skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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WarGames (1983)! I don't think this has been mentioned yet (?!).

The modem, hacking the phone companies, motivated by curiosity and paying no mind to whether or not one is breaking any rules, military misuse of technology, programs being used to ends not intentioned by its creator, command line, hacking alone, physical infrastucture comtrolled by software.

I mean, it had it all!
The banks. A selected, privileged number of nodes within the system will validate and sign blocks themselves.
He could basically ignore it. Whos going to enforce it? Only threat is impeachment, but I would doubt that will pass unless the president was trying to damage the nation outright.
In that case I'm not sure I get it. Care to explain in more detail?
This movie came out when I was 18 and I very much related to the characters in the story. My friends and I definitely stepped up our "hacker" game after seeing this film. I also bought the soundtrack on CD (that's something you did then) and it was what got me into techno/house music.

Funny side story: I grew up in LA and one of the things we got to do as teenagers was see pre-screenings of movies. This was usually before they were finished and rated, as a way for them to tweak the final product.

Hackers was one of those movies. They didn't change much except that Angelina Jolie unzips her jacket all the way to show her breasts. They cut the scene most likely to get their PG-13 rating, but 20 years later that scene is horribly sexist and a sign of the times.
I'll argue against the green domains on slightly different grounds: the color is being applied as a sort of caution or warning sign, and from a UX perspective green is about the worst possible color for that sort of thing. Green is positive; green means "go," not "caution" or "warning" or "stop."

When I first saw the green domains I thought HN was trying to tell me that these domains were particularly good, as in sources that have yielded a lot of high-karma stories in the past or something. It never occurred to me that it could mean they were new or iffy until I read this thread.

I'd suggest using yellow instead, as (in the US, anyway) yellow has a strong association with caution and warning signs, without the strong "do not proceed" vibe of red.

(And the same logic would probably apply to colors on usernames, come to think of it. Green should be for usernames that HN wants to call out as MVPs for some reason. New accounts could be yellow, to indicate that they don't have a track record yet.)
>6. Ad-exchange receives all the bids and picks the second highest bidder (no idea why it's the second highest)
>7. Ad-exchange then sends this second highest bidder's ad URL back to the waiting javascript running in the users browser, and ad-exchange marks the winning bid so it knows who won/who has to pay at the end of the month.

It's a second-price auction - the highest bidder is picked, but the second-highest price is paid (more or less). The URL thus is from the highest bidder, not the second highest bidder.
This story was just posted a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223735
My first question is this ...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10222963

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10222663

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10222899

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223054

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223160

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223480

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223523

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10223535

... when is Hacker News going to get a "Yes; we know!" button? (-:
Just a nminor nitpick, it says you're using 192.168.1.0/8 but your netmask is 255.255.255.0 which would be /24 in CIDR
I kind of like where webgl is right now. I wouldn't say it didn't make it. Every time I see a website using webgl these days it makes sense, but I rarely if ever think - "this could use some webgl".

So it really depends on what you mean by "will never quite make it". What exactly did you expect to happen after Safari? I'm quite happy webgl isn't everywhere like flash was ("I need a menu with mouseover effect - I know, flash!")
I suspect that this could be an effort to do something like the Financial Services Roundtable.

1) Form an organization

2) get dinosaur market peers to join

3) establish a standard

4) collude on how things get done

5) lobby for regulation around how things get done

6) make it impossible for new entrants to disrupt the new system with technology and alternative business models.

7) profit.
Examples of contemporary Gibbon discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/10xtf2/theor...
> I feel like I've seen more dupes lately as people rush to get a hot story in

Hard to say, of course, but this might be sample bias, not counting a bug we had briefly yesterday. From what we see, the community has been doing a lot more to track down duplicates lately. That's what inspired this new work.
>Are you saying that people who use the chakra abstraction to think about the human body are claiming that they have magical powers? That is not my experience.

"Chakras" are from Indian/Hindu mythology. They are defined as the seven centers of "spritual energy" in the human body.

"Spiritual Energy" is just magic by a different name. If the concept is enlightening and helps with meditation and self-reflection, that's great! It doesn't mean that "Chakras" exist.

There is no scientific support for Chakras.
This is something I have thought about before. Perhaps more useful would be a desktop shell/WM that automatically manages bottling, plugs into PlayOnLinux when it makes sense etc. Building a usability and automated layer over Wine could compete with RiskOS I think.
Google "Lindows". A company tried to do exactly this circa 2001.
What should Facebook's new 'Dislike' button really be called?
" hey look at me ! my biggest achievement in life has been being a classmate to bill gates ! Notice me senpai ! Notice me"
HP to cut some 30,000 employees: What would Dave and Bill do? Probably not this
Crap, time to update https://github.com/voltagex/hackernews-paywalltag
> They looked up to me for leadership and that also meant defining what was and what was not allowed. Of course, this is easy when somebody makes a remark that couldn’t pass or does wildly inappropriate acts such as coming in late and/or leaving very early. The hard part was when this coming late and going early was done for a good reason, such as a sick spouse or child.

How is this the hard part? They have a valid excuse. If they work remotely or get their work done, it's not a problem.
If these valuations are based on funding rounds, then aren't they the direct consequence of VC funding and VC math? If this is the case, then More VCs should equal More Unicorns, because they are the one's creating them.

If EU vs US VC funding is about 1:8, then the ratio correlates with the output of unicorns. If is even less, then that would imply EU actually may be outperforming the US in unicorn output per VC head. As it turns out, the EU numbers are booming this year, so it's tough to compare, but the numbers do seem to back this somewhat [0] [1].

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[0] http://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/04/27/european-vc-investme...

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research-venture-capital-q1-2015
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British tool tells if you've been spied on by NSA, GCHQ
It makes sense what Sa.... (cough) Szabo says in that article... If the big guys really want to build a true "Internet of Money/Assets" two basic things will be required:

1. A common standard

2. Global openness

Surely they can build their own walled garden, but I think they're missing the point with this. With a walled garden you're just taking 1/100000 of the HUGE pie, improving current financial processes but not coming up with new radical innovations. A simple payment/monetisation standard embedded in objects (IoT) would be an example of a bigger piece of pie.

IMO they should just push for an open standard and use private ledger contracts on top of Ethereum, but I doubt they'll go this way. Most likely they'll just fork and run with it.
How is this really different than the many other wp-to-s3 plugins out there?
This not a reasonable conclusion based on the available data.

There was no comparison to a similarly depressed or anxious group who were not prescribed medication.

Also, due to the "criminalization of mental illness," many children/adolescents come to the attention of the mental health system due to violent behavior, so there is a strong selection bias for those who are aggressive to enter treatment vs those who suffer in silence. Further, depression/anxiety are also risk factors for drug/alcohol use, which are well established as contributors to violence, and those don't appear to be controlled for with a comparison group either.

It's possible (though in my view unlikely) that SSRIs could meaningfully increase the risk of violence, but this is not a study that can make that conclusion.

Source: I'm an MD, board certified in general, child, and forensic psychiatry who works with mentally ill offenders.
"The second way to track you, after the Like button."
23 (the German original, not the similarily-named holkywood turky!) is great. Fwiw I love Hackers too, but they are so different, it's hard to compare them.

I also like "Hackers 2"/"Takedown" despite the various controversies (the book being a rip off of another book, the script being a rip off, both book and script being factually inaccurate etc).

Still now that Mitnicks own autobiography is out, while the movie might not be a kind treatment of him, or his friends. I still think it's quite a good hacker film, with some traces of accurancy (think "inspired by true events" rather than "based on").

Btw, the name "Hackers 2" was just an attempt at marketing - the two films have nothing to do with each other.
I do not think most would consider 5 or 6% is "much higher" or that if 90% is "extremely low" that 84% is not also "extremely low".

Particularly when you take variance and margin of error into account.

With such a tight range, I would wager one could only definitely claim they were probably approximately within a percent or two at best.
They don't need it, but it's much easier to build that team somewhere with that environment.
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I believe that the Marpa parser may be what you're looking for. A C library with the most refined API in Perl5, improvements are in the works to make it easier to produce interfaces to the library in other languages.

https://jeffreykegler.github.io/Marpa-web-site/
http://savage.net.au/Marpa.html
> Robert Redford, Sydney Poitier, River Phoenix, James Earl Jones, Dan Aykroyd

Don't forget Ben Kingsley, another Oscar winner.
How about just locking the threads started for the same topic after it has been posted and then merging to the 1st one posted?
> Today we know that a large population of cortical neurons are “silent.”

> This energy budget puts limits on how much of the cortex can be engaged at once

I passed over it during my first read through as well. But at certain parts the author did state explicitly that these were cortical neurons.
I stand corrected on Boston! I'm in SF so maybe I'm showing my lack of awareness a bit here. I'll definitely be paying more attention to Boston. Thanks for the correction.
Whoa, cool.

Reminds me a bit of a video codec technique to exaggerate the motion frames and compression ala "datamoshing".

Keyframes are removed which leaves only information from the previous frame to be updated by motion frames. Than update/motion frames are reiterated sequentially which creates an effect that just further saturates the previous frame and looks like a fluid melting effect.

in use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvqakws0CeU

how to via ffpmeg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8
Agreed, see http://contrastrebellion.com/ . We can't all be on the highest contrast screens and have perfect eyesight. The font should be black.
Physical layer protection has mostly gone out of favor due to its inefficiencies. Resiliency is handled well by higher layers (IP/MPLS). Still understanding shared risk at the physical layer is important to the configuration of protection schemes at those higher layers.
This requires an older version of a Cisco router that will accept un-signed firmware. Newer IOS versions will only load Cisco signed code.
Here's a way to combat it: let the posting user select whether the post is likeable, or dislikeable. (But not both)

Eg, the status "my dog is awesome" is likeable-only (the default), and "my dog died" could be set to dislikeable-only.
I definitely like that wording better. It probably fits well with their "positivity" reasoning for not having a dislike button in the past, to boot.
As an HN user, I've never thought of it as a warning sign. And "green" can of course mean "new" as well as "go".

The color choice is moot, though, because green usernames have been around for so long that we're not likely to change them.

If people really don't like the green sites, we're happy to plunge them back under the moderator-only covers. But maybe let's try them for a while? In practice I think they're pretty cool.
Can this be built into HN? If not, why not?
I tried an SMC reset today, and it changed nothing. It still just dies right around 20%. (At least, I think I reset the SMC. There wasn't any obvious feedback confirming that I had done so.)
Recently finished personal project (Dog Food price comparison + ratings website) and working on SEO and PPC: http://www.best-cheap-dog-food.com/

Working on a startup demo using React Native (still learning Node+React and native mobile).
> does wildly inappropriate acts such as coming in late and/or leaving very early

Man, am I glad I do not work on your team. If you judge coming in late or going early as inappropriate, as opposed to measuring actual results, then you have failed as a leader already. Sorry.
Interesting project, it's almost like they searched through the WineHQ bug tracker for unmerged fixes and made a huge branch with all of them. There are certainly a lot of fixes that never make it to mainline Wine. The handful I've been watching have gone nearly 5 years without any meaningful progress past the initial patch. Occasionally someone will comment that the issue still affects them. I'm not sure what the solution is, it's an unpaid project.
I've been in meetings all day today, but I think I got at least four explicitly yesterday (quicksort, qr, matrix decomposition, simplex), not to mention all the implicit ones we all use everyday.
That's pretty minor, how about a mobile style sheet?
Agreed. I don't even consider coming in late and leaving early inappropriate at all. The office is there to help you get your work done and communicate with others on the team. If you are able to accomplish that without being in the office 9-5 then that shouldn't be a problem to anyone.
I realize lisp is popular here on hn, but it's absurd to compare it to fortran in terms of influence on the field of numerical computation.
Awesome and very informative! Thanks for the explanation. I'm starting to get a better grip on this. I found a few posts online explaining how to do this with PHP and GD. In each of those instances, do you create a unique image for each user or each email?
To build on this and a number of the other comments in here:

There are two general types of sonar. Active, and Passive. Passive sonar involves the process of listening for signals, categorizing their type and origin, and determining their range and bearing. This is a difficult task, though the world's most sophisticated navies can perform this well. It is the preferred method of detecting other submarines (or for submarines to detect other vessels) because it does not give away the location of itself.

Passive of course, has limitations. Variations in water conditions and temperatures, silencing techniques used in adversary craft, a limitations of one's own equipment can make passive difficult, if not impossible in some conditions. And even then, it is a best guess at detection. Passive sonar will give you a pretty close approximation under good conditions and a "well, he's out there" in the worse. (In the most high-tech vessels, it's a bit better than this, but I think I have the gist)

Active on the other hand, is precise. Very precise. It also means, the gig is up, because the emitting craft is heard by everyone, extremely clearly. An active ping that gives a good return can give you precise range and bearing, and in some cases, velocity. It's of limited range, so typically submarines will hunt with passive and use active in the closing stages of an engagement.

Typically when I read about active sonar harming wildlife, it's in reference to the large active arrays carried by destroyers and submarines. Active is used by sonobouys, navigation equipment, and torpedoes as well, but these are typically lower power output.

The active array on a warship however, is generally massive, especially on a modern attack sub. They're powerful, and will produce pings against objects at thousands of yards. (I've even read that some British subs, such as the Trafalgar class, can bounce a signal off the bottom of the seabed, and get a return on a distance object from the reflected bounce.)

These massive arrays are important, because if you suspect an adversary has been tracking you passively, but you can't find them, then active scan can save you by alerting you to where they are. Tactically, it is a last ditch option, or the closing move in an engagement, and it's not unusual to see a safety cover over the switch to an active array. But it does have a purpose, and the Navy, justifiably so, does need to train with it.

But it does come with a cost, and it won't take long for one to search google for images of whale and dolphins with their ears literally blown to shreds because of an active scan.

I sympathize with both sides on this one, and I'm glad a settlement was reached that hopefully produces a good compromise.
A submission requires a title and URL. It would be nice if we could paste in the URL and see a green checkmark if the URL is not an invalid dupe or a red x if the URL is an invalid dupe. Then we don't have to copy and paste (and sometimes reformat) the title if the submission is an invalid dupe.
Do you know Vega[1]? I'm also a fan of declarative frameworks, and I was amazed by how easy it is to make a custom chart or map.

[1] https://trifacta.github.io/vega/
I do not care for the implicit commodification of human experience that flows from this proposal.
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 for discussion.
Tracking fixes as .patch files in a git repository is.... an interesting way to go about things.
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I would argue against green usernames as well. I think it appears to be a stronger signal of quality than it is (like karma, which if it works should be enough.) Hacker News needs fewer such filters, or at the very least more intelligent ones. If noob accounts act out, downvote and correct them, and if they continue, someone will ban them.
This is a tangent but, as a father I've always felt the sick child/spouse excuses were dumb in the same way that smokers were allowed to take extra 15 minute breaks at one of my jobs. Shouldn't the presence or absence of a family be irrelevant to your employment rules?
See also: http://www.ironicsans.com/owmyeyes/

Although with proper line spacing and font size and a lowered contrast the effect is diminished. People tend to lower the contrast too much or don't set a comfortable line spacing.

The problem?

Most people don't read their own site often enough.
That's a pretty big difference. However, before ascribing it all or mostly to race, it would really be necessary to look at the individual cases.

In general, murders where it is a lower class person murdering an upper class person in furtherance of a robbery or some such draw more vigorous prosecution and are more likely to get a death penalty than murders where it is some lower class person killing some other lower class person.

Since blacks have disproportionately high representation in the lower classes, and whites disproportionately high representation in the upper classes, black murderer/white victim is disproportionately represented among the death penalty attracting lower class on upper class murders.
Pagerank is the first thing that comes to mind (and there was a big survey article about it in the latest SIAM Review https://www.siam.org/journals/sirev.php)
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I'm working with a friend on a PHP framework, specifically helping with the docs: https://github.com/spiral

The coolest thing about it is IDE autocompletion of db fields. Other cool stuff is UML generation for Mongo/RDBS, and a storage abstraction for s3, ftp, etc so switching providers is just a config change.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10179140
When the Lisp in Make post hit the front page of HN earlier today, I was astonished.
This has topped that experience of WTF/disbelief, which I thought previously impossible :D
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It's actually supposed to be a pun -- while "green" often refers to the color, it also can mean "young or unripe" (fruit) or "inexperienced, naive, or gullible" (person), such as in the phrase, "a green recruit fresh from college".

I think it's meant more for regulars -- a gentle reminder to be nice in the comments because green users might not be as familiar with the norms -- but I can see how the color choice might be confusing for new users.
Honestly, this article really addressed some of the roadblocks I had in starting my own projects. Definitely going to keep this handy.
Investing in startups is irrational, just like investing into the housing market in 2005 was. Or like investing in any bubble, really.

When companies get funding of millions without actually having anything, then it’s a bubble that will burst.
Probably the biggest surprise I've seen in my career as a team lead is how often people ostensibly work with the team, but actually want to see the team fail. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but it actually happens quite often.

Here are two quick examples where I see this happen often. Let's say you're a vendor deploying software at an organization, and one or more people that work at your client organization originally wanted to write their own solution for this software, and their bosses overrode their wishes, and now they're forced to help implement your software. You need to use those disenfranchised IT people as part of your team to do the implementation, but they'd like to see the project fail, because they told their manager they could do it better themselves. Other variations of this occur whenever someone doesn't get their way, and is forced to go implement things a different way -- now any delays that happen may demonstrate their sage wisdom in not wanting to do it this way.

I've also seen variations on this same theme where a company is working on a product that does what we're implementing, but it's not ready yet. Then a year down the road, when we're doing the final rollout, their product is almost ready, so now they'd like to see us fail. And suddenly the alliance falls apart. Over the last 30 years working in IT, I've seen something like 20-30 variations on this theme.

Lots of times you need to work with people who really want to see your project fail. This came as a huge surprise to me, but I think any senior person should be careful and on the lookout. It's often a significant project risk, and almost always overlooked.
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What is the difference between new-hn.algolia.com/?experimental, and just regular hn.algolia.com ?
Uber is finally in Las Vegas
I have been told by people that I'm a "natural leader", perhaps not to the extent of the author. But I am just uninterested in all this stuff, I'd have to be paid double or something.