skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wouldn't want to be encrypting twice or three times over - at that point there really does start to be an overhead associated with it.

> Mail

Encrypting at the host level would be actively unhelpful (e.g. it would make failover or forwarding harder) and wouldn't gain you much in the way of security. You just want to encrypt the message to the actual recipient.

> chat

Again hostname-based auth is actively unhelpful in a federated system like IRC or XMPP (you want to failover to a different host if a particular host is down), and offers minimal security in a centralized-server system.

> VPN

I think a VPN is inherently the wrong approach to security; it's trying to create a network you can trust, but networks are too big to secure.

> VNC

How often do you VNC to a box with a stable hostname? I only ever use it to connect between my (coffee shop or wherever) laptop, my (dynamic IP) home machine and my (dynamic IP) dev machine at work.
Linux 4.0 Released
atom-shell has good tooling support (i.e. https://github.com/mafintosh/atom-shell, https://github.com/maxogden/atom-shell-packager) which makes shipping apps a lot easier atm
Off topic, but this code blob broke the formatting of the HN comment page, causing text to extend horizontally off the screen. It'd be great if you (or a mod) could add some (4, I think?) spaces in front of your code to make it appear in a code/pre tag.

Like this.
Is it true the last person to press it wins a million dollars?
playback supports live streaming of magnet links / torrent files atm using https://github.com/mafintosh/torrent-stream.
Manjaro Blames GlobalSign for SSL Cert expiry after not receiving “extension”
Cygnus were the go-to company for GCC/GNU related work for hire, like doing compiler toolchain and support for your new embedded platform/new cpu. Even the name was a recursive acronym, like GNU: "Cygnus, Your GNu Support"
Same here, heck I'll usually just fire up a virtual machine and browse within it.

I haven't done too much research but I imagine the best option is a filter that runs on the router and locks itself down for a time period.
Also for people new to NetHack, don't expect to last more than a few minutes if you're not using the net. There are websites, forums, chatrooms to help you get started. You can start with a community-made beginners' guide http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Why_do_I_keep_dying%3F
How about 3D printers, they're getting better by the .. years .. it seems
Overall it's quite nice, but so rudimentary that in its current form, I can see no advantage whatsoever over some general-purpose, well established alternative such as Evernote.

If it's primarily targetted for (learning) developers, it'd better have some specialized, dedicated features - eg. easy management of code excerpts, with syntax highlighting etc.

Regarding the UX, I also can't grasp why the dashboard seems to fetishize statistics so much. "Average Daily Notes", "Notes Breakdown" (and the pie chart), why on Earth would I care?
I should probably get back to work instead of reading this.
Monkey patching setTimeout / setInterval would allow you to detect when people were running timers on the page. Use of timers could generally be considered "cheating."

It doesn't do anything to intercept people pushing the button.

window.setTimeout = function setTimeout(fn, ms) {
alert("No you don't, cheater!");
assign_button_color_of_shame();
original_setTimeout(fn, ms);
}
Hi!

I've got some cool ideas but I'm lacking time to develop it. The first one should take 2 weeks of work, it's simple and I'd like it to be an open source project. Angularjs, I can work on the backend. If you're interested let me share the idea with you, email me info at punkbit dot com, thanks : )
For anyone who, like me, didn't understand the background here:

"Sad Puppies" and "Rabid Puppies" are movements to drown out the perceived progressive bias of the Hugo Awards. These various Puppies believe that the awards had come to only recognize sci-fi that had veiled messages of racial tolerance (or was, generally, in that vein).

GRRM is upset about the Puppies' effect on the awards because these movements were large enough to completely change the slate of nominees.

There have been grassroots efforts to sway the awards in the past, but GRRM's point is that they haven't been so completely successful.
Not Steam, but Ubisoft did this for instance with the latest Far Cry and Assassins Creed.
Great idea, and nice results!

Some suggestions:
- Allow exporting to PDF or printing. I would want to be able to print this as a full-page poster with nice resolution
- Allow user-configurable colors
I am surprised that only hillaryclinton.com has public whois data. IMHO, hidding behind a proxy is not a good cue for trust. Three among four are very slow to load on my PC. I think this very good article should also compare the performances of the websites.
It's not the luminance of the light that's a problem, it's the colour. White light contains a lot of blue, which is associated with melatonin suppression that in turn throws out sleeping patterns[1]. This problem remains even with very dim light sources.

The alternative therefore is to use LEDs with a lower colour temperature[2], producing the kind of orange light associated with flames and traditional incandescent lights, which people have been using to read by for centuries.

This isn't obscure or novel science, it's something the Amazon product team should know, or at least discover through basic research into their chosen field. The fact that they haven't backs the article author's suggestion that they're incompetent or uncaring about the quality of their product.

[1] http://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/blue-light-has...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
Non-Deterministic Finite State Machine Implementation in C#
time = always laplace
why didn't hn had one ?
In a lot of the older systems (this was VERY common on the NES and SNES), the designers utilized some very heavy-handed dithering under the assumption that the dithering would be blurred heavily by both the CRT and the NTSC encoding. As these images demonstrate, the colors are incorrect if you skip emulating the NTSC chroma bleed.

http://slack.net/~ant/old/ntsc-vs-palette/

It was also very common to assume there wou9ld be darkening from the scanline effect on arcade machines, leading to brightness problem in the emulation of some ames.
> a 9-5 gig (or even an 8-7 one) would be considered a life of leisure and luxury for most of the world for pretty much all of history. In fact, the only time a life you are wishing you had has been common has been in the last 50 years or so in the developed world. I'd say we're pretty damn lucky.

40h+ work weeks and small amounts of vacation per year actually are an aberration in history. They only appeared during the industrial revolution.

Prior to that, life was rather slow-paced and leisurely compared to how people live nowadays.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/08/29/why-a-medie...
Plain web text offenders: sending my location over HTTP when HTTPS was possible
This is a common misinterpretion IMO of PG's "do things that don't scale" quote. PG is not generally suggesting you should just willy nilly "do things that don't scale" - that would be stupid. He is not generally valuing the concept of unscalable activities.

He is saying "build your initial customer base in any way you can, including in ways that aren't scalable but will get you users, and then treat your first users well in ways that would not be practical if you had thousands of millions of users". That's way I read it anyway.
Music brought back Apple to the world and now Spotify. Music is moving, Radio > TV > iPod > Cloud.
RH acquires non open projects very commonly. It's after they start the acquisition that the closed products go open source.
7 Steps to Presenting with Impact – The Mindful Way
7 Notes and Tech Errors in the #Hillary2016 Launch
Renowned German author Günter Grass dies, aged 87
"This is 100% free at the moment so jump in and give it a go." from https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/32bjsx/a_...

I'd like to commit to it, but seeing that you might suddenly add a pricing tier (which might be imcompatible with our needs) adds a psychological barrier.

Perhaps you can add a pricing so I know it will

a) be sustainable
b) know how much to expect to pay
Link time and inter-procedural optimization improvements in GCC 5
Generation Y in office; part 2
> v4.1 is going to be one of the bigger ones –Linus Torvalds, https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/12/178
I guess it just listen to the first click and disregard the others
> So having a robot to play for you is not going to allow you to cheat, only to spend your time dong something more constructive for humanity than clicking a button

In other words cheating since "normal" players need to spend their time doing that while you can have it on 24/7. I don't understand how you can say it doesn't make you more likely to beat human players. You increase your chances of getting the orange flair by magnitudes.
I thought it was a pretty nice demonstration on what pythonic means. But I agree that it was weaker than his usual talks.
You want to leave the company. That's understandable, and it sounds like you should leave it.

But why does that mean the company needs new ownership? Is there not enough cashflow for you to hire someone to manage the tech side of things?

You say your fundamentals are strong and you want to sell your equity in the company. Maybe now is the time to see if you can get a private equity firm involved.

I don't know what a deal might look like, but if your partner wants to stay and you want to leave, he might be able to retain his stake while you sell yours to the PE firm.

> never took any investment money or sought any out consistently

This is not a mistake in and of itself. The most success that is possible for a startup is never taking money at all. However, it sounds like you went into debt instead. That's certainly a higher-risk/higher-reward alternative to taking investment.
Yes, the original version of Google maps was good, then they kept upgrading it until it became unusable (it was incredibly slow on my phone). I managed to downgrade it, but now the local bus app that uses maps doesn't work.
Livestream as service
Please suggest #livestream sdk for #ios which will stream live video from an ios app similar to #meerkat or #Periscope. streaming as a service with ios sample app
Uncharted Territory of Microservices by XebiaLabs – DevOpsSummit [#DevOps]
Because if life isn't working out in the way you expected, it starts to become apparent in your 40's.
OnLive tried to do this and went bankrupt recently, IIRC.
5 Easy Tips to Deal with Conflicts Within Distributed Agile Teams
I am working on a website where you can review other's startups in exchange for them reviewing yours.
It's making me think that we're not in that tech bubble phase yet. We would be in a tech bubble when the incumbents also feel under pressure to be acquiring more aggressively. If this happens, it can cause a fairly significant bubble.
Inside the click handler for the button use `new Error().stack`. You should be able to determine if it's a legitimate event from the stack trace.

Ultimately, though, someone could just use HTTP instead of monkeying about with scripting in the browser. You could only deter this by serving up a new JS file every day that has a new way to e.g. calculate a checksum on the button click. Ultimately people are going to find a way to cheat no matter what you do. If this is a social experiment that is a result, too.
Preceded by an April 1 announcement on usenet: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.roguelike.... which has some informed and not-so-informed commentary..
Watch Movies Online: Watch Ab Tak Chhappan 2 (2015) Bollywood Full Movie Online
Campos eléctricos y magnéticos en las plataformas vibratorias de gimnasia
Hey thanks for the reply and feedback! The site is still new and in beta and not all the features are out yet for what I want to be the official release. In regards to code highlighting and excerpts I feel the site already does this (check out the support link) however if you had some other feature in mind I'd love to hear it. With the UX and dashboard statistics, I put them in there as a way to engage the user more and make it more of a fun process to always actively be adding notes, however I would love to hear what you think should be in it's place. Thanks again for the feedback!
I feel thats a fair statement and had another user post on there the exact same thing. I changed that statement to read 100% free. Thanks for your feedback!
More 8088 MPH how it's done
Agree that Cookie Clicker is absolutely fascinating. Two of us in the office, busy and capable people, became competitive bandits for Cookie Clicker. It makes for an almost perfect study in drip-feeding content/upgrades no matter how pointless and mundane.

Hints to me that the Great Filter could well be addictive and selfish behaviour transfixing the instinctive and basic aspects of our minds.
Hey thanks for your message. I understand your hesitation and security is something that I will definitely be working on. However, if you are like me, you won't ever "shake the worry" that something isn't entirely safe and even if we did have the worlds best security I would still recommend against putting extremely sensitive information in there or any site for that matter.
The tested Intel Xeon E3-1285L v3 (Haswell) and the IBM Power 8 systems are single mainboard systems. The Intel C2750 (Avoton) and the ARM 64-bit Applied Micro X-Gene 1 are cartridges inside an HP Moonshot chassis. All tested systems are fitted with a BMC. In addition the HP Moonshot chassis also have an internal network switch, uplink module, internal network fabric, chassis fans, chassis manager module, etc. The Intel Avoton chassis is having a 1 GbE internal network fabric and switch with a 6x SFP+ 10 GbE uplink module (one port used) while the ARM 64-bit X-Gene 1 chassis is having a 10 GbE internal network fabric and switch with a 4x QSFP+ uplink module (one port used).

The purpose of the off power measurements is to see how much power the chassis infrastructure is drawing.

The power consumption of the Intel Xeon E3-1285L v3 (Haswell) chassis with the system off is very low, below the threshold of the Racktivity smart metered PDU used to perform the power measurements. The PDU reports 0, but the real power consumption is in the order of a few Watts.

The tested Power 8 processor is inside a Tyan reference system GN70-BP010. Being a reference system, not all components and firmwares have been fully optimised. In the mean time Tyan has launched the TN71-BP012 platform which is not a reference system and should be much more optimised and ready for production use. I would be curious to see what are the improvements, but I don't have any at hand for now.
It seems unlikely that Comcast's 2GB/s service in Atlanta will be anywhere near $400.

> Comcast hasn’t discussed pricing for its new service. The company’s XFINITY Extreme 505 service costs $399.95 per month and offers speeds of about half a gigabit. However, competition from Google Fiber, which is planned to expand into Atlanta, may drive down prices in some areas. We’ve already seen this from AT&T, which offers gigabit fiber connections for $70 a month in Austin, Texas, where it competes with Google Fiber, but $110 in Cupertino, where it doesn’t.[1]

1. http://www.wired.com/2015/04/comcast-says-itll-bring-ultra-f...
Hey thanks for your feedback. I have implemented those changes you suggested and its live again check it out. Cheers
having owned both a touch and button kindle I would prefer a marriage of the two. keep the physical page buttons that many of us want but use the touch screen for entry, high lighting, and even selection.

If anything I give Amazon credit for making it so easy to read again that I find myself forgetting to do much else
Other than playing with fun technologies (which I'm all for) what does this bring us?

It doesn't seem to play many formats (one of the major strengths of VLC is that it plays almost anything) nothing I saw about it that seems to scream innovative UI or super efficient playblack on low-end devices.
Humans make great bartenders, great phone support, great teachers. But when I'm in my room, typing away or something, the last thing I want is a stranger coming in to change the towels or whatever. Keep a human in the front lobby, I'll take the robotic maids any day, please.
It's annoying because I rely on Kindle's progress syncing. Why do some of my books randomly not support this useful feature?
Ask HN: Is it the right time to seek venture funding for my VR startup?
Hello everyone,

I am currently working on a virtual reality statup for education and I started to receive emails from potential investors. I started working on this project 5 weeks ago (it's still a side project) and I feel like it's too soon for that, am I right? I would prefer focusing for now on growth, product development and revenue generation.

However, I've been invited to an edtech investment summit and I cannot help but think that it could be a great networking opportunity...

Any advice?

Thank you!
CRTs have significantly better motion and latency. The LCD ghosting problem is well-known, and while some more modern screen have minimized the problem, there can still be some ghosting errors depending on the input. Gamut doesn't matter when you have previous frames ghosting over thing

More importantly, LCDs buffer a least one frame. Many buffer 3-5 frames (!). This can be a serious problem playing for video games or other interactive uses if you need to rely on well under 100ms late4ncy. Rockband/GuitarHero is the canonical example of this problem, where they had to develop various types of adjustable latency compensation into the later games. Bad firmware can make this unpredictable, too; it is common for the firmware to select different algorithms based on the name of the input that you're using. (e.g. and LCD might buffer fewer frames if [[ $input_name =~ /game/ ]].
As a commuter the kindle paperwhite was such a step back, the removal of the side buttons effectively prevented you from reading it left handed, I find myself halving to turn the page with my nose if for some reason I have to hold on with my right hand while on the subway.
To be honest, while I read reddit daily I have never once seen mention of the button nor do I have any inclination to even go to the sub.

so how was this introduced to reddit, it was not on the front page for long if ever. if not for reading here I doubt I would have ever encountered it
How does the Playback Chrome Extension work? I can't see it anywhere on YouTube videos... halp?
> What is the button?

> The button is a feature that the popular social media site Reddit introduced on April 1, 2015. It has its own subreddit at /r/thebutton.

After April 1st it hasn't been that visible though
Idea for a piece of software – What now?
Hi HN.

I'm a guy who browses HN regularly, but the only exposure I've had to programming was a module on Java in University a few years back.

I recently had an idea for a cool piece of software that may have some value to others, but have no idea how to go about making it, marketing it or even releasing it as Open Source.

It should in theory be a fairly simple task to implement this idea, a Google search of this problem just reveals a plethora of requests on freelance sites for people to implement individual versions of the software I have in mind.

How would I go about making this idea into concrete code?

I'm not rich, I work a minimum wage tech support job and I'm not that interested in monetizing it to be honest, I'd be happy to release it as an Open Source project once it was done.
I am asking a tangential question here. Is there any service that can stream android games / apps?
Amazon Machine Learning (AWS)
The problem with that is (at least on e-ink displays) you wouldn't know if the device was on or off.

Showing the book cover solves that :)
On a moderately specced phone they can be. Plus maps just got less and less usable in my opinion. The map gained more screen space but got unusably slow, and no idea how to access features that I previously used (buttons for zoom in and out for example. Pinch zoom when driving is dangerous).
Have the addressed the way they handled the issue, rather than the issue itself? It's one thing to have an expired certificate, but it's another to advise people to turn their clocks back to get around the issue...
It was introduced on 1st of April and was definitely on the frontpage for few days.

They also have a blog post [1] about it.

[1] http://www.redditblog.com/2015/04/the-button.html
I think this is just a thing, like any software projects, where there's a list of bugs, and you try to fix as many as you can.

And when they're not fixed, the support team needs to write _something_. I can sympathize with whoever wrote this. I imagine working for the IRS has its own set of stresses (esp. considering this is stopping people from getting their refunds or whatnot too)
Love it! Thanks. I'll recommend it to some friends who are into blogging.
> status hierarchies are one of the few things that are common to every human civilization

Supposedly hunter-gatherer societies are fairly non-heirarchical (hunter-gatherer bands not tribal farmer/herders). They use humor to take down anyone who tries to be to bossy, let children and everyone else do what they like, but also strongly value sharing.

Peter Gray at Boston College has written a lot about this, for instance:
https://libcom.org/history/how-hunter-gatherers-maintained-t...
Fixing the cybersecurity problem needs a new approach
Indeed, in the past, on POWER architectures the OS was running inside PowerVM. That's not the case any longer with OpenPOWER and Linux is running on the bare metal.
They have now "renewed" the certificate. However it seems they believed GlobalSign would issue an "extension".
Unable to reproduce in Safari 8.0.2 (10600.2.5).

Is it still happening?

Thanks for helping!
Pixar have recently started using Katana as their lighting tool as well, replacing their existing custom solution.
it was announced in a blog post, and has featured many times on /r/all, but if you don't ever read /r/all, you wont have read it.

It was also most likely featured at some point on trending subs. And if you read a hell of a lot of reddit, you'll see it mentioned elsewhere on the site (like in memes, comments etc)
Frustration. I wasn't able to get libtcod to build. Tried to get prep'd for 7drl a few months back on debian (previous stable) and when that failed, a clean install of windows 7. I've also had trouble with race conditions with keypresses and the python version, although that was a few years back. I like the libtcod philosophy of it being a library approach (contrast with t-engine, which is more of a sandbox model).
Well, the bagage robot in the picture looks a lot like the one at Yotel in NYC: http://www.yotel.com/Hotels/New-York-City
It broke last time I visited, but fun to watch when it's operational.
had the same feeling. dropping Kierkegaard without getting into it. but this could have been the article authors choice. and the quotes from the books author seem very clear... and convinced me maybe there is more in the book than typical american self help.

if someone has the book i would really like to know how well does the book reference prior research... i would prefer a book on these exact topics that is more heavy on research than poetic yarning
I've used the Jekyll Bootstrap theme from Mark Reid (http://jekyllbootstrap.com/usage/jekyll-theming.html) and made only minor modifications. You can see them on my github https://github.com/sfotiadis/sfotiadis.github.io and of course you can re-use everything you like.
For keeping my own code notes I use TiddlyWiki [http://tiddlywiki.com/]

Syntax highlighting, markdown plugins, stored locally and a mature polished product.