skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a parent I'm concerned that my kid could run up a big bill this way.

Practically, at this point in time, he's 12 years old and pretty smart about this kind of thing. What I do know is that different kids develop differently and at an earlier age he might have bad judgement about this sort of thing. I see preverbal children using tablet and phone apps (even sometimes small animals) so there really is a risk that some kid somewhere is going to run up a big bill not understanding the consequences.
Moving an OpenVMS cluster 7km without downtime (2003)
Why the apathy?
Technology people like to think of themselves as the chosen ones, the ones who get to change the world. I'm all about this. I also understand that forums like HN are for technology topics and everyone tries their best to keep on-topic.

However, I find that this has created a "culture" of keeping far-away of highly-charged geo-political topics and I find this apathy unacceptable.

The fact that hundreds of children are being killed in the middle east today IS your problem. It MUST be addressed by you. Especially if you pretend that you're changing the world, that you are leading humanity... What are YOU doing about this problem? Why this complete apathy on such important topic?
This is the fashion. Startup websites aren't supposed to repel you with technical details on the home page. "Furniture, truck, phone, whitespace" is enough. What more do you need to know? Just click the button.
I am not sure that I buy that. Charging the battery moves molecules from one electrode to the other. The number of atoms in the battery doesn't change. Do they really get heavier by virtue of changing their arrangement?

If you use that logic (and maybe it is right) then it seems to me as though pushing a rock up a hill makes it ever so slightly heavier too.

Maybe that's my complete lack of intuition about non-classical stuff though.
Not really -- I have used both and they address different requirements (at least as of today). But definitely a competition for Evernote.
This contains already most of my realizations about management as well: it's a completely different job and your role to team and code will change as well. What I want to add is that you don't need to become a manager to make money. Most middle management doesn't make that much more money than the engineer. Building capital is more about what you do with your paycheck than the size of it.
Yes, the old system loved registration of everything. In theory you're still supposed to also notify of the new place you live at if you spend there over 3 days. In practice nobody cares.
Same username as HN, no Facebook account.
God is perfectly just. You can put God on TV talking from His temple.
I've been using the mobile app + web version for almost a year. I use the lists feature for shopping lists, works amazingly well.
I am sure their would be an enterprising local computer tech the community Internet "coop" could contract with and recommend for their users.
Er, isn't that the whole point of the article?

"Every time we learn something new and want to share it, we face these issues all over again -- the desire to proclaim, to overturn received wisdom all at once -- and the worse the received wisdom, the more vehemently we want to strike out. But if we are generous listeners and attentive teachers, we not only teach better and spread more knowledge, but also learn more, and enjoy ourselves more in the process."
1) There is nothing that indicates that this "encryption upgrade" wasn't planned for some time. Correlation ≠ causation, and all that.

2) The very word "terrorist" is disputed, and depends on your side in any given dispute. It is the "high treason" of the 20th and 21st century, an accusation or insinuation used mainly for political reasons and not for actual utility: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism "In the international community, terrorism has no legally binding, criminal law definition."

3) The fact that 21st century treason is being casually associated with open source is DEEPLY disconcerting to me. I would go to war for a very few things, but any attack on open source is a direct attack on me AFAIC.
Finished the mvp and would love you guys' feedback on the idea/initial reaction of the home page. See potential?
Thank you for the comments. Getting users to play head-to-head has worked well for other titles (Letterpress comes to mind) however there isn't much variability on this game in its current incarnation so I believe I need to improve on the concept first.

I have thought about taking the time into account as you suggest, however once you complete a game with a given score it is very easy to repeat it faster with a screenshot on the side.

I'm also not sure if the concept will prove engaging enough to have a lot of returning users. In any case, I'm not expecting this to be a big hit, and just wanted to get it out there and see how it goes.
I remember those days and the world was outraged. How is that a different attitude?

But unlike MH17, the US took the downing of the Iranian airliner right on the chin and didn't try to deflect. They went to court (ICJ), paid the victims, and punished those responsible. It's too bad we don't see that with MH17. I wonder if we will ever see those responsible punished.
Not in the real world.
I read through the first half of this book (link at end) and some of the ideas in it may help you. It talks about some specific examples of iterating through the validation cycle. I can't say that I've created a multi-million dollar business off of the ideas in it. But some of the specific steps that the author outlines just make sense once you read them. http://runninglean.co/
The bezigon tool for one, a more sensible and thought-out feel and flow, lots of small features that Just Worked. It's been a while so I can't comment further, but Freehand was a far better tool for me. Illustrator is more of a hodgepodge / mishmash / design-by-committee thing somehow.
It's wholesale surveillance, surely everyone has changed their behaviour by at least a little.
Large scale AJAX/JavaScript Enabled Web Crawling with Apache Nutch and Selenium
Falling Into The Pit of Success (2007)
I think you should definitely force new users to swipe through the tutorial - it's initially not obvious at all what the goal of the game is!
Internet.org- Facebook begins offering basic Internet services
Comfort Food Under the Keto Protocol – A.K.A. Binge Eating
Pocket (http://getpocket.com) has worked well for me, for quite a long time now. Highly recommended.
In practice, all of these unenforced rules are suddenly enforced if you can't get the undesirable person on anything else.

> “One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” -- Ayn You-Know-Who
If UX is a must, then Gargoyle is an option: http://www.gargoyle-router.com/
Strongly consider a monthly donation, too. Nonprofits really like recurring donations because it gives them a relatively stable funding base to use for future planning.
This makes the ridiculous assumption that fraudsters don't use proxies, they do.
Inside the stressed-out, time-crunched patent examiner workforce
The US did not punish those responsible.

No formal apology was ever even issued, no liability was accepted, those responsible were decorated, not punished. The US paid the value of the Jet they shot down and some money per victim but never admitted any guilt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
"...for years, al-Qaida has used an encryption program written by its own coders called Mujahideen Secrets."

Wow, that's crazy! I had no idea. Al-Qaida does their own software development? So weird.

Using their own homebrew encryption algorithms is a terrible idea, though. The NSA must have been all over this thing.
This! I've gotten into a few debates recently, and like clockwork they use "well country x does it too herp derp". Sorry, but other's criminal behavior doesn't magically justify yours. You are adding to the problem instead of solving it.

Same exact thing with religious debates.
But repeated exposure is what it takes for actual change to take place. Is this whole NSA scandal one of those heat of the moment topics that we're prepared to move on from so easily?
Basket – connecting events and lists with a social factor
But these talks are not your average talks, and well worth trying even if you don't normally ;)

For me its not that I don't watch videos, its just that either I don't have time to watch a video (whereas reading I can do as fast or slow as I want and I can skim), or it happens that I'm unable to watch a video for whatever reason but would be ok with reading (this happens a lot while I'm travelling - also the most likely time where I would like to read something like this).
I don't get why this was posted? There some news associated with this?

Google Keep is an app I have been using for over a year now... I think will submit a random Google service's website and make HN's front page also today.
You'd have to look at the settlement details to find out, but I believe the answer is that the settlement involves a lot of things Google wanted, like high-value adwords placement, and they expect to make a lot more money from that.
The gay laws that Putin has brought in seem to be about doing the minimum required to keep the Russian christian right happy while not actually making homosexuality illegal. I find this interesting, especially in light of Putin's many bare-chested photoshoots. I sometimes wonder if those laws might be partly a response to his advisers telling him that he was starting to get a bit of a gay following and that he needed to do something about it before the hardliners started suspecting his manliness.

I mean, really. - http://38.media.tumblr.com/880d58b9b6c9abf8ecc9fdbe4da497e0/...
I disagree but it is tough to reach consensus on this without a real definition being offered, and there was none.

You actually are free to express yourself however you like without violating laws or the civil rights of others. All I heard in the way of a definition is "... and I also want to be free of any consequences I really don't like.". Well, too bad because that doesn't exist and asserting such a "freedom" isn't much different than asserting that unicorns exist. It's a fantasy concocted in your head, not a real thing.
Related to that last part... after 10 or so years of using Emacs off and on (mostly when editing files remotely), I went full time with it a couple of months ago. In the beginning I used projectile the way the OP illustrates it works, but then I began streamlining and customizing that workflow even more.

An example of this is that as part of my job I have to maintain a handful of wordpress sites. We keep these sites in one git repo, but they are different sites altogether so the layout would be:

/sites/www/site1
/sites/www/site2
(and so on)

... with each site(N) being distinct Wordpress installations. One of the annoying aspects of maintaining a bunch of Wordpress sites like this is that they all contain the WP framework code (which I never edit) and all of the code that is edited frequently tends to be in each sites respective theme, all of which also tend to have the same filenames. So if you wanted to visit the header template for site1 you would fire up projectile, type in "site1/wp-content/themes/header.php" or some such and you'd probably get a hit. If you just typed in "header.php" you'd end up with a bunch of different hits, including Wordpress framework files, multiplied by the number of sites.

Projectile has a mechanism for ignoring files[1], which is nice for omitting framework code, but I wanted a workflow that was "On keystroke, prompt me for sitename and open a projectile prompt that autocompletes files for that site only". Turns out this is really easy. While Projectile will normally use git to determine its project root, you can actually add a .projectile file to any directory and that directory then becomes a project root. From there it's easy to write an interactive elisp function that will ask you which projectile project to load, then fire up the autocomplete. Bind that to a global key and it becomes really easy to break down your large-ish codebase into logical sub-projects and get to business quickly.

(Haha, I just realized how emacs-y that tip was.)

Lastly, if you find your .emacs configuration becoming unwieldy, or if you are like me and originally broke out mode specific configuration into distinct files (php.el, ruby.el, web.el) I can't recommend enough switching your config to one big org-mode + babel[2] file. Doing so was my first foray into org-mode and literate programming and I can't recommend it enough, if only for keeping your Emacs configuration sanely documented. I used this config as an example for getting started:

https://github.com/larstvei/dot-emacs/blob/master/init.org

[1] https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile#ignoring-files
[2] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/intro.html
Seems pretty tenuous to me. The 'link' seems to be 'some months after Snowden, those guys released new software with new capabilities'.
Assuming proton-proton fusion, the speed limit is about 12% c, relative to the interstellar medium (http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/slowerlight.php). That depends, however, on the assumption that the initial kinetic energy of the incoming hydrogen is completely wasted- that the ramjet does not have "regenerative braking", so to speak, that can recover some of the pre-existing kinetic energy. That's a pretty reasonable assumption from an engineering point of view, but physics theoretically allows us to do better.
I don't even think it is much competition for Evernote. They sit on two sides of the same need's spectrum of complexity, the extreme simplicity of Keep and the extreme feature-completeness of Evernote and OneNote. The main competitor of Keep is just Dropbox + some txt file.
What if programming languages were methods to eat an orange? (NSFW)
Looks cool but when I saw it the first question/thought popped into my mind was: "When will Google shut this down?"
That's fine, but the burbs are exactly that, the suburbs. You will find suburbs like you describe around any of the towns given here as examples.

You'll always have the suburb option. I think the question is more around the extent of 'automobile-centricity' we want.
wow, i worked on openvms for my first job out of school, amazing operating system, but i didnt get too much into the kernel, was wrapping cobol apps with ejb's. a pretty amazing os, you could cluster something like 256 some nodes and the os would distribute jobs across nodes depending on how you set up a cluster. i just remember everyone would say the os would have uptime in terms of years, not hours!

i used to also dabble a bit in dcl, digital command line, which is more like the shell scripting language for openvms.
What is your hourly freelance/consulting rate (in USD per hour)?
That's the biggest reason I'm not enthusiastic to use new google products. In this case, it looks nice and all, but Trello is more likely to still be there in 2 years.
With it being pre-installed on KitKat I just used it without thinking about whether it was "out" there yet. Great service that I use every day. You can even set each note with a reminder time or location that'll notify you (on phone and Wear) to, well, remind you of it. Great for things you remember at work but need for home etc...
By the way, I would say that despite the amount of work you have put into these ideas (a little or a lot), none of these pages made me want to "sign up". Some honest feedback:

LongCal - Though it is a prototype, it is very unclear how I would use such a tool. I use a regular calendar, and it is working for me just fine.

uTrim - It's been a while since I was in school, so I can't really say whether this solves a problem that I had.

Vulgat Library - sounds interesting, but I can't tell much from the landing page.

30x500 - I wouldn't shell out that much cash unless I have seen proven results (and not just off of their website copy). Do you know anyone who has gone through that program?
Ask HN: Have you ever been hacked?
Have you expeienced hacking? (as a victim or perpetrator)
...and my list of 146 completed items is still not sorted in any way at all...
Togethera (http://togethera.com) - London (Remote OK), Back-end developer

We’re building the easiest way for families and small groups to stay connected through private sharing of thoughts, photos and videos - on their smartphone, tablet or computer. We're a small team (http://togethera.com/about) and we're funded by a group of international investors, most of them entrepreneurs themselves.

Our product is driven by a RESTful API built in Python and Django, that serves our web (AngularJS) and mobile clients (iOS and Android). We launched our native iOS app two weeks ago and were been featured by Apple on day one. We're hoping to achieve the same with our Android app very soon and replicate the increase in traction we saw for iOS.

The existing architecture has served us very well and will continue to do so for the next few months. However, we feel that now is the time to build a new system that will:

- make the most of the lessons from the last 12 months and optimise performance of existing clients

- help us deliver our roadmap

- handle scaling as we're starting to grow fast

To do this we're looking for an experienced software engineer that understands databases, has worked with systems that had to scale fast and is comfortable with our stack and managing servers (we use Ansible). The ideal person has worked as a back-end/full-stack developer for a fast growing mobile startup.

----------------------------------------------------------

What we offer:

Apart from the standard salary and options, we provide an environment where you will be able to:

- have real impact on everything the company does

- produce your best work on something that you can use every day, which has the potential to reach millions of users across the world

- work on something that truly makes people happier (our users say that with their reviews - not us)

- work with https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko (author of Flask) and https://twitter.com/stavros who are advising and have helped us get to this stage

If you’d like to move to London, we’ll help you relocate here, but we’re also happy to work remotely.

To apply please send us an email at jobs@togethera.com with a bit about yourself and products you’ve built.
Did Snowden reveal anything about "Mujahideen Secrets" or whether the NSA was able to unscramble communications made using that program? If it really was using homebrew cryptography, one can imagine it was already vulnerable to the types of attacks that programmers make when rolling their own security schemes.
My advice would be to dream bigger. You can't be sure if anything will work, so why not take a shot at something big then? I don't see any of those ideas becoming large businesses.
Argument from Authority is a thing.
It's in this particular case, a great idea. And I hope this comment will strengthen those responsible in their attitude that what they build is absolutely unbreakable.
There's a big ol thread [0] on this in NANOG with lots of juicy implementation details. I'd hesitate to use the word 'consensus' in relation to a mailing list in any way but my take home is that if the municipality sticks to providing L1 (i.e. a physical fiber as opposed to an 'internet connection') it requires a manageable level of expertise and still vastly lowers the cost of entry for ISPs to provide the rest of the stack.

[0] http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2014-July/068527.ht...
MRDA!
This provides a useful way to frame people concerns' about Snowden's revelations.

Every intelligence service exists at the intersection of two completely opposite goals: in order to fulfill their mandate to protect their country from its enemies, they need as much information about the actions of their enemies as possible. On the other hand, in order to protect their country from themselves, they need to have as light a touch as possible. There is no solution; you have to compromise.

The thing about compromises is that even though they tend to kinda sorta almost make sense when viewed in context, no one is every happy with them. Any large agency is going to employ a substantial number of people who find these compromises distasteful.

This report indicates that Al Qaeda, an organization that no one in their right mind would say should be allowed to operate freely, benefits from these sorts of disclosures. They learn what's vulnerable, they change their behavior, and they become more difficult to fight. What's worse, it's conceivable that the intelligence agency's response could be to increase the intensity of their activity, the better to capture the enemy's new behaviors.

Now imagine the quandary the intelligence agency faces. They try every day to meet mandates that are fundamentally unreconcilable. They employ people who disagree with the compromises at which they've arrived, and each and every one of them could potentially let the cat out of the bag and render their current work useless.

I don't mean this argument to criticize of praise the actions of the NSA. I only suggest that those (Americans) among you who demonize the NSA and advocate for it's removal consider this reframing of the discussion.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Ah, the original humblebrag.
I was at a Very Large insurance company last month where they discussed a suite of new Cobol applications they were deploying and what infrastructure they were going to need to deploy them (very large $$$ worth, btw). They could have done it in Java (and do many things in it), but believed that because of their experience and the critical nature of the apps, Cobol was much less risky. As a tangent, they tried at one point to change their development language to Smalltalk (because at the time it was what the cool kids wanted to use), but we don't mention that in their presence.

Once your experience in development evolves beyond buzzword-bingo web apps and obsession with faddish language features, you find all sorts of real work being done in uncool things like Cobol, Ada, Fortran, VB, etc.
The angle the story takes is a little perplexing. They focus a lot on the fact that worker bee employees used their vast amounts of unoccupied time at work to conduct personal business. The real story here is that the patent office management was incompetent in their management duties not that there is some vast conspiracy by paralegals to defraud tax payers.
I use both Evernote and Wunderlist. It seems like Google Keep is trying to be a mixture of the two.
I interpret that as BugBrother being Swedish and reading lots of Swedish-language discussion sites. While Sweden isn't adjacent to Russia like Finland is, it's obviously a looming neighbour.
I like LongCal. It is pretty good. I would use it. Not sure I would be willing to pay for it though.
It may surprise you, but this same applies in western part of Europe too.

Hotels, B&Bs and other accommodation facilities do that for you (that's why they want your ID).
ASK HN: Future clothing
Why are we still wearing jeans with a T-shirt?

Do you guys have some suggestions for some proper future-proof clothing.

E.g. Waterproof, enhancing performance, health checking,...

Is there a company that already does have innovative clothing?
You're absolutely right -- my setup comes with a lot of limitations. They are ones that I'm happy living with, but when family and friends ask for advice on passwords I point them to 1Password. Hopefully Mitro will become my new recommendation!