skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great! I like being able to see so many different Utilities and DevOps tools being used. But it seems like many of the top stacks don't mention the application frameworks or languages that they're using. Why might that be the case?
If you want to swap meaningless anecdotes I can tell you that my cable service is more reliable than my electrical service. Neither are perfect but I have not yet had an internet outage this year that I've noticed; my power has been out for significant amounts of time (> 1 hour) at least a couple of times, and if you count momentary off/on outages it's been closer to a dozen.

Where I grew up we had persistently poor water pressure. It took over a decade for the city-owned water utility to admit there was a problem and install a booster pump for that neighborhood.

All my area utilities have fees for establishing service, deposit requirements if you have low credit or are a new customer, and if you call them out for service and the problem turns out to be with your plumbing or your wiring, you can bet there will be a charge.
ahh, but who provides the framework that denies the local governments the right to implement this? That's right, the Judicial branch (local, state or federal). So, while corporations initiate and shepherd the process through the court systems, it is the court systems that allow this process.
With this PR accepted, vim-fugitive now works correctly with vcsh and mr[1][2]. For those not familiar, vim-fugitive is Tim Pope's excellent git plugin for vim.

More generally, fugitive now works correctly with repository setups where $GIT_DIR is set in the shell but $GIT_WORK_TREE isn't. Instead, the repo's config has a correctly set core.worktree config value.

[1] https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh

[2] http://joeyh.name/code/mr/
Amazing how at this point we can pretty much find anything through digital means as nearly everything is shared and appears online eventually.

Yet we still fail to find something (or someone) that really matters.
We're thrilled to have her. See Marianna's blog post at http://blog.docker.com/2014/11/dockerized-by-marianna-tessel...
Their chosen solutions to the GC issues are in this roadmap. [0]

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Y4IsnNRCN43Mx0NZc5YXZLo...
# wget http://GPG/source/gpg-blah-tar.gz
# wget http://GPG/source/gpg-blah-tar.gz.asc
# gpg gpg-blah-tar.gz.asc
# apt-get build-dep gnupg2
# apt-get install devscripts ubuntu-dev-tools
# apt-get source gnupg2
# cd <The gnupg2 version directory something like gnupg2-2.0.26 >
# uupdate ../gnupg-2.1.0-blah-tar.gz
# cd <the directory uupdate tells you to cd into>
# dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -nc
# dpkg -i ../gnupg2*.deb
Marketing Primer from Google – well presented as an app
I definitely agree. I'd use it mostly for a bluetooth music streaming speaker. And for $99 (since I'm a prime member) it's a good price. All the other features are extra and I don't know which ones I'd end up actually using on a regular basis. But it would be cool to try out.
I get your point, but on the topic of paranoia breeding paranoia, (1) I'm not sure if there is really a causal relationship there, and (2) the government's paranoia a fear of alleged domestic and foreign threats to our safety, well-being, way of life, etc. while the people's paranoia is that the NSA knows what I ate for breakfast.

Despite whether either threat is real or not, I'm less concerned about my facebook privacy being violated and more concerned with foreign and domestic threats of violence.

I have a choice not to use facebook or amazon echo, or whatever. Problem solved on that front. I don't have a choice if somebody wants to fly a plane into dense metro areas with the goal of killing as many people as possible.

Are you telling me that you feel amazon echo is a larger potential threat to your security than alleged terrorist organizations?
Proof of Identity
Posts with 7 points that get those points quickly (within a half hour of being posted) will hit the front page due to the time portion of the algorithm.

Whether it stays there is another story.
Thieves Use Simple Trick to Steal Millions Through ATM's in Bangalore
Excellent UX, though the content was kind of known.Still there were some good takeaways !
This whole subthread has offered nothing but anecdotal evidence.
The best case is that they are doing it to get an idea of whether they should be pursuing you or not (if prior). You should politely decline.
So, it seems possible to build a p2p based market. I'm pretty sure I read something about there already being one. Like, a distributed network based market where sales and buys are processed by users, much in the way bitcoin does, or torrenting. Then the network could be accessed by clients, even web based ones. Perhaps. Like i2p based markets? Which can even be accessed over tor?
Just a little history on what Dre and Jimmy consider "innovation": http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-h...
Strange. In the US, you can get tech support over live chat. When one session wasn't bearing fruit, I opened another chat session to get another CSR at the same time and the second CSR managed to figure it out.
Ah, I hadn't seen that. It looks like they've updated the post with links to actual news articles to satisfy Reddit's requirement of posting personal information.
Don't ask for upvotes on Twitter: https://twitter.com/martinklepsch/status/530419548177301506
Show HN: New API – Stripe for calendars
In the few hackathons I've participated in, interesting ideas have always trumped technical ambition in terms of winning. If you're only participating for the atmosphere, then I would say go ahead and challenge yourself.
Memo to Microsoft CEO
Yep, that's exactly how the takeover went at the last place I was working that was acquired. Lots of promises that nothing would change, except, well, this one small thing... to fit into company policy you understand...

I think somehow management sees the assets and wants to capitalize on them, without bothering to understand the process that created the assets in the first place (whether those are people or products). It's like if they took over a farm and harvested all the wheat without planting any seeds, and then wondered why they weren't getting crops anymore.

I just think it's amazing how frequently corporations will buy an asset for millions or billions with apparently no idea how the entity actually works. I mean if I were going to spend a few million on a company, I'd want to know how and why it's been successful, I wouldn't just want to acquire a "brand" that would get immediately tarnished.
> it's now curated to some extent

HN was a curated site before, too. We just explain it more now.
> Eiffel tower (...) southern France (...) Italy

You have an excellent comment, but you fail at ponting at how this info may be used against you and providing usecases. Should sound like: "On Feb 1st your car is recorded on the leftish party's parking lot" "On Feb 2nd you are arrested in person at a friend's place for the speed excess of Jan 26th. Police automatically suponead your network's Echos".
I'm pretty much never going to feel bad about breaking someone's code that runs a regex over the error message I return. I can't stop people from writing bad code. Then again, I'm also careful to write my own code such that consumers of it always have a reasonable way to programmatically detect all the errors I know exist, and anything else is just "something really unexpected went wrong, here's a string to log if you want to".

There's always going to be a category of errors that your code just doesn't understand. Giving the caller a string to log with some context is a lot better than returning just a generic error with no context. Returning the specific error is also possible, and sometimes that may be appropriate, but it can cause just as many problems as the other way... but at least the guy writing a regex should know better, and anyone who reads his code is going to notice it and tell him it's very likely to break. However, if someone type-checks the error you're returning, that looks like pretty valid code, so it's less likely to get red-flagged.... until you change your implementation, and that code now breaks.

I really don't think we disagree terribly much on this btw. Like I said, it depends a lot on the situation. Defining policies for errors is hard. There's always tradeoffs, like anything else.
Your paranoia is nobody's fault but your own.
This is great. I'll definitely show it to my students (undergrad Information Systems majors) who are trying to figure out what tools to learn.
Does anybody know what Amazon Echo will be using as their search engine - Google, Bing? Or is Amazon developing their own search/knowledge engine? If so, is this just the beginning of Amazon trying to encroach on Google Search?
There is absolutely nothing untowards or abnormal about their claim, nor are they threatening the "public", which overwhelmingly doesn't operate black market sites.

Sure, most people don't operate black market sites. But the problem is that if the government is able to use technology to have near-perfect knowledge of what everyone is up to then bad things happen when you get a bad person in charge of the government. Possible case in point just happened:

http://goo.gl/yndbdS

The bottom line is that there should be a way for people to be anonymous behind their keyboard. That's what prevents people from dying for expressing opinions that are counter to the government. Just picture a radical Prolife president who feels justified in murdering people who advocate for Prochoice policies. Don't focus on the one example - there are all kinds of bad things that a bad person in power could do. Enforcing laws is not a justification for absolute power.
Cool idea, but at this point it doesn't seem like a reasonable option for new developers coming into projects.

For example, I picked Coderwall, which is the 2nd project listed on the discover page. There are 11 tasks right now, with a total coin bounty of about 25k. Looking at the ownership, there are about 14.3 million coins allocated, owned primarily by one guy. SO, if I clear out ALL of the tasks for Coderwall, I will receive coins worth ~0.0017% of the project. If 100% of the stated $30k revenue is distributed to coin holders (which it won't be.. gotta pay for servers, etc), I will receive about $50/month for clearing out all of their tasks.. I understand that revenue might grow, but that's a very small amount nonetheless.

Maybe I'm missing something? Is that about how it works?
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-de...
Agreed. And on the idea that it's ridiculous they are listening all the time, and 1984 comparisons, it's worth knowing in 1984 they weren't continually listening, but they might be. I read this book in the 1970s at school, i think it's time to re-read.

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/0.html
quote: There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live -- did live, from habit that became instinct -- in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.
According to this: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-157.html, repealing alcohol prohibition "dramatically reduced crime, including organized crime, and corruption". While organized crime and "the mob" obviously still existed afterwards, they lost a lot.
Just like gun registration, passports, driver licenses, and cell phones are, huh. That's why we all live in constant fear of our tyrannical overlords.
Loveland, Longmong and Niwot are all relatively close, and have similar quality of life properties, but are quite a lot cheaper--they don't have the university, which can be a bug or a feature depending on your perspective.

Fort Collins is another university town but with a lower national profile than Boulder, which again can be a good or bad thing.
Users that spoof their user agent are likely to either be tech-savvy people who either know what they are doing or who are hiding who they are, like a bot.

I'm more worried about supporting older users on old machines who barely know the difference between Internet Explorer and the internet than in supporting someone who knows exactly what a UA is and how to spoof it.
The fight against the cartels seems to be more like a war than conventional police work. One of the main themes of any war is logistics. Anything you can do to disrupt the enemy's logistics is pretty much always good, even if it isn't a perfect solution. You rarely get to completely destroy the enemy at a stroke, but instead you have to keep chopping off bits until they are defeated and discredited.

Yeah, legalizing drugs won't make them vanish overnight, but it will remove a hugely profitable revenue source from their arsenal, and that's always worth doing.
Describe one.

Trade only occurs in regions above the supply curve and below the demand curve. There is no way to slice that area up such that the pieces have greater total area than the whole.

Unless you get into odd situations like luxury goods or Geffen goods, the maximum benefit is always going to be obtained when the last good is sold at the market-clearing price. And the only way to really guarantee that--since consumers don't line up to buy in order of their positions on the demand curve--is to sell every good at that price.

There are many ways to divvy up that area such that suppliers get more or less than they would at one fixed price, but those ways do not make the trade worth more in absolute terms. In order for the suppliers to get more, the consumers must get less. Price discrimination is absolutely a zero-sum game that benefits the suppliers exactly as much as it hurts the consumers.

You are likely discounting the value of the consumer benefit as money not seen in the transaction. A dollar that a consumer would have spent on something, but didn't need to, can still be spent somewhere else.
The biggest factor there by far is user flags.
the commenter mentioned e-mail (self-hosted, though i can't control recipients' copies), files (offline drives/tahoe-lafs if needed), and operating systems (mostly debian without binary blobs).

my choices don't necessarily make me feel more secure--just was pointing out that not everyone is already trusting major tech companies with all of their data all of the time.

alternatives that better respect my privacy/rights/autonomy really do exist and people really do have choices. these choices are getting easier to make all the time, too, e.g. owncloud.
How is that a good thing? So the genius tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it. Does it really count?
I thought it was awesome, and it worked perfectly on my 2008 macbook.
Ah, XMMS. I still use it today.
Or they were just in on it from day 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568765

The failures of modern crypto (and historical) are almost always usage bugs, not the technology itself.
Show HN: Simple automatic screenshot-upload script
I recently bought into the Sonos ecosystem. While it is pretty limited in some ways (I can't just stream stuff playing on my phone to the Sonos speakers, for example if I am playing a random YouTube video), it has one really good thing going for it: it can sync playback between an arbitrary number of speakers. This is my new standard for this type of thing: speakers that cannot do this are inferior to Sonos. In that regard, their claim that it's also a wireless speaker doesn't appeal to me.

Having said that, this thing looks very cool. Imagine this, connected to a home automation system:

"Alexa, turn off lights in the kitchen."

"Alexa, arm the alarm system."

"Alexa, I am cold."

"Alexa, open the garage door."

"Alexa, start my car."

I know every comment here must mention privacy, so I'll follow the trend. Yes, it listens to you, and sends data to the cloud. However, I am still most likely going to buy one because, well, I can always unplug it.
Are you going to tell us the rest of the story?
On the flip side, if you're an adult and trying to "disappear" for.. whatever reason you've chosen (it's your prerogative), social media has made that difficult.
the economic benefits that technology like this brings to its users

What economical benefit is this thing bringing its users
Following that logic, you CAN turn off the echo, it's got what looks like mute and power buttons right on top.
Umm, that isn't a double negative.
I wouldn't exactly call Office a "loss leader" when it's MS's highest revenue division (circa 2012: http://www.tannerhelland.com/4273/microsoft-money-updated-20...).
What would it take to see free Office for desktop without COM integration?
The language specific IDEs are lighter weight (boot faster, etc.)
If the little bit of time this stays up on front page, would help find him, then by all means let it be. You have my support for this. I hope, wherever he is, he is in good health.
Beautiful post very interesting data.

The balance trying to be achieved can most simply be described as known good content vs. discovery. I wouldn't call it uneven it's more like; this is interesting vs we might think you'll find this interesting but we're taking a gamble because it has low visibility. I'm betting subreddits can move from cluster to cluster over time as well fairly frequently. Maybe an interesting thing to try to track over the next month or 2?
Interesting read, some highlights from the complaint:

"40. Based on a review of records provided by the service provider for the Silk Road 2.0 Server (the “Provider”), I have discovered that the server was controlled and maintained during the relevant time by an individual using the email account “blake@benthall.net” (“Benthall Email Account-1")."

"b. I have also reviewed a publicly available profile of “Blake Benthall” on Twitter, another social networking website, which includes a photograph of BENTHALL as the user of the account, depicting the same individual associated with the GitHub account, discussed above. I have reviewed a post on that Twitter profile, dated on or about November 6, 2013, the date when Silk Road 2.0 was publicly launched, stating: “All this talk about the #SilkRoad being back up makes me want to watch ThePrincessBride.”"

"a. I have reviewed records provided by a U S.-based Bitcoin exchanger (“Exchanger-1"), for an account registered under the name “Blake Benthall” and linked to Benthall Email Account-1 (“Bitcoin Account-1”). According to transaction records for Bitcoin Account-1, BENTHALL engaged in his first Bitcoin transaction with Exchanger-1 on or about November 7, 2013, the day after Silk Road 2.0 was publicly launched. The transactional records reflect that, since that date, BENTHALL has received a total of approximately 575.58 Bitcoins into the account through on or about October 28, 2014, and that BENTHALL has exchanged approximately 543.63 of those Bitcoins for United States currency, totaling $273,626.60"

"c. I have reviewed emails from Benthall Email Account-1 reflecting that BENTHALL purchased a luxury vehicle with Bitcoins in late January 2014 - approximately one month after Defcon assumed control of Silk Road 2.0. Specifically, email correspondence indicates that, in or about late January 2014, BENTHALL made a down payment of approximately $70,000 in Bitcoins towards the purchase of a Tesla Model S, worth approximately $127,000 in United States currency."

"b. Records provided by Exchanger-1 regarding Bitcoin Account-1 indicate that on the same date, BENTHALL logged into Bitcoin Account-1, using the identical combination of software: Google Chrome web browser version 35.0-1910.3 and the Apple OS X operating system, version 10.9.0.

"c. According to publicly available information, on or about April 6, 2014, Google Chrome version 35 O.1910.3 was a beta version of the browser,L2 and Apple OS X version 10.9.0 was outdated.B Thus, based on my training and experience, this particular combination of software versions would not have been common among Internet users at the time. The information available to the HSI-UC indicates that Defcon was not using Tor to access the customer support interface at the time, which would have caused Defcon’s browser and operating system to appear differently."
A lot of people/companies/governments are not okay with it, and do not use it.
Finding something fascinating and finding something deeply disturbing are not orthogonal; the relationships seemed deeply unhealthy, the men inherently violent and the women second class (don't disturb to club members while they're talking)—and still it was very interesting, very well told.
He has a private repo on GitHub, I wonder if it is the code for the site. https://github.com/blakeeb/private/commits?author=blakeeb
What if you don't take a cut of the transaction? If there's some flat fee that people pay regardless of whether there is an illegal drug transaction, is that then a conspiracy?
You are trading your so far rarely touched privacy for solving minor first world annoyances.
Better watch out, law enforcement isn't exactly known for their sense of humour.
Awesome Joseph. I'll send you an email later today. It does sound like an interesting concept. If you don't mind elaborating here, that would be great.
Interpreted languages are fast enough for what VBA has been traditionally used. You just need to steer away from the travesty of Atwood's Law.
Sweat the Product Interviews Noah Kagan, AppSumo
Can you elaborate on which town and who provides the service? The example above you cited Chattanooga and epbfi.com website that basic service costs $57.99/mo for 100 Mbs internet with no reference to a cap. Your comment seems disingenuous that you don't provide any details.
VBA is joyless. I started my career as VBA dev. It was the shitiest job I've ever had and worst job I can imagine to do. Bloated unreliable with disgusting API (like try catching for contains method on collection).
Not sure what your point is. It's okay for government representatives to threaten citizens for circumventing laws that are demonstrably foolish? Regardless you should step back and think about how a representative democracy should function.
Ok, let me re-phrase a little bit.

I am asserting my belief that a large majority of people who voice privacy concerns over things like amazon echo are the same people who do in fact use many cloud services. I find it to be ironic if my assertion is true.

Furthermore, I think it all comes down to our perception, and our perception does not accurately reflect "potential to be misused". Our perception is that gmail, dropbox, facebook, apps which store data, etc. are all relatively low threat. However a device that is marketed to record our voices in our homes is perceive to be high threat. In reality though, the "potential to be misused" is present in ALL times we trust a 3rd party with access to our information, or even the potential ability to access our information, or cameras, or recording devices (including phones and laptops).

So like I said, it comes down to trust. Trust amazon or don't. Trust dropbox or don't. Trust your smartphones, or don't. Potential to be misused is equal among ANYTHING that has listening or recording capabilities built in to it.
Personally it bodes poorly for the future of consumer products, if such a marketing achievement can be labeled a success when a small amount of critical thinking would deflate the premise of the purchase.

They're not headphones, they're status symbols. That's plenty of reason to knock it. I'd like to see actual innovation in the sense of what Dolby is doing. They're successful too, and I'm not knocking them. Would I go to the Dolby classes on innovation? Sure. Iovine? No.

If you think 'disruption' in the arts is going to happen by way of long-time industry insiders, then I don't know what to tell you...other than you're wrong I guess.
Exactly. This prevents the Talking TV from turning itself off. From 30 Rick: "First, I'm going to go home and delete everything on my DVR."