skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FSU link you posted and the Suckers link above are some of the best illustrations of why I considered the Boston hardcore scene to be a collection of human garbage, ca. 1995-2005.

Prior to '95, it was the skinheads who would show up and ruin punk shows, often employed as bouncers by the club. Then their girlfriends all went rockabilly and they gave way to waves and waves of hahdcaw meatheads. The uniform changed, the music changed, but the fact that I was regularly catching punches, elbows, and kicks by people who rolled 10+ deep at all times did not change at all.

I especially love the casual tone in which these morons can reflect on the past and say stuff like “You gotta understand, it was mayhem back then,” Wilson says. “There was 30 of us, and somehow, we’d always find 30 guys to fuck with.”

Somehow.
Doesn't seem to be any mention of completion support.
I use argparse with argcomplete and get nice completion.
I was a Compuserve subscriber for a long time starting sometime in the early eighties. Not sure exactly when I stopped using it entirely. I used it for various things and I was reasonably active in the shareware scene for a time which used CIS as their main member discussion forum. As I recall, CIS was also my gateway to Internet email for a time before I got my own email through my BBS (which became an ISP like other commercial BBSs at the time).
Yes! I have been trying for ages to convince people that the "normal" "sober" wakeful and attentive mental state is not the ultimate ledger of human perception. Most people immediately discard this thought, their minds responding to a strawman argument which equates sobriety with intoxication.

Meditation helps me deal with ADD and depression and increases my executive functioning immensely. I think it should be taught in schools to children-- the mere discipline meditation grants you is worth passing on.
That's essentially what Let's Encrypt aims to be: https://letsencrypt.org/
`const` has this caveat that it's only about assignment bindings and not about values.

Imagine a piece of code that has `const x = 2` that you later refactor to `const x = [2]`. The complexity is, you now have to contend with the `[2]` being a mutable value where `2` wasn't, and `const` sorta pretends to keep you safe but doesn't.

If these semantics aren't instantly obvious to you, then that's emblematic of a serious gap in your understanding of programming. I say this not with the intent of shaming, but to recommend that you (and the very many other people with the same lapse) invest some time into developing intuition about reference semantics. The best way IMO is to get initmately familiar with a language that has first class pointers or otherwise explicit indirection. Learn C, get good at C, write something big in C. Focus on the pointer semantics and you'll come out a significantly better programmer in languages where pointers are slightly less immediately visible.

Of course if you're making this recommendation because you work with other people who have a lapse in their understanding of references I can understand that. I would encourage you, however, to try to fix the problem rather than work around it by stunting the language. After all, it's an issue that will crop up everywhere, not just the semantics of `const'.
Without patents the new pharmaceutical industry would collapse and complicated new drugs we might otherwise benefit from would be lost.

But computer software and tech startups would be much better off since patents are purely harmful to software innovation.

Which points to one obvious reform.
No offense, but why do you think you can come up with a solution after thinking about a problem for maybe 10 seconds, when tons of smart people are working on this problem and can't come up with a great solution?

The problem with fertilizer run off is that it penetrates the ground, travels very slowly, and leeches into waterways. Once the fertilizer and contaminants are in the soil, they move very slowly. Like a meter or two per year. So, right now, we are seeing fertilizer and contaminant runoff entering streams, because a farmer in the 1970s fertilized a field that was 50 meters away from a river. I don't think we have a time machine available to go back and tell them to not fertilize their fields, which is basically the only way your solution would work.

The other alternative is to wait it out, but the coral reefs will be gone by then, because they will have been devoured by the sea stars.
Ask HN: How to promote and open source IoT Platform?
I’ve created an open source IoT platform called Thriot that runs on Windows/Linux and has quite flexible architecture to be able to run on a small Linux box and even in highly-scalable cloud environment. The different storage platforms (mainly for telemetry data) are handled by plugins.

I’ve presented it at some meetups in Budapest (Hungary – Europe) but it didn’t provide traction.

The vision behind this stuff is to provide an open source IoT platform that anybody can pick, setup and configure for their needs to create an IoT solution more easily and faster.

The question is that where and how should I advertise this platform to get users or even contributors? What features/documentation elements are missing or hard to understand?

Thriot runs on the cross-platform ASP.NET 5 engine (currently in beta) based on Microsoft .NET/Mono. I personally deal only with the software I'm not a hardware guy.

Source code: https://github.com/kpocza/thriot/
Documentation: http://portal.thriot.io/
Demo environment: http://central.thriot.io/
I'll take our more expensive health care over any other system any day of the week.

You pay almost twice as much per capita compared with Canada. Does it really all go toward better general care and longer lifespans? I don't have link handy, but my understanding is that a huge amount of it goes to the bureaucracy associated with competitive for-profit insurance (including bailouts and so-on), not to mention crisis treatment for those who have avoided proactive care for fear of a big bill or being prescribed unnecessary and expensive drugs.

I'm not necessary dismissing your use of cancer and heart disease as proxies for care quality (dubious though that is), more just asking if you really think that that small gain is where the gigantic premium in US health care cost goes.
The way I've always put it: Diablo 2 was a better game, but Diablo 1 was a better experience.
How to navigate safety concerns about housing strangers?

You would need to work hard on this piece and related social questions to make something like this at all viable. Refugees from a different culture, possibly suffering post traumatic stress, are a population likely to be both vulnerable and potentially dangerous. Furthermore, simply being from a very different cultural background can significantly promote general misunderstanding.
Netflix/Amazon Instant/iTunes is not making as much money as it could in a market full of perfect angels, too.
National Geographic put a GPS tracker inside a fake ivory
As a matter of fact, I do think that holding a copyright (are you OK with 'holding'?) is a form of ownership in the usual sense of the word. A copyright holder can sell her copyright to someone else and can exclude others from using the copyrighted material. These are the two primary criteria that are commonly understood (among lawyers, at least) to pick out ownership relations. What other criteria are there for a relationship to qualify as an ownership relationship?

It can't just be that a copyright is intangible, because there are a lot of intangible things one can one: money, shares of stock, debt...
The largest is a pretty big update to V8, it was one of the biggest features of iojs.
So... pretty much this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEH4ahCCrJo, right? ;)
You can also just Google it: https://www.google.com/#q=ip
Argentina had a precursor to Popcorn time called Cuevana. They showed up in 2010 I think and it was word-of-mouth widespread. I was told about it in a bar by an adjacent table.

From it, you could get episodes that had been aired hours before, with subtitles, with online streaming. It spread like wildfire because it was orders of magnitude easier than going to Pirate Bay(which is a terrible experience).

I dont know how pop popcorn time actually is in Argentina itself since none of my friends use it, and installing the app was a bad experience for me and my gf: nevertheless a famous phone carrier published a 4G connection ad saying : "eat popcorn in 4G".
True. It's easy to slip, and it only takes one time. From my limited reading, DPR slipped often. But his case doesn't mean individuals can't obscure themselves. Look at Satoshi (Bitcoin). We don't even know 100% for sure if Satoshi is a group or individual.
The fact that you can redefine a function gives me a terribly unsettled feeling, probably because I remember the assembly language days when we were told not to write self-modifying code, as it's not re-entrant. (If JS were ever in a concurrent environment, would re-defining functions lead to problems?)
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The K-129 was diesel-powered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-129_(1960)

The missiles were nuclear-tipped, though.

More reading: http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-129_(1960)
Feel free to ask us questions, we are interested in thoughts/feedback from the community!

The video that goes with the original article is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDmoqjNQAu8 (full disclosure: I work on this project)
If you're building isomorphic code for the browser using webpack, you can quite happily chunk certain modules into separate bundles which will be loaded asynchronously when needed. It's pretty awesome.
The most difficult task of discovering these charades is openmindedness.

Imagine, after all of the press releases and discussion around manganese nodule harvesting, saying Howard Hughes wasn't interested in mining manganese nodules at all, but sunken Russian ships. You'd be labeled as crazy. First off, people would be asking where the heck you got the idea that something along the lines of manganese nodules could actually be a cover story for the CIA. Then, you'd be slammed for saying things counter to the mainstream narrative. Finally, if you were somehow gaining a lot of traction (but how could you! who even cares about recovering sunken Russian ships) you might get a visit asking for your silence.
Do you have an RSS feed? I understand why collecting email addresses is more attractive for providers of newsletter services like this, and it's true that people with RSS readers are a niche audience compared to people who will read emails, but from an RSS-user's perspective, I find email newsletters much less convenient, and end up unsubscribing from nearly all of them.

Edit: But good job on the curation! I didn't mean to sound so negative, I bring this up because I want to subscribe.
The documentation says that you get 30 seconds warning before your VM is forcibly terminated. Does anyone know if that's enough time to spin up a new instance to take over from the one being preempted? I haven't messed with GCE much, so I don't know what the typical startup latency is.
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> Neurological changes?

Yes, see: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to...
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You are also turning down the uncountable amount of economic growth that would be stimulated by the relaxation of copyright and especially patent laws in the software industry.

I'd take that regardless of whether it comes with free access to movies, music and TV shows.

edit: I think it's debatable how much impact it would have of software developer salaries. The only way I see it causing a drop in salaries is if it causes a reduced demand for developers by increasing software development efficiency.
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Back in the 1980's I had a TRS-80 color computer which was running a Unix-clone operating system called OS-9, this was multi-tasking and multi-user so I could log into my Coco with a DEC Correspondent printing terminal.

I wrote a FORTH implementation for the 6809 in about 3k lines of assembly code which included the language plus the 'standard library'. Instead of the 'standard' Forth I/O, there was an interface to Unix-style file-handle based I/O. It used subroutine threading so that FORTH compiled directly to 6809 code and the part that did dynamic dispatch used self-modifying code to shave off a few cycles.

FORTH is an interesting part of the story about why LISP didn't take off on 1980's microcomputers, partly because if you wanted a LISP on an 8-bit micro, you could get much of the way there with FORTH in a footprint even smaller than BASIC.
I agree on function declarations even though I avoid hoisting in other situations. I don't see any serious downsides to using function declarations (unless within a function, perhaps), and I find it easier to read, especially in ES6: `export function diameter` vs. `export const diameter = ...`.
> So with this library we have an append only log of events onto which we persist the events as we receive them

You could also use any member of the CouchDB family, such as PouchDB for the browser (even as a lightweight desktop solution), or any member for the mobile [0] [1] [2]

[0] https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-net

[1] https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-android

[2] https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios

What could be really interesting is another member as a library; I don't think there exists any, but kafkalite could be the beginning of something...
Oh, I see. I just need to learn more. The problem is I just don't know JS (or other langs for that matter).

http://YouDontKnowJS.com
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In what sense (taking my edit into account) is it debatable that today's copyright law gives creators a robust set of rights to control the copying of their works? (Perhaps our disagreement is over our use of the word 'right'? I had meant it only in the concrete legal sense, and in that sense I don't think there is much to debate. Though if one uses the word in the broader moral sense, I agree that the proposition is very debatable.)
Why didn't you join up with ARA or some other Antifa?
in fact, to my surprise, I've just tested our app (v0.10.x in production) on v4.0.0 and all our unit tests pass, the server works...

I'm amazed. A single module had to be bumped (Elasticsearch@8) while we directly rely on 50+ third party modules... Our npm-shrinkwrap is 2600 lines long.

That's not really a sign of instability to me, but rather great work
Re subtitles - do you have to rely on the ones that come with the stream, or can you use .srt files that you downloaded from somewhere?
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It does, and feeds into the same stats database. Unfortunately I can't seem to get to caffeine.acm. I'm unsure how that works these days, since a lot of things were redesigned after I left (including retiring AFS).

When I left in 2011, there was a card reader and a touch screen, so you swiped your card, and then selected your choice on the screen. I think it may have also had a random button at one time or another. The intention was to eventually wire up the physical buttons once again to work closer to a regular soda machine.

For a while, it was wired up to twitter: https://twitter.com/acmsoda

We did have some special "admin" cards for correcting misvends, typically someone's library card or something similar.
Ask HN: Want to start a small hardware company.  What are some good resources?
Whenever I develop a new software idea, it's fairly easy for me to manage the implementation of the idea myself (hosting, servers, etc.) There's not a lot required to get the idea (or at least a functional prototype) off the ground.

However, I now have an idea for a hardware product — something that is small, cheap, and electronic. The intended audience of the product would be brick & mortar stores. But I have no idea how to begin this task; as in, I don't even know which search terms to use.

Essentially, I need to know how to find:

* Who can manufacture my product? Each item should cost no more than $30 or so to produce. There's no new technology here — just a combination of existing technology. I know China manufactures a lot of electronic goods, but how do I reach one of their manufacturing companies? How do I handle the language barrier? And as someone completely new to this kind of endeavor, how can I make sure I won't get scammed?
* What legal knowledge do I need to obtain? What information should I keep track of for taxes (in the U.S.)? For such a small "company" (if you can even call it that), should I try to handle the finances myself or hire someone who knows what they're doing?
* Marketing. How should I go about marketing my product? It's not something the average person would be, so I think online advertising would be a wasted effort. Cold emails to the B&M stores? Visits in person? Phone calls?

Books, websites, online courses — anything related to hardware entrepreneurship would be very useful to me. Thanks!
I entirely agree, it's really amazing to me, especially the eulogy's reflection on the Cold War, how the conflict was personalized, and how mutual respect for service people is rendered. I can totally see how this could have been constructed in case news of the burial leaked to calm international outcry, but nevertheless I feel a profound respect for the ceremony.

"And so as we return their mortal remains to the deep, we do so in a way that we hope would have had meaning to them and clothed with a representative portion of the ship on which they served and perished."
Does anyone have any examples on what the total cost would be per person. I've mostly seen 12-18k per person but that obviously wouldn't fly in San Francisco or Boston.

I recently drove through Kansas and stopped in Quinter, population 955. The per capita income is $15,588 so around $15m for just income not including health insurance/etc. How do we go about justifying basic income for a city this size whose primary export is corn.

I'm a huge basic income fan and would like to contribute to the conversation I just don't know where to start.
For my headless Pis, I attach a BT TTL serial port to the rx/tx pins. They run about $15 or less. This lets me pair to the serial port from my laptop, watch it boot the kernel, login and do whatever cli commands I need. I can also use BlueTerm on my android phone to do the same thing (though make sure you get the hacker keyboard if you go this route).

Here's pretty much the article I followed, though I bumped my console up to 115200. http://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/a-cheap-bluetooth-serial...
It's funny, I used to be a heavy Google Reader, and then Feedly user. But eventually I switched over to newsletters for "push" news discovery. I think in some ways, an inbox is an appropriate way to consume news (and seems to almost always come with a degree of curation and digging out the signal from the noise).
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> As for no recommend approach - that's deliberate. I don't think most people working on Node want a Rails equivalent

This is a useful way to understand what Node is. Node's core API is for building any sort of network service: A DNS server, an SMTP server, HTTP server, socket listener, etc. and so it applies to a wide and varied set of problems. Rails is for building a very specific type of database-backed web application.
> happiness is kinda pointless and ephemeral

Ephemeral? Yes.

Pointless? No: If you are happier, you'll make people around you happier. If everybody tries to achieve that, we'll have a much saner society. Thus, we should take it as our responsibility to achieve a good level of happiness as often as possible (obviously not by making others pay for it).
Wow he looks different. Like a cross between Colin Mochrie and Kevin Spacey.
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Years ago, I took a college class on Homelessness and Public Policy and I am currently homeless.

A high percentage of homeless people have either serious medical or mental health problems. Many of them (not I) self medicate with alcohol and other drugs, sometimes in preference to the doctor prescribed drugs they are supposed to be on and often with good reason -- I am perfectly okay with them preferring to take drugs with side effects they prefer. But the reality is that many of them are just not stable or healthy and they are potentially dangerous and potentially vulnerable. Tossing them in with a total stranger for a free night's stay has all kinds of disaster written all over it.

Homeless individuals are typically people with serious personal problems for which there are no quick fixes. There are many things that can help reduce homelessness. Most of them will not be directed at "helping the homeless" per se. Working on making sure there is sufficient affordable housing is one. Of course, that doesn't feel heroic, but the really good solutions usually do not involve heroics. People looking for heroics are usually looking for an ego boost more than a real solution. It rarely leads to good solutions.
I am not big into videos, but muscially I really miss being able to choose cd, stick it in a player and play. Now I have to boot the computer up , open up the music player, find the tracks, and play. 10 seconds versus a few minutes.

Likewise I used to grab a cd or tape for my walkman before leaving the house. Now it takes at least 5 minutes (probably more) to transfer files to an mp3 player though admitedly they can hold way more.

The only place I see this as a win is with the kindle where book sizes are so small, I can store way more than I am likely to read.
That's just about our median time to "create to ssh". I wouldn't encourage betting on being able to spin up a replacement when you're getting shot: that's precisely when we might be running out of capacity!

If you're looking to checkpoint and save state though, you can mount your persistent disks separately and store whatever you need. You can also start your shot VM back up later when capacity is available again.
It wasn't a job for ARA (Anti-Racist Action, for those playing along at home). The hardcore gangs, as well as the skinheads, were by and large either anti-racist (e.g. SHARP skins) or apolitical (e.g. they just like to fight).

And more broadly, I didn't want to fight these groups' existence, or even their presence. I just wanted to come home from shows without chipped teeth, you know?
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I think you're being a bit unfair in this case. It's something he found interesting while doing research for a different piece and he decided to share. More biographical details on the author of the original piece (and even tracking him down for an interview) might have provided more color and context but you can't really do deep research for every 1,000 word article you publish.

It's a tradeoff and the fact that the tradeoff is so often made in favor of shallow and quick these days doesn't change the fact that most writers can't spend days making phone calls and visiting libraries for every piece they write.
C&C was already done: http://www.adityaravishankar.com/projects/games/command-and-...
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We did use it for various mechmania sessions as the game communication port. During my time, we also had a running joke that in our "spare time", we would implement a telnet server so you could do maintenance to the soda machine.

Did the soda machine ever use it for anything at all? I never did find a conclusive answer to that.
I don't really get the point of getting the user agent with this technique. How useful is it? It's not really fingerprinting. You can't identify a computer uniquely. Pretty much all iphones have the same user agent.