skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest one (TMOU) had 2074 people (in teams of 5) this year at the online qualification round. 1074 people passed to the actual puzzle hunt.

For a intellect based hobby event for Czech-speaking people, I'd say those numbers are pretty big.
I'm sure its the cats, but you might want to get a Carbon Monoxide detector just in case: https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/34l7vo/ma_posti...
Man, I don't think I'm clever enough to enjoy these.

How often do they resort to P&C adventure game logic?
An old bilingual hacker mate once commented to me, on learning German, that it's a stack based languages, as all the verbs are at the end of the sentence...
> Since 1995, we’ve seen an increase in datacenter NIC speeds go from 10Mb to 40Gb, with 50Gb and 100Gb just around the corner.

This has been a huge factor for our firm.

Trading systems used to be, by necessity, monolithic in design. Your risk system, feed handlers, portfolio management, strategies, execution management, and drop copy/logging systems were all built into one process due to poor speed of interproceess communication, even on the same vlan. You just couldn't get the required performance and certainty with a distributed system. I mean its nice that your distributed database is eventually consistant over the course of 500 milliseconds, but that's a couple of order of magnitude too slow

Now, networks are sooooooo fast and bandwidth is so plentiful that we can afford to split many of the major subsystems onto different machines.

It's important to note that we don't split these subsystems up for redundancy, I mean we aren't Netflix, we can't pull out major subsystems and keep trading. if one goes down we intentionally take down the entire system. You can laugh at me here if you'd like....

Rather we split the systems up so that we can test and upgrade them easier. Before the split, each upgrade was a major change that might have happened 2x a month, now we can upgrade individual systems 2-3 times a week. Agian, you may laugh now, but I put a very big premium on stability and certainty.

I remember talking to someone at Google who told me that their low latency RPC framework was considered to be one of their key technological advantages. Having made the move over the course of a couple of years, I'd be inclined to agree, a robust and fast RPC framework is an incredibly freeing piece of technology.
The problem is that the choice as to whether they actually "listen" to my uploaded processed audio is up to them, not me. At this point the only assurance is "we don't listen."
To invoke the late Chris Farley for the love of God why can't the comment text be larger? (iPad iOS 9.1)
Their main functionality is that data, which user knows before installing the app.
It's lucky that you were born with such a sense of knowing your place in the world and not striving to be more than society lets you be... It must be a great source of comfort.

There are many many examples of people who have done what society said couldn't be done because of who they are, what race they are, what sex they are, what circumstances they are shackled by... by many accounts the honey bee shouldn't be able to fly.

Imagine where you could be if you said "Fuck that, I'll define my own destiny thanks."
A fun prank to play on peoples' code
Tastefully arranged 3x3 dick grid. Next they should make them rotate around.
Anyone who has seen the responsiveness of e.g. AmigaOS under heavy load next to many modern systems might be inclined to want (more) multi-threaded GUIs.

Heavy use of multi-threading to disconnect GUI updates from the actual work was essential to making that happen.

AmigaOS sacrificed throughput over responsiveness all over the place (e.g. something as trivial as cut and paste from a terminal would easily involve half a dozen threads with message passing).

You don't need separate threads for every little component, though.
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Wow, this comment has a lot of anger towards someone just doing a post-mortem of the lessons they learned.

It illustrates something that I don't understand. Why do you care so much that you significantly affect the tone on this HN discussion? You bring up some excellent points, but your tone completely changes how your comment is perceived, and detracts from your contributions.

I am now going to take my own advice -- when you perceive someone else's words as so obnoxious that you cannot help but respond -- and ditch my HN account and re-add it to my blocklist.

Thank you for providing me with the impetus to regain hours of my day.
They do, but they're merely tendencies: You get a wide range of things in any country, unfortunately the world isn't black and white.
They could rate limit the unlock attempts by blocking the lock for a few seconds or minutes after failed attempts. :)
I don't know Tool at all, actually. Listening to Lateralus now though, thanks for the heads-up!
That sucks, but let us talk about the real social issues, like guys spreading their legs on the metro and scantily clad female characters in video games.
Hm. All my critics are competitors or bad actors we had to ban. Convenient. Or paranoia.

In all seriousness though, I worry about the co-founder(s) mental health. It's all fun to poke at people and say they've lost it, but running a startup is a highly stressful endeavour and it shouldn't be ignored when people break, which I suspect has happened in this case.

It's a tough situation. They'll want to defend what they have, tooth and nail, because it means everything to them. We'll want to counter against what they say, because we feel it's wrong to let that sort of thing go unchallenged. But who wins?
It's about time. Unfortunately it's not really up to the Europarliament. It's a nice signal, but it doesn't mean that Snowden will get asylum; that's still up to the individual countries.
Launched On-Demand delivery services for medicine
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I have no doubt that a design that goes with the physics (instead of going against it like Tokamaks do) is going to yield great results, however I hope something comes out if it that will also allow for viable Tokamaks. Stellarators are hellishly complex and expensive.
It is forbidden imagery. Not only is it forbidden, people get extremely repulsed, revolted, indignant, angry, bothered, and censorious at the mere mention of a perfectly ordinary human organ. Imagine if the moralites went "HIDE YOUR KIDS, HIDE YOUR WIFE, CLOSE YOUR DAUGHTERS' EYES, THERE IS A SPLEEN DRAWN ON THE WALL!". Teenagers would be drawing little ovals all over the place. It's fun mainly because of people's outlandish reactions to a small soft harmless organ you hold every day while you pee.
I have to agree.
Just adopt https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ or at least, start from it! :)
That's a thing I like. Did you get users doing this kind of complex data manipulation? Or did them all just use the app as a simple note-taking app?

I've been making prototypes for a long time now to try to turn Trello (or make my own Trello-like app) into a "data-driven" collaboration platform. I think the idea is similar. My idea was to let people create magic Trello cards that would behave like database queries, or mapreduce views, for example, a card with some special instructions would show an aggregate value based on properties of all other cards in the board, or list; another magic card could show a list of links to some other cards, working as an index; that kind of thing.

From what you say I imagine your app is probably better than what I am only imagining for this Trello-thing. However, my idea was to have this for teams, small businesses and projects. Since I'm not used to note-taking apps, calendars, smartphones or anything like that I don't imagine a tool like this for my own "casual data" (but the name "casual data" is a good one, maybe you should use it more on your marketing efforts).
> The key to a successful nuclear reactor of any kind is to generate, confine, and control a blob of super-heated matter, called a plasma — a gas that has reached temperatures of more than 180 million degrees Fahrenheit.

Um, what? I'm about to pass a nuclear fission plant on my way to work, and I surely hope there are no plasmas in that.

AKA, they mean fusion reactor.
Spiritual intelligence
This may not work exactly as planned if your target string is expected to be long enough. You can see from his example that the fetching takes place out of order, as expected from asynchronous calls.
It's set to post a little later in the (US east coast) morning on the first Monday of the month.
Pretty sure governments don't share the same view.
OK, so one Uber driver has been molested, and it's probably not the first, but:
1. even if he did not have a dash cam, finding the guy would have been easy: he booked a ride with the app, linked to it's bank account, which is not the case for a regular taxi driver.
2. Even with the partition (it's probably not bulletproofed, neither the windows of the car) any taxi driver knows he can meet intoxicated / violent people, this is also not specific to Uber (it's probably less current with Uber since point 1.)
3. The altercation is 15s in length, what could have done a dispatcher from his booth 15km away?

Honestly this looks like some poor news story including a huge name in it, but nothing quite revealing in it.
Well, it's not THAT hard. Find a good host with clean IPs, check the IP against RBLs before embarking on running your own email, if it's listed demand a clean IP instead.

It's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's far from brain surgery.
1. HelloAviva (http://helloaviva.com/?ref=hn) - Niche app for new parents that helps them feel less isolated in their new context. Shows them the places they can go in town with stroller / small baby.

2. Had a kid and discovered how hard it is to take a baby outside the home. We didn't know where to go or how to easily solve small problems like diaper changes.

3. GF and I are doing this learn the whole lean startup / app / growth thing.

Currently in the Apple app store with an MVP and see a lot of room for growth and improvements. We've been live since the summer and have managed to get into Product Hunt as well as the newsletter for the editor of a major news publication in Sweden.
Nice! There was a BBC4 Radio version as well, but it doesn't seem to be available on the iPlayer ;(
> There would be no economic loss.

Taking cash from the economy, which is a productive asset, useful for investment, and purchasing land which you plan to do nothing with, is most definitely an economic loss. There is no question about this step.

>It's hard to get exact numbers

and

>I think the basic idea is sound

So give us an estimate. Mine is orders of magnitude above what billionaires could affect. It's vastly more than the difference between the gap between value of coal versus mineral rights. I produced a first estimate. Hand waving without giving a more refined estimate does not make it go away.

Another factor is to slow down production today one has to buy more than mineral rights - one has to buy working mines, possibly related infrastructure/equipment/contracts if the mine owner (or other interested/entwined parties) have investment that goes to waste if the mine closes, etc. So the above, merely estimating the coal, while a simple estimate, may be close to actual costs involved to purchasing the coal mining industry out from under itself.

You also ignore the fact I stated that as places get purchased, since this does not change demand, so other places will simply produce more or more places will become coal mines.

The billionaire plan, even at its most perfect execution, is unlikely to affect the overall production much at all.
Just have the ability to send closures (std::function) to other threads' message queues. Then you can use inline lambda syntax.
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Explain why that's any worse than putting private information on a server on with port 80 open. Go!
How Carz Increased AdSense CTR by 17% and Earnings by 22%
Is this not a huge thing yet in america? I've done like six or seven of these here in London. Most of them are good fun. There seem to be new ones starting up every month as well.
Time for a dramatic "drop the microphone and walk off stage" moment, I agree. If only to put a period on the entire conversation and attempt to stop the bleeding.
Show HN: Libcox – Cross Platform Unix Commands and System Calls
I thought about the rarely used Virtual Base Class of C++. https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/multiple-inheritance#virtual-inh...
Why use sourceforge?
AMD announces new driver initiative, will retire Catalyst software
For the mentioned directives you are right, the way to force them on non-compliant member states is through fines (but those are enforced in the ECJ). However, it's well established that they have a direct effect on individuals even when member states refuse to comply (see for example Francovich v Italy). Also, in many cases the EU can issue regulations. Those are directly valid in all member states without them needing to do anything.
You don't need a title to take responsibility.
We use sourceforge only for the mailing lists. We're moving to self-host them but it takes a lot of time and effort to do so.
The Problem with the Data Science Language Wars
Well, you kind of need a number to not be a prime to successfully factor it (into anything other than 1 and itself).
has anyone used opencl to program FPGA's? How was it? What's the perf like?
This is garbage and you know it. You're choosing to be deliberately blind to an accurate assessment of the consequences. If we took the article at its word, you would be put to death.

Proposals for codes of ethics are about this exact issue - you don't get to build something that provides capability, then put up your hands and say you "didn't know what it was for" when it's used for something bad.
Looks like gamification to me. Including the fact that what they measure (and effectively gamify) is what the person focuses on changing.
I suspect it's a mere challenge for the "troll" to see if they can beat the system. If not, they'll try harder until they can. The more challenge the more rewarding it is, thus the harder they try and eventually succeed unless it's impossible (in which case they figure it out and quit trying).

It's really the sincerest form of hacker spirit which manifests itself this way. Why? Because internet^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Hitler.

Edit: Well, I didn't quite address the art part but still.
Then there's the systemd-provided socket which buffers any request while systemd's watchdog restarts the service. In the meanwhile systemd writes a coredump to the journal to which later gdb can be easily attached by running 'coredumpctl gdb $(which robustircd)'.
I thought it was about OOP.
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Ok. I'm leaning towards the passenger here.

One of the reasons people call for an Uber are because they're drunk - which is good. This has been touted as a good thing in Uber's early days.

The driver could have been gentler than provoke a drunk guy.

I'm open to incoming criticism against my point of view.

(Oh! some admin guy decided to pull this off the trending page)
I can't eat food and thus keep dying when I have food in my inventory. I got asked 1 time (f)ood. Can't figure out how to use food at a time that suits me.

*out-of-context
I think the idea (no pun intended) is that they don't know themselves. There are certainly parallels with the modern web.
How do you print the user-customized text on the front, then? You got that part right, you forgot to print your own logo on the back.

And I've done t-shirt orders from screen printers before. It doesn't take a month.
My applied takeaway:

> “Good decision making is not a trait of the person, in the sense that it’s always there,” Baumeister says. “It’s a state that fluctuates.” His studies show that people with the best self-control are the ones who structure their lives so as to conserve willpower. They don’t schedule endless back-to-back meetings. They avoid temptations like all-you-can-eat buffets, and they establish habits that eliminate the mental effort of making choices. Instead of deciding every morning whether or not to force themselves to exercise, they set up regular appointments to work out with a friend. Instead of counting on willpower to remain robust all day, they conserve it so that it’s available for emergencies and important decisions.
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I like the reusability of the parts, but other than that it looks like Grasshopper but for 2D instead of 3D. And code-based instead of patch-based.
Show HN: Elbi – good on the go
Our London-based non-profit startup has recently launched our first product, we'd love any feedback and comments. It's a platform for encouraging small acts of charity and philanthropy from its users, you can find out more on our website: https://www.elbi.com/about.html

It's early days yet, our app is currently only on iOS and its feature-set is pretty minimal but we've got big plans and lots of ideas for the future! We're just starting to iterate on those and the feedback we're getting from the charities that we've onboarded so far as well as our users.
I feel like these truths expand to many things, far more than just networking alone. Especially 2a and 11.
In the first paragraph on the linked page

> In 1944, CIA’s precursor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), created the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.
Fair point. The web UI and (iirc) imap/pop daemons are Java based. The smtpd is postfix. It also uses MySQL for some of its storage, and OpenLDAP for authentication. On the other hand, it scales well.
Nice idea, but i suppose it's to featured for a "MVP"... I'm curious how long you spent on this ?
No because WAN vs LAN Speeds are quite different your not going to get Infinband to the home anytime soon
And how did VW handle it?

CEO resigned, 10 board members suspended, all non-management employees (engineers, programmers, etc) have full immunity, even if they worked on the defeat device.

That’s the most honorable reaction one could expect, and it allows to get rid of the issue.
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I think that you forget that most of the people on Orcas are retired, and don't have the same fears that we have regarding snooping of data. My parents retired to Orcas over a decade ago, and all of their neighbors are 60+. Also, their internet habits are very different than my household - they check emails once per day, and that is really it.
Nucleons are reacting. It's most definitely a nuclear reactor of some type.
Not yet, but they're getting to be. I've seen a few pop up for Halloween this year then there's a few touristy cities out there that permanently have them.
What is a helper? Is it a design pattern? Is it an algorithm?
In many countries in Europe a taxi is required to have an alarm on board, which is connected to the police. That is one of "poor" regulations of the taxi business that Uber claims is old and not appropriate anymore.
The NRA wants us to live in fear the profitable logic behind arming everyone
It is definitely more accurate than that. I made some changes to make sure it is compatible with all sensitivity settings.
This would be a far more interesting experiment if users could only modify a small subset of the characters per commit (a bit like GitHub Plays ASCII Art).
It looks ok in firefox and chrome on the nexus 5x. Comments clip off the screen when you click into a comment section. When you zoom out, they're harder to read.
I put in a deletion request for my account as well (https://www.livecoding.tv/wmoxam/).

The handling of this situation has completely nuked any trust I ever had in this service.
nuclear reactor of any kind

They're not disputing the nuclear term, but fission vs. fusion.
My recollections from Wikipedia back in 2005 were quite impressive given the massive scale and open contribution barriers of the project.

In fact, the reception is just as split today as it was back then. Especially in light of increased grievances regarding how Wikipedia's bureaucracy operates.
"We will send you an Amazon gift card to soothe things a bit." Now that goes to show how serious you're in solving this saga. This is comedy gold according to my dictionary.
This is exactly right. Regardless of which technology proves viable first, the reactors will have their parts built in the same factories.
Of course not - I'm skeptical of everyone's intentions and specifically think through how to best protect my own privacy (I don't have a Facebook account). Of course, Facebook didn't choose "Don't be evil" as their slogan so you can assume the standard "Make money by any means possible" slogan. Yes, I'm appropriately jaded.

In any case, the comment I responded to was pretty specific in asking us to trust that the programmers motives were pure. I wanted to point out that things could turn creepy later in the business life-cycle even if the original motives were non-evil.
It seems to me that this guy ("Dr" Michael Garbade) is just a complete fraud. His supposed doctoral thesis can be found here:

http://www.slideshare.net/mjmjg/differences-in-venture-capit...

I mean, just read this small snippet. It honestly seems like it was written by an average high school freshman...

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1.2 Research Objectives

Although there are certainly differences in the venture capital financing of startups within one given country, this study no more than focuses on the differences across countries: US, UK, Germany, and France. The Boston way of venture capital financing of startups indisputably differs somehow from the California way. Likewise, the London way of venture capital financing of startups indubitably deviates from the Manchester way. Supposedly, the Paris way of venture capital financing of startups is distinctive from the Lyon way. Moreover, the Munich way of financing of startups alternates from the Berlin way. The research study willfully neglects a priori the minor differences within each country and views each country as a homogeneous cluster. Therefore, the implicit assumptions of this empirical research study are:

* There is a US way of venture capital financing of startups

* There is a UK way of venture capital financing of startups

* There is a German way of venture capital financing of startups

* There is a French way of venture capital financing of startups

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Then, if you want a real laugh, go to page 24 of that "thesis" to behold Figure 1 (Link between e-Commerce and e-Business). There are literally 2 circles shown, one inside of the other.

I really think YC has been played here.
What would the taxes be if I exercise my startup options?
Hacker News IS RESPONSIVE (:
Actually, the US invested in both the National Ignition Facility for H-Bomb and Fusion research, and in ITER.

Just because the US invests rarely in civilian research doesn’t mean they never do (compared to military research; compared to other countries they still invest a lot in civilian research)
It sounds similar to scavenger hunts in the US. A scavenger hunt might be a simpler thing, but the more complicated one would still probably be called a scavenger hunt.

I guess they are mostly being done by social groups for their members, not for customers.
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> all non-board employees have full immunity, even if they worked on the defeat device

I'm not trying to pick a fight, but how is that in any way honorable?