skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe one could run an exit node or .onion proxy that only allows connections to critical sites for political dissidents like gmail, twitter, etc.
I think you meant http://simplecartjs.org/
Nice. I have also put a version of Disrupt to Bullshit up on Firefox's add-on store already: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disrupt-to-bu...

But I initially didn't spread the word about it as much as for the Chrome one because as previous commenters have noted, the Firefox one is under review for 10 days, and before that it's not a searchable page.
Smartphones Past-Present-Future (x-post)
I got "The third-party API is not responding" the first time, and I thought for a second that it was a 500-class server error. Then I reloaded, and laughed.
Indeed, it looks deliciously like Ceefax: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceefax

I might get up at 5am and stare at it while listening to some easy-listening music.
This comment makes no sense once you have the plugin installed, and that's wonderful.
That's not really analagous to Hanauer's thesis. His point is that believing the rich, on their own, to be the job creators is absurd. That it's the entire economic system that enables job creation, and the wealthy are only one component. And given his attitude in the original essay [1], he doesn't deny them their credit, he just thinks "Job Creators" is a loftier title than they deserve.

[1] http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfork...
The death rattle of a bygone platform.
Why startups do handbrake turns, not pivots
It would be enough to attack the machine holding the decrypted bitcoin key in order to steal the money. So, you still have that dreaded single point of failure problem there.

The security solution consists in forcing the attacker to attack lots of machines and successfully control them in order to steal the money.
I rather have money on my pocket than angry customers.
How Aaron Swartz went from internet activist to martyr
Is there any documentation out there on disabling this in the installer via a flag/switch? The current Administration Guide doesn't say anything about it.
All I ask for is an awesome wm.
As the developer of a similar iPhone app which was GMail only (EmptyInbox), let me just say: IMAP is really, really hard to get right. Each different mail provider is different and nobody is keeping all the rules. Even Google had a few hacky differences to the "official" IMAP way of doing things.

I can completely understand why Mailbox only supports GMail and iCloud...so actually, we need to be getting on Google and Apple's case rather than app developers. Not that I'm biased or anything...
10 Web Apps To Help Startups Get Up & Running
Amethyst is the first tiling window manager I've used for any substantial length of time. I made my desktop transition from NetBSD -> OSX before tiling window managers were really much used. Amethyst gets props from me in being the first that has worked intuitively and stabily such that I've actually stuck with it for any length of time.

As for Linux, I realize that I'm personally in a place where leaving OSX would cause me no grief whatsoever. I catalogued everything I run on my Mac these days, and was pleasantly surprised to find I have zero local commercial software that I depend on, or indeed any Mac-only software. Generally, when I've used recent Linux desktops, I've discovered that the experience is at least on par with my Mac, with the added bonus that Emacs doesn't have so many quirks.

Battery life on my MacBook Air is really the only thing keeping me from moving back. I have to wonder if there is any movement to achieve power management parity with OSX in Linux.
I'm a GMail user. I'd like an improved experience. I won't be using this product. In the future, I may want to change my mail provider. Using this tool will lock me with GMail or Apple mail. No thanks.
An Engineering Task Force for the IoT?
Which is not funded at all by federal income tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System#Fina... Or in my state (New Hampshire) by local income tax either, since we don't have one.
You are positing as axiomatic that subsidizing the indigent is an automatic good. Citation needed.
I remember being in Germany a few years ago, and my friends' parents still used this (something equivalent in Germany) on their TV. It was effective.
So it's like a music festival with lots of guns? Sounds dangerous. Count me out.
The advantages would be similar to having economic competition bringing your groceries to the market versus central planners running grocery stores. In places like Venezuela, they run out of toilet paper. In places like the US, I have more access to foods, spices, and technologies than any king of antiquity.
Needs keyboard arrow navigation :)
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959068
I'm not talking about the economic disruption to the city per se, I'm talking about the social arrogance of the people on the ground. Both in general and specifically how they think about the economic changes.
The Product Hunt results for sign ups, leads, and shares are skewed. You're pointing at a completely different part of your product (mobile).

You should be pointing at the same link across all three sources before you compare the three sources. Note: fixing this does not affect the number of links clicked, of course, but it could significantly change the number of sign ups, etc.
Microsoft backs open source for the Internet of Things
Learn to use emacs! What's great about it is that it's so flexible and powerful that any one can make it please them. Pretty much every feature that ever shows up in a cool new editor I end up seeing in emacs too.

Very powerful editor (vim too), seriously consider challenging your assumptions around text editor productivity...

Also, use The Silver Surfer for finding stuff in files + [e,c]tags. Emacs has some nice modes for interfacing with those tools too :)
Ironically, at the Burning Man events prior to 1996, you could shoot guns. :)
Realizing that these regexes are running each time I open a page makes me realize how far the browsers have come since I've started web programming ...
> Edit 2: I have been cursing the lack of multiple returns this week. It is a pain returning a hash/object or an array.

Why is that?

let rational = (a, b) => [a, b];
let [numerator, denominator] = rational(38, 4);
let reduced = rational(numerator/2, denominator/2);

PS. The above code works in stable Firefox.
If I steal your car and then give you a bicycle, do I get to then say "you can't complain about the theft, you rode here on that bicycle I gave you!"
All these plugins that do word-replacing should evolve like Adblock: a single plugin controlled by external lists.
You read my mind.

I would have preferred a more client-aware response, similar to http://ifconfig.me/, so that you can save the sed call.
One could argue the hipster-friendly beach buses that go from Brooklyn and LES to the Rockaways in summertime are yuppie shadow transit

There are also a large number of better sanctioned private bus lines that go from Port Authority to various points in a 100 mile radius. I take one to get to my parents in PA on a regular basis, where there is jack squat for public transit
Not to mention the scads of mostly-useless javascript needed to present every damn site these days. It's Flash all over again.

I can't wait until the js fad dies.
Turns out mine replaces the href inside links too... so that's annoying.
For anyone interested in learning more about the growing inequality gap in America, I recommend watching the documentary "Inequality For All" (http://imdb.com/title/tt2215151/).
I had a Sanyo MBC-550 with a green-screen CRT in the late 80s. The retro coolness factor is overrated IMO. I much prefer my MBP Retina screen without phosphor trails.
It looks old, it looks comical, but I KNOW WHAT TO DO!

Less pixels, and less colours, means greater usability! This is the greatest application of Bootstrap I have ever seen. It is a shame that more websites don't look like this (in all seriousness).
How NSA tracks all German Tor users as 'extremists'
In the context of normal law enforcement that would be like searching my car only on the basis of driving down a street where drug deals are are done relatively more often than on other streets.
The earth was created over 4.5 billion years ago. I think 1986 is looking pretty young.

One of my least favorite arguments on HN goes like this: foo is old. Full stop. Entirety of argument. As if by virtue of being "old" (definition varies) it should be obvious to everyone that it's not as suitable as whatever thing popped up overnight.
I mean obviously, it would be better to just let them die in the street. Then there would be no more poor people, right?
What makes this VGA rather than CGA text mode?

(VGA is from 1987, by the way. :) )
> and generally drunk people

I think that's pretty much every event where you get a bunch of people together in the woods :-)
It looks like it's supposed to link to the downloadable original source, but it's missing. To use the font just click the little + button and then the 'Bucket' button in the menu.
That, sadly, is why I am not longer an Apple user.

1990-2000, I was an enormous Apple fanatic. I went to user group meetings. I read everything I could get my hands on about their tech.

When I learned to program C/C++ on windows machines at school, I'd come home and re-implement what I had learned using Codewarrior on my Mac.

Then, Jobs's return marked an era of change for change's sake. Apple went from being "different because different is better" to being "different because different is different".

I'm all about progress and improvement but I despise unnecessary and unproductive change.
Just wanted to say that I enjoy your submissions.

Thanks!

Alas, there's no way to "follow" on HN.

I'm pretty sure that I am the reason for this.
Vim and Let Die
Awkward. The demo on the front page didn't work at all. Tried all three: Fx 30.0, Safari 7.0.4, Chrome 35
German is difficult. German run through google translate, even more so.
You should play a but with Erlang. I no longer advocate weakly typed languages (i would choose Haskell or Scala over erlang these days) but it does have some novel concepts and is a fun language to play with.
I guess we have a different approach about what to expect in a programming language.

Maybe if Go was dynamic or with full type inference, will like it more :)

I bet is great for the niche between C++ and Java, but not sure if I would want to use as a general programming language
>To anyone reared on the political orthodoxy of the moment... "higher wages cause higher unemployment,"

This is not political orthodoxy at all this is economic law. Anyone who understands the basic principle of supply and demand knows that higher price lowers demand. http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/06/asian-community...
You want a citation for an axiom?
Icons need more work! My next theme, for sure.
You're effectively saying that dissent on this issue is impossible, since 99.99% of Americans are in some way dependent on the road network, whether it be for food & goods distribution, their job, or second-order effects of those two things.
We're One Panel Closer to Printing Cheap, Plastic Solar Like Newspapers
Where is the turbo button?
It's interesting that you target mobile, while HTML/webapps are actually one of the largest drivers of silo-ization and proprietary lock-in around:

- The code is all stored server-side; you stop paying, or the vendor loses interest, you lose the app. Poof. I can still run applications from the 1990s for research, but I can't run a webapp that disappeared last year.

- The protocols ("REST" not withstanding) are all proprietary. Given any two competing webapps, they almost certainly vend two entirely different protocols.

- Everyone gets the latest version whether they want it or not -- and whether it's a benefit to them, or not. If the company wants to insert ads, or revoke a useful tool that no longer fits their strategy, or take any other action that diminishes the value of user's investment in the app -- they can.

- Lock-in is standard; data is heavily welded to the particular application, and even where data export exists (a rarity), the formats are proprietary and ill-supported elsewhere.

For all the talk of "openness" for developers, the web has created what might be the most open-hostile environment for users we've seen since AOL and Compuserve.
It looks like a heavily armed repeat of some of the '60s hippie commune experiments.
I just get annoyed that people want to shit on tech workers for pushing them out of a city when it's clearly rent-seeking and bad policy that those tech workers have little control over causing the problems.

When firing a gun point it at the right people. Anti-tech sentiment will cause cultural problems without fixing the underlying economic problems. It's sad.

Edit: I'd take a bet that a bunch of mostly introverted nerds don't have anyway as big of an arrogance problem as many other groups might.
>Because immigrants can't just "become US citizens" just like that, like early western European immigrants did in the past

We need to fix this.
Road tax does not pay for roads. In the UK there is no hypothecation there is just one big tax pool.
The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
Well, the productivity increase math probably worked out, but they didn't consider that companies would first choose to have 3 employees working 40 hours a week instead of 4 people working 30, then follow that trend to 45 hour work-weeks and massive systemic unemployment. The 1980s hadn't happened yet, you see.
$30,000 Tesla “Model E” Will Be the Company’s Most Affordable Car
He probably is. To draw a parallel, many libertarians oppose net neutrality (http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/15/ask-a-libertarian-whats-yo...)
The outdated browser issue doesn't really factor into this.
As far as I am to understand, most of the 1%'ers wealth is tied up in investments.

And this is why they consider themselves the job creators. They invest in all sorts of companies and markets and without the initial investment to start a company, there wouldn't be anything for the middle-class to purchase with their middle class salary, not to say no one to pay that salary either.

If they just bought gold and hid it in a vault, then I expect them not to consider themselves job creators.
OS X Mail does this for quite some time.
Not allowed anymore on Windows. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2811969
Linkedin Marketing Business Blueprint-bestcbstore.com
I don't usually consider RT to be a reliable source, but this article is a summary of one in German[0], co-authored by Jacob Appelbaum.

An interest in Tor is not the only way to make it to NSA’s watch
list. Even web searches for other encryption software makes you
a target as well, the report said.

Disturbingly, NSA programmer comments in the source code label
those picked up by the American system “extremists.”

[0] http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/nsa-xkeyscore-100.html
Work through project euler?
Adjusting for inflation, $7,800 in 1964 is $59,858.71 in 2014 dollars http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=7%2C800&year1=1...

$20,000 in 1964 dollars is $153,483.87 in 2014 dollars. http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=20%2C000&year1=...
Activists fly airship over NSA data center
That particular citation traditionally arrives on a pitchfork.
Nobody creates the jobs, they exist to be discovered. If you adopt the viewpoint that other people create jobs for you then your fate is not in your own hands.

People want things. If you can create something that other people want and they can create something that you want, you both have a job.
I still don't really understand libertarianism.

I'm not sure what it is that gives someone the moral right to reserve a section of the surface of the earth by force of arms in a system where all violence is considered morally wrong (and so many things can be apparently considered violence).

If you can use violence to take away my access to land, I don't see how that differs from the rest of us taking some of your income.
Oh dear -

1. Misunderstanding of felony charges are stated and subsequently sentenced. Check.

2. Misunderstanding of compared suicide rates to criminal sentencing. Check.

3. Comnplete misreading of my sarcasm reagrding lack of data. Check.

You are just emabrassing yourself, honestly.

You could have every data point in the world suggesting the factors that contribute to suicidal feeling.

None of it proves criminal sentencing results in the normative behaviour of suicide. Again we are returning to common sense, we know that criminals are not killing themselves on masse.

This is getting stupid now. You are clearly not trolling and genuinely think you are on to something.

Suicide is not normal neither is it normal for anyone to kill themselves in response to the potential of being found guilty.

It happens, but it is not normal.

Please feel free to continue arguing. It is interesting to watch someone logically eat their own argument.
Ironically, Burning Man prior to 1996 didn't make me want to shoot guns; now if they allowed me to carry, I don't think I could carry enough.
What are you doing here on HN. Shouldn't you be on a beach?

Don't tell us you have the startup bug!
Interesting. Would be nice if the source was presented as embedded gist files so that one did not have to leave the site to see the code.

Or, maybe better, just embed all the code in the page.

"View source" to see the code.

"Save as HTML" to save a working example to your machine.

In any event, slick idea.
You had me up until the parenthetical.
the article mentions that ~20 FSP people have been elected to the NH legislature at one point or another.However, it neglects to mention that the NH General Court has 424 members. Not much of an achievement in a state of 1.3m.
Or, more primaly, you appeal the decisions by forming your own, larger, like minded group.

It is very interesting to observe the natural tension between the strongly individualistic ethos and the fact that it's essentially impossible to accomplish anything socially without collective action.
I remember doing that calculation in my tax class, and obviously the logic there is sound given the implicit premise that over a long enough time interval, all saving is just deferred consumption. My nit is: if that's what we're going to do, we might as well just have a consumption tax. The U.S. income tax isn't designed to be a consumption tax, it's designed to be a tax on gains in wealth.
Frequently Asked Questions: What is the Homicide Report?
New is Easy but Right is Hard: Hacking Product Management - Bernard Leong
The brilliant thing about "the existing system" is that no matter how bad a job it does, those failures are used as an excuse to justify taking even more money to "fix" the problem created by the system.

You seem to assume that all of those services would not exist without the current system. This seems to assume that there's only one possible way to fund things.

There are historical examples of all of these (except "offsetting recessions") being funded privately, and arguably producing much better results.

As for "offsetting recessions", the recessions and general economic malaise we experience are directly attributable to the current systems distortions of the market, particularly the monetary system.

Naturally, the current system spends a great deal of effort telling people that the current system is the best system. This is not unique to the USA. People in most countries, from Saudi Arabia to North Korea, from Bolivia to New Zealand, think their country (and its "system") is one of the better ones. In large part this is because one of the first things any government takes over is education.

I believe that if the US had held to the system it was intended to have in the constitution, we would have eliminated poverty by 1940, the great depression never would have happened, and everyone's effective purchasing power would be an order of magnitude better.

The poverty line is $16k or so, right? If people today who earned $16k had the purchasing power of someone who earns $160k, then they wouldn't exactly be poor. That difference can be accounted completely by the distortion in economics and poor finance and operational results of the US government.

And it is getting worse.
"And this year, roughly 2,000 people - mostly white men - have paid between $45 and $100 to "
You know, gotta keep pumping up that stereotype, hey: "Libertarians are nothing but a bunch of selfish rich white men."
its also quite carcinogenic

http://www.ehhi.org/woodsmoke/health_effects.shtml
Yes, very fond memories of using Turbo Vision in the late 90's came flooding back to me as soon as I loaded the page!
Top 10 most downloaded Android apps in June
This is actually a Valleywag article, which is a banned domain on HN so the original link is using a workaround to show the article. (http://valleywag.gawker.com/what-happens-when-a-healthcare-s...)

In this case, the article is actually pretty good.
Show HN: Remote Coaching Saas App for managing remote clients
Actually, quite a lot of different classes of vehicles, notably electric cars, are exempt from Road Tax in the UK:

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-exempt-from-car-tax
I was at this festival for six of the eight days (I arrived pre-dawn Tuesday morning). I'm also in one of the photos (I'm the base in the acro yoga pose).

The tone and content of this article have nearly zero in common with the tone and content of this festival.

What I saw was a warm, welcoming, well-read, sophisticated, diverse group of people focused on learning, doing, and playing.

The tech talks were as good as a tech conference. The gardening and permaculture talks were as good as a WOOF seminar. The political talks were as diverse and compelling as a beltway nonprofit convention. And yet, all these things occurred in one week at one festival.

Joel Salatin's keynote was particularly awesome. Patrick Byrne and Lyn Ulbricht were also very good.

At my talk on mesh networking, which was supposed to be introductory, the crowd well overflowed the tent and was incredibly sophisticated, having already read up on IPv6, CA's, DNS, and a bunch of other tangentially related topics.

There were hundreds of children playing all kinds of engaging, self-organized games throughout every day across the entire festival grounds, including the biggest and most passionate game of humans vs. zombies I've seen outside a university campus. :-)

There were also classes and workshops for children all day every day. The kids weren't "wandering around the festival" as the article puts it, but in fact were an integral part of it.

The level of debauchery and intoxication was far, far lower than a typical music festival. Yes, there was lots and lots of cannabis consumption. However, I didn't see a single person who was incapacitated (or even impaired) from drug use, including alcohol, which for a 2,000 person outdoor festival is unusual.

This was a great festival and a very healthy experience for me. I highly suggest attendance.
Yes and his work in FIRST. It may not be as philanthropic, but I've seen it save lives in the US. Kids who otherwise would turn to substance abuse/vandalism/crime, FIRST teams (at least my team) provided a safe, loving, and an actually exciting/engaging/educational experience to kids in not-so-nice homes and families. That man is doing something really great.
$20,000 in 1964 equates to $153,483.87, according to [1].

The population of china is currently 1.365B, according to [2].

A dollar today is equivalent to $0.04 in 1914 according to [1]. I should add at this point that there are a lot of different ways to measure inflation.

The number of passanger vehicles is around 250 million in the US today - how many of those are "cars" is up to interpretation. [3]

1: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population

3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_Unite...
the average user might have to learn a few extra words to understand bitcoin, "bitcoin" being one of them.