skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The path to innovation shouldn't need rails. Maybe what I'm trying looks pretty similar to things that have come before, but perhaps it's different in some way I understand and which a machine does not. Rather than a destructive feedback mechanism which would only discourage brainstorming, I'd rather see some kind of "genericity meter" to provide real-time feedback without stopping the artist from going down a path that is at least new to them.
Really? How does content in <div> tags not get filtered out as well, or does it?
Welcome to HN, where I have heard sincere claims that someone who pulled out a "Thinkpad Thinkpad from 10 years ago in a full Starbucks if you like, but most people wouldn't enjoy doing it - and even apologize for it, if they got curious stares."

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6322397
Very interesting study. I don't see any mention of the use of optical protection switching to mitigate the risk of a single fiber cut. Recent advancements in DSP have made it possible to optically protect a link over hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of kilometers. Assuming the provider has diverse infrastructure (paths) available.
> I question the sanity of it all. I didn't have anywhere the level of structured activity as a teen and still managed to gain entry to a top-20 university. Presumably because I was successful in things I enjoyed, not things my parents thought were good application boosters.

It's much more difficult today. The US has unquestionably the best university system in the world, which means American students are competing with students from around the world for entrance into American schools. And of course, everyone only wants to go to the best schools, so they have all these structured activities as a resume-builder.

What I've read is that, ironically, kids with perfect SATs, 80 extracurriculars, who play the violin and speak 5 languages fluently are so common that they don't stand out anymore. The credential inflation has led schools to find alternate methods of evaluating candidates.
Let's add a million words to the dictionary
Get Your Learn on for National Cyber Security Awareness Month
I'm curious about the comment in the caption of the portrait in this story, specifically that harmonious typefaces are only achievable by hand. Anyone have any more details about this? Hopefully there are many aspects of design that are still solely within the realm of people, but this may be slightly shrinking every day.
Python 3 usage doubled in the last year: https://caremad.io/2015/04/a-year-of-pypi-downloads/
The article mentions Univers as his best known typeface. Although that is probably true historically, I think many HN readers would be much more familiar with Avenir.

Avenir ships with OS X and iOS, and is widely used for startup landing pages, among a million other things (Avenir seems to be somehow very close to the 2010s zeitgeist).

Posted yesterday was this beautiful product site, of course set in Avenir:

http://www.notion.so

RIP Mr Frutiger, who perhaps did more for sans serif than anyone else since Eric Gill.
The rants are tiring, I think, because they're fighting some kind of (at least temporarily) losing battle and screaming for everyone to STOP DOING THE BAD THING when it's clear that they don't want to.

If Taco Bell decides to close their web site in favor of an app... well, a rant is going to change that, no matter how strongly worded. Blame consumer capitalism or PR firms or whatever.

It's frustrated prescriptivism. As a voice in the discourse, I suppose it has its value.
Spot on, WorldMaker!
I'm a Python/PHP dev who got my first Go job a couple of months ago. I inherited a large, disorganized codebase. IntelliJ with the Go plugin has been huge for me. The ability to highlight something and select "Find Usages" or "Go to Declaration" has been critical in helping me understand this code.
Does hanging up on a UK landline call not terminate the connection?
The filter list will block the div by id, class, or by its position among some other containing element.
TED Interview with Mathematician Jim Simons (VIDEO)
Please. There are no private prisons.

A private enterprise receives 100% of its income from its clients.

No prisoner is paying to be incarcerated.

What you mean to say is that the Government gives taxpayer money to some prisons, and some private persons end up pocketing this taxpayer money.

There is no private business going on in prisons.
But then again, look at the side effect - Jack Ma threw down so damn hard, and one has to guess a lot of it is out of spite for being rejected.
I was thinking the same but the article does very briefly mention miniKanren quite far into it.
This reminds me of the wider-angle tourist shot of all the dozens of people taking the same "Look, I'm holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa!" pictures at the same time.

While that is certainly ridiculous, and this camera would prevent it, I am not a fan of buying tools that restrict how I may use them. You would have to pay me to use it.

I think a better way to accomplish a similar goal would be for the camera to give you a score for your photos. Zero points for duplicate photos. Lots of points for a photo that has never been taken before. Give out prizes and badges to the people who top the leaderboards.

But no, if I see "photography prohibited" on my camera, it's getting pwned and patched, or it's going in the trash.
I suppose at the time of Sweden's unification it was more about subjugating ones political enemies on horseback rather than attempting to harmonize the existing processes of a huge number of modern polities. Yield! Kneel! Pay your taxes! - and then off to the next battle.

They spoke the same language, it was basically happening in the context of feudal system which was from the point of view of the operations of government modular - basically the whole political system supported pretty well constant shifting of the ruling body - I kneel to you, they kneel to me, and I give you some grain and provide men in time of war. And ruling was pretty simple back then.

Before 1600:s the function of government was basically the king. After they figured out there must be a better way to rule than riding ones bottom sore ruling and taxing about modern state functions began to emerge. I believe this was at the time of Gustavus Adolphus II in sweden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus_of_Sweden).
OP probably means major publishers who can solicit advertisers more directly.
Not sure that the premise of this article is even correct.

I can think of a lot of successful European startups -- Minecraft, Spotify, Skype, DeepMind, the list goes on... -- and just as many startups led by Europeans that have succeeded in America (Lending Club, etc.).

But if Europe has trouble supporting "unicorns", there are probably a couple reasons: 1) Gaps in the funding ladder. 2) Talent flight. 3) A preference for regulation. 4) Countries, like France, that combine technological conservativism with social rigidity.
Met them in person - I'm sure they'll update the website at some point, they're working hand in hand with their customers right now so I think marketing materials are probably falling a bit to the wayside. It's really quite something.
But how does it know that it is an ad? Some advanced heuristics?
If the ten companies interoperated, you could plan a cross-continent vacation using one website instead of searching for each city's/country's version of it. (And then you wouldn't be vulnerable to Airbnb, for example, demanding access to your Google Docs metadata in order to allow you to continue using their service.) You're making the argument that people used to make about how it would be impractical to have multiple long-distance phone companies or multiple long-distance computer networking companies.
Chrome extension to run JavaScript based on speech recognition
The principal programming paradigms [pdf]
Seems obvious, I'm glad FCC agrees.
Unsurprisingly, Soundcloud is actually incorporated in the UK. They might be a "German" company, but they seem to not find German business law sufficient or favorable.
I think it's a huge shame that Chrome has moved away from integrating with the OSX keychain / Keychain Access since v45. Apparently they argued Safari used the keychain in such a way that passwords weren't shared with other apps, so why should Chrome :-/
Leap files for bankruptcy, auctions off remaining buses
There was an IRC channel (or an idea of one?) where saying anything that was said before would lead you to be kicked. Edit: linked elsewhere in this thread: http://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-at...
A good approach might be to add a coprocessor to jor1k that validates and accepts page sized chunks of asm.js code for execution in a restricted manner. Validation would check that memory accesses go through a software MMU, all loops can escape on timeout or other events, etc. Emscripten would need modification to emit collections of restricted code blocks that make up an executable.
The kernel and userspace would be incrementally ported until the regular emulator is wholly unnecessary.
The problem with depending on specific optimizations like that it lock-steps you to updates that boast improvements (that break your implementation-dependant code).
Now, go pick up The Reasoned Schemer! https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reasoned-schemer
It's a really interesting area, but I think anyone who wants to push for this style of programming would do well to investigate why Prolog never really took off in the 40 years it's been around. Of course, that could have nothing to do with its fundamental model.
I work hard to block all ads, including those. It's super helpful if you can provide an HTML class to your divs so I can more easily block them, but I will keep on working on blocking all ads by all means possible. I'm thinking of building an ad extension that doesn't show the ads but reports to js that the ad is still there, so that websites think that ad is there. It might also help for some cases to download the ad contents but not display them.

I do not think this is any more immoral than you trying to make my computer display things I do not want. If you want my money, just ask for it. Don't tell me via ads to give my money to somone else. Google Contributor is a promising experiment. Bitcoin micropayments are also convenient.
Some scientific and accounting software require it. Python has a decimal data type [1].

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html
I don't know, I think it could be seen as that if the facts quoted do not support the position they were used to bolster.
This is why your routers should run open source software.
At least then you can reinstall it and be reasonably assured it does not have malware.

Also we need an inventory of where things can be hidden in devices. Are there embedded flash areas where are they?

A modern reinstall should:

1) Reinstall the operating system from a known good source
2) Flash all firmware and flash chips with known good code.

Both operating system and firmware should be open source so you can inspect the code.
Its number two, the ability to move to somewhere where you can keep more of what you create.
Sorry, I don't understand your last argument. There's a thing that you don't want to do, and you have a free choice whether to do it or not, but you're saying that you'd do it just because it's available? Surely that just means that you do want to do it, no?

Likewise, the pigs have the same choice. If they don't like the game, they can, e.g. face in the other direction so they don't have to see it (like I do in pubs that play sport on TV). (In fact, I'd be interested to see if any pigs do this.)

Besides, pigs are social animals, and there's plenty to do in that cage --- there are other pigs to interact with.
Under the Hood: A Look at Sidecar’s On-Demand Logistics Infrastructure
Probably adblockers keep a dictionary of filters for blocking native ads.
Does this mean I can get a proper programming-centric Stack Overflow app for my phone now? I installed the Stack Exchange app thinking it would be a fun way to see random programming questions now and then. Instead, 99% of the time it's questions like, "Was the Emperor always a Sith".
I started working as a Developer Evangelist about a year and a half ago, and was having a pretty nasty problem dealing with contacts myself. I keep meeting people all the time, and want some way to:

* Have their contact info auto-imported if I add them as a friend in SOME WAY: either by emailing them, tweeting them, messaging them, whatever.

* Have all my contacts synced into one centralized data store (Google Contacts, in my case).

* Merge and remove duplicate contacts so I don't have to deal with 50 entries of people...

What I ended up settling on is really working well for the past year or so.

I use Google contacts as my primary datastore. I then use FullContact (free): https://www.fullcontact.com/

FullContact will hook into everything, eg: Google / Twitter / Facebook / LinkedIn / etc., grab EVERYONE'S contact info, and merge it into one record, then merge that back into Google contacts =)

Would highly recommend it.
Actually, I think a search engine's capability directly adds value to SO. Even, before SO, there were different forums and searching (Google and before that alta vista) could help you find at least a few answers, though not as comprehensive as SO in some respects.
Scheme is a good multi-paradigm language, as evidenced by how it easily it could be taught a brand-new paradigm, relational programming, with miniKanren. Scheme programs are typically written in a functional style, but it has the notion of set! for mutating variables so you program imperatively when you need to.
JSX Visual Studio
Yep, also Outfit7 is definitely a good example how even in smaller countries one can achieve great success, I believe that founder became the richest man in Slovenia due to the success of his apps.

It's quite weird that Europe can be considered a bad place to succeed. Slovenia is a cheaper country than US, talent pool is still large enough, a startup in European countries like Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia and similar can last way longer and employ more people for the same millions that US startups burn through incredibly fast. Not to mention the expensive standards of living in silicon valley.
lol and i get downvoted
I don't block your same-domain ads because my concern about ads is mostly controlling what I am connecting to, and avoiding severe nuisances like sudden popups and stupid flash movies playing loudly out of nowhere.
Filter lists are curated by humans. It's an arms race between two smart groups.
Good point, I had this question earlier about ads in general, but this didn't even pass my mind.
I would prefer the SVG itself but this is an ideal short term solution. Thank you very much!
To this day, mailing lists remain the authoritative sources for technical problems beyond the cursory.
This is very variable across Europe (of course that could be an issue on its own). The Heritage Foundation's Economic Freedom indexes consistently place some European countries higher than the US (e.g. Switzerland and Denmark rank higher overall). In many areas, many European countries have less regulation than the United States.
Search for email adresses
What are the best email directorates or other solutions to find professional email adresses if I dont want leave any marks that I was searching for those contacts?
But OP makes an interesting case for it in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10220546 : this is more specific than "successful startups". Perhaps we should coin a new term in HN. Something with cosmic rays in it might be appropriate.
It's all manual. Someone sees it and submits the item into the EasyList blocklist: https://easylist.adblockplus.org/ - it looks like http://forums.lanik.us/ is used for reporting items to block or unblock.
Not all but there are indeed a disproportionate # of ex-financiers vs the composition of Valley firms. I did this analysis a while ago and it was pretty striking when graphed. The only consistency was MBAs in VC roles across the board.
Location Labs Hiring for DevOps!
Experts Exchange was the SO before SO and it was so bad, so bad that I can imagine it was one of the reasons SO was built in the first place. When the Exchange name appeared I cringed because it always reminded me of the worst QA UX in history, sitting on IRC was better. Glad it went away.
What if someone wants to take a snapshot on vacation as a way of remembering when they were last there? Maybe make an exception for photos with new faces. Also, who takes selfies/snapshots with a camera anymore? Everyone has a smartphone. Someone should pitch this to Apple.
Or Lisp! This is the reason JavaScript has been described as "Lisp in C's Clothing". Though, I haven't used clojurescript as much as I'd like, I have Stockholm syndrome.
Libraries at the Crossroads
Hack the Planet: “Hackers” Turns 20
Alphabet hires director of NIMH for its Life Sciences team
Conceptualizing Virgin America’s Mobile App
Are we arguing over the true definition of the terms asset and liability or over the point the OP was trying to make when using these terms as a metaphor?
I still remember this "trick", where you just had to go at the extreme bottom of the page to see the comments that were hidden only a few scrolls above. Never understood why.

Despite this trick, I don't remember finding any solution to my issues on this website.
What's So Special About Low-Earth Orbit?
So it requires a Cisco router that has a default username and password, and the router has to not have any kind of input firewall for its SSH.

Then you log in and install a patched firmware containing your backdoor.

It's hardly Cisco specific. Surely any router (or any device for that matter)that has a known default username and password can be exploited in this way?

Am I missing something here?
The logo change was predicted in 2012.

https://goo.gl/maps/Ak3nl
If you felt that way, you could configure a read-only filesystem once it is setup. Not a terribly complex solution.
NIH Disclosure Rules Falter
And China: https://twitter.com/SinoDefence/status/637174369677123584
That would be fantastic - I'd love a system that would stop someone taking more photos if they already had too many similar pictures in their own camera roll. Just think of the time it would save when someone is boring you with their 1000s of holiday snaps :)
The article also doesn't mention an obvious bias, that is, if a startup starts in Europe, there are a lot of incentives for that startup to move to the U.S. early in its life cycle.

In that scenario, the startups who become successful (and who originated elsewhere) all get counted as U.S. successes. This would vastly undercount both the total number of startups elsewhere as well as the number of successful startups.
If your goal is to attract investors, you have to show them how they are going to make money backing you because that is the most important thing. Also, you should reframe your initial post if the question is about attracting investors..:)
It's a pretty special example, and a perfect counterexample to a careless generalization.
Stop browsing ad supported content then. It's a simple solution that works for everyone involved. Everyone says "i'd happily pay" but few put their money where their mouth is.

For the HN downvoters why is choosing not to consume the ad supported content so bad?
Yes, Smalltalk and Common Lisp environments probably did offer similar experiences.

Tooling for web development has probably been heavily inspired by the tooling available for CL and Smalltalk, but I don't think it's fair to say it's still playing catch up. The tooling ecosystem for the web has long since caught up to the best native ever had to offer, and is now advancing the state of the art faster than any other tooling ecosystem out there today.
this presentation says as much, but the techniques have been widely known for...ever. yes, most likely the only group with the will power and means is a government, but it certainly doesn't _have_ to be.

http://www.phenoelit.org/stuff/FX_Phenoelit_25c3_Cisco_IOS.p...
The United States spends far more on entitlements than we do on the military. Social Security 33% of the budget, Medicare 27%, the military is down at 16% -- far less than it was in the middle of the twentieth century. If you want money, you need to reform entitlements.
Neighborly Raises $5.5M to Transform the Municipal Debt Market
I don't have a .zsh.d folder but a .oh-my-zsh folder

Where do I put your script?
Github integration is something we were eagerly waiting for. We're using Waffle[0] and are reasonably happy, but it doesn't feel as smooth as Trello.

Very keen to give this a try and it's a major incentive for us to upgrade to Business Class. Trello is quite an amazing tool.

[0] https://waffle.io
What I don't like is that you have to manually save/restore every time.
I don't think so. Maybe you could point out the part of the comment I replied to that supports that argument?
Your sarcasm falls flat for me—if browser HTML and CSS renderers were written in Javascript we probably would have to take extreme measures to keep the web usable, especially on mobile. The effect it would have on battery life chills the blood.
Which tend to still use 3rd party ad severs. Probably because they don't want to develop that tech in house.
there's a oh-my-zsh plugin for that
Ads have many specialized requirements that you wouldn't really want to build yourself. Tracking, tokenization of url parameters, rotating ads to meet impression goals, and typically advertisers have build their ads to be served by major ad networks, so you would have to replicate their systems to support those ad units. Ads are way more complicated than most people realize.
Those lists are often incomplete sadly because the actual underlying data on startups is much worse here in Europe. For whatever reason people don't submit data to places like Crunchbase and the media channels here are far less consistent covering things, particularly outside the English-speaking domain.
My partner has been compiling his own list here. Feel free to edit.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1cWhizlf_KU7KOsw8...
I'd interpret the parent's statement that the term organic does not necessarily mean anything of value.

It does have a technical definition, which when applied strictly can have value, but it's also horribly abused as a feel-good term with no semantic content. (Just as 'holistic' is, looking elsewhere on the thread.)

(One of my pet hates is 'organic salt'.)
Yeah, I dont want to accuse asian kids of being robots - that would be unfair, for example, to some non East Asian kids who dont have privileged upbringings. I just want to provide a counterpoint. And I was not aware that the AA ban was a California only prop, but that makes sense.
> but you're saying that you'd do it just because it's available? Surely that just means that you do want to do it, no?

He's saying he'd do it if it's the only thing available
There is no Delaware. Taxes are paid regardless of whether the company hits $1M revenue or not, salary taxes are high, health/social insurance is mandatory and paid for the most part by the employer, there is a minimal salary, extensive bureaucracy and you can't sign away most of your rights if necessary for company survival. Moreover, some countries impose rules which make starting up with little to no money impossible (Germany).
More like 450 million when you include the UK, Canada and Australia.
A hacker news bot that auto-posts common messages would save us lots of arguing time. e.g. Whenever a submission references some c/c++ code, the bot could auto-post a whole thread of arguments about 'why are people still using this insecure language?', thus saving HN denizens from posting and arguing over the same thing...