jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes. Inoreader.
Tried Feedly, but at that time Inoreader seemed to have most of the features I needed + it was really multi-platforms.

I wanted to self-host, but the time committment required for maintenance (not of the service, but with other services already running on the VPS) made me choose Inoreader.

Every now and then I look around to see if there's a new player in the feed reading game, but often stick with Ino.
Because it’s way off topic, and replying would just start a pointless flame war about school choice.
In snowflake id generation mode, the "which volume is writable" information can be read from other follower masters.
you might find this helpful, prepackage a bunch of standard windows programs to install all in one go.

http://ninite.com/
Umm.... how does one organize and tap into all these people? There is going to be some type of searching/ranking going on... somewhere.
So Google is evil because they added a touch screen to their phones? Only Apple has the right to make phones without keyboards?
Normally I just ignore the articles that don't interest me - I assume they're for someone else. But I'm beginning to find these blog-war posts tiresome. There is no new information, no novel insight. Just he said, she said. Is this really the kind of content the HN community is looking for?
Many years ago I thought gigablast was going to be the next thing to get close to the big three but now it's faded away. It really was impressive years ago, all coded by one guy and ran on like 5 machines.

Now it's turned to greenwashing which is strange to see.
I thought they did bundle Flash? In earlier years they did anyway.

Java they did include, but their own non-standard Windows tied version that broke the portability aspect. Sun sued them and won, so they stopped doing that and built C# instead.

PDF only relatively recently became an open standard and when they tried to bundle it (though with Office, not windows) Adobe pointed to their shenanigans with Java and threatened anti-trust to prevent them from doing so. I think part of the threat was that Microsoft was already pushing a PDF competitor called XPS so had something to gain by sabotaging PDFs compatability.
Sounds interesting.
I should be there.
That's interesting. Apparently, I've never seen the correct usage, or somehow didn't pick up on it if I did.

Also, it seems that there is disagreement as to whether the use really was incorrect or not. Modern usage and all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

Either way, I just learned something new.
By the power of anthropic principle, AKA naïve reasoning, I call upon the practice of double-counting my evidence and gain a BOOK.
Hi thangalin!

I live in Canada but have a business and personal US bank account in the US with Harris Bank (owned by the Bank of Montreal). You can set it all up by mail. I've never even visited the branch. http://www4.harrisbank.com/personal/0,4458,359877_390942,00....

To transfer money between my US and Canadian accounts to use at home, I use http://www.xe.com/fx

It's free to setup and between Canada and the US, you transfer at no cost by choosing the EFT/ACH options.
I agree. In such a small font it would be easier to make n, m, and w look unique than N, M, and W.
PS- Ginzametrics rules! In case my upvote wasn't enough of an endorsement.
I prefer to think of this in a Christiansen disruptive technology context. Technologies grow upmarket beyond the needs of its user base and create a disruptive opportunity for downmarket technologies.

I recently made a comment about this on an Intel blog article (SC10: Jeff’s Notebook - Innovation and Disruption: How a Successful Company can be gone in 10 Years): http://intel.ly/dZAxKk
I wouldn't say your font is completely readable, but each character is unique, so learning to read it would almost be like learning a new alphabet. Perhaps then one could read it fluently.

After working on it, can you easily read text in your font?
A few things to remember for those with uncertain wireless support

1) Don't forget you can easily try Ubuntu and wireless devices on most x86 laptops in the Live CD mode before you install. If driving somewhere to buy a USB device, bring the laptop along. You might also be able to run a Live CD and try a USB wireless device on another machine in the store (ask for permission first!)

2) If there's a Mac laptop handy, OS X doesn't need any extra software installed to share the laptops wireless access out the ethernet port, allowing simple DHCP connections. Just go to the Sharing prefs panel.
(add a hub or switch to share with several machines)

3) Instead of using a Mac, some routers with free open-source DD-WRT firmware installed can also act as WiFi clients giving access to machines plugged into the ethernet port(s). Older WRT-54Gs often turn up cheap at thrift stores etc. and are ideal. (some versions have more RAM than others, check the DD-WRT site www.dd-wrt.com/ for more info) It's a good way to add wireless to desktops.

4) ... and of course Ubuntu runs well in a Virtual Box virtual machine, an easy way to use it under OS X or Windows hosts with whatever net access those already have.
virtualbox.org It's a particularly simple/clean free solution for Mac users, not disturbing OS X at all.
I don't know what a smart contract is, but seems to me that if you can convicingly argue that the function output is inconsistent with what the parties agreed to, it would not stand.

There are contract disputes all the time over what a word or phrase means, and what a judge will look at is which interpretation best aligns with the broad strokes of what the parties were agreeing to. Nobody agrees to a contract that contains "I get to void the entire agreement at my discretion, keep the proceeds, and leave you with nothing"
It's where bitcoin gets most of its actual utility though. It doesn't have much use otherwise.
No -- that was using video overlays for hardware acceleration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay
A body is and has always been syntactically permitted on any HTTP request.

However, it is semantic nonsense to put it on a DELETE or GET.

DELETE is defined to remove the resource identified by the URL; GET is defined to fetch the resource identified by the URL. There no purpose for an entity.
No, there is a lot of evidence showing that most active managers, investors and analysts can't outperform the market. There are counterexamples which demonstrate consistent outperformance, they're just the minority. Likewise most basketball players aren't good enough to join the NBA, and most players in the NBA aren't good enough to secure $10 - 100 million contracts.

The EMH doesn't even preclude the possibility of consistently beating the market (consistently mining alpha); it simply states that the cost of providing those investments as a service rationally rises to cannibalize the outsized returns, so it becomes a wash.

We see this in practice: the well known hedge funds which demonstrate consistent alpha eventually close their doors to outside investors. Why pool risk with external capital when you're printing money? Investors are a hassle and no strategy can scale infinitely. When you can consistently mine alpha it's strictly better to just become a prop shop and run on your own money.
Equal temperament is a relatively recent (hundreds of years) development in Western civilization and arguably originated in China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament#History

Harmonic progression is a staple of Western classical and pop styles, but most folk music is diatonic (confined to a single scale), not least because of the limitations of wind instruments. Diatonic music and harmony has seen a major resurgence with the advent of electronic dance music, which subordinates harmonic progression to rhythmic and timbral development so as to stay 'in the groove' by maintaining a particular musical mood.
I find his analysis very interesting and the weird things that happened (especially the fact that Manning as an information analyst, confessed to the leaks on AOL IM!) rather hard to believe. Considering Lamo was sent to a madhouse there could have been other forces at play.

I think it is an important story!
[citation needed]

More to the point, what you are saying is that your ISP can read your unencrypted internet traffic. This is not news.
Actually it was a bug, and its now fixed.
So, this Amazon patent is completely worthless, right?
That doesn't mean anything. That's what happens to most companies.
Actually, as an owner of a Kindle I find presentation issues to be a big deal. I generally only buy simple books for pleasure reading on the Kindle, and so don't really care about DRM (I probably wouldn't bother reselling the paper book, and I don't care if I can't read it again in 5 years).

Approximately 1 in 4-5 Kindle books I consider buying I don't because of reviews that say something is seriously messed up with the presentation (pictures missing or improperly placed, chapter divisions completely gone, tables with data messed up or missing, etc.). If I have these problems with simple fiction and non-fiction, I imagine the problem is even worse for the examples he cites such as cookbooks, schoolbooks, travel guides, etc.
If that were the case, the set of programmers who use C++ should be much smaller than it is currently.

To me, this article describes yet another reason to not even try learning C++.
Skid Row's origin is from Seattle, where the logs were slid down "skid road" to the boats.
You really need to also look at family members, (spouse, children, etc). Many times these trades are through their spouses, as well.
I don't know if it's endemic to America or what, but people jerk off in libraries all the time -- it is a real problem.

Maybe because the homeless or impoverished get internet in libraries and nowhere else, but regardless of the cause, something should be done.

The last time I used a computer in a library, I reached down to grab the side of the chair to scoot it under the desk, and received a handful of ejaculate for my trouble. It was a nice library too.

One of my best friends works in a different, nicer library, and constantly complains about people jerking off in there. They catch them and kick them out, but it doesn't stop the problem any more than swatting mosquitoes stops that problem.

You may say mental illness because of your particular environment or upbringing, but I feel below a certain level of society it's the natural state of people-- if they're able to see a naked picture they pursue the pleasurable sensations it produces until that process completes itself. Altering the environment seems like a damn fine idea to me.
However the profile is connected to many notable people formerly/currently with Facebook:

http://gawker.com/5691841/when-facebook-ceos-was-publicly-ob...
There is a Python port, too:

http://packages.python.org/GitPython/0.3.1/

( http://gitorious.org/git-python )
many people have done it but here's another one https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
Having "insider trading" be illegal always seemed a bit comical to me. Not because I necessarily think it is not unethical (I see arguments both for and against it) but because in a world where people are allowed to meet together and communicate, freely, with privacy, in "secrecy" and nothing recorded, then, well, I think it's inevitable that it's going to happen. Person A knows X. Person B can profit if he were to learn X. Somehow, person A's knowledge gets to B, either directly or through some middle-man. B profits. Person A gets some sort of renumeration, perhaps directly, perhaps more indirectly. It is so easy to setup whatever indirect chain of communication or renumeration you desire in order to achieve "secrecy" and/or legality and/or plausible deniability. Not to say that I've done it. But I have done it as a thought experiment to figure out how it could work. And there's plenty of circumstantial evidence that others are doing it for real.

Reminds me of how prostitution is illegal (in most places) in the US. But only if done in the most literal and narrowly-proscribed and blatant of ways. But if it's in a little more indirect or creative way, suddenly that's legal.
If by “ordinary folks” you mean “spam bots”, then yes, our anthropologist weakly godlike artificial intelligences will appreciate this catalog.
Hyperscript is coming along nicely!
I've seen signup success rates between 30-97% with conventional login systems. There are two things that appeal to me about Facebook:

(i) people take their Facebook identities seriously, so they're less likely to be griefers, and
(ii) the like mechanism to push back updates about items that have changed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guesstimate
Calm down.

I think your arguments would be more convincing if you spent less time worrying about other people's emotional states and more time making claims that are testable.

I note that you haven't disputed my point that claims about what entire societies subconsciously believe are meaningless since you can't prove anything about them.

While I agree that person I heard from on TV is a nut, she's a rather prominent figure among the feminist movement in the middle east (Nawal El Saadawi).

Um, how do you know? It seems like you've never actually read any feminist writings...am I wrong? And it also seems like you've never discussed feminism with any actual living feminists. So how exactly would you know how well this one person on TV represents living breathing feminists?

In the west, marriage is the last step after a long long relationship. In the middle east, it tends to be the first step.

I've read this half a dozen times and I still can't figure out what it means.
I am almost in the same boat. But this time around the Republicans ran Carly Fiorina.

I'm sorry, but if you're going to run a businesswoman on her record, don't run one who did that much damage to her company (HP), who got fired by her board, and who was universally agreed to be so bad that the stock shot up on the news that she was finally gone. As much as I disliked Boxer, I didn't want to find out the hard way how much worse Fiorina could be if she was given access to power (again).
Or, what would be sort of interesting is a feature to allow you to post one or more status updates after death. "If you're reading this now, the mission was unsuccessful..."
Maria or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft. It`s a story of a woman incarcerated in a madhouse by her abusive husband. Dramatizes the effect of the English marriage laws, which made women virtually the property of their husbands (short review without spoilers - https://ivypanda.com/essays/book-reviews-northanger-abbey-ma...).
I am not sure I understand. In your view, if I live in the middle of nowhere, with no people around me, then I don't have the right to disallow people into my home because nobody is coming? How is it different from me living in the center of NYC and not allowing people into my home, the result is the same - people are not coming into my home, are they?
Reading your comment makes me think you’ve never driven in Europe whatsoever. Driving on your typical E road (say E6 or E4 in Sweden) is no different in design than any US interstate. In fact, driving on regional highways is mostly roughly equivalent in design with USA state highways, except roundabouts are often in place of street lights.
A few weeks ago there was another story about air pollution and cognitive decline that made it onto the frontpage. I noticed that most of the comments on that story were people discussing air filters, respirators, etc.

I wanna get ahead of that crowd this time and say: this doesn't make much sense as a problem for individuals to solve. We should instead be focused on measuring the problem (where is most of the pollution coming from) and passing legislation to drive it down.

Air pollution is localized and therefore easier to legislate around (because the people polluting and the people suffering are in the same legislature). Local and state-level laws can help here in a way that they can't for climate change (which requires more international coordination).
I like Rust and Go both, but I think that Go was intended not to be "exciting", but to provide a fairly narrow set of benefits and to be production ready quickly (I'm not really sure if the long term roadmap is for Go to stay there, or use production experience to grow into something with broader advantages, just carefully selected based on needs revealed through production use.)

Rust is a longer-term, more ambitious effort.
I don't think there will ever be "digerati" in politics. Among the kids entering college this year, there are future mayors, future congressmen, and possibly even a future president or two. These aren't the kids that will one day identify as digerati; their paths diverge quickly.
It's especially annoying when websites prefix their title by "Hacker News". Now all your tabs read like "Hacker News | Foo Bar [... other 6 relevant words omitted]". That's what the favicon is for.
Antitrust & Startup.com
What's to stop someone from taking apart the software/building rogue software and generating their own bitcoins without going through any of the complicated math calculations?

If they can't, then there must be some central authority preventing this..which means it's no different than the government

It also doesn't really help with privacy. In fact, it does the exact opposite:

Taken from: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=5907.0

"Every bitcoin transaction ever made is public, and the life of every bitcoin is fully recorded in public for all to see,"
Yes he does see the benefits to dynamic languages, but wonders why you would use one considering that those benefits are present in "good" static languages.

Good static languages have pattern matching and sum types, which gives you the ability to work with tagged data in a syntactically clean way. Dynamic languages just tag all the data. OP's point: are you aware of this? You could be as dynamic and as static as you want in a language like ML or Haskell.
> it was made up in a NYT article 10 years ago

I think it's older than that, though it may have been worded as, "9 out of 10 small businesses fail."
I've always wondered why Haskell doesn't support named instances:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.87....
Do you honestly think that the scientific community is incapable of working on more than one thing at once, or are you just a troll?
That's a bit vague so I may not be addressing your concern exactly, but it sounds like you're worried about the front page not being a simple ranking by community upvotes. HN has never been a simple ranking by community upvotes; it has always been a blend of upvotes and curation. Why? Because, unfortunately, upvotes alone would produce a front page of controversy, gossip, and fashion. Upvotes go disproportionately for 'hot' stories. If we want quieter, more reflective material on HN—which we certainly do—there needs to be a countervailing factor.

Re abuse, you'd have to be more specific about what you mean, but I suppose the general answer is you needn't be more worried about it now than you've been for the previous seven years, since there hasn't been any major change at that level. The major change has been greater transparency, because users asked for it.
It exists in some Native American groups as well, where people who "act white" are called Apples (red on the outside, white on the inside), similar to how blacks who "act white" are called Oreos. Sadly, both groups often find it easier and more attractive to blame racism for all their problems than to actually consider that there culture is part of the problem.
A defense: http://docs.pylonshq.com/pyramid/dev/designdefense.html#pyra...
OTOH, it is possible to add some of it back in. Check out Robert Virding's erlog (http://github.com/rvirding/erlog) and his explanation of how you can add backtracking to erlang (http://rvirding.blogspot.com/2009/03/backtracking-in-erlang-...)
Very psyched, just reached out on LinkedIn. Thanks!
Followup: consider a "control" experiment (which, due to ethics cannot be conducted) whereby schools are replaced with "classrooms" of hundreds of students and a single custodian. There is no curriculum, there is no teaching, students sit for several hours a day at desks. They are allowed only to read or write, sit doing nothing, or do anything that looks vaguely like doing homework (though it could be doodling), as long as it's done quietly. Every month their parents are asked to fill out a survey of how they think their children are doing education wise, but there are no consequences attached to any of this.

Now, the big question is how would students fair in terms of education in this experiment relative to existing schooling, especially when correlated by socio-economic and cultural background? I highly suspect that we'd get similar results to today's educational system. Kids with educated and/or affluent parents would tend to acquire some modicum of education, other students would do less well.

The work the OP has done tends to lead to this conclusion which is not anything like an endorsement of the current public educational system.
Because the lawsuit was most likely inspired by this report by the WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870469400457602...
One point to note is that black culture in American is not monolithic. In this article, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/opinion/07kristof.html?_r=... , they mention the success of West Indian blacks.

They pointed out in that articles West Indian born generally grow up with their fathers. I think this is important. Here is some statistics of being fatherless:

15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders

4.6 times more likely to commit suicide

6.6 times more likely to become teenaged mothers

24.3 times more likely to run away

15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders

6.3 times more likely to be in a state-operated institutions

10.8 times more likely to commit rape

6.6 times more likely to drop out of school

15.3 times more likely to end up in prison while a teenage

73% of adolescent murderers come from mother only homes

6.3 times more likely to be in state operated institutions

http://www.fathersunite.org/statistics_on_fatherlessnes.html

70% of Black Americans are raised in a single parent household and if you can combine that with the above statistics, the picture is not pretty.

Yes so my point is if you cut the black culture along different lines you will get a pattern that emerges similar to the Jews and Asians.
This is one of the most wonderfully geeky things I have ever seen. The analogy to golf is exceptionally well-drawn, too! It might be entertaining if you developed the parallel even more, perhaps by adapting some of The Rules of Golf to your project.
Ugh.. wanted to play with it, but after three years, there still isn't a simple way to get Ruby and Gems working nicely with modern Ruby apps on OSX. Searching for ways to update show a variety of hacks, each uglier than the last. Of course, I could always build it from source.. ::sigh::
This was my thinking as well. The overwhelming majority of cases you hear about are broken using old-fashioned police work. Even petitioning ISPs for records seems to be a fairly minor part of the equation.

A pedophile running a hidden TrueCrypt volume and using Tor to trade chid pornography on onion sites is likely to get caught only if they pull a Bradley Manning, that is, saying the wrong thing to the wrong person. Unfortunately, most pedophiles these days that trade in child porn are likely more technologically advanced than the people responsible for tracking them.