skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can be useful. About six or seven years ago I subscribed to a few perl ones, then I created a rule in Gmail to tag them all with a label and skip the inbox. Never heard from them again.

Now, though, if I have a perl question, my first step is just searching my email. After years of aggregating, it's got some solid answers.
Newt Gingrich was the most pro-NASA candidate in the last election.
"The refugee immigration will ultimately boost Europe's tech competitiveness"

I don't think so. Most of the immigrants are uneducated people, with no willingnes of finding a job. They want to go to Germany because that's the country with highest benefits for unemployed. How would we benefit from THAT ?
To save others the trouble, here's the link that introduces the TLA (three-letter acronym), TLA+:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/tla/tl...
It's possible the industry could build some sort of "cross advertiser network API" that would allow proper accounting/selection of ads while remaining on one company's domain (from the perspective of that user's web browser). It would require the cooperation of a lot of parties, many of which (optimizing firms for example) have a vested interest in the way things work now.
Ask HN: What happened to older submissions on HN (only about 500 are visible)?
Since last week I noticed that I can only view about 500 last submissions on HN. From front page pressing "More" at the bottom, right now, the last page I can access is page 17 [1]. The viewable submissions list is growing a little: few days ago the last page I could access was page 14. Few months ago I could easily access page 30 or further (I have never encountered a "last page" where there would be no "More" link).

So, is HN experiencing some technical difficulties, and once they are resolved everything will be back as before? Or this is a permanent thing from now on?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=17
Thank you. The knee-jerk belief that small business is always better is profoundly un-historical.

Most of the greatest inventions of the past 100 years have come from large businesses that had the man-power and capital to invest in significant R&D departments.

Like I said below; AMD and Intel have a duopoly on x86 processors and have for ages. Intel's profit margins waver between 1/4 and 1/3 of revenue. Simultaneously, processors get better and cheaper every single year.
SVG Crowbar might be useful for pulling out the SVG images (unfortunately it's for Chrome only):

http://nytimes.github.io/svg-crowbar/
1 - that transfers all risk from the advertiser to the publisher. Did the advertiser's creative not perform? Bad targeting? It's now the pub's problem.

2 - brand advertising isn't really meant to create clicks, but rather a positive impression of a brand. eg those cute cheerios ads or the xmas polar bear coke ads.
It used to be Expert Sex Change. After some time they realized their folly, and fixed it by hyphenating the domain as well as redirecting from ExpertSexChange to the Experts-Exchange.
Possibly fixed. I've had one incident of an XFS filesystem refuse to mount after it replayed the journal after a power outage. xfs_repair worked but I shouldn't have to piss around in single user mode in 2015.

Kit was a HP DL380p, SmartArray 420i SAS array, CentOS 7 about 3 months ago.

Outage caused by a large UPS explosion that took out 100 machines. No NTFS or ext3/4 trouble at all.
In the case of the 2nd miniproject testing the naive physical-logical clock algorithm, why isn't the simplest counterexample that the logical clock advances twice for each message send/receive, and so if the message send rate is greater than half the physical clock rate, it always skews the logical clock at a rate greater than the physical clock rate?
The Minimum-Wage Fight, Chinese Factories, and the Rise of Robots
Now if we could only apply the same technology to Hacker News comments.
It is downvoted because most European unicorns happen to be from the second highest taxed country in the world. Which accidentally also shut down in the summer.

Complaining about bureaucracy sounds like a more believable theory considering that the Swedish one is pretty streamlined all things considered, but that is a totally separate issue than the sheer amount of taxes paid.
Those 503 million Europeans are spread across 50+ different countries with widely varying laws and customs, and speak dozens of languages. To consider them a single coherent market doesn't make any sense.
Great tutorial, I would love to see this rewritten with the new async / await syntax in python 3.5
1.With “von Neumann style” you are closer to the metal.

2.With "declarative", (e.g. SQL) you're preparing input data -NOT describing an algorithm- for a runtime or a compiler or a server, which in turns will run “von Neumann style” algorithms composed from your declarations.

If you need to optimize the last drop of resource usage and speed you use 1).
تور کیش نیمه دوم شهریور 94در هتل های 3 ستاره کیش-قسمت سوم
Most popular air corridors aren't over oceans. There's a reason that the only route the Concorde regularly ran was from JFK to London or Paris. Anything in South-East Asia is pretty close to land. The great-circle distance means that the shortest path runs over Canada or Greenland for many routes, and so on. And in the abstract it's more desirable to be over land because you have a place to ditch if something goes wrong.

Typical pattern traffic is much slower than 600kt. It's a hazard to have aircraft at 600kt zooming around 747s approaching at 200kt and so on. You can come up with protocols to minimize the risks (eg running patterns at different flight levels and on different runways) but there's only so far you can take it, and there's still an increase in risk, particularly in emergency situations.

When trans-sonic aircraft are operating at low speeds they're operating inefficiently. The longer and slower you're running them, the higher the fuel burn. That translates into higher operating cost and longer flight times. In an ideal world you would want them supersonic as soon as they can possibly get to cruising speed.

You need to be pretty high before supersonic booms stop being a problem. The Concorde could do up to 60k altitude and was still a nuisance. So maybe 75k or 100k feet? Even that might not be enough - booms can travel as far as 100 miles and the difference in air density isn't significant enough to fully dampen this. You might be able to get away with flying lower with an aircraft that was designed to reduce booming.
Erle-Spider, the Ubuntu drone with legs – already 25% funded
I agree it doesn't point to the NSA directly, but I'm interested in how they use the default password as an infection vector. There are theoretically very interesting and sophisticated ways to do that, such is other infected routers on the network identifying source traffic from factory booted routers and initiating the infection at that point, which would have an extremely high chance of succeeding. In that case what would have been discovered is the reproduction method, and possibly not the initial infection method.
XFS is a good choice if you want to build crash resistant applications:
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi14/technical-sessions/...

(check out the slides, especially slide 40)
This doesn't have anything to do with my preferences; frankly I am disgusted by it, but it's a common practice in the US to sign away the rights if you want to get funded by many VCs. So those VCs obviously prefer US as they can't (if "necessary") do the same shady moves in Europe (yet).
It's bizarre that a photographic artist would want a tool that would essentially stiffle creativity (various lightings, lens filters, other artsy effects) ... I don't understand the point they are trying to make.
>certainly nothing that is or will affect all of humanity.

If we're setting the goal post for "furthering the technological front" at "helping all of humanity" then technology is at a standstill and the Internet is a failure. After all, fewer than 50% of the world uses the Internet.
I prefer their logo video to the google one.
How would that protect against an EFI or BIOS backdoor?
A nice theoretical exercise but I slightly disagree with the rationale. In a popular area, an artist could have a different view from others. Perhaps it's the late-morning mist, another person in the view, sun rays at a different time, or maybe a new lens and different settings that lets you view the space in a totally different perspective.

Also taking a picture in a new or unpopular area doesn't make it more worthy than other pictures. Perhaps the place is unappealing and bland.
She was promoted commander in 2285!
(And apocryphaly, even up to admiral in the 24th century!)
What do you think of the Iowa Electronic market:

http://tippie.uiowa.edu/iem/markets/pres16.html

...and their "U.S. Presidential Election Market"?
is there a way to group together conditions?
32 Things You Need to Write a Successful Story on Medium
There are a couple things missing from this article that really need to be fleshed out:

1. You're comparing the unicorns which is like comparing the top of the pyramid without measuring the base. In other words, where are the figures for seed-round startups? What is the amount of capital available to startups at the different stages in the business life cycle? Without those numbers we can't really tell if this is a matter of investors in the EU being less efficient in their investments or if its simply a matter of scale.

2. The other mistake that people I think when making this comparison is in comparing the success of the US market compared to Europe as a whole. First of all, you have to keep in mind that much of the success in the tech sector is highly localized. Now obviously the definition of 'tech sector' can vary wildly but generally when we talk about The Tech Sector we mean Silicon Valley. Almost every other state not named California has tried to replicate Silicon Valley and met with the same lack of success you're speaking about here. The major two exceptions are New York and Texas in that order. The rest of the American States see the same kind of out migration of tech chasing money that the essay sees among foreign tech entrepreneurs.

3. Expanding on the above: on a national level we don't care if the tech sector concentrates in California or Texas or wherever as long as it is in the US. The EU might refer to itself as a union, but are the French willing to invest in a tech sector centralized in Romania for the benefit of a Europe as a whole? Not likely. Silicon Valley, as much as we celebrate the free market aspect of it's success, also benefited from massive federal government spending in that region that played a huge rule in establishing its tech ecosystem back in the 50s and 60s.

edit: I've been editing for grammar.
Ask HN: Open source UX – a good idea?
For some time, I have been thinking of creating a discussion board where people can post interface ideas for open source software. These might be visual mock-ups or interface flows.

UX design (by which I mean, visual design and interaction design) has always had a fractious relationship with open source software (IMO). So why create a discussion board? I think designers work best by solving problems by themselves or with a small group of fellow collaborators. The large, distributed nature of many open source projects (with many developers) simply doesn't work well for UX design.

A discussion board will allow anyone with a mock-up to post their idea and seek feedback from other designers or developers. They can then take on board that feedback or ignore it. Someone else may take that same idea and expand it in another direction (much like forking software).

The important point is that the seed of the interface idea comes from an individual or a small group of collaborators, not a committee or the wide open web. That may sound a bit undemocratic, but when everyone has a say in the design of a user interface, the result is often a UI that pleases no-one.

What do readers think? A good idea? Something you would be interested in participating in?
Most unicorns get so big from network effects so I suspect they play a similar role to language. The social connected graph is a lot less connected across Europe than across the U.S.

Imagine starting a Facebook in Germany versus the U.S. Spreading from state to state is easy because there is a large amount of media and social overlap. If you have a successful startup in California its much easier to spread to Texas, New York, Florida, and Illinois than to spread from Germany to England, France, Italy, and Russia.
If you are thinking of going deeper into content marketing strategies you might be interested in this post I wrote.

It is a list on all you need to know to write beautiful posts that get read on Medium.

It is basically a compacted list of several different sources (all credited and linked inside the post). I hope you all find it useful!
Redirects to medium
A while back I implemented Conway's Game of Life in make... by writing it in a custom high level language and then writing a compiler into GNU Make script:

http://cowlark.com/2013-10-19-insane-make

I also wrote an arbitrary precision maths library, because make doesn't support arithmetic. I got as far as addition, subtraction and multiplication before coming to my senses.
Captain Train has a new name and logo
> there's lots of redundant or incorrect language out there which Carlin talks about at length.

While Carlin -- as comedians often do -- used the manner in which natural language idioms are irregular as the basis for some of his humor, the irregularity of natural language idioms is not incorrectness. It may be aesthetically displeasing to people who have a strong preference for regularity -- a preference which is probably overrepresented in the HN audience -- but that's a different issue.
It is not as if Sweden has more.
Whether it's true or not, I don't think we ask those sort of questions often enough.
I'm not really suggesting, just acknowledging the inevitability of.
I didn't say nor implied that but if you or the ones who down-voted me want to circle-jerk around that then feel free to.
I'm not sure what you mean by mathematical vs classical logic?

By classical, do you mean, intuitionistic? Or something else?
I didn't know about Teamocil, I use Tmuxinator for the same purpose. The latter seems to have more stars on GH, any reason why prefer the former?
Those NFL concussions don't seem so great.
> FWIW IOS backdoors were already being researched by 2003 [...]

I recall there was a Swede (the grue?) on the Pull the Plug IRC network who was cross-compiling and linking in backdoored object code in Cisco IOS images already back in 2000.
Who don't have as many PhDs per capita as Nigerian Americans (tops in the US!).
>But nobody is trying to force anyone to use this

Of course not. But please note that all cameras that do not include the GPS restriction feature to ensure that they are not being used to photograph either copyrighted or protected scenes will now have a protection tax that will be used to cover the litigation and enforcement costs resulting from the misuse of such cameras. Regulation is also currently being purposed to require the sale of cameras which can so easily be abused to be restricted only to licensed individuals. To ensure your best experience with these new anti-terrorism measures, your ownership of existing cameras will be grandfathered in.

You might also be excited to know that we are currently working on updates that will also help protect children by ensuring that no photo of a child can be taken without his or her parents' express approval! More details will be released soon!
> I think a lot of people don't want to admit that most of the web is more a waste of time than anything, and given the option, nobody would pay for most it.

I kind of agree with this but yet so much content that I think is worthless still gets massive amounts of traffic. Like those stupid viral facebook lists that make you click through 30 pages, quizzes or whatever the linkbait flavor of the week is. Yet so many of my friends must find some value in them or they wouldn't keep sharing them.
Reaction-Diffusion by the Gray-Scott Model
Most Smart Home Developers Are Hobbyists, Not Professionals
I use math.stackexchage.com It's an active community with 486,887 questions. http://math.stackexchange.com/questions
Well, just look at these lines of code: https://github.com/s-macke/jor1k/tree/master/js/worker/or1k/...

I tried something like this already. I mean to recompile parts of the code into Javascript. In my test cases the speed benefit was a factor of two or three. However in the real world, it was around a factor of two slower for different reasons.

1. The heuristic to find code chunks, which are good to recompile takes a lot of time and memory.

2. To stay on the safe side I can only recompile from jump to jump like QEMU does. Anything else would mean a much more complicated heuristic and recompilation which would beat the complexity of QEMU.

3. asm.js code runs through an foreign function interface. That means, you have to stay very long in the asm.js styled code that it is worthwhile. I got a drop of a factor of 10 in speed when I try to compile ~20 lines of code into asm.js code instead of normal Javascript code.
I do hope you realize that there is far more to politics than the voting part. By the time anyone even sees a ballot, dozens of meetings have already been conducted, both public and private. Participation in those meetings has a far greater effect than the results of the subsequent vote.

Parliamentary procedures and rules of order are routinely used to prevent proposals from ever getting to a vote.

Don't conflate voting with democracy. It is but one element in a much larger tangle of worms, and it is emphatically not the most important.

If you ever do more in politics than just show up to mark ballots, you may see the retaliation in action. The cloud video services have plenty of examples, mostly from open records activists who do little more than just show up to public places with their cameras.

Protests, complaints, and petitions for redress are also part of democracy. Have you ever walked in to a police station and asked for an official complaint form? Depending on your locale, that may be a very easy way to experience petty retaliation firsthand.
Take that, Bob Vila. Or Tim Allen. Or ... ummm, who is the current "it" guy in DIY home projects? Mike Rowe?
When It Comes to Learning How to Program You Just Have Move Your Fingers
Consider if the components interact multiplicatively, not additively.
Show HN: Add Voice and SMS Functionality to Your Salesforce App
This is changing fast depending on the audience for your content. Some publishers are now seeing 40%+ of their traffic ad blocked. Some countries are seeing 30%+ of total population using ad block. Ad block usage is up 41% year over year...this is going to be a very serious issue very soon for many publishers.

Some of my numbers are from: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/10/study-of-ad-blockin...
I find SO valuable for 'gotcha' types of questions. Update to the iOS9 sdk and now suddenly my build breaks with error-235132. Check SO and find out, yeah there is some flag that now needs to be YES instead of NO.

SO also lets me get by in frameworks and languages without having to know them all super deep. I find it much more useful to spend my cognitive load on algorithmic level or higher architectural level items instead of Spring configuration values or random iOS .plist keys.
> but someone has to be able to fight the war,

Maybe tone down the warmongering and invasions, start less wars and perhaps.....
You do realize your spiel could be used to market any of the conquests of the past centuries - unite under MY banner, and we shall have piece...

Britain is pretty swell, after a thousand years of dominating cultural hegemony. Although some scots may disagree. And some Irish perhaps. Not too many people speak the old tongues.

A typical dynamic in a large polity such as a nation or a corporation is that there will be a single culturally distinguishable leading elite class, and a) this elite will favor it's own (not maliciously, but because they are human and favor familiarity) and b) the people who do not actively recent the ruling elite will try to emulate them. So, in time, if the dominion can remain civil, it will develop an understanding and a common cultural framework.

Talking of civility - historically, britain has been unable to hold to lands that it could not hold under the force of violence. American colonies. India. South Africa.

People love their sovereignty (or, people yearn for political power and use sovereignty as their rallying cry). Anyhow - if the cultural hegemony cannot overwhelm a territory there will be a constant pressure to cede. I think this understanding of history is what drove many of the genocides of the past century - political will to rule, at any cost.

With this view of history uniting the earth under a single government would require either a single monoculture, or a dictatorial rule forcing a cultural homogenization over generations until the dissenting voices have diminished to insignificance.

Perhaps our beloved internet will function as a vehicle of such homogenization - it's not completely impossible.

Note: There was no large war in europe between the napoleonic wars and the first world war. Historically, europe has been quite pieceful in the past without a huge bureaucracy attempting to to formulate everything under it's legalistic framework.

I believe in western concept of human rights, and I do not believe in cultural relativism - oppression is oppression. But, a world government is a concept that is very problematic in our current state in history. I have no idea if this will change.
I had some friends who used college as a placeholder time to work on their entrepreneurship or other endeavors while getting mediocre grades.
UL Testing Results for Batteriser (on Indiegogo) [pdf]
Each of those buildings costs less than $50M per year to maintain.

I, personally, am absolutely for giving NASA a lot more money -- even if it's $50M for plutonium production. But the "it's a drop in the bucket" argument isn't really a viable argument when national budgets are just heaps of drops in a really big bucket.
I wonder when if ever it will be cost effective for a candidate to put many bets in order to manipulate the odds. Idea being when you have reported 75% winning lots of people who would vote against you stay home "cause it's pointless".
For the most part, it is possible to remodel applications to handle stateful things outside of the main program.

Consider a website. An entire website can be modeled as a function that takes headers, URL and request body as parameters and returns headers and body as the response.

You can use the same principle to model almost anything. You take real inputs as inputs and output instructions for imperative side-effect to a minimalist agent of some sort.
The commons is the web itself. This is hacker news, we click links on different domains a hundred times every day. Each of those sites could charge you for all their content but then you'd be broke or nobody would make enough money to keep the lights on.

As for the technological means to mitigate that; they aren't at all feasible yet. So the reality is most people support sites by viewing ads and those that don't view ads aren't supporting them at all. Most people, if forced to pay for certain content, just wouldn't bother because it's not worth it for them. I feel like that whenever I hit a paywall limit from a HN link; I enjoy the content but not that much overall.
I won't comment on the pragmatic side of this. But it is flawed even on the idea level, as it completely disregards time.
And as we all know it "You could not step twice into the same river".
That area of Mexico being the Yucatan coast, it's not known for recent incredible violence or cartel activity. It's pretty quiet since the country and region are pushing the Maya Rivera as a safe tourist destination.