skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a trail or "circles" from a spot in the top left corner going east and a little north.
More pedantry ;)
So you're saying there is a self referential satire of the religion of lisp + emacs. That is good ;)
We're working on Phoenix, a highly connected web framework that aims to serve as a backend for all devices, whether your web browser, native mobile client, or smart oven.

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix
http://www.confreaks.com/videos/4132-elixirconf2014-rise-of-...
Well done, there are events from everywhere
On-demand capital of the world: NYC
I really dislike announcements of announcements.
So what about this vanishing of the warrant canary? https://gigaom.com/2014/09/18/apples-warrant-canary-disappea...
Complex-Cities: The View from Mexico City
The basic issue is for years, the NYPD has aggressively fended off most efforts to make it more accountable and transparent (it's generally known that its "Internal Affairs" department is something of a joke, for example).

That may place it much further along the spectrum towards a "mob-like" organization than you would be comfortable admitting.
Good job! Thank you, guys!
More detailed description: I just developed this new iPhone App/website which shares confessions and promotes peer-to-peer support. I want to get some feed back about what to improve in the next version. Please play with it at
iOS app: http://bit.ly/1nUsR2A
website: https://www.confess.ly
Any suggestions/feedback appreciated!
Just updating the admin header styling would be sufficient. That yellow h1 a has got to go. https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/contrib/...
It goes back to something we used to do in electronics, usually with a Schmitt trigger. The idea was that even a good switch (say, a small contact switch or the like) would create several extra pulses as its internal contacts bounced against each other before settling when activated--hence the name: it removes bounces. :)

Nowadays we can use _.debounce or _.throttle.
TXT Record XSS
"I think that even while awake, the decision making happens first unconsciously, then it gets brought into our consciousness."

If you aren't familiar with Benjamin Libet [1] and his neuropsychology experiments, I think you will find them absolutely fascinating.

From the article: "This work soon crossed into an investigation into human consciousness; his most famous experiment was meant to demonstrate that the unconscious electrical processes in the brain called Bereitschaftspotential (or readiness potential) discovered by Lüder Deecke and Hans Helmut Kornhuber in 1964 precede conscious decisions to perform volitional, spontaneous acts, implying that unconscious neuronal processes precede and potentially cause volitional acts which are retrospectively felt to be consciously motivated by the subject."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Libet
True. Difficult but even if there's some bias you can still get useful data I think. There are things that do not fit well with the basic evolutionary psychology model such as homosexuality. You'd think, using the EP model, that genes corresponding to that would die out however there are a few gay guys out there which suggests you might look for other explanations. Just to say it's not the case that you can find experimental evidence for all EP type hypotheses. Some fit, some don't.
I'm playing with replacing my Python analytics system with Elixir, piece by piece. Working on a little tool with it that'll convert our XML and JSON from two separate parts of the system to a common format.
This article actually misses some key points while it is telling the truth.

Most of the things mentioned in the article is correct BUT,

If you are going to make a product and you think that your product is going to be as revolutionary as Apple was at the beginning, then don't worry. You will be good to go.

If you can provide a unique, mind blowing product just like Apple Lisa in 1983, you can sell it for really unrealistic prizes.

Apple Lisa was sold for US$ 9,995 at the time it was released. You could buy a new house around $86000.

So the question is not how expensive is going to be, the real question is,

Is your product mind blowing?
Thanks to the community!
I'm writing (professionally) a backend for the "internet of things".
2nd question I got

CV_IMPL IplImage * icvCreateIsometricImage(....)
{
....
if (!dst || dst->depth != desired_depth ||
dst->nChannels != desired_num_channels ||
dst_size.width != src_size.width ||
dst_size.height != dst_size.height)
....
}

The website said the error was 'height was compared with itself', fair enough ... but there is a much much bigger crime here.

I clicked on the (!dst ||) as the code checks for a null pointer and then follows that with a dereference of that pointer which will get executed because of the || operator.

If the pointer is null the code will still crash.

The website said I was wrong .... I didn't bother with any more questions after that.
Microsoft cutting 2,100 jobs today
according to this the main problem with notes is a down round can get you into a lot of trouble because of the liquidation preference multiplier. but what if you never have a down round? if you can avoid the down round, it seems like convertible notes are still preferable. down rounds are bad even with priced seed rounds.
True -- if the keyless server is down, we can't even complete the ssl handshake for new clients.

The keyserver is stateless, so you can have a bunch of keyservers (which don't need to be particularly near your own infrastructure) to deal with this, though.

There's also session caching (tickets or session id), so this only affects people who haven't connected to a cloudflare site recently.

It IS an issue, but it's not that hard to deal with.
Fake name generator for social media
They came from Apple and had money.
The simplysecure.org domain uses Google Analytics which isn't disclosed on their privacy page (as required by Google Analytics' TOS). There is also a mixed-content warning because someone hard-coded an http:// link to the balloons image in the blog post on their https site. I went to email them and first looked for PGP keys (us pro-privacy & security people all use PGP, right?) and found none for the domain on any key servers.

I point all this out because it perfectly illustrates their point. Here are a group of smart people launching a great initiative with a beautiful and modern website, and they made some mistakes just like the rest of us do.

I've offered to help and recommended they switch to Piwik (and fix the http link). I hope others here on HN who care about security and privacy will also offer to help out. Some of this stuff is easy to fix and I think it's a great initiative.
This happens to me with the sound of running water even when I am fully awake, especially when I am expecting an important sound. For example, if I am in the shower and expecting an important call on the phone, I often get a feeling that the phone is ringing. But it's just my brain trying to be super alert and picking up noise as signals. If I turn off the water, the sounds go off.
I'm probably being imprecise. There's a big and important discipline of assessing the usability of a system and the impact of all the affordances the interface of a system provides. I believe that also takes a special skillset, and it's a skillset I'm happy to see new initiatives like this taking on.

I am not suggesting that security usability (or, to keep it technical, security UX) is easy, or that software security practices are necessarily good at it.
A nice thing about supporting a key oracle is that you keep the key material out of the process handling TLS. In the case of Heartbleed like bugs, this would protect against the loss of keys.
Critique of dependency bundling in requests
You're thinking of the '|' operator, which evaluates both arguments. The '||' operator is defined to never evaluate the 2nd if the first is true; its traditionally used exactly for this purpose e.g. if (!p || p->...) or more likely if (p && p->IsGood(...))
{edit: false -> true}
The Literature of Laughing Gas
Baffling that anyone could still be advocating for DANE after the NSA slides indicating that the USG has owned up CAs came out. Why exactly does anyone believe the DNS roots are harder to own up?
I couldn't have said it any better myself. On my way to Elixir I made short stops to Go and Rust. I was immediately impressed by the quality of mix (Elixir's build tool, task runner and dependency manager) and how easy it made getting started with Elixir. José's experience in the Ruby and Rails communities are really evident when you see the quality of tooling in Elixir.
After watching the video I see the higher DPI on the Voyage may make it a better device for viewing longer code samples on.
Mount Everest is at 29000 feet, where the air pressure is 32 kPa [1], which is about a third of sea level's 101.325 kPa. People have climbed everest without supplemental oxygen, let alone a pressurized suit. I imagine that the body would be fine.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=air+pressure+at+29000+f...
I often try the negative hypothesis: maybe it's just that X (sleep in this case) removes something that was preventing Y, instead of X causing Y.

Sometimes there's something in our mind that interferes with clear thinking. Sleep cleans that something, that could be simply trying too hard.
5 email facts you didn't know about
I find it adorable how people buy into the rhetoric and trust that Apple doesn't leverage and track your data. They are a hardware and content company, and they absolutely leverage all the data they can in order to better market you the content they think you might want. Its not just business, its personal. Even with the lions' share of their money coming from hardware sales, so what? Without deep, targeted tracking and mining of user data for market research their entire mobile platform would implode along with the business models of their content partners and app makers.

Meanwhile, I show nor imply any support for Google on the subject. They are no better, perhaps worse.
For those who want to understand how it works (it took me a minute, so I'll try to explain it simpler):

In simplified terms, the server usually stores a public and private key, and sends the public key to the client. The client generates a random password, encrypts it with the server's public key, and sends it to the server. Only anyone with the private key can decrypt the message, and that should only be the server.

Now you don't want to hand over this private key to Cloudflare if you don't need to, because then they can read all traffic. Up until now, you needed to.

What they did was take the private key and move it to a keyserver, owned by your bank or whomever. Every time the Cloudflare server receives a random password (which is encrypted with the public key) it just asks the keyserver "what does this encrypted message say?" After that it has the password to the connection and can read what the client (the browser) is sending, and write data back over the same encrypted connection. Without ever knowing what the private key was.

The connection from Cloudflare to your bank's webserver and keyserver can be encrypted in whatever way. It could be a fixed key for AES, it could be another long-lasting TLS connection (the overhead is mostly in the connection setup)... this isn't the interesting part and can be solved in a hundred fine ways.

Edit: Removed my opinion from this post. Any downvotes for my opinion would also push the explanation down (which I hope is useful to some). I mostly agree with the other comments anyway.
The restaurant might not be, but I will claim something close to that: all aggregated-score-oriented (e.g., number/star) review systems that aren't centrally based on some reasonable measure of the the individual user's trust/affinity with each individual reviewer presented are fundamentally broken, just because reviews are subjective and without accounting for taste similarity, other people's subjective ratings are useless (individual text reviews have a similar problem, but at least well written ones will report information from which one might infer the basis of the opinion and get some utility from a review by someone with different tastes.)
So the problem is, how to get a cloud in the middle while keeping the green lock in the browser? Just yesterday I read Douglas Adam's phrase "technologies biggest success over itself."
How will they verify the address is correct?
I don't disagree with you per se. But I think you may be overstating the case.

Once you are a C++ programmer for a while, you start to discern "standard" patterns for this sort of thing and tend to automatically use them. (The patterns might depend on the C++ version and to an extent the code base in question; but it is common to have such helper function take a const ref as input, return non-primitive return values via a out-parameter etc).

So while C++ might "encourage long functions", I think that may be the case only for newbies to the language. Once you have a some experience working with it, you no longer need to put that much thought in to every little decision.
The second vignette in this article has Suster suggesting that convertible notes carry liquidation preferences and anti-dilution. Does he mean that some subtle property of convertible notes create those terms in practice, or does he literally mean that if you read the note paperwork you'll find a 2x liquidation preference and a full ratchet?
Scala and Play 2.0 Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA 14 EAP Is Out
Social Media Users Are More Charitable Than You Might Think
Ahh... now I remember reading/hearing about the OSCP ineffectiveness and stapling etc. a few weeks ago (after watching Ilya Grigorik's talk "is ssl fast already" or something like that). Thanks for the reminder.
Why stop there? If you're not root, you're not secure either. For example, if someone else is root, they can do whatever they want with your locally generated keys, upto and including sending them to the NSA with a little bow on top.

Even if you are root it's no guarantee, thank you rootkits :/

As with all things security, sometimes it comes down to trust and legal protections.
It's a back saw. Sure it has a weird handle and low tpi, but every woodworker knows what a back saw is.
It gets a little cumbersome to hedge casual conversation the way attorneys do, but sure, it would have been more accurate to have said:

"might not, under the current rules, which are always subject to change"
Not mentioned is the challenge of managing a good CM in China or Malaysia. If you're small you get what everyone else does, at higher prices. If you're huge you can groom your CM and make sure you get what nobody else does, at a lower cost. Of course sooner or later the manufacturing knowledge leaks out so it's a rat race even for someone like Apple.
The Report of CloudStack’s Death Was a Great Exaggeration
Just having the dynamic of "down rounds" harms some of the value proposition of convertible note seed funds --- the C.W. behind them suggests that you can use them to raise casually, without freaking out about company valuation. But if they create a signaling problem for an A round, operators need to be just as careful with pricing the notes as they would with their A round, and A round pricing is arduous.
Actually, it does. I posted the RSA implementation, but Keyless supports ECDHE too. Tech details in tomorrow's post.
Wasn't Lisa a flop?
Is there anything stopping you writing your own client that uses the Dropbox API?
I imagine the body would survive; but 'just fine' may be a stretch. Nobody climbs Everest without damage to their body. Its very harsh.
Praise at work: a manager’s guide to getting the most out of your team
Cool! Someone ask Zoe Quinn what she thinks about this. I bet she'll be delighted to hear that.

I can't see anything about this going badly. Nothing at all.

(Edit: if you don't know who Zoe Quinn is, replace that with the name of your favorite publicly harassed developer)
Wait. With or without the bow tie?
Peddling into prosperity: the economics of cycling
Shipping maps and how states see
The main point is that manufacturing, especially high-volume, consumer, apple-quality products, is very hard and requires serious expertise. Such startups should bring in such mechanical & production engineering expertise, because the hardware becomes as important as the software & electronics.

The irony is that many software startup wizards brush off mechanical design the same way that naive managers treat software development. "It's just a [box/case/app/website], how hard can it be?"
They might be involved in lying to yourself in order to justify acts you perform that fall outside of your belief-spectrum ;)
Thanks for the effort to put all the events up! Very helpful for us, the community :)
I always find this flaw in yelp which I think might become a bigger problem for them. They allow pretty much anybody to write any kind of review for any business. There is no validation that the yelp user have had interacted with the business unless the business owners takes a notice and claims that its otherwise.
I was at a a small business hackathon and not even a single SMB owner was happy with yelp. Even the ones who had good reviews do not think that it contributed a lot to their business. Has this thing ever crossed your mind?
I don't get the fallacy. If you believe that there are positive externalities from living in a country with people who are better on whatever scale you choose to measure them, then migration benefits a (relatively) small number of migrants and hurts everyone else, both in their country of origin and destination.

Whether this should prevail over freedom of individuals is another matter.
Mathematics that you can touch
Avi Reichental: What’s next in 3D printing
They were rich former Apple staff that created a luxury item (it was 10x the price of other thermostats) and still were smart enough to not require CNC or matched white plastics or even a fancy box.
Heh, I do: https://github.com/diafygi/byoFS
Does the source code you load into a computer have any relation to the runtime behavior?
Could you explain what you mean by a reasonable text editor? Thanks
And their products are absurdly expensive (for the market). You don't notice for the thermostat, but their smoke detectors are $100 when the carbon monoxide smoke detector it is replacing is $20.
Technical Debt – How much is it Really Costing you?
How does this architecture address PFS? I'm guessing a future version would require the exchange of DH private key to make it work...
Cloudflare employees will have no access to the key inside a HSM even if it colocated on their premises. That's why you use them.

Please summarize the differences between this protocol and PKCS instead of downvoting.
I've written a custom url shortener for a client.
Snake Plissken was a truly wonderful antihero.
Same here man, eventually Google learned that I didn't want to do that anymore, but for a while it sucked to see that pop up every couple days.
I see your point, but Steve always seemed to think Android never stood a chance anyway. He didn't have to say WHY Apple was better than Android, he just pointed out some major (philosophical, not product) negatives, as you say the porn store, etc.
By "you", the author is referring to a manufacturer, not an Apple customer.

The entire article written toward a hypothetical manufacturing startup who might be tempted to try to do things the Apple way.
Interesting and somewhat disappointing that it took a year for anyone to notice that it had disappeared. The appearance generated quite a lot of interest.

(Of course, I'm as responsible as anyone else for not noticing. I wonder if it would be possible to build a service to proactively check for their disappearance?)
This is an amazing biz dev achievement. Twilio seems to be getting closer to aggregating all of the hard stuff in telco land every day.

It's hard to overstate just how hard this is to do. This isn't as simple as going to an aggregator and getting SMS done, MMS has been one of the last bastions of exerted carrier influence and it's slowly being democratized. This is the first time I can recall someone getting this level of access to MMS services within operators (please correct me if I'm wrong).
>What's the word for the mental processing we do when awake, but are not personally aware of? Is it also 'unconscious'? Isn't there another word we can use?

Subconscious.
I think that is hypnagogia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia. And it doesn't necessarily require environmental noise to be triggered. There's a lot of material out there on it being linked to lucid dreaming.
Reminds me of the many times someone tells me "oh you're developping apps ? I've got a great idea : ". 9 times out of 10 this idea involves rebuilding google search engine and facebook, plus a third thing on top.
HTML5 game performance on iOS 8
As well as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8333595
I've played wit Twilio and have used it to extend some of the hooks I previously had in IFTTT. Additionally I've been toying with porting my number out of Google Voice for compatibility (ie. no MMS) and privacy reasons. My question is, how hard would it be to build your own personal Google Voice like service around the twilio API, or has anyone done this?
The thing that gets me is the color contrast between "slides". Not very pleasing to the eye, unsettling really..
> Customers are not useful when dead, no matter how happy they were when they left.

One of my hobbies is motorcycle racing/track days and I'm always flabbergasted about how lax organizers are about safety. I'm going to share this quote with them next time I head out.
SO_REUSEPORT[1] solves this nicely in linux land. pity the JVM does not support it.

you just bind in the second server. it starts handling requests then you tell the first server to unbind and wait until it finishes handling its requests and then the first server kills itself.

[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/542629/
Congratulations Valim, Eric and everyone else. Great work.
All the events in one place, nice.
XCOM 3 had this figured out way back in the 90's gentlemen.
Plugsuit: "She would then plug in to a spacecraft’s power supply, triggering the coils to contract and essentially shrink-wrap the garment around her body."
Personally I thought this was a great movie about remote working...

The rest was totally lost on me
Ray Bradbury is just a luddite

Bradbury probably did more to inspire scientific advancement than you'll ever conceive of. Calling him a luddite is absurd--go read his books.
Forget fancy techniques, just scale alone is enough to shock you when looking into manufacturing. We got quotes from various providers at $4-$12/part. Meanwhile, in grocery stores, department stores, even dollar stores we would see similar products (using the same materials) being sold for $1-2.

The difference is mostly related to the number of parts being ordered. For a startup, ordering 100,000+ parts just to get pricing reasonable is a no-go unless you (or your backers) take a major risk.

Makes you feel like getting off the ground is almost impossible, when you can't even get your wholesale cost below the retail cost of similar products.
No, you don't get it right. Apart from trying to filter spam, Yelp doesn't "manipulate" reviews. The judge was saying that Yelp has the right to filter out reviews that it believes to be fake or spammy.
Scottish independence: What did Scotland ever bring to the world?
well done and gratis :)
Much obliged Josh. Took a while, but we're having a lot of fun with it.

Text a pic of yourself to (646) 846-8238 - you should get a sweet mustache back.
Should you buy Twitter followers? I say yes