skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really should only be used to drag and drop files from another application. If you just want to move elements around on the page mousedown, mousemove, and mouseup are all you need. I don't think we need a new API for this as it is pretty straightforward to roll your own.
What constitutes a "rip off"? It's hardly a rare or unique idea to emulate vintage monitors or terminals. Not to mention this is free and open source, rather than Cathodes paid/closed model.

While I own, use and love Cathode, I'm glad to see this project. Cathode has several annoying bugs and only a few developers to work on them. It is poorly optimized and slays battery. With a community of developers I think this has potential to exceed Cathode, if it hasn't already.
Good luck with that. Even the credit reporting companies get confused and can't figure out who I am accurately. And I actively help them since I like having credit cards and the ability to get mortgage loans.
In retrospect you are probably correct, or at least make a valid point, and it might have made the problem itself even clearer if I hypothetically slapped a license specifically naming the "Ford Focus by Ford" on something non-automotive, like Kelloggs Corn Flakes or a random Xbox video game.

However, that would violate the sanctity of the "automobile analogy", so for better or worse I stay within the automobile mfgr community. A sacrifice of technical excellence for style.
Gödel's Second Incompleteness Theorem, Explained in Words of One Syllable
I think you are right. However not a lot of people use privoxy compared to the many users of adblock-whatever. Also there aren't many people putting together their own squid3 build with custom list of sites to block.

Neither of these tools take that much effort to setup on a linux machine if you know what you are doing and have a rough idea of how the internet works.

Consequently, for people that cannot be bothered to invest the 10-20 minutes to get privoxy working, the less than perfect solutions offered by the adblock-whatever freebees are okay by me.
Hehe, anytime, just give us a language with the same features and the same ide support etc and I'll happily let you bring along your improved standard library, nicer syntax etc.

I don't think most developers would miss the craziness, I don't think the features are tied to the craziness of the language and I'm sure a lot of us would change as soon as it became production ready (if not earlier.)

(Hoping for Hack to be a step in the rigth direction.)
There really is nothing particularly more appealing about the ratio 1:1.618.. (the golden ratio) than there is about ratios of 1:1.5, 1:1.666.. or even 1:1.333.., for that matter.

It has a bunch of interesting properties, but aesthetics is not one of them.
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>If a faint light from under a door is able tu suppress melatonin, does this mean utilities such as f.lux are completely useless?

I found f.lux only a little helpful -- it wasn't until I added blackout curtains and started wearing blue-blocking glasses at night around the house that I noticed a strong effect.

Glasses are super annoying to wear though.
> If you think about it, that sums up almost any robust back-up system you go to the effort of setting up

Exactly, which is why people should think harder than they do about backups. You should make sure that you are not exposed to risk you don't want to be exposed to because someone else's development priorities differ from your point of view.

True data protection is unfortunately a complicated business and most people see the flashy presentations on services' sites and trust all is well without giving it a second thought.

While I agree it should be the service's responsibility to cover these eventualities, it is not good practise to assume that they do. You might misunderstand what they do and not see risk were it is present, they might have honest coding mistakes that cause problems down the line, there could be ineptitude anywhere down the line, and so forth. If you are paying for their service then you might legitimately expect to be covered by some for of insurance for loss in the event of it being caused by a problem in the code/infrastructure, but never assume that until being explicitly told it is present and you have read the small print, and don't ever assume this at all for a free/cheap service.
I'm glad Debian is putting their foot down on this issue. There are way too many careless and sometimes downright bad licenses floating around.

I've seen, and argued against, people using the WTFPL before: http://www.wtfpl.net/about/

Some, even in projects that could be considered "serious" and reused in another project (I won't touch a WTFPL licenses project because to me, it's not a license and is way to legally ambiguous).

I've seen way to many developers think they can write up some text and call it a license and it's "good". Not the case.

Pick a real license that was written by lawyers and has well understood (and preferably previously challenged) legal ramifications.
I agree, his language is incredibly inflammatory and generally unnecessary. But he's done a really good job of writing up the flaws, so I suppose the tradeoff in this case was worth it.
Eh? What's this?
Sadly, that wreaks havoc with zsh autocompletion.
Chromium and Chrome differ in a number of ways beyond the name and trademark, though.

Iceweasel is literally just Firefox packaged for Debian, except with a different name and icon. I don't think there is any functional difference (beyond the normal distro-specific packaging that every distro does).

Chromium lacks a number of features that Chrome has, because Chrome comes bundled with a bunch of proprietary components that will never be distributed with Chromium.

A basic example is that Chromium cannot (without a patch) display PDFs in-browser, the way Chrome can. Chromium also cannot support Chromecast, or any of the many other Chrome-specific features, of which there are many[0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/AIxYzl9.jpg (screenshot is from Firefox, but it illustrates how much Google focuses on Chrome-specific functionality.)
Hardly.

"Dropbox is a home for all your photos, docs, videos, and files". -- https://www.dropbox.com/tour/1
$1B is a lot of money in the US too, even for a company's valuation.

But to raise $1B is, well, astronomical.
Since all the files are sync'ed to the computer, nothing would be lost unless selective sync was enabled.
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I think it was this guy. http://blog.initlabs.com/post/16359268329/how-i-reduced-goog... The project he wrote about seems to have changed direction though.
Honestly, no, Caotctin does some interesting things, but they are a bit hit and miss and I wouldn't go hugely out of my way for them.
That is simultaneously the worst and the clearest car analogy I've ever seen.
Here's one: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Because kids are sad sad sad. Haha. I also work in an educational institution doing IT. This, as you get from my anecdote above, was not my educational background.

It is funny people laugh when they hear me bust out into Arabic in front of them. I told them I am a language major by trade, and did IT in college to make money. Many people congratulate on mastering these "magical bodies of knowledge that are witchcraft, because surely I (the person I am helping) could never get it." If you want scary, these are other people married to Arab men and women, as am I. Decades of exposure mean nothing.

Now why is that? Grades breed mediocrity. Good students stroke their ego, and most students give up when they cannot compete with good students. So we encourage people to believe "I am a magician that speaks computer" and "Arabic is impossible" (if you beleive that, try teaching and explaining inconsistent English grammar; Arabic has encoded in the morphology a lot of syntax that would scare you into seeing what is like a human programming language) and accept mediocrity because evaluation and rank is more important than effort. I see it so often, even from students, I mess with them when they come to my office. I never bitched to change my grades. Why? I was busy reading. Who cares!

Please keep being that professor, I hope you save some of them. What is the most cautionary part of that tale is the people in my story all end working for government, some as counter-terrorism and intel guys. They cannot string a sentence together in Arabic, despite the A, and dictate USG policy "on dem terrorist A-rabs" so this culture will get us a real far.
My own small contribution to a Debian Licensing Hassle:

http://lwn.net/1998/0611/ircii.html

I cold-called one of those guys and he was kind of amused by the whole thing. It was not much fun though.
BlaBlaCar is building a global transportation network out of empty car seats
I'm so stealing that starfield....
The Hit Man’s Tale: How an honors student became a hired killer (2012)
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I haven't read Freakonomics in several years, but was that essay stating that real estate agents were acting dubiously by knowingly taking advantage of the misaligned incentives, or was it just stating that there were misaligned incentives?

I don't think too many agents are overly crass in their taking advantage of sellers by pushing lowball offers. I think most homeowners can develop a general idea of what their house is worth if they just do basic comparisons, and if they have a mortgage or other obligations they must pay out of the home sale, can develop a halfway decent bottom-line figure. Also, when homeowners meet with an agent, one of the first things they discuss after seeing the property is listing price. The agent is incentivized to provide a non-lowball listing price because the owner has yet to sign a contract at that point and could still be soliciting other agents.

I think the real leveraging of the agents commission structure comes on more borderline decisions. For a $300,000 house, maybe the owner won't accept $275,000, but if an offer for $290,000 comes in, the agent may advocate for that offer just to get the deal done, even if she think a $300,000 offer will come in a few weeks.
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Flexport is hiring an office manager
Flexport (YC W14) is hiring an office manager

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Our mission is to bring the world free trade through technology. And we’re doing this with an online dashboard for global trade, backed up by a team of licensed customs brokers and logistics experts.

By giving small and medium-sized businesses the tools they need to do business across borders, we hope to empower the next generation of hardware startups, fashion designers and e-commerce businesses.

We’ve reached product-market fit, with almost 800 customers signed up to use our platform to manage their imports. Based on this traction and our team’s track record in the tech and logistics industries, we’ve just finished raising $4.2M from Google Ventures, Bloomberg BETA, First Round Capital, SV Angel, A Grade, and an incredible lineup of angel investors.

We are now looking for an experienced office manager and executive assistant to help make our team more focused and effective.

Office manager duties include bookkeeping, coordinating team meals and events, purchasing supplies, engaging with vendors, checking the mail, paying bills, depositing checks, running errands and generally making life easier for our amazing team.

In the role of executive assistant, you will help manage calendars for members of the senior leadership team as well as making and receiving phone calls on their behalf.

In addition, there will be an important project management component as you take on tasks to support our sales, marketing, finance, HR and operations teams. These projects may grow in importance over time, providing a clear avenue for career growth within the company.

Requirements:

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Bachelors degree or equivalent
Experience with Quickbooks
Great written and verbal communication
Type 60+ words per minute

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* Full health benefits
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Using land reclamation to contest climate change isn't much different than contesting it based on your fridge being cold.
UK Police Replacing Ads On Piracy Sites With Warnings
There is a lot of trash on paper(magazines, USWeekly, Celebrities,...), on tv (Jerry Springer, TMZ, etc...) online (websites, web apps), on desktop (software), why did we think mobile was going to be different?
Yes.

Have a look at https://github.com/gorhill/httpswitchboard/wiki/HTTP-Switchb...

If you just want Adblocking functionality check out https://github.com/gorhill/ublock

Same author as HTTPSB.
But future devs shouldn't have to "roll their own" when someone's done it before. Why not just rewrite the standard and make it sane? JQuery shouldn't be the de facto JS library, those features should be (and are being) integrated into HTML already.
Yeah, but IceCat is not the same as IceWeasel (it has different patches), so it makes sense for them to have different names.

Mozilla lets you use Firefox if you don't change the source; I believe Fedora and other distros release it with the original name. The difference is that, unlike Debian, they don't apply patches to the upstream source in their builds.

And I find it hard to believe that Google allows you to use the Chromium mark if you release a patched build; they're probably no different than Mozilla in that regard.
I have no doubt he's smart, but taking from your comment that in this arena, govn't software is often years ahead of private sector software, I don't for a single minute believe his patents are for technology he magically invented "on his own time."

I know the article tries to address this, but his "unique insight" can never (especially this soon) be separated from his knowledge of classified information and software techniques.

This is, IMHO, incredibly perverse.

Edit: clarification.
This is actually the point that makes no sense to me - after removing a folder from selective sync, the default (in my mind) should be to leave the folder alone. At the very least the user should be prompted or an option setting should be available to delete or leave the folder. 'Security' and 'disk space' are only two of the many reasons to not sync a folder.
Ahhhh that makes sense. I was incorrect in assuming the entire page had to be https. I'm sure google will change this quick, with google+ and all.
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I think the basic idea is that if Google helps high growth companies launch, using entirely their infrastructure, that will pay dividends down the road, in many areas across the company. Startups built and scaled on Google products will stay loyal and have vendor lock in.

Also the emphasis on UX assistance and Play store priority sounds like they really want to improve the Android ecosystem.
The software that runs the repository is nearly irrelevant for the purpose of this discussion. The question is solely about services, which are a lot more difficult to fund at scale.
Contact list and location history are scary enough, and I'm not a political activist.
Answer: Either-- Consider the Buyers perception, I'll find someone "cheap" (exploitable) on Freelancer.

But, if I need someone "expert/dependable/fast" I'll ask my peer network. Considering your marketing strategy, areas to explore: Who are your best buyers? How do you reach them? How do they reach you?
Well, I'd suggest using nothing (or noscript if you're actually just concerned about exploits), but if this Internet community is like any other Internet community, I'm probably in a very small minority.

I actually have pretty strong opinions on the matter, but they're entirely tangential and irrelevant, and not really in the spirit of HN, so I'll keep them to myself.
Trello i think
That's the other way around - Mozilla decided to start enforcing their trademark license more aggressively and told Debian to stop using the 'Firefox' trademark.
The original list of 500 Startups Batch 9 participants with background information for each startup was released a few months ago: http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/30/500-startups-accelerator-ba...

This is just a list of those startups with a somewhat-arbitrary ranking applied. (a startup with a -517 score?)
PGP AFAIK is simply encrypting the content of an email with the public key of the person you're going to send it to. The address is public. PGP is a bit of a hassle in terms of exchanging public keys and integrating with legacy email clients/web clients.

Bitmessage has additional features, such as the ability to broadcast messages from a public address to all subscribers.

Especially with this client, Bitmessage is actually much more user friendly and powerful.

To simplify,

PGP hides: content
Bitmessage hides: content, recipient, sender.
1) This is a joke. Perhaps unfortunate translation. Below it is written that the risk is small: You see, it's a popular trend nowadays to find epic errors related to security. But this one is most likely a tiny bug or even a correct piece of code written purposely.

2) I can not attentive examine each piece of code. Estimate the amount of work that I do :) - http://www.viva64.com/en/a/0084/ , http://www.viva64.com/en/examples/
Not everything developed by the government is automatically supposed to be available to the public so I guess I don't understand your point.
I like the minimalism in the UI.
Don't know how to get any use out of Channels though. Is it broken?
I would also add that when using optical discs for backup, M-Discs are probably preferable over conventional dye-based discs.
I'm paying for packrat on top of pro. Are you getting it for free?
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I remember watching as a kid a History Channel documentary on the NSA, or maybe encryption in general, with the name or theme at least "The Code Breakers and the Code Makers." Essentially, it ended with the observation that the NSA was in trouble: as advantage by the end of the 20th centry shifted from code breaker to code marker, and non-commerical and free encryption tools of higher quality than ever made government-sponsored code breaking many orders of magnitude harder than before.

As a budding nerd, I was thankful for this. HC painted the NSA as being painted into a corner, and even then I wondered for a moment what this would mean for them. Little did I know a decade later how angry the result would make me, and perhaps the exposure of the Clipper Chip was just some ironic leak so they could laugh at later successes.
Now consider the situation that the government official knows your company can deliver on time and in budget, with little fuss, and your competitors are known to underbid, over-promise, deliver very late or never and discuss endlessly over contractual fine language when they start failing.

It's absolutely disgusting that he'd craft his bid to the supplier he knows isn't taking shit, right?
Whistleblower protection hasn't been around for very long, and I'm not sure how it applies to private companies.

The "official" process is likely a very difficult set of hoops to jump through and you're not going to be promoted in that company more than likely, and fired at the first opportunity.
How to send TLS encrypted chat messages (JS)
Why is the Kim Kardashian game so successful?
There's still a big gap between "illegal activity" and "things I would prefer random strangers in the government not know about me".
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we'll call them "tah-oons"
For more like this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Case_File

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/us-manhattan-saic-...
That's kind of a weird thing to support that - not that I disagree, I love the build of my MBP... but a) it takes very little to consider a car totaled, and b) as a firefighter/paramedic, the very large majority of the time, even the most serious of car accidents don't result in the vehicle being crushed to the point where a laptop sitting on a seat is destroyed.
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I'd like an invite, please. :)
> .... I’m happy to say that in this case all of the problems reported would have been caught by the Rust compiler....

What about Last Line Effect ? :)
http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0260/
Is anything guaranteed to be accurate on any topic?
That's what's really happening behind the scenes with 99% of this stuff.

You have a prime contractor that then subcontracts the actual work to small companies and then the prime just handles project management and the government interface.

However, this ends up causing problems with the motivations of the individual actors not lining up.
> Alexander is believed to be the first ex-director of the NSA to file patents on technology that's directly related to the job he had in government.

I wish purely out of spite this schmuck could be the source of a whole class of new lawsuit by which certain government employees, like projects they work on, are legally required to do public domain work only. Like, their employment at a company becomes caustic so people who works at orgs like the NSA who have access to state secrets dedicate themselves to the cause for life and there is no chance for profit.

In short, this is disgusting and I dislike him more than even before.
Many thanks for the post, and the link which eventually led me to this, in which Martin Crawford also appears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVBYgg013KM

which also explains why both old (reliant on intensive manual labour) and modern farming methods (almost entirely reliant on oil) are unsustainable in the long term.
"For past 5 years, Release 1.0 is consistently projected to be 24-32 months away."

I have worked on project like this. Usually it's the sign of management failure (poor communication, poorly defined requirements, bad governance, inability to retain knowledgable employees) rather than technical feasibility. It's not like the software is pushing technical boundaries.

"Echoing McKinsey, Gershman said that without a strong leadership element, IT projects of this magnitude are almost doomed to fail from the start."

This is a big problem. Because employees know these problems will fail, the smartest avoid them like the plague.
Spain's newspaper publishers put their faith in 'Google tax' law
The argument is that they're not blocking all ads, but they're blocking ads of poor quality, are overtly disruptive (ostensibly the name of the game in advertising) or are potentially harmful to users.

Which is why you can opt in/out of things like Google Adwords.
Thank you so much for f.lux ... My sleep specialist had this same recommendation for my DPSD. Thanks again!
Design By Committee
I use my Time Capsule's USB port to attach an external drive that is shared so that Crashplan can backup to a folder on it. That's in addition to using Crashplan Central for cloud backups and Time Machine.
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Nice site and idea. I think this will hit a chord with a lot of people right now who are looking to save time and effort but still want to eat right. The second two images of food didn't load the same as the first two. I couldn't tell what they were.
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I was thinking more of the cases where the teachers and principals change the students test scores to pass state exams.

Here is one example of many -> http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/justice/georgia-cheating-scand...