skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I was using (al)pine for a while. It's bearable, okay even.

But I guess I don't see how you could turn that into a 'mobile' client. For the time I used pine I was ssh-ing into a box of mine for most of the day, while I was in front of a computer. I didn't care much about mail notifications on the go.

Now I do. If there's some (reliable! I don't care about the initial one-off effort) way to make that work with emails on the go, I'd be glad to learn about that.
"Falling" is of little analytical meaning without a relative benchmark.

You weren't displaying critical thought, you were engaging in a trite dismissal and then extrapolating an outlandish motive.
The complaint was a former employee. That gives me some reservations as about the motive.
How do you make decisions in a paradox of choice“?
Most here are likely in this same situation: you have a highly demanded skill set (either technical or aptitudinal) and thus have the ability to work almost anywhere (physically or in name)

I'm curious what heuristics or decision framework you apply to deciding where you're going to do what to maximize the experience (e.g. money, title, experience, location, et cetera)

Thanks!
Show HN: HN Live – Hacker News in Real Time
Hi all,

Last night I launched an idea I had called HN Live. It is an alternative to the official Hacker News that updates in real time. I got inspired by what hckrnews was doing, but I didn't like their layout as it organized the data in a different way. HN Live allws everything update in real time. The real time movement of the posts on the front page, the number of upvotes and comments that they get, etc.

I'm just looking for some feedback, and any other suggestions that you may have. This may not be particularly useful for many people, but I am going to use it and figured others may too.

If you're interested: http://hnlive.cf
Both, depending on what add-ons you have activated.

When you don't have any activated, it relies on local indexing.

On the other hand, the default add-ons suggest to you links to iTunes/Netflix/etc.

There are third-party add-ons that use torrents, those can be shown in the product if they are popular in your area.
Safer for whom, and from whom?

If your adversary is the NSA, you need to determine how interested they are in you. If you're on the shortlist, I doubt any national borders or legal frameworks will protect you - TAO doesn't respect them.

If it's law enforcement like in the Ulbricht case, some countries may have stricter requirements for a local search warrant to be issued. But I doubt you can make such a sweeping generalisation about "europe".
Mapping Police Violence 2015
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One of my favorite tools generates these for regexes, taking much of they mystery out of the syntax:

http://regexper.com/#(%3F%3ARailroad%7CRegex)%5Cs%2BDiagrams...
The book is explicitly aimed (or marketed, if you will) at people of all beliefs and backgrounds.

I guess the author is more concerned with teaching something that works rather than looking down on the sinful masses.
I can't check how far back they go right now (site blocked where I am), but yes, I've found IRC logs from a number of years ago useful when trying to understand parts of a couple of OSS projects I contribute to.
The 'total package' at some schools recently passed 70K. Assuming 5% education inflation (twice CPI), these schools may hit 100K in 8 years.
I really hope Daala (with input from Thor) will catch up and will force Apple to start supporting open codecs. The situation with fragmented and patent encumbered video is ridiculous.

Also, streaming situation is getting murky. MPEG-LA patent trolls tried to attack DASH a while ago. Is it patent free after all or not?
JavaScript is improving and will replace the need for Babel.

FTFY.
I second prompt although it has gotten more expensive.
Armin Ronacher just makes more and more awesome stuff. I think I'm going to ditch my pelican site, and go for Lektor.
Those aren't the types of safeguards I was referring to...but you know what also already exists? Pilots flying the exact same flights the FAA has decided must be banned (solely because of the commercial element).

My comment was narrowly referring to OP's lack of imagination in envisioning solutions to the "bad weather" criticism raised.
You should see them in my street (Kiel, Germany) in winter: Backing out, on ice, beep beep beep, sliding the hill back down, trying to back out again beep beep beep ... and repeat.
Cited original: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/12027166/What-t...
We're talking past the difference in email, the protocol, that can be secured - and email, the worldwide communication network, that is largely insecure[1] [2]

[1] https://www.nicta.com.au/pub-download/full/8943/

[2] https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/?...
Thanks to the Gephi team for this long-awaited update - for me, Gephi an essential tool in many aspects of my scientific work, as it allows to express visually very complex datasets of almost any type (interactions between proteins, binding of certain genomic elements, etc) as well as overlay by color or size additional parameters (expression of genes, conservation, mutation rate in the population) - endless possibilities!

From my initial impressions the performance is A LOT better for large networks, which can mean only one thing - I can now play with even LARGER networks :)
Based on my last visit to the Hoover dam, draining it would be little or no problem at all these days. Water levels are incredibly low.
It was illegal in the UK to broadcast the voice of republicans in Northern Ireland. In practice it was worked around by having 'voice doubles' who would read the words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%E2%80%9394_British_broadc...
“Learn Ruby on Rails” is free on Amazon until December 25
One suggestion for future recordings: please mute all people, except the one talking - the touchpad clicks and constant noises in the background are making it really difficult to listen to what's being said... I gave up after a couple of minutes.
Most repositories allow you to ignore whitespace changes if you want to.

For instance, github allows you to do a ?w=1 appended to a diff url to see the differences without seeing the whitespace differences (that's like git diff -w).
I had 187 transactions last month. The odds that I would overlook one is pretty high. A service that can automatically highlight interesting categories seems pretty useful.
Despite it being quite the first world problem its a problem I have.

I've been wanting to use a service like this but here is my question.

Whats with the whole text message as a ui craze?

I don't get it / like it.

Especially for this app. The explanation I usually hear is its good for people who dont have smartphones or at least good ones.

But I think the overlap of the set of people with this problem and no smartphone are vanishingly small.

This is the kind of service I want an app/ website that I can analyze the data with and push notifications work for the text message case.
> What evidence (if any) would cause you to believe it to be true?

I said: any strong evidence that no human action could improve the poor's fortunes.

I doubt such evidence could be found, though. First, equality has improved a lot due to human action, so the claim needs to be "but where we are now is as good as it gets", which sounds suspiciously convenient (especially as the people making that claim believe that almost everything else can be greatly improved, and their claim is usually based on no study at all of human society, so not understanding how change has been achieved so far makes the claim that we can't take it further even more suspect). Second, we are now able to stay underwater or in space, and to fly over oceans -- things we are genetically less inclined to do -- so I seriously doubt human ingenuity stops when it comes to equality. The question is how far should we work towards equality, but that is a question of values, again.

> The cause matters because it affects potential solutions.

Of course, but we're not arguing about solutions but about whether solutions need to be sought at all.

> Asift and myself would oppose changing this, since the only solutions are violent and we both seem to prefer low violence to high mobility. If one doesn't oppose violence, what violent solutions to this hypothetical Jewish problem are acceptable?

I, too, would oppose a violent solution, and not only for egotistical reasons, but your example is a non-sequitur. In order for this problem to be a problem at all, you'll need to show that it is in fact a major cause for lowered mobility. Second, I don't see what violence has to do with it. Your entire argument sounds like, "I need to get to the top floor of that building, but as someone opposed to violence I wouldn't kill everyone in the street and climb the nice incline of the pile of bodies to get to the top; how does one who isn't categorically opposed to violence suggest to get up there?" Why, she might just take the elevator.

In other words, why would you even think that the only solution to inequality is violence?
Remind me to never piss you off.
One size does not fit all. This applies equally to IRC lovers and haters.
You probably meant to reply to mietek.
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The problem is that the EU recently ruled that it was illegal for US companies to send data back to the US for any reason.

The US and EU obviously have two completely imcompatible rulings in play now.
I'm surprised this isn't an underwater robotics project.
Yes, but I expected to see

(filter even . filter (< 5)) [1..4]

given the specification and the lisp counterpart.

I do not fully understand the lisp code, so I can't be sure what is a typo and what is an erroneous assumption from my part.
Stampery for iOS: Certify voice notes, photos or files using the Blockchain
That's one very good reason to always lock your screen when you go to the bathroom.

And another to review all commits of an employee that left on bad terms or that seems to think they've been treated unfairly.
Simple solution, don't vent about people in public channels where they may be able to see it. [0] Be a normal person and talk behind their back when you get home

[0]http://www.anyclip.com/movies/bridesmaids/lillian-and-annies...
I agree current IRC logs are a pain, but isn't that a reason to improve logging (say, hide join/quit by default, add search, etc.)?
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What quote? And yes, in my opinion some IRC clients have suboptimal defaults or missing support for this. It's a shame, but changing your nick to emulate a built in IRC command is in no way a solution. Away is standard, and every client should support it. In the end it's a question of the channels rules, but spamming nick-changes is annoying-- especially because people use different formats and simple filtering won't catch all cases. In addition it also breaks queries and might change your identity from a trusted nick to one that could be... everyone.

You're advocating using a hacky workaround that stems from client-side UI issues, instead of using a well-defined built in message. This just seems wrong to me, in every way.
The biggest difference between Haskell and Lisp is that Lisp is multi-paradigm, while Haskell is not. Haskell is more opinionated, and makes a bunch of decisions for you (that you can choose to work around/sugar/hack until Haskell looks like something else/does what you want).

All the other things that Haskell comes with - strong typing, monads, lazy evaulation, can be written into common lisp, but whether you need them is often questionable.
> * Chat systems where you don't have to do some complex bouncer setup to be able to participate on the same level as the core contributors

Offer a public quasselcore with your project and allow people to create accounts on it?

> * Support for indexing into useful pieces of chat log, or for excerpting parts of a log into a more permanent home. Slack does something a bit like this (persistent snippets in a channel). HipChat offers some level of integration with Atlassian's terrible wiki product. Google wave seemed to have this as part of its idea.

That’s already possible if at least one of your users is using Quassel as bouncer, as it stores its logs in an SQL database. Supported by default are SQLite and PostgreSQL.
> No one doubts that most regulation has been created with good intentions.

This is flatly false. Many of us believe that the vast majority of "regulation" is made in a corporatistic, profiteering mode.

...so much so that, when a perhaps quite reasonable regulation, such as this one, comes along, it is necessary to evaluate whether it is a boy crying wolf.

And that sucks.

> Problems start when the interest of those creating the regulations are not aligned with the population.

It's also possible that it's just the nature of government power, and has nothing to do with the interests of the individuals ostensibly involved.
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Rare and the rise and fall of Kinect
https://orat.io/blog/a-glimpse-into-telegrams-security/
There's recent computational research in this area for images too:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03868
Well you can't have implicitly resolved typeclasses without a static type system. You could pass around explicit dictionaries with all your values or some such, but most of the value of explicitly sequencing relatively minor effects is only there if you have an extremely low-overhead way of doing so, and a system that can verify the correctness of that sequencing at compile time.
Please whatever you do don't change the design, I love it, it's so in-obtrusive.

I think you have unicode issues:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/39tau8pf8w2enm9/Screenshot%202015-...

I think the biggest value of what you've done is 'trending' / hot - I'd focus on that aspect. Get that done really well.
I have read Focused and Fearless from her. Some topics are indeed geared towards more seasoned practitioners, nevertheless it is a great book with a wealth of information that helps deeper understanding. Highly recommended.
Chat systems are meant to be ephemeral. The conversation goes away after a time. Logging makes history discoverable, but nothing yet has been able to provide an actionable summary of the transcript.

Slack is getting toward it with its reactions feature, which could be employed consciously by users to mark lines for inclusion in some kind of daily/weekly summary log sent via email. IRC lacks this facility since it lacks a unique identifier for each line. It might be possible to repeat the line to a bot, though, but that seems messy and allows for significant duplication or alteration of what was said.

I personally use irccloud.com for persistent IRC, but mostly for push notifications to my phone.
Thank you. That explains, it seems I use it in a way they didn't plan for or something. :)
Regarding your comments on tribe and ethnicity being an absolute bedrock of the people's identities, much of the middle east is the exact same way. I made the mistake of calling my turkish translator an Iraqi, even though he was born and raised in Iraq, as was his family. It took the better part of 20 minutes to calm him down and make sure he understand I meant no insult by calling him an Iraqi. The western concept of nationalism is very foreign to much of the current middle east even today... in 2015 :/
It's awkward that the author describes openstack, which is one of the few projects I am aware of that actually schedules meetings on IRC for discussions and debates (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings), quite literally to resolve issues where IRC doesn't work for them. Compare this to other projects/channel communities like #mysql, #postgres and #clojure where this doesn't happen, and all communications are ad-hoc.

I agree with some of the other people that the author doesn't grok IRC. It doesn't force you to be instantly available, just available eventually. The amount of effort it takes me to respond to a question I know in IRC is an order of magnitude less than an email, and email lists with a lot of mindless chatter can just be as insular or more insular than IRC groups.

If the author has issue with individuals getting constant highlights then they should redress them to communicate with the community as a whole. The appropriate interaction on IRC starts off with asking the channel/community as a whole a question (much like the mailing list described). It feels like openstack has a lot of newer people that don't really understand the expected etiquette/workflow on IRC.
You make fair points
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Iranian Hackers Infiltrated New York Dam in 2013
This seems unnecessarily angry. I suppose that this person wants to keep his data forever, but many people just don't care that much about their social media photos and the like.

I'd love it if Facebook and Twitter had a rolling deletion period option - everything more than six months old is shredded forever, as far as the service is concerned. While people can obviously store shared photos and this wouldn't actually destroy them, I'd like that new contacts wouldn't be able to go back and look through someone's entire history. It's like a more social and longer-lived Snapchat.
Part of it was that some of it was honestly the stories the boomers wanted to watch/read as children. But today, I haven't seen many stories from the current crop of Disney's writers that feel the same way. It's not about the question of marketing semi-original work, it's just that Gen Xers don't have much in the way of incentive for it. It's easier to recycle what the boomers did than make our own stories it seems.
> I suppose that this person wants to keep his data forever, but many people just don't care that much about their social media photos and the like.

"This person" is Jason Scott, who works as the Internet Archive and also heads up Archive Team (the loose band of internet folks who race to archive sites about to go dark).

He's a digital historian; his job is to save everything he can.

https://twitter.com/textfiles

https://archive.org/about/bios.php

http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Open source is ugly
> Just look at the list of your transactions and that's it.

Not if you have several cards through several servicers. I myself have eight servicers that I'd have to check. I only actively use four of them, though. I'm acutely aware of this complexity and have over time moved most recurring bills to a single card on a single servicer.
> There is very little that is logical about infinity itself ...

On the contrary, infinity is a very logical notion -- much more logical than many other ideas we accept. For example, what value must "m" have for this statement to be true:

sum(n:1 to m inclusive, 2^-n) = 1 (i.e. 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 ...)

What value must "m" have, for this statement to be true:

lim(n -> m), (1+1/n)^n = e (base of natural logarithms)

For both these examples, for the described outcomes, m must equal infinity.

Also, you say, "For example, the Universe is 'infinite' yet it is also expanding", but you also say, "It took a couple thousand years just for mathematicians to theoretically prove that some infinities are larger than others ..." If one infinity can be said to be larger than another, then this admits the possibility of any single infinity expanding.

Imagine a cube of space, in isolation, initially measuring one meter in any of its dimensions. If measurements reveal that this value is increasing over time, one may conclude that the cube is expanding. Now imagine that the cube is embedded in a space consisting of an infinity of such cubes in three spatial dimensions, all increasing in size in the same way. Does the fact that the cube is part of an infinity of such cubes prevent it from expanding? If this were true, it would be an easy test of the existence of an infinite spatial manifold -- but the idea of an expanding infinity is logically consistent.
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This isn't helping the narrative that Assange and Snowden are FSB lackeys.
The very reason mailing list posts are easier to read is because they are harder to write. That's why IRC explanations get written but mailing list posts (or wiki pages, or documents) do not get written.
> Whats with the whole text message as a ui craze?

It's a next gen command line.
Thanks man! And yeah... I am starting to notice that too. That fix will be next on the list of things to do. Thanks for the feedback
Yeah... I tried to be soft in use of tend to, in that it's not exactly Lambda Calculus. You're entirely right.
Is it legal? If not i will have to report it.
Get MOAR Users: The 200 BEST Growth Hacking Tips for 2016 (part 1)
Thanks for the advice! I am new here so I wasn't sure if this was good for a Show HN or not.

Fixed the call to action so it now shows you are supposed to scroll down.

Changed the call to action as well. Thanks for that. It does sound a lot better. :)

We do have thousands of authors, but I am not sure how to show evidence of that. I will remove it and just keep the testimonials of the 3 authors/publishers on the page.

I know charging for pre-launch is tough, but the grid succeeded so we were trying to do the same to see if we could manage it. We would rather not need a investment.

The publishing functionality is already built in. We take the stories that are written on our website and convert them to ePub, PDF, HTML, and Mobi automatically. This gets hosted on a special page and allows for the author to sell the book right there. No hassle. I suppose we could hold off the feature, but it feels like that's why most people would buy in. We do have an author & publisher on board as consultants.

Thanks for the advice. I will definitely start working on building the community we can always add our features in as we get users instead of launching with them all in.
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> But what I do know is that people don't invest their money without good reason to do so.

Not coincidentally, this false belief is by far the most common reason people invest their money badly, and why Ponzi schemes work.
The threat posed by small dams and their short designed life expectancy was demonstrated in dramatic fashion earlier this year. The historic flooding that impacted South Carolina's midlands earlier this year was driven by a cascade of dam failures.

Everyone saw the pictures of Columbia, SC but that flooding was mostly due to "normal" causes. The city's drainage system was overwhelmed by rainfall that exceeded historic levels by several orders of magnitude (higher than even a 1,000 year storm) and the Broad river consequently overflowing its banks. However, that wasn't the only place impacted by the storm. South Carolina has an enormous number of small earthen dams, built on private land with the land owner responsible for maintenance.

Obviously, these dams were not built to handle such a storm but even if they were, the lack of oversight led to a lack of maintenance, worsening their chances of surviving the initial floods. As upstream dams broke, downstream dams were subjected to massive surges, causing a cascading series of failures, greatly increasing the amount of damage caused by the storm.

There are 10,000 to 20,000 unregulated small dams in the state according to the state. They pose an enormous risk as the flooding clearly demonstrated but SC isn't alone in sharing this burden.
Thanks for that added information, i'll check those out!

Question, would enjoyment be an emotion or pleasure? Thus these could enable a person to maintain more concentration because they're happy/having fun/ Perhaps these do not fit into the "strong" emotions category.

Edit: so reading the 5 hinderances is interesting. I guess I was thinking the author was suggesting "all emotions" and using those three(hate, etc) as examples rather than there being a select few "negative emotions" which can hinder concentration. Thanks!
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