skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the other commenters have addressed the issue of "giving food the homeless" here, but as far as sending them to other countries...

Conveniently enough, I found a guide to orange carton dimensions and weights: http://www.south-africa-fruits.com/citrus-packaging.html
So, let's see how much it costs to ship a carton of oranges from, say, Florida to Kenya (they could definitely use some citrus)! Oranges, while a pretty hardy fruit, have a shelf life of, at most, a few weeks at room temperature, according to multiple sources. I don't know if they'd be great sitting around in a cargo ship, with uncertain temperature and humidity changes for a month. So let's fly them over. Here's a calculator: http://www.worldfreightrates.com/en/freight

I calculated $154.74 - $171.02 per carton. That's quite a hefty premium on a carton of oranges (about 100 oranges, according to multiple sources). Sure, you might argue that a benevolent organization could come along and send bulk pallets (unfortunately, I couldn't find anything that would let me calculate the costs for a pallet of oranges), but I doubt you're going to find more than a 20% costs savings -- competition in this industry is stiff, and jet fuel is expensive.

In Boston, can buy navel oranges at my local grocery store for a dollar an orange, or less (I just checked Peapod!). So, yeah, it literally costs more to ship an orange across the ocean than oranges here cost, even with the relatively high cost of labor in the US. As wealthy Americans, we frequently pay for exotic foods (bananas in the middle of winter!) that cost very little to produce, and we're paying almost entirely for shipping. We don't think much about shipping costs, or think that it's unusual to get our food shipped to us, but that sort of thinking is dangerous.

It's far far cheaper to grow more food in starving countries than it is to ship them food. In Kenya, and all over Africa, food prices are much cheaper than they are here, even on open markets with relatively inefficient food delivery practices. It is cheaper (not to mention more environmentally sound!) to produce the food there, than it is to produce it here, and then transport it there. You make no sense. I mean, people in many African countries (let's be honest, Kenya is one of the wealthier ones) commonly feed their entire families on just a few dollars a day -- why not compost the fucking oranges, send them the money we would have spent on spilling fuel into the atmosphere, invigorate their economy, and let them eat like kings for the cost of flying over three oranges?

Saying "Now I understand there would be a cost in transporting these goods, as well as other factors, but still..." is just irresponsible. Yes, seeing oranges go to waste makes you feel bad. But the solution is not to ship it outside the relatively small radius where it makes environmental and economic sense to do so, when there are many other solutions for hunger that don't waste resources and kill the environment faster.
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If the objective is (and correct me if it isn't) to be able to install arbitrary software on iOS, isn't that possible now with Xcode 7 and free provisioning? Personally I am hoping Github will be the new way through which to install non-store apps.
Hackers Infect App Store with Malware, Apple Pulls Infected Apps
On very fast local systems and networks, 'rough idling' can go on for a very long time, until it comes time to scale.

One time I found the cause of a program that was run at regular intervals and was taking a few minutes to complete running. It would run approximately 42,000 SQL select calls every time it dropped into a new directory to parse some files. It only took 10 minutes to process the entire directory structure. So the program was actually incredibly fast, considering all the work it was doing.

The catch? It only needed to run SQL select 42 times per directory; the other 41,958 calls were not necessary. As far as I know it was never fixed, because it only took 10 minutes to run.
Yes and I believe even emerging markets have dried down a little recently. None of the BRICs is looking like a great opportunity (considering risks), interest rates have been very low both in EU and US. As much as the sums seem enormous, software startups are comparably cheap, which mitigates their high risk -- e.g. look at industries like oil, mining, real estate, chemical.
Here is what it Apple said regarding my my refund.

http://pastebin.com/2zgmekPi
Apologies for the off-topic comment, but I feel compelled to say that a #6D6D6D anchor color with a #444444 body text color on a white background is a terrible UX choice. I guess they expect me to hover over the entire paragraph to see if it contains any links.
His reasoning is unsound. Crippling user experience for some vague, completely unsupported belief that content can't be supported by anything except ads is hugely misguided.

Maybe content could be 10x valuable (because much of the noise would be eliminated) if micropayments had a chance to take off. Who knows! Let the market figure it out... For Marco to think he can penetrate the mists of the internet economy single handedly is the height of arrogance.
Well, with this new API Chrome extensions run natively in Firefox, if one adds a single tag to the metadata json file.

So, doing this should be easy.
How is that relevant to a video like this?
It's not something you can leverage directly by tapping into a private API or something. It's just information about how it works, which indirectly can benefit you as a programmer but the technique itself is transparent and could be removed tomorrow without any (other) consequences (unless I missed something, didn't watch the whole thing).
Looks similar to sequelize http://docs.sequelizejs.com/en/latest/
So does the NSA (Telegram is still not encrypted end-to-end by default, lest we forget).
Did you not click on the link? IMO the site does a pretty good job of making it crystal clear that it's referring to the full cost (all levels of government + business + individual + other).
Basecamp 3: “Adoptional”
Respectfully, you totally missed her point.
There was another post he wrote about Peace a few days ago:

>I don’t feel good making one and being the arbiter of what’s blocked.

He doesn't have a problem with ad blocking, but doesn't want to be the one deciding what's blocked and what isn't

http://www.marco.org/2015/09/18/just-doesnt-feel-good
The regulation you linked to appears to date to 2010, long after analog phones had been replaced.

18 U.S.C. 2512 may be older but I wonder why such a regulation would have been issued so recently.

Also if this regulation is intended to implement 18 U.S.C. 2512 it appears to be broader in scope than that law. The law only prohibits devices that are "primarily useful for the purpose of the surreptitious interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications". The regulation on the other hand restricts scanners that are capable of receiving such communications. I don't see how a broadband scanner that includes cell phone frequencies along with other bands could be considered to be "primarily useful" for intercepting cell phone communications.
It is hugely misguided. Obviously, there is strong demand for ad-blocking. Someone else will move into this space and serve that demand. He didn't make a statement, he made a headache for all the people who downloaded his app, and for Apple who now has to refund all their purchases.
One time a guy in Key West told me "If you want to get there faster, run."
There is some interesting research in open source community interactions using network analysis as well. See here for example: http://fastwonderblog.com/2015/08/04/network-analysis-and-co...
I'm a vet with a security clearance. When I heard about the breach at OPM I obviously wasn't happy but figured there was not much to do about it.

I just tell myself that there's not much point in worrying about something you have little to no control over. I know for a fact that my shit is out there now, and I hope I don't get screwed over, but what is there even to do?

What-the-fuck-ever.

Edit: for those affected, here's something: https://www.opm.gov/news/releases/2015/09/opm-dod-announce-i...
You are arguing ... what, here? That people with some sort of knowledge of a product/company/industry's prospects shouldn't be allowed to buy/sell positions in that company?

If I understand you (and I may not), and we were to come to the conclusion that "there ought to be a law", I have no idea how that would even be structured/written.
iRho: An Imperative Rewriting-calculus
Sure, but so what?

'One of her ancestors was a founder of the Fleischmann's Yeast company', and her great-great-grandfather was 'dean of University of Cincinnati College of Medicine,[11] where a hospital is named after him.'
Are they removing the app from peoples' phones too?
I use lodash
Imgur is doing fishy things with 4chan screencaps
Why can't Twitter kill its bots?
I don't buy this at all! Sell the App to someone who is prepared to fight the war .. marco has sold things before and knows how easy it is. (I have sold many apps, etc. Trust me.. it is very very easy)

My little hunch-o-maker tells me there is an untold part to this story and he's just trying to distract us from his real reasons.

If I were to guess, it was his tumblr/yahoo connections that reached out to him and asked him not do this. If he made a lot of money off of tumblr as a founder, than yeah, it'd be pretty sucky to build something that would hurt that product.
Looks similar to sequelize query API, direct link: http://docs.sequelizejs.com/en/latest/docs/querying/

This kind of things looks better in homoiconic languages.

I'm wondering how that approach compares to rho/rewriting calculus.
Music streaming just became a billion-dollar industry
Only an act of congress could fix this problem, so we are doomed (they have post offices to name before they try to shut them all down).
I wouldn't phrase it like that. Instead, Firefox is implementing a similar extension API, which overlaps with Chrome and Opera's APIs. What you described, "instantly converting an existing Chrome extension for Firefox" is a long ways off.

There's a lot of gaps in Mozilla's implementation right now. To do anything interesting (beyond cat gifs), you have to fall back to the old QueryInterface/ns* APIs.
Seeing as how using a trusted CA to do MITM isn't even remotely a valid business plan or idea, I think it's quite possible that they were incompetent enough to use any piece of hardware, yes. It's actually better for the world if they were planning to do MITM, as they'd have been caught so fast and their plans killed so quickly itd be funny. As-is it's just luck that they messed up.
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Ask HN: Time for a change or JFDI?
I want to get started working on a startup idea and will be the primary developer. My webdev skills are a little dated (I'm currently using Backbone.js + Python). I'm considering re-skilling before attempting this new project but am concerned that will cause me to lose momentum..

Wondering if anybody else has pushed forward with an less than ideal technology stack and regretted it? Success stories also welcome..
When I saw you'd replied here, I excitedly checked https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10218108 to see if you'd also given saurik a reply. Alas, no. You choose to reply here stating you believe OP agrees with your assumptions, while ignoring more detailed replies to your position.

For my part, I think that if OP agreed with you he wouldn't have done it. This whole thing reminds me of a discussion I once had about doctors who perform abortions... Some people find it very hard to understand the other side doesn't agree that life begins at conception, and wrongly conclude abortion doctors must believe they're committing murder.

It's always easier to brush other positions off as too verbose, or too anonymous, or too whatever. It's much harder (but much more valuable) to consider the problem and data at length, and come to a new truth. This is what differentiates science from the tinkering which proceeded it.

> Is this CERN-level proof? No, but I don't think it's necessary here. We're on a forum, discussing another forum post.

This is what I was talking about when I said "it matters to me that HackerNews remain a place for intelligent discussion" above -- to me HN isn't just some online forum; the standards we should hold ourselves to are much higher. We're here to learn and relate. If you'd acted this way on reddit I wouldn't have taken issue... but on HN it pains me to see this kind of behavior. The other side of your holy war is not inherently immoral.
Thank you.

I knew that, I just see little difference between this deadly marketing ploy and the outcomes of a lot of things that do more strictly merit the label of food aid. But perhaps the detail that this specific incident was a twisted marketing ploy will help others more readily comprehend how and why well meaning food aid can have unintended negative consequences -- in short, how they can have a dark side.
>I see it as a call to arms to people who are working on, say, ad serving networks, to work on curing cancer instead (where "curing cancer" is a variable that could be replace with any "big, hard, fundamental problem").

No, a call to arms for working on big, hard, fundamental problems would be to say, "Let's restructure the scientific career path away from a pyramidal labor and triple funding to the NSF and NIH."
My working assumption is that military procurement has everything to do with which contractors need to get paid and very little to do with military objectives, since we don't actually have any achievable military objectives.
Putin Faces Growing Exodus as Russia's Banking, Tech Pros Flee
Yep. Pretty easy to put your money where your mouth is when you have gobs of it.
Sure, but money and the connections derived from it certainly helps you get to that point.
> Sounds like the pharmaceuticals market is full of some very unethical folks

THIS IS BRAND NEW INFORMATION
Just to fill in the context that's missing here:

1. If you have a single radio unit, you can easily do the "software" implementation where you look at what you're going to be broadcasting and cut it off if it's not legal. The problem comes when you have separate radio and amplifiers - the amplifier has no idea what whether you're feeding it 10M or CB frequncies. It will amplify either just fine, so the FCC really prefers you to build in a "hardware" type implementation there (a frequency analyzer that figures out what's going into it). It's just expensive to do so - like if you didn't already have a digital amp, you might easily add 1/4 or 1/2 to the cost just to get some dumb logic built in. And you can still probably get around it if you really try.

2. There is a disproportionate amount of cheap gear and old gear in circulation. We didn't get "smart" rigs until the late 90s at a minimum, and even so they are vastly outnumbered by stuff from the glory days of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. There has always been a relatively small amount of high-power stuff in circulation, and there's even less smart high-power stuff. A lot of the modern kit-built stuff like the Elecraft K2 focuses on QRP (effective operation on low power) instead of crazy high output.

3. This manifests as a CRAZY price curve. It's relatively easy to get an old radio from the 70s that'll do 50 or 100W (especially after factoring in weak, aging tubes, etc). A modern mini-rig that will do 25W or something is also relatively affordable. But if you want something new, powerful, or new AND powerful you can easily jump into the thousands of dollars. For the cost of a modern rig that'll do any given power level, you can afford an older rig and an amp that will put out an equally good signal with substantially more power. Or with a better antenna. And so on.

4. There's nothing wrong with the old gear and things like tubes can be fixed. If you trash your new wünder-rig it's garbage. So given that amateurs are crafty people (the proto-hacker, really) there's a strong incentive to make the old or lower-power stuff work, because it's repairable when it breaks.
I don't disagree, but that plays into my point that you didn't choose based on what it was cheap.
IBM Watson won't be replacing humans anytime soon
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Please.

He went from the position of deciding which ads to block for a handful of people to hundreds of thousands literally overnight and decided that was too much responsibility for himself to handle. Whether or not you agree with his reasoning is immaterial. It made him feel uncomfortable to be in this position, so he made the decision to bow out.

Marco is not the first person, nor will he be the last, to regret the possible consequences of having built a weapon of war. He's simply in the enviable scenario of being able to destroy the schematics.
> self-made billionaire

lolwut
What is it that you think is wrong with your current stack?

If it is just that it is no longer fashionable, that is not a good reason.

For everyone who has trouble using older tools, there is somebody who tries something new and goes through hell because of that.
Perhaps you have Amiga on the brain :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify
Yup. That's been my finding as well. char-rnn was really just a diversion of curiosity after I'd cleaned up the data. My best idea right now is to make a generative model of p(next_token | previous_token(s), author), essentially connecting author directly to every observation. I'm mostly sure that using characters as tokens is overkill for this and requires a higher complexity model than I can afford with this dataset and my computational resources, so I'm going to stop using char-rnn with it.
If you've already bought the app you can use it, not sure if you'll be able to redownload it in future.
Please forward me the same by EOD
You could say that about the initial stage of the war, but can you maintain an occupying force for years against a sophisticated country? In that case, we would eventually run out of F-35's due to sabotage or maintenance issues.

This idea that the only thing that matters is what you already have creates a race - can you crush resistance before those who are resisting realize that you have limited long-term capability?
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As a gun enthusiast who didn't stock up, I really hate those guys. I basically couldn't go to the range for over a year because Walmart was always out of the Winchester White Box and whatever other cheap FMJ they carried, and everyone else who could keep inventory had jacked their prices to unreasonable levels.

I finally had to start going to Walmart every morning before work to figure out which day the shelves got stocked. A couple of Tuesday morning visits later I had made my own little contribution to the problem by building my own hoard of bullets that I didn't really want just because I wanted to be able to go to the range once in a while without paying range prices for ammo...

Hoarders suck.
It is not actually possible to take words in a threaded conversation out of context and twist them. The entire thread and your unaltered, original words are right there, for all to see.
You have just constructed a giant straw man that does not in any way reflect his actual stated reasoning for pulling the app.

He is not opposed to ad blocking. He is not opposed to ad blocking apps. He doesn’t think people blocking ads are acting immorally. He doesn’t think overbearing ads aren’t a problem or are definitely needed.

Figuring out the actual reason he states for withdrawing the app is left as an exercise to the reader.
There is demand for all sorts of products you personally are capable of building, yet wouldn't for reasons of personal ethics. Should we judge you on your failure to bring these to market? After all, if you don't build it someone else will.
...and what're the odds globally of a random person dying from a gunshot? I could ask about specific other nations with different firearms laws, but let's start with the general case.
This study? That's my point, an overall trend in a statistic with multiple confounding variables says nothing at all about any specific variable. The study is either correct or flawed. The overall crime rate is NOT evidence against nor for the study.
In 5 years we'll all just be using a SoC as the entire computer, so likely there will be no free operating systems considering they'll also make it illegal to tamper with any approved operating system bootloaders/firmware so can't replace anything on it.
Correction for you:

I think this is a pretty clear failure of corporatism...
I would speculate that even if hardware progress were to stop today, we would still see advancement in the speed of computer systems for quite some time. All just from optimizing what we are already doing, or (as others have pointed out) not doing unnecessary things.

There are so many things I'd like to fix if I had the time...
You know, I've long wondered this for the Bay Area.

The question in my mind is...how much of the housing crisis, rents, and raw population are coming from people employed by startups that are most at risk of this?

Google, FB, Apple, Adobe, etc. have strong revenue (perhaps other issues, but there is no argument that there is money to be made and that they are making it). They also employ massive numbers of people. If a so-called funding bubble bursts, is it really going to make a dent in the other areas like you suggest? Or is the bulk of the "tech industry" comprised of the larger tech companies?

If it is the larger tech companies, and a bubble bursts, it might provide less flexibility for leaving to start your own thing, and there may be overall less competition, but they still compete against each other for top talent, and need way more resources than a startup does.
And this is not reddit.
So this story (not the Clinton tweet, about the drug price increase) has been everywhere today.

Why is this Clinton's fault?
It would be nice for someone to start a non-profit organization supported by donors that would exist purely to purchase rights to these medicines and keep them relatively low-cost to patients.
Huh! I assumed support was gone, seeing as it's been deprecated for a long time.

Now, what should the Markdown syntax be...
So we will roll glibc and everything else into the counts too?

My point was it isn't "hipster" to use something that is fast and efficient.
FYI, the plural of 'virus' is actually 'viruses' [1] according to English dictionaries and reference souces.

1. http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
fault? Their stock dropping sounded pretty good to me.

"cop blamed for sending child molester to jail."
That's just a pointlessly catty thing to say.
Fuller-Wright, a NASA-funded researcher:

"She didn't want to go," Soviet space scientists told me. "At the last minute, she panicked, and they had to strap her into her seat against her will."
The drug was being produced at a loss. Raising the price so that the manufacturer is able to keep producing it is surely preferable to to no drug at all, right?
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I don't see how pharma is not a free market in this case.

The drug in question isn't even protected by a patent anymore. Other companies are free to create a generic version of it.

Government regulation has nothing to do with this. The free market has everything to do with this. The price of a life saving drug is worth either all your money or however much the seller wants to charge for it, as decided by the free market.
how's this better than just using lodash?