skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is free forever, as long as you don't require more than 10,000 searchable messages in the archive or over 5 external integrations.
Photoshop – Who Killed Professor Photoheim?
Want to “get things done”? Start by throwing away your todo list app
One of the biggest reasons of traffic is accidents. If self driving cars can reduce those, perhaps traffic will improve?

Another problem is coordination: one slow driver can cause a huge jam. Perhaps coordinated, self-driving vehicles can reduce those?

Granted, none of those things would work if you introduce one self-driving car in a jungle of meat-based drivers.
Only two days since it was released and already updated to 3.0.1: http://railsbricks.net/news/railsbricks-3-0-1-has-been-relea...
once self-driving cars become the standard, intersections and merge points can be optimized for much greater efficiency, which will reduce traffic. also, speed limits will be eliminated.
Do Not Distrub Developers
Your off by ~61,545 times. As, you don't want the energy to boil water, you want the energy you get from burning hydrogen.

1 liter of water is 11.19% hydrogen or ~0.1119kg. Hydrogen is 143 MJ/kg so 1 liter of water ~= 143,000,000J * 0.1119 = 16,001,700J.

So, you want a 1,661,715 megawatt laser. Good luck with that.

PS: You might be able to do laser assisted rocketry where you hit the combustion chamber with energy to increase exhaust velocity. But even that would take insane accuracy and a 100+ terawatt laser to be useful.
What bothers me about this industry is that if you were to interview for an iOS position at a place like FB and suggest a KISS type solution, say using PONSOs for the data model, you would immediately be shown the door.
Lots of hacking efforts = greater likelihood of those efforts capturing attention and showing up in places like the top of HN.
> We probably only use it for 40% "work." The rest is random news items and discussions about sports.

Which probably means that you have a coworker or two that's passively annoyed at you and/or actively ignores the channel.
Fix it? Who needs recruiters, if all they do is hide job opportunities and pad your resume for you? Instead of finding jobs, they essentially try to keep you from finding jobs, except the ones that help them out. What do they add to the process but friction?

How about a web site instead? Oh, there are dozens of those already. Ok, so fix those. Not perfect, but they don't start out with a conflict of interest at their heart.
Who comes up with these names? Don't they realize that Slackware (which is now 21 years old) is commonly called Slack?
I must be in the minority (based on the comments that I have read), but I hate it.
The other day the PHB announces to the office: We are going to use Slack and move away from IM, Skype, etc.
So I signed up.
What I don't like:
-you need to keep a a tab open all the time,

-you need to keep an eye on that tab in case something comes up,

-the 'notifications' don't work all the time (Archlinux + Firefox)

It's like somebody took all the bad qualities of IRC, and shoehorned it into a web-page and all the horror that brings.
The features that I don't understand:

search-able logging of messages. Email and/or Pidgin already does that.

Group messages: Email already does that.

Transferring of files: Email and/or corporate LAN shares already do that.

But it does add the necessity of stopping my workflow every 5-10 minutes so I can check to see if there are any messages that _might_ apply to me.

The quicker it can be killed with fire the happier I will be. Or am I missing the point?
curmudgeonly - check

beard - check

Unix admin - check

Perhaps there is no hope for me. Next thing you know people will want to take pictures with their cellphones! =)
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They're about interesting topics. Pretty simple.
You get that, but not in the same user friendly way. Plus email is passive, while chat is active. I think this is the main selling point of chat. With email you do not get the same feeling as a chat room, and maybe that feeling is what drives people to use Slack, Hipchat etc.
Berkshelf and FreeBSD
Definitely try Haskell, you'll like it. But do note it's completely idiomatic in Haskell to map over Maybe (aka Option in Scala), which was your initial objection in this subthread :)
60-70% PayPal vs 30-40% credit card. That's been consistent since ~2006 when I opened that store that accepts both. I would be more inclined to drop the CC form than to drop PayPal.
May I interject here with a heartfelt apology from at least some of the British. Partition was wholly cynical affair following the theory of divide and conquer, most of the negative effects of which were completely intentional and are going to echo for generations.

We wanted the situation to be fucked both in and between Pakistan and India as we are following from the Roman theories on empire that fostering group enmity makes it easier to impose control, the great game we are still playing today, like spoiled children furious that we lost our toys, despite the fact that these days the stakes are intolerable even if you win.

It used to be that murderous lunatics drunk on power could foster tribal warfare for relatively little long term risk to stuff other than screwing up their own empire if they miscalculated and generally pissing off a lot of people, these days you might end up with vast deserts of radioactive glass. And I suspect we may create a couple of them yet, if things carry on the current trajectory.
> Do we want pedophiles unencumbered access to the internet?

Why do you care? If they are online, preferably drawing pictures of young children or something, it gives them an outlet to their fetish that does not involve violently assulting children.

In a grayer and probably more nihilistic tense, even if they share already produced child pornography, all those violent assults have already been performed in the past. If it can stop future assults by giving pedophiles material in the now to sate their lust, then restricting it is just enabling more child rape because they don't have alternative outlets.

Seriously, at this point, it is all just ones and zeroes. And those don't hurt people. It is an injustice and terrible on the part of any rape victim to think lewd imagery of themselves is circulating the Internet giving pedophiles an opportunity to get it off, but it already is. And nothing we do can put the cork back on all the child porn already circulating hard drives around the world. They just use VPNs, TOR, and other anonymizing services to hide their activity that puts up a barrier to entry to less technically inclined pedophiles who then vent their frustrations out on people in the physical realm.

Let them do their thing in a dark corner of the Internet, that is still public and in the open, that is highly scrutinized by law enforcement to immediately catch and arrest anyone that commits new injustices against children, but it direly harms the potential of a free Internet to dictate policy due to the exception.

In the same vein of thought, the Internet enables terrorists and for hire murders to collude and plan violence against others. But you can do that in person. The thing with the Internet is that it does not enable anything you could not do standing next to someone - you just get information exchange anywhere. And if you cannot restrict information exchange in person, then restricting it digitally does little good and only stymies the potential of the Internet.
Yep. Why should the cars be parked? Why should we own cars? All we actually need is a very high % chance of getting access to a car whenever needed. If it were 99.9%, and wayyy cheaper than owning a car, why own the car?
I wonder if one could be compelled to tell law enforcement which finger print opens the device, or that any of yours do at all.
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The most interesting things to me is that Campfire was around before this and Hipchat before that. It goes to show that execution is everything, Slack has completely crushed it from a feature and integration standpoint and the polish is amazing. We switched from Hipchat and we didn't really have a good reason - it just felt better.

If Campfire was growing $1MM a month I am pretty sure 37signals would now be called Campfire and not Basecamp.
I think that the answers to a lot of these problems lie in extremely complex algorithms and a drastic change in technology. Instead of each person owning and operating a car that operates exactly the same way that cars do today, I imagine pod-like cars that can connect and disconnect with any other car. Then, if every car knew where every other car in the area was headed and could coordinate, they could join and travel together, then disconnect and reconnect until each reaches its destination. So essentially a hybrid between trains and cars.

Yeah, I know, science-fictiony and a stretch of the imagination, and I don't expect to see anything resembling this in my lifetime, but I do think there are ways that self-driving cars could operate in a much more efficient network-based system than with each driver making their own decisions based on what is immediately around them.
I wonder how they tombstone CSS.
Patching what Apple doesn’t want to
Now I'm even more confused. If the machinery for try-finally (automatically cleaning up resources during unwinding) already exists and is paid for, what's the rationale for not having catch?
Have a look at some examples, it's quite similar to SQL / UNQL.
And the Atari 7800 controller from 1984 does not qualify as a gamepad? Come on...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800#mediaviewer/File:Ata...

If anyone is rewriting history here, that's certainly not me.
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omg who would do this to the world
Nice post. But when Speaking to Power, please use correct punctuation:

Dear VCs, please don’t be assholes.
Is there no penalty for applicants and prosecutors -- especially considering that for the latter patent prosecution is a part of their licensed profession (assuming they are attorneys) -- for such apparently deliberate mis-representations?

It seems that as long as there is no or minimal cost for such abuse, it will continue.
Solar Sail, Laser Sail, Electric Sail, Magnetic Sail, Mini-magnetospheric plasma sail, MagBeam, Plasma Magnet Sail, Photon Drive, Bussard Ramjet, Ram-Augmented Interstellar Rocket.

Basically any spacecraft that does not carry its own propellant. Most of these have either pathetic thrust or are way beyond our current state-of-the-art.
This would be knowledge, which you don't have to share, according to the article.
Ick, that has to hurt. Maybe they could have some beer with Bezos and share in the misery.
Much of the enthusiasm for driverless cars assumes that the automated systems will work perfectly.

Here is a fact: the systems will fail from time to time. Maybe a lot.

The reaction to deaths that occur due to automated systems will be like Biblical wailing and gnashing of teeth. It will be utter outrage.

Americans' (perceived) outrage to tragedy seems to be to usually be totally out of sync with the reality of the threat. It won't matter if they are safer statistically. In addition to more efficiency, the driverless cars need to have the best-designed fail-safe systems ever constructed or we will not see widespread adoption within decades, at least in the US.
How Atlassian of them.
In case anyone's interested: You've got it mostly right. Warg was sentenced to 3.5 years. The sentence was appealed on the spot, but they're not going to release him as they think it's likely he's going to flee the country.

JT was sentenced to 6 months, so he's entitled to compensation.

Source: http://www.version2.dk/artikel/tre-et-halvt-aars-faengsel-ti...
The optimism surrounding self-driving cars is just mind-boggling to me. Decided to drive to work this morning (usually take the train). Siri totally shit the bed and took me on a 45-minute scenic tour through DC. Took me off the highway too early onto busy local streets, kept trying to take me onto a road that was closed for construction, and tried to get me to turn left at a T intersection of two 2-way roads where only right turns were allowed. Just an utter disaster.

And it's not unusual. Siri loves to take my mother in law on harrowing trips through the ghettos of Baltimore.
Krugman has reposted several entire articles on his blog by Kim Lane Scheppele on the rising authoritarianism in Hungary: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=hungary&_r=0
This is a case of PEBCAK, not the language design. I'll get used to it.
Invisibility Cloak Material
Very neat. We did something very similar with the devo.ps button, allowing you to define configurable settings: http://devo.ps/blog/deploy-your-meteor-apps-on-digital-ocean...

We have yet to properly document the feature, but we've used it in a few places already.
I just don't see how this changes much. You have to give them a finger print, but nowhere does it say that you have to provide the fingerprint onto the device. This means they'll have to lift it and reproduce it in order to unlock the device. Since you're fingerprint is undoubtedly already on the phone they could just lift it and unlock the device anyway...
Former Lockheed Martin Engineer Boyd Bushman Describes Aliens at Area 51 [video]
Looks lovely.

Have you thought about the ugoa/rwx... etc. version of the flags, i.e. partial setting?
Spooky Unicode in WiFi SSID
You can build car parks that aren't in super close proximity to you though and underground too. There are problems to overcome but it's possible. You could have an app that connects to your car that beckons it to us at a certain time or now etc. you could hop in a self driving taxi to where your car is. If all you want is the current system but automated, it's not going to work. Just like if you asked what people wanted pre cars... Faster horse drawn carriages would have been the answer. This will take some vision and a paradigm change.
Psychedelics make you learn stuff that you cannot easily "unlearn", like any major life experience. It expands your awareness in ways that sometimes are not pleasant (very often, "ignorance is bliss"). That's the reason most psychedelics are not recreational, but rather "spiritual" drugs. They are self-development tools, and like any tool you must know how to use them.

It's totally possible to be enlightened by a bad trip, rather than traumatised. It all depends on your outlook on life, how you instinctively react to adversity. You should see everything under the self-development lens, where everything is an opportunity for growth, and never feel victimised. Your goal after a bad trip should not be just "to recover", but rather to become your best yet. Much like a muscle that grows stronger after you strain it at the gym, psychedelics exercise the mind, and can make you mentally stronger. However, like in the gym, the recovery periods are essential, and over-exercising is detrimental.

In answer to the people who always bring up the subject of psychosis: any extremely stressful event can trigger psychosis in people who are prone to have it (for example a divorce, or any big loss). As a rule of thumb, if you're close to 30 and you've been through tough times and feel fine, you're safe. I personally believe that if you're a lucid, clear minded person, looking for self-development, psychedelics are for you. If you're an easily scared person not interested in self-development, psychedelics are definitely not for you.
Hardware by the Numbers: Team and Prototyping
> Much of the enthusiasm for driverless cars assumes that the automated systems will work perfectly

Because the software industry has such a sterling reputation for delivering complex systems that are nonetheless extremely reliable!
Thanks for the feedback, will do :-)

https://github.com/alexandru/scala-best-practices/issues/14
By iterate, I assume you mean a multi-stage rocket, which is, in theory, a simple solution to the problem; as well as the on only way we have actually gotten anything to space.

Another potential solution is asparagus staging, where you have multiple fuel tanks that are jettisoned when empty. Assuming you can construct a fuel cross-feed system so that you empty your outermost tanks while you inner tanks are still full, this gets you (mostly) the same benefits as an iterated rocket design. The outertanks also may have engines on them that are jettisoned when they are.

I do not believe that any rocket to date has used this system, However the SpaceX Falcon Heavy (planned to launch in 2015) includes this method. [0] As I understand it, they added a single asparagus stage (with two tanks/engines) to their first stage. Their staging sequence goes like: Fire all 3 lower engines. Jettison outer 2 lower rockets, leaving a single engine with a full tank. Jettison lower engine and fire the upper stage engine.

As a side note, Googling "asparagus staging" returns, with the exception of a single reference to the Falcon Heavy (as the 9th link), exclusively references to the game Kerbal Space Program for the first 3 pages. Tested through a Tor browser session that has not been tainted with my Kerbal related search history. However, the earliest use of the term I found (courtesy of [1]) was from 1997 [2] (Copyright page viewable from [3]). The Kerbal wiki [4] also claims that this is the first usage.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy#cite_ref-nss201111...
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/1b7hml/o...
[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=C70gQI5ayEAC&pg=PA143&lpg=P...
[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486600610/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_d...
[4]http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/wiki/Asparagus_staging
Agreed, but to be pedantic, it applies to all momentum machines which carry its own "propellant", not "fuel".

For instance, in a NERVA rocket, the "fuel" is the uranium rods in the reactor, the "propellant" is the liquid hydrogen that is heated and shot out the exhaust bell.
I don't think it is an original observation but Steve Jobs chose a very capable and worthy successor. Tim Cook gets more impressive each time you hear anything about him.
Perhaps not a bad idea. One advantage to David Schnepper's suggestion (in the video above) is that the tombstone is executable code, which can lead to metrics and even automated code removal. Buyer beware!
Yeah what's with gps' and their compulsion to get off the freeway, often many exits too soon? I've experienced this. I don't give in to it, but my wife spent an hour driving 100 blocks downtown and missing her appointment.
The argument is that self-driving cars would reuse existing roads, fuel, service, and manufacturing infrastructures that have been developed for existing cars. And, adoption can be incremental. Start with cars which drive themselves highway only, and require a capable driver to be at the wheel at all times. That may be soon. Gradually add more use cases at the speed of engineering, regulation, and social acceptance.

Some of the hard things to change in the world are hard because they require many people to change their behavior in coordination. Cars to self-driving cars doesn't. Email to Email with innovative clients doesn't. Introducing a new communication protocol does (though of course it's not impossible). Of course, this is only one aspect of a complex world.
may be you can write it up it should be a great knowledge add to us.
Part of the problem is that, thanks partly to precedents from earlier decisions, 'obvious' and 'prior art' have taken on special meanings that do not conform to either common usage or common sense.
It sounds like you accidentally saw something you probably shouldn't have; I would keep my mouth shut.

There are a lot of factors in any compensation plan, and salary is just one. I'd be cautious about judging too quick based only on a single factor.

It is possible that the company is giving themselves negotiating room.
do you have any data to back up your "fact"? I'm specially interested on statistics compared to human drivers.
Quick bug report on the cloud extension in Chrome, probably the others as well. The inputted email address for login is case sensitive, and the initial registration converts any inputted email address to lower-case. It took me a good while to figure out why I couldn't login.
Ask HN: Next MacBook design?
What do you think, how its going to look like?
>and the polish is amazing

Polish? It looks and feels like a ho-hum single page app (which it is).
It doesn't ensure they remain free - a copyright assignment allows the contributions to be used as part of a proprietary release.
I have a hard time believing that the Police can't unlock an iPhone without its user permission.
Maybe they want to spare the cost of a forensic expert or is the phone so well secured ?
I'm so happy for them. Great team and great product.
I would've hoped for less about Box's story and more focus about building an enterprise software company, but he did touch on some areas towards the latter half of the lecture. I summarized about 32 quotes (primarily for the latter half of the lecture) here: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/32-quotes-from-aar...
suppose you see an article in your news feed while using the hidden service and click on it; facebook still has a good chance of learning about your browsing habits that way, even if you start from a hidden service. facebook might then learn which exit your non-hidden-service traffic exits to, and from there, it might have information to offer to advertisers about the identities of tor users using a given exit around the same time.

even just having a strong authenticator of your real identity active on tor at a given time may be concerning, depending on your threat model.
Are naive users and Tor worth worrying about?

The list of "you have to" involved in making its use meaningful is pretty long, and "normal" users aren't good at caring about details like that.

Please nobody construe that as a dismissal of the needs of those users, that isn't what I'm getting at.
Never used Siri (Android user), but Waze is so good that I barely even bother learning routes anymore, I just plug it into Waze and go. Using Waze makes me excited about the future of self-driving cars.
Everything in moderation.

Ken Kesey wrote two of my favorite books "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1962) and "Sometimes a Great Notion" (1964), but basically produced nothing of much merit after that.

I'm convinced that his subsequent over-indulgence in psychedelics destroyed his ability to produce great literature.
I can't imagine why film shots should be patentable. It's just using a camera in a certain way. For example, imagine if someone patented the dolly zoom[1]. It would be similar to patenting using a tennis racket to swat at bees.

[1]: http://youtu.be/rW23RsUTb2Y?t=2m1s
The title of this post is misleading. To bypass something means to work around it, not to already be past it. If your machine is not hacked, and is encrypted, and you don't run any unsafe binaries, then the FBI cannot "bypass" your encryption.

I understand the claim that almost all standard operating systems are pre-hacked. I could believe this for Windows, and for any system running software that does not have publicly visible source, but I do not believe this is true for carefully built linux systems.

Additionally, even if your system IS rooted, I believe it is possible to run a secure virtual machine on it. ( note an encrypted keyboard would need to be used to prevent keylogging in the host OS )

As others here have stated, I think this article is mostly FUD. It could have been shorted to the single sentence "Your encryption is irrelevant if the software on your box can be hacked while it is running."
Yeah, there are always squares and killjoys.
There is no need for any names in the article, it is Shamesung, obviously. I'm already boycotting all stuff clearly branded as Shamesung for a year or two, not a problem for now.
Not that other companies are shining knights of good, but sammy has already fallen below any acceptable thresholds for me.