skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good article. One difference I've seen between big cats and house cats is that big cats never (as far as I know) tuck their feet under their bodies in the "bread loaf" position that house cats do. I always assumed it was because it put too much pressure on the big cat's legs. So house cats often sit like this:

http://www.nedhardy.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2014/septe...

While big cats put their legs out in front, like this:

http://cbs.umn.edu/sites/cbs.umn.edu/files/public/african_li...

House cats will take the lion position, but lions do not take the house cat position.
Hey. We have been using a cool app called Groove Basin at work. I was just curious to try and make something similar to it for Spotify.

Currently it's a command line app where you can start a channel and everyone who plays it will be in sync with the music, to the second!

I havn't really load tested it. If you want to try it, try tuning into my station I started (in anarchy mode).

spotluck play hn-channel
When your code is so brittle that you can't widen your target audience, you can't keep growing.

And it's not like there aren't plenty of examples of products that have enough competition that they grow the market but never saturate it.
"Why won't you just lie down and let us control your internet?"

It's always annoying when poor countries act all uppity in the face of mega corporations.
As the resident Twitter fanboy, I'd like to point out something most people here (and elsewhere) who support the change seem to be missing out.

We (Twitter users) are not as much worried about our stream being polluted, as much as OUR tweets not being seen. Currently, as long as people are online, there's a certain guarantee that they will see it. You don't need to reach out for popularity, because they'll see it anyway. Once it becomes an algorithmically-defined popularity contest, it gets very similar to Facebook, something that most of die-hard twitter fans don't want this to be.

Yes, we think the 'algorithmic' feed is going to suck in terms of our streams, but also that our tweets will get lost in all the celebrity noise. Twitter reallllyyy doesn't seem to get that aspect of the complaints. This is more of a celeb-pandering move than to improve user experience.

So by giving my followers the option only see popularly selected tweets, you're already shutting them off me. Yeah, they may not always like my tweets, but they would like to see them once in a while (as I will want them to).

To summarize: We (existing twitter users) had a contract, an expectation-- that our timelines were going to be chronological, and we would see everything. Twitter is trying to change that, and changing our expectations WHILE we are using it. My guess is, it thinks the 'network effect' makes it too big to fail, and doing this will bring in more of the fb-crowd. By doing this, it is alienating us those who were here for precisely 'not-like-fb' features.

I am mad. Very mad. If this is made the default, this is going to be another 'google-killed-reader' rage.
Do you agree/disagree with the list?
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I suppose in a particular area - web e-commerce and the like.

Stats for SourceForge (maybe out of date): http://www.statisticbrain.com/computer-programming-language-...
I agree. It seems to me that Twitter is the wrong tool to use if you're trying to communicate important things that must not be missed, or if you're trying to read the same.
I feel like their general counsel should not have allowed any of this to happen.

Under the Civil Rights Act / Equal Opportunity law, race and gender are protected classes. So having your executives on record saying that "white women" are "some of the biggest barriers to progress" seems dangerous.

I'm not a lawyer, but when your employee tells Business Week that "it is very hard to even interview people who are 'white'", that seems like a legal disaster.

Replace "white" with any other color and notice how flagrantly racist and illegal that sounds. The law does not distinguish.

They need to fix this quickly.

They should assure people both internally and externally that hiring and promotion will be meritocratic, without regard to gender or race, and then ensure it actually happens that way.
Easiest way I found is to use an "append-only" mentality to avoid conflict entirely. So, to take the vote example, using:

[
{ts: <upvoted_time>, author: <id_of_author>. action: 'up'},
{ts: <upvoted_time>, author: <id_of_author>, action: 'down'},
{ts: <upvoted_time>, author: <id_of_author>, action: 'up'}
]

You can sync from the server the changes after a certain timestamp, and the client can calculate the accurate value.
"We hang the petty thieves, and appoint the great ones to public office" -Aesop

Skilling was a noob. The current US Secretary of the Treasury is a better example.
> the claim [...] doesn't hold up when the most popular app in the world forces uses to log in.

Strongly disagree. Facebook (which I assume is what you mean by "the most popular app") was and still is _the_ social network. It's success on mobile has been driven by massive network effects. As such they can force users to jump through hoops which are in Facebook's favour because users want in so badly. That said Facebook doesn't get a free pass on device permissions, which is why they use gradual engagement in Messenger like this: http://installclub.tumblr.com/post/82319976281/double-opt-in...

But if you want to attack the leader, or simply grow your mobile user base, you don't get the same luxury or network effects Facebook has. Yahoo! doesn't have anything users want _so_ bad that they'll jump through hoops to get it.

But anyway - another a great example of an app "doing it right" is Airbnb - they let you browse properties without logging in - see http://firsttimeux.tumblr.com/post/83588089909/airbnb-ios-ap... for details - this gives people a chance to see what they're getting before going through the pain of signup. This is the model Yahoo! should follow as their apps, like Airbnb, are primarily about the content not the social element
I went through the linked paper a few years ago. It's a good exercise for those of you who are interesting in finance and trading. All you need to understand the paper is a decent grounding in financial theory and a high school education in math.

The big take away from this for me wasn't that Markopolos is a genius, though he might be. It's that exposing the Madoff fraud wasn't complicated at all, its just that no one bothered to do any due diligence at all.

In a way it's really surprising that there haven't been more lawsuits over this between advisers and clients.

http://docdro.id/eCZ73V8
Joe Rogan interviewed Lance Armstrong in depth and Armstrong talks in detail about how he got to the point of justifying "juicing" to himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEfSdPz1WtA
How is it better than socket.io or http://socketcluster.io/
$6k for legal, payroll and accounting? is this normal for a 6 people company? (I guess it depends on if you retain a legal team)
It’s Time to Innovate Inclusion… the #ProjectDiane Report Is Here
Not disagreeing with the headline behavior, but just FYI, WaPo doesn't own Slate. They were both once owned by the Washington Post Company, but the Company sold only the paper to Bezos, and renamed itself to Graham Holdings shortly thereafter. It still owns Slate.
Sheryl Sandberg on Growth: Facebook and Instagram Now; WhatsApp, Messenger Later
Could you expound upon your definitely-not-sloppy thoughts on why boys obviously couldn't be predisposed to playing with weapons?
Related HN post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065661

Related Ars link:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/02/winners-act-as-thick-...
Please, explain how it's a limit of "free speech" to not be published. I had no idea the constitutional abuses The New York Times was subjecting me to by not running my Farscape episode recaps!
Not the only one, I wonder if it is US only (I'm UK)
Well, obviously they can't. This is especially so for American citizens who are citizen by blood, have never set foot in the US, and have no family to visit.

But notice how they've been working on new rules like FATCA that go after the citizen's bank, assuming the bank does any sort of business in the US?

For all I know, in 10 years the IRS will force the bank to extract penalties directly from someone's account.
How the NSA (Or Anyone Else) Can Crack Tor's Anonymity (2014)
Aaron Swartz sure deserves a mention
PM Lee to Meet Tech Titans, Attend Special ASEAN-US Leaders Summit
The point isn't to put some ironclad barrier between you, it's just to make it harder for them. That's enough to get a lot of people to just give up and move on. If people want to do it, why not let them? Social stuff doesn't have to be all or nothing and it doesn't have to be perfect. The lock on my front door won't keep out a determined intruder, but it's still extremely useful.
I've come to suspect that it's asking me whether I liked the tweets, not the feature.

So every time I tell it "I hate this", it thinks I actually dislike the people and tweets, which is actually the opposite.
As I said, I could not read the whole thing. As I was skimming, I noticed the tests, tried to load the main page, and I was disconnected.

Once again, "words that are most unique" to character is a parameter that can easily be counted from the set of ALL words with no sampling uncertainty because, yes, we have the population.
Alcohol is way to easy to manufacture on the sly.

I would be in favor of limiting how strong you can make alcohol without paying a prohibitive tax. AKA, buying higher proof should not be the cheaper way to drink.
Everyone knows the Indian economy is growing very fast. Why did you post that?
Sure, but it's more complex, than "Can't believe these scientist torture mice for empathy". For now, mice lab animals are our only reliable models.

First they weren't "torturing mice for empathy", they were studying them for examining pain receptors.

Second the study was used to determine if something has empathy or not. Imagine if tomorrow we discovered that large rocks posses sentience, would you not want to determine that rocks have sentience, even if you have been milling them into concrete.

> Either way, besides killing all the lab mice, we can also just stop breeding them, you know.

Imagine you are mouse breeder. Your only source of revenue is gone. Are you going to:

A) Release them into general mice populace causing potential short term damage by having too many breedable mice, while their genes are potential long term damage to mice population (mice used to test cancer get cancer really quickly)?

B) Feed them and chemically castrate them and or keep them in isolation (solitary confinement, yay!). Costs money, not sure if departments have that much free dough lying around

C) Kill them painlessly and efficiently?

D) Sell them at a loss as pets, even though they aren't suitable as pets (some of the strains die really really quickly, because they are bred for that).
By that definition: a complete sample?
I hope your comment was meant as sarcasm.
You are, seemingly deliberately, failing to understand that this isn't a 1% problem. The 1% have tax advisors and CPAs paid to take care of this for them.

This is affecting expats and accidental americans in their daily lives, even if they have no income. I am not the first to suggest it, but reread the article, and image that you earn $30K and live in france, and for some reason you're account is being closed, and you need to spend 1K post tax a year filing for a country you don't live in.
Hang on... Didn't Jack Dorsey explicitly state that they weren't going to do this just a few days ago?[1]

"We never planned to reorder timelines next week."

I guess you could argue that the timeline isn't "reordered" since the top tweets will still be in reverse chronological order and then whatever comes afterwards will also be in chronological order, but that's still some seriously weasely language.

I guess that just goes to show how effective Twitter is as a medium for expressing complex ideas...

[1]https://twitter.com/jack/status/696081566032723968
What's probably slowed adoption of that approach is too much "web thinking" in the app design process and too much "But what does Google / Facebook / Twitter do?"

In fact Twitter provides SMS based signup as a free service for app developers as part of Fabric - https://get.digits.com/
Then you get your own water tested. Here they have lead testing kits to try and weed out the old problems with lead pipes and solder.
Naah. As I mention in a comment elsewhere in the thread, this makes twitter into more of a popularity contest from a 'creator' point of view. Right now, you're pretty much guaranteed your friends will see your feed no matter what. Once they opt-in, (and don't remember/bother to opt in me into their 'real' feed) my voice is lost in the cacophony of other celebs. What this is essentially doing is fragmenting the core twitter experience that most users are currently in for, for a more fb-like feature. It matters to you even if you don't opt in, because that changes how your friends see your tweets.
I'm not sure it's helpful to rattle-off number of fatalities when discussing whose space program might have been more 'dangerous'. Both 'sides' were running at break-neck speed to achieve the most the first. Both were using essentially the same technology in the same manner. Who died when was more a case of chance than anything systematic to either the USA or USSR's philosophy.

The Apollo program killed three astronauts before they even left the pad. Apollo 13 was a failure that very nearly killed three more. And we'll not mention STS.

But all that pales into insignificance compared to the number of test-pilots who quietly died in the advancement of aviation in the same era. That's how Yuri Gagarin died, for example.
'Round round, get around, CGHS grads sure get around! Saw your wedding pictures. Best of wishes for your newest resettlement.
I'm the main author of SC.

Your system does sound similar to SC - It seems to be a pretty standard realtime architecture - Those who started building their realtime systems with Socket.io (as you did) often end up with something similar to what you describe except it takes a lot of work to get there...

A lot of people who use SC decided to make the switch because they started implementing their own pub/sub stack (as you did) and then decided that it would be easier to just use something open source instead of writing their own.

There is a lot more to a realtime stack than just the bidirectional transport.

If you already have a fully working system and you don't need any new features, then you don't necessarily need to migrate to the shiny new tool ;p
How Sunrise App Is Conquering Time Management
Don't be so negative, its supposed to be a fun exploratory exercise. It's South Park for gods sake. Get over yourself and have some fun. I think this is an awesome project.
Personally, I appreciate the author's focus on telling Komorov's story with Komorov at the center and the corpse as meteorite knifed the romantic abstractions that let me be comfortably unempathetic when reading about people dying.
Remember how a large percentage of gov't administrators complained that their normal annual budget increase being lowered slightly was a cut? Remember how they cut services that didn't even depend on that increase in response? Calling it "austerity" is at least as honest.
1. Usually you need to look through multiple posts to find your answer. It's still quick, but remembering you wrote up about it before and searching for it and seeing your more precise note about it is faster.

2. I've been using mine to also keep track of tools I encounter but don't have time to investigate, or for hotkeys or features in specific applications that I didn't realize were there before. I just took a quick glance at my old notes and was reminded about a feature in XCode that I had completely forgotten about since I wrote the note.

3. It's great for a refresher before diving back into a language you've had on the backburner for awhile, and/or before going in for interviews where you know you're going to be quizzed on random knowledge from past languages you've used before but maybe not recently.
At most its 50% environment, 50% genetic. Its really all about what degree of self control you have. Of course I agree with you in an instant that a poor, less educated society tends to be more violent but environment never paints the whole story.
data point:

Once saw a cat rush a squirrel in the back yard. I yelled at it and it ran away but apparently the poor thing died in fright.

What was amazed me was seeing another squirrel come over and actually hug the other one, trying to get it to stand up.
> What happens when this microcode patch is applied at runtime on an overclocked CPU?

Paradox :)

Probably it'll reset conveniently so that you can restore default BIOS settings.

They can't let it run because that wouldn't change anything and I'm not sure if the microcode has a way to reliably switch some off-chip clock generator back to 100MHz.
Dallas recently built a park over part of a major street (which was actually built below street level). It worked quite well. It also attracted a lot of food trucks, which means several smaller businesses got a quick boost of publicity and customers. Everyone wins!
Epic Guide to Software Development Methods
I have been taking (plain text) notes for many years. My approach is to write down immediately everything I figure out. The biggest issue I have is to retrieve notes effectively. And to be faster creating them. I started experimenting with how to make the whole process better and have built http://codingbrain.com. It's basically a better search, copy-n-paste, history tool that works on local markdown files.

My other idea I'm currently working on is to provide a different kind of bookmarking service that gives you an option to write down what you have learned from that bookmark. I think one of the best way to get better is to always try to repeat from memory what I have learned. The service is supposed to compare my summary with the original content, maybe offer some Anki style repetition training etc
I love this feature! Most of the time I use the old version of Twitter for Mac, but every time go to twitter.com and see "While you were away", I realize that I miss quite a few interesting/important tweets.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16079_the-10-craziest-scienti...

I believe no truer words have been spoken than the opening of the section on Midgley in that article -

"Thomas Midgley Jr. Tried Really Hard to Destroy the World"

The man was the template for a Mad Scientist and the closest thing to a super villain there has been. It's a bit of poetic justice he died as a result of one of his own contraptions.

There is an episode of American Experience that has a part on the introduction of leaded gasoline that covers it better than the Cracked article, it's just not as funny.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners/
I wonder why pulsars where not chosen. Are they too nearby for the purpose? Shouldn't they be easier to distinguish than quasars?
My thought would be that "binary installers" as such are considered distinct from distro-managed packages.
I like to think of it as preemptive because (putting NIFs aside) it's not possible for a single process to completely block the entire scheduler, even if it ends up in an infinite CPU bound loop.

So in other words, a task (i.e. process) doesn't have to cooperate with others. It can do whatever it wants, be it I/O or CPU bound, and doesn't have to yield explicitly. Due to aggressive "preemption" it won't block other pending tasks significantly.

In contrast, if this is not guaranteed (which is not in most other Erlang "alternatives" I've looked at), then a task might accidentally paralyse large portion of the system.
What DOI means?
> but if they do, they will charge you for it at military rates you almost certainly cannot afford:

But the link you posted said "We charge you the equivalent of a full coach commercial fare on a comparable mode of transportation at the time that commercial travel ceases to be a viable option."

Where'd you get the "military rates" part?
> That's perfect, I need to flip it on, just how things like this should be added to anything!

I really don't have much of an opinion about the Twitter feature, but if a new feature appears in an app that is going to be beneficial to most users, making it off by default guarantees the vast majority of users will never see it.
Thanks for the answer! I was suspecting as much for our use case but wanted to clarify.
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China blocked Google with Baidu.
Russia did it with Yandex.
Japan did it with Yahoo Japan.

Big countries can block global monopolies like Facebook.
Somehow I believe that thing could have an awesome forum. (But alas, it does not have one.)
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Congress Starts to Get Serious About Online Privacy
You can't compare Russia to India. India was welcoming to foreigners and integrated their cultures and traditions. It was the same Mughals and other regional rules who allowed the British to setup the "British East India Company" in India. Its unfortunate that the British took advantage of this gesture and misused the opportunity to colonize India. To say that India would not have industrialized without colonization is stretching it too far. India was always open to new endeavors.
I'm a fan of novelist Michael Connelly. The main character in his most popular series is named after this artist...

http://www.michaelconnelly.com/extras/series/#Bosch
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That is fair. There is no system administered by humans that is free of human frailty.
Included in that loss may be all future revenues that could be attributed to the 'Happy Birthday' song though, in the form of a write-off of the value of the asset.
This sounds interesting. Do you have a web-site? Open source?
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Reminds me a lot of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad), which had a similar interface and an iterative constraint solver.
Is OpenShot is the GUI frontend to MLT ? Or does it do more ?
Who said anything about the US constitution or constitutional abuses?

Within a platform (such as twitter or quitter), the platform-runner is analogous to the government. The TOS (analogous to laws in a traditional government) can choose to value free-speech, or not.

What chafes me is the Orwellian language. To avoid "limitations of free speech," moderators can "exclude user's at any moment...without warning." Unless you're at a pretty advanced doublethink level, that is certainly not a free-speech-enhancing policy.

It would be more honest and less scary if proponents of such policies simply admitted they were prioritizing other goals.
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Correction 'differential pricing based on content' rather than differential pricing in general.
With negative interest rates, you would make money by taking out a loan. Banks literally have profit margins just from borrowing money and doing nothing with it. What would happen if we gave the same advantage to the general public?

Something seems very wrong.
This negative rates thing is fascinating and scary. Apparently economists have been talking about it for years. I remember reading about the magnetic stripe on the dollar bills suggestion in the WSJ some time around 2000. The idea is that over time the dollar bill becomes worth less, and this is tracked by the magnetic stripe.

Just found this interesting paper from the IMF:

https://goo.gl/65CuKF (scribd)

What will happen if they try to do something like this?