skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the comments:

"Will be interesting to see whether customers will agree to pay a premium for a risk that they do not understand much less can quantify.

The elephant in the room is that all European companies engaged in international commerce are breaching European data protection laws in some way on any given day. The vagueness and subjectivity of many obligations under the legislation leave businesses in an almost impossible position. And most citizens have no idea what benefits the legislation bestows on them because it is so complicated and philosophical. The regime has been in place since 1995 and since that time the average Jo, Jean, Juan and Johannes have all had their 'privacy' massively eroded, however you define that term. The one benefit it was meant to have was harmonisation to make the single market work, but that hasn't really worked either. Frankly, it is a complete sham and failure.

Whilst the single market is powerful force for good, it is continually under attack from this sort of well-intentioned but barmy 'social' protection initiative. All it seems to benefit is the army of regulators at a national and European level who engage in endless navel gazing, looking out for the next hapless target to keep them gainfully employed."
It's still acceptable to send them by plane. Most US airlines accept "unaccompanied minors", for an extra charge of $150 or so.[1] Interestingly, kids 15 and over can usually just buy a ticket and go; for United Air Lines, it's 12.

[1] https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/travel/specialneeds...
Though, not as pricey as the networks at conference centres - and a one off cost too. A box like she has would set you back around £200 (http://www.3grouterstore.co.uk/3G/Proroute-GEM420-M2M-4G-Rou...)
Wasn't that the movie with the scene where the founders are presented with deal terms and given X hours to decide and they think they can't consult with any outside people (attorneys, etc) during that time?

Does that ever really happen? My instant answer would be "No" if I was seriously given that restriction.
Rough prices were in fact quoted, since prices for convention wifi were quoted and the hotspot pricing is less.
No I think that's doable. But I don't think it's worth their time to make them IMO.
I'm using http://svven.com

It discovers the people that tweet same links as I do, and gives me what else they tweet.

Disclaimer: I built it.
Disclaimer: I work at a game engine company.

I wouldn't say it's different but rather improved. There's still a lot of passion and focus on the exciting things rather than reliability and the politics are much more befitting game companies than corporate IT (I've worked at both). That said there's much less crunch and is much more like corporate IT in that there's a regular schedule, more known goals, and more predictability in your paycheck.

Personally I love working on a game engine since it means I can help anyone who wants to build a game. At least at my company I'd say that's definitely the prevailing reason why many of us are here. The biggest drawback at a game company by comparison is that when if you have a great idea of how to fix something you're usually under NDA and cannot help any of your friends elsewhere in the industry. At the engine company your tools help thousands of studios do things better, and solving problems for one studio typically means bugfixes for problems other studios may have as well.

I dunno, that's just kinda what it's like in comparison.
That really depends on what you're developing. A Macbook Air, for instance, definitely doesn't do what I need. I have a top of the line MBP from Fall 2014 (~$2500), and I'm always running into resource constraints.
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I'm looking for a longevity-and-durability oriented device with dumbphone capabilities (phone and text). Don't care about the appearance or other features, just want a reasonably portable phone I can use on US networks.

Any HN denizens have any suggestions? Thanks!
Simple: just outlaw trade and exchange worldwide. You might find it tricky after a while to police the state of affairs, if only because there won't be a system of accounting costs to figure out resource distribution for the police force.
You "would probably aim to make" your own tools for this sort of thing? And you are also asking how much "hot work" is needed to refashion a farrier's rasp into an adze? Something does not add up.
There was a hack a while back where someone sat in a Best Buy parking lot and recorded credit card numbers in plain text as they transmitted between the cash registers and the Access Point wirelessly with WEP protection.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hi-tech-heist/
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That's what I'm saying about it being virtually impossible, by definition, to raise a class of people into power. What would it even look like for the proletariat to be in power? This was the promise of the Russian Revolution, but instead, what happened was that a small group of elites (the Communist Party Central Committee) was formed to do the actual governing, and then the proletariat remained the proletariat.

There are certainly examples of individual sharecroppers who attained power as a result of revolution, eg. William Few. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Few
What a horrible culture that is.
Those that pay for UE benefit from it, even though they pay for it.

Theres no reason they should not want to contribute unless they are a competitor.
A thousand dollars per week for candy? Thats 200 dollars per day. Assuming it costs 10 dollars per kg, thats 20 kg per day. You must have had quite a lot of traffic at the bowl. If everybody took 40 grams, thats 500 people per day.

Or then your financial people are using wrong candy suppliers or, worse, dodgy math...
I used to work in the amyloid field, which is tangentially related - last I recall the companies were getting to 10~25% the tensile strength of spider silk. Which suggested they were doing something fundamentally wrong.

The most obvious thing, to me, was that they were using a chemical called HFIP "hexafluoroisopropanol" to initially dissolve the silk proteins. This solvent forces proteins into a form called alpha helix which in this case abolishes the protein soluble - but the transition to beta sheet (which it needs to be for its strength) is a poor one. The amyloid field was using this a lot, and the results were horrible. The result was extremely irreproducible results, which the field papered over by doing experiments with an n of 1. My graduate thesis was basically doing experiments without HFIP and getting results that actually make sense (with higher Ns).

I reached out to Refactored Materials, which at the time was trying to do the spider silk thing, to suggest they play with the procedures that I had developed for amyloid work, but a trip to visit SF and give a lecture fell through.

Recently, I was in a conversation about a SF biotech that I think rose from the ashes of RM trying to do the spider silk thing, and apparently they aren't using HFIP (or TFE, trifluoroethanol, a similar solvent with similar effects) anymore, but I didn't get too many more details because these companies tend to keep their techniques close to their chest.

Sadly, I still see papers publishing amyloid work with HFIP and TFE going through my google scholar feed (I am now almost 7 years post-PhD).
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Yes, maybe Square does, but that doesn't mean most devices do.
I'm with the FCC on this one... though on the flip side, I wouldn't mind if movie theaters were lined with materials that block wireless signals altogether in the theater/screen rooms.
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The poster you're replying to specifically referenced a book that discusses this and related topics, with tons of citations. You should read it, it's an amazing, important book.
Wifi operates in unlicensed spectrum and transmitters and receivers are required to handle interference in this space. Is it still jamming if it's not a licensed station doing the broadcasting?

</devilsadvocate>

...I suppose it does say "authorized" there, and 2.4 and 5Ghz transmitters are authorized.
This is a good point. I immediately dismissed Clojure when I played with the in-browser REPL http://www.tryclj.com/. Within moments, I imagined the daily plight of the professional Clojure developer tediously balancing parens like I had to do in that REPL.

Had I known how polished my workflow would be a year later with Paredit + Emacs in-buffer line-by-line code evaluation, or that tool-supported s-expression editing would let me write/refactor/move/nest code much faster than in other dynamically-typed languages, I would've stopped what I was doing and started learning Clojure immediately.

But you don't know any of that if you're someone going to http://www.tryclj.com for the first time.

Seems like Parinfer could be used in environments where you don't have Paredit available or, perhaps more importantly, where the user hasn't already credentialized in a niche tool for editing s-expressions.
You're right - it seems there is a little more leeway here. "Annonce" (the typo) was what the parent comment correctly pulled up, but the original form of the verb should have been maintained in any case.
Wow very impressive, looks lie you have 1000's of pages very well organized. You'll definitely be able to sell this at some point I think.

Any plans to monetize?
Well, I think they've reached a level of depravity and institutionalization since that that was unknown in 1791.
I agreee your first rule about fear is the biggest for me. I find it much easier to learn when I'm not worried about 'its taking me too long', 'I'm not learning the right stuff', 'I need to study more'. When I'm scared of learning and failing I don't make the time.

Also, I find learning with other people keeps me motivated and pushes me past the fear. Right now my employer does lunch+learns once or twice a month. I'm more committed because I don't want to appear lazy at work and its more fun when you can talk to other people who are also learning and struggling on the same material.
We just took $1M from a client to build an iOS-only app that can be done just as easily on mobile web. It would support deep-linking, be cross-platform and we could deploy at will and it would have cost about the same. But this way, we get in the app store for as long as Apple permits us.
You don't know NPM
Chado does have substantial performance problems for use as a webserver backend. We use elasticsearch for full-text search and as JSON document store, which improves performance substantially.
And what about the people that know Linux really well, but don't want so many levers and knobs to fiddle with? I use Linux for just about everything except my workstation. Mac OS is the clear winner there because I don't have to/can't really mess with any of the really low level settings, so I can actually work on things that matter. It's an appliance that makes me productive, not a pile of software and hardware that has to be endlessly configured (I used to run Ubuntu, then Slackware, then Arch).

And is it really so surprising that Mac OS is so popular? You have a stable, non-moving target to build your software for, and you don't have to worry about "Well, what if they have version x of this lib instead of version y? Or what if this kernel config option isn't toggled on? Or.." and so on. There's something to be said for homogeneity, especially for software development.
Sitting in your future pull request.
A superset of the trade creates more wealth. That is, for two otherwise equal societies, A and B, where B trades does all the trade that A does, and some extra trade, then B is richer.

But merely "more trade" as in a bigger amount of money changing hands does not let one conclude anything.
Telekom. Telekom also has backplanes to the BND.
So either we have NSA -> BND or BND -> NSA and even if they don't share anything we will still deal with one of them.
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So basically the only normal engineering reason to use PCG is if you need deterministic insecure random numbers: in other words, for simulations and testing code.

It is hard to imagine another scenario in which using an insecure RNG is good engineering. Secure RNGs are somewhat costlier than fast insecure RNGs, but it is very hard to predict which incidental random numbers won't ever need to be secure.

(I would generally take anything 'pbsd says about RNGs to the bank.)
Out of curiosity, what are the specific problems with those things?
One "app" I would use is a browser plug-in that silences the "download our app!" bars on all of these sites when you try to just use them through the website from a mobile/tablet.
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Can you format the quotations as quotations (leading "> ", I think) rather than indenting them? As it is, you have to scroll right to read the entire quotation.
Why any if it?

I have no wired connection whatever. My phone is 4G and I connect to it over wifi.

I regularly watch streamed HD video Broadcasts at about 3-5gbps constant, it maxes out at about 11Gbps.

I would be most annoyed to find myself in a hotel where my laptop was being prevented from connecting with my phone.
Asides from the general warning against building a (long-term) business on someone else's platform, I'd caution against developing for Shopify in particular.

Vague, inconsistent and non-obvious guidelines with regards to themes and apps and sudden (and unannounced) changes in policy have bitten my company in the past. I wouldn't go as far as to say that Shopify are hostile to developers, and some are clearly very successful, but I now approach the Shopify platform by being constantly ready to write off any time invested in building for it.

To be fair, you can say precisely the same about building for Apple's App Store and the Google Play Store, and others. But Shopify is certainly equally capricious.

(Throwaway, because I still have apps and themes in the ecosystem.)
It could have been pink noise rather than white (an argument for using it here would be it has a more similar spectral content to music). Pink noise definitely compresses more though still maybe not that much.
asm.js should have the same sandbox model that JS in general has. Which, while not perfect, has been a bit better than Flash/Java... Removing all programatic functionality from the browser simple isn't a reasonable option. And imho it's better than the binary plugin option.
Why we wanted to be entrepreneur?
My whole point was to say how the industry works and that professional game developers, important word here professional not indie, don't care one little second about the point of view you are expressing.

I do not intend to demonstrate that something, whatever it might be, magically comes for free.
Yep. I recall the "Brightest Flashlight" app being at the top of the ratings for flashlight apps. Then this happened:
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/04/ftc-a...
>According to Dunning-Kruger effect, and expert should

Right there.
Yeah. I originally started out using SSE but I ended up settling on longpolling because of wider browser support and the fact that there are issues with SSE even on newer browsers and polyfills. The knee-jerk reaction nowadays is to use websockets for everything, but sometimes simple is better.
The article had 1.35b as an estimate for cyber monday online sales. Black friday is a lot bigger overall - on the order of 50 billion for the weekend.

Of course in the US there is no single retailer capturing such a huge share of the sales on our invented holidays. But cmon, we pretty much invented the inventing of consumer holidays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Retail...
One of common strategies if you have a large holding in a company and want to diversify is to sell "half". That said, people also tend to trade around round numbers, so the fact that Marc started trading when the stock crossed $100 might have been part of an earlier plan where "if this ever crosses $100 I'm going to cash some out." I bought some Facebook when it was under $20 but left instructions to sell it when, after fees, it doubled the original investment. So pretty much sold it all at $40 ish.

The point I'm trying to make is that buying and selling stocks usually says more about the investors rate of return goals and less about their opinion of the underlying company.
11/11 single's day, the poor dogs without a companion... Craving for social interactions so much that have to buy something over taobao...
>"We also seem unable to develop a media culture that does not fawn all over the rich and powerful."

They get the opposite as well. I've seen so much sheer, unreasoned hatred of the rich, simply for being rich. Almost as if it is assumed that they only got that way by some illegal/immoral means.

Then, you get the other half of that side of the coin. That even if the rich did earn their money using legal/ethical means, they don't deserve it (or to keep/use it). It's inherent in all discussions of wealth inequality. Really, it's not enough to just let it be, but everyone wants to play social-engineer with progressively richer individuals.

One additional thing, that you can see running in this discussion. That legality is not somehow an indicator of fairness/justice. A few commentators here have noted that rich people use tax "holes" and legal financial constructs to "evade" tax, as if it's a bad thing, and as if it's not something that was put in place by legal, democratic means. At this point, I'm inclined to believe that these individuals are content with circular reasoning because none of these points can be proven by themselves, and rather always rely on some other piece of the landscape to deflect critique.
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They're getting fined minutes of revenue, that's practically the same as prison!
There are a lot of new TLDs and I think companies will eventually start using those.
The real reason they want depositors is fractional reserve banking. If you deposit $1, they can go borrow $10 from the federal reserve, loan it out, and be making interest on $10 of created, loaned money.
I tried it out on my Android phone. It's surprisingly smooth, and feels pretty damn close to a native app. Good job!

Try it at https://www.flipkart.com on your phone.
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Along the same lines, but perhaps more accessible, and played with a Yamaha Disklavier player piano:

http://www.kylegann.com/BudRanBackOut.mp3

Kyle Gann - Bud Ran Back Out (Mechanical Piano Study No. 6) (2001)
"The question was whether I could make the Disklavier respond as fast as Bud Powell played. Doubting that I could surpass him, I added some tricks that I hope Powell might have envied, such as playing his ultrafast melodies in chromatic sixths and triple octaves, and simultaneous melodies in tempo ratios of 7 against 8 against 9. It was time for technology to provide a new spin on Thelonious Monk's composition In Walked Bud. The piece is dedicated to Thurman Barker."

More here:

http://www.kylegann.com/Gannmusic.html

http://www.kylegann.com/DisklavierStudiesnotes.html
There was NEVER a time where credit card info was sent over http. When are you talking about?!

HTTP over wired is not secure, either.
Hey Alan! - Tristan here... I remember those times.
In the current system, you have to get money by convincing other people to give it to you. There are plenty of flaws in that which we know all too well, but I couldn't find any description of how "positivemoney" was actually supposed to work, only lists of problems and appeals for donations. There were no descriptions of what it would do to actually solve the issues in the text.

Their description of the problems with debt is particularly confusing because it's not clear how they intend to avoid any of those things. There seems to be a lot of concern about numbers shown in bank accounts and no concern for what happens to production of and access to goods and services, which is what's really important. The comments there are more interesting than the main article: http://positivemoney.org/issues/debt/
Why is so much of design school a waste of time?
>The author is confusing s-expression syntax with Lisp syntax.

Then again what he says is true for 99% of the cases, and a good simplification.

>Even s-expressions are more than lists (conses, cyclic conses, symbols, vectors, strings, various numbers, structures, ...)

Still expressed as lists when it comes to the syntax level.
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The people who are saved by oncall surgeons who might happen to be in a movie theater might beg to disagree.

There are entirely valid reasons why it is illegal to block wifi / cellular signals.
Just a small correction: I don't think anyone pays for UE nowadays. Epic used to charge a monthly fee, but they've done away with that. Now you only pay royalties if your game is commercially successful. Which is different from paying for the engine itself.
> The US government is still undoubtedly going to get the data no matter who stores it, but they're going to have to risk pissing off the German government to get it.

Ahahaha. Our government is knee-deep in the dungheap. The GCHQ spies on Americans to avoid US protections, the GCHQ spies on every European country and the BND is also in the mix.

All that our "government" did was a couple harsh words towards the US, faking a "no spy deal", and behind the records a "continue with spying" to the BND and MAD.
Sure ... but ... what about the fact that consumers fucking LOVE to use Uber & Lyft? It's like marijuana or potato chips made of heroin. People can't get enough of that shit.

How popular will the politicians (e.g. state attorney generals) who push to destroy those businesses be with consumers/voters?

We don't have to look around very hard to see laws/regulations that go unenforced because politicians/regulators fear voter backlash.
That means they require a secure connection, not that they require a wired connection. A wired connection can be insecure (you might stumble across an idle port sitting on the wall somewhere) and a wireless connection can be secure (WPA2 plus TLS is going to be just fine).
I'm the first to call out grammar nazi's and pedantic crap. Despite that, lispm is right to call it out for a correction. It's a factually inaccurate statement that's gives non-LISP readers a misleading impression about what the language and its machine code are likely capable of. It's also spread like wildfire due to constant repetition as lispm noted.

So, it's worth mentioning and replacing with something more accurate.
"i can’t think of many consumer facing mobile apps that have gained massive traction and sustained it in the past three
years. can you?"

Are there consumer facing web sites that have gained massive traction and sustained it in the past three years?

Is the problem really mobile specific or is it just that consumer space has become much harder in general as Facebook and messaging juggernauts capture a lion share of people's attention.

In 2005-2010, when social media was still young, there were a lot of cheap or even free marketing and distribution tactics that were not oversaturated, but now as the new medium has matured a bit, and even less nimble players start to understand the game, you need huge ad budgets to capture attention of consumers.
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This isn't particularly novel. Two good historical examples besides Conlon Nancarrow are:

* Krzysztof Penderecki's Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilGthRhwP8 (music + animated score)

* George Crumb's Black Angels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11o8nHk-l_o - (images from the score via https://goo.gl/2rHYAc)