skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying, but you can say the exact same thing using tau and it's simpler:

Tau is a simple, straight line, and stretches the entire length of a circle, starting from the x-axis in the positive x direction, and ending at the x-axis from the negative x direction. So Tau / 2 is the amount of turning needed to go half-way around the circle. Tau / 4 is the amount of turning needed to go a forth of the way around the circle, IE. a right square.

Pi might seem easier or obvious to you because you've already been dealing with it for years, but it still creates a situation that is more complex then it needs to be. Tau creates a simpler unit-circle, because Tau uses the radius, and we're talking about radians. Using something that's calculated using the diameter, when you're talking about a unit that's measured in radius's is asking for a mess.
The header looks a bit odd to me, but otherwise I find it a massive improvement; no need to zoom any longer.
The issues you describe regarding debt only apply to credit cards. There's no reason to have to pay with credit though, you can use debit cards in exactly the same way.
It seems to differ per page. Font size on the homepage and threads page are ridiculously large for me in landscape and ok in portrait. Font size on article comments is ok now - think they may have just tweaked it.

Edit: I take that back. Still unreadably large in portrait.
40 years and counting: the team behind Voyager’s space odyssey
Why not?

Because you're leaking DNS traffic.

Why not?

Because you're disclosing where your company assets are reachable from a public connection.

I don't know, but a publicly reachable vcs server that's supposed to contain confidential data makes me shiver.
Amazing the (IMO) improvements a few percentages adds to the readability on mobile.
Yes it does matter, though its not usually very grand. Think about it this way, most of those algorithms you learned in college took someone in academia years to write. The algorithms I write in my day-job are usually MUCH more simple.

For example, I remember one developer (who know works at Amazon funny enough), who used dual for loops to iterate through data and find values in multiple places in our application. This caused a noticeable UI slow down. I ended up just loading this data in a Hashmap and it became instantaneous.
Regarding recurring payments: this is a good thing in the eyes of the consumer. I want to pay for 1 month of something and only one month - and I find it pretty scummy that most companies don't allow for that. For example, Netflix, CodeSchool, etc.

Sure I can 'subscribe' for one month and then cancel, but why should I have to go through that step? What if I forget and three months down the line I remember that I had to manually cancel my sub?
ReText – Markdown Editor with Live Preview
This just came up in the Github Explore Today newsletter: https://github.com/jhauswald/sirius
I also use this one, it's really well done and works very well.
Ask HN: Free or Cheap NYC Co-Work Spaces for This Week?
I’ll be popping by NYC this week since I had a commute pass that was about to expire. However the Canadian dollar isn’t fairing too well so I want to minimize my CAD->USD transactions.

I’ll be staying at a friend’s place but wouldn’t mind working out of an actual office during the day. Any suggestions in that department that are free or less than $20 a day? Worst case is I work from home, library or coffeeshop, but I wouldn’t mind working from a different space.
OP means responsive design, not 2010-era separate mobile site. Front page is responsive (but still needs some fixes), comments pages are still super wide and need scrolling on each line.
I like to store my data locally, so that influences the choice of my note taking software.

I use cintanotes portable myself... http://portableapps.com/apps/office/cintanotes-portable It is not "opensource", but it has been most useful for keeping notes, tagging, and categorising

I also use http://portableapps.com/apps/office/keepnote-portable (http://keepnote.org/) which is FOSS and also http://portableapps.com/apps/office/rednotebook_portable (http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/) which is also FOSS.

Choose which ever you feel comfortable using.

P.S: I am also a very big fan of the portableapps format and the platform. Big shout out to John T Haller for all his hard work on this!

P.P.S: I also use the org mode at times http://orgmode.org/ :)
Faxx.us: a newly launched free online faxing service
I always suspected most people are ambiverts. Do you get your energy from other people or need to recharge alone? Well, both. It depends on the day. In the end this no more meaningful to describe a person than any given stereotype.
I have been to few hacks to India, I found similar drama held by judges here. Well, I don't go for winning a price, nowadays, hackathan is mainly conducted for hireathon, you need to work on specific domain that company is experienced in.

You wrote next best google algorithm for page ranking, accurate search results, you will be probably get ignored.
You will be asked what is the business value? Why people should buy from you. The funny thing is, hackathan is just a coding stuffs, not a VC pitch club.

After few hackathans, I decided to not to compete on the crowd on a similar idea, then I pick my own idea or some algorithm to try, get to the extend of it make it work.
Seems like a good opportunity for an Indian startup to make an Uber for India that easy ECS billing each month or before each month or something. I'd happily take an auto-debit of my average spend each month over having to manually do each payment. Maybe keep credits in the account if they go unused.
Ask HN: Someone in Iran copied my website. How would you go about this?
I started my one-man startup about a year ago. It is based on a new kind of web interface catering to a huge market. It's all happening in the browser. HTML+CSS+Javascript.

All the time I developed it in the open. Meanwhile I have about 200,000 monthly visitors using my site.

Friends always asked me "Well, it is all based on this innovative interface idea. How will you avoid being copied?". And my answer was "I don't know. But I don't think companies die by being copied.".

Now somebody in Iran has simply copied the whole thing over to his server. He translated it to Iranian language and made a couple of changes adapting it to the Iranian market. Not sure how good of a coder he is. If it is a company or an individual. He changed a lot, but most of the code is still mine. Including my Analytics code. So all day I can see him in my analytics reports.

I check the site once a day and see he keeps building on it. It is also indexed by Google already, although it seems he is only getting a handful of visitors at the moment. It looks like he did not intend to be life yet because lots of the functionality in his version is still broken. But I see him fix stuff every day.

How would you go about this?
In our case, we run the widely available password cracking tools and rainbow tables against our stored passwords. If we can get them, those users are notified and their passwords reset.

Yes, we leave any salts and hashes in place - it limits the checks we can reasonably make to the usual password lists but it still catches a large number of poor passwords.
Your comment makes it sound like you've worked there, is that so?
Technology as a Lubricant
Can you give an example term?
Why do we have to replace either subject? Both math and literature are generally poorly taught. That does not mean that understanding of both is not requisit for being an educated person.
The new Net Neutral laws had an intentional loophole. An ISP can provide cheaper access to sites out of only good will. aka not in a business partnership or affiliation.

I do not know if facebook is paying for this service though.

I find it funny that people only seem to start caring when there is a "bad" name on it (I didn't hear much else than praise for Wikipedia Zero, for example).

And the primary complaint seems to be that they might do something bad maybe, but they haven't yet (specifically, they might start charging more (why? because they are bad of course) for standard commections)

for >90% of things, the "short" and long tail of businesses are going to both cost money to access their sites, the economy isn't going to erupt in flames
Very cool concept! How does the person initiating the fax know what the ad will contain? I haven't signed up, but if it's not done already - I would create feature where the person sending the fax can select the ad on free accounts.

Albeit the price plans alone are so reasonable it could void the concern with Ads.
It's not a workaround, though; it's more consumer-friendly than the "normal" subscription model.

That companies can just pull money out of your bank account is not a good thing. In Germany it's really hard to get people to sign up for subscriptions because companies usually make it really hard to unsubscribe and just continue pulling money from the account. With a push-model like the one described above, the customer just cancels the payments and that's the end of it.
I read it using flipboard on my iphone. Works like a charm.
Bombasticity?

It's probably actually just 'bombast', isn't it?
Do you have the "mirror" option on? If so, turn that off and you'll be fine.
> using a VPN isn't really going to change much

I disagree, using a VPN on open wifi protects against HTTP downgrade attacks, weak cypher compromise, replay attacks... HTTPS for most sites is just not as secure as it should be. It also masks your traffic so outsiders can't even see what servers you are accessing, or how.

Wrapping the traffic in a VPN and securing access to your internal assets to office and VPN IPs offers another layer of security against even targeted attacks.
Ancient Rome’s Hexagonal Port City
So, do you have any actual proof of this allegation or is it just another gratuitous accusation from an Apple hater?
I am probably a very small subset of what most other people do. I've just started using Trac on my laptop as a personal wiki and note keeper, in addition to some minor bug tracking for small personal projects. My laptop almost never leaves home. I don't much care about syncing outside my home, but you could run it on a VPS. http://trac.edgewall.org/
You're right, I hadn't actually paid enough attention. He's responsible for the overall project (and Luminus, obviously) but doesn't actually do that much with core reagent. (Which isn't to say he isn't extremely active...)
One of the major points of the "basic income" movement is that technology is supposed to let us work less. In this case, Dentist B could just leverage the knowledge of other dentists as posted on the internet. Or we would devise more effective professional development programs. Or Dentist B would quit altogether, and we could build remote dentistry technology, allowing Dentist A (and others like her) the ability to service far more patients. Etc. etc. etc.
I agree. I do wish that comment voting arrows were as large as homepage voting arrows.
Yes, if one person has the authority to accept changesets, and other people do not, that's inherently not a flat structure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COTy32aQ11E
Every software replacement keyboard has the same problem in lacking familiarity and having a high learning curve that makes it difficult for new users to pick up. The only exception is qwerty on mobile.
Hacker Café – the best cafes for hackers in the world
Why is it that it's common practice to ignore anything made in a game jam?
Up and down arrows should be more separated. Ideally up-down should be undoable, I know it's harder to do.
Starting out with Berlin. Let's work together to create a list of the best cafes in the world
Most places I've worked are 8-5 with an hour lunch. Like you, I don't know where 9-5 comes from.
You put 10 people together in a room, and say no one is in charge, and one person will realize that means they can be in charge.

Is that the "natural leader" or someone who wants power?
Not to mention vulnerabilities to the myriad of various SSL attacks out there.

Unless you have a crack team of sysadmins who responds to every CVE against OpenSSL and maintains every webserver perfectly, you run the risk of compromising corporate data if you rely solely on SSL to protect your corporate assets.
​How Do Psychics Survive in New York City?
> Smartphones and tablets are at least 15 years old too. Bill Gates used to run around CES telling everyone that tablets were the future.

[citation needed]
Yes, it's terrible on the 4s.

The menu doesn't fit the viewport and gets jammed if your username is more than a few characters long (or you have many karma points)

You still need to zoom to hit the up/down arrows, so not much is gained.
Not self-hosted, but perhaps http://yipgo.com gives you something of what you're after.
VPNs aren't that hard to set up, and are relatively cheap insurance against a third party screwing up on their end.
> "... just for the sake of change and novelty."

I agree with the earlier comments you make (re spacing) but this change isn't happening purely for the sake of it. Folks have been asking for a mobile-friendly HN for a long time. Even though I'm not overjoyed with the version I saw today, I'm glad it's progressing.
>> All in all it would be better to simply serve the Desktop version, maybe with an slightly increased font size so it is more readable.

It is the desktop version with width adjusted.

>> ... new version on their faithful userbase just for the sake of change and novelty.
A mobile version of the site has been requested over and over again. So, it is definitely not for the sake of change and novelty.

While it may not be perfect, it is still a better read on my OPO than the earlier desktop version.
> two workers in skilled jobs, let's say they're dentists. [...] So who do you go to, when you need some work done? The one who has devoted her life to dentistry and does it every day, or the one who sort of does it on the side when she can be bothered?

So you only read the first half of the first quote? Reading the entire paragraph makes it clear that it's not referring to dentists:

> technology has been marshalled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people [...] spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed.
I've noticed that in the US, one will "lay down" in a bed. I have trouble knowing how to reconcile this in my mind. Would one day that in American English, a different dialect to British English, this is the correct usage? Can dialects have distant grammar rules? Or can it only be considered a colloquialism?
I made this site for myself: http://www.serializer.io it's linear and takes content from r/programming and product hunt too but it's what I use for reading HN on my phone.
Be SEO smart
Graphics and FPL: Getting into Netwire
Bug fixes? If something needs a firmware to begin with, it probably needs firmware upgrades.
Same exact thing on an iPhone 6.
Don't know why this got modded down, since the vast majority of iPad keyboards have a home key instead of an Esc key, making it very frustrating to use SSH apps.
Invoicing does not scale? I bet if you write down a list of world's largest, most scaled out services that charge monthly, most of them would be using invoicing as the main mechanism.

In India, don't you think invoicing scales for BSNL, Airtel, BSES, etc.?

And there is a huge insurance component inc credit cards. Ever see the difference in accepting rates of CC and a debit card? Ever wondered why that is? Every damn transaction you do requires heavy handed underwriting. The underwriting requires insurance. If the underwriter pays later than the bank needs it, the bank needs insurance backbone to fall on. On individual fraud basis, banks themselves come under debt for extensive periods of times while the underwriter sits and decides. The rectification with the customer itself takes months during which the bank is in debt.

The reason you're paying Visa or MasterCard any money is in hope that they underwrite in case there is a fraud or customer can't pay. How else do you define insurance?
John Gray: Steven Pinker is wrong about violence and war
Idea Sunday Which ideas would you like to see executed?
Do you have an idea you think somebody should bring to life? You yourself do not have the time or the needed skills? Then post it here.
Does anyone know cafes in Italy??
I'm guessing it is companies that have enough money and influence to get the right government officials to "listen" to them.
Hi Elisee,

Great to see Superpowers making progress. I'm interested in your choice of Three.js. Did you consider other WebGL game engines? Like PlayCanvas[1] (where I'm a co-founder) which is also open-source[2] but more designed towards games than three?

[1]: https://playcanvas.com/

[2]: https://github.com/playcanvas/engine/
App life: my day living by smartphone alone
It's interesting seeing how Wikidata has been storing dates. They store things like the time that the universe started as a date, which means the year is about 11 digits.

JavaScript's Date object doesn't like such big dates - I don't think it works with anything greater than a few hundred million years.
The Language Log is great. Geoffrey K. Pullum, who wrote this article in the Chronicle, is a contributor there:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?author=3

He writes a lot of good stuff. I particularly enjoy his crusade, there and elsewhere, against Strunk and White:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1485

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=15509

http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/happy-birt...

I see he also weighed in on Girrafedata's quest to rid Wikipedia of "comprised of" (see HN passim):

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17636
I had a Model M until quite recently (and still have some buckling spring Unicomps), and have switched to blues at work. They're quieter than the M, but not by a lot.

A couple guys at work are big mech KB fans too and one bought a Topre based KB - I'm thinking of switching to that. It's nice and worth checking out, even if you end up not liking it.
They way they survive anywhere...by seeing the future.
I meant only replacing part of the English curriculum, not all of it.
dell xps 13'
Looks ++ungood on the 5s too: https://twitter.com/jackgavigan/status/577121192664006657

The menu even wraps on the iPad in landscape orientation: http://i.imgur.com/4ghJIufh.jpg
I don't think anyone would have an issue with this sort of theft-prevention if it (1) wasn't done in secret without any explanation about (2) how the data is stored and (3) where it's going. Pictures of your license plate, your face, time-stamped and geo-located, probably tied to any mail sent or accepted -- that's not information that should be winding up in a giant surveillance database.
Those are the only 2 choices?

How about patenting this http://goo.gl/9KApy7, then?
How Many Mutual Funds Routinely Rout the Market? Zero
More precisely: Let's assume that pi is absolutely normal and we use a 256 letters alphabet (ascii, ¿latin-1?).

I'm almost sure that if we have a "book" with N characters, in average, the number of (decimal) digits of the index of that string in pi is N * log(256) / log(10). (I'm too lazy to write the proof now, so perhaps I'm making a mistake.) This is (esencially) equivalent to that the expected position is 256^N. (But I'm taking averages willy-nilly.)

If this is correct, the position increase exponentially with the book length, but the numbers of digits in the position increase linearly.
I use http://zim-wiki.org and make my own sync / mobile options, since as of a few months ago there was no Android version. But someone /is/ working on a mobile app.
>This conspiracy between all company owners

What do you think the American Enterprise Institute is for? Cato? Chambers of Commerce? The multitude of other business umbrella lobby groups? What did you think they did other than come together to form a united front to represent their interests (conspire)?

>I am immediately bursting with questions. Such as, should we conclude that protesters around the world—in Brazil, India, North Africa, Turkey—are in fact too happy?

I don't see why one would conclude that at all.

>How does the ruling class co-ordinate all this hiring

Via a labor market which they try to mold using government policy to fit their interests.

>if much of the economy's employment is useless in the first place why not just keep them on during recessions

Periodic cullings help keep the rest of the employees suitably terrorized.
"dude", yes, I know. Once found, nothing is hard to find.

But it's shitty UX. You can navigate to folders, except this arbitrary list of them that you can't control, in which case you go somewhere else to navigate to them.

And the 3 or 4 ways to view the folders, in (at least) one of them you can't create a new folder, but others you can. Brilliant.
Bitcoin will solve most of these problems over time. Recurring payments isn't in yet, but other than that the tech is pretty close to where you need it to be. Probably theres a lot of room for a startup to come and offer value transfer solutions for indian citizens from outside the RBIs jurisdiction.
150 years ago leisure was rare and valuable. Being idle rich marked you as elite.

Now it's the opposite. Anyone in the west can easily be idle and afford an OK standard of living. It's having a "professional" job that marks you as elite, because there aren't nearly enough such jobs for those who are capable.

So you get large numbers of people hustling to land and hold various sorts of dumb office jobs. Mostly because the job is a coveted status marker.
Yup, I'm super keen for the new 2015 Dell XPS 13. It should start shipping with Ubuntu shortly: http://bartongeorge.net/2015/02/23/update-2-dell-xps-13-lapt...
What does that have to do with Uber? I'm missing the connection.
Ask HN: Why would you prefer Emacs over IntelliJ IDEA?
"Which means that people who are naturally political end up with all the power, even if they don't make good decisions, and they aren't held accountable for their management activities, because the fantasy is that they're not managing anyone. And introverts or people with alternative ideas (especially ideas that threaten the alphas) tend to be dumped on, badly peer reviewed and fired."

This pretty much describes my experience of traditional management everywhere I've worked, minus perhaps the line "because the fantasy is that they're not managing anyone". How have you seen things be different in a company with traditional management?
I feel like all laptop but the macbook or macbook pro are total crap. Linux run perfectly fine on a mac.
> A 32-bit counter for the number of seconds since 1970 [UNIX] wraps in 2038.

What's the bet this one actually causes problems
What Instacart, Homejoy, and TaskRabbit can learn from the direct sales industry
an established business with 3 years+ track record OR $3 million or more in transactions.

I assume that's how PayPal got it, they certainly qualify for the $3 million criteria.

If they lower the bar, they will have to do it for everyone, and a lot of unscrupulous businesses will try to place recurring chargebacks. What's wrong with billing the client every payment cycle, or let them pay on longer durations, like quarterly? Refund extra money if someone discontinues earlier. Plenty of options, until 3 years of a financial history, then apply for a RBI clearance.

Credit card fraud is very common across the world, maybe the guidelines can be more clear and the clearance process made simpler, however I don't see why a startup should be allowed to place recurring charges on cards unless they have been a trustworthy business for a while.
this has been done: https://workfrom.co/