute his points, but it's not like anybody here doesn't get why "the internet economy" would be helped by neutrality. So I'll just sigh and vaguely wonder what it costs to buy a congressional representative these days.
If you want to know how to do something, how something works, you'll use a different, non-google indexer for searching, say, all of the "how to" sites: e.g. wikipedia, stack exchange, about.com, etc.

I've gradually started to do this using DuckDuckGo's bangs [1]. It actually works pretty well if I know exactly which site I want to search. I do miss Google's ability to filter by time, though.

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
No. Not with those particular engines anyway. The idea is to make methane/LOX on Mars, but those engines burn MMH/N2O4.
I'm not sure about the carbohydrate concentration part, though. There really is a lot of Maltodextrin in Soylent which is a simple carbohydrate and pretty close to straight glucose.
The developers have already decided to call it quits. More money probably won't help.
Why is hacker news turning into tumblr ??
Every 2nd post is about women/transgender taking offence to everything