skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, I think very highly of my site's visitors. That's why there's no banner ad across the top of the page. That's why there's only a single ad above the fold (within the sidebar away from the content so it doesn't distract). That's why I've never done popups, popovers, popunders, etc. That's why I have a script to detect adblockers that, instead of blocking content, just shows a nice simple request for either whitelisting or donating if they can that also cleans up the remnants of the site design left behind by blocking the ads for a cleaner page view for them and specifically reserves space for the message so the laid-out elements don't jump around and distract from viewing the page sans ads. That's why I have 60+ domains blocked within AdSense because I found they were showing fake Download button ads that were trying to trick users into downloading crap instead of free software they were after... even though these were the most high-paying ads available. That's why I've avoided doing bundleware despite the fact that it would make me a millionaire within weeks.

Much of what I said was more a generalization of online users overall. And I'm lucky that many of my own users fall outside of that generalization due to the niche of what I do and the type of product I offer (free open source software, utilities, etc). Sadly, it doesn't matter how responsibly you try to show ads as adblockers don't discriminate (except for AdBlock Plus which allows some ad networks due to payola). And doing ads on your own without a 3rd party service is nearly impossible for an independent site these days due to the nature of the ad industry.

All that said, it's not like I'm giving up. I'm working with my userbase to come up with additional revenue streams to allow the site/project to continue and the millions of users to keep using the software. Including things like paid services, merchandise, sponsorships, etc. Honestly, if we can arrive at one that'll let me ditch ads entirely, I'd be happy to.
I think this is worth repeating:

"I asked Microsoft if the company would be able to comply with unlocking a BitLocker disk, given a legitimate legal request to do so. The spokesperson told me they could not answer that question." - https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/04/microsoft-disk...
Ask HN: Is HipChat down for you too?
HipChat is not working for us, I was wondering if it's down globally
I'm more talking about the data migrations necessary to support the thumbnail fetching. At that scale (including all the bureaucracy), it's slow.
There is a documented, reliable fix in everyone's hands, namely to shut down Redis and upgrade it. This is a cute hack with a chance of crashing everything.

One thing I learned from working at Ksplice was that the amount of effort needed to build reliable live patches was huge, way more than the amount of effort needed to build a live patch good enough for your average script kiddie, who often doesn't care about crashing one percent of machines, and definitely doesn't care about it just not working on 90% of machines. There is, unfortunately, an engineering imbalance between the difficulty of the good guys' and bad guys' goals. (This is why there was no truth to the claim that Ksplice was helping the bad guys build rootkits: the technical ability to build rootkits was there all along, since Ksplice was out of tree -- the innovative engineering in Ksplice was just making hot-patches reliable.)
That's not a bug, it's a feature. Pretty much every modern browser will look in the default spot for a favicon if you don't specify it.
Taxes, in one form or another, are where the federal government gets the money it uses to pay its employees.
I hear this often, but it doesn't jive with my impressions of Manhattan (lived there years ago, visit periodically). In particular, significant parts of the island top out at walk-up heights (5-6 stories). The economics of rent in Manhattan would change dramatically if the island were rebuilt using modern technologies (chiefly: elevators and the taller buildings they enable).

Without knowing the local politics, it seems obvious that there is some force that is preventing the low-productivity uses of land (broadly: "short buildings") from being converted into higher-productivity uses (chiefly "taller buildings"). There's only a finite supply of ground -- this does not mean there has to be a finite supply of usable indoor space. The latter is a choice that can presumably be changed when the will arises.
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I'm pretty sure I've never seen a loading indicator for AJAX either in Safari or Chrome.
It seems like theres way too little information here to build anything.
You are correct, it works! I am on a Mac and I needed to press F3 (show all windows) to see the graphics window. It does not show up if you just do cmd-Tab.

As for the second error - I was incorrectly trying to run the core.clj, so no problem there.

Thanks for the help! I had fun drawing circles :))
> I simply don't want a single place where all my passwords are available that isn't hardware physically under my control.

That makes sense. What would be really nice -- and what I had in mind -- would be some sort of device where the passwords were stored to which my other devices could easily connect to to access the passwords, sort of like a wireless dongle. (Though, really, even the wireless part is negotiable. I'd be happy to plug something in as well so long as it was easy to carry with me and supported the right connectors.)

Seems like a Kickstarter campaign waiting to happen.
True but the amount of webpages I visit where the spinning icon never stops spinning, I don't really pay it a 2nd thought. An enormous image set to hidden would have a similar effect.

Mind you I'm sat at home with a 300Mbps fibre connection, so I don't give as much thought to bandwidth as a roaming 4G/3G user might.
Microsoft Shows Off New 'Minecraft' Built for Virtual Reality
In what world are you owed a Silicon Valley salary? Only at a Silicon Valley company, and even then only if you signed the piece of paper that offered it.

It seems awfully cynical to think there's no tech work that you would take on to justify a little cut in pay. If it's not for you, it's not for you. But there are huge swaths of people who get real satisfaction from working on the problems that government work exposes them to.

It has little to do with patriotism nor the monetary value of your work. People do things for incentives – they can be monetary or otherwise. As someone else mentioned, federal employee benefits can be really, really fantastic for the way some people want to live their lives. Probably not for those wanting to own a Maserati by their 30th birthday, but for those who want a low-risk, comfortable retirement after a consistent (if lengthy) tenure it's not a bad option.

I can name at least one "huge corporation" (in Silicon Valley, no less) that very successfully offers lower salary compensation for a shot at similarly meaningful work. Maybe these arguments never hold up because it's hard to be "patriotic" about the 38th x for y startup to launch this week.
Awesome start! I wanted to build something like this but Netflix shut down their API. Here's a list of features I'd like to see if it helps any.

I'd like to be able to put movies into three groups, want to watch (watch queue), already seen (with a rating), and "have no interest" in seeing.

Then, all my search results would NOT show the movies I've put into one of these three lists, so I only see new content. From the search result list, I can easily put movies into one of my three lists.

Also, if your search results could filter out movies based on buy vs rent, since I have no interest in buying movies online. Also, remove pre-releases, I'm not looking for something I can watch in 5 months, I'm looking for things I can watch right now (GOTs season 5 pre-order).

I think who ever nails this implementation could be a big winner as we need an online tv-guide more than ever. But so far, I only see ways to have the same movies I seen (or don't want to see) thrown in my face over and over again.

As you watch more and more online content, you spend more and more time being offered movies you've already seen and that makes it hard to discover new content in the haystack of stuff you've seen or don't care to see.

Hope that helps.
> STRIP supports mobile-desktop synchronization over local wifi or remote cloud (Dropbox & Gdrive).

Right, but the threat model here is exactly the same! Except you're trusting Dropbox and Google instead of LastPass.
There may not be any deliberate backdoor in BitLocker however I think it's safe to assume that NSA has access to the source code, probably found some angle to exploit.
The app is hosted in a typical cloud computing environment. The traffic from Cuba is 4M page views monthly. El Paquete gets updated every week so the people are seeing ads active the week before. We sell premium listing, our clients ask us for the right timing so its ads gets into El Paquete in the firsts positions.
I pray once or twice a month that someone somewhere will just end the favicon.

Or at least make it's absence a non-logworthy event.

Or replace it with something sane, like a .png.
This is like your fourth time posting a position in all caps to HN. This isn't the way to go about finding new talent. Go try paying for a job listing and stop spamming HN.
There weren't as many fun things to do, though..
Or shows that you watched months ago but Netflix does not know about.

Or why you have 5 sreens of categories to choose from, but all categories have the same shows in them, anywhere around 60-75%.
Thanks so much - really curious as to the "why" though! Instantwatcher used to be one of our core inspirations, we found them helpful but pretty ugly back then. What are we still lacking compared to them in your eyes?
Ted Unangst: signify shortcomings
I complain to my friend in brooklyn it takes about as long to go from Philadelphia to Penn Station as it does from Penn Station to their door step. However yeah, those tickets can get pricey. Sometimes you luck out and get the 50$ one, but many times its 200 one way - I dont know what tickets would be commuting during the early hours to get to work though.

That being said, you are also right about living directly above Penn Station. I can get really far in 20 - 30 minutes in philadelphia, but almost nowhere in NYC because of human congestion.

not that 1.5 - 2 hour commutes leave much for a life. I did that for 2 years and while I got a lot of reading done, I didnt have any time at home. You get home 7-7:30 and make dinner. maybe you are finished eating and chores by 9 and you go to sleep between 10 and 11 (you aren't staying up very late because you are leaving early in the morning hours too).
This seems like a good spot to link to one of my favorite essays on the theme you've raised here - the historian and philosopher Isaiah Berlin (of the hedgehog and the fox fame) on "The Concept of Scientific History." (Short version: he argues that there's no such thing). By the way, I'm happy to see such an interesting discussion of my favorite historical topic on HN - thanks.

http://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/published_works/cc/scihist.pdf
If anybody is using this and encounters bugs, I’d be happy to hear them. I did my best to make it work reliably.
Placing ads next to people's content while not compensating them is a great thing?
Haven't owned a TV since 1999... I don't like how they become the focus of the room it's in. However, I do like the new oled tvs, especially the super thin one that can be hung up at any time (prototype only now) and may get one when they're available.
Any good tricks on how to generate a new master password that is a) secure enough and b) I can memorize?
So tired of people posting __________ is down! status. Seriously there are better things to post / worry about. If you want to know check the status site: https://status.hipchat.com/
Awesome. How's it work for people with glasses?
I am certainly not saying have had near the traffic of netflix. But we are a live stream site, so certainly have to deal with more load for generating the thumbnail sprites we use because we do them for every new stream, and every few minutes during the stream

The backend part of it is just ffmpeg, which can do pretty much all of this for you. The scaling is just a matter of throwing more servers at it, which is relatively trivial, expensive but simple. Admittedly my 1.5 days was not including generating the thumbnail sprites. But if you include that we had 2 programmers work on this for a total of less than a week.
An experimental Underscore+Lodash merge repository
Nice, thanks for the update.
I wish they would bring back plain text titles under each cover image. Hovering over each image isn't an adequate solution.
1Password actually stores new data in new files, presumably to make synchronisation work properly. For example, I have approximately 600 such files in my Dropbox. Interestingly, some metadata such as the login URL and the creation date is not encrypted, so it would be possible to build a list of the sites I have stored passwords for.

Formally, if your cipher would weaken in a way that makes practical attacks possible as more data is encrypted, it would be considered broken. Furthermore, it is possible to work around this by rotating keys and just encrypting the keys in a master file. 1Password definitely uses encryption keys that are fully independent from your master password, although I don't know if they periodically use new keys for new data.
Let me get this straight:

Apple comes out with an Ad Blocker for Safari. Then it comes out with Apple News, which places ads next to RSS content, and doesn't compensate the author?

Come on, man. That is infinitely upsetting.
You're assuming they don't have updating URLs. That would be a massive oversight. Almost all popular SPAs that I use have linking implemented, so I don't know why you'd assume Netflix would fail to do this.
One problem I have with BitLocker is that it's only supported on Ultimate/Enterprise (on 7) and Professional and up (on 8)

I guess one could argue about not having those editions in a business setting, but the vast majority of pre-installed Windows in a market is Home Premium, and I can't think of enough justifications (especially in small businesses) for higher editions, and besides, many people, in home setting would want to have this extra protection for their computers. (After all, they do banking, tax, etc.) -- It seems like non-pro 8.1 does BitLocker for system drives, but then it also comes with a bit of "only if's" (InstantGo, SSD, non-removable RAMs, TPM, etc.)

As someone else mentioned here, it seems like choices are starting to become narrow as fairly limited solutions can support UEFI/GPT, too...
Likewise, you could say that these engineers are "paid" in recognition/agency (from the President) and meaningful work. Yes, it doesn't need to be mutually exclusive with market pay, but if they're attracting great programmers now, I'd say the market is working.
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The original Hyperloop system was supposed to be powered by linear induction motors spaced along the track. The pod doesn't have propulsion capability, except maybe an emergency system. So the pod/track interface is pretty much set by the propulsion system.

For trains, linear induction motors have usually been paired with magnetic levitation, as in the Transrapid system. But they don't have to be. Many roller coasters with a linear induction motor launch system have been built; Flight of Fear at King's Dominion, by Premiere Rides, was the first, in 1996. For a 1-mile test track, outsourcing the whole job to Premiere Rides or Intamin would be a good move. Intamin, which mostly makes amusement park rides, also has a transportation division. They build monorail systems. Intamin would just have to combine the car design from their P8 monorail[1] with their linear induction motor launch system.[2] By Intamin standards, a fast 1 mile loop with no hills is easy. ("We can put in a vertical loop for a small extra charge...")

[1] http://www.intaminworldwide.com/transportation/Home/news/Sha...
[2] http://www.intaminworldwide.com/amusement/RollerCoasters/LSM...
This article is entirely about another alternative. Which is to pay below private market rates but exposure to otherwise inaccessible problems.
> (Though if you've found a good option, that will allow me to easily sync across my home desktop, laptop, office pc, tablet, and smartphone, without using the cloud, I would absolutely love to hear about it! Maybe something Bluetooth based?)

I don't know if it meets but your needs, but I love PasswordMaker (http://passwordmaker.org). There is no need for sync'ing, because the password is generated from a master password and configureable per-site data (by default, the web-site address; but you can add more data sources if you don't like that). It has an extension for Firefox that auto-completes passwords (configureably, remembering the master password per session so that you don't ever have to type it); there are widgets for Windows and Mac OS; there are Android and iOS apps; and, always, there is the fallback web page, which you can use anywhere that you have a web browser.

EDIT: Since I am trying to indulge in quite a bit of advocacy here, I want to make it clear that I am in no way affiliated with the project. I just stumbled on it a long time ago, and have been delighted with the way that it fills my needs.
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I've taken to using Keepass which is an encrypted, open source offline password manager, plus Dropbox for sync between all of my devices. While I can't control the security of Dropbox, I can at least control the level of encryption on my Keepass database. Keypass lets you use a "key file" (in addition or instead of a password) which you could copy to each of your devices once, which would make for a very secure password database at-rest.

It's still not perfect but I think it's a better than LastPass or 1Password. And if you have a more secure file sync (maybe AeroFS?) you could use that instead.
He's accused people who disagree with him of being liars. That, along with his general behavior, is good enough for me.

Oh, and don't bother trying to spam my email account. I set up a filter to automatically delete any email from hn@ycombinator.com long, long ago.
Roman Empire had pretty tolerant culture as well...
Of course, there are more exceptions. Intimidating coöp applications are one.
yes, it's down for us here in Brazil. already connected users weren't disconnected, but it's not possible to login, so I belive the problem is with their login infrastructure.
> depressing that one of the better news sources available right now isn't CNN or some "legacy" ... the reason that Last Week Tonight does so well is that they aren't beholden to ..

The show runs on HBO, owned by Time Warner, who owns CNN.
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It's a common meme nowadays that Microsoft's crimes are deep in the misty past, that their domination is over, and that they seem to have turned over a new leaf. It's true that they have failed (despite their best efforts) to secure hegemony in the "new world" computing paradigm, which has proportionally weakened their influence (as many people actively use smartphones and tablets who would not bother with a traditional laptop). The server space they never really truly owned. But they still have a virtual stranglehold on general-purpose computing. Microsoft Office is still "standard". 3rd party "industry standard" software like 3ds Max is Windows-only. Niche industrial hardware comes with Windows-only drivers. When you can walk into PC World and walk out with a beefy top-spec computer that doesn't run Windows, then we may talk of Microsoft's fall from power. Not before.

As for crimes, they haven't stopped: to this day they win government contracts through bribery (just google 'Microsoft bribery'). Then there's their documented collusion with the NSA, in particular the whole business with buying and MITMing Skype. And have we so quickly forgotten SecureBoot?
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> Windows after NSA_key

_NSAKEY wasn't a backdoor. People need to let that go. Not a single line of code was ever discovered that indicated the NSA was utilising it as a backdoor into cryptography, so the entire basis for the conspiracy theory is that the variable which holds the "backup key" happened to have been named that (and that includes the NT4.0/2000 source code leaks).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

Also Microsoft shares the Windows code with many institutions[0]. Yet none of them, nobody at Microsoft, and not even the Snowden leak indicated a backdoor in Windows.

Microsoft MIGHT have made it easier for the US Government to tap Skype calls (and I believe that they did based on available evidence). Aside from that for all the mudslinging almost none of it ever sticks.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
If your master password is long enough, then it should be safe regardless. The only problem would be if there's a bug in Lastpass's encryption.
Around the same time as you wrote yours I did this one with a friend

It was a basic exercise for our CS compiler classes in 1998, written in the newly introduced Java language and generates bytecode and native.

https://github.com/pjmlp/L98

The code is actually pretty basic, and I did some improvements (Makefile to Maven, Java 1.0 to 7, replaced C runtime by pure Asm) in the last couple of years just for fun.

If anything, it taught me a very interesting trick for writing compilers as if they were interpreters.

Create bytecodes as intermediate language that can be easily mapped into Assembly macros. Then instead of interpreting, just make them go through the macro assembler.

It won't generate the fastest code in the world, the register allocator will be pretty stupid, but hey it compiles straight to native.
I'm not sure whether I'm an "expert", but I can't think of a competently designed cryptosystem falls to that particular attack.
Could you give an example of how the President could "very easily accomplish huge strides with a single stroke of a pen?"

The government is specifically designed against what you are stating is/should be the norm. This is literally the antithesis of the American government's mandate and design.
Do you expect feed reader companies to compensate the authors of the feeds they aggregate too?
> are now finding it practically impossible to recruit teachers and nurses in the city because they can't afford to live within a commutable distance. That's quite bad.

Then they will pay more, all the extra money will go to rent, and things will stabilize again.

Do Hospitals located in expensive places receive extra reimbursement from the government?
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Or you can use local WiFi -- now you have a choice. If you do choose a cloud service, note that the database file is encrypted by STRIP, https://www.zetetic.net/blog/2014/09/10/how-strip-syncs-with...

"When initialized with a passphrase SQLCipher derives the key data using PBKDF2 (e.g. OpenSSL’s PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC_SHA1 on some platforms.) Each database is initialized with a unique random salt in the first 16 bytes of the file. This salt is used for key derivation and it ensures that even if two databases are created using the same password, they will not have the same encryption key."
> web-based operating system

"Chrome-based" would be more accurate because it doesn't even work in the latest Firefox.

Also, it contains a full page rant on why Firefox is bad (because of something about Netscape and AOL -- apparently it's still 1995).

If you're going to call it "web-based" try targeting more than 1 browser regardless of your personal beliefs.