skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely. My mother has a 3gb cap on her broadband every month and this is going to basically break it.

Fuck them for even daring to do this. It's authoritarian arrogance, nothing more.
"Sorry, you'll have to take up that one with the big guy upstairs. The truth is, if you cry, women will be less attracted to you. They will think you are nice and sweet and they will laud your ability to show your emotions. But they will not want to f--k you. Women are attracted to strength and command."

Forgive me for the harsh response, but what absolutely sexist bs.

I am sure there exist some women are exactly how you described. But saying "women are" attracted to one thing or another is just as stupid as describing all men as slobbering idiots who only like blondes or all italians as plumbers obsessed with hopping on goombas.
What's the WWW or the way it's built have to do with it? And the web is just technology, it's not "for" anyone or anything in particular.

Intentions matter - on both sides. This is what most of the legal framework of the entire world is based on. You can disagree with that but again the ability to do something doesn't grant permission to do it. You're saying the solution to that is to remove the ability, but I don't see how that's realistic.
Oh no, not this stuff again.
We're talking hopes and dreams and aspirations and delusions here.

How many billionaires has Stanford generated versus the entire state of Ohio in the past 20 years?
It's much easier to be full of love, justice and mercy when people don't have to worry about money. Studies show a low threshold for that dollar amount but that number is multiple times higher for US major cities.
The Democratic nomination has basically always been guaranteed for Clinton. Sanders, though I certainly prefer him over her, is basically a sideshow to make it look like the Democrats actually support liberal issues and aren't just a moderate deviation from the one-party system. If they didn't run anyone besides Clinton many people would consider supporting a third party or independent candidate, but having Sanders around keeps them identifying with the DNC until he finally gives up the campaign and endorses Clinton.

Support for people who aren't likely to win the general election at least shows what issues are important to voters, forcing them to give some concessions to those issues in order not to lose their base to third parties and independents. That's the real power of supporting people like Lessig and Sanders, even though they clearly won't win. Supporting someone you disagree with more just because they're likely to win is truly "throwing your vote away" - it's working against your own policy preferences to give more votes to someone who doesn't even need them.
And the information era triggers an addiction to know more all the time which is knowing nothing. Schooling, parenting ... sometimes I even wonder how could my parent let me play outside without a cellphone, when in fact, all previous generations did fine.
Well, that's the Buridan's ass problem. You simply don't change course unless the majority is large enough. For example unless clearly over 80% of the country votes a certain way, you keep the status quo. If you are unsure, you keep the status quo.

In the Buridan's problem the solution is a timeout: if you haven't made a decision and can clearly see that the timeout has passed, you pick a certain predetermined decision (in this case the status quo).

Polling also prevents sybil attacks, ballot stuffing etc. and is impervious to voter turnouts.
I'm at least convinced that unless we make phones and iPads into good programming machines, the next generation of programmers will suffer. I know in my own extended family, children are no longer given access to full computers and qwerty keyboards. Their parents will install all sorts of apps on their devices for children, from games to flashcards to entertainment, but it never occurs to them to install something related to programming. If this app can solve that it's a win. But really something like the app JavaScript Anywhere is good enough, except that the iPad onscreen keyboard is particularly unfriendly for programmers (curly braces take 3 clicks to type).
> Could free radicals actually be part of the immune system?

Yes, it it already well-known that generation of free radicals is part of a normal immune response[1]. Basically, certain immune cells go into an inflamed area and start generating and releasing as many free radicals as they can in order to cause maximum damage. So if that particular immune mechanism is important in the body's response to cancer, then taking excessive antioxidants could plausibly impair the body's ability to fight cancer.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10807157
As soon as the burglars figure this out, we're all screwed!
Very cool ! it's an hard game !
Ok, we took "32O Gflop" out of the title. If anyone suggests a better title we can change it again.
There is a difference between being a demanding parent and being a helicopter parent. A demanding parent sets high expectations and offers support, but the kid must bring their own motivation and effort. A helicopter parent not only sets high expectations but does the work for the student to make sure they are met.

The classic example is the parent who goes into the school and harangues the teacher when their student gets a bad grade on an assignment. A demanding parent communicates their disappointment with their kid, not the teacher. A demanding parent lets their kid fail and then delivers consequences. Overcoming failure is how people develop motivation and mental toughness.

Stanford (and Harvard, MIT, CalTech, etc.) have been hard to get into for many decades, and students got into them. Helicopter parents justify their coptering with the sentiment above, but that doesn't mean it's true. You don't need to helicopter to have a high performing kid.

And not every kid is going to perform at the top level, and IMO a good parent needs to be ok with that. I think when the parental expectations don't meet reality, that's when helicoptering can start.
Actually, most things laptops do are pretty generic, but manufacturers seem obsessed about owning the "experience" of doing the most basic things.

My ThinkPad T430 runs Windows 10 without any Lenovo crapware, and it's such a smooth experience. No more invisible windows randomly popping up in the taskbar, stealing my keyboard focus, no more dozens of TPCRAP.EXE in my autostart.
Also, if that were true about how to get into Stanford, we would likely be heading for a crash in such schools' reputations as places that churn out top quality graduates because they are selecting for the wrong attributes. I don't actually think Stanford is going to let that happen.
>the operation involves a clear cut act of economic warfare

What act of "economic warfare" are you referring to? Huawei's much-publicized theft of source code from CISCO? Unless you have actual evidence of the NSA passing on the intelligence it gathered to domestic firms, you have little basis for characterizing their efforts to ascertain the extent of Huawei's relationship with the Chinese government and PLA as "economic warfare."

If anyone but Snowden leaked this sort of information to the Chinese or Russians, there would be little debate about whether or not they deserved some sort of punishment for it.

Snowden's American supporters come across as shrill or even perfidious for excusing this conduct.
I remember one US senator joked that the house of lords was more democratic than the Senate - this was pre reform BTW.
My good friend Kyle posted his C++ port here: https://github.com/kylegranger/ImageScaling
Microsoft has been pushing to put himself back into the stage lights (open source, surface pro|book engineering). If they were willing to really give users help and resources, maybe deals for hardware upgrade so customers have the smoothest upgrade possible it would make a difference. Musk have been doing this with Tesla, every time something caused troubles, he gave it for "free".
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>Just that they exist would entitle anyone to the right to view them, if they could get them?

You've got the "rights" the wrong way around - it's not that people have the right to see the boudoir photos, it's that people have the right to copy photos they own, and the husband/wife are not allowed to infringe on that right.

Basically, it's not "thou shalt not kill", rather than "right to life", although people implicitly do have the right to copy.

The exception being, obviously, copyright - which is a temporary state-sanctioned monopoly on the right to copy your works (in other words, you're temporarily the sole holder of the copy right), for the sake of producing more artistic works for the general public.
Do you have any evidence for this assertion - or are you just smarter than everyone else?
Perhaps. Certainly it's easier to be conventionally happy with enough money. And conversely, I think that folks who have a strong moral foundation find it a lot easier to make enough money. The arrow of causation quite likely runs both ways. But I know that the strongest sense of community and loyalty that I've seen are from working-class folks who may not have much money but who happen to have a strong underlying moral foundation.
Diffbot offers a series of awesome automatic APIs for data extraction -- no setting up manual rules, just provide a URL you want to extract data from and they'll visually process and extract automatically. Also provide a crawler and bulk extractor, and a free trial -- www.diffbot.com
My wife and I just had our first baby and were having a similar discussion, re letting our kid fail to learn to succeed and not being helicopters.

Historically speaking, most of the really successful people now aren't successful because they went to an Ivy League school (though maybe those connections help), they succeed because they TRY despite the chance of failure and learn from the failures (and smaller mistakes) to not repeat them.
It is a fun game but I think it is too similar to 2048.
Based in the midwest. I agree that $60 per hour is low. If you know of anyone who will pay more, please send them my way :)
>become a billionaire in 8 years versus go to a state school and work for the billionaires

If the only thing that matters in life is how much money you make, this might be relevant.

Otherwise, working for those billionaires as a college grad isn't that bad.
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I am not against unreasonable regulation, rather I'm in favor of broad principled regulation that takes the form laws passed by Congress and interpreted by courts. The Securities and Exchange Act of 1933 is a good example as was Glass-Steagall.

A law like Dodd-Frank on the other hand is an example of rent seeking by banks while Congress gets bought off while they act under the guise of 'reining in the banks.'
> 1 billion molecules is orders of orders of magnitude far

Understatement. There are 50 trillion atoms in a cell, 50 trillion cells in a human body (give or take an order of magnitude or two for definitions and caveats). Furthermore, big swaths of chemistry/biochemistry are inherently quantum mechanical (classical mech + E&M doesn't explain why molecules snap into little geometric shapes, let alone how those shapes interact) which has god-awful asymptotic complexity on account of the "present state" of the system (wavefunction) being a probability for each possible configuration of the system rather than a description of a single configuration.

A purpose-built silicon supercomputer will struggle to simulate a single small protein using classical-mechanics approximations for a millisecond (and there are millions of those per cell and trillions of cells per body). There's a lot of room for improvement.
https://news.usc.edu/82959/diet-that-mimics-fasting-appears-... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9741137)
Yeah , lol , try to scrap Google search results and see how Google has such a positive attitude. not.
bu-but then how will you be able to view my un-skippable pop-up marketing video, my amazing photo carousal.

And don't tell me you actually like default browser scrolling, my custom JS scrolling is much better.

Oh and don't worry about the load time, that only happens the first time, after that the 30Mb of content is cached so its fine.

:^)
Realpolitik 101. Which is the only kind of politik proven to work with a track record.
ST could do this

some years ago i rendered .rst urls using a cgi shell script that drove rst2html.py from docutils.
Of course not. The provided quote from Eric S. Raymond -- who, in my mind, is more of someone who intelligently analyzes these matters better than most people than is someone popular/ famous/ worshipped -- is to illustrate the 14 years of personal experience dealing with nerds (7 years in India; 7 years in the West; plus various interactions over the internet with people from other cultures) wherein it became clear, again and again, that the nerd culture has been one of the most inclusive cultures I've been with. Indeed, just in the last month I have seen two incidents where the non-nerds (the so called "women in tech") have clearly demonstrated their lack of empathy (and there have been more such incidents, outside of tech).
Fair point; although I’ve done a fair amount of work as an external developer I haven’t actually tried to get work on those sites.
I'm afraid there's no consensus among HN users about this. In lieu of that, we usually prefer the most substantive popular article on a topic, unless the paper is likely to be accessible to the non-specialist audience here.
The problem is that I typically work for small startups that don't have a big budget to work with.

I'm also not sure what sort of data the people in this thread are working with. I can't make $125k per year in the midwest as a fulltime developer (unless I'm freelancing - and even then keeping steady contracts has been near impossible). In fact I'm not seeing those numbers anywhere outside of the west coast - I applied for a fulltime job in CO recently and they balked at $90k... said they couldn't go over $60k.

Edit: recently quoted a local client at $75 per hour... he looked visibly perturbed and never got back to me.

A few contracts back I quoted $80 per hour and was told max budget was $60/hour (which I had to accept out of desperation).

I hear a lot of talk on the internet (especially HN) about people making massive amounts of money as contractors, but I have yet to see this in action. On the other hand $10k per month isn't that bad.
Europe's love affair with diesel cars has been a disaster
I do agree that some parents feel that way, but they're wrong. A graduate of Stanford (or Harvard, etc.) can still fail, and fail hard. A job environment is far less forgiving than even "hard" schools like Stanford. A top-school diploma gets a kid in the door, but then it's up to them. A boss is not going to give a bad employee a break because their mom dropped by.

At the same time, the range of available jobs is huge. The idea that it's "Stanford or Starbucks" is not reality.
Do you use TrackPoint? If you do, these drivers are inevitable. Considering how fragile and inconsistent across models and versions they are I'd say good luck.

Nice coinage: "TPCRAP.EXE"
YC becomes a VC ;)
Read the readme again. The interactive ZKP does not reveal classified information about the actual transaction to the tracker, which is required to authorize it.

In theory, yes, a tracker could be malicious. It could even simply delete its record of all the coins and then refuse all transactions. Or change every coin so it cannot be spent. Actually the one thing it couldn't do is spoof transactions, because it doesn't know the secret key of a single coin it tracks. So it would have to make up a new coin, which would be easily detectable by other trackers because there must be a public consensus on how new coins are created (i.e., their public keys must be prime). So you would, once again, have to compromise every single tracker to spoof a transaction. Then you are right that there is no way to audit, but then you have bigger problems anyway (like people stealing money from exchanges) even before you get there.

Which brings me to the /real/ problem with my implementation, the coins are not worth nearly as much as bitcoin or zerocoin yet :P.
Regarding #1 - I drink a lot of craft beers. And I also like Blue Moon and couldn't care less what others think. And I have no problem with the big brewers branching out beyond their standard, bland brands and calling it whatever they want. After all these guys have a lot of brewing expertise in house and I think it would be great if they let small teams try out new ideas. As a Colorado guy, I think it would be great to see Coors try out a nice Stout!
Take Microsoft to small claims court for any over-limit fees caused by forced downloads.
At a high enough frequency, scraping is indistinguishable from a DDoS attack. Do you believe DDoS attacks are OK? How do you draw the line?
Exactly. There are always drawbacks no one persons background can predict the outcome of their lives which is why I believe it's an art – almost performing arts — more than a pedagogic or scientific enterprise.
This is in the article that the rest of us read:

"She urges families to think more broadly about what makes for a “good” college. There are excellent educational experiences to be had at schools that aren’t among U.S. News and World Report’s top 20, she says, and there are schools that will accept students who don’t have a perfect resume."
Who cares if Snowden broke the law if our own country is no longer ruled by law?

I hear a lot of talk of whether Snowden should be punished or whether he should get a trial, but no talk about the punishment for the NSA. Until I see someone from the NSA going to jail for life, these kinds of questions are moot.
This is so true. However, I don't think it should start after you have children. When I decided to settle down and have children, I only dated very intelligent women based on their profession and if they were in MENSA. At the time when we decided to have children, we took our best eggs and sperm to produce the best genetically intelligent children we could.

So, for these "vintage" parents who are just getting their kids into Stanford, I applaud them. But because it's getting more and more competitive, I pity parents who don't start their helicoptering before the child before it is in the womb!
Thank you, Mr. Lessig.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10138724
Windows 10 – Cortana and Notification Center Forensics
>Has, even the US done something like that for members ofRussia's or China's intelligence services?

People like that's called political refugees. Every civilized country accepts them to some extent.
Yes, but it only knows the public key. Which is not a number in any way associated publicly with the identity of the owner...it's essentially a (discrete exponent of a) random number that identifies the coin.
Assuming "getting into Stanford" is the gold standard of parenting success. Plenty of billionaires who didn't even go to college. I refuse to make the admissions committee of Stanford be the judge of my parenting. By the plenty of graduates from 'good' schools working as baristas. Barista status has zero to do with your school accomplishment but with intrinsic traits such as motivation, ambition and creativity.
The memory used by the JIT will at some point remain constant but before that happens, it will grow as the JIT considers more and more traces to be worthy of compilation.

It can take a very long time until the memory consumed by the JIT actually remains constant. If you do continuous integration and deploy several times per day, your application might never reach that point.
Maybe the mods will be kind enough to replace the OP's post URL with this one.
I really need to look into this then, some months I make $0 and last year my total income was below the income tax threshold, yet I'm still paying some $50 minimum monthly on my staffords.
Congratulations, you've invented Larry Lessig's idea. He noted that $50 per voter would be enough to swamp the contributions from the billionaires.
In the world we actually live in, sexism is true. Men and women are different.

Now obviously, there is great variation among human beings. While men are generally physically strong than women, obviously a very small percentage of women can bench press more than the median man.

But when the number of exceptions in a general pattern is small, say less than 5%, then I drop the qualifiers because qualifiers make for lousy writing. It is better English and still fully truthful to make a statement like, "men are stronger than woman" rather than the statement "on average men are stronger than woman" because the number of exceptions to the generalization is quite small.

I feel quite confident in saying that >95% of women will experience an increase in romantic attraction to a man who shows strength and command, and will be less attracted to a man who cries because his boss chewed him out. I base this on hundreds, possibly thousands of data points from my own experience and the shared experience of others.

"But saying "women are" attracted to one thing or another is just as stupid as describing all men as slobbering idiots who only like blondes or all italians as plumbers obsessed with hopping on goombas."

This analogy is so bad that can I only surmise that you are actively arguing in bad faith. Again, every woman I know is more attracted to a man when he performs feats of strength and command. No Italians I know are plumbers obsessed with jumping on goombas. So no, your analogy is terrible. Meta question -- why did you make such a willfully stupid analogy?
I don't think it's unethical to pull down a copy of public information. If you pull too fast it might be considered rude (heavy load on the server). That's why some sites reflexively block all scrapers, hence the rotating IP feature. Hopefully this tool is rate-limited so it's not rude.

In terms of copyright, what matters is what you do with the scrape. If you scrape a public website for personal use, it's no different from just browsing it for personal use. If you try to republish the content for your own benefit, you'll run afoul of copyright law.
Or it will extend to the previous generation, like in this Portlandia skit: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BLW0MnqH0r8
"Lythcott-Haims said many parents ask how they can unilaterally deescalate in what feels like a college-admissions arms race. How can they relax about getting their child into Harvard if every other parent is going full speed ahead?"

Uh, I think there are other schools ... and by the way they all use the same textbooks. Maybe the problem is American credentialism?
It can yes, but like anything else it often provides the opposite, even setting aside the download time.
Show HN: ScriptObservatory.org – How much malicious JavaScript goes unnoticed?
Also, I'm starting to see semi-big labels come out with fairly decent original crafty beers such as Sierra Nevada's Narwhal and New Belgium's La Folie. These are definitely not repackaged ShockTop and they are doing a fair job of competing with smaller brews for tap space at beer snob bars.
That doesn't surprise me. I think there is an element of truth in the cocaine Conservative, champagne Socialist and latte Liberal stereotypes.
The question is about how other people use the site. My read is that is different from commenting directly on "why doesn't the site have x feature?" It is easy for respondents to take the discussion in the direction of criticizing site features, but it isn't necessary.
I agree that there sometimes exists philosopher kings and executives. But I also think it's a dice roll very much against the whistleblower's favor.
Yes, a bunch of them, including fluconazole, which is a first-line treatment for common fungal infections.
Getting Over Taxis
Swift 2.0: Print and Repeat-While