skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is terribly antithetical to the principles of the Internet, but... the interlacing is very clever, even though it doesn't look right on my browser (shimmering black).

I could solve the invisible wall demo trivially (Inspector > Network > cat.png -- this also worked for the interlacing demo). The encrypted demo took a few more seconds: Inspector > Delete transparent.jpg > Right click canvas > Save Image As.

If the interlacing one was using the encrypted image, and if its JavaScript was obfuscated (so I couldn't easily determine the encryption algorithm), I could (kinda) solve it by pausing script execution in Firefox's debugger, then changing the opacity on both canvases to 1 - then taking a screenshot of the picture. But this is harder to achieve reliably for scaled-down images.

Mozilla should start thinking about ways to help users fight this kind of bullshit; e.g. having right-clicks apply to highest opaque image or canvas, ignoring any transparent elements.
I can't imagine how I'd survive without Lastpass.
One of it's added benefits is seeing just how many different services you don't use any more still have your details.

I did a purge a few months back and I'm down from 150 sites to about 70. It was depressing how many sites I had to email to ask them to delete my account.
How we made a professional(ish) product video for $146.55
App.net was centrally hosted and centrally controlled, so it wasn't really all that different from its competitors. It also had execution issues.
Keep in mind that there are assumptions made about what the "American Dream" is, driven by cultural representations of what a stereotypical successful American life should be like. It doesn't seem geared toward what the "Average American" life is really like, it's more of a "How do I live like the families on TV?"

Hence the 4WD SUV, owned home, 2 kids and college attendance, etc.

EDIT: Downvote? Am I misrepresenting something?
I've been searching around, and I haven't come across anything that says you can use DMCA takedowns on anything other than works that you own the copyright to. So, while it might well be illegal under some law to host the code of Popcorn Time, I don't see how a DMCA takedown notice from the MPAA, which does not own the copyright to Popcorn Time, can be valid here. But IANAL, and I also don't know if there is some provision in the DMCA that covers this.
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Indeed. Plus many of those sites inadvertently break the middle mouse button which I use for scrolling, and several laptop/touchpad dedicated scroll buttons.

It just feels childish to me. Everyone knows that you cannot protect an image by binding to the right mouse button event, but yet they continue to do it anyway. It is trivial to bypass and just annoys legitimate "customers."
The raw answer never appears in the game, AFAIK. Smith The Horse was supposed to tell it to you, or a critical clue, but they forgot that part of the game. His two talk prompts are both "A" "A".

Smith became a running joke after that; in each game, he would tell you something critical for the previous game.
The Hacker News community has been amazingly supportive of us, and we really appreciate it! Many of you spent time with me in the early days going over our API (in excruciating detail). Others vouched for us in HN comment threads to let the world know that “yes, it really does work as described!”. Still others have contributed to our open source projects.

HN is the first place we go to tell the world about new features, and each time we’re always eager to hear everyone’s thoughts. We’ll have more updates soon, in fact : )

Lemme know if you want t-shirts, stickers, Hot Sauce (yes, we have our own hot sauce), etc: andrew@firebase.com
I have no idea what you're talking about, but I think it has something to do with beachstartup's observation about a rape accusation having immediate consequences somehow being misogynistic. You've happily ignored that women can be accused of rape via the Internet as well and tried to stage a little performance of "HN Hates Women" with puppets you've created, so no, nothing you're saying is clear to me.

Yes, I'm aware of that bias, and no, it has no bearing on the observations at the top of this thread.
Clearly it's _The Road Ahead_.
I seems almost like the bsd people prefer minimalist tooling.
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Turn your foursquare check-ins into a travel diary
Good question.

Because the original buildx.sh script as supplied by the xrdp source - which o-matic calls to build X11rdp - has always needed to be built as root.

I'm open to assistance and helpful suggestions - so if you can think of a better way to do this then I'd be only too pleased to hear it :)
Yes, for all those people that type in domain names... Unless they're doing a print campaign, it's not a huge win. Hopefully they won't screw up the SEO on this one.
Here is a decent overview of the different approaches to the problem ranging from consumer (TrackingPoint) to military (DARPA/Sandia): http://www.army-technology.com/features/featurelock-and-laun...

The TrackingPoint system is pretty awesome especially since it's tech which is available today and has some pretty neat applications such aiming through another device: http://www.military.com/video/guns/rifles/trackingpoint-shot...
The expenses for groceries and the car are far higher than what someone making $130k a year would pay.

$12,659 per year on groceries works out to roughly $240 per week. While it is possible to reach that (e.g. by shopping exclusively at high-end specialty grocers and avoiding coupons), most families would pay far less. A family with access to a supermarket would probably spend around $80-$120 per week on groceries, or $4200-$6300 per year.

The car expenses assume a very large fuel-hungry vehicle, and appear to assume the vehicle will be purchased on a high-interest loan. A five-seat sedan would work just as well, and would result in expenses of about $3000 per year ($10k amortized over a ten-year operating lifetime, plus $2k per year in fuel).

Similar issues exist with the other large expenses. For example, the author's chosen goal for college savings is higher than the cost of a four-year degree at Stanford (according to the stanford.edu Net Price Calculator) and is far more than tuition costs at a normal school.
I'm sure a lot of people do agree. However single word replied rarely add anything to the discussion and definitely worsen the signal:noise ratio.
They're quite an influential group, case in point: Suey Park.
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I think the American Dream has been inflated to mean "the American citizen gets everything s/he wants." hmmm, seems like whining.

Look, the American Dream is about being able to have a reasonable life, keep your family healthy and safe, be a free citizen, and work hard to earn your living.

When did it get to be redefined as "I need a 80 inch TV, XBox, 4-wheel drive car, private education, cellphones, multiple DVRs, 3000 sq ft home, and no taxes and no responsibilities for my expenses, nanny for my kids, golf lessons, soccer, and three cars"?

That attitude of entitlement is what is killing the American Dream, IMHO.
Open source is no panacea when it comes to security. OpenSSL's Heart Bleed vulnerability comes to mind.

You also have to have qualified and dedicated people regularly reading and testing the code. I'd rather LastPass hired more security experts who we could be sure were testing the code.
I used to think the same. But after meeting with some of its engineers and designer (yes, one), my perspective has changed quite a bit. Yes, many things they do range from insane to socially unacceptable, but they've got the brains.

Also, while they are making a lot of mistakes, they are getting a few key things very right as a startup: 1. building a strong culture and brand 2. dominating a niche before expanding out to other verticals (Geoffrey Moore's bowling ally theory).
U4 reset cities, too, although the virtue penalties to massacring a town could be severe.

In U5, you could permanently kill off city residents, even residents who still hadn't given you a critical piece of information or equipment.
It's a bit early to rely on as critical - this is serious work-in-progress. I'm not sure I'd use it yet, and I'm not sure you should either, but then, I suppose I could say that equally well about the OpenSSL library it's forked from.

It is nevertheless a bit weird to see test sourcecode for TLS support on a site that does not support HTTPS!

Maybe when the cleanup is complete and it's shored up, they might actually use it? :)
The greater the asymmetry of technology, the greater the PR problem. PR problems are infectious, but they require a sympathetic protagonist. A pre-emptive solution is to fake unsympathetic protagonists that can be crushed ruthlessly to dissuade contagion. Parse wisely.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/antz/
> Also food seems a bit steep, a bit over $1,000/month on
> food? That is like $250 a week. Presumably they eat out
> a lot?

Eating out gets its own category, $70 per week on "Restaurants".
Yes, it's very well written, except for the only sentence that matters, which is a completely unsubstantiated claim of infringement that has nothing to do with the rest of the letter.

Perhaps the spent some extra time making this look pretty because they anticipated a bit of scrutiny?
I wish more sites would adopt dark designs. Easier on the eyes and saves energy. When you spend 8-16 hours in from of a monitor every day those become important factors to consider.
As the blog author herself has said (elsewhere, in a forum post that led me to the blog post), this is old, old, old news, but maybe it needs to be new news again.

I got fooled by one of these yesterday -- the first time in many years. If you want to see the page that fooled me, here's a screen shot: http://www.ergy.com/Synergy-screen-IE.png

I have been in communication with the owner of the site on which the ad was shown. Since our exchange is public anyway (it's in a Google Group) I will take the liberty of posting an excerpt of his reply here:

It is possible for us to block individual ads in the Google AdSense, and indeed I spent a fair few hours one day some time ago individually disabling the green-button-download-ads. From memory I'd say I disabled around 500 of them- it took me a while anyway. Unfortunately the next day many new ads appeared- and same again the next day, etc. Turns out its impossible to stop them unless you have hours a day spare to disable ads. I have complained to Google, but I imagine since this is so lucrative for them, it wouldn't make financial sense to stop it.

I have tried many ways of solving this issue: using other ad providers, disabling the ads and asking for donations instead, blocking entire AdSense categories. Unfortunately each one of those "solutions" drastically reduced the amount of funding raised for the project, to the point where we'd be underfunded. So for the time being, I'm sorry to say the ads are here to stay.

I was under the impression that Google tries to block ads from malware sites. Well, they don't seem to be trying hard enough. It isn't even possible for site owners who want to opt out of malware profits to do so.
If the server doesn't know that Computer 2 had the file earlier

My point is that you could keep the server as the master, without having to upload the contents before pushing to other machines. Imagine this exchange:

Computer 1 > server: I have a new file X, created on timestamp Y, with hash Z
Server > computer 1: ack
Server > computer 2: there's a new file X, etc. Computers [1] have it.
Computer 1 > server: ack. I'm requesting it from computer 1.

The server doesn't actually need the contents, just the metadata.

By the way, this is all fairly archaic. Nowadays with DVCSs, you can do much niftier things. I have a network of five git-annex nodes, some of which have two degrees of separation (my Android tablet syncs with my personal laptop, which syncs with my VPS, which syncs with my work laptop) and it all runs smoothly.
DS1 clocks are not required to be synchronized, they are interleaved into DS3 with lossless bit-stuffing.

When there is a loss of frame sync, signalling channels are inhibited. There's no transient synchronization recovery condition where channels are misaligned, the frame sync must be recovered first, and when it's recovered, all channels are correctly aligned. I used to design this equipment. I'm afraid this explanation is not correct.
How about a car (or two)? Let the rich parents buy an SUV to haul the entire soccer team.
Boy and girl are common terms even after adulthood. It's not inherently demeaning.
In U2 you get ships by having some item that lets you "take over" the ship, and then by a pretty easy bug[1], duplicate the ship repeatedly.

[1] It was hard to not exploit the bug.
Of course it remains to be seen, but beachstartup said "instantly."
"patently" should be discontinued as meaning obviously? It makes it confusing when you look at existing patents...
Is annotating anything actually profitable?
Perhaps in an "enterprise" form for internal document review or whatever.
This has nothing to do with other wronged men. It's also got nothing to do with women speaking out about sexual assaults either. It's about a malicious and untrue slur by another person on his character and behavior. If he had any shred of self-respect or honor, he would be vigorously defending his reputation by whatever means he saw fit.

Sadly he seems to have neither.
That may be true, but the harder parts about being a sniper get a lot easier if you're as accurate from a mile as today's snipers are from 200M.
Yet you feel entitled to redefine the American dream? This is the American dream:
http://wthhistory.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/leave-it-to-be...
This would be really interesting with some sort of selector to see how the costs and relative balance would change by region/state.

For instance, in the DC area it would be far more - probably nearly double for housing, utilities and education/childcare. Median home price here is $400k, electricity is $0.13+ kWh, daycare is $500-1000/mo, private school is $11-30k+/yr.

Personally, I spend far more than listed in each category above plus taxes and far less on nearly every 'extra' and several 'essentials'.

Also, since a surprising number of people commenting here don't seem to be familiar with the phrase:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream
we also live in a society where many many more people are sexually assaulted every hour of every day but hey some nerds might get their reputation in a kerfluffle so same difference really
Is this in any way a response to Amazon's cognito?

Congrats either way, but it seems like a petty update just to show off against Amazon.
That's not self-fulfilling. Add up all of the essentials without considering taxes. Figure out how much income it would take to pay for all of those things. Work out the amount of taxes that you would owe on that income. Add it to income.

Of course, you now have to take into account this extra income and add that to the taxes, and you'll add that result to the total income, which'll need taxing, but this fortunately has a closed form solution, and we can quickly calculate a final number. At least I think other people could quickly calculate it.
Nice piece. And a quicky, can a compositor be a client of another?
Yes I did, thank you. The second amendment is the fourth article of the Bill of Rights.
One more little thing: immigrants are coming here with $20 bucks to their name, washing cars, or driving them, or cleaning windows, or doing lawn, or being engineers, or whatever. They talk about the American Dream.

$130k is an offensive number to call the Dream.
Yeah, a LibreSSL dev has replied saying as much. I did not realize this was meant to be a preview release, or I would not have been so critical. (But I do think they could have made this more clear in their announcement and/or version scheme.)
Junk food and reality shows/professional sports nowadays.
I live by myself and I spend about $800/month on food. Food is expensive man. Restaurants and groceries combined. Tends to be about half-half.

But I do workout a lot so I tend to eat like a monster. Still ...
> on the 'taxes' segment: most people won't owe $32k in taxes unless they're actually earning a high amount anyway, so it's sort of self-fulfilling - if you include $32k in taxes, then yes, you'll need to earn far more than that to pay those taxes.

For the article they want to present a gross income figure, i.e. what salary do you need to afford the American Dream. The figure for taxes is simply the income tax due on a salary high enough to have an after-tax (net) income equal to the other expenditures. There's nothing funny or self-fulfilling about it.
...It does? Really?
And that's going to cost you less than $900 a month, including insurance, repairs, and fuel?
I think that you have a lenient notion of what sexual assault is, and especially that you're inexperienced with feminist thought based on your inappropriate "willfully emphasized" remark (which should correctly be "worn for personal choice and not for the approval of men.")
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I don't agree with them either. Too low. A family of 4 would drive two cars. With two breadwinners they would have to spend a lot on childcare until the age of 12. The housing expenses seem extremely low. Cheap house and maintenance is unneeded?

130K wouldn't cover my bills, that's for sure.
Which peers are connected to which, for example.
Think bigger: a drone at 2000 ft having to deal with the cross-wind from different altitudes.
In all fairness, most pop music is pretty vacuous. The Wall annotations are pretty good, a nice mix of references from the movie and personal anecdotes of the band members, e.g. http://rock.genius.com/Pink-floyd-nobody-home-lyrics
Less offensive than an immigrant washing a car being called the American dream.
Are you saying that this was written by someone who would like Americans to spend more?
It can actually be even simpler:

sort -u file1.txt file2.txt | tr A-Z a-z > whitelist.txt
I'm not sure whether I'm more offended by the grammar or the content of your user name.
> saves energy

As far I understand this is not true. Can anyone smarter than me comment?
We should probably be more worried about the non-lethal weapons that can be used to effect control and compliance — like the mobility denial and active denial systems.

At least firehoses, dogs, and guns have a chance of illiciting sympathy from onlookers (e.g. the international community). Protesters on a big slip-n-slide will probably just end up on /r/funny.
Mission accomplished.

Maybe they could switch to a hip, cool font when everything's finished. Right now, it's in Comic Sans territory, because it's really not done.

I guess that makes OpenSSL crayon, I don't know... :) (Kidding!)
Maybe food is more expensive in Canada, but my family of 4 never eats out and we spend $250-275/week. I cook most things from scratch and I buy mostly local or organic dairy and produce which costs me an extra 25-30% depending on the season.
It doesn't need to be any more than what it (apparently) says on the tin. .50 BMG is very ballistically efficient as it is, so at shorter ranges, windage really isn't much of a concern. But at a couple of kilometres or more, drift can be significant. Keep in mind that these bullets will be used for individual kills of high-value human targets (no point putting it any differently; there's no advantage over tracers when used for automatic fire for antimateriel purposes where single shots would be ridiculous to contemplate, and there's no "shoot to wound" in the military, both by the rules of war and for more practical "he can still shoot back" reasons), and that recent operations (particularly in Afghanistan) have been in conditions where trying to get closer than a couple of clicks is suicidal due to lack of cover.
"Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox" is also available here thanks to Bill Gates and Alex and Carolyn Brooks: http://www.gatesnotes.com/media/features/books/Bill_Gates_Jo...

Only about halfway through that, and I'm amazed at how history has repeated itself in regards to copyright law.
Sure it does:
https://gist.github.com/brettcannon/82c4fe68bac30f4ed653#fil...
None of the exhibits in the takedown notice claiming "Popcorn Time Playing <Movie>" demonstrate any association between the exhibit and Popcorn Time. They could be from any streaming service.
Does this only work with foursquare?
And it's still bizarre the gov't put so much emphasis on that event, given the fact that they must have known that the destroyed data was never the only existing copy.

The only reasonable explanation for this seems to be a strategy of intimidation.
When was the last time you visited? Ignoring our other channels (many of which, including News and Lit (née Poetry), have been in place for a long time), we've been working very hard to decrease the "geekspeak" and unfunny humor annotations. Guidelines have been in place against these types of annotations since I've joined over 12 months ago, and we're still trying to work through the 3 year backlog of bad annotations, while keeping up with the new stuff. Try looking at some of our more popular pages, or some of the stuff on other channels, such as news.genius.com. There's a lot of value possible in annotating, analyzing and contextualizing primary sources!
How about just re-using, by writing on the back, the reams of paper that is printed on one side, that your printer spits out, and much of which is discarded. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
I don't think web developers are under any obligation to provide support for people who selectively disable portions of the page they built. If you want to turn off javascript, downloading images, the color blue, etc, that's your right, but you can't comment on the user experience when you've deliberately muddled with it.
> Look, the American Dream is about being able to have a reasonable life, keep your family healthy and safe, be a free citizen, and work hard to earn your living

No, its always been about having two general things:
(1) Experiencing continually improving material abundance by the standards of the time, and
(2) Not being prevented by imposed class or other restrictions from being able to attain even greater material abundance with the scope of one's own ability.

This has been pretty true even before the phrase "American Dream" for the concept was popularized in the early 20th Century, but was clearly attached to the original popularization of the term and to its use since then.

It has never been as modest as you present it.
Lunapads has been making these kinds of products for over 20 years (est. 1993): http://lunapads.com/underwear.html

Really great people there too, and their products last for years so it reduces a lot of waste.
Ask HN: Redis... but not in-memory?
I've grown to love redis quite a lot. Its data types are relatively easily understood, yet combinations thereof can be quite powerful. I would love to design an application using Redis' data-structure paradigms, yet I am concerned about limits regarding memory usage. Surely I could, at some interval, dump data to some other on-disk data store. Two questions then:

(1) what would be a good on-disk alternative data store?

(2) are there any alternatives to redis that are performant, yet have similar data models?

Of course, there is the VM route. But as the redis documentation itself says, "An important concept to take in mind is that Redis is not able to swap the keys, so if your memory problems are related to the fact you have too much keys with very small values, VM is not the solution."