skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know I shouldn't bite, but fuck it.

> Like the part where I have to spend hundreds of dollars to see a doctor for something silly? Most of the time I go to the doctor, he doesn't tell me anything any nurse couldn't (and it's probably something I knew myself, walking in). So costs go up. That's all government.

a) if it's something 'you already know yourself', why are you going to see a doctor?

I've been to see a doctor (apart from return visits for a followup, or health certificates for my visa/work permit) a total of twice, in the last 10 years I'd say. Once I sliced my finger open (and it had to be cauterised) the other I had a weird allergic reaction to something and developed a rash. In that time I've had literally hundreds of cold's, the flu 3 times (in one year!) and plenty of small cuts bruises etc.

Why didn't I go to the doctor for all of those? Because I don't need a doctor to tell me "drink fluids|take over-the-counter medicine|put a band-aid on it|keep warm" for basic health care. If you are visiting the doctor every time you have a cold or flu, maybe you need to stop complaining about your government being inefficient and start taking some personal responsibility.

b) just because it costs 'hundreds of dollars' in America doesn't mean it has to. It's not a coincidence that your government is known around the world as being pretty ridiculous when it comes to getting shit done. Australia has universal health care, and there was recently a huge issue when the then-newly-elected government tried to introduce a $7 co-payment for each visit to a doctor.

> How many of them are due to government regulations?

American government regulations. Just because you have crazy laws, doesn't mean the rest of the world does.
“Slight misbehavior is an essential ingredient of creative thinking”
How do you mean meaningless? What do you do with a "good" IM app, if your loved ones aren't using it? The most of the relatives and friends already have WhatsApp installed and are using it. Can't contact them with Telegram, IRC, HipChat, Viber, Skype, etc.
Bungie's world of Destiny, from concept to production [video]
I'm curious if the folk who got scammed w/the e-ticket sales could have waited until the funds are literally in their bank account before they emailed them the tickets. Surely, it is a helluva lot easier to reverse some Venmo balance than it is for Venmo to pull money out of your bank account, so that they can refund a scammer.

I've never touched Venmo and now after this, never will touch Venmo and will make sure everyone who suggests it, read this prior to using it.
There is also an app from the ublock guy but it costs about 4$/€.
https://www.purify-app.com/
Silicon Valley egos at their finest: "Use our product so we can make billions of dollars, but fuck you otherwise." I use venmo with friends because of their network effect and it's convenient, but it sounds like internally they're a pretty shitty company to deal with.
> I am talking about threads the programming model

If parallelism is off the table I would be surprised by any disagreement.I doubt any one finds control inverted style of programming more pleasurable (I.e. Callbacks) than code that looks synchronous but executed async. One thing that does require watching out for is that there are no blocking calls. Green threads, coroutines, fibres seem so much nicer as a programming abstraction. Is this view even contentious?

This does not address parallelism though. These are about exchanging control between stacks of execution, only one such stack is active in an unit. There could be multiple such units though and rub lies in should they synchronize by messages (less buggy) or shared mutable state (at times faster if serialization is expensive. Think Python).

A model that I like is different units of execution ( threads) in a common address space, each hosting coroutines or their ilk with the units sync'ing exclusively by message passing but without the need of serialization because they live in a common address space.
Well, just writing "BOMB" on a card board, and boarding a plane with it, would be enough to get you arrested in the USA; we've seen examples close enough.
Why not give Firefox a try then?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
The paper itself (linked in The Guardian and freely accessible online, to everyone's credit)

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00049182.2015.10...
See also "Peace" by Marco Arment which uses data from Ghostery (and shutup.css... removing comments from sites like HN) https://peace.land/
Apple has less than 20% market share in the mobile and table business, no anti trust danger there.
I agree that this potential exists. A friend and I are building/operating a service aimed at facilitating this more social, casual, and original form of "ride sharing" based out of Vancouver, BC. It's called HitchPlanet (https://www.hitchplanet.com).
While you're right that the youtube issue is more complicated than "google good gema bad" it's an interesting assessment that the GEMA is trying to collect a "fair" fee for the artist. The GEMA is in dire need of reform on the fair front and on a couple of other issues as well. For example, only the upper 5% of the members get to vote on the distribution of funds, classical music gets ranked higher etc. The goal of the GEMA is a fine one, but over the years the institution has gone somewhat astray.

For german speakers I can recommend http://www.internet-law.de/2012/05/ist-das-system-gema-unfai... as summary.
A high performance proxy for MySQL powered by Go
Won't work if the government blocks it. Just like they do with Tor in China.
All USPS would see is an Airbnb house that got a package. No return address so there is nothing to investigate.
its not Crystals fault, but its disappointing that this kind of ad blocking is unavailable for 32bit devices, like iPhone 5/5c (and below).
For me a phone is a tool, not a hobby. I want to use it, not play/tinker with it.
Hence I prefer it delivered in a state I can live with and not in a state requiring root and firmware change first.
'apps'
Three reasons: I want my stuff synced with my desktop running Chrome and it's horrible to use and drinks battery.

(I have already tried it)
I am hitting some limit issues with VPS service provider. Until it is fixed, there might be additional wait time. Thanks for your understanding.
That's an app from the guy who took over uBlock on Safari, the uBlock guy is the guy who wrote uBlock and not the same person.
>In summer 2012, Venmo was acquired by online payments platform Braintree, which was in turn bought out by PayPal in the fall of 2013.

Ah, that explains it. PayPal is a company that has no problems with stealing money from its own customers, so it's no surprise that they're perfectly happy being complicit in fraud.
I got it only for $125. I like it so far. I also got amazon prime free with it. If I consider I paid for prime then that unlocked brand new phone is just FREE
IMHO the one star votes are childish reactions.

Voting for an app should require to have used the app first.
Can't be that many, given they outsource the actual search engine to third parties.
It is even in wikipedia.
http://www.shadowlocked.com/201203302484/opinion-features/th...
Documentary: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xthyi5_the-star-dreamer-rus...
During one of his visits to Russia, Star Wars creator said that his dream was to meet the maestro Klushantsev. Film-industry functionaries just shrugged:
"Who's that?" "Klushantsev is the God Father of Star Wars," answered Lucas.
I would consider this both an unimplemented-feature use-case argument, and a bug, because while 'language:C' works in both Repository and Code search mode, 'stars:>100' only works in Repository mode, yet the 'Cheat sheet' link at the bottom doesn't reflect this fact. Either the documentation needs to match the functionality, or ideally, the functionality needs to match the documentation (and intuition). :P

https://github.com/contact

FYI, this form works, you do actually get feedback :)
> I assume that it goes in a relatively similar way in the USA.

Hahaha no. Banks here charge $30 to send money instantly via "wire". ACH is cheaper but takes days to clear.
Smooth for me on Chrome 45.0.2454.85
I imagine for some its the impression that the transaction is instant, despite being a veneer over the same system that a regular bank transaction would use. I imagine that veneer is almost entirely their value prop to customers.
Can you please stop having unfounded opinions on corporate mass communication?
> Windows is slow? Compared to what? In what task?

I dual booted a laptop for a while with Vista. (I can't speak to anything later, because I use Linux now, and haven't looked back, so take the appropriate grain of salt.) So with Vista / Gentoo on exactly the same hardware (a Lenovo T61):

- boot time on Linux was orders of magnitude faster

- WiFi AP connect was significantly faster[1], esp. on resuming from suspend-to-RAM

- Windows had a tendency to swap things out if they weren't in use, and had to swap like crazy if you paged back to a program you hadn't used in a while; Linux, by comparison, will only swap if required to due to memory pressure.

[1] i.e., WiFi was reconnected before I could unlock the screen. No other OS I've had has been able to do this, and it's bliss.

> mostly because it's graphics stack is way the best of all.

Riiiight. The T61 had an nvidia in it, and it was fairly decent; drivers were decent between the two OSs, and performance on each was about on par with the other. (I used the proprietary drivers; nouveau performed unacceptably bad — bear in mind this was 7 years ago.)

> Running a number crunching C code is exactly the same on Windows or Linux. (See all the benchmarks on the Internet.)

This I will agree with; but what do you do after the number crunching? It's the scaffolding around the program that mattered to me: Linux has a real shell, with real tools. I can accomplish the odd task here or there. But yes, running a "number crunching C code" will perform about equally: you're really only testing the processor, maybe the memory — crucially, the hardware, not the OS.
Aren't pirated content and child pornography just restrictions on free speech that we're blindfolded to?

To see why, imagine an advanced other country - so advanced that their economic system doesn't rely on protecting intellectual property. They've somehow made it work so they don't need those rights and it's even more efficient that way. Now that country will say "the rest of the would should enjoy the freedoms we have", "we'll help those poor Americans to pirate movies they way our people can.". But America doesn't have the advanced economic system and pirating there is actually harmful to their particular type of economy, so that advanced foreign power is not really helping at all.

This is what freedom of political speech is like in many countries. Free speech alone isn't helpful, it's harmful. It creates riots and civil wars. It kills people because the political system isn't able to cope with it. You might say the ends justify the means, but people still get killed and they won't enjoy the ends, even if they somehow do come about. c.f. Syria.
Finally. Will disconnect.me soon provide an iOS Safari plugin?

edit: more specified to iOS.
Smooth here too on Chrome.
I would assume that Venmo would try to pull the funds back from the bank account in that case. I know that happens with paypal. I have my paypal account linked to a subaccount with my bank that is only used for paypal to address that.
Getting inside Project Morpheus with a Sony R&D engineer (2014)
Mate, before Planet of the Storms there was no SciFi. This is the hollywood rip off I am telling about - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059887/?ref_=tt_rec_tt
This is the original movie - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056352/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
See for yourself.
Scientists Just Discovered Why All Pop Music Sounds Exactly the Same – Mic
You belong in an asylum. Ignorant bastard.
Wasn't the entire point of the story that they went to India multiple times to figure out how to do it right?
Gwern has an amazing essay on this:

http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror

And also: http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20Effective

>In a [previous study of mine] assessing terrorism’s coercive effectiveness, I found that in a sample of 28 well-known terrorist campaigns, the terrorist organizations accomplished their stated policy goals 0% of the time by attacking civilians.

>Jones and Libicki (2008) then examined a larger sample, the universe of known terrorist groups between 1968 and 2006. Of the 648 groups identified in the RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident database, only 4% obtained their strategic demands. More recently, Cronin (2009) has reexamined the success rate of these groups, confirming that less than 5% prevailed…Chenoweth and Stephan (2008, 2011) provide additional empirical evidence that meting out pain hurts non-state actors at the bargaining table. Their studies compare the coercive effectiveness of 323 violent and nonviolent resistance campaigns from 1900 to 2006. Like Gaibulloev and Sandler (2009), the authors find that refraining from bloodshed significantly raises the odds of government compliance even after tactical confounds are held fixed. These statistical findings are reinforced with structured in-case comparisons highlighting that escalating from nonviolent methods of protest such as petitions, sit-ins, and strikes to deadly attacks tends to dissuade government compromise. Chenoweth and Stephan employ an aggregate measure of violence that incorporates both indiscriminate attacks on civilians and discriminate attacks on military personnel or other government officials, which are often differentiated from terrorism as guerrilla attacks (Abrahms 2006; Cronin 2009; and Moghadam 2006). Other statistical research (Abrahms, 2012, Fortna, 2011) demonstrates that when terrorist attacks are combined with such discriminate violence, the bargaining outcome is not additive; on the contrary, the pain to the population significantly decreases the odds of government concessions.
Keep Out – A WebGL Game
No, not really. The scammer can use a stolen Amex card to send payments. When the card is reported stolen and charges reversed, that goes all the way back to the user's bank account.

Would be silly of Venmo to do otherwise, as that would be an easy way for them to go out of business.
Ok. That doesn't show up as a title to me, but it is a heading on the page, so we'll use it. Without the "shockingly", obviously.
Not so long ago I had an interview with Kainos - it was a few steps skype i-view. First one was quite nice, the second one - really strange. That guy on the other side was alone, asking me the same questions as during the first one. At the end I was told I will receive a complete feedback by mail. I think it was about two weeks I had to wait for that. Finally I had to ask for that. The feedback was some kind of a joke - nothing there was truth. Fortunately I had recordings and notes I took during the meetings. All I can write here is - if they really want you they will take you whatever you will say. If they don't - every single thing can be against you.
The tricky bit is to decide when not go to along with his demands and take a stand to not get trampled. Sometimes giving in too much makes the situation worse, other times it's the opposite.
because they're forcing you to open their article to see the new name.

Google renames Project 'Glass' to 'Aura' and Hires from Amazon
For me who doesn't work with Java and the web, can some give a very brief why this is news?
It felt weird to me too. After being reminded that we are all not the same in somebody else's eyes, I looked down at my arm and thought to myself: "When are my Open Office Hours?"

I personally find this type of stuff uncomfortable since we are all just people in my book. Gender and race don't mean anything beyond where you might be from or what parts you're born with. This is until programs like this come out and remind us all how good intentions point out differences that none of us can do anything about. It almost comes off sounding like somebody is trying to "fix" skin color based on a weird notion that hue handicaps the brain.

I admit that I yearn for the days when we can all finally be treated equally in a colorblind and gender neutral society. For me, special treatment or lowering/hiring bars based on born attributes is an anti-pattern to achieving true equality. It simply divides us all up more.

Maybe I just wish this read: "YC Open Office Hours for Founders"
I have added the files to github -> https://github.com/cryogee/Recent-Chrome-Extension
Although with a shaky start, Apple maps has improved in leaps and bounds. A long way to catch up with Google Maps but they are on the right track.
Do people really pay 5K to go see a single Basketball game.
“Slight misbehavior is an essential ingredient of creative thinking” doesn't look like a quote from the article. Is it?
1. In practice most embedded toolchains will give you some of the standard library. A standards compliant C++ freestanding library provides new and delete, for example.

2. The libcore allocator API is marked unstable, so even if you go through the trouble of implementing it, how long will it last?
The new async keyword in python looks a lot nicer than what we had before.
Open source HTML5 Deck of Cards updated: card backs, performance boost and more
An AI which is not so artificial
click the button for a neat animation
A useful reminder that terrorism isn't new or even worse now that in the past. In the 70s and 80s, palestinian movements were regularly blowing bombs and taking hostages, along with far left extremists. A lot of state sponsored terrorism in the 80s and 90s, from our new "friends" Iran and Syria. And a lot of that terrorism was home grown (IRA, ETA, left wing).

For instance in the EU:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_European_Un...
The number of attacks and number of victims has been pretty much consistent since the 50s with a small spike with the Madrid bombings.

What has changed is our sensitivity to terrorism which has become absurdly high. There are violent crimes happening every day which kill an order of magnitude more people. Gang violence alone in the US kills several 9/11 every year. There are thousands of knife attacks just in London every year. None of that even make it to the news anymore.

And the number of deaths linked to terrorism (1,100 in Europe since the 50s according to that wiki article) is dwarfed by things like death due to accidental drowning (35,000 every year according to eurostat).

It is useful to remember this when we see politicians in pretty much every western countries throwing out of the window basic civil liberties in the name of the war on terror. The budget spent on anti-terrorism should be better spent teaching people to swim.
Is anyone working on a machine learning ad blocker?
Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness
Jeb Bush wants Margaret Thatcher on $10 note
Oh they just changed it, for whatever shocking reason. But Google (and, shockingly, every content-farm around) remember.

http://i.imgur.com/OdLJRIy.png
Just bought and tried (in this order): Crystal, Purify and Peace. Each has features to like. Crystal has a great price and is the only one to let you report an ad not blocked or broken page so that the ad block list can be updated. Purify lets you block scripts and images on top of font-blocking options also in Peace. Crystal missed an ad that Purify (and Peace) caught, but Peace was the only one that seriously removed all the cruft causing slowdowns, even Google+ news site pop ups and like button pinned banners from The Verge in addition to blocking ads. So my recommendations are Crystal for price, Peace for well, exactly what it says on the tin, and Purify if you'd like to block images and scripts also. Check screenshots of each for the latest on their preference panels.
I'd bet he has a lot of colleagues more qualified to question what he cares to reveal about their collective private intellectual property than you
Google to penalize sites that prompt you to download their app
Rudest person I've ever chatted – I'm your mom OMG WHAT? Grumpy Chat
A barcode scanner that builds your e-commerce store for you
On the flip side, that's 10 full installations of Doom, which is my standard measure of software size.
This looks like its nice and simple, but does anyone know if there are any iOS9/El Capitan content blockers that support sync'd granular management of the actual block list?
"This app is not compatible with your device"

iPad (first generation with retina screen, I think), running iOS 9. What gives?
Indeed. I find it curious that it's not available for "performance reasons" - surely rendering an ad takes more CPU than blocking one?
PayPal discovered early on that they're not really in the payments business, they're in the security business. Handling problems costs PayPal more than doing the money transfers. Although PayPal owns Venmo, that expertise doesn't seem to have been transferred.
Content blocking requires a 64-bit CPU.
so, uhm, is him reputable? I'd hate to install and ad blocker only to make the problem worse.
Maybe it refers to the RAM constraints more. They just call out the devices, but the actual constraint might or might not be the CPU

on old devices new safari already struggle to keep in memory more than a couple tabs, so gut instinct points to memory being the issue.
Why 30s? Why not 10s? Or 1hr? Or 1day?
Making a bank transfer isn't 'simple', at least relative to Venmo. This is a way of paying someone just like Paypal. Except, the UI is better and you can hook up to Facebook. Because 'everyone' has it (at least w/ my group of friends) it is very easy to pay each other for group events. I still intend on using it despite the scam situations that people find themselves in.
The ‘effective altruists’
Excellent comment! Although of course one has to remember that the impact of terrorism cannot be measured purely by a body count. There is a strong symbolic dimension to it - if al-Quaeda had killed a few thousand people in some remote town in America instead of targeting the World Trade Center, the response would have been much different.
Show HN: Build, run and share React Native apps in your browser
I've been thinking about a much simpler setup for a bash notebook — create a docker layer after every command.
Works for a shell since there are no active processes between commands. (Get's complicated if you want to run background jobs.)
The native format for such a notebook could be Dockerfile!

I'm not sure whether a rewindable shell is actually something I'd want for day-to-day work.
E.g. if the command was interactively editing a file, rewinding the world and re-launching the editor is not very useful! So I'd also want something like git rebase, or be careful about what I do inside the rewindable container vs outside.
Also, I would not want to rewind my whole computer.

Anyway, this setup checkpointing a live process is much more impressive.
> point being that questioning a kid and releasing him are not that big a deall

Depriving someone of their liberty, even for a few hours, is a big deal. That's why compensation for wrongful arrest runs to $5,000 - $10,000 per hour.
My first thought when reading the specification was that they're liars and making bold claims out of context. Yes, any torrent ever released is also permanent. Yet, if I dig my archives and try to download 10 years old ed2k links from ShareReactor, somehow there aren't any seeds. Wonder why? Isn't it permanent? Because the ed2k link is right for sure, it's permament.
Ok, we put the new name in the title.
Also — http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-a...

"Each company who participates will get 20 minute office hours with a YC partner. They can do them in person at our office in Mountain View, CA or remotely on Skype."
Don't worry, the app is legit, and is good.
Flood myths are astoundingly common https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flood_myths