skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't get all social profile links with google for celebrities : Eg: See this

https://www.google.co.in/#q=barack+obama

Also for doing user searches in social websites, I don't get the results I am looking for:

Eg for query "Barack Obama" from Facebook graph api:
I get :

{

"data": [

{

"name": "Chi Linh Bui",
"id": "248865755297304"
},
{
"name": "Barack Obamanana",
"id": "318956448258150"
},
{
"name": "Barack Obamalad",
"id": "1378793772451152"
},
{
"name": "Barack ObamaObama",
"id": "239939292867248"
},

....

Screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbqmo5tzospcnsc/Screenshot%202015-...
Another $1M Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses
I naively thought it was about chemical bond.
Oh, yes, very immersive. I was lucky to play the original Zork, and after a necessarily late night session upon returning to the "real world" I would want to e.g. throw file at printer ^_^.
Isn't the perverse fairness of giving equal time to clearly unequal opinions (/science/facts/etc) worse discourse than political correctness? Of course PC can and does wade into over sensitivity but it also includes the idea that you should err on the side of safety when using words that can be terribly hurtful to some people. It's not our place to decide that it's not in fact hurtful.
See: http://buildingscience.com/documents/insights/bsi-046-dam-ic...

The snow melts because of heat coming from the inside the house. [1]

So if you keep your roof cold through insulation and ventilation, you don't need to remove the snow (as long as the roof can handle it structurally)

[1]: http://www.erdc.usace.army.mil/Portals/55/docs/CEERD-RV/CEER... [pdf]
Natural vs artificial is not purely a false dichotomy, because it conveys information. A wolf is nature. A dog is not nature. I don't think either of those categorizations are controversial, even though humans have altered wolf personalities by killing all the bold ones, and even though humans only actively selected a small part of the dog genome, and even though wolves and dogs are genetically very similar. Wolves and dogs are widely accepted as different categories. The existence of marginal cases, eg. dog-wolf hybrids, does not change this any more than the fact that cabbage and kale are the same species makes the words "cabbage" and "kale" meaningless.

You can argue that "nature" is not a useful categorization, and that it's mostly used for political arguments, but the proposed redefinition only makes that problem worse. And it still doesn't solve the problem of marginal cases. All it accomplishes is making the word "nature" more confusing.
Didi Kuaidi: Uber's Enemy in China
Use of Forth to Enable Distributed Processing on Wireless Sensor Networks [pdf]
Pocket is moving back to Firefox addon
I haven't used Wordpress much, but I am working on an Orchard site at my current job. It's a CMS kinda like Wordpress, but built on C#/ASP.NET. Our dev team is mostly working on a dozen or so custom-coded account management pages in a separate module, but most of the content is marketing material as pages built in the Orchard management screens, kind of like blog posts, but arranged like a conventional website.

The developers aren't terribly enthusiastic about working with those Orchard pages, since they're tough to collaborate on and version control. But the Marketing people seem to like it just fine, probably because conventional web site building tools, like writing HTML and CSS and managing folders of content with source control tools, is too complex and error-prone for them, and the site UI is worlds better than any other technique they might be willing to use. I'm guessing Wordpress works in a similar way.

Now that I think about it, I had always idly wondered whatever happened to those desktop GUI web page building tools, like Frontpage and Dreamweaver and such. They may still be around, but don't seem to have any mindshare. Maybe it's because the people who were using them put up Wordpress sites instead and are building their pages in the Wordpress UI.
The [Smart] Guns the NRA Doesn't Want Americans to Get
Well put, I would further add that much of the equity in these few firms is owned by massive firms such as Blackstone, and and Blackrock. Concentrating the ownership into the hands of fewer owners further promotes anticompetitive action.
Persian Gulf temperatures may be at the edge of human tolerance in 30 years
It's not the same, because "nature" is a common English word, but "evolution" was an obscure technical term before Darwin redefined it. His redefinition did very little harm to clarity of communication.
Case study 1: the US Department of Defense created ARPANET, the first network to implement TCP/IP.
I would argue that the issue is not with the "programmers" but HR. I've had people hand me offer letters with "Software Engineer" written on it, but i do not hold an engineering degree (and i didn't ask for that title!)

Most of my Comp. Science friends have had the same experience, one went so far as to return the offer and replace the title with "Computer Scientist".

So HR, please stop calling Scientists (or in my case, people with incomplete degrees), Engineers.
Why didn't you anonymously leak it?
This is just the latest example of how consumers need to be more careful with crowdfunding.

You know, while I've only contributed to one such, and only because I thought it ought to be done, I view these as wagers. If the project works out, great! If not, my monetary loss is calculated to not grieve me.
Probably a good idea in the long run, even if Pocket is a decent service.
What was that blue stuff in the drive?
Eh. It's not called Kickpurchase, it's called Kickfund. (Okay, this one was actually on Indiegogo.)

You want something guaranteed to ship perfectly? That's what Amazon is for. The point of Kickstarter and its ilk is that it is a risk – that's why it usually comes with lower prices and the ability to have it first.

When you buy on Kickstarter, you aren't preordering. You're crowdfunding something that doesn't exist yet. On the Diffusion of Innovation chart, you aren't an Early Adopter... you're an Innovator [1]. The creators put in time; you're putting in money. As long as there's no fraud, I think failures like this should be treated as an acceptable part of this new method of funding.

(That being said, two caveats: first is that failures like this might be acceptable but they're still bad for Kickstarter+Indiegogo, and second is that I'd be a lot less rational and forgiving if I had lost money on this)

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/DiffusionOfIn...
posted earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10528663
Bash script to easily find and replace strings recursively
IBM is trying to solve computing scaling issues with electronic ‘blood’
already posted twice, including just an hour ago.

first:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10528663
The money they perceive to be saving for the taxpayer, will be paid by the taxpayer in other ways when the person is in debt after getting out and needs public assistance.

Is there any proof this reduces recidivism? I would doubt so. It only makes things worse.
Ask HN: What are some good, freely available / cheap readings on AI algorithms?
I've been getting tunnel vision while working on a big project over the past few months, and I'm looking for something I can read and work on in 30min - hour chunks once a day to progress my understanding in another area. Any suggestions would be helpful!
You're right, the article mentions it. But it does not do a good job at that, it does not paint things in proportion. The big brother surveillance and recording of everybody in US is euphemised as "domestic surveillance program" and "data-mining program". The focus of the article is on slandering Snowden.

"The question we're addressing here is not "Did Snowden do good things?" The question is whether he is a hero, and the fact that he did bad things is relevant."

The article, as some groups do, tries to turn people from thinking and talking about the important things such as the big brother surveillance and questioning government to various irrelevant issues, such as "isn't he a traitor". They try to mislead your attention astray. Don't let them; think for yourself.
Black North African. An 17th century painting of Moors from North Africa, from Othello. He looks quite black to me. These are the Moors who conquered Spain, by the way. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Othellop...

Black Egyptians. http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptfarming3.jpg

If you say "Africa" today, that's what people will think of.

Yeah, but our point of discussion is Africa in 1000BC. Plenty of black people there in those times.

And lastly, not only blacks can be African.

https://www.quora.com/Racial-and-Ethnic-Groups/Do-white-peop...

And according to a mainstream theory of human migration, and your perspective that people who live in Africa but descended from Phoenicians aren't "African", we're all Africans, because we are all African colonists of the entire world.
"Freedom of contract" is a silly thing to uphold as an absolute principle. The reason to uphold contracts is for the general good of society, not just "because a contract is a contract", and companies being able to put mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts of adhesion to circumvent the standards of normal courts is not generally good for society.
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Hi Tom, I was researching the ancestry of Nichimen Mirai, and its roots in Symbolics Graphics. Do you know how the SGD package came to be ?

ps: would a Lisp* cpu be absurd today ? (lisp or any other non byte-arrays oriented paradigm)
I posit that there need to be some secrets. Would it make sense to broadcast to everyone in the world, 'I had surgery on my head years ago, and if you hit me right here, I'll die'? Of course not.

Communications maps, I think, are legitimately one of those secrets, for so long as they offer a significant advantage to an adversary.
It was standard practice to wire the shift key to paddle button zero to get upper/lower case when you had an 80-column card. But I used full ASCII keyboard that supported upper and lower case, and had two extra buttons that were easy to wire up to paddle buttons and use as modifiers.

"For lowercase input, since it was not possible to detect whether the keyboard's Shift keys were in use, a modification called the "one-wire shift key mod" connected the Shift key to one of the pins on the motherboard's paddle connector. Compatible applications, including nearly all word processors, could then detect whether the shift key was being pressed. This modification, however, involved adding wires inside the Apple II, and was therefore only popular among hobbyists. For this reason, most applications that could support lower-case letters could also use the ESC key as a substitute lowercase toggle if the "shift key mod" was not installed." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_Plus#Substitute_lower...
Well with C++ unique_ptr and shared_ptr you cant ++ or += or even get a raw pointer without explicitly calling .get().
But this is a minimum wage job so that effect is constrained.
I use "wild" or "raw", vs artificial to describe such phenomena, even though it is of little practical use.

How does the redefinition make anything worse?

My take is that, since nature is everything there is, it becomes useless as a concept and can be safely eliminated from the discourse. Its current definition is poisonous.
1. It's unclear how the quotation signifies the Times's support for the access restrictions.

2. The next sentence in the piece had an explanation: "'What we’re trying to avoid is giving bad guys a map to do bad things,' Professor Barford said. 'Now that we can see the possible pinch points in the U.S., we are looking at ways to mitigate them.'"
... and not by malware :-)
It's more of a prisoner's dilemma. It's great as long as nobody else starts one.
For alloc it says

head->type = type;

Where does type come from?
No. They ran the coins through a Coin Mixer: https://coinmixer.net
Slightly off topic, but the Charlie Murphy/Prince skit on The Chappelle show was epic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGqUwr9j8Zc
There's no point to it if a lawsuit will follow, as it doesn't save any time over going to court. Half of the problem is with how the arbiters are chosen: ideally, neither party would get to choose and all arbiters would be held to standards.
Imagine having more electricity than we need in California, especially from wind. We could desalinate water from the ocean all night long.
So no, and you will just continue with the condescending assumption that anyone questioning you doesn't know anything?
Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them
College grads are a "better bet" in terms of the probability that they'll succeed, but not in terms of additional investment making a difference. Spend time or money on/with a recent college grad who's already primed to succeed, and neither you nor society will get much that you wouldn't have already. Spend that same time or money on/with a child whose mind is still malleable and whose future is still uncertain . . now you're talking about a real possibility of making a difference.
Protonmail's e-mail servers were off line for multiple days. With an outage of that length mail will start to bounce. It depends on the local configuration. But, 3 days/72 hours is pretty standard.
IMAP support?
The last two screen shots are the same
It's too bad there is no easy link to the German version.
Perhaps because it's incredibly vague to the point of being meaningless?

What, for example, does "sclerotic" mean in this context? What things are left "undone"? There is more money in doing what "new things"? More money for whom?
If your best hopes for your children are their career path you are doing it wrong.
It's a misnomer to call this a "cyber-threat". Criminals have been cutting telephone and telegraph wires since telephones and telegraphs have been invented. Cutting telegraph wires was a trademark of the James Younger gang in 1876. This is hardly a new phenomenon.
Precision medicine, linked to DNA, still too often misses
The article says exactly what you say it doesn't:

"Using satellite data, researchers estimate the Antarctic ice sheet had a net gain of 112 billion tons of ice per year from 1992 to 2001. This net gain eventually slowed between 2003 and 2008 to 82 billion tons of ice per year."

which is lifted almost verbatim from the NASA discussion of the report:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-study-mass-gains-of... and further goes on to say:

“Our main disagreement is for East Antarctica and the interior of West Antarctica – there, we see an ice gain that exceeds the losses in the other areas.”

The net gain is slowing but there is still a gain.
Thanks for the link. This article by Gosztola on salon.com questions Eichenwald's claims regarding Snowden a gives some compelling arguments against them. I do not think that is an attack ad hominem. Of course, after reading both articles, one may get an impression that Eichenwald cannot be trusted. But whether that is so or not, one needs to decide for himself.
I agree, except the bit about string theory. I don't understand why science journalists think 'additional dimensions which are rolled up into a tiny space' means anything to the lay reader.
Posted twice already in past day. The one with a lot of comments is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10528663
although not obvious from the title, this is not in reference to WW2... this is present-day
For a site the size of ProtonMail, $6K is the cost for protection for a single month. Most of the companies that offer this kind of protection require you to sign a one to three year contract.

There are two kinds of protection, basic HTTP/HTTPS and DNS only (done with DNS and CDN like servers co-located at peering points), and traffic filtering that is done through BGP with and a GRE tunnel. While you can get basic HTTP/HTTPS and DNS from CloudFlare for $200/month on a business account, what ProtonMail needed was a BGP/GRE which at it's lowest price is a multiple and an order of magnitude more expensive.
Could it be that these parents are providing their kids what they wanted when they were children? That they are living vicariously through their parenting.
When they are going IPO?

A1: "Not sure". Action: Take salary.

A2: "Soon. Depends on Market condition". Action: Take salary.

A3: "On 15 of February, 2016". Action: Take equity.

A4: "On 15 of November, 2016". Action: Take salary.

In other words if company itself is uncertain or vague about the future, take salary.

If company is certain about near future big steps - take a little risk.
Phlogiston.
The Windows heap functions align to 8 bytes on 32-bit. I once worked on code that depended on this.

You want 8 byte alignment. For one, you could have doubles. (Though I just googled this and apparently gcc will 4 byte align those by default on x86) Another possibility is you could have a data structure that relies on "lock cmpxchg8b".
You know, like a log of wood does. Light the sucker and you'll unlock all its value!
Basically it's more fundamental because if you try to bootstrap mathematics from set theory you need a set of 10 axioms which seem unmotivated and disconnected. To bootstrap math from category theory invokes stepping through a rich series of theories starting from the merest notion of "combining things" and moving upward. It helps us see the foundations of mathematics as living within a large universe of alternative, slightly differing foundations and therefore recognize the somewhat "arbitrary" nature of standard math foundations. In many ways this is a more appealing sort of foundations. Category theory requires sets to "bootstrap" itself, but you can get by with a naive construction and work up from there.
Schroedinger's Aperiodic Crystal, taken literally.
Pinterest Sharpens Its Visual-Search Skills with Object Recognition
What if you were to engineer a situation with your kids where you a) teach them how to do something useful, and then b) put them in a situation where that useful thing needs to be done. If they don't take the cue, no problem. If they miss it, maybe have a 3rd party (like an aunt or an uncle) pitch in. Then maybe have that 3rd party ask the child if they know how to do that thing - and get the kid to get in the habit of volunteering their effort if it's helpful to those around them. (It's important that the prompts not come from the parent since the action becomes "acquiescing to authority" instead of "pitching in for the common good".)

Of course, there's an unfortunate prisoner's dilemma in that if two kids are involved, and one is volunteering all the time, the lazy one thinks, "Ha, sweet, I'm so clever I never do any work and things still get done!" Not really sure how to get around this - perhaps develop a turn-based cooperation game where two siblings take turns helping, effectively coopting the helpfulness of one to blunt the selfishness of the other. If they both defect, then I suppose you have to create an "existential baseline" that they don't want to endure, involving a) no toys, b) no freedom, c) bland food. But that's problematic because it turns you into a jailor, and it turns cooperation into "that thing you do to satisfy authority" again.
"For many people, when the choice is between giving up the right to go to court or the chance to get a job, it is not a choice at all."

Nice that we have luxury tech careers and can tell employers to fuck off. Remember to read your contracts before you sign them!

In general, I'm sure that voluntary mediation works well, but to take away a persons right to seek legal recourse is deeply wrong.
Exactly, vim was the other tool I had in mind when I wrote that.
He's saying that beating children doesn't help because they cannot be negotiated with. Children don't have the brain development to respond to threats. It's like beating someone with an epileptic seizure until he stops. That doesn't mean disruptive behavior doesn't have to be or can't be dealt with, just that beating children ('so they'll think twice next time') doesn't have positive effects (i.e. it doesn't stop or prevent the behavior next time) but it does have negative effects (teaches violence, weakens the trust bond, etc.)
I believe that it would be lubricant from the hydrodynamic bearing[1] inside the hard drive.

[1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_bearing ]
Ahh, I remember this scandal. What's funny is that there were tons of people affected by this from what i recall, because these drives were initially billed as some of the best hardware money could buy.
We're all incredibly lucky that the soviet union folded into dust, instead of surviving like the Chinese communist party.

People were welcoming Nazis as liberators back in the day, which should say a bit about how bad the soviets were.
"Unless of course they start using force rather than negotiation, or begin to hold a monopoly"

But that's the typical form of negotiation from unions. Unions often take advantage of their exclusive/monopolistic access to a workplace - e.g. UAW workers, school teachers, police officers, etc. And as far as violence, good luck trying to work at an automotive plant if you're not in a union and a strike is going on. If you don't get beat up or your tires slashed, you'll at least be harassed and threatened just trying to make a living. I recall an instance growing up where union drivers fired a gun into a truck on the highway during a trucking strike. The truck was carrying explosives. The driver was instantly vaporized. No one was ever prosecuted for the murder. Par for the course in unions where I grew up.

Edit for reference (note my recollection about there being no prosecution was incorrect)

http://mo.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.1...
Kickstarter and Indiegogo should probably provide some basic guidance though. I still feel bad for the ZPM Espresso machine guys:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/zpm-espresso-and-...

They had a working product. Had they stuck to their 50 prototype units they initially wanted to build, they may still be here.
Titles are important for immigration purposes, e.g. for Canada's work-to-residence Express Entry visa.

Software engineer: 3-4 years work experience required, maybe Masters degree, professional certification.
http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/NOC/English/NOC/2011/ProfileQuickSea...

Computer programmer: Bachelors degree required, no work experience.
http://www5.hrsdc.gc.ca/NOC/English/NOC/2011/ProfileQuickSea...

"Progression to information systems analyst, software engineer or Web designer is possible with experience."
Ecological Models and Data in R
>People were welcoming Nazis as liberators back in the day

Do you have a citation for that?
I'm not endorsing any of these tweets, I'm literally just quoting them for people who only saw the first tweet.
I think for that, in particular, there's a very strong argument to be made that any backdoors would have been discovered by now.
$99 for a robotic dragonfly is / was definitely a punt -- what gets me are people who price their campaign rewards effectively at the targeted retail price of the product, then don't deliver. That's not a wager, because you don't "win" if you get the product -- assuming it materialises, you could just buy it then, for the same "price". You can only come out even or lose.
You forgot backwards compatibility. For #3, the large ecosystem didnt grew overnight, it was an accumulation of themes, plugins, and dev hours throughout the years. It was made possible by WP's backwards compatibility.
Time series database Graphite seems to be falling into disfavor
Did we really need this project to discover the value of heuristics?