skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Three of the stars last year were merged

If that were the only major difference, Google would still have 4 stars with the 5th undecided. Google now have 3 stars.

>Your accusations of bias because Google isn't funding the EFF are, frankly, ridiculous.

To be clear, I am not accusing EFF of bias against Google.

Other privacy organisations have literally accused the EFF of lobbying for Google. From Wikipedia:

"In 2011, the EFF received $1 million from Google as part of a settlement of a class action related to privacy issues involving Google Buzz. EPIC and seven other privacy-focused nonprofits protested that that the plaintiffs lawyers and Google had, in effect, arranged to give the majority of those funds "to organizations that are currently paid by Google to lobby for or to consult for the company.""

Since then, the EFF spoke up loudly against the right to be forgotten (Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González), even though this is considered a privacy basic by EU data protection principles.
Here's a good place to start:
http://www.matthewjockers.net/text-analysis-with-r-for-stude...
Aren't like 95%[0] of all cases settled before they even reach trial? To me it seems like that would indicate this logic isn't entirely flawed.

[0]http://thelawdictionary.org/article/what-percentage-of-lawsu...
If you need an app for finding happy hour, I suggest you get your nose out of your phone and actually talk to a person you see day-to-day.
Here's the talk itself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAZAII2x0w
FYI anyone can integrate yubikey u2f logins on their website. It's easy, try it out:

https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Libraries/List_of_librarie...
Time tracking challenges in software development outsourcing
More About http Deprecation
Manhattan Beach, targeting AirBnB, officially bans short term rentals
yea, I'm going to agree. This piece is pretty disappointing in that regard.
Looking forward to it. Can we re-submit multiple old Show HNs in hopes of seeing what he says?
> A "View Source" standard could optionally request authorization before the source is made visible, e.g. from a private Github repo.

Or they could make a protocol to select which version you want to see: the webm or the plain JS. No need to mix external websites like Github in the loop.
Based on what, you not being a fan?
My son had surgery for 3 aneurysms 5 years ago. At 8am he was a normal 6 year old boy, going with his mom to LA Fitness. Then at 8:30 I got a call that he couldn't get up off the floor. An MRI showed 3 golf ball sized aneurysms, and they put him in a helicopter from Tucson to Phoenix, about 100 miles apart. I was pretty crippled by fibromyalgia at the time, my wife was 7 months pregnant, and they wouldn't let us fly with him. We cried driving two hours to learn if our kid lived or not.

They used superglue to plug the fistula at Barrow's in Phoenix Arizona, they went up through the leg. http://www.thebarrow.org/index.htm Amazingly, he was walking again within 4 days and home within 7 days. I have a friend that had the same surgery 5 years before; she was there for months recovering from the clip method.

My son was ok for 4 1/2 years, but for unknown reasons he had another brain issue in December that caused temporary paralysis for a few hours. They went spelunking again and found nothing. They did decide that the 5 year old repair had healed perfectly. Dr. Cameron McDougall the surgeon was just beaming with happiness when he told us that.

My kid is doing well, he is pretty smart. He attends the hardest charter school in Arizona, BASIS. He is 11 years old, and I am his angel investor (Total investment about $500) in his website http://legimon.com which is his version of Pokemon. Total revenue so far is $282.00 and about $40 in profit for some t-shirts. He was quite amazed when I told him how long he would have to scrub toilets at McDonalds to make that much money. We then had an hour long discussion about trademark law; he knew more than I did. He has been doing all the wordpress and photoshop work lately, and he works about 3 hours a day on it, everyday for the last three years. He has developed 400 characters and tells me that he is not stopping until he passes Pokemon's 700+.. He has planned out the app, the Xbox game, the VR headset upgrade for gokart racing, and the theme park. I couldn't be more proud of him.

I keep a photo of him in the hospital taken right after they used a cordless drill to put a hole in his skull. He looks like corpse, his head is half shaved, his spine is twisted sideways and the drain from his skull is a bright orange. I use it when I am having a bad day at work, as a reminder of what a bad day really is.

Ask me anything.
You have a strange way of congratulating someone who achieved what they consider to be happiness.
Thank you.

From time to time I toy with the idea of suing that joker for libel, but the reason I don't is that I support the notion that the best response to hate speech is more speech.
The reason to set a higher bar is this: in a heated debate where core beliefs are being challenged there will always a temptation to decide you're dealing with an idiot or a monster even when you aren't.
DWARF is a debugging data format for ELF files.[1]

WebDWARF then would be to WebASM, as DWARF is to ELF files.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWARF
I emailed the link to RMS. (He's very good about replying to mail.) He responded by saying that he was aware of the problem, and wanted to solve it but could not do so anytime soon.
It's only going to get worse (or better) depending on how you look at it. So many behavioral factors will be included to shake stops and squeeze shorts at just the right time to make huge profits from the bounce. It's part of the reason as a trader I'm now just chasing Momentum, ignoring most other signals as noise. So much so, I'm building an app that supports discovering these momentum breakouts. In the unlikely event anyone is interested - www.mometic.com
"I rarely see women get 'heat' on Reddit." -- You. I understand now that you were making a comparative statement, but at the time I believed you were making an absolute one.
For me it's around $1600-$1800/month
https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/cobbysoft-media-inc./id40...
A portfolio of paid apps. Most of them were created to scratch my own itches. I was learning saxophone at the time and couldn't really find a fingering chart software that can play the exact notes and vice versa. One thing lead to another, that's how it all began.

http://www.optimalplugins.com/
Branching out to wordpress plugins. Speaking of which, I think the headline generator is a really awesome plugin for any blogger. Just need some help to scale the marketing part.

http://www.stickynotespro.com/
A tiny SaaS working in progress :). My mind is always coming up with ideas and I usually write them down in sticky notes or in the note app. However, being a visual person, I need to see the post it to make things happen. If some one cover the sticky notes with a blanket, the task will never get done. Creating this site to store big ideas digitally and have the ability to see all the sticky notes on demand.
The GPG applet only does keys up to 2048 bits :(

Other than that, this is cool and I generally really like my YubiKey Neo
Azdle: Thanks for your feedback. I've changed the password requirements. Your other comment about single entry is also great. I'll try to implement it asap. Thanks!
I agree, but it looks like there will be more projects coming. I teach a class aimed at exactly this "Codecademy chasm" and tend to use small, practical apps e.g. parsing San Francisco street sweeping data or getting the weather forecast. I'm pretty sure most of my students have no idea what logs are.
I don't think GMOs are bad. I do think they don't solve actual problems the world faces, and introduce new problems (including but not limited to Monsanto's intellectual property abuses).

What I want to see is more focus on eating local, more decentralization of the food supply, and for people to care more about what they eat - as an aesthetic and moral experience. It's about health, and quality of life, and freedom, none of which are enhanced by loading another round into Monsanto's chamber.
The only downside seems that if one uses new keywords like "class" one has to use a transpiler back to JS5 to avoid syntax errors in IE11 and other older still supported browsers&devices that will never receive an update (like Android 2x/4, Blackberry, WinPhone7/8, etc).

A fallback solution like JQuery isn't possible for new keywords. Try-catch keywords were previously introduced too, but are rarely used because their implementation is known to be slow. Beside that JS5 code with fallback functions still works fine in very old browsers like IE5.
Etherpad was completely unmaintainable when it was shut down as a service and open-sourced. Its first, open-source major rewrite (etherpad-lite) didn't work. It took a second major rewrite by a profit-motivated startup (Hackpad) to become useful again.

I think that if Etherpad had been GPLed, we would still have nothing but etherpad-lite, and we would lament Etherpad as a lost technology.
Even if it's not rooted, your carrier and your device manufacturer effectively have remote root access to your phone and you may not trust either of them.
My ex-ante expectation of a YC company in the current class raising successfully conditional on them being a going concern as of Demo Day is > 95%. With regards to valuation, I was joking -- the discursive market for it was the "angels weep" wordplay but it belatedly occurs to me that for people whose primary association with the term "angel" is "angel investor" that is less obviously intended to be a joke than it is with the rest of us.
How would semicolons have prevented the first of those misunderstandings?

-- Don't get me wrong, those are good cases to know what is going to happen. But I think you are making the case that semicolons provide a false security blanket, since the language can complete a line you meant to wrap, or, alas, merge 2 lines you meant to have separate.

I think shell (and a few other languages) actually got it right: 1 line = 1 statement, unless there is an explicit continuation.
Or, as I've seen a few times, you have circular references in your rails asset includes.
A blob (binary large object) is binary by definition, right? Seems like a strange way to put it.
If the technology cannot provide unlimited for customers who have paid for it, then unlimited service should not be sold. Simple as that. Anything else is inexcusable. If the technology stack can only handle all customers at 250 kBps, then that is the maximum service they should be selling.

"We can handle 20% of users at 5 Mbps, and the other 80% at 250 kBps. So we'll sell the 5 Mbps. But we won't restrict sales to 20% of customers, we'll sell to as many as want it and then throttle to handle overloads on the system." There is no way to make this situation acceptable. Don't sell what you can't provide. Pretty fucking simple.
I wrote "Learn Java the Hard Way" after Zed asked/encouraged me to. I think if someone got together 52 exercises, he'd tell them to go for it.

No pun intended, honestly.
There it goes. Trying to cover a lot of use cases.
Its weird its not consistent! :D

The german thing is just weird until you get used to it, with french I constantly go, wait, crap this is over 70, whats the deal again. I blame the wine consumption.
We actually looked at VulcanD in an older version of Empire. When we decided to use a routing layer with this version of Empire, rather than just letting Empire/ELB expose each service (mostly because it is a lot easier for us to later shut off public access to each service) we threw together nginx because it was so simple.

I think at this point everytime we move a service we add like 5 lines to an nginx config, re-deploy the router in Empire, and the service is exposed.

The internal 'service discovery' makes this a lot easier, since we just have to tell nginx to route to http://<app_name> - no domain, no port, nothing more than the app_name thanks to DNS/resolv.conf search path & ELB stuff.
> if someone invented a binary format for JS that was interchangeable with the current text format

We already have gzip, although even with gzip minifying is useful, because gzip isn't content-aware. You can also enable source maps in production if you care about openness. The client doesn't have to fetch the maps/sources until developer tools is opened.
Are you referring to Duo Push, or something more?
You're talking about implementing your own GC inside JS. A valid use case, but a niche one. JS the language doesn't really need to expose GC internals. JS the compile target does. (Though it can be worked around).
Yubikey supports TOTP with OS driver help. Presumably the driver passes the time to the Yubikey to actually generate the TOTP.

https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/
Post Sarbanes-Oxley, it never makes sense to IPO, ever.

Let's go with, maybe, "Pre-SOX, you could reasonably IPO on revenue in the tens of millions with a valuation in the hundred of millions. SOX decisively removes that option. We now have economically viable alternatives to IPO, for high-growth tech companies, at valuations into minimally 'the tens of billions of dollars.' It may make sense to IPO if one is not a high-growth tech company or one desires a valuation higher than 'tens of billions of dollars.'" (Context: Uber is $25 ~ $50 billion, Microsoft is ~$375 billion.)
Link's broken.
The relentless fall in U.S. labor force participation will continue to cause reduced economy activity, which can explain why the price of oil was quite constant from 2010-2014:

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
I would love to see what would come out of a network trained to recognize pornographic images using this technique. :)
Allstate’s Drone Study Gets FAA Clearance
Get rid of JavaScript callback hell
The Hunt for the Last Chilean Sea Bass Poachers
So at this point Empire itself doesn't deal with things like Autoscaling. That said, the Demo Cloudformation template (and the bootstrap script that kicks it off easily for you) make use of Autoscaling groups for the instances that containers are being run on.

So, in theory you could autoscale just like you always would. Monitor stats for a host, if a bunch of them start to run low on resources, kick off an autoscaling event.

That said, there's been quite a bit of talk about integrating Empire with Autoscaling, so that when, say, ECS couldn't find any instances with resources free for a task, Empire could kick off the autoscaling events for you. Could be pretty awesome :)
Why is this thread not showing up in the feed?
Those are some of the most visually appealing circuit diagrams I've seen in a long time.
According to wikipedia, they closed up due to lack of a long term sponsor. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airship_Ventures
Goldman Sachs restricts intern workday to 17 hours in wake of burnout death
When discussing multi-billion dollar web startups in the consumer space, there are only so many examples to draw from.
8 Tips to Land Your Dream Job
it's called context- I'm not sure where people get the idea that acronyms should be used gramatically 1:1 like the phrase that inspired them would be
Wow, I got schooled. Did not realize rule 4 about lines starting with array subscript brackets or function argument parens. (regardless of the line's intent of perhaps being an array literal or simply starting with an expression to be evaluated early)

The sad reality, taking the second link to its satirical conclusion, is that all JS should be written on one line, with semicolons between statements. No guessing about the effects of line breaks if there aren't any. "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit - it's the only way to be sure." :-)
Disappointing that you view all criticisms against Ellen Pao as inherently sexist. I think if anything people would be just as critical of her if she was a guy. Who appoints a lawyer to run Reddit?
Nest launches a camera
Or you could.. you know... recommend an appropriate client-side encryption tool so they can then store the archive/backup data on the storage provider of their choice...
I understand the theory. I do not believe that this is the optimal approach in practice.
SwiftKey Vulnerability Puts 600M Samsung Galaxy Under Threats
> places that you could work at to write those languages

Ah, missed that, assumed OP meant if only there was a way to write JS without having to write JS.
I would assume the recovery key is not stored in plain-text - it's likely hashed, similar to a password. If you need to use it, you enter the (hopefully safely stored) recovery key you have, they re-hash it and compare to the hashed one they keep.
> going with AWS kills productivity because you have to
> learn AWS specific APIs

Products I use:

* Redshift. It's Postgres's API, and I didn't have to learn how to manage petabyte-scale clusters

* EC2. It's Ubuntu. Or CentOS. Or whatever. You choose! Except no messing about with my own virtualization or hardware agreements or going ot the datacenter.

* RDS. It's whichever database you want it to be! Only it scales! And backsup! For free!

* ElastiCache. It's Redis!

etc. etc. etc.

Learning those dang AWS-specific APIs, eh? Who'd do it?

> has been killed purely by AWS hosting costs

Then they planned badly, because AWS prices consistently go down over time. If your "business" goes under because it becomes popular, then your marginal cost per user is negative, and you're running a charity for the benefit of your users, not a business. Blaming the demise of a company whose business model is giving out free icecream on the cost of icecream is missing the point a little.
Does the NSA allow its employees to look for help from the general public like this? Seems odd for such a secretive organization to post publicly asking for help on how to parse our conversations.
Try building a high powered cluster with no information availiable on simple v.basics.
Its annoying that you present to an organisation gow something is done and show full implementation bt somegow they hire some guy from outside who messes up you idea up charges an unreasonable amount for a subpar product
Charlestown Mass Shooting: What We Know So Far
point taken -- or rather, "given" :-)
I need help with documentation
I coded a flux store utility called orejs. It can be found on github and npm but since my English is not that good; the documentation is really in a bad state now :) I'd be glad if someone could help with the documentations :)
Github repo: https://github.com/burakcan/Ore
Npm: http://npmjs.org/package/orejs
Am I the only person who is not entirely happy about the overuse of the pop-culture term 'inception' for everything that is remotely nested, recursive or strange-loop-like?

In this paper, we will focus on an efficient deep neural network
architecture for computer vision, codenamed Inception, which derives
its name from the Network in network paper by Lin et al [12]
in conjunction with the famous “we need to go deeper” internet meme [1]
Well, the announcement dated >2 months ago[0] does say "few weeks". It's past most definitions of "few weeks"... I think "entitlement" is too strong, but maybe it's impatience verging on concern that it will never be released.

Is it really entitled to hold someone (even a company) to their plain word, even if not legally binding? At least, in the absence of further communication I think it's reasonable to start making some noise at this point. If Hackpad were to say they need more time, that would be another issue. (I have no stake or familiarity with this project.)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9352249
>What would you use instead?

Maybe Assembler with a little Perl? Anything else! Seriously, even the old Struts was better.

>I use Wicket

Wicket is pretty elegant. Clean, componentized, and fosters reuse. Issues with heavy session-reliance probably keep it from being more general-purpose, but it's actually fun to use.
Yubikey NEO and a Better Password Manager: Pass
I'm curious what you mean when you say etherpad-lite "didn't work". I use it fairly regularly and while I'll agree it's not nearly as refined as Hackpad, it seems to basically function.

(Note that I'm not debating the GPL point. I don't personally think Hackpad's forking the code has had any meaningful effect on etherpad-lite's popularity; there are plenty of collaborative document editors out there.)
New Crowd Funding Shirt Site for Consumers
Does anyone know, offhand (or have a good educated guess), on what the largest monolithic Ruby codebase in existence is? Is it GitHub?
[0a] http://fare.tunes.org/LispM.html

[0b] http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405
FlowerChecker: tell me what this plant is
> you have no problems handing that vendor's software the keys to your life.

I rely on a large amount of closed-source software for a great many things in my life. I'm not sure why my password manager is notably different than any other software that manages particularly important information.

> Many folks trust & use PasswordSafe not because Schneier wrote it (I hope) but because it is open-sourced.

Virtually nobody that uses it is qualified to actually judge whether it's secure. At some point you have to put your trust in some person to tell you whether or not it's secure. In the case of a fully-audited open-source solution, you're putting your trust in the auditor to have done a good job. In the case of an open-source solution that was audited at one point but has continued development since then, you're putting your trust in a combination of the auditor to have done a good job and the original developer to have maintained the quality level of the software during subsequent development. In the case of an open-source solution that has not been audited at all, you're putting your trust in the developers, and in the anonymous collection of other people that may or may not have actually examined the source in any meaningful fashion. And in a closed-source solution, you're putting your trust in the developers.

The biggest problem I have with your position is you're making the implicit assumption that, just because open-source software makes its source available to the world, this means enough anonymous other people have independently audited the software in order to feel reasonably secure. But this assumption is flawed, for several reasons. First, just because the source is available doesn't mean anyone's actually bothered to read it, and even very popular projects can suffer from this problem if the project isn't particularly accessible to contributors (case in point, AIUI the OpenSSL source is pretty hard to grok, and historically has had very few contributors, which led to issues like Heartbleed). Second, if people do read through the source, this doesn't in any way mean that anyone who's sufficiently qualified to judge the crypto has done so. Thirdly, even if someone who is sufficiently qualified has read through the source, it doesn't mean they've done so in a rigorous-enough fashion to really qualify as an audit.

In the end, unless you personally are sufficiently qualified to perform an independent audit of the open-source software, and unless you personally have actually performed said audit, then you are ultimately just trusting people. Which is exactly the same situation you have with closed-source software.
Well it cuts both ways im pretty sure tht someone gas a huge product tht really doesnt apply in your market at the moment bt if they look torwards africa or south america they can easily gain traction and then launch it to huge success in america europe or asia.
So some person in silicon valley is stuck as they doesnt think outside the box (which is odd since disruption is what you preach)
by looking torwards these markets they can easily get the traction they need