skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Office Hours offers professional website critiques for people with startups or side-projects who don't have a full-time designer handy.

Before I launch the service, I need a few volunteers to have their website critiqued and who are okay with the results being promoted publicly as examples. (These are offered for free)

Visit https://www.dustinkirk.com and enter your email.
I'll contact folks until I get at least three volunteers.
Anybody who argues that they have "nothing to hide" is just announcing that they cannot reason beyond their own self-interest.

Sometimes it's not about "you".
Pretend You're Xyzzy – An online Cards Against Humanity clone
So what is the problem with "indians" - is that word from a time when people thought they had discovered the passage to India?

Maybe just "natives" would be sufficient? Not all uncontacted tribes are in the Americas afaik (for example I've heard about a tribe in some Russian mountains).
There's a fundamental misconception about things like labour violations and general mistreatment: workplaces only do it knowingly.

Corporations liked LinkedIn ought know better, but smaller companies don't get the 101 on things like this.

This is one of many opportunities for companies like YC to lay out some of these 101s and work to make them industry standards.
If you like this kind of effect, you should also check out VideoCopilot because inserting 3D objects on top of reference images or video is a recurring use of After Effects (it even ships with a lite version of Cinema4D now).

Example with a 3D truck:
http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/3d_truck_compositing/

This and Photoshop's context-aware fill (to help fill the holes left from removing the object in the reference image) are very handy to achieve such effects.
As I understand it Cloudflare doesn't cache non-asset traffic (like html pages) by default unless you put it on a whitelist on a paid plan. I think the business case is to protect against DDOSes by having Cloudflare route the traffic off your origin servers.
PopTiles: Very simple to play yet very hard to score kind of game [android]
Premature Scaling
That would be totally valid if the CA industry wasn't so terrible. But given that encryption without authentication and trust is more or less theatre, we need a solid replacement for the current CA scene before mandating TLS is sane.
"Our friends at Google will also be joining us in the beta. They share our vision of a more energy-efficient world with less traffic congestion and pollution in our cities and are excited to be early adopters of UberPool."

I don't quite understand what that means. Are they saying that all Google employees have access to the beta, or is Google involved in some other way?
Which would in turn create a massive opportunity for companies like Bayer to undercut the market. The concept that the government would be more incentivized and thus more likely to discover novel uses for a product than it's sellers doesn't really make sense to me.
That popped into my head as well.

I have a similar hypothesis about moderate alcohol intake. Maybe it's not the flavanoids etc. in wine that provide the most benefit, but rather the stress-reduction effect of regular moderate alcohol consumption.

Chronic stress is extremely underrated as a contributing factor in long term declining health. I wonder if there might be evidence of a similar connection with Asprin.
I'll try to speak on behalf of the MDs opposed to the general population using Aspirin at all. I think the main reason is that it's easier to take risks for yourself where you'd be hesitant to exposing someone else to the same risk. And they do have a point.

People with bio/medical knowledge are probably able to recognize signs such as stomach problems and act accordingly, but they can't really expect patients to. Aspirin messes up coagulation beyond belief. While that is a boon to some people, issuing a blanket blessing of the substance means people will die in emergency rooms and on operating tables, people who could have been saved if they weren't on ASS. For most MDs, weighing that statistical certainty against a comparatively fuzzy list of preventive benefits which may or may not be favorable for some patients is not a hard decision to make. Hence the verdict: "don't use it, even though I myself do use it".

Again, accepting this for yourself can be an informed decision, but it's not one you want to make on behalf of the general population.

In my case, it's similar. I judge my risk factors in a way that Aspirin is more likely to prolong my healthy life, but I know there is increased risk of complications in other areas. I have no doubt that 90% of all GPs when asked would categorize my taking 250mg per day as abuse.
Note: this isn't endorsed by the creators of CAH, AFAIK, but CAH is released under Creative Commons and the creators encourage people to create their own sets.
Indeed; since timezones have the same abbreviations for multiple different timezones, it is difficult to collect a set of abbreviations that are consistent across a data set.

I wrote cpppo (https://github.com/pjkundert/cpppo.git) to work with industrial data communications in various timezones. The cpppo.history module assures fast and consistent handling (and serialization/deserialization) of time series data across a selected set of consistent timezone abbreviations.

If speed and consistency is an issue it may be of interest.
Stellar Value – Digital Currency Prices and Exchange Rates
Digia, and anyone else who might still use it, please remove AddThis.

http://www.propublica.org/article/meet-the-online-tracking-d...
1) There are regimes that would lock you up (or worse) for looking at some "purely informational" sites.

2) Defaults matter and developers make mistakes. Without required TLS many sites that should be encrypted won't be (they forgot, the site grew into something it didn't used to be, they had no idea what TLS was, etc)
The GPLv3 GPU Is Now Available
Good point. Date & Time is one of those subjects that seems relatively easy to the uninformed, but actually requires some pretty careful consideration and domain-specific knowledge to get correct.
I remember seeing a significant software update a couple of months ago, which was supposed to be a big upgrade to hand tracking. Have you tried it after that?
Roomba Teardown
This article has a great response to that argument: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/07/28/Privacy-E...
Task Force on the Future of MIT Education Releases Final Report
> Cost

The certificate issue is a browser problem. Self-issued certificates are trivial to produce, and in the era of mandatory TLS they probably should not produce the huge scary browser warnings we see today. I'm not a UI expert, but I could envision a "medium severity" browser warning that states the connection is encrypted but the certificate can't be verified. I don't see the logic behind abandoning encryption entirely rather than tolerate some level of self-signed certificates.

> Limited choices.

Arguably the whole CA system is in need of serious reform. This is orthogonal to HTTP/2 and TLS.

> Encrypted browsing is simply unnecessary for certain classes of sites (non-logon, informational sites).

I could not disagree more. Encryption is--from an efficiency standpoint--literally just some bit-twiddling (after key exchange). The efficiency cost is trivial, the social benefits are enormous. It's very much worth it.

> It increases the barrier for entry to put a basic website up.

This is one advantage of baking it into the protocol. If the HTTP/2 implementation takes care of the details of encryption (including certificate generation if necessary), website authors don't need to be concerned with it. Everything will just work.

> Internal network communication becomes a lot harder with self-signed certificates.

As stated above, certificates are not barriers. If your network is "trusted", then why would you care if the certificates are self-signed? You are arguing instead to not use encryption at all! Do you see how backward this is?
A Simple Golang Network Library
I assume he's referring to harvesting of resources in space - e.g. comets contain large amounts of (frozen) water, so one way of getting water into space could be to send small spaceships up to harvest it from comets, rather than big spaceships full of water that is then costly to power up out of earth's gravity well.

Of course, how you get that water to the target is another matter - getting it to a space station could be hard, but maybe you could pull chunks off the comet and send them crashing into, say, Mars. This might be a way of 'terraforming', to get water into the atmosphere, maybe even allow some of it to collect into small lakes, then you send some probes over with plants to start growing, bootstrap your way up.
Because for a standard to actually become standard, you have to make it desirable for the people who you're trying to talk into switching to it.
This was common in Fiji. You stand on the road and flag down the van, make sure its going to the right place and pile in. Its like private bus.
Well, much in the way that the land we have today exists due to how it was shaped by history (1000 years ago, there probably wasn't a paved road and electric wires run to the plot of land you have now), no creative work exists in a bubble. If you're writing a story, you're building on generations of story tellers that came before you. As powerful and social creatures, there is nothing we can do that is not either directly or indirectly related to tons of other people's work. Nothing exists solely by virtue of your creativity, intellect, and effort.
Well, it's new for a country where people are quite uncomfortable being close to strangers.
I strongly protest your assumption that others must work on a project all of the time in order for it not to be called "maintained", and that lack of commits after two months is worthy enough to post to HN.

Many projects are bursty, including my own. If you look in the history you'll see a commit gap from 2013-08-02 to 2013-11-29, then a couple of days of commits, and then a gap until 2014-04-24. That's 8 months with only a few commits.

A 2 month period of inactivity seems normal for the current state of this project.
Brits will send 300B IMs in 2014, and it's all down to sexting
Which may appeal to you as a developer, but from a user perspective, that isn't a good thing.

Consider this analogy: Would you buy an "open-source" deadbolt for your house? Great feature for aspiring locksmiths! But very likely not such a great feature for 99.9% of home owners.
If anything that argument supports making copyright stronger than other property rights. Even though my story, movie, or computer program builds on the past, it's still much more the result of my own effort than any land I own. I did very little of the work involved in stealing my back yard from Indians, clearing it, leveling it, running electricity, sewer, and water to it, etc.
> Law: Prohibits any person from driving a motor vehicle if a video monitor, or a video screen or any other similar device that displays a video signal is operating and is located forward of the driver's seat or is visible to the driver. Provides exceptions for emergency equipment. Statute: California Vehicle Code §2890 (West 2004) Penalties: No Penalty Specified.

Really? So are Sat Navs banned in California?
You can get a HUD in a Corvette, but it simply displays info from the gauge cluster.
entirely untrue. do your homework.

sasha almost exclusively synthesized compounds that were already in the academic literature. he reproduced others' work and gave minimal attribution.
How two 22 year-old's turned a $3,000 business into a $100M company
Only if the clients were going to make those annual payments anyway.

Consider the scenario in which a plumber does a job, then dies before he gets paid. Should that invalidate your debt, or should you still pay what you owe to the plumber's estate? It seems obvious that it's the second one.
But this is something clients can actually do today, without the need for a new protocol or any awareness on the server side. URL isn't HTTPS? Don't load it. I actually did a Firefox plugin that implements this, called http-nowhere.

Yes - and my understanding is that the browser developers are going to require all HTTP2 connections to be over TLS anyway.
Pitching Your Current Investors
The game combines the simplicity of tile based Android games with the highly addicting nature of a reflex-testing Android game. The soothing background music is an added bonus.
i know i'm going to get downvoted, but illumen is completely correct.

there is nothing so american as downvoting the truth.
Your local network may be trusted, but self-issued certificates are effectively worthless to regular internet users, because they make MITM attacks trivial. This is the reason they have huge scary warnings.

Encryption without authentication and trust defeats passive snooping but does absolutely nothing to protect against MITM, which is a real and prevalent threat.

Setting HTTP/2 to encrypt everything but removing the big warnings that appear when trusted authenticity cannot be established would be a net security downgrade, because the lay user will trust their connection when they ought not.
A few handy git tricks
Were they purposefully going for the "stoned" vibe with that video? Just seemed like an odd choice for something they are trying to say is both safe and cool.
You seem to be implying in your last paragraph that people won't care as much about making money if they didn't put in a lot up front. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. These movies made money by the truckload. Surely the people who made it would enjoy truckloads of cash even if they hadn't been required to pay for the rights.
Glad to see such transparency here from another dad. As a father of two we often bite the bullet and sometimes loose track of work/life balance. Time with loved ones is the most valuable asset a person can ever have. I'm sure this story will inspire other's to reevaluate their path.

I recently changed my working hours from 7-3 so I can pickup my kids from school. This way I get to spend more time with with and not put them in after hours care.

What are others doing to get more work/life balance?
The interesting point is numbers are just a distraction. All you have to do is remember the tiles pattern if you want to make a good score. ;)
This. I can't look at the passenger ether when I'm driving, even on very familiar roads. I never thought this is awkward - but if the passenger is not a friend/ close acquaintance, I mention it casually that I am in fact listening to them even if I'm not looking at them.
The best I could do is keep nodding or make agreeing sounds.
Point 1 is not false;

I work in Quality Control for artisan distillers - heads and tails recycling is an important part of the production process, and requires both skill and testing to make sure methanol is removed from the spirit.

A bootlegger would need 1) a fractional still or 2) precise temperature control and monitoring - they were unlikely to have either.

Furthermore, I find it doubtful that an illegal bootlegger would have used pure sugar for their mash - that would have been far more expensive than the purchase of grain.

Finally, on point 1, the foresight and knowledge to remove methanol doesn't come in a nice pamphlet with the illegal still - we know that a lot of the alcohol produced by the illegal bootleggers (who the government did not have control over) was contaminated with methanol (And other heavy metals or contaminants).

On point 3;
Sure... that's almost right...

Industrial alcohol not made for human consumption would already contain methanol and other contaminants;
the law establishing a minimum level of contaminants to render it undrinkable by humans did theoretically make it more harmful.

That does not constitute a "Federal Poisoning Program". - when someone hears those words, they don't think "the government established that already undrinkable industrial alcohol must contain a minimum level of naturally occurring contaminants to stop individuals from consuming it";

they think "the government purposely added poison to alcohol sold to individuals for consumption" - which is not what happened.
Legislation is not unlike programming. Programs and legislation both have bugs. Many government assistance programs currently have bugs. But bugs can be fixed. And sub-systems can be refactored.

Sure, at some point, a program can become so complex that the desire to do a greenfield rewrite is very strong. But Second System Syndrome is a real thing. And people taking advantage of a rewrite to move goal-posts and shift focus for personal political/pet-goal reasons, to the detriment of the new system to achieve the existing goals, is a real thing.

I would very much like to refactor the every living hell out of government assistance programs. But I'm extremely wary of people who want to do a fundamental rewrite. Particularly when those people have no historical interest in the program's success. Doubly so, when those people demonstrate they have put no priority on representing, understanding or achieving the original system's goals.
Trivial only in the sense that there was no question Klinger had the right to recover under 17 USC§505; the decision on the case itself was obviously more important.

Even then, though, it was obvious the estate had no case in regards to the out-of-copyright work, and their argument was laughably specious. If their theory had won out, judges would be called upon to do double duty as literary critics, which no sane jurist would go anywhere near. (When a judge calls your appeal "bordering on quixotic," you aren't facing a sympathetic bench.)

It is important to note that the lower court did find that the use of elements from in-copyright stories (such as Watson's athletic background, or Holmes' retirement from detective work) would constitute infringement, and that such elements were incremental expressions that were protectable. My expectation is that, until the entire canon is out of copyright, publishers will continue to pay the estate rather than have to run the risk of an author illegally if inadvertently importing still-copyrighted aspects into a story.
Researchers extract sound from silent videos
Is the precision tiny or huge? :>
I am guessing OP is referring to the ability to reliably orbit and land on comets (and asteroids). We can use them for manned way stations or construction platforms. Not to mention mining them for whatever useful stuff may be in there.
China Said to Exclude Apple From Procurement List
> That's not how evidence works.

Evidence? My concern isn't using said data for evidence if you are accused of a crime. My concern is the use of this data in a non-legal manner for purposes beyond my control. These uses range from mundane stupid crap all the way to the worst paranoia of the biggest conspiracy theorists. Doesn't matter at what level it is, any level beyond the current publicly available law that we have been allowed to know about is too far to me.

Plus, all it takes is some national emergency for the government to give itself permission to waive that whole warrant thing. You know, to save us all from something.
I ain't no doctor! But that logic would also follow in prescribing regular aspirin for heart attacks:

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/105/9/1135.full

Atherosclerosis, formerly considered a bland lipid storage disease, actually involves an ongoing inflammatory response...

And if you want to get downright controversial,

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367001/

ketogenic diets are prescribed for the same reason (carbohydrates cause inflammation in a lot of people)
Very nice tutorial. My daugther (6y) has enjoying the 1st levels. But she do not get the proc part of the second part.

Dyarosla, can you consider adding an easy level with "P1"? A very very long blue line would be perfect to learn to call P1x12 instead of enter (Walk+Light)x12.

Can you also add more basic levels: she had liked to solve them, but now she doesn't want to play again. The levels are "already done" or "too hard".
And if you notice, they aren't ignoring Bitcoin's role, they're attacking it! So in a sense, they are helping crypto by admitting Bitcoin's faults and attempting their own solution.
A lot of airplanes only have one pilot.

It comes down to probabilities. While driving, stare at a map for 15 seconds. What are the odds that you crash? Probably quite high. Better than 50/50, I'd say. Now, when flying, stare at a map for 15 seconds. What are the odds that you crash? It's not zero, but it's close.
Then why doesn't the market leading companies use M$? Because it's not worth it.
He was doing experiments that you can only do with a special permissions grant from the DEA. A chemist, he was bestowed with the rights to house and manufacture the chemicals that are on Schedule I (no source, sorry) and later, when it was more convenient for the DEA to discredit him, they drummed up some phony test results showing slightly elevated levels of mercury in the ground around his lab, and used this as an excuse to destroy his lab and revoke his certifications.

I never heard of this person before he died, but I did read about him after that, and he was no friend to a tyrant, let me assure you. Spend some time reading other sources about him if you are really interested, I'm sure the Wiki article as they tend to do paints both pictures, but I think you'll find very few (individual) people with a single mind about him that didn't like him a whole lot.
The probe weighed in at 3,000kg at liftoff back in 2004, with over half of that made up of propellant

Wow I am starting to understand why they are so interested in that propellant-free drive.

Does the comet actually have enough gravity to make an orbit happen or is the orbit completely artificial?
Oh, look, FUD.

>Microsoft: Proven security development lifecycle

>Linux: Security threats?

You owe me a new keyboard. This one is full of coffee.

Also got to love the whole "Linux doesn't do AD" BS. If you still live in 2005, perhaps not, but that's about it. You could also argue that AD is a misfeature, given the almost hilarious insecurity of NTLM password hashes, etc.
I thought that was essentially the final admission, that they had to collect everything to be able to filter out what they were actually looking for. If they could target exactly what they wanted then there would be no need for any type of filtering system.
what a game!.. gets really hard once you reach 50 odd... yet to beat the 70 barrier ...

die Poptiles die!! I really hate you.. like i love you..
BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) - Belfast

Hiring several new Web Application Developers

http://careerssearch.bbc.co.uk/jobs/job/Web-Application-Deve...
Laugh of the day
Rarely used, low-level Socket class intentionally doesn't perform automatic SSL certificate verification

It is true this class is rarely used, but it does not mean that security is optional for rarely-used APIs. As can be seen from the linked CVE and the list of affected applications, the problem is real and needs more developer attention.

and is documented as such

I beg to differ. The SSLSocket class documentation not only does not mention this fact, it creates the illusion that SSLSocket is secure. The fact that a different document mentions this shortcoming can hardly count as "documentation", especially with the grave implications for apps.