skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caused my Firefox to hang until I somehow managed to close your site's tab. Please disable that demo, it's ridiculous. My hardware is not exactly cutting edge, but I can fire up much more demanding demos at good framerates and with no crashes.
It's certainly not weird for libraries to be references to the language or culture of the language itself. Not to mention that the name can refer to relevant technical details that are related to the language - for example, if a parser library uses applicative parsers, maybe the name of the library has some reference to applicative in the title.

I was referring to using this kind of terminology in more user-facing applications - for example xmonad (I don't know what monads have to do with tiling window managers. Maybe it has something to do with how the configuration library of xmonad is structured).

Admittedly, maybe Haskoin was a bad example in this regard.
Maybe, but it's not "solving the world's greatest problems". One of these is poverty and distribution of wealth.
Just curious, as you are saying two things that seem to conflict.

Do not use any site with third party login, or that use only third party login?
You mean it's on the landing page? I don't see any demo.

I agree, you should give the user at least a preview before asking for their email.
Revolution? You don't really understand revolution if you think the Stingray is going to be the cause of it. Look at what the East German Stasi was able to get away with, and there wasn't a world shattering revolution there.

I wish people would leave the drama to the Young and the Restless and stop implying that the misdeeds of the NSA and other law enforcement in their current state will lead to revolution. You still have clothes, you still have food, the power structure at hand is stable, the key pieces of uncertainty that can foment a revolution are missing. More importantly, you can talk about revolution on a public forum without getting your door reduced to splinters.r
Reminder to support the ones fighting this on the front lines:

https://www.aclu.org/donate/join-renew-give
Just put this on my site and doesn't seem to be working. What am I supposed to see?
I generally agree, but if the retailer is large enough they almost certainly pay a percentage of their cash payments to a Brinks-like company to securely handle the transfer of the money.
Thanks for the feedback guys. We're looking into the issues now.
Clusterize, event discovery app, opens beta to Android users
Keep Ruby Weird
The war on drugs is de-escalating at the civil and state level but not the federal level.

The federal gov is the worrying one. They're the only ones operating with as much secrecy as possible, over-extending executive power, and the biggest reason local police are becoming militarized (via the federal program delivering them military equipment).
First Email Speed Reader
How do you become mega fast at processing your emails with Mailbird?

Here's a cool tip if you haven't tried it already-

https://mailbird.zendesk.com/entries/45629364-The-First-Email-Speed-Reader
The new age Of Cyber Security Threat Assessment
I wonder what the specifics are of the "I signed an NDA so I am not able to tell the court anything, even with a subpoena" defense. Struck me as odd.
A Laser Message from Space
But to get hired in the first place you have to show overconfidence in your knowledge and abilities.

Slightly annoying how that works.
Customize your Email Account Profile Pic/Avatar
Did you know you can change your avatar/profile pic in Mailbird for each account?

Here's a tip on how to do it: https://mailbird.zendesk.com/entries/46002820-Changing-Your-Avatar
> If I leave, everyone will hate me

...Which is worse than hating yourself?

> I just want to earn decent money and be able to do what I want to do whenever during the day

So get a horrible well-paying job at night.

> If I bail now, every word I said, anything I did, will mean nothing

Sometimes the truth is that you fucked up big time. What are you going to do, continue to live a lie because you can't handle the idea of your friends realizing you screwed up?

Have a heart to heart talk with them all and tell them how you feel. They won't be happy. But it'll be better than you just not showing up for work one day. Make a plan to get out over time so you don't screw them over further.
Stronger... grows the shadow.
From a government spying perspective, I'd say there's no benefit. Fastmail servers, at least for US customers are in the NYC area at nyi.net, iirc.

I imagine most customers (myself included) are using fastmail instead of Google to avoid Google, or similar, not to avoid the governments.
Small title correction: "a tool that lets you"

let's == let us (contracted form)
Fabrice Bellard seems to me an outlier to the author's premise. He's like the very definition of a hermit genius-programmer.
Surface Pro 3 Review
Right on red was introduced in the 70s to save on fuel back when cars had massive engines and weren't very fuel efficient. As there are more and more hybrid or pure electric cars on the road, the efficiency gains are going down. And here in Europe most manufacturers seem to be introducing stop-start systems on their new cars where the engine shuts off at stoplights. So in the near future there will be almost zero gains from right on red, but at that point it will be pretty embedded in American culture and will be hard to repeal, even if it does pose risks to other road users aka cyclists.
That xkcd comic's idea would work if people would use web apps in preference to 'native' apps. Moore's law isn't fixing that unless it somehow makes the web into a hugely better platform for apps.

As it stands, we are limited to only using these lame DOM-based APIs which have been strained far past their origin in hypertext, and only using Javascript, which has been strained far past its design as a way of merely scripting a browser. These contained some good ideas but they're essentially dead. People want apps. So the original intent is warped to fit that demand, and the result is neither fish nor fowl. It's mystery meat.

If the web weren't so crappy, the monopolist would not really have an opportunity. Mobile platforms bring a lot of value because the web is a bad app platform; where you have the choice, keeping HTTP but using other client technologies is the best compromise available.
Mobile platform creators had that choice and went with decent languages and more appropriate environments. Where a graphics API can be just a graphics API, and so on for everything else.

We can count on Firefox OS and anything like it to fail to thrive for as long as it is Mozilla against the world, defending the awkward status quo by throwing more lame hacks on the pile and awkwardly bolting on new device APIs to its browser.

Don't tell me that if I can use a decent language and decent APIs rather than Frankenstein's monster, that I am "screwed by systems incompatibility and fragmentation." The web status quo sucks at a technical level and that is why it is threatened by monopolists. Doubling down on the technical suck isn't going to help. If you want a benevolent monoculture to emerge, you aren't going to get it by doubling down on the status quo and waiting until everyone gives up mobile platforms for ideological reasons, or because a cheap phone uses Javascript.
SaleInvaders: Rent-a-sales organization
The prices are totally abusive !
https://nodebb.org/pricing

$75 monthly for MAX 2,500 users, seriously ?
Real-time wind map
Sure, My next thing on HN would be about "How I designed X" :)
Wow, this is great, good job!

I am currently teaching myself while working full time in a non tech related career. May I ask how old you are? This is very encouraging. I'm currently Hartl's tutorial and CodeSchool, so hopefully I'm on the right track.
I'm assuming a judge can put them under contempt. If they lie, it's perjury.

The thing that is more interesting is the dynamic where neither happens because judges are unwilling to tip the apple cart. I hope that someone is doing a review of transcripts now to see if police in those courtrooms have perjured themselves.
I'm more surprised at a couple of things:

a) The stated justification for why it must be secret from defense attorneys. This isn't "sources and methods" of intelligence, this is tapping cell phones, hardly something no one thought the cops can do. And more to the point, what are crooks going to do, switch to landlines?

b) The Federal LE agency involved in grabbing the records set aside for ACLU. The U.S. Marshals are, if I understand right, the law enforcement arm of the Federal courts themselves, so were they enforcing a Federal magistrate's order when they seized the records?

c) The reasoning they use to say the search is reasonable; I know the law and technology have not mixed well with digital comms, but it would seem to me that if you have to MITM or otherwise actively communicate with and interfere in the operation of a person's cell phone, that you've performed a search, even if you only end up grabbing metadata. And the Smith v. Maryland exception used for NSA wouldn't seem to apply here either, as LE is going out to grab the same metadata themselves instead of obtaining a private entity's similar records.
"That doesn't mean anything about those people's interest in programming or computers."

Of course it does. Joel advocates a certain style of development. If you don't like him, you likely don't like that style of development. If your company works "Joel style", why should you hire somebody who doesn't like that development style.

Sorry, but the criticism here is ridiculous. It's clear people don't even think about what they write.
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The casualness with which people seem to expect revolution shows a profound lack of historical appreciation for past revolutions. Life isn't a utopia, but that's not the revolution threshold.
That strikes me as arrogance. Henry Ford's famous quote is taken as dogma, and the almighty designer is worshipped, the one who deigns to figure out what the clueless user really wants and give it to him. This is especially bad when the user in question is asking to have something restored which had been removed in the name of design. Or the same could be said about "developers": those clueless users will take what we give them, and they'll like it! This is the mindset that leads to the widely hated redesigns of Facebook, YouTube, Gmail, Google+ integration, etc. It's almost like a new caste system in the online world.
You can solve that with React.JS rendering on the server, then again on the client once the page has been downloaded. That makes the page render quickly, then it acts as a single-page app once loaded, without appearing to be jerky and presenting either a loading screen or a half-loaded page which takes multiple seconds to load fully. Twitter do this for their web interface (although not via React).
Probably should have replied here rather than above. Anyway, as I mentioned there, there is a ton of hard data showing mono-cultures generally being outperformed by diverse groups. Lots available as public research, you just have to look for it. You may have to pay for some journal access though. Hiring-what-you-know has been pretty much nailed down as a major mistake with hard data, but is also one that most people make.
As a healthy feedback - the correct architecture sits right below your nose, since you already have all of the components.

You should pre-process images in your scraping cycles, and not when a client comes to request it.

In this way, your "scale" is always predefined, bounded, expected, and much smaller - defined by your scraping scale and not user scale.

Good luck!
Actually, Taiwan was the first country to claim the disputed territory (around 1949 IIRC), so we can't even blame China for starting this one. However China certainly did latch hard onto the Taiwanese claim.
> During times of severe distress – most people forget they have these services available

Indeed. Even just playing video games, so many times I'd find the Magic Thingamajoober that saves your life against scary monster Fuzzlewump so long as you push X when you're being attacked. "Remember to push X. Remember to push X." Then a Fuzzlewump comes and starts wumping you withing an inch of your life, you're panicked and fighting back using your sword and shield the only way you know how. Fuzzlewump wins, "Do you want your possessions identified?", and only then you realize you forgot all about the Thingamajoober you were saving for exactly this scenario.

This is why in real life people train against dangerous scenarios. Brains just don't work under fight-or-flight conditions, even when there's a pause button.
Firefox 30 (Windows 7) does not seem to show the world map.

The project seems to be similar to http://earth.nullschool.net/ , which does offer a lot more functionality.
this doesn't identify what is actually tested, so its meaningless.
Really the only thing is the local legal environment.

http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-in-...
Well of course there will always be outliers =]. I prefer the Satoshi Nakamoto outlier myself.
DUDE WIPES
"Rewrote" isn't even accurate, from what I've seen. On osx it's like a buggy version of chrome, with few of the things that I liked in the original opera browser.

Supposedly they're working on it, and I'll try this on my linux machine later today, but I'm probably staying with chromium everywhere at this point.
"productive, smart, not an asshole, can work with different people etc"

People seem to struggle to determine those things during an interview, though. If you don't understand me, I can only diagnose a lack of curiosity on your part. Otherwise you would have read some of the countless articles on hiring issues by now.

" people who can't get along with anyone who is not exactly like them"

I never said anything like that. I just think it is a good idea to judge people by what you know. What else can you do? It's completely random to hire somebody you don't understand or where you don't know where they are coming from.

"And I for one don't really care about having dinners with my coworkers, going clubbing together and similar nonsense. You're paying me to do a job for you and I will deliver my end of the deal."

It's nice that you don't care about your coworkers as people (having dinner with them or becoming friends). I am sure there are loads of companies that are perfect for you, because they only require blue collar programming drones.

But why should what you prefer be good for every company? Why shouldn't a company be allowed to aim for co-workers who become friends? Why not let the market sort it out (maybe the drone companies will outperform the friend companies, maybe not).
I disagree. I could concede and agree that a bit of confidence is needed, but certainly not overconfidence.
Correlation is a statistical term that means that two random variables exhibit "similar behavior" across the probability space. Causation is a philosophical concept taken as a scientific axiom. Correlation does not imply causation at all -- neither direct or indirect -- though it may increase the chances of logical consequence that is sometimes equated (albeit occasionally through confusion) with causality.

Now, it is true that perfect correlation (which is rarely shown; more often than not in the business world, only "half" of the correlation is shown -- e.g. all successful startups have ping pong tables -- which is as good as nothing at all) in the real world usually implies some hidden causal link, but that link is not what the investigator has in mind. Often, the causation is actually quite direct but flows in the opposite direction from the common interpretation.
haha yeh thanks for that. I edited it.
Donald Knuth.
In fairness, if you're the type who doesn't like this sort of thing but doesn't really feel like going to jail, emigration is the more appealing option while it remains available.
I really, really, really hate rich people.
Why MANY smart people avoid taking risks
And if they aren't large enough, they pay with their time.
That depends on your exposure to people interested in you working for them. It's certain that when you are well connected jobs just find you. On the other hand it is imaginable that for many people in computer security most "jobs that find them" are not exactly ethical.

While I would not exactly position myself into computer security, I've got my share of borderline black-hat offers, although in all cases the other party believed that what they are doing is perfectly legal.
Seems like a good idea. How do they plan to do it?
"You've made ~10% of the comments for this article and you are dismissing things other people say by accusing them of caring too much about the issue. "

You say that like it's a bad thing. At least I'm engaged on the issue and am actually trying to solve it rather than just paint lane markings all over creation and expect people to start hoping on bikes.

The claim being made, and the source of all my karma shedding on this is that adding more bike lanes will get more people to ride bikes. The "Field of Dreams" argument.

My counter argument is that bike lanes, while important, are not sufficient. Much more important, larger and prerequisite issues need to be attended to before bike lanes become part of the discussion. But I'm arguing against people who have a vested interest in biking, and really don't give two rats asses that biking is a horrible inconvenience most everywhere and would rather shoot derision and scorn and the car driving masses. Weather, environment, convenience, terrain, distance, time, hygiene etc. be damned; clearly most people are simply too fat and stupid to enjoy the glories and obvious benefits of riding bikes everywhere. Everywhere is exactly like the Netherlands right?

I'm actually a strong supporter of bike lanes for lots of reasons beyond biking. But I'm also not deluding myself and understand that the central claim is flat out wrong.

But this is a self-serving religious issue, no amount of reason can penetrate that.

This is one of the topics that really pulls out in front the inadequacies of the demographic that tends to be HN readers. It's pretty disappointing to be honest.
How do you propose to hire somebody you don't understand? It seems to make a lot more sense to judge people based on the things you know.

If you believe X is important for programming, why on earth would you hire somebody who doesn't like/know about X?

It's possible that you are mistaken about X being important. But then you are screwed anyway. But if you start hiring based on things you don't know, you are also screwed.

At the end of the day everything you do is based on your beliefs. Maybe you started an IT consulting company because you believe Rails is the best thing ever. Then why should you hire somebody who doesn't believe that? If you think about it, the whole premise of the article is completely ridiculous.
Social Media Fail to Live Up to Early Marketing Hype
Fitz actually jokes about METAFONT in the video at 11:29: http://youtu.be/0SARbwvhupQ?t=11m27s
It sounds like your answer to question "Are you hiring programmer or drinking buddy?" is "I'm hiring a drink/lunch buddy".

If you still work together 10 years later, your topics will be much different then. Whatever you read now is irrelevant. However, with company hires being focused on dinners and lunches small talks, the company is not likely to stay together 10 years later on. Not unless huge changes in culture happen.

As for music taste and personality, I do not see much of reliable and relevant to employment. If they would act like jerks towards anybody who does not share their passion or would insist on playing it loud despise other people objections, yeah I would have the issue. Other then that, nope. As far as I'm concerned most people listen whatever was the thing where they grew up.
Looks cool! Going to try it out. FYI, typo in header immediately following connection to Google, "Please, select a Google Analitycs"
Paid Ads Case Study: Retargeting Vs Facebook Vs AfterOffers
Biofuel are actually a reasonable long term solution to the flight problem. Bulding a tube from NY to Hawaii is not.
It's very frequently measured with pretty standard experimental designs involving treatment and control groups. Track sales to each group, and you can easily figure out the return on ad spend.
Is it something that people could actually benefit from?

I would imagine it could only be used by people reading personal emails. But why would you speed read them?

Business emails might include lists, images, urls and this thing would break horribly.

In my opinion, emails by me are rarely read end to end (except for personal emails) and I usually just skim through them to get the general idea and then read on the specifics that I care about.
I know, I'm such a jerk for assuming the average person gets bored of doing the same thing over and over again.
Linden Lab is building a spiritual sequel to Second Life
Can you grow biofuel crops in the ocean?
But, it looks like the title's the same on the actual site.
Everybody thinks that the identifying characteristic of Erlang is the "Actor"(-like) model.

This is untrue.

This is also why all the "Actor"(-like) libraries grafted on to other programming languages that proudly proclaim themselves "Erlang-like" are wrong and make me laugh out loud when I run across them.
So the problem is they claimed "Confidential Source" and the presumption was that it was an informant? To me secret surveillance fits the definition of "Confidential Source". I don't see any deception there. (EDIT: I've been corrected, apparently legal definition defines source as person)

The real question is why can the magic words "confidential source" be used as justification for a warrant without more clarification.

Well also the part about using the devices in the first place without warrant.
Lego Fusion puts real world Lego into its new augmented reality Lego games
I had the fortune of meeting Felix a couple of years ago. I bumped into him at a small tailor off Carnaby Street in London. I wouldn't have recognized him if it weren't for the shop owner. He had lost a significant amount of weight due to cancer and was out purchasing a new set of suits. He was in good spirits however, boasting that he had beaten cancer, and was on his way to pick up one of the last hand made Maybach cars.

I told him I had read his book and that I'm an aspiring entrepreneur, and so he proceeded to give me some advice, saying: "the right time to start a new venture is now", "go out and just do it". As we parted ways he tapped me on the shoulder and said, "go and do it, when you leave this shop go and register your business right now and start it. Don't delay. The right time is now."

Edit: I was just reminded that although he was filthy rich (as he described himself), he was also frugal in some ways and always after a deal. When we met, he mentioned that he had been wearing his suit for 20 years, but it no longer fit due to his illness, and so if I recall correctly, he bought at least 3 new suits from the tailor on that day. He would walk also around Central London, with his offices in Soho, and as of 2012 did not own a mobile phone.
But if this app ever becomes really popular it will render itself useless because there will be huge lines in the bathrooms.
Augmented reality Lego is actually pretty cool
Here is an actual screenshot of the calendar: https://www.fastmail.fm/static/homepage/images/calendar.png
Ditto. I don't care what's underneath. If the new chrome based opera had all the features of the old opera, I would still be using it on osx, and waiting for it on linux.

At this point, though, I've got so used to chrome I'm not sure I'll switch back at all.
Copy-Paste, evolved.
Aircraft? It's funny they're worried about CO2 from aircraft when the water vapor the emit has a much larger and immediate effect.
Are we getting too Sassy?