skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the notion that having CD's bring a more personal attachment to the product. For example i'm still looking forward to buying the dead tree version of TAOCP, though i agree that searching will be a bit faster on an ebook. Not sure if reading TAOCP requires you to move around too much or its more on reading it allows you to concentrate and focus on one chapter at a time.
Why Don't More People Work as Programmers?
Well, it could be that I am behind the times as well - I bought my hosting from dreamhost (service has proven satisfactory for my needs) and used their free domain registrations. Seems to have worked out. But even if I'm out of date on that, I do stand by my comment about the risks of free - some things come and go, but other things stay the same ;)

(None of this is a comment on the pawnmail service itself, which I'm sure is fine - just whether it, or any equivalent service, represents good value, all things considered, at that price point.)
I appreciate what you're trying to say, but he's not talking about a random sampling of mentally ill people. He's talking about a person that's kicking a bunch of seats around and generally indicating a potential for violence. Whether or not we're talking about mental illness, we're talking about someone that's current being violent.
Fastmail used to provide a service like this, but no longer. This could be really useful.
I have one of these. The trackpad is okay, but not as good as my MacBook Air's. Also, there are a few annoying little things about this laptop that can be get pretty frustrating. For example, there are no separate volume controls for speakers and headphones (at least not by default).
You're comparing apples with tuna
With every tech company trying to imitate all of Apple's poor decisions, it is getting hard to find a laptop that has physical buttons. They have all been switching over to having just the trackpad.
How much does one cost in NYC?
I liked this part:

Food is now politics and ethics as much as it is sustenance ... it’s a form of surrogate politics. To some, it’s not even surrogate politics; it’s the real deal, politics at its most urgent and consequential. [...]

I’m thrilled by this notion, and yet I find that I can’t submit to it. [...] If shopping and cooking really are the most consequential, most political acts in my life, perhaps what that means is that our sense of the political has shrunk too far [...] Imagine that you die and go to Heaven and stand in front of a jury made up of Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Your task would be to compose yourself, look them in the eye, and say, “I was all about fresh, local, and seasonal.”

*

Food choices matter, but it's important to understand that a politics limited to consumer choices (like food, or boycotts) is very limited and unlikely to make much difference. There are exceptions (like South Africa), but the record is not very strong.
Yes there are cab companies in LA. There aren't many and they are just awful. Never any place you need them, you have to call a dispatcher and they never show up remotely on time (sometimes not at all, or in bizarre cases three show up at once and fight over you), incredibly expensive, in very short supply at peak times. I left LA before Uber hit but I've heard from friends basically the same synopsis of what this article states, it's transformed cabbing it on weekends which is a huge deal
iPad word processing app powered by LibreOffice
Lenovo business laptops. The consumer laptops are shoddy and thin, but the business laptops tend to be rather durable.
I use zoho for my custom domain. Free, no spam, great support
[Chrome Extension] Echo – Listen to yourself before you post anything on the web
https://targeted.io - Email testing, made by two developers. 200% growth per month. Not large in commercial standards but still large amount of users for a two man team.
That's not true at all. California cops can make $200k a year cash just with overtime and incentives. Including pension schemes and other benefits, it's common for mid-career CA cops to make upwards of $500k.

Consider that 25 year CHP officers can collect lifetime pensions at the highest pay, including overtime accumulated from previous years and cashed out. At a US inflation adjusted bond discount rate of 0-1% typical over the past decade and usual life expectancy tables, that adds up to 1.5-3 extra years of pay in pension benefits for each year of service. That's computed according to what you'd have to put into a 401(k) to pay for the pension; the state of California is putting somewhat less into CalPERS and hoping to get bailed out by private sector taxpayers or the Federal Government someday. (CA isn't doing as badly as MA or IL or some others on pension funding, though)

NYC is paying much more rationally and budgeting better than other big city and coastal governments which is one reason there are enough cops there to keep order.
25 years is a very short time to expect some of the longer term economic and cultural changes to take place. Just like the street light bulbs, they'll get replaced as the old ones die off.

On a related note, I've never understood how you could live in West Berlin and yet travel freely to the rest of west Germany, because the city itself was deep in East Germany. I know the city was supplied by airlift during the blockade, but that eventually stopped. So how did someone from West Berlin travel to, say, Frankfurt by car? What was to stop someone from East Germany doing the same thing? The wall only went through the city, right?

I have travelled in East Germany and I found it to be a pleasant place, with very friendly people. Though they tended to have bizarre fashion sense and much more limited English compared to west Germany.
Can undergraduate admissions officers tell if you aren't actually a good coder?
A great personal comment from the article that reminds how the early pioneers of technology (magnetic storage, the first hard drive) got it done.

"Walking on water We have a picture of my father, Jack Harker, walking on water in front of the sculpture. He was manager of "The Labs" and was working with manufacturing to introduce their first Winchester disk drive. The technology was not moving successfully from the lab to the manufacturing floor. There were tremendous technical problems in mass producing the drives. Manufacturing gave a very aggressive schedule for solving the problems. My father replied that if they could meet the schedule, he would walk on water.

Manufacturing meet the schedule and the disk drives were delivered. My father had a plywood platform built just under the surface of the reflecting pool. True to his word, there he was walking on water with the sculpture in the background.

A picture I did not understand fully until after his death.

Jack Harker, one of the fathers of the disk drive industry, a manager's manager, a great dad.

Peace dad, Robert Harker"
Betudos
This is awesome. Yes, the spam problems and everything but if this can be hosted somewhere more secure, and get a better SSL cert :) then it's a viable option for personal @yourdomain.com email. I would love to see a paid tier for when you outgrow the 2GB.
Could you integrate with trakt? That way I could filter out all the movies that I have seen to better find recommendations.
http://doodle.com/ - Very simple way to pick a time for a meeting
This is the interface I want on my TV!
When investing (time) into something like this I always try to work out how the business is going to be sustained. Like many of us, I've been burnt badly before.

I'd genuinely like more businesses like this to be up front with commercial plans just to give reassurance to its customers.
You also need to use volatile if you expect writes to variables to persist when calling longjmp(), because any value the compiler decides to stash in a register will be overwritten. Since Swift lacks volatile, you won't be able to make that work properly. It's fun to play with though.
I had the same experience with a relatively recent (2013?) Macbook, trying to help someone with one. I agree the tracking is quite nice, but clicking it requires far more force than I'm used to, meaning that trying to hold it down and drag is even worse - the friction is too high. The tactile response when it goes down and back up is also a bit weird; it's too dull and heavy-feeling when it goes down, there's almost no travel, and it comes back up with little sensation. It feels more like a "thud" than a "click", almost like the entire case of the machine is yielding slightly.

After working the trackpad a few more times and my fingers getting rather tired I tried to use keyboard shortcuts instead, but remembered that OS X doesn't have the Alt+ key combinations that Windows has, and tabbing through controls is disabled by default.

(My usual laptop is a Thinkpad X60, where I use the trackpoint and its buttons, and keyboard shortcuts whenever possible. On my desktop, I use a Microsoft Wheel Mouse Optical v1.1A, which I think is one of the best mouses ever made.)
Same here. It profoundly widened my ideas on the universe and how to deal conceptually with its immensity in time and space. It's a beautiful story.

His other books have been so-so, but his short stories are the hardest science fiction around. Nobody else has explored ideas of quantum mechanics intersecting with biology and humanity like he has. I think "Axiomatic" is a good set of them.
Factorial without recursion or loops
That's disheartening, it looks like a nonsensical mix of about a dozen different languages right now. Are naming guidelines and predictable, coherent choices just not hip enough in 2014?
This led me down a few rabbit holes online. I had never heard the Kennedy or Reagan speeches from Berlin, but they're embedded on the wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall

Those both stood out against the backdrop of dry political speeches. You have a leading statesman, sure, of a country with plenty of its own flaws, but calling out a system that is completely absurd, immoral, and against the course of history. Speaking partly from national interest, no doubt, but still calling something out, calling it like it is.

Leaders seem to get a lot of extra points in their legacy column when they're able to pull this off.

If the sitting President were to make such a speech today, I wonder what and where it would be.
You can turn on tap to click, but I find that while it works very well for OS X, I get too many false clicks in Windows while typing so have to disable it there.
"Offa's Dyke fell 750 years ago, but, the United Kingdom is still divided"

I am not sure about flu jabs and childcare or even who does their recycling, however I am sure that most of the comparisons can be said about England and Wales. It would be funny if pollsters did surveys and found 50% of English people didn't think the union with Wales had worked out as well as the king had told them it would.
Yeah. Just saw that recently too. Good news!

ASLR is apparently around the corner+ as well.

Didn't OpenBSD get ASLR in 2008 or something like that? It only took 6 years for FreeBSD to get it.... >_<

+for some definition of corner.
A heart-warming piece about Youngluck, an artist who went to prison, and is now working on RedditGifts as a designer.

This reminds me that stories are the best way to help us develop our empathy.
The airlift had to happen because the USSR cut off the highway access to West Berlin.

I believe the highway was cordoned off from the rest of East Germany.
Hi lndn_dilemna,

I can see why you're having a hard time deciding whether to pursue this or not, it's shocking working for a few months and suddenly a competitor pops up and is going in the same direction as you.

It comes down to determination, if you are determined enough and believe your product is better, then, as hakanderyal said, look at Slack, they took the market by storm.

By the way, nice to meet you -- my name is Ken, I founded Shoppr.

BRING IT ON!
I'm absolutely for the legalization of all drugs, but haven't figured out how that marketplace should look like -- I don't think they should be "pushed" at all.
Interesting. The TLD status isn't that telling as full IPv6 compliance is required for all new tlds. A good thing, but doesn't show 'willful' adoption nor use in the grand scheme. The AAAA glue to A glue ratios are still extremely low, and is probably a good indication of adoption and everyday use.
No. Don't do that. You'll be hearing more of us very soon :)
Virgin Galactic Crash Probe Focuses on Possible Structural Failure
Where are people demonizing the police here?

Starting salary for Seattle Police Officer is $65K with full benefits and many earn over $100k with overtime. Unless you really mess up you will not be fired.

Criticizing the services you pay for doesn't mean you are saying all the people who do it are bad.
The End of the Internet: An Interview with Matthew Thurber
Basically. "I was a foodie before it was cool, and I'm going to keep on being one just to show all of these dorks like Guy Fieri that they can't ruin my love of pasta bolognese." ;)

This was sort of a "say nothing" article in sum to me, because he explored some different subjects and how he felt like foodies couldn't really survive in the long term with population expansion without compromising their reasons for being foodies in the first place, but then concludes by saying he's going to continue to be a foodie anyways.
Looking at the number of votes - y axis - on this visualization I made might giv you some sense of how much the volumes involved in this tactic have changed. It's big business.

http://poyo.co/d3stuff/akb/
I'm a computer science major in my senior year and I've always been interested in contributing to a big Open Source lowel level software project like this. However, I lack experience working on Operating Systems so have struggled with getting started. Would this be a good place to try getting involved?
Telling cops not to use overwhelming force is like telling white people not to use racial slurs, the good ones are 'oh ok' and the others, hoo boy.
How much ya got?
In some states, you can use deadly force to prevent someone from stealing your stuff.
This puzzled me too.

Wikipedia has a good overview under the Travel section of the article on West Berlin though:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Berlin#Transport_and_trans...

Seems like there were a few ways out, and they all had systems of monitoring in place. Westerners on the highways could interact with Easterners, but their trip was monitored at check points, down to how much time they took for the journey, to make sure they weren't fraternizing too much.

Apparently the GDR, who was bearing the cost of the transit roads and was facing economic difficulties, began levying fees on travel from West Berlin and West Germany. They tried to increase these fees, but eventually the FRG, probably realizing it was over a barrel on the issue, just started paying the GDR a yearly fee to keep the roads toll free.

The flight travel bit is interesting. If you had fled into West Berlin, you can't exactly drive through East Germany like everyone else. The Western government subsidized a flight service between West Berlin and West Germany primarily for such travelers.

Fascinating period.
Mailgun is an email sending service, not an email host.
"It's not about duck hunting"

Yeah, it's about suppressing slave revolts.
> It is rather naive for this writer to assume that things like online reviews will work or continue to work for these illegal sites. Why do they believe that illegal drug sites will have honest reviews

It is rather naive to call that 'rather naive' given that the black-markets have functioned well since January 2011 (so, coming up on 4 years soon). I don't think it would take scammers 4 years to realize that reviews can be faked.

> when even yelp, which is supposed to be completely legal and reviews completely legal businesses has obviously manipulated reviews.

Yelp doesn't control purchases of services and take commissions and only let buyers review, so it's in a different position from the operators of a black-market.

> As I have mentioned before, the police can get you online the way they usually get you -- by having an undercover police agent pretend to be the seller.

So why don't they? Why are they ignoring the infallible wisdom of the great hristov?
A recap of some important facts about tip4commit that weren't clear to me when this all started:

1) That they collect a 1% service fee on donations.

2) That they donate 1% of a project's pool for any given committer, which leads to this exponential decay where they never quite have 0 balance for any given project.

If enough donors use tip4commit, that is potentially a lot of bitcoin pennies that is just sloshing around their server.
Y Combinator Panel – Hack the North
Having done Java programming I have not been able to write code where I can directly allocate memory in the heap and iterate over it like in C. Correct me if I am wrong with an example.
Hey mate, are you based in London?

Damn, and here I thought being based in SEA provides for a veil of secrecy. Never thought we'd be out in the woodworks so early.

That's a good idea to reach out to others, I use 'The Mom Test' when validating customer problems - http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Mom-Test-customers-business/dp/1...
The “electrosensitive” are moving to a cellphone-free town (2013)
The NSA copes with a volcano [pdf]
Scientists Call Foul on Brain Games Pseudo-Science
Factor 0.97 now available
µBiome is vapid consumerism in my opinion. They don't contribute data to the research community (as far as I know).

The vast, vast majority of all bacteria are not culturable in a lab. That being said, we use rRNA/rDNA sequencing[1] to build phylogenies based off of BLAST E-values[2], or how likely it is two sequences evolved separately from each other. We have cultured and sequenced enough of the big three (and many of the top 100 gut microbes) that we can be statistically sure that they're related. We can't say for sure two different but closely related sequences are two different, closely related species but we can say they're related OTUs[3]

[1] http://greengenes.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/nph-index.cgi

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/Blast.cgi?CMD=Web&PAGE_TYP...

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1609233/
Probably in Syria, calling for reform of radical Islam.
Rust has a comprehensive set of naming guidelines: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-guidelines/tree/master/sty...

You can browse around that repository for many other guidelines designed to enforce predictable, coherent choices.
China's revenge for the opium wars...

I probably count as a pioneer in this sort of thing; I remember an outfit on usenet who was an early research chemical and plant salesman, and thought it was incredibly cool to be able to do this. While nothing bad happened, I regret those youthful indiscretions, and feel sad for the kids messing with far more potentially dangerous things these days. I remember a big population of junkies ended up with parkinsons because someone cut corners on a fentanyl synthesis and made an isomer which is now widely used in Parkinson's research. It's only a matter of time before something like this happens again. Perhaps it already has.
Vai editor. A text based IDE similar to vim, in python
While I think that most of the points the author makes are valid, I'd disagree with this:

"On top of all this, the language that you thought was the next big thing was a passing fad and nobody is using it 5 years later. Now you’re on to the next cool language, which might not be used 5 years from now. You constantly have to stay on top of things."

In most areas of programming, there's no need to chase the next hot language. Many of the languages being used today, such as Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, C++ and C have been around for a very long time. Outside of web and mobile development, the frameworks and libraries don't change that quickly.

"There’s a ton of stuff you need to know, and it keeps changing! It’s not something you can be truly great at unless it’s your main focus. You can’t be a 'weekend programmer.'"

There are many fields in which you can. For example, if your weekend project is writing a program to do electronic music composition on a PC or a Mac, you'll be pretty much unaffected by the trends in languages and frameworks. The code you write this year will still run just fine five years from now, and user interfaces on desktop machines won't change all that much in the next five years.
I don't think this addresses your question directly, but there is always Unsafe. You can do a lot of direct memory manipulations through it. http://highlyscalable.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/direct-memory...
This is pretty exciting!
articles which begin with a long section of blithering about the author's background, family, or cats.

It's part formula, part filler to meet word count. My eye immediately skips down a few paragraphs so I can get to the point.
Two finger scroll on thinkpads has generally sucked. Nowdays it has gotten better, but I still use this much better 3rd party implementation:

https://code.google.com/p/two-finger-scroll/

Solved all my problems.
The article gives a lot of neat background, but primarily
deconstructs a straw man argument.

He does a pretty good job of presenting the actual argument for microbiome experimentation at the end:

>our genomes have had little time to adapt to modern life, but our microbiomes have had plenty.

>It may be that a Hadza microbiome would work equally well in an American gut, but incompatibilities are also possible. The conquistadors proved as much. As they colonized South America, they brought with them European strains of Helicobacter pylori, a stomach bacterium that infrequently causes ulcers and stomach cancer, and these European strains also displaced native American ones. This legacy persists in Colombia, where some communities face a 25-fold higher risk of stomach cancer, most likely due to mismatches between their ancestral genomes and their H. pylori strains.
It's very sweet and naive of you to offer this. There's a reason other people don't, and it's not because there aren't other nice people. It's because like another poster said, you're gonna get abuse as soon as more than a few people know about this. A lot of abuse.

I work for a hosting company, and one time we did a promotion where you could get a VPS for about a dollar for a month. This boosted our sales tremendously during the promotion, but all the boosted sales were abuse accounts and none of them renewed.

Free or nearly free == here comes abuse.
When I first read this, I thought this was meant to be a sarcastic statement on SystemD haters, but this is for real? I would assume this is all geared to scratching some kind of retro computing itch?
Nah, you're thinking of downtown Tacoma. The University of Washington is picking up the tab for a lot of the restoration, but it still on a multi-decade time table.
I'm learning Javascript and the MEAN stack right now, and I'm really interested in building a small crowdsourced website for this.
It works in the UK, and a lot of other places: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling
I don't let Gandi host my website. Only DNS and email.
This is a great project, but it is most definitely retro-computing. If you're not interested in that area, then probably not.
Yes, but many people leave their gmail accounts logged in. That's enough to access and disable 2factor on a laptop/desktop.

Also, what's with the downvotes?
If the attacker is assumed to have access to every byte of your software's code and data, how would it be possible to stop that attacker from breaking off part of that software's functionality and turning it into a library?

It seems like that is the goal for white box cryptography, and I am very skeptical about its feasibility.
He won the Nobel Prize in Economics
The technical details of the puzzle described in the article strike me as trivial.