skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On your Linux support, you list it as 'coming mid-2014' on the site. I think mid-2014 has passed. Might be worth updating the copy :)

That said, I just bought a copy with lifetime upgrades for use with OneDrive now that Bitcasa has screwed me over.

P.S. a post in the Bitcasa forums with a discount code or something might give you some good advertising.
If only Obama would have kept his promise and had the "PATRIOT" Act repealed...
The guns drawn are the least of my concern [0] - officer safety is important too.

My concern is the fact they are threatening him for wanting his rights maintained and due process followed.

[0]: I'm not saying it's not an issue, just not what I'm focused on in this comment.
Mozilla is currently testing Electrolysis (or "e10s") [1] - their project to run web content in a separate process - on nightly, and I've been using it for the past few weeks. It's getting pretty reasonably stable, so hopefully we'll see it in a release version soon enough. According to [2], the tentative plan is for Electrolysis to be released with Firefox 36.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

[2] http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/12/mozilla-plans-release-elect...
I've been reminding everyone I know who still uses Chrome to try Firefox again. Many have switched back. It's simply a better browser. One e10s is in stable, it's going to be even better.

Google is a for-profit company that makes money selling your data and targeted, personal ads.

Mozilla is not-for-profit and just wants to make the web better.
Film Crit Hulk Smash: ON DESPAIR, GAMERGATE AND QUITTING THE HULK
Pretty sure they'd need a warrant for something like that.
Social media websites to me are like TV series. They are entertaining for a few years and then a new series comes out. It is my guess that the most popular social media websites have the staying power of the longest running TV shows (~20 seasons).
Your website sucks. All the content is is smashed in a column with small width so I have to scroll left and right to read each paragraph. This despite there being gigantic 30% of the screen margins on each side. Try to build something even half-worthwhile next time you're at it. I could build a better website easily; you should go back to school.
We are looking for an awesome Front-End Engineer to join RainforestQA (YC S12)
There is a big push around getting people these identifications. Most of the GOTV and citizen action groups I know of try their best to get those. But there are still significant barriers.

For example, getting a photo ID requires some proof of identity or else we end up in a chicken/egg situation. Typically this is an official birth certificate. Those are typically well over ~$60.

Additionally, the type of person poor/old/infirm/... enough to not have a photo ID doesn't have a car (or they'd have a drivers license!), and often has significant difficulty just getting to the ID center.

If they secure transportation, the next challenge is getting time off work to get to the ID center. Ask any person in poverty about getting time off work and you'll see that's no easy feat.

Beyond that, the hours of the center that provides identification can be even more challenging: one notable example came out of the Wisconsin voter ID lawsuit. Wisconsin left the voter ID distribution up to the DMV. There was exactly one service center in the state open on Saturday, none on Sunday. And the ones open during the week had unpredictable hours. One DMV was located in Fort Atkinson, WI - its hours were 8:15 - 4:15, the second and fourth Tuesday of every month. The other options were 20 miles away at least.

So for a hypothetical poor person in Fort Atkinson, WI - or any small town like it - the local Democratic party could need to pony up $70 for a replacement birth certificate, and drive him miles away to a DMV that has sane hours for him to get his photo ID.

I think the problem here is that you're approaching this problem the wrong way: you're coming to it with the impression that getting a photo ID is a low bar. The problem is that, for whatever reason (budget cuts? malice?) photo IDs are _difficult_ to get for the same people that need them.
Intentionally hateful comment by the way ;) Just curious to see how much haternews picks up on it. Although the problem I describe with the content column is real, all the insults and drama isn't at all! For reference: http://imgur.com/St9hAqR

Edit: My intentionally hateful comment shows up as being somewhat hateful, but not my most hateful comment. So not too bad!
How old are you? I won't get anything done if I kept re-loading my ~200 tabs.
I'm a pretty casual Twitter user, but over the years I have made several valiant attempts to make Twitter useful and I've never succeeded.

Twitter is a nice real time pulse on what the entire internet is up to. Tweetdeck is a decent way to get a feel for how things you are interested in are trending. But "decent" is the keyword here, Tweetdeck really isn't great at this at all. I still have no really good way to aggregate large numbers of tweets, find out what the current buzz is from that, then drill into specifics as I see fit.

After all these years I still think Twitter is just noisy and mostly a waste of time. I'd love for them to change my mind.
For docs I like EtherCalc, Etherpad, and MediaWiki. At this point, Gmail is all I use of Google and mostly only get spam. My main email is Zimbra which I host myself. For search, I use DDG but I've been meaning to look into YaCy further. And I've not used a smartphone for a couple years now.
Hah, I did the same. I've been using Firefox Aurora for about 6 months now, and I don't miss Chrome in the slightest; in fact, I prefer Firefox for nearly everything. Now we've moved to Slack instead of Hangouts, I've never had a reason to open Chrome.
What Makes a Startup Successful – Bill Gross
Here is the video of his presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q9iMPj7RGk
Which name appeals to you more?
The Zen Box. or DeStress Box?
What intutively do you think of when you think either name?
Thank You!
Ask HN: Best bank(s) for startups
Do you have a recommendation for a bank?

We're a bit sick of Wells Fargo and their "past century" feel. What is a good bank for startups/small companies?

Some criteria (that we're looking for -- others not matching these, please point it out): fewer attempts at sticking you with fees, somewhat efficient (e.g. for payments to freelancers national or international), no need for local branches, I think (we do not use ATMs often), can issue well-accepted credit cards, promotions for startups (like intros to angels or angel groups?).

(We're a bootstrapped company based in Silicon Valley aiming to scale, in case that matters. Feel free to recommend banks for others too.)
Speaking as a "seasoned" engineer (I've experienced everything from IBM mainframes to the advent of PCs to web-based systems) I wouldn't consider this to be an "unsexy space" at all. You're solving a useful and challenging problem, and the opportunity to work on interfacing hardware and software seems interesting. If I were currently looking for a job in the Toronto area, I'd consider this to be a very interesting opportunity.

My biggest reservation about working for a company that's struggling to get established would be the risk of having the company fail in a couple of years and then having to look for a new job as a middle-aged developer. I'd guess that a lot of older developers have this kind of inertia.
"Light" is one of the reasons cheap SLR cameras are massively better than cell phones.
FTL is shown there, but note that FTL only works on 64-bit machines. Click on "machines->mac os x 64-bit" to see the results. They are indeed much better than without FTL.
I don't think there is actually any evidence they use Chrome for much more than

1. disrupt IE/MS - i can say for certain they originally backed Firefox for this effort and only decided to split away to build chrome in the first place because they felt starting fresh they could build a better core and i believe they did.

2. enabling more people to build on the web, enables more of their ads to be shown. Firefox achieves this just as well as chrome. IE was dominating not too long ago and you could argue much of google's ad revenue growth can be attributed to more people having access to a higher quality web.

That said... I don't see why you should believe google would need or desire to sell data from what it might collect from Chrome. More likely they see it as a means to ensuring web dominance by ensuring the web is never locked down by one mega corp. It's similar in away to what they have done in the mobile space. Android is more of a technology to disrupt Apple and ensure it can't be dominate, but really does google have any control over Android?
With the original iPhone's marketing, the question implicitly being asked and answered was "how is the iPhone better than my feature phone / BlackBerry?"

With the iPhone 6's marketing, the question implicitly being asked and answered is "how is the iPhone 6 better than my current iPhone?"

At this point, there aren't that many potential iPhone 6 customers in the US who still don't know what iOS feels like.
If process isolation is indirectly responsible for the "page freezes, doesn't re-render, doesn't respond to input" symptom then it seems to have cost more than it was worth in the stability department. Those freezes have dogged chrome on both my mac and my pc for the last 4 or 5 years every time I've tried it. Safari and firefox, OTOH, almost never seem to crash or become unresponsive.

I'm all for having clever damage control mechanisms, but having less damage in the first place seems to be the winning strategy.
> More likely they see it as a means to ensuring web dominance by ensuring the web is never locked down by one mega corp.

I wouldn't let Google off the hook so easily.

More like, they want to ensure that if/when it is, they are that one mega corp: https://i.imgur.com/AIxYzl9.jpg

If you ask me, the only reason they haven't moved even faster in this direction is because they're afraid of triggering the same legal action that Microsoft did back in the 90s with IE, but that doesn't mean that they wouldn't love to have that form of dominance - it can only help them.
Thanks. Do you have a need today for more than 1 million codepoints for some reason? Or you are just predicting that we collectively will eventually? Or you just miss the theoretical elegance? Or what?
Kudos to all involved in making this happen.
That's how I feel when I'm coding with Python! There's always an amazing library around the corner, like if it read my mind from the future.
I've started using Namecheap after the SOAP story. Still didn't migrate all my domains from GoDaddy, but get a much better experience with Namecheap: their site works correctly, do not try to trick me into buying extras, support actually answers (didn't solve my issue, but that was because it couldn't really be solved).

Anyway, I'm already looking into migrating to Gandi because of Namecheap's lack of support for DNSSEC.
> The authors note that this attack may not be applicable to the way A5/3 is used in 3G systems.

This is a pretty big conditional. But I still imagine intel agencies have broken KASUMI.
Process isolation isn't actually on yet, it's still opt-in in Aurora.

It also makes everything about the interactive experience worse, or at least it did last week. `perf top` shows a pretty damning story around locks, too. So- we're probably not going to see it until 2015.
This is infuriating to me, and corrosive to our republic. I want to help, to fight this. I have some money and some time. What is the most effective to do this?
Silicon Valley Bank has been good to us.
We heard good things from them about intros, events, etc. Is that why you say they were good to you?

Put another way, why do you say they were good to you?
This is basically the reason why I never use spell checkers (that, and the fact that I write usually in three different languages).
I'm nearly speechless reading this, shaking my head. The "laws" that the esteemed enforcement agencies are choosing to enforce are astounding. The best thing that can possibly happen is transparency and subsequent outrage.
Is Marissa Mayer a Vulcan-esque Data Queen?
Just some honest feedback regarding pricing.

I think this looks really cool, and may give it a spin. However, not sure I can justify the charge for my team. I currently pay $25 for a Bronze GitHub Organization plan [1], and while I'm the main developer for the site, I do have a team of volunteers that contribute to the source whenever they can, about 10-15 of us total.

So I would be looking at $50-$75 for an extension to a product I'm only paying $25 for at the moment. Just seems a little imbalanced.

Of course, I realize I'm an edge case, as most teams of this size will be paid team members in an established startup or company, but it still seems even these companies may find it odd to pay more for an extension vs. what they might pay for the base product.

Why not base your tiers similar to GitHub, charging by the number of repos instead of the number of users?

[1] https://github.com/pricing
Mozilla is one organization that I have no problems supporting. Thanks to everyone involved with Mozilla for contributing to a great organization that does awesome stuff.
Good point. Funnily enough, we see these basic protections being eroded systematically.
Tweetbot[1] solves these problems nicely. Were it not for this app I wouldn't use Twitter near as often as I do today.

[1] http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot/
Not as rare as the handful of PCI ethernet cards I have with a RJ45 and a DB9 connector. 100BASE-CX, ethernet over STP, used for a very brief period of time so people could reuse their Token Ring wiring plant for Ethernet.
You an absolutely gwt subpixel detail by averaging multiple photos taken with the same setting with almost exactly the same frame. I had software in 2004 that did this, converting short video to high res photo
I just built "Page Poller" for the Rails Rumble 2014, same concept!
http://pagepoller.r14.railsrumble.com/
Yup. Arcnet is under appreciated. I still have a small setup for an ancient embedded (STD-Bus) setup. Memories...
To be honest I don't see room in the mobile payments market anymore for third parties. I see Apple pay,Google wallet,PayPal and Amazon taken up 95% of the pie in 5-10 years.
This is true. However, I'm not sure we can possibly offer a great enough incentive that competes with the notion of complete power, control and money.
Police officers quest for safety also vastly increases the risks of unintentionally harming the people in the places they raid - people that are innocent until proven guilt, and people who are often not directly involved in the crime.

Most importantly it harms the respect and dignity of the society they are protecting. No non-threatening person should ever have AR-15s pointed at their heads, screamed at, their faces pushed into the ground, and handcuffed regardless of their potential criminality. Especially when the whole investigation is for non-violent crimes.

This hostility towards everyone generates more hostility and doesn't make any society more civilized and respectable - which is the over-arching intention of law and order.
Elon Musk: Artificial Intelligence Is Humanity's 'Biggest Existential Threat'
Would you invest 1M in your next employer
Not to mention Github uses feature toggling. So even users of the same team can have different versions of the UI, but almost certainly across the entire user base.
Hahaha well that's an accomplishment of sorts. b^)
I remember seeing this back when the event occurred. It still baffles me how the USA government has managed to wrangle their way out of this political mess all while trampling on core freedoms.
Increase your technology use, not your budget
The life cycle of the HIV virus with WebGL
Same here. Especially as Google becomes more and more evil, Chrome looks less attractive. Even on mobile, I use FF, despite it needing a lot of work and having a lot of rendering and input issues. And Chrome on Android looks very sexy. On desktop, FF is fine, once more.

Rust is also one of the most promising languages with a potentially massive impact on the world. Not only safer software, but exposing more programmers to better ways of coding. (Imagine how different the world would be if a popular OS had adopted a Rust-like two decades ago.)

Mozilla is really an important thing these days.
Ethernet is still "broadcast" (CSMA/CD). It's just that now, with switched ethernet, the broadcast domain is reduced to the switch port and the station.
They have announced that it will be added: http://newsroom.t-mobile.com/news/music-streaming-momentum-u...
I remember seeing it and then not hearing the shitstorm I was expecting to follow. It's impressive how they managed to distract the media at the time.
I think that has to do with the fact that one discovery or invention leads to a cascade of others. And upon those, yet more cascades of discoveries and inventions.

It's as if technological and scientific advancement was a genome, it's very difficult to predict how it would branch out from a single mutation yielding many new families along the way.
Just added HTTP authentication support.
Building a police state, one raid and threat at a time.
How a Failed Startup Helped Build an 8-Figure SaaS Business
The point of the threat is that they'd get a warrant to seize literally everything top to bottom and tie it all up for years as "evidence" (if he'd ever even get it back at all without it being "lost" somewhere).
Dorothy2: A malware and botnet analysis framework written in Ruby
Problem is often the competence of people handling these proxies. Yesterday I discovered that my ISP is blocking all DELETE http calls (ACT fibernet in India)!

And before that they decided to enforce a reverse DNS lookup so all the name based virtual servers with local DNS entries stopped working - I had my staging instances setup that way.

And not only all this happens without any prior information, it is next to impossible to climb through the support layers to finally find someone who even understands what are you talking about. They just want you to restart your modem to "resolve the problem".
1) Google never backed Firefox with a billion-dollar-a-year advertising campaign like they have Chrome for several years now.

2) It's not an accident that Google's webservices work best (sometimes only) in Chrome.

They're way past the "disrupt IE" goal. They're into the "tightly couple our web service and Chrome and try to force out other options" goal.
You are not a machine. You are not alone
Using the Web to Reinvent Financial Projections
In 20 years, if he's right he'll be a genius. And if he's wrong no one will remember.

How about predicting which technologies will mature in the next five years, so people can build companies around them now and accelerate progress.

He was wrong about voice technology for 2009. Will that be ready by 2019? Will consumer robots be here in five years, en masse? Will solar energy be ready in 5 years? Will electric batteries give us the additional range needed so cars can replace the gas engine? Wearables? Genetics?
Why are the agents involved in these raids never named in the news coverage? These kinds of incidents should become part of their reputations.
I'm at a loss ... what's the legal framework for this? I'm sure that some lawyer somewhere has justified why this was a legally valid maneuver. What's the narrative that clears this of legal issues?

Is it this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita... and if so, what does international law have to say about events such as this?

To what authority are the actors here accountable to? Only their own domestic authorizations?
Lobbyists As A Service. Anyone?
it sure is. could use some design change...
That is true, but, (if you haven't already), I would recommend looking into the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment. I think it is probably more true to the essences of what the article was trying to communicate.

I don't think I can do the idea justice, but the basic idea is such: if you 'tag' the photons in the double-slit experiment by which path they went through, then you necessarily break superposition and won't see an interference pattern.

However, if you 'throw' away this information completely, the interference pattern re-emerges. The delayed-choice part of it is just a way to through away the 'tag' information after the photon has moved through the slits. It seems to suggest that you can uncollapse a wavefunction if you just erase any knowledge you have of the measurement you made. (I've probably butchered it, read here for more[1])

Although, honestly, you don't need retrocausality, and personally I think it has much more interesting applications to information theory (how does one destroy information? How does the wavefunction know about our records? What even is information, man? etc)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_choice_quantum_eraser
> Does it diff binary data.. for example, if I ask it to watch an image url will it hash the image and notify me when it gets updated?

Can you elaborate in what case you might want to do this?
I think it is important because it's an imperfect but easy-to-use tool to get a quick-and-dirty sense public sentiment. (When governments realize that they'd do better to perform a MITM attack on twitter rather than shut it down, allowing them to craft whatever public perception they like, then Twitter's usefulness will drop.)
Yeah, no. They chose intensive process, many of them are ports of code from other languages and some the tests are using software made by Mozilla such as pdf.jz and zlib (Ecmascripten) and Microsoft (Typescript compiler)

https://developers.google.com/octane/benchmark
Most current javascript engines use JIT compilers now. Since you have no idea what platform a client is on AOT would be problematic.
I don't think you're using it as intended. I also want to use it the way you do, but I think most people don't mind missing tweets. They're just dipping their toes in the stream. Facebook works the same way. I get FOMO.
Sorry, you need to work harder on your hating.

serf's Hater Score:
2.36%
Of The Time Spent Hating.

The worst comment:

I wish that it showed the previous color scheme if I go back. As it stands I have to go back and then refresh with that URL. (firefox)
I've been using FF for a while, but partly switched off when I got a Surface (on account of IE's better touchscreen support).

But soon I'll be moving from iOS to Android, the wonderful land of being able to change your default browser. And I'll be using FF there for the bookmark syncing. Firefox on 2/3 devices ain't bad.

There was a lot of hate over the australis redesign, but I like it better than Chrome.
This reminds me of the cell phone industry competition. We all benefit from head-to-head fights for performance and value. It's a shame so many markets have little direct competition outside of technology either due to monopoly, regulatory capture, or market dynamics.
Ridiculous Re-Make of Michael Jackson's Thriller
It's not a fear of drugs, it's that the Drug War gets all the aggressive laws and cool toys. It enables self-aggrandizement, ambition, and big budgets.
I don't use Go so I don't know the specifics of the tools you mentioned but any desktop IDE targeted at or supporting Go would very likely a) support stuff like syntax formatting out of the box and b) have a plugin system for less-common functionality and c) still allow you to define your own custom commands to call external tools/scripts.
Non-Windows still has modal update dialog. On startup for non-Windows you are blocked from using the browser until the update is complete. There is a dialog if you run out of date extensions. There is a nag dialog if you have an update pending for over 24h.
I only use Twitter for indie game development. Because it's fun to watch certain tags and screenshots, keep up with news and what people are doing.

Beyond that, I completely agree. I couldn't give a damn about someone being somewhere eating something. Or what the CEO of Oracle said this week.