skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They talk about a balancing act and a criminal underworld free for all but I haven't seen too many complaints from the FBI about the millions of Americans whose constitutional rights are infringed upon every day during the NSA's total government free for all (as well as the wide variety of stories pertaining to other agencies and local law enforcement which are abusing various forms of intelligence gathering).
Arduino and Sharebot announce a new 3D printer: Materia 101
Co-Founder of Piston and OpenStack Board Member, Joshua McKenty, Joins Pivotal
Congrats wunwun!
Products can be beautiful and delightful, but I'm not sure it's meaningful when you call your own product beautiful and delightful.
Make sure to watch to the end of the Kickstarter promo video, hilarious!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2040419302/matchstick-t...
Thanks for the SICP recommendation! Great bed time reading.

I am slowly chiseling away at my 10k hours :)
What makes you think it's such a big gamble? People just don't care about privacy as much as the news would have you believe.

Don't believe me? Quick, think of one of the largest and most consistently flagrant private entities who violates the privacy of its users on a regular basis, and is well known for it.

Did you say Google? Facebook? Now quickly think of two of the largest companies on the Internet, both in revenue, and traffic volume.

Apple isn't taking nearly the risk you're suggesting, because people just don't care.
If the government were happy with their level of access, they wouldn't stop pushing for more because a) it reveals their hand and b) it weakens their position to acquire more power.
Success in the way you describe it has nothing to do with evolution. To choose someone at random - Sarah Palin is almost twice as successful as Gates or Einstein (she's had 5 children - those two only 3 each).

Unless people with AS / Grit have more children than those without, there's no selective pressure to increase the prevalence of the trait in the population. You could consider health of the children - so maybe you should count great-grandchildren rather than direct children.

BUT - I agree that evolution probably hasn't stopped - it just is selecting for different traits than it did 15,000 years ago. What exactly is being selected for in US in 2014, I can't say.
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It's definitely a plan? There's no certainty the plan will work or even be executed, but yes, it's a plan... Semantically I see no issue.
From what I gather from the article, the systems which RAM scrapers attack were running on general purpose computers, with very similar vulnerabilities.

Why isn't sensitive software like this built and audited with the same concern for reliability and security as avionics, medical equipment, SCADA, etc.? Certainly the cost in financial losses caused by these attacks makes this a pertinent question.
Thanks for the information, but you can keep the needless (and hilariously inaccurate) moralizing.

Where I work, most official work events are set up to allow employees to bring in their kids. I believe most people would not do lines in front of preteens. What people do in private is another thing entirely.
In that case, my vote is for Windows X to be version 6.3.1.
Minimally ethical robot that appears to implement Asimov's 1st and 3rd laws
I recently started Cofound Hound, a mailing list service for finding co-founders based purely on mutual matches.

You sign up & get a list of people that might be a good fit. They get a similar list weekly (with you & others on it). If there's shared interest, we intro you two. That's it. Meet them, work on something with them, whatever.

With FounderDating and CofoundersLab, your profile goes stale or you get spammed. No more.

http://www.cofoundhound.com
Very pretty C code. Rarely I find myself thinking 'C is beautiful'
Uhmm, my guess is they skipped 9 to avoid confusion with the 9x versions.
It's like this in silicon valley in general. Now that I have a regular 9-5 that I don't have to take home every weekend, I don't hesitate when I'm called upon to go above and beyond. Also, I work smarter when I'm not stressed. I think most people do.
What products would you say are comparable to yours? Perforce comes to mind, though that's more of a "check out, check in" model, where this appears to be more of a dropbox model?

I'm not understanding how a version is identified, though. Is a version stored on the server every time the file is saved?

I don't see anything about locking. How do you prevent two people from working on the same unmergeable file at the same time?

Speaking of merging, there is no mention of merging of text files. Is that not supported?
That's a false dichotomy, you can be excited about parts of the community without liking everything about it.

In fact, reddit as a community is so huge that I think anyone would be hard pressed to like all of it.
> Perhaps because it is 10 years since 95?

Try 20 years since 95.
How Big Is Iceland's Bárðarbunga Eruption?
Whether or not its a coordinated media blitz or just journalists piggybacking on each other for content I don't know. That it is coming out at the same time new iPhones could go either way.

Things that people are completely missing about this story:
-Big difference between domestic & local law enforcement and NSA/DoD/CIA. Nothing prevents backdooring of a phone or someone spying as the user enters their simple password. Local law enforcement doesn't have these resources and has gotten used to access to all kinds of evidence that never existed. What Apple may or may not have done just pushes the cost up.

-I think Apple is very scared about being locked out of the Chinese market right now. The new iPhones have not been approved yet last I heard. This is a big fucking deal that would wipe out a huge chunk of Apple's market cap. They are not going to budge because some local law enforcement officers claim only child molesters use iPhones.

-Google is in a similar boat except they are already locked out of China, likely will get locked out of Russia soon. They would like to be able to still make money in Brazil and the EU.

-I think it is a good trend for the pushback from tech companies. There is no good answer for international legal compliance for user records. Records should be accessible once an account has been compromised locally, not because any judge in any country on earth can search all of your user data on any user in any other country. Between Dropbox, Dropcam & all of these other cloud services, right now a user has no idea who has access to all of their data all of the time. Time travel back two decades, no one is stealing all of your data over a dial up modem. Nor is a device recording every square foot of where you are at every moment. The tools law enforcement have access to right now are godlike
Meaningful, maybe not. Having a desirable marketing effect? Probably.
Yesss! I got to see STS-3 (!!!) from the press site. I was just a kid at the time on a school field trip. Our bus was misdirected to the VIP/press site, and they let us stay.. ;-) IIRC, several of the huge rental-only Canon telephoto lenses were in attendance on the photog's hill. The photographers were incredibly cool, talking with us, letting us look through their spotting telescopes and such.

The launch was far and away the loudest phenomenon I've ever heard, or ever hope to hear. Impossible to adequately describe. You don't hear the sound, you are the sound. The universe transforms, and is made of nothing but sound and vibration.
Ocean plankton found living on the International Space Station
One simple way to improve the quality of posts is to remove default subreddits. Instead, have people pick from a list of common interests: programming, games, rap, etc. I think that by limiting interaction with trolls will, over time, reduce the total number of trolls. It is my assumption that the majority of trolls tend to stay on the default subreddits. This would also allow for smaller subreddits to grow by in a sense linking interests into categories rather than the current method of community discovery.
Gates actually has stated what he feels is needed to ensure our future. Eliminate all CO2 production as soon as possible. To that end he's funding TerraPower's traveling wave reactor research. (Personally I feel this has a 50/50 chance of being a boondoggle, probably because it's an IV company.)
Windows: taking it up to eleven.
Windows 10.
As solid as 7.
As simple as 3.

-- Winamp Naming Team
Top US universities teaching Python
I think expanding the ability to down-vote to more people would help show the true attitude on HN. Right now I can only push things up or flag them and often times don't have the time or fortitude to start a comment thread arguing with an ignorant racist. Currently at 419 karma I don't have the ability to simply press a downvote and get that trash grayed out or pushed to the bottom of the page.

A technical solution to a social problem rarely works but in this case I think it'd help. If what the OP implies is true, and it surely is to some degree, most of the people who have the ability to control visibility (downvote) would have achieved that ability through participation in the echo chamber. Achieving enough karma to downvote seems rather hard, if not impossible, if you're not subscribed to the prevailing groupthink.

But maybe this is me, as always, trying to find an engineering solution to the problem.
I'm going to disagree here. It's giving the mods way too much power. There's already editable flair on posts to point out factual errors. (E.g. something claiming to be confirmed that isn't)

I don't like it on HN either - I'd rather have a headline with a touch of editorializing than the complete lack of context they're often edited to...this very thread being a prime example).
95 -> 98 -> 2000 -> XP -> Vista -> 7 -> 8 -> 10
do you see anything logical in the entire progression.
I kind of get it what they were saying from 8 to 10 jump, that we are making a leap with this version over the previous one - because of the whole "universal" unification of devices of various form factors.

Unlike many people here, I do not know the "pulse of average people", so I really do not know how this will play out.
I may be as naive as hell here, but when you go from, "we don't want US citizens selling crypto devices to terrorists" to "Timmy's going to see the inside of a jail cell for 20 years for giving Mark a copy of TailsOS" I just can't see how a judge or jury would let it go that far, and I don't think unintended consequences have ever gotten that bad.

It just smacks of fear-mongering. "They'll literally lock up your children!"
"With end-to-end encryption where the messages are encrypted and decrypted on the client it would not be possible for anyone with access to phone records or central servers to read what was said. They would need to obtain the private keys that are generated on the client devices themselves."

Would that it were.

You are using the application processor (the "computer") to do that work, but there are two other computers inside your phone - the baseband processor and the SIM card.[1] Your carrier has access (OTA updates, etc.) to the baseband processor and can load new code/functions on it without your knowledge at any time. Depending on the SOC your phone is based on, the baseband processor can have DMA access to your application processor. What that means is, the baseband processor (which you have no control over whatsoever) can read your RAM directly.

Your cryptosystem that you describe probably works quite well on a desktop or laptop computer, but your carrier completely and totally owns your phone and everything on it.

... and we haven't even gotten to what they can do with the SIM card ...

[1] Yes, the SIM card is a computer with its own processor, RAM and programs running on it right this moment.
The Aral Sea was once the fourth largest lake in the world. Watch it dry up
I really like /r/badminton. Not really active but does get a new post every day or so. And people come back and reply. It works.
I've been on the site for -- god, 8 years now? (I deleted my first account or I would know for sure..) I used to be happy with a lot of the default content, but the site has naturally changed a lot in that time. I personally find all the AdviceAnimals/meme stuff to be mind-numbing and it is the default now.

The trending subreddits were a good idea and I think are along the right lines but usually only serve to expose some poor hobbyist subreddit to the drooling masses. There's been a ton of work on recommendation engines over the last decade or so, I think that personalizing the trending sr concept would not be so difficult and would be a fun project, possibly even a side project, based on your comment and submission history against some hand-picked baseline.

I just recently discovered /r/buddhism, and it's a pretty good and active sr, but I had seen and quickly dismissed /r/zen years ago and never thought to look further. Another case is that I develop an interest in something and just never think to check for an active subreddit, kind of like the Browns fan you mentioned. So even if you know what you're looking for you may not find it, even though it's right there, even though there may be a link for it right in front of you (the right sidebar is where information goes to die).
>Why isn't [..] software like this built and audited [...] for reliability and security as avionics, medical equipment, SCADA, etc.?

Imply that it is. It very very often isn't at all.
I thought it went one s, one x, one and one....
"Real-time guarantee" in the context of consistency models (i.e. this article) means something completely different from "real-time guarantee" in the context of operating systems.
Hey, this is Hackernews, not Reddit. You can't just completely make shit up here.
And credit cards provides zero protection against identity theft. In fact, they even enable it because you give your full billing info (credit card number, address, etc) when paying an online merchant with a card.

You see, no payment technology is perfect. Credit cards have flaws. Bitcoin has flaws. But Bitcoin is better than credit cards for the average consumer. In the last 10 years:

- I have had to deal with 2 identity theft incidents that caused me major hassles and waste of time. Bitcoin would have prevented this because a Bitcoin transaction authorizes 1 and only 1 payment to a specific address. Bitcoin utilizes cryptography to guarantee that, not blind faith in the merchant not being compromised by hackers...

- on the other hand I have never had the need to issue a credit card chargeback, so this protection of credit cards was, although real, unneeded, useless to me.
Usenet is the closest thing we've got to that. Although it lacks any voting or ranking system to filter content. Whether that's a bug or feature is debatable.
The 25 Tools Every Entrepreneur Should Know About
> you don't have to use [comcast and AT&T] services. Hello, competition ?

Bwahahah, that's a good one. Competition in a natural local monopoly setting, are you kidding me? Network infrastructure, especially the last mile, is expensive. Plus, it doesn't make economic sense to duplicate it. What naturally happens in a "free" market, is, some corporation put the first lines, capture almost everyone (because let's be honest, they will have a phone and an internet connection), and have a nifty monopoly. They sometimes lease their lines, but often at higher prices than what they would charge the end customer (it actually happens in France). And don't you try to build a redundant line for yourself: you won't capture half the customers after you do that, switching is just such a hassle.

If you want competition at the last mile, the physical infrastructure must be owned by the state, or the local community. Which will then lease the lines at a reasonable prices without bulk prices that favours the big over the small. Then you will have the condition for a free and efficient market.

Competition is good, but you have to ensure its presence. Free markets are mostly good but you sometimes have to enforce that freedom. (No, that's not an oxymoron. See how static typing sometimes allow you do do things you couldn't reasonably do with dynamic typing.)

> You can perfectly live without watching Disney movies or playing Activision games. Living without going to school ? Good luck with that until a gov official knocks on your door.

I have heard of studies showing that a sizeable proportion of kids spend more time in front of the TV than in front of their professor. Couple that with the fact TV is designed to catch your attention without any effort on your part, and I'm not sure which is actually doing most of the brainwashing.
I would be curious to know how many of you use these, and which you find most useful. Some of these seem odd as the top 25. I can't imagine many that have missed Google Drive, Pinterest, Buffer or even Audible. Meetup wouldn't be my go-to, but maybe I should reconsider this. Wix is not the newest or greatest for simplistic website building, and many platforms offer comparable and equally if not more simplistic interfaces for design.

HelloSign is new to me. I hadn't heard of Fiverr either, more familiar with the more currently popular crowdsourcing sites. I've only recently discovered TalkWalker, so I'm still seeing how that fits into my social media plan.

At the risk of seeming like I'm just tearing down the author, I must admit that I'm hard-pressed to come up with a better list of "must-have" tools. I use Google Drive religiously, but not sure what I would tell someone else I couldn't live without...
20 years since 95 :)
Ask HN: What are some interesting metrics for a B2B startup?
We see a lot on HN about metrics: it is mostly a matter of growing fast and getting traction.
This is all focused on consumer startups though: The traction you are getting, are you on your way to hit a million users, do you see a hockey-stick growth rate, etc.

But what about business-to-business startups? I am the CTO of a B2B startup, and for now we are working under the radar, talking to a few businesses and gauging interest to define what our product and service offering needs to look like to be sexy for them.

Are there any common metrics in the B2B world that kind of work?
The article is well-written and makes a good point that scripting languages open new avenues for OS extension.

However the question remains whether Lua is the right candidate for the job, being not-so-open yet. Obviously the hacker cultures in NetBSD world and Lua world are still quite different, so I see no official integration in any foreseeable future.

A lightweight LISP or Scheme, on the other hand, might be a good candidate for a long-term implementation of the article's claims.
New Federal Database Details Medical World’s Financial Links to Drug Makers
A while ago, I hacked some forth interpreter (I don't recall which one) into the Linux kernel. It was just fooling around though, and didn't do anything useful or hook into anything interesting. This looks like a much more practical approach to that kind of thing.
Voting should be weighted. Poor people with less money should have less voting power, and rich people with lots of money should have larger voting power.
It's on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY8WoDKUKP8

Good documentary, definitely recommend giving it a watch.
Then your experience is rather limited.

As a counter-anecdote, my experience is that Windows is frictionless for developing PHP, Node.JS, C#, Java, Scala, Elixir/Erlang. It's also close-to-first-class for Python. Ruby to a lesser extent, with a lot of the community just assuming you're on OSX, period.

I've often been impressed by how, despite the hacky nature of the Node.JS community, a lot of stuff simply just works there. For example, getting PhantomJS, a full-fledged scriptable headless browser, available for a project is a single "npm install" away on all three major OSes.
The next version of Windows will be … Windows 10
Looks pretty cool, congrats on the ship!
This looks and performs pretty great. Good job! Is this going to replace Forge?

How much large of a list have you opened up in it? 1k? 10k? I don't have a Firebase with a ton of children off a leaf or else I'd test it myself. ( =

I notice that it's a DevTools panel. I expected it to be able to read the Firebase I was using in my app, but it asked for a URL instead. Since it's not related to the app I'm looking at, maybe it should have its own page instead of being in the DevTools? Or be a separate Chrome app?

The security permissions ask for all my data on all websites, but doesn't it really only need to read *.firebaseio.com?
ChatOps: How to divide up rooms
The company I work for currently uses HipChat for internal team communication (moved from Skype, evaluated Slack and Hall before moving to HipChat). We're starting to embrace HipChat as a central area for messages and alerting, a concept that some are now calling "ChatOps". We currently have our Github repo sending messages to HipChat and our internal bug tracking system and looking at more integrations in the future.

How would you go about dividing up the rooms in ChatOps set up. We currently have a room of managers, one for development, one for support, one for sales, etc etc. Would fewer rooms work better? Would a dedicated room for each 'alert' or 'service' work better? What do you think the right setup is?
Sorry, this is going to sounds very snarky, and please understand this is mainly a joke, but maybe what the iOS app should do in order to help people "take advantage of their lives by maximizing the things they do outside of work" is to power down your phone, thus forcing you to interact with the people around you.
Dogecoin is already the cryptocurrency of Reddit... why not just buy a bunch of Doge?
In 2013, the world average price per GJ of coal was $3.63, of natural gas $6.81, and of oil $18.22. That's a factor of 5 ready for arbitrage in a $5T industry, sitting there for years at a time.[1]

The average age of cars on the road is 11 years, and apparently rising.[2]

Technology itself is notorious for lock-in effects. Windows 10 was announced today... I use a Dvorak keyboard (1936) but most still use QWERTY. You can ponder when Bret Victor's dreams will come true. In teaching technology, we're arguably no further than Papert was in 1980.[3][4]

In Garrett's model (op. cit.) the value of civilization's accumulated wealth in years of current production (GDP) does fall over time. In 1980 it was about 60 years. Today it's about 45 years. (In 1820, it was about 300 years.)

[1] http://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/about-bp/energy-econom...

[2] http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-automotiv...

[3] http://el.media.mit.edu/logo-foundation/logo/

[4] http://logothings.wikispaces.com/
We didn't learn from Windows XP? Extended support is good enough to keep your OS up to date on security patches, if you're using it past the end of extended support that's completely your fault.
I love to think that a web shop with decent search would beat Amazon.

However, even though I really freaking hate some aspects of the Amazon website I am a repeat customer. I don't have much money but the small amount of disposable income I do have goes to Amazon.

Competitors would need to have similar customer protection and customer service; and at least similar pricez or justification for higher prices.