skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most people assume that when people say Go is simple, they mean easy. I think it's exactly the opposite. Go is simple, but it's not always easy. It's like the difference between building a house using pre-fab walls, and building a house using studs and nails. Which one is easier? Probably pre-fab walls. Which one is simpler? Probably studs & nails. You don't need a crane to put the walls in place, you can do it with just a hammer and 1-2 guys. It might take a little longer, but you'll have exactly the house you want.

Your simple/easy comparison with an ORM is a very valid one, I think. ORMs seem easy, but they're not simple, and often times their easyness at the outset causes complexity once you have to do anything that goes off the rails they've laid out for you.

But I think Go is the opposite of an ORM. There's very little magic, nothing gets done "for you". The code does what you tell it to do, no more, no less. Which means people reading the code can immediately tell what it does - it does what it says it does in plain terms.
Of course the Emacs book is the largest.
PyCharm 4 to have iPython Notebook support
When the standard adds the feature that enables using AES GCM when both sides have an implementation that is fast and resistant to timing attacks and falls back to chacha20-poly1305 when they don't [0], and the chacha20-poly1305 cipher suite itself is standardized, then we should all add that.

0 - https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/27/tlssymmetriccrypto...
I think you make a good point. It's a security product that can harm people's lives. So in that way, it's different then lots of other startups.
Well done. I can see this working well for aviation enthusiasts (i.e. X-Plane folks) who like to use real world data. However, METAR/TAF are not the friendliest of formats. Have you considered including a METAR/TAF decoder?
Repeat entrepreneurs are more likely to succeed
Cake and eat it too? These are completely unrelated issues. They took a loan and also they want to be able to sell their product. Sounds fair to me.
We've been doing this for years; it's built into many on-demand asset pipelines, like ImageResizer: http://imageresizing.net/plugins/faces
> While traditional IP address based tracking provides plausible deniability only to the network endpoint, these unique identifiers provide positive identification of the device that, given fingerprint and/or passcode authentication, can also serve as positive identification of an individual, eliminating any plausible deniability of the user’s identity.

Can any lawyers versed in this area of the law comment on whether something like a phone can ever be "plausibly deniable" absent obvious evidence of theft?

Or comment on the concept of "plausible deniability" as a useful legal defense in general? I'm dubious that it offers any meaningful protection,
Either way, I wonder if the twitpic guys fully understand the damage they may be doing to their personal reputations. Do they expect to be able to run a web service in the future? Because if the current situation persists, no one will ever trust them again.
As always, Apple is Great, Apple is Tomorrow but I still find myself stuck in iTunes Connect, trying to parse generic and insignificant error messages that result in hours wasted for no apparent reason. Fonts are cute, but let's give a look at the backend sometimes.
False. Malicious actions are often intentionally disguised as stupidity.
It could be worse, he could have googled how to do something in php.
The Bad News About the News
What's with the huge difference in file sizes on the Illustrator and Photoshop version downloads (~200MB+) vs Sketch (~3MB)?

PSD file size I could understand if they had rasterized the 2 color icons but shouldn't vector AI file sizes be similar to the vector Sketch file sizes?
By striking a single, but critical, word from MCLA 445.1574(14)(1)(i), the law governing franchise relations in Michigan, the dealers seek to force Tesla [...]

Well, don't tell us what it is or provide any links to it... /eyeroll. I believe their complaint is about line 3 on page 6 of the following document: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-2014/billengros...

I support Tesla's efforts and deplore the legislative pandering to incumbent industries, but drumming up support for a legal/political conflict without articulating the actual issue is counter-productive. All that happens is that people send emails or make phone calls to the legislative body saying they're outraged, and then get fobbed off with technicalities because >95% of the outraged people don't actually know what they're complaining about, they only know one party's assertion of what the downsides will be. If you want an internet army to go into battle for you, arm them properly with the facts.
System overloaded because of poor DevOps? Absolutely possible. But not talking to Jason about exporting a dump to the Internet Archive? That's "take your ball and go home" stupidity.
John Sculley: Ex Apple CEO on his smart phone venture
It is interesting how this thread is split between messages of 'they should make better decisions' and then the reply/response that absolves the decision-maker by stating that it's the fault of the 'stress of poverty', not the fault of the decision-maker. I think the reason more people make these short-sighted bad decisions is exactly because they're being told that being in poverty doesn't have anything to do with the personal decisions you make but your 'circumstance'. If we tell people this, what motivation do they have to make prudent long-term decisions at the expense of short-term gratification? What they decide as an individual doesn't matter, or so their told - and they are told that it's a 'societal' problem, that 'society' needs to address/fix, so again, where's the motivation to make sacrifices at an individual level to increase one's lot in life?

Regardless of the reality - of the two statements "it's your decisions that affect your level of poverty" and "it's society's fault you are poor" - one of these statements empowers the individual to make better choices, and the other discourages it.

PS: +1 to the folks who said garage sale / thrift store / second-hand couches. It's mind-boggling that anyone struggling w/ money would buy(/rent) new furniture.
None of those assumptions are made, at all.

First, I asked what the endgame is, not what it is right now.

First, that everyone has a similar level of things to be embarrassed about.

And yet here we're discussing a law that leaves the amount of damage to be done to freedom of information up to the whims of each individual person who thinks they should be able to censor some piece of data, rather than any kind of objective test. Including the "rich and powerful".

Second, that wealthy and powerful people won't simply sue or bribe publishers to withhold or delete the embarrassing material.

That does not work in the real world. The rich and powerful have been trying to restrict information getting out for years. Snowden and Streisand are living proof of this. The continued explosions in the faces of people who try to do this are further proof.

That old saying about the internet interpreting censorship (and we can quibble about the wheretos and the whyfores all day long, but at the end of the day, this definitely fits the definition of censorship) as damage? That doesn't stop applying just because legislators want it to.

Third, that living in a panopticon is a good thing. I'm a little perplexed at how people who find NSA surveillance utterly unacceptable and wish to be able to shield private information..

In every case we're talking about here, it's not "private" information. It's information that's always been there, for free, to anyone who cares to look. Arrests are not private information, neither are blog comments, neither is anything else you do in the public eye. I find it repugnant to suggest that removing that information from one or two places makes it as if those things never happened.
The Setup: Judd Vinet [creator of ArchLinux]
This really bugs me. It seems like they should be leaving the retransmission to TCP.
Detroit manufacturers have desert proving grounds for hot weather. Tesla doesn't seem to have the same for the cold, having just done 'days' of pre-launch testing in the cold: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/cold-weather-climate-testing.... Even my parents' Prius, from a long-established manufacturer, runs far less efficiently in Wisconsin winter.
Google Chromecast 2 is coming
EyeCheck and Suncayr Make Top 20 for James Dyson Award
Well, I was curious of what you mentioned, so I looked it up. Switzerland is a Federal multi-party directorial republic with elements of direct democracy.

I do recall reading up on that recent referendum they had about the capping of CEO wages that didn't go through. But thanks for the heads up, I'll look into what they have going on over there with their flavor of democracy.
"The politician who rewards campaign contributors at the expense of voters is thrown out the next election."
[citation needed]
Sorry, I meant specifically wrt. to Go.
Ahh.. Almost heroku style but locally. Looks super useful to me!
Definitely my impression as well. I was downright expecting a reference to someone's Mr. Baseball cap in there.
This raises an issue that has been troubling me recently. There has been an explosion in guides that tell you how to secure your TLS installation, and virtually all of them hard code a cipher list, which I fear won't get refreshed as better ciphers come out. I've also seen this with recent instructions to disable SSLv3, which whitelist TLSv1, TLSv1.1, and TLSv1.2, instead of just blacklisting SSLv2 and SSLv3.

To avoid a situation where future security improvements are held back by crufty configuration that was added in a well-intended effort to improve present-day security, I think we should be encouraging blacklists instead; the OpenSSL cipher list spec actually supports blacklisting.
Do you have a business model for the site to generate revenue?
Come on, wasn't twitpic free? What why should they keep paying for hosting if the business went under?
Linus Torvalds: I Made a “Metric S---load” of Community-Building Mistakes
A new UX and UI for Google News
Assuming ~120TB [1], that would cost ~$1300 in AWS Export charges, plus whatever the drives cost. Just sent a tweet to Noah offering to cover all AWS export/drive costs to export the archive.

[1] https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/523162867789758464
For context, before archive team was blocked Jason Scott commented on Facebook:

"Archive Team has 900 IPs aimed at Twitpic. We're grabbing 100 pictures a second."

He subsequently corrected this figure to 42,000 photos per hour, which works out to about 11/sec.

Later he adds:

"In some cases, twitpic (before removing all the image access) was banning entire ISPs to stop archive team backing it up."
I don't buy new cars.
I agree, but smartphones' battery life is crappy and one relies on a smartphone for more important stuff like its phone functions.

An old-style hdd mp3 player would play loud music for ~12 hours, and I'd still be able to receive texts if I ignored battery life.

With a smartphone I can only listen to music for 2-4 hours tops, and usually miss important communications when I stop paying attention and allow the battery to run out (yes, Tasker etc would prevent this but why add additional complexity?). Also, inside any heavy building/underground my signal is spotty at best.

I reverted to using a Sansa Clip + Rockbox + 64gb SD card which is suboptimal but at least better than a phone.
Point #3 always brings me back to MITM, and how there's almost no way for a technically-illiterate user to avoid getting tricked into using an HTTP-only site. Nobody ever notices sslstrip. And while many people might counter with 'I don't care about that use case, it's unlikely', they basically assume that nobody will ever mitm their connection, which implies that they don't need secure connections. I wonder how often people actually think about these contradictions.
Why such a complex password? Kind of an overkill IMO.
Tachyons – fully responsive, performance first css patterns
Few comments:

1) StartSSL doesn't generate it in the browser (on a secure piece of hardware IIRC), which depending on your viewpoint is good/bad.

2) No CA will allow you to get a 1024 bit cert (you're correct)

3) You should be sending the GeoTrust Global CA cert because it isn't trusted everywhere, and if it's not sent you'll get errors before you get SNI/SHA1/SSL3 errors...

4) The "(unknown)" will always occur on FireFox, unless you have an EV certificate (even OV does not show this)
I keep thinking of it as kinda like foreman/Procfile but for Docker containers instead of bare processes. And with a much richer config format.
Honest question: is jumping through all the hoops to enable HTTPS really worth it for a personal static website? Are hijackings really that common? It seems like a lot of hassle for negligible benefits... plus it's not just a one-time thing, the best practices seem to change every few months and not following them can result in "very bad things". It's a heck of a lot easier to just run HTTP.
The common narration is that players like Rodman have "instinct" instead of "smarts". I'll leave it unsaid as to why this is.
any ideas to make a public feed API of completed notifications? That would be really great!
Isn't that what bower is for?
We integrate natively with GMail, IMAP, and Exchange Emails as well as Gcal and Exchange Calendars. We also natively sync with MailChimp and as of next week, Evernote.

Since we integrate with Zapier, we can do light push/pulls from their 300+ services which you can find here - https://zapier.com/zapbook/
If Whisper were dedicated to providing a strongly anonymous social networking service to users, it would likely be structured as a nonprofit/not-for-profit organization like the Tor Project (for example). Given that it is a VC-backed startup, I would expect them to be collecting analytics at the very least.
If we're being honest, the vast majority of their users don't know who was behind Twitpic. The HN crowd is probably a lot more likely to know/care than your typical Twitpic user.

They'll probably be able to start new things without most people noticing. And they probably know this.
Nice. Well done.

I'll try it next time I'm flying.
Love this.

Submitted "Notify me when someone in the open source community is looking for design help"

Need this for finding open source projects to weekendhackers newsletter.
Let's not pretend that they didn't make money off the ads they placed on their websites. Yes it was "free" but they weren't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. Also any goodwill they may have gained in their heyday is all but used up now with this whole shutting down, not shutting down, shutting down, fuck you and your pictures situation.
What's often missed with Hanlon's razor is that people want to believe something is malicious vs just plain stupidity. You need a succinct expression like this to help repudiate people's inclinations.
Great start on combining local data. Do you use flight services? They have made some changes to automatically parse and display this data in an easy to see format, and it is free. https://www.1800wxbrief.com/afss/#!/next-generation-briefing...

They can also notify you of changes in your briefing, even when you are in the air. https://www.1800wxbrief.com/afss/#!/adverse-condition-alerti...
looks rreally nice, I am in the midst of looking for a CRM and will put this on my to-try list.
How to get people to actually freakin' read your blog posts
Interesting. I got a lot of things that said "BAD EXPRESSION" and looked glitchy. I'm not sure if that was intentional, or if my browser was incompatible.
What top-end US manufacturers?
It seems like I've read something similar in a biography about Rockefeller. Thanks for sharing.
>or they appear to be unaware of the very many cases of people in America who lose their jobs or are arrested because they wear the wrong t-shirt or have an innocent poster on their door.

Arrested and convicted of a crime are two different things. Do you have any evidence of that happening? I know of a Virginia teenager who was arrested last year because he wouldn't take off an NRA shirt, but first, he wasn't arrested for the shirt, he was arrested for obstruction, and second, charges were dropped.

As for European attitudes toward free speech, I don't say they're wrong for Europeans, I just think some of them are daft, like locking people up for racist remarks or offensive speech. That just turns harmless idiots into martyrs.
> Now you're presented with a bunch of pointless-looking questions like your country code and your "organization". Seems pointless, right? Well now I have to live with this confidence-inspiring dialog, because I left off the organization...

That's not right. Even if you supplied all those details in your CSR, you would not have solved this problem.

You bought the cheapest kind of certificate. Your "Organizational Unit" says "Domain Control Validated - RapidSSL". That's all it's ever going to say, no matter what you put in your CSR. Because the registrar did the bare minimum to test that you control the domain.

If you want a certificate that says anything more specific than that, you have to pay more money and provide more proof to the registrar.
This successfully gives you links that fail. I was hopeful that Google caches the PDFs, so that the links might not fail (with a bit of finagling) but apparently the cached PDFs are modified to be unreadable. :(

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tobyrus...
Words of Wisdom from Sam Altman
Well, the one half of OAuth that's supposed to protect the user, at least.

This still wouldn't be near OAuths other design goal, which is to enable API providers to grant and block access to their API individually for each consumer, independent of what their users think.

I personally view it as a sign of integrity that this abillity is apparently not a priority for Pinboard to implement.
But that's the beauty of hiding behind a company name. Only the people who have their ear to the ground during this fiasco will know not to trust the founders when their next company is named FaceFlick.
wow, a script that wires up a few command line parameters to a third-party library. this is truly news.
Well, yeah, but it's the HN crowd that they will likely want to work with/hire from, so reputation is actually important.
In comparison, Wikipedia shows the unit cost for a 777-200ER as $261.5 million.
looks really nice. Congrats.
I have a weekly cron that checks my nginx cipher list against Cloudflare's[1]. They're pretty much always first to deploy on new ciphers and they know what they're doing. And it, for instance, picked up on and reminded me to change all ~14 of my SSL configs in response to POODLE

[1]: https://github.com/cloudflare/sslconfig/blob/master/conf
Announcing the 2nd Annual Seattle Startup Week
I understand that the SEC is also asking Athena to cease and desist, but did Athena's scheme actually make them money? If so, a $1M civil penalty doesn't seem like much of a deterrent for those thinking to do the same thing.
Does that mean that Clojure is ported to Mono?
If not, what level of Mono support can I expect?

I'm wondering because I always wanted to start learning Clojure but Java ecosystem puts me off.
Matt Levine's Bloomberg article is a good layman's explanation of the issues: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-16/high-speed-...

They were wrong and got punished, but the market would have punished them eventually anyway, and it sounds like it was already doing so. The SEC filing states that this scheme lost them $3mm on an index rebalance day when activity in the closing auction peaks. That should be a great opportunity for anyone intermediating between the continuous and auction books, so it is very surprising that they'd lose. Someone probably caught on that they were manipulating the close and waited for a big day to take advantage of them, or there was so much activity that they didn't have enough ammo to goose the price like on slower days.

Also, to be clear, there is nothing illegal about HFTs intermediating between the continuous and auction books or the majority of HFT activity. These guys were charged because they committed fraud, the use of a computer was ancillary.
It can certainly be justified, but in most cases it can be solved via email at a time convenient for the recipient.

I think it extremely disrespectful to send a email and two minutes later be standing at my desk ask: "Did you see my email?" No, of cause I didn't see your email, I'm working.
I agree with you, this is pretty nice idea. not just a simple reminder, but an " idea " reminder.
Pricing an ebook based on number of pages is silly. Would you pay 20% more if he added an equivalent number of pages? I think the author should charge more for a shorter book, since it respects the readers time.
This is the same shit as happened in cities like Chicago during the 1920s, with the same cause: prohibition. I wonder when our incompetent politicians are going to realize that ending drug prohibition is the counter-intuitive, but well evidenced solution for this tragic decades long tragedy?
HSTS prevents that, though it doesn't protect you the first time you visit the site, unless you request addition to HSTS preload lists.

If you want to be added to the Chrome HSTS preload list, which is also used by Firefox, go here: https://hstspreload.appspot.com/
Fantastic! You can always tweet at us @LanternCRM if you have prelim questions. We're also recently a CRM Idol semifinalist - http://www.crmidol.com/news/12/10/2014/and-2014-crm-idol-sem...
It piqued my interest from the cached thumbnails, and I was able to find a mirror of the complete set:

http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush/theorypages/complete.pd...

It's licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND, and Toby W. Rush is the author. Great resources by the way, better and more concise than a lot of theory info for beginners (bordering on intermediate, if you are able to get to some of the more advanced scales, structure and basic part-writing/voice leading at the end).
Clojure exists for a long time in the form of Clojure-CLR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine's_Day_Massacre
http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/organ...
Willy Beamish?
This has been an interesting event. At one point coming up with an idea, contracting out with 'far east' manufacturers to build the hardware, and modifying open source software to put inside of it was something of a well known business plan. This project seems to have screwed up royally in the marketing aspect of things, but it certainly wouldn't be the first company to buy something in Asia for $X and sell it in the US and elsewhere for $3X.

It does seem to have really validated the concept (or at least a million dollars worth). It would have been even more interesting if this had gotten these guys off the ground and then they had used their installed base to create a better (and more bespoke) product. But the reddit hate has been pretty amazing.
They're abusing words, here talking about hardware, IIUC they're only valuable addition is the software setup. Putting a board in an already appropriate case isn't creation.
"Unity brings the cutting edge graphics" - huh?

Great initiative though.
He has a plan: https://mayday.us/
Why are you excluding money spent on NYC hotel tax from money spent in the local economy?
Video: Linux Kernel Developers Respond to Concerns About Community Culture
Pop-ups.
How the laser beam ushered in the age of big-box shopping
Remember, any cloud service you use may shut down and delete all your data tomorrow, whether through bankruptcy, acqui-shutdown, accident, or vandalism. If it's a free service you will have no comeback. If it's a paid service you probably won't have a comeback either.