skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand the desire to use familiar tools, but if the U.K. works as the U.S. does, bills are already presented as patch files. In the U.S., for example, most "laws" are a list of amendments to the U.S. Code.

For example, here's a snippet from SOPA: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c112:1:./temp/~c112Rt6...:

(b) Title 18 Amendments- Section 2319 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--

(1) in subsection (b)(1), by striking `during any 180-day period' and all that follows and insert `of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, or of at least 10 public performances by means of digital transmission, of 1 or more copyrighted works, during any 180-day period, which have a total retail value of more than $2,500;';

(2) in subsection (c)--

(A) in paragraph (1), by striking `of 10 or more copies or phonorecords' and all that follows and inserting `including by electronic means, of at least 10 copies or phonorecords, or of at least 10 public performances by means of digital transmission, of 1 or more copyrighted works, during any 180-day period, which have a total retail value of more than $2,500;'; and

(B) in paragraph (3), by striking `if the offense' and all that follows and inserting `in any other case;';

(3) in subsection (d)(4), by striking `under paragraph (2)' and inserting `committed for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain under subsection (a)';

(4) in subsection (f)--

(A) by amending paragraph (2) to read as follows:

`(2) the terms `reproduction', `distribution', and `public performance' refer to the exclusive rights of a copyright owner under paragraphs (1), (3), (4), and (6), respectively, of section 106 (relating to exclusive rights in copyrighted works), as limited by sections 107 through 122, of title 17; and';

(B) in paragraph (3), by striking `; and' and inserting a period; and

(C) by striking paragraph (4); and

(5) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
I'm more interested in what generated that chart? Was it some automated system / program / tool?
As far as I can remember 2048 isn't even always beatable by bots due to its random nature, so I suspect your literal 15 beats in a row aren't that literal.
I wonder if a tumblr dedicated to post-mortems, tech crisis prevention, clever programming solutions, et al. would be popular (or already existing)
Your nerd is showing
Upside raises $1.1M to help investment advisors beat the “robo-advisors”
(I'm comparing threes on a Samsung Captivate Glide and 2048, Evaldo Rossi version, on an ipad mini)

* The interface of threes frustrates me. It takes a relatively long time to start compared to 2048 almost starting instantly and is feels awkward to interact with. Much to convoluted for most settings to me.

* The counting up of score at the end takes too long. I either want to move on to the next game or walk away from it. I don't want to sit there and watch numbers being added.

As to Game play:

* Three's requires more strategy yes, but it is trickier to play in a casual manner, when I have a few free moments here and there. I can pick up a 2048 game, and get somewhere reasonably in a short period of time where threes seems to take more concentration and time (Even beyond the time it takes to get the app going).

The first time I saw threes the performance, theming, and just general styling of the game felt like a knock off of something else. It was bad enough that I didn't think I'd found the original and looked again. The edition of 2048 I came across had a much cleaner interface, smoother game play and works well in time constrained or pickup-play settings while still being interesting enough to be worth playing longer. Threes just doesn't scratch that itch. It's a little too much for casual play but not quite enough for something more serious to me.
Also relevant to building microservices in a somewhat similar fashion: https://github.com/koding/kite
Why I'm so negative about positivity
In response to the hardware keylogger comments. Aren't those fairly expensive? I can't imagine they would be used very often except in targeted attacks against specific computers.
1) A forum (you can use this: http://www.discourse.org/) or subreddit where users can complain about issues or suggest features. Or both.

2) You could try UserVoice for feature request voting, too.

I've been following an open source project myself as a user. They use all 3 of these suggestions, and I've been keeping up to date on them.

Probably not as necessary, but if you think it can work for you, you can do a blog, too, for bigger version announcements or longer posts and so on.
This is the fourth separate attempt at launching this mission. The first one was more than a month ago. Their biggest problem are helium leaks.

Successful launch. We can expect better video footage of the first stage landing.
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Keylogger logs look like

[Application $DATE_TIME]
key that ii[backspace]s b[backspace]ein pressed

[Other Application $DATE_TIME]
Keys being pressed in other application
Great summary of the current state of malware.

I am starting to think that security people should stop using the term "keylogger" altogether. It is unhelpful, and damn right dangerous.

When people read "keylogger" they often envision malware which sits there and grabs your keystrokes, so then people assume (see posts elsewhere in this HN thread even) that using on-screen keyboards or jumping back and forth between fields saves them.

Classical literal "keyloggers" are now mostly gone. Grabbing a long series of keystrokes is extremely hard to automatically utilise (which is the goal now). Instead malware will either inject itself into the TCP/IP stack, HTTP stack, or directly into the browser (most popular) itself to steal credentials after the form is submitted but before it is encrypted and sent over the network.

The advantage to the "bad guys" of doing things this way is that they get contextual information (e.g. form name, form destination URL, as well as username/password). Once you have login information AND contextual information you can automate it entirely and ignore a lot of stuff you aren't interested in (e.g. steal Google accounts, but ignore Hacker News accounts).

Other than spouses spying on one another or a parent spying on their kid, a "keylogger" is pretty much dead in the classical sense. No organise crime gang wants a few gigabytes of keystrokes they have to sort through in order to get to the good stuff.
Even more disturbing was the edit from the US Senate which changed Edward Snowden's page to refer to him as a "traitor" instead of "dissident": http://boingboing.net/2013/08/06/us-senate-ip-address-linked...
Docker Madness
Work in monday
I'm having trouble too. But I think the idea that kicked this whole thing off was @parliamentedits created by Tom Scott using IFTTT.

So, maybe that's what kitd means.
You put in a query and get out some code. Concrete code not connected to the query anymore. The code doesn't shift out from under you later, if that's what you're implying.

Why wouldn't it be used in a "proper piece of code"? You ask Visual Studio/XCode/Eclipse for something and it gives you back a snippet that you can use as a starting point.
Hey Facebook users! There's a lesson to be learned here; in case you missed it:

It had no where to go but away. That data was never on the Internet; it existed in a proprietary format on a proprietary network, far out of reach from the technological layman. It was then shuffled around, forgotten, and perhaps overwritten by a series of indifferent corporate overlords.
It was made in beeminder (https://www.beeminder.com/). It is a website where you pledge a certain amount of money towards a goal and if you don't stay on track, it charges you.
Probably, but I think on reddit most people are in consumption mode, like when people zone out and repeatedly click through TV channels.

So I think advertisement titles need to ask nothing of the person, and only offer a treat.

"Here is a picture of my cute cat sleeping on my warm laptop"

Then have the laptop screen be the website. They get the reward of the picture, you get expanded awareness that your site exists.
The changes if any are not obvious. I say that as somebody who scanned the print version over breakfast today.
Is it OK to not have an answer in today's knowledge based economy?
Now this is a feature I would pay for. I think marketing it as fixing vertical video may be a miss, but marketing it as steady cam for your phone is killer.
Agreed. Big win on the microSD. They are also becoming very affordable, especially < 32GB
You might be interested in this lecture that Feynman gave at a meeting called "Idiosyncratic Thinking":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA
And all the things they are told must be voted on and ratified by people who are qualified to say what is right and wrong.
It's a happy accident, but I'd assumed it was because b,v, and c are right next to each other on the keyboard, making the first 3 characters before it autocompletes easy to type.
Geocaching, Ingress, and Discovering Overlapping Communities
But this colour already has a name. It's called "black".
Nonsense. You don't check with your doctor every time you eat a new food - yet there's far more danger there.
Show HN: Play Flappy Bird by Whistling
This is interesting because a similar thought experiment that immediately occurred to me would be to consider a program that calculates digits of pi, sqrt(2), or some other transcendental number, given some user input --- basically, a calculator.

The program itself is almost certainly copyrightable, but what about its output?

These mazes feel like a similar idea to me - he even mentioned that this particular one is generated by a "fibonacci spiral", so there is likely a compact mathematical description of its vertices, and a PRNG (further thought experiment: what if the "randomness" was generated by a true RNG?) along with its seed that was used to determine where the lines appeared. It's an artistic work, but the majority of the "work" was done by an algorithm - he didn't manually draw all the lines.
Facebook 'Friends' Its City, Pays for [Police] Officer
We have implemented a solution to the problem where the crop area zooms in/out smoothly in Flex mode, so that the wobbling problem is reduced. It will be available on the upcoming updates and in the Android version as well (hint! ;)).

In the meantime, you can switch between modes while recording depending on the situation. Finally, locked mode switches automatically to horizontal or vertical orientation in version 2.0.
> LinuxFR: Why Go?

> Jérôme Petazzoni [co-founder of Docker Inc.]: On the non-technical terms, Go is a little Switzerland of modern languages. If we chose Python, Ruby community would growled. If we chose Ruby, Python community would growl (and we probably would have gone for fools, because at the beginning of the project, the majority of the team was more comfortable in Python in Ruby). If you chose Java, everyone would have bitched!

"Go is a little Switzerland of modern languages" is my new favorite expression.
And that's exactly the point. This is the worst kind of patch file -- one that is barely understandable by humans, and that I can't just apply mechanically to the existing laws.
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"No one knows what it means, but it's provocative"
What Silicon Valley Refuses to Learn from Steve Jobs
I think that the fuller quote "the final evolution of the original Raspberry Pi" is important. The word "original" in there doesn't lead me to believe they are at the end of the road overall, just end of the road for this one design.

To clarify, I expect to see a more complete redesign in the not-too-distant future. If nothing else, you want to use components that are recent so you can keep producing more of them without increased costs for legacy components.
3s > 2048! But 2048 is more popular?! How did it happen? I've heard this story before.

I think the author of 3s screwed up by going iOS first. There are millions of hungry Android devs out there. If you release a game that's iOS only, and it turns out to be really popular, and it has fairly simple game logic... there will be an Android clone in under 24 hours.

It's a cautionary tale. Release on iOS first at your own risk.
If we put history/social studies/etc on the test, I take it you'll then withdraw your objection?
This actually makes a lot of sense. An obese person burns about 2500 calories a day just be existing (obviously depending on weight/heigh/etc.) 1 day of fasting means 1lb a week lost, basically.
They CAN work depending on what you're selling. Affiliate leads are usually low-quality and sometimes fraudulent.

A few steps you should take
1) Limit the amount you're willing to spend over the first few days. Like any marketing platform you need to figure out if this is one that will a good return on investment.
2) I would try to set it up so that you only pay out on a successful sale. While not required, it probably makes the most sense for digital goods
3) Check out the other ads on the affiliate marketer.
E-mails show NSA monitored destruction of Snowden data at The Guardian
Wow I can't believe this finally launched. So far so good! And of course, the most exciting thing about this is the return attempt of the F9 first stage core. I don't think that'll be covered in the webcast but we'll certainly get video of it later. MECO successful.

Edit: r/spacex has good updates regarding the landing attempt

[T+27m]: Elon's jet and NASA plane circling a particular area...

http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/2aany2/rspacex_orbco...
Remember that the campaign page itself is only half of the story. Kickstarter projects depend a great deal on publicity, word-of-mouth, media mentions, and virality. And these things tend to have a snowball effect, so it can be feast-or-famine.

Often a creator is scrambling to get the campaign page finished up to the last minute, and doesn't have time to even think much about publicity or marketing. But your media campaign is just as important as your product details.
"What is a quine?"
It's not a theme, just some basic color palette with green for preprocessor, yellow for keywords, cyan for string and numbers and white for the rest. Dark gray for the comments.

Re: animations - yeah, they are all custom, but there's not really much to them. The hardest part was to do flickerless fade-ins and -outs, the code for that just ain't pretty. Window transformations are just DeferWindowPos with the right combination of flags and a bit of painting cooperation from custom controls. Still though... the amount of work required to get these animations working was ungodly compared to $('div').animate({ ... }); :)
Weight is a problem lots of people have, and lots of people are looking for "one simple trick" to make it go away, and there are entire major industries that survive of selling a rotating array of quick fixes.

Obviously, free articles offering the same thing are going to be popular. Throw an analytical veneer over it with some charts and references to productivity, to meet the cultural biases of HN, and its popular on HN.
You seem to equate disruption with for-profit. One does not necessitate the other. However, a proper disruption would be really good for saving people money as the current market is ripe with crazy fees and no progress.
Probably just mental. Vast numbers of people experience the symptoms of hypoglycemia without actually being hypoglycemic. The condition is known as Idiopathic Postprandial Syndrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_postprandial_syndrom...
ZeroMQ is really good. I think the best introduction to it is this video, http://vimeo.com/20605470 (ZeroMQ is the answer). Just ignore the it was recorded at a PHP conference, the examples are pretty language agnostic.

I think one of the best things about ZeroMQ is there are not external brokers or services that you have to keep running. The entire architecture is captured in your own long running processes.
Art project reveals the hidden beauty of WiFi signals
I learned a lot from Cybertown back in the day. Hiring staff, advertising my block. I learned HTML and CSS so that I could style my block's message board and that eventually led to what I'm doing now, 14 years later.

Nobody knows you're twelve years old in a virtual world. I think at one point I was head of the city's night club.
> Leave it to the HN crowd to see an epidemic as a money making opportunity.

The obesity epidemic has been recognized as a money making opportunity by major industries long before HN existed.
Threes is actually pretty badly designed as a mobile game, imo. It has too many potential control points on a small screen, is audio intensive, and has a long startup time (I mean, wtf. It takes 5-10 seconds to start up!)

Threes might be a better "game", in that there's an easy strategy to do well in 2048, but Threes is a bad mobile game. The ideal mobile game would be something which could be played for 30-90 seconds, paused or looked away from without lasting negative consequence, but with timing as a key factor, and 4-8 possible touch points on the screen, IMO.

"Rez" would probably do well for mobile (the playstation vibrator game).
Wikipedia blocks Tor.
Maybe it is some kind of prank, but actual JPEG [1] used in the article is not pure #000000 it is in fact #010101.
[1] http://cdn4.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article30427651....
you'd also need exactly the same random seed. There are a lot of possibilities for that seed.

I've seen a lot of code that either forgot to srand(), or misused it in some way so the output was pretty determinate. There are also a limited number of PRNGs in use, and they're most definitely not understood well by the majority of programmers; the crypto community knows this quite well. A collision may not be so unlikely after all.

(Try Googling "41, 18467, 6334" for example. "41184676334" also brings up some interesting results.)
The only problem I have with vertical video is that most screens are horizontally oriented, so vertical video always looks bad with tons of wasted screen space when viewed on anything other than the vertical smartphone it was recorded on.
30 years ago it was 1984, and at the time game development was probably more akin to embedded software engineering today, having to program at a very low level of abstraction (if any) from the hardware.

It doesn't really seems right comparing game development now and then (or even 15/20 years ago), the amount of advanced tools, public knowledge, step-by-step tutorials available today is something developers of the time could never dream of, and had to learn/build for themselves.
Sabre Dev Studio
I'd love to hear more, if you're comfortable sharing, about the data structure you use for the log viewer. Either way, this looks like an excellent product; thanks for sharing.
8 years :-|
Work ethic: The 24/7 lab (2011)
[Merriam-Webster] Healthy: enjoying health and vigor of body, mind, or spirit

[Merriam-Webster] Health: the condition of being well or free from disease

[wikipedia] Diabetes mellitus (DM) also known as simply diabetes, is a group of metabolic diseases

You are not in good health / healthy in the manor meant in this thread and OA. You might eat healthy, exercise, whatever but you still suffer from a disease that healthy people do not.
Cynically, I would say that it depends on whether or not you can get your case to the Supreme Court.

Normally, though, algorithms are not copyrightable. Though Books about algorithms are.

In this case, the guy published a book containing a maze, so reproduction of the maze should fall under copyright.
I think that sort of depends on how you define your terms. Generally albedo is how much of the light which hits an object is reflected. A perfect black body, by definition doesn't reflect any light: all of it is absorbed and converted into thermal energy. It does however emit light with a frequency spectrum dependent on its temperature.

So if you wanted to, you could calculate a pseudo-albedo as incident light over emitted light for various conditions, but it wouldn't be an intrinsic property of your material like albedo is usually considered
I wonder if they have tracking planes or a spotter out on the water. After all this bad press and the violent ocean churn from the last attempt, it would be nice to get a money shot of the vehicle hovering over the water.
Highly unlikely. The grid design contains about 900 edges which can be set or clear. Their maze differs by 7 edges. Here's a statistics problem for you: What is the likelihood of generating a random 900 bit binary number that differs from another random 900 bit binary number by only 7 bits?

Then there is the choice of grid design (identical), entry and exit holes (identical).
Goodbye, Authorship images. You will be missed
Technology is necessary but not sufficient for building great products and services. What the article didn't mention is people are looking for ways to simplify their lives and manage complexity. They desire simple tools allowing them to easily achieve those aims.
Remember, copyright is about "provenance", or how you arrive at the result. If you get the same maze but you didn't copy from the original, it can't be a copyright violation. It's the copying that creates the problem. That said, there is a "minimum of creativity" that limits what you can copyright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality
I'll admit I do not regularly follow space launches but I am amazed at the various places that they have installed video feeds. Seeing the first stage drop off was incredible.
Not really "sorted by sum of comments and votes" nor really "age is ignored". The former only affects horizontal offset of the start of a title, and the latter is preserved, so that the order (and fluctuation) of the titles is as usual too.
As much as I hate saying this, most diets are pretty much identical. I don't see many diet suggestions from big orgs relying on massive multi-variable studies proving that their diet actually works vs anecdotes based on "well the numbers look right so it should work".
We prefer to be called Butterfly-American.
Ubuntu With Linux 3.16 Smashes OS X 10.9.4 On The MacBook Air
"Speed 7.2km/s...and we have miko" - what's miko referring to in this case?
Intrusion Detection in the Cloud (AWS EC2) [pdf]
Darn, I just bought one a few weeks ago, and the new one is the same price.
That's ARMv7.
Yeah, I did construction for a while, and everyone was kind of happy when we had 6/12s during crunch time. Sure, it sucked while you were doing it, but man that overtime.
You guys seem to be missing Wercker. http://wercker.com/ is my favorite CI/CD. Its free while its in beta, has a great UI and has a simple but powerful configuration system
So why is this specific to Node.js as opposed to Scala, Go or other languages that easily allow concurrency?
No it did not happen. Once again snopes to the rescue.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwave.asp
Everyones talking about 2048, but how do Threes free clones affect the real paid version?
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Compared to SoCs in $50 cell phones? Remember to keep things in perspective. ;)
I am always interested to hear what people do not like about a language, and I think it says a lot about what they really know.

I get the point of this article...but it is a bit bland, short, and doesn't really offer much in the ways of why this is dangerous or how it applies to the average Joe.

Maybe with some more meat this article would be a big selling point; however, right now it offers, what may be a completely valid point, masqueraded behind a very thin veil of, "Because others say so!"

Tell me why!! Give me an example. Show me how Node.JS fails at distributed concurrency because it is an over-use of it! :)
Other commenter described it as MECO, googled that, found "Main Engine(s) Cut-Off".
MECO. Main Engine Cut-Off.
It's MECO. Main engine cut-off.
Aereo's plan C for cable
Objective-c ORM promises simplicity and thread safety