skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely a bummer. Tough spot for Google though: for people using the service only for email forwarding what else can they do besides send increasingly dire warning emails?
Looks like the landing was only partially successful -

Rocket booster reentry, landing burn & leg deploy were good, but lost hull integrity right after splashdown (aka kaboom)

https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Silicon Valley Lost and Found – a history
Languages, Frameworks, and Developer Valuation
I don't think there's been much change to the print version. Most of the changes seem to be a bid to grab some of the Gawker/HuffPo/etc. online market in the news-esque blog sector. More infographics, making deals with some high-traffic blogs to bring them inside the fold (e.g. the well-known libertarian legal blog volokh.com was rebranded as a WaPo blog), that kind of thing.
That sounds cool. Do you have any more details of the home heating project? I'm considering doing something similar.
I like a lot things about Rust. But on the downside it's syntax feels a little too much like C for comfort. Working with pointers to this extent has never been my idea of productive programming. In addition the whole Box, Rc and Arc business feels almost like a kludge. Are they part of the language or just some add on? The syntax makes it feel very much like the later.
Estimote Power management tool for iBeacon – why commodity beacons aren't enough
Yes I got it and I agree with you, my point was that Mobile Game Development, regardless of its relative youth, is evolving at a much faster pace that traditional games have, so comparing them in terms of years is kind of pointless.

Genres like real-time strategy, first person shooters, MMOs took years to be "invented", while we see new (and successful) concepts of mobile games basically every month.
Hi Sub, you are asking for security question I believe. You need to make sure you pass an unpredictable "session" token.
Information is not power. Executing is
Why would it not be?

If I write a website and put thousands of mazes up, what difference does it make if I created them with a tool I wrote? Does the number of mazes created make a difference? Why?

I can copyright a computer program that is the binary output of a compiler...
It'll give you a REPL on the bare metal... it's a /very/ minimal OS.
Jspm.io – Frictionless Browser Package Management
But reading the article takes time! People need to comment quickly!
Pretty bold headline, fortunately the story was decent. With that said, as someone who develops JavaScript for a living Swift is very inviting. I've tried and failed many times to wrap my head around ObjC, but it never stuck. In messing with Swift the last couple of weeks, I find myself pretty comfortable and happy the barrier-to-entry is rather low.
I've found the No-S Diet to be fairly maintainable over the years: "No Snacks, no Sweets, no Seconds except on days that start with S"

http://www.nosdiet.com/
And what about an extension to hide "Show HN" posts?
+1 That was my first thought too ;-)

Maybe you could say the same about Google or Lycos?

If nobody wants you, there's always cybersquatters.
Know More is a pre-Bezos product. Bezos took over on 10/1 and know more was launched on 10/7. Meaning planning and development on Know More must've started before Bezos' control.
> And like Perl, I also like that associative arrays / dictionaries are top level:

let people = ["Anna": 67, "Beto": 8, "Jack": 33, "Sam": 25]

Is this a perl-ism? It's not much more inference than C#:

var people = new Dictionary<string, int> {{"Anna", 37}, {"Beto", 8}};

or a JavaScript array of objects.

Also "+= " on strings extends beyond just JS (it works in C# too) and likely several others.

Whichever more modern language you're familiar with, you'll probably see an echo of it there.
You are talking about 1 element, out of a million, pointing to it and saying this is a falsehood. For example, you are basically looking at 1 tree saying its not growing, while ignoring the forest around you - enjoy.
I think let for bindings actually comes from ML. It looks a lot like what you get when you try to take what you can from functional languages while still being an imperative language.
It's been a few years now since they started with the ridiculous headlines. I think the writers (mostly) do a pretty good job, the headlines are left to people whose job is entirely making attention-grabbing, link-bait titles.
Sleep As Android has these puzzles too with varying difficulties, as well as few more "engaging" "CAPTCHA's" such as tapping sleeping sheep (with awake sheep on the screen), scanning a QR/NFC and writing a log into a dream diary. It also "tracks" your sleep and wakes you up an the optimal time. Can't recommend it enough
Not this crap again.

Counterfeiting money and causing massive inflation is theft of value, regardless of whether any money actually exchanged hands.
I think your parent is wondering whether work will shrink to fit the time available.
It's likely to become part of the LLVM open-source release sooner or later. Of course, it'll be missing half a standard library unless you use GNUStep/Cocotron; currently in practice ObjC functionality is used heavily. It'd be a start, though.
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Ah thanks for that find. Must have overlooked that when I quickly put it up this morning. Ty!
Helping My Wife Grow Her “Simple Living” Blog
Some also offer reverse proxy for web hosting so it works on :80. I don't know if/how they deal with ssl. You can probably do something going off SNI.
Will this language ever work to write Linux software? (Or Windows)
Swift might take over the Apple world, maybe. It is pretty much useless anywhere else.
Samsung Considers Its Counterattack as Rivals Erode Cellphone Profit
... and if your attempts at self-promotion using Show HN fail miserably, is it acceptable to the community if you try again using a different headline? If so, how long in between, weeks? Months?
Clearly the best way is to link to a popular site and have your webserver be overwhelmed by traffic. Can't serve images? Then users can't steal them!
Take a few screenshots, until you get one image with the odd lines, and one with the even lines, then stitch them back together in Photoshop.

2 minute job, tops.
"Increase article pageviews with this One Weird Trick!"
Previously, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8022315
I'm an Apple user, but reading an headline like this makes me lose interest in the article almost instantaneously (it could be about Go or Rust or whatever, and I'd have the same reaction).

Thanks for the pointer, I will give the story a chance.
Here's how you become data-driven
>'As someone who grew up in a cheaper part of the country, I was tempted to be offended by that comment (and particularly by the subsequent suggestion that people from cheaper parts of the country were more likely to be prejudiced).'

I appreciate that you've show restraint from that snap judgment and given me the benefit of the doubt then.

>'I felt like you were pre-judging me based on where I was born - something I had as little control over as the color of my skin or my religious and cultural background.'

That's not at all my intent.

Even though I'm noting some after the fact correlation (as opposed to presumption) between requests for cheaper professional services talent and those incidents it would be a pretty silly to pre-judge based on it.

In fact, I think that sort of negative-bias thinking is a common and costly mistake in both anecdotal observations or reported statistics. Even if something is 'more likely' the positive outcome is often even more likely.

The context of these charts is a pretty good example. It would be foolish for someone to focus on the suggested 10-12.5% for some state rather than the 87.5-90%.

It's particularly important in the case of human interactions where a default posture of respect and consideration regardless of the perceived odds costs little if anything at all.

>'But then I realized you're probably not always aware of your own prejudices, any more than I am.'

Sure.

I tend think prejudices and predilections are something we all have, but the key is try and be as aware and objective as possible - to treat people as individuals in spite of those notions.
If you're worried about keyloggers, you should also be concerned with other types of spoofing, even on machines you control (by software you do not).

If you're building a website, you can help mitigate keyloggers with One Time Password support, eg login via cellphone app (which doesn't have to have a signal but can store a million random codes a la the RSA dongle) unless that's somehow patented - is it?

But fake auth forms are equally egregious. For this, you simply need the user to enter (or receive) a relatively unique (1 in 10,000) phrase or icon that they remember when signing up. Then show this phrase when one of your input fields in your domain security context (iframe or popup) is focused. There is no way for other websites to grab that phrase or icon, and therefore the user is trained to check that YOUR field on YOUR domain is the one receiving keyboard focus.

I once wrotr a letter to Steve Jobs saying the iOS should also have something similar - that the system dialogs where you enter your admin username and password to authorize something should show you a familiar phrase or icon which userland apps can't screenshot, similar to how they protect copyrighted video. But he never replied or implemented it.

After all, Vista did it by darkening the screen... Any app can do that!
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Why the downvotes? Do you disagree?
Are you sure about that?

"Google unveiled a language called Go in 2009, and though it was designed by some of the biggest names in the history of software design—Ken Thompson and Rob Pike—it’s still struggling to gain a major following among the world’s coders. But Swift is a different animal. When it’s officially released this fall, it could achieve mass adoption with unprecedented speed, surpassing even the uptake of Sun Microsystems’ Java programming language and Microsoft’s C# in the late 1990s and early 2000s."

I didn't note any mention of the fact that Objective-C and now Swift are (to a first approximation) the only ways of writing apps for Apple's major products. Go is struggling? They're comparing it to Java, a language intended for universal use, and it hasn't been released yet?
The long term success of that strategy indicates the extreme likelihood that the 6 hour people will get the same work done as the 8 hour people, just the 8 hour people will browse facebook and gossip for 2 more hours per day.

The interesting part of the analysis is that obviously a 8 hour workplace can handle a fraction of the employees calling in sick pretty much transparently. Now what happens when everyone works 6 and there theres no slack WRT sick days?

From personal experience the time and monetary savings of four tens is far more appealing to me than the idea of spending perhaps nearly a quarter of my time away from home, going to / from work. As a starving student I worked 4 hour part time shifts working while going to school... at $1/gallon gas it barely made sense, now gas being permanently around $4/gallon I don't think short shifts make sense unless your commute is extremely short or you make a substantial amount of money per hour.
Mathematicians Discuss the Snowden Revelations [pdf]
I don't understand what the author thinks of as "traditional writing" since what is described as "piece writing" is pretty much how I learned traditional writing in school (copyediting is a distinct activity from writing, and revising isn't as much reworking an existing piece as writing a new piece with a similar intent to an existing piece drawing on the experience of having written the earlier piece -- and possibly incorporating some of the component pieces included in that existing piece.)

Also: lower case letters exist for a reason. All caps may be okay for headlines sometimes, but its not okay for paragraphs of body text.
Writing Unit Tests for Existing JavaScript
My mistake in wording, I didn't mean that it was prohibitively expensive by necessity. It seems that education costs are artificially inflated in the US at all levels. I agree completely that education doesn't need to be expensive to be effective.
You could still subvert this by taking an actual picture of the screen with a camera I think.
It is your responsibility to know the license (or lack of) for materials you publish.

In a case as described there may be some sort of indemnity clause between the publisher (kraft) and the freelancer which passes the costs on to the freelancer under these circumstances.
How to drive away customers: prioritize your unproven loss of income over making an attractive product. Accuse all your users of copyright infringement.
In case you want to watch it on youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbHnSu-DLR4
The ugly truth about how faculty members see non-academic jobs
THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS CORRUPT.
Not corrupt in any criminal sense. But corrupt in a perfectly legal sense: special interests bend the levers of power to benefit them at the expense of the rest of us. Both parties are part of the problem. Both have become dependent upon the campaign funding of the tiniest slice of the American people - not to mention the funding of corporations and other non-citizens. That dependency is this corruption.

http://www.rootstrikers.org/
It'd be pretty easy to mod this to do that. I can't tell if you're being snarky but I could actually do that if you really want me to. I could also change the alert to read "# dreams were crushed."
It's better to use a permanent link. In two weeks that link to his profile going to be useless. This applies to blog homepages as well.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/488718649515986944
Why not have a two factor auth? Then loss of a smartphone won't be a big deal.

Or three factors: biometric / password on phone, show OTP to site, then enter some password in site
I don't consider the "let" example to really be very Perlish. The real power of Perl in it's natural expressiveness is to more closely map speaking, and thus thinking patterns to how the algorithm is represented. For example, postconditionals, which allow a single statement to be conditional based on a condition that immediately follows it. This is a natural way people express themselves ("do X if Y" or "do A unless B"), but it is wisely restricted to a single statement as the alternative is less common, less clear. The fact that swift's let statement sounds like common English when spoken aloud is only superficially similar to Perl, IMHO.

Additionally some sort of hash/associative array/map data structure at the top level is (thankfully) common at this point.

I haven't followed swift too closely though, so maybe there's other stuff that I would consider more aligned with the spirit of Perl.
2 minutes is quite a long time. Long enough to not bother unless you really want that particular image...
Double-blind is neither necessary nor sufficient for a "valid" scientific experiment. It just helps keep the variables down.
> You could have an open ecosystem where all of them exist. That you don't...

But you do, at least for two of them (D doesn't seem to support ARM yet).

Here's Rust: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-ios

And here's Go: https://bitbucket.org/minux/goios/wiki/Home

Or you could write your iOS app in C, or C++, or Python, or... In all cases, you'll be calling objc_send a lot, and that's the problem. A Swift class can subclass an Objective C class, and implement Objective C protocols; good luck with that in a language with an incompatible object system.

Apple isn't stopping anyone from using those languages; it's just that adopting them would make very little sense; using existing APIs and third party libraries would be horrendous.
"Six more secret tricks to crush your pageviews. Number 4 will make you weep like a baby!"
Well, if it disintegrated due to falling over in the waves and colliding with the water it isn’t necessarily unsuccessful, since it is not designed for landing on water (i.e. the rocket disintegrating after landing on water due to being in water is not a failure – what matters is whether, hypothetically, the rocket would have survived, had it landed on land).

Edit: Seems like Musk is making that point himself: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/488719729599578112
What We Really Taste When We Drink Wine
143.231.249.138 has a number of goofy edits, and also seems overly concerned with Lyndon LaRouche's page. User was blocked for vandalism in 2008, 2009, 2011, seems like vandalizing the Wiki is their hobby.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/143.231....

>That IP was blocked again today for 48 hours after serially vandalizing a congressperson's entry, a personal attack on an admin, etc. Since blocking, this edit to the IP's own talk page is clearly a declaration, perhaps less than constructive. Toddst1 21:34, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

>I don't know if it is a declaration, but it is lyrics to The Doors song "Light My Fire." KillerChihuahua 22:16, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

>Blocked again, for 55 hrs. KillerChihuahua 20:49, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

>I just blocked 143.231.249.138, an IP within the US House range, for 24 hours for disruptive editing: repeatedly removing negative yet sourced information from articles about Republican congressmen and refusing attempts to discuss. Daniel Case 14:16, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications_committee/Not...
Having done aerospace instrumentation/telemetry (on a much smaller scale for a private airplane manufacturer), there are some things like separation events, nozzle heating patterns etc that can be captured with a single camera which would take many many standalone sensors to capture - that's a lot of money/time saved. The tough part is that video takes a huge amount of the TM bandwidth, so typically you can only send one or maybe two video feeds down, and then you switch between the cameras, as they have done. Actually, realtime video transmission via TM is a very interesting topic, it often uses a specially configured MPEG format. There are a lot of tradeoffs in the parameters that you get to tweak.
This tickled my cleverness center.
At least they had the sense to include algebraic data types.
The Linux Supercomputers We Secretly Fear Will Become Sentient
Any chance of seeing OpenBSD on this? It seems like you've mentioned doing custom templates if requested.
http://www.patrick-wied.at/talks/image-protection/demos/cat....
Thanks for the words - certainly helps me feel less overwhelmed by all the tools and options out there.

I guess what I am picturing (and can't figure out why it doesn't exist yet) is a cross between github and the real-time editor on sites like codecademy. Basically I want to edit my html/css/js, see what the output looks like, and then push to the server with a click so it's a live app. Is there anything out there I should know about?
The first version of my side project (http://www.kopyscreen.com/) took about 8-10 hours, but somehow my interest level went down after showing it to my friends.

I want to add few more features to complete it but for about 6 weeks, I did not do any work on it :-(
Some previous discussion on a couple of the other posts in this series: the first release [1] and the ASN1 library [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8005130

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8020125
Switching to another (faster) bus won't necessarily improve anything. You have CPU overhead to contend with, as well as relatively slow I/O on the SD card. So, just because the port is moved to a faster bus and could support GbE, doesn't mean you would get GbE performance.

Your home network is likely already faster than the Pi can handle, let alone your internet speed. A file transfer across your network (scp a video to the SD cart for example) will already burst, then slow down as-is. You can see, the SD cart write i/o is the current bottleneck.
Cool service. Not that it matters much but on your linked page the "Unmanaged" and RAM amount are in different row positions for each Mini
Awesome! Are they going to repeat the launch for the west coast?
I think it's hard to say that, yet.

The rocket isn't really made to survive tipping over onto its side in the water. If they "landed" properly (legs deployed, descending at a slow speed when they hit the water), I think one can make an argument for a fully successful landing.

It really depends on how fast they hit the water.
I tried looking on the linked mazes page for a license, the closest thing (in my opinon) was a statement to feel free to reproduce for personal, school, and church use. I figure if I couldn't find the copyright notice, it's probably hard for someone at Kraft to find it too (unless that statement IS the copyright notice).

Does this necessarily exclude a for-profit use, or does that have to be explicitly declared? IANAL, so I'd like to know.
An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country
That looks terrible in Chrome for Android.
Show HN: One click to great longform content
and I imagine Apple will want to keep it that way.

Swift will be used as a competative advantage or lock in, depending on your level of scepticism.
It seems fairly likely that it will be open sourced at some point, though not for a while: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.clang.devel/37...

Of course, in practice, current development with Swift is mostly pretty dependent on Cocoa, but there's no inherent reason it has to be.
I don't think he quite does. His conclusion is basically that image protection isn't worth it, because more exposure is better. That's different from declaring it to be futile.
> But even if Swift remains an Apple-only
Oh I would love code Swift on other platforms, what could possibly go wrong?
This can be automated in javascript. There is no need for photoshop. I won't be surprised if someone comes up with a browser extension to neutralize it.
It's not just the question of how much. The NYT doesn't have a plan where you can subscribe and share with your whole family -- if they did, and it was similar to what the cost of buying and sharing a paper used to be, I'd subscribe. (This is a problem with things like Kindle accounts as well, so I don't know if following Amazon's lead will solve it.)
Yeah I can imagine. Win32 was never designed for animations like that :) You appear to have done a pretty remarkable job though as they are some of the best I have seen in Windows outside of things such as WPF. Well done!

Do you blog at all? I imagine you have some very interesting things you could talk about in regards to Win32 programming. Understandably there are fewer and fewer pure Win32 developers these days and even fewer who take the time to really make a Win32 application look good.

Purely for personal curiosity I have decided to learn C (and most likely C++ as well) as I have no real experience with native development and it is something that has always bugged me. Would it be incredibly rude of me to maybe shoot you an email for a little chat one to one? I totally understand if you are unable too. Thanks!
Cool, I love counterintuitive (and even counterproductive) solutions just for their own sake. I tried to do a similar thing with text a while ago: http://nbush.github.io/headache/
> The NCLB gaming of standardized tests, on the other hand, forces the incompetence out into the open in the form of unmistakable undefensible clear outright fraud.

The outright fraud isn't the only thing it forces (and, really, its sort of the extreme fringe); the more routine thing it forces is reluctance of schools to promote students based on academic ability since holding advanced students back in grade level improves metrics of students that are function at or above grade level.

(Of course, its an unsustainable optimization, which also increases the rate at which advanced students with involved parents defect from the public school system entirely, but that's an effect that takes longer to materialize than the short-term effect on metrics.)
Critical vulnerabilities in web-based password managers found