skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Source? I'd like to believe you're right, but the author was an MLH volunteer, not just a hackathon participant, and the MLH comment says "We worked with the event organizers to locate the individuals."
OK. The story doesn't make the relationship clear. It reads as if MLH was the organization running/policing the event.
12 Years a Slave had an interesting bit about how you can make ink by boiling maple bank, though it was far less thorough than Northup's descriptions of the agricultural processes for cotton and sugarcane. There should be a sow like How it's Made, but depicting historical methods.
Negative results are as important as positive ones when trying to discover new things. The problem in general is that they are far less sexy than positive results.
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As somebody pointed out in a comment on another story, your CPU executed about a dozen instructions while the light from your monitor traveled to reach your eyes.

So I think we can make meat.
Here is one of the directors, he has lots of post on reddit about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/3ln4cz/two_hacke...

From the link: "For the record: MLH kicked him out. HTN did not. I feel like I definitely need to make it clear that none of the directors of Hack the North were involved in this decision. As for me, personally: I am extremely unhappy about the decision."
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I'm not sure I buy the contrast between old computers and macbooks. The smallest replaceable part on a MacBook is the entire MacBook (excluding any wired or wireless peripherals), but the smallest in a normal computer might be the CPU. The CPU cannot be repaired except by replacing the entire thing. You can't repair a CPU or a MacBook, so it seems the the only real difference is how much it costs to replace the broken part.

I like to think that as moores law ends and computers stop being obsolete we may get to a point where a computer could be passed down generations like a solid dining room table. In that case maybe it makes more sense to be able to repair it and people build them that way. Or maybe computers cost nothing and it's like bequeathing a pez dispenser.
Why not just use Handover?
How was that joke 'obviously' distasteful?! The internet has been awash with clock/bomb jokes since the incident: obviously all those jokers and the laughs they get think there is nothing distasteful about it.

What leaves a bad taste in my mouth is punishing someone for making an obvious joke. Probably caused by a single overzealous organizer affraid of being accused of not scrupulously upholding the code of conduct.
>perhaps due to the popularity of mobile apps

I believe this is the primary driver. We already have Facebook introducting "free limited Internet" to developing regions of India [0] and mobile carriers in the U.S. already allow certain apps to be excluded from data usage. The open Internet is not a guarantee, and the next generation of web users may not know the 'wild west' we did.

[0]http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2476564,00.asp
I absolutely respect that guy and his principles, but that's not a public statement from the organization stating its official policy, that's a Reddit comment stating a private individual's views.
That's a fair point, ensuring that there is more than one take on the events is important if he's worried about his name being tarnished in the future through misinformation.

Edit: considering how much this is blowing up on Reddit, I can imagine that being a good defence.
Thanks a lot! Will check them out.
How to adapt social networking service for musicians and composers
You can use Facebook, Twitter etc. to share your music projects with partners.

What is problem?

- All members of your team must have identical software
- In most cases you need to discuss a small part of melody, not the whole song

What is solution? Use free Molgav service!

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Molgav links looks like this one

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- click to listen/edit
Erm, see steveklabnik's comment on this story. It is sort of a complex process right now in that you have to build libcore yourself and then try to link everything together (for me, that mostly involves trying something and then crossing my fingers, because my knowledge of that level of tooling is limited). I've heard several times that rust devs are hoping to make cross compilation easier.
> I would rather make less money than have part of my paycheck forcibly removed and given to politician-types so they can defend other losers' jobs against competition because they have 'seniority'.

That argument is the reason why real wages in the US haven't grown in the last 40 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_wage#/media/File:US_Real_...
One of the responding comments leads to the MLH event policy, which says "MLH reserves the right to refuse admittance to any individual at a sanctioned event." This was incredibly douchey, but didn't technically overstep the authority that Hack the North gave them when they brought them in on the event.
I agree with your point in general, but technically this paper doesn't disprove the possibility of time travel. It does however appear to prove, or at least strongly suggest, that if time travelers exist, they don't want to be found.
"Afghan soldiers told to ignore American Allies' eating pork"

Well, reading this you might think "how can that compare to raping boys? Boys are human beings and human beings have rights, just like you and me? But at the same time a Muslim may consider refusing to eat pork a law by god which is way higher than anything considering humans.

The point I try to make is this: In an intercultural environment you need to accept the other one doing things you consider immoral. Otherwise there will be no cooperation at all. You must not judge. We all know that and when we talk about it we think about clothes, how to say hello, and kinds of food. But if you really want to achieve important cooperation you also need to consider points like this. That's the tough part, accepting these things that are really undiscussable in your culture. In an intercultural environment they should be.

Now please, don't just downvote. Write a comment. Thanks.
> This is a mechanism by which anyone could be expelled for saying anything someone else doesn't like

Now the trick is to make sure it's applied absolutely fairly and evenhandedly.
I think you've ascribed more malicious intent to the person above you than is fair. Repugnant and repulsive are huge stretches for many genuine businesses starting out.

Let's say you're a plumber in a city. You have a family at home you need to support. You'd like to rank top ten for "plumber in cityx" but you're competing with hundreds of alternatives, including directories and so on.

How do you demonstrate your ability for a decent chance at ranking well? Door knock to get early customers and then rely on word of mouth or reviews? That's advertising with a shotgun approach and could intrude on people when they're at home with their family. Letter box drop? Advertising.

AdWords and decent contextual advertising not an unreasonable option at getting in front of people already interested in your service.
So, did anyone try fetching it with an Apple News reader user-agent?
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How anybody at VW would think it's a good idea? Sure, it's a clever trick, but when they get caught - and it's assured they will - they'd probably get it pretty hard. I mean, Toyota got hit for $1.2 bln for problems that were mostly imaginary[1], how much this would cost?

[1] http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/justice-departme...
"is that the author arrives on the two node-based solutions as the preferred path forward."

That's the generous interpretation. A more jaded reader might have started reading the article thinking 'mention of Angular... 3... 2... 1... ah there it is! suggesting node... 3... 2... 1... ah there it is! Well at least he managed to contain himself until the next to last paragraph'.

It's technology-centered myopic navel-gazing. Yeah nobody uses Wordpress because PHP in templates is not 'clean'... Oh wait, half the world does use Wordpress because everybody and their dog has a server with PHP and because it's dead simple to hack up something working by cramming some PHP into a template you bought for 5$. For 95% of all websites, who cares about maintenance? Just do a new one in 3 years with whatever is hot then.

This article (and many like it, not singling this one out) reads like people who call themselves 'real' woodworkers, lamenting that people won't fork over $2500 for a hand-crafted oak dining table and instead get a $100 Ikea one. The popularity of 'Ikea hacks' amongst the crowd that tends to author articles like this is ironic in that sense...
It's hard to believe anyone still fooled by VW's claim of 94.2 MPG (1.6 TDI BlueMotion Golf, manual, extra urban). There's been a lot of press about stated fuel figures not matching real world consumption (and it's even mention/stated briefly in adverts now I think)

In my own experience with that model, driving about 500 miles, 50-55 is a valid expectation
Of course we can, but could we manufacture pure solid hubris?
OK, so there's no web proxy to Apple News?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10249887
Without a fight even encryption and things like paying in cash will be danger.

I take an european example: France recently banned paying sums of cash above 1000EUR in a commercial transaction.

Ref: http://www.connexionfrance.com/1000-euro-cash-payment-limit-...
DAWGs are really cool. GADDAGs are faster than DAWGs only for the special purpose of finding a word given a prefix (applicable to Scrabble move-finding). Otherwise they are the same speed if you're just anagramming; since a GADDAG is at least 5 times bigger than a DAWG on average (given an English dictionary corpus), the GADDAG may even be slower because it wouldn't fit in cache memory.

The best known Scrabble AI (Quackle) uses both data structures, although only the DAWG is strictly necessary.

I wrote a GADDAG maker in Go a while ago with the intent of turning it into a Scrabble move finder, but haven't found the time to work on it in a while. I would like to optimize it further too...

https://github.com/domino14/macondo/tree/master/gaddag
Let's face it. Wordpress works because of the themes. Hire a quasi developer to set it up for you with plugins, and they will find a nice theme to install. And the result - the end client WHO PAYS will get a visually nice site! Especially responsive themes.

Take note, folks... theming and designers are crucial to your platform if you plan it to be used by a significant number of websites.
Interesting, thanks for the pointers! I'll look at it when we are done moving :).

BTW, for those who are interested, Jan's code is also available online:

http://galaxy.eti.pg.gda.pl/katedry/kiw/pracownicy/Jan.Daciu...

http://galaxy.eti.pg.gda.pl/katedry/kiw/pracownicy/Jan.Daciu...

His FSA utilities and the fadd library are used in the Alpino parser:

http://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/alp/Alpino/
That's the douchiest comment I've ever read on HN. Probably on the entire Internet.
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As explained below by others. I used headless FreeBSD for years with servers, but for the desktop move I chose PCBSD because it wraps it up neatly. My desktop needs are pretty simple though.
I'd want to switch if I used Gentoo as well. Sounds like this guy is sick of rolling his own Linux, not sick of Linux.
I think that's already pretty much nailed.
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Look at the publication date.
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So were does cultural acceptance stop? If it were common not to rape boys but to eat babies after torturing them to tenderize the meat, should we also be accepting of that? There has to be a point where we draw the line. Most people here I think would agree that rape is on the other side of that line.
sometimes all news looks like this to me
You assume everyone and their grandmother has Apple-equipment.

Most of the world doesn't.

Saying that you will only do business with those who has Apple-equipment is leaving out most of the market, and doing so would be suicide for most businesses.
You've written this a few times, but there's no proof that that is the case.

MLH obviously had a commercial relationship with the University and that would likely entitle them to certain authorities. Unless your privy to the contract, or the University has officially stated otherwise, what source are you using to back this up?
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"It's brilliant"

Locking away articles in native apps so people can't block ads isn't brilliant. Apple encouraging ad blocking on the web to "nudge" publishers into their exclusive native eco-system is nothing but typical tech giant arrogance.

Wired publishing stories that when clicked from Google go to place-holders with pointers to native should be penalised by Google search, and I hope they are. There is nothing on the Google results page to indicate the link is anything less than the content.

Native app "content browsers" are all about less control for users. Native has always been about that. Sometimes less control works for users. No distractions, just minimal concentrated function. Other times, like with news articles, users are missing out on basic things like bookmarking; sharing the link - there isn't even a link; accessibility is out the window; copy and paste is out the window; discussion and comments are all but closed/extinct; no choice of browser to access the article. It's not good news for users.
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Most people don't work that way. There are many places where firing people is near impossible, but 99% still do a solid job.
All of the examples past the first one are broken in Firefox. Also this seems like overkill, why introduce React when you could do the same thing with just the DOM API, with less overhead? And you get to learn about the underlying standard instead of vendor lock-in library. 177 lines for rather trivial DOM manipulation is too much.
This is quite an astounding comment!
Couple of minutes ago I didn't know about Apple News and didn't care about a superstar architect. Now I still don't care about a superstar architect but already hate Apple News and Wired for presenting me with a link to an article I can not read.
Bemoaning WordPress for being built in PHP, then proposing something built on top of Node.js and Angular. Now I've heard it all.
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Doctors and lawyers provide a good example of how unions (though they don't refer to themselves as that) can be embedded into the legal framework. With these unions also having control over the number of newly qualified workers admitted each year, supply is also sufficiently curtailed.
4 / 6 PayPal founders built bombs for kicks in High School:
http://valleywag.gawker.com/peter-thiel-admits-the-paypal-ma...

<irony>That's even more dangerous thank just those joke. I guess the world would be better place if we lock them out.</irony>

Looks like there is a whole class of things that are criminalized/punished that used to be the norm. Like letting your 6 and 10 old walking a mile alone home.

Relevant PG essay:
http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
My brother made this as a sort of collectible conceptual art, for a hackathon that happened this past weekend in Berlin.
The whole site. The site is in the best position to know what is publicly available and which is within the walled garden and should adjust their robots.txt or spider responses to match. You pee in the pool, you have to take a time out.
Weird. We are in the same wavelength right now:

Just came from seeing the 'Everest' movie based on this incident
I did read both the original article you are looking for, (not online) and the book.

I also watched the 2 seasons of the reality show Everest: The Death Zone- precisely based on Russell Brice's company.

It's brutal, and I guess people forget it from time to time for a very small number of years. But the Mountain Never forgets.

The movie is only worth a see on IMAX, enjoy the scenery. Pretty much follows the 'Into Thin Air' book, focused on the American clients + Scott & Rob
This article had comments initially which were all people bitching about how this was total bullshit. The comment section has since been removed.
I have the same story with you, I also came from a small country with has nothing special in IT, and working as a Software Engineer in the US is a paranoia dream for me. Except one thing (luckily for me), my family immigrated to the US and I have to follow them.

If you are still looking for a job in SF (or anywhere in this Bay Area), go ahead and create an impressive profile on Angel List (https://angel.co/jobs), this is the website for startups company looking for developers, and I got my first job after 2 weeks in the US by this way (they found me on this site when I was in my home country, and ~1 month long phone calls/interviewing/testing/waiting...).

Spending your time create/contribute to some cool project on Github should help, the people here love that. It's the best way to prove yourself as a good developer.

We all have a dream to live for, and it's great to meet and sharing with people who has the same dream as I have.

Good luck to you, and welcome to the Bay Area ;)

Cheers,

Henry Tr.
Indeed, this just confused me for a minute. I am in the UK and Apple News isn't available here yet.
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While I'd LOVE WordPress to be run on Node, don't forget FB runs on PHP, and they're investing in React.

https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js
I wish the article made a clearer distinction between the capital ratio and the equity ratio. In places it makes it sound as if only shareholder equity counts towards capital requirements.
If you don't care about humanity, and are going to ignore abuse. Why send soldiers there in the first place?

Culture is NOT an excuse!

Locally normal and immoral don't exclude each other. In my opinion immoral doesn't differ all that much depending on culture. The biggest factor in defining what things are immoral would depend on some believes: do animals have right, are you an extremist in your believe, are there any animals holy, ... Personally I think any sane person would decide what is moral purely by considering suffering
i stopped using them because of that, and i even have an account; i just can't be bothered logging in to it everywhere.
I see a popehat lawsplainer soon in the future.

> Plaintiffs’ claims arise out of the recent theft of massive amounts of private consumer data, including private stored communications, from the adultery website and dating service known as “Ashley Madison” by anonymous hackers. Due to the salacious nature of Ashley Madison, this Internet crime has been widely reported in the media, both in the United States and internationally.

Is there a penalty for lawyers writing bullshit? The data was not stolen, it was copied and leaked. Also wtf is "Internet crime"
Correct me if I am wrong, but while your argument might have some legitimacy, in this particular case it sounds as if you believe that rape is actually something culturally acceptable in these parts of the world. It is not, and FYI, Islam forbids 1- homosexuality, 2- rape. This phenomena SHOULD be fought against -because it is wrong, and the child is being abused here- especially by the people who are there to spread 'democracy and progressiveness' in the first place ;)
Certainly we wouldn't want to bring back passenger pigeons in anything like their former numbers -- they would devastate grain crops like a swarm of locusts.

Come to think of it the Rocky Mountain locust is also extinct (the reason for this is unclear, but some believe it was due to farmer's plows uncovering their buried eggs and exposing them to predation). There's a species we don't want back, for sure.

Edit: "North American locust" -> "Rocky Mountain locust".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_locust
My other sources have to remain private unfortunately. (official responses haven't been crafted yet)

But I can say that even if it ends up that they technically had the authority to do this, then us Hack the North organizers were mislead to an extraordinarily large degree about the nature of the relationship between MLH and Hack the North.
I didn't understand what this is about.
CPU's have been soldered to the motherboards of most laptops for an age now.

Memory is beginning to be soldered to the motherboard too- I'm dubious as to how upgradable or modular the next generation will be.
I downvoted because that's a bad analogy. Here's why:

Animal rights aside (because that has nothing to do with the restriction of pork), only the person eating pork is harmed. When Americans consume pork, it doesn't harm the Afghans who don't consume pork. Meaning, everyone eating pork is freely volunteering to do so. No one involved in eating of pork is involved against their will. Whatever the punishment might be in the afterlife, it only involves those who consume pork. In a sense, it's a victimless crime. Again, putting animal rights aside.

However, having sex with young boys involves the unwilling young boy. There is a victim that needs protection here.
Reminds of this more direct article about the "servitude bubble":

https://medium.com/bad-words/the-servitude-bubble-c9e998c437...
This is a good overview of why these methods are used.

Unfortunately, a lot of people in engineering fields seem to assume that these particular tactics are the only way a union can be run. Usually, the reaction to the idea that engineers should really unionise is causes an immediately hostile reaction. A union is what you (the members) want it to be, and a union that only addressed certain topics[1] would probably stop some problems from happening at all. There's no reason to authorize a union to interfere with the more mundane problems unless you want those feature and design the union to have those powers.

The key thing to remember - which the usual knee-jerk anti-union rhetoric ignores - is that problems start to grow when too much power accumulates in any one place. Neither labor or capital can be allowed to grow to powerful, as it is the conflict between them that keeps each side restrained. A few decades ago we saw the problems of labor getting too powerful, and before that the problems of capital (business owners) having too much power was obvious. Like any control system, you have to design feedback[2] into the control mechanisms.

[1] Issues involving collusion like the recent wage-fixing agreement between Apple/Google/Intel/{...} or the "working recent grads to death" (13 hours/day, 7 days/week) that EA used to require.

[2] If only we had a sociological version of a PID controller.