skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anybody else think that $20 a month for a SSL certificate is way too much, Heroku or not? I can get a domain-validated SSL certificate for $5.95 per year and even providers of shared hosting are able to install it at no cost (WebFaction and NearlyFreeSpeech come to mind).
Postal.js pub/sub, message capture, replay
I've been working on similar things, so this is really cool. Although, as an advanced jekyll user, all of my solutions revolve around GitHub Pages + Jekyll combination, which I think is the best offering for static websites.

My solutions are called potion (discontinued) and Sazed (assembly.com/sazed)
This is great news. I've been looking for an excuse to move away from my bug-ridden Pydio install. I tried upgrading to the newest version of Pydio only to have the upgrade process completely break the site. OwnCloud just looks better managed and more stable for production.
Early intervention is crucial, the early the better.

Silicon Valley has the largest group of Autism kids, while the cause is unclear, I believe it has something to do with IT-engineer-or-STEM-brain _statistically_.
How Hitler Defied The Bankers?
http://open.salon.com/blog/gordon_wagner/2010/05/11/how_hitl...
Is there any service that offers the combination of Dropbox + Jekyll + Git?

I might consider it without git, but Jekyll is really essential for me.
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When getting new software is as easy as finding a friend to hit "copy" > "paste", it will always be like this. Further, even when they make it difficult with keys and what not, there is almost always a way to break it. If that fails, there is always an alternative.

If we look at morals...

I always enjoyed the story in the bible where Jesus broke several loaves bread and a few fish and shared it with a massive crowd. No one cared about the poor fishermen or farmers. Why then is it morally objectionable to share software in the same manner?

In other words, unless people fine it morally reprehensible we will always have something like this going on.
>and have to be written in PHP.

How is this different than other HN beloved products like Drupal or pretty much any CMS? I can't think of any single one that has proper sandboxing. OwnCloud is just a type of CMS really, but instead of managing HTML, it manages all sorts of filetypes.
Gpg is not a port of some PGP version but an implementation of rfc4880 and earlier open standards. I actually took great care not to look at any "open source" PGP code. The reasons why dual-licensing does not work is that I assigned the copyright to the FSF in 1998 and when I terminated that contract 2 years ago too many other other hackers have code in it or assigned it to the FSF. Thus there is no way for anyone to switch to a dual-license.
great and simple, this would be much more practical way of doing things ...AED drones.Thats simple and effective...I am wondering why its not applied everywhere already?
Branding and Conway’s Law
How many entities do you know with almost 700bn in the bank ?

The point of the bailout was to throw all the might of the State behind the sector, in a "ye shall not pass" stance that basically stated that either we cut these banks some slack or our current civilization would burn in flames.

It worked, because people got the message and business eventually went back to normal. We can disagree on whether it was "good enough" (I thought the opportunity for deeper changes was ripe, but I'm just an old-school eurosocialist myself), but I don't think any other entity could have done it except Nation-States.
A quadrotor doesn't have any sort of 'redundancy'. If you lose a rotor, you've lost control, and will be hitting the ground in pretty short order. I see multiple rotors as a disadvantage... more things to go wrong.
The key is that < 3 years your brain has a lot of elasticity. If you are able to address the social and joint attention skills early it can make all the difference. Rather than training a child you can actually make it natural for them.

Even after 3 there is a tremendous value to these therapies... it's never too late.
CloudFlare offer free, "flexible" Universal SSL https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl - although it is terminated at their servers and still communicates with the target server via HTTP. This is what I'm using for a simple blog.

> Flexible SSL: There is an encrypted connection between your site visitors and CloudFlare, but not from CloudFlare to your server.

> You do not need an SSL certificate on your server.

> Visitors will see the SSL lock icon in their browser.

It can be upgraded to full "strict" SSL all the way to the host with paid plans.

This security model obviously comes with some compromises, especially on login forms, as the user has been taught to expect the browser's padlock sign to signal an encrypted connection to the host.
And that is the tragedy of the whole thing. If GCC were the only game in town then RMS' strategy would work. But it's not and all that will end up happening is developers abandoning the GPL for more liberal licenses that they allow them the freedom to do what they need to do get things done.

The end result being the savannah turning into a reservation.
That's right, credentials are send to the API, then we generate a personal token (you can see it in your settings).

I will push sources at the end of the month or in the first half of march.
> (yeah, no anti vaccination sites in Germany!)

I'm sorry, but we have plenty of them. The visibility seems to be a bit lower though. Google for things like "Impfschaden" or "Hirnschrei"...

Or google the people who were involved in the making of this "documentary": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVh4QaDmXB8
You lucky pal. You were actually able to legaly get the tools you need. I on the other hand have no legal way to pay for some of the TV shows I'm watching. Even if I wanted. And I want. I have a netflix subscription. But even netflix doens't have all the shows / movies.

So how will this play out? The companies will figure out, sooner or later, that if they provide a reasonable service then people will pay for it. Until then, TPB / bittorrent will remain the only source for a rather large group of people.
Downvoted because HiveStreaming has nothing to do with this.
When you encounter a bug in a product you use daily, you're (marginally) more likely to find it getting fixed if you submit a decent bug report. And decent bug reports usually include a simple way of reproducing the problem. So here's a collection of reproduction steps for crashes (and presumably many of them have radar bugs that refer to them).

That's an alternative interpretation.
One way to infer: what's the risk of lending to a company that's facing an existential crisis, that's in such dire straits that no one else would lend to it?
It's true and is the reason why so many PHP powered CMS are so insecure, how many times do you hear about a new wordpress exploit?
I see it working out roughly as well as the extremely costly "war on drugs".

HINT: drugs won.
The site seems to be down right now. Here's the text-only Google cache for anyone else who just wants to see what's new:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ownclou...
If you want a fun time take a look at projected "technology of the future" from the 1910s or 1950s. The former was lots of steam-powered versions of things that already existed and the latter was nuclear versions of the same. Now we are seeing the quadcopter/drone version of this particular delusion.

As others have pointed out, a quadcopter is ill-suited to this task, will probably not have the lift-capacity or range to make this work effectively, is not as safe as the helicopter version. While quadcopter drones may play a bigger role in the future it may also turn out that the sweet-spot for these devices is in moving small objects short distances, where they are already being used -- we might just be at a point where we can see the limit of what quadcopters can actually accomplish given battery tech available for the next twenty years or so.

Here is another idea to consider: scale down a real helicopter or a tiltrotor to handle a patient and attending nurse and attach drone controls to that.
Yeah, when I hit save from the admin console, I errors in the console, like:

http://msluyter.github.io/blog/hubpress/scripts/Dexie.min.js... Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)

I'll open an issue in the main hubpress project I guess.
That is invalid in javascript, just like this is invalid:

var foo = "string "with quotes" done."

You can escape the inner backquotes \` but then its just a backquote character in the string. It doesn't do anything special like call the template string again.
What is the pertinence of your first sentence? Most of this site works in software development.
If you look at this selftalk like Shannon entropy and information transfer, then by definition, to successfully "talk" to someone requires both a sender and receiver, two parties, which data is transferred between, and groked, so entropy decreases. If viewed in this context, the activity of "Talking to oneself using I/me" then becomes non-sensical, information transfer requires at least two parties, not one.

It then follows and makes sense that using 3rd person, or one's name, increases chance of successful information transfer to the "I/me" receiver: the semblance of two separate parties is maintained, thus creating the medium for decreasing Shannon entropy.
> It absolutely ignores that Apple was a contributor of GCC

Actually, Apple were compelled to contribute to GCC.

That is one of the points of the article.

That an Objective-C compiler exists at all is because of GCC. The fact that we can see and examine the source is because of the GNU GPL.
I think for some segment of the population it will continue forever. But I think most people grow out of piracy eventually.

In my experience, adults generally don't steal things, even if no one is going to catch them and even if they really want it. And consequently most people grow out of piracy. Not everyone of course, but enough for me to believe there's still a future in selling IP.
My Attempt to create Xcode 6.x empty and not so empty project template
Xcode 6 lacks "Empty Application" iOS template. Something similar is included, but not like it was in Xcode 5.x. This template generates bare bones application that I find completely unusable.

I don't use Storyboards oe XIBs.
I got so frustrated by recreating this kind of application over and over. I would start with "Single View Application", then remove all the UI, and create my own classes, add localisable strings, Prefix.pch..
So I decided to make a "real" empty application template.
It's here:

https://github.com/mihaelamj/mmjiostemplates

I'm still not satisfied with it, so if anyone has the same needs, I would appreciate a fork, pull request,..

Cheers.
Link to previous discussion on HN, looks like they've come a long way! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8324567
If your worry is with data at rest, then owncloud already supports it (http://doc.owncloud.org/server/7.0/user_manual/files/encrypt...).

I host my servers with AWS so I use Gluster encrypted bricks with backups to a S3 bucket as well as the built-in encryption capability from Owncloud.
Which makes sense. In the cases of financial institutions needing a bailout while simultaneously paying huge bonuses something must be seriously miscalibrated in their calculations.
Yeah, the author's main argument seems to be you can only run one process in a Docker container, which is utterly false.

It's fair to say it's idiomatic to run one process per container, but it's definitely not the only way and it's common to find multi-process containers.
Morris Algorithm (2014)
> You shouldn't report bugs you find in software you use on a daily basis. Those bugs are best left unfixed

A curious attitude!
DNS is not exactly hard to censor; mandating the ISPs to drop requests for those "banned" domains doesn't seem particularly far-fetched.
Ohai Emacs – hand-crafted artisanal emacs.d
According to http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-taken-domain-name-se... the switch took some time, and kickass.to didn't resolve right away.

They usually redirect all their old domain names to the current one, so they would need to change that, it didn't happen by itself.
I'm sure the average citizen has enough working knowledge of monetary policy to make an informed decision about bank recapitalization.

Please.
As a potential customer and not a developer, IAP can be a great implementation of that same "shareware" model or it can be the equivalent of many old arcade games where the only confounding factor to progress in a game was how many quarters you fed in.

By far my favorite way to find and buy games is to have a free app with the first (x) levels and then a single IAP of $1-10 depending on the game to unlock the full package.

That way I get to see if I enjoy the game and if it runs well before hitting that "buy" button and I'd imagine this helps to get people to try out a title in a marketplace full of free options.

The only issue from a my standpoint is how so many games are designed to be seriously unplayable (or at least un-fun) unless I keep paying a dollar or two every day. Whether it's time limits (less annoying) or needing in-game currency to progress, so many games start to feel like the only thing holding you back isn't skill, practice, or puzzle-solving but the fact that you haven't spent $10, $20, or $50 on IAP.

I can only imagine that this has proven to be the more profitable setup since that model seems to have taken over the Apple and Google app stores and I doubt developers would be doing it if it wasn't for a reason.

Still sucks for somebody like me who has no problem paying $5-10 (I mean, come on...it's the equivalent of eating lunch at a restaurant instead of packing one at home) for a game as long as I can play a few levels first to see if it's something I'd be interested in. Instead I end up buying the few I can find like that and when I finish them, it's back to the pile of time-limited freemium titles I have installed and cycle through any time I want to kill more than 5 minutes screwing around on my phone.
I put this entirely at the fault of the movie industry. I'm happy to pay a subscription fee for a reliable service that lets me stream movies/shows. The issue is, none exist. For example, Netflix used to have an amazing selection before (I imagine) various licensing issues effectively crippled them.

With torrents, I'm able to find a vast selection of movies and shows that really aren't available anywhere else. Obscure cult classics, pre-Code movies, and so on. This really seems to be a power play by Hollywood executives that is more based in making profit for them than supporting creative artists.

Edit: it's interesting to see this get downvoted. I'm curious what peoples reasonings for downvoting it is.
If I use WhapsApp or the weather app on my mobile or a VOIP phone I'm also using the internet but would never all it internet because that's a app and I (usually) don't care how data flows in the background.
What I really like about this post (that's somewhat different from others that I've seen about Nim) is that it goes beyond the syntax of the language and macros to dive into tooling (nimble, editor plugins) and popular libraries (docopt.nim). When I'm trying to get up to speed with a new language, it makes it a lot easier to focus on the language if I'm not fighting with my tools.

I wrote the 'init' feature for nimble - it's so awesome to see it being used!
I've done marketing for startups for many years. Growth Hacking (mentioned in previous comments) is a pretty decent framework. Also, if you had to read only one book, I'd recommend 'Lean Analytics'. It'll help you structure your thoughts and prioritise. (Note: I am not related to the authors or publishers) Other than that, take the businesses you like most, and check out their social pages, their blog, etc. Sign up for their newsletter. Figure out what they communicate, how, when, etc. Last but not least, marketing involves a lot of common sense. Good luck with the journey!
I think many people (rightly) believe TPB is a honeypot.
To be fair, in the parable of the loaves and fishes, Jesus was providing the largest value added, not the farmers/bakers or fishermen, since only he was able to multiply those things; as the marginal producer of the wealth, it's not unreasonable to assign that property right to him.
This is something I find quite odd about US tuition.

In the UK tuition fees are rather high now (though not quite US levels). But they are repaid, at a 'marginal tax rate', only if your income is above a certain level (17K or 21K at present. For comparison minimum wage full time is roughly 13.5K.

So if you take on tuition debt, and then never secure highly paid work, nothing happens. If you decide to live in your car, you can, the debt gets discharged.

From what I know about the US system it seems as if repayments just continue no matter what. Am I missing something? It seems like serfdom baked in to the education system.
Tiny termites can hold back deserts by creating oases of plant life
NextUser Just Demoed the Future to Sir Richard Branson Using IBM Watson
What a terribly worded and inaccurate title. The size was not seized, only the domain "kickass.so". The site has multiple (tens) of domains (that are still accessible) such as kat.ph.
NodeSource Raises $3M to Build New Programming Tools
Get some cache for writing about web development
>> "You were actually able to legaly get the tools you need. I on the other hand have no legal way to pay for some of the TV shows I'm watching."

I'm probably going to get down voted for this but when your excuse for piracy is you can't watch some TV shows your excuse is weak. Not being able to see those shows is going to have very little impact on your life. Certainly not enough of an impact to justify theft or copying without permission. TV shows are not a 'tool you need'.

I'm fortunately in a country where most stuff is available. There is still a lot that is not though and occasionally I may turn to piracy (until it is available at which stage I buy it). I don't try to justify this though as it is a poor justification for piracy.
Jesus didn't steal anything, he copied something that he originally had created, something that he had donated to the fishermen in the first place. He created (well, his father) the fish on the 5th (or 6th I dont remember) day of the creation, remember?
You almost certainly don’t want to read ‘Things I Won’t Work With’ then: http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with...
Don't you have to click something before saying "Ok Google"?
wordpress is in php

wikipedia is in php

facebook is in php

flickr is in php

photobucket is in php

need i say more?
It will play out like that until the internet is effectively balkanized and under full control and censorship. Otherwise the back and forth aspect is both politically beneficial for copyright holders and economically beneficial for those doing the shutdowns.
> There is no moral reason why a government deserves 50% of everything you have made.

Why? Personally I think the marginal tax rate should be much higher on the highest earners, for the simple reason that the impact of exact additional percentage point tax is far lower for a higher earner. To me the actual percentage is irrelevant. The relative impact is far more important.

If I had to pay 1 percentage points more tax, I wouldn't notice. I spend more than that on comics and takeaways, and also set aside 15-20 times more than that in savings and investments.

If I had to pay 5 percentage points it would begin to sting a bit, but I could still easily afford it. 10 percentage points more would start to be painful but still doable.

In fact, while I'd be complaining and whining about it at that point, I could manage 50% tax quite easily (I actually pay about 32% combined income tax and national insurance, despite being far into the 40% income tax threshold, and earning enough to be in the top 10% UK earners or so)

Meanwhile I have neighbours that would have to cut down on their food budget if their tax rate went up 1%, despite paying at least 10 percentage points less than I do, and many people in the UK would struggle to keep modest accommodation and food if they paid more than 20%.

I don't find it at all unfair that I pay more than them, not least because the only reason I can make what I do is that there is a functioning society around me that can afford my services.
this is brilliant lol
If bitcoin mining becomes more efficient, miners run more of them, the hashrate increases, the difficulty goes up, and we reach a new equilibrium - with the same overall amount of value being created, and therefore assuming efficient market, the same amount of energy being expended. The blockchain is worth the same whatever the hashrate (at least if we're just talking about more efficient miners - if more effort is being put into mining then the blockchain becomes more secure, but if someone makes a more efficient miner then that same miner also makes attacks easier).

In contrast when gold mining gets more efficient, either we expend less energy, or we produce more industrially-useful gold. Admittedly in the limit where people are just buying gold and putting it on the shelf I guess the same considerations as bitcoin apply? Hmm.
There's a little more information about that exchange at http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/clisp/clisp/doc/Why-... (Stallman brought it up when enforcing the GPL on another free software project: "They had wanted to distribute the Objective C parser as a separate proprietary package to link with the GCC back end, but since I didn't agree this was allowed, they made it free.").

It sounds like Stallman wasn't entirely sure the GPL would have prevented Jobs from doing what he wanted, but was convinced by a lawyer that the FSF would have a strong case ("It seemed to me at the time that it was [legal] ... but since the result was very undesirable for free software, I said I would have to ask the lawyer. What the lawyer said surprised me; he said that judges would consider such schemes to be 'subterfuges' and would be very harsh toward them. He said a judge would ask whether it is 'really' one program, rather than how it is labeled.").
I'd spin it differently - "Sky has put some of your site on the Adult block list."

This way you make it clear that it is Sky's fault and to make it work you just have to opt-out of the adult blacklist.
Incidentally, the news from Prague 70 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_Bombing_of_Prague
Great points. I was being too vague. My biggest gripe was that I could only learn more of the syntax from the INRIA documentation. The books and OCaml websites definitely covered a lot of general programming recipes and more common paradigms. Ultimately since there were still so few examples I always ended up having to look at the actual language reference for useful information. As we're aware though, it is outdated. In particular, I found really getting a handle on object-oriented OCaml was tough. Probably just because other aspects of OCaml could be guessed/inferred from SML/*ML documentation.

My comments on mod_ocaml were also a little vague. When I began server-side programming I loved mod_php because of how simple it was. I only brought up mod_ocaml because (if it worked) it is probably the single easiest way to start writing ocaml web pages. Given, it is absolutely not performant whatsoever. I just kinda saw it as a gateway from hobbyist-level interest.

Thanks for all your resources though!
I'd also pay to be able to watch these offline and using FOSS software only. I really enjoyed netflix when I had it but I had to do some wonky work around to get it to work on Linux. Then eventually I got another Linux machine and didn't want to do the work around thus I stopped using it and eventually cancelled my subscription (thanks microsoft for helping me be more productive!).