skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I checked eBay for the "big" Amigas I never had, expecting them to be cheap, but found out that these boxes had turned into valuable collector's items.

Story of my life. I had an Amiga, got rid of it. Had an H-11, got rid of it. Had a Digicomp I and II, mom got rid of them. All worth a big pile now.

My basement is full of old computers I stuck down their as I upgraded. All worthless :-)

I have an unerring ability to get it backwards what will be a collectors' item and what won't.
> With proper competition nobody would dare to introduce something like that, because people would just switch to one of the other ISPs in a heartbeat.

One of the ISPs would charge lower prices while offering crappier service. Some customers would still stick with it because it's cheaper. That ISP then strikes a deal with some smaller websites to make them faster than their competitors. Then the ISP offers a sweetheart deal to the larger competitors (at first) which they'll take to avoid losing ground, so then everybody is paying them for faster service.

Now that ISP has the lowest prices and their service is suddenly better because it's being subsidized by the websites, so they get more customers. Then they use the leverage of more customers to negotiate higher prices from the websites ad infinitum. The competitive advantage forces other websites to adopt the same business model.

It isn't a problem that competition solves because the people who have to pay can't choose between competing ISPs.
Maybe helpful: Passmark's CPU benchmark results, essentially crowd-sourced data:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
Sum types don't fit well with zero values. What is the zero value of an `(int|string)` union type ?
Unfortunately, "the past" votes more regularly than "the future" (particularly the future which is underage or not yet born).

And they REALLY vote more than outsiders!
That game is SO GOOD. Fair warning, unless they fixed it the patch that gave IFrames to dash also broke the final boss where it soft locks.
Ask HN: How do I anonymize a user's IP Address?
For instance, take the IP address of "215.54.387.9"...if I simply use "215.54.387" and leave out the last "9" is that enough so that the IP address cannot be traced back to the user? My understanding is that a government entity, etc needs to match the HTTP referer in combination w/ the full IP address to track down the user's information, or am I wrong? Also, how would I deal with IPV6 addresses?
Right, so what happens instead is the lobbyist donates some money to the campaign, and the campaign takes them out to dinner, where they can talk about future campaign funding.

And that's totally legal.
> Is that really the case? Most moderation is done on textual-based forums, like the one we're on right now.

Even on a textual-based forum like reddit there are two subreddits which I usually visit (/r/syriancivilwar and /r/combatfootage) where one can see links to videos of dead people or worse (that's because very nasty things happen during wars). I could very well imagine someone getting PTSD-like symptoms after having moderated videos/links to videos of children who have just died because of chemical-weapons attacks. That is what nightmares are made of.
No, for us it was all custom tools built in-house :(
From the same blog, here's what's wrong with The Imitation Game.

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=7365
Un-Disrupted: What “The Alliance” Actually Says About Employment
DC's architecture is converging on 12-14 stories steel and glass and it looks great while allowing a lot of density.
What does that have to do with zoning?
Well, I'm saying those are bad subs, because they have 'vigorous' moderation. So subs with 'strict, vigorous moderation' is not a feature that automatically connotes, good sub.
This page is showing up completely blank for me.

Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tsK9lnR...
California minimum wage hike hits L.A. apparel industry
Sounds good! What distro are you running?
Having a lot of faded old photos, I am not convinced of their longevity.
But instead it has grown substantially.

Charts like these need to be viewed with independent factors in mind.

The Cold War just might have had something to do with the growth in state outlays from 1950-1990, for example.

And then after 2002 there was another military expansion of course, followed by a spike for the 2008 financial crisis.
Your characterisation is simply not supported by those quotes in their full context, as far as I am aware. Did you ever seek the context?

Claim: OSC wants states to keep sodomy and anti-homosexual laws on the books.

Quote in Context: The Supreme Court had declared in 1986 (Bowers vs. Hardwick) that a Georgia law prohibiting sodomy even in the privacy of one's own home was constitutional. OSC wrote an essay in 1990 (23 years ago) to a conservative Mormon audience that, at the time, would have felt no interest in decriminalizing homosexual acts. In that context, his call to "leave the laws on the books" was simply recognizing the law at the time. In the same article he called for them not to be enforced. Within that context this was the liberal and tolerant view - for which OSC was criticized in conservative Mormon circles as being "pro-gay." The law was not overturned by the Supreme Court until 2003. Now that the law has changed, OSC has no interest in criminalizing homosexual acts and would never call for such a thing, any more than he wanted such laws enforced back when they were still on the books.
When I was dealing with it, it wasn't required and it was pushed - installed by default with iTunes IIRC, which of course meant that this unnecessary software was installed for almost all users.
One of the sad consequences of perpetual copyrights is that copies of interesting items are not being made, and hence risk getting lost completely.
> As a voter, it's important to be able to verify that the people I voted for actually represented my interests, rather than just paying lip service in the campaign.

I think this vastly overestimates the degree to which voters actually look at how representatives voted rather than what they say on television. The only people actually looking at votes are lobbyists and party leaders.

The whole idea of representative democracy rather than direct democracy is that you elect people you trust to represent your interests. If you don't trust them then vote them out, because individual voters clearly don't have time to micromanage untrustworthy members of Congress.

The actual votes are all choreographed anyway. Everybody knows ahead of time whether or not a bill is going to pass and by exactly how many votes. Which means every bill that passes or fails with a margin of more than one vote (which is almost all of them) would have allowed anyone to change their vote from the one they preferred to the one their constituents or donors would have preferred without changing the outcome, and party leaders generally only care about the outcome. And if it would have changed the outcome then that means the vote was close and it shouldn't be hard to find someone on the other side that you can trade votes with so that you can both vote the way your respective constituencies want to see you vote even though you each effectively voted the other way.

The only thing revealing the votes does is allow the exact thing we wanted to prevent, i.e. it allows a representative to be rewarded or punished for voting a certain way but only by the people who know enough to distinguish when the vote is only for show and when it really changed the outcome.
The minimum wage in US or Europe is $40-50

Huh?
My understanding that, after that point, the hardware drivers could lie and say they've written it and we'd never know, correct?

And even after that, the hardware could return a "written OK" value but not actually do the job, right?

So the point is that without complete transparency from end-to-end, there's no way to tell.

Is that correct?
Well, the 90s were probably the peak of suburban living, before people decided the hours of commuting per day and countless gallons of gasoline burned were not really worth it. So people moved to where the jobs are. (considering that most people still cannot fully work remotely).

Also, as you point out, living in urban areas is a luxury good; as wealth increases (for a large enough segment of the population, at least), they're choosing to use that wealth to live somewhere a bit more exciting than a field in Kansas. I agree they shouldn't complain that it costs more than a house in flyover country, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't complain about a city making it unnecessarily difficult to add housing stock. Those who already live there are, of course, more entitled than anyone to complain about their lack of options when they get kicked out of their rent-controlled unit.

Funny anecdote about "north coast of Alaska." My dad visited the oilfields up there a few times as part of his job. In the early 90s I got a phone call from him on a satellite phone as he watched a midnight pickup softball game after the summer solstice. The delay in the phone connection was really entertaining and fascinating for me as a young-ish kid. I shudder to think how expensive that call was at the time, per minute.

20 years later, I rode up there on my motorcycle. I unclipped my iPhone 3GS from my handlebars, had a 5 bar 3G signal, and called my dad, effectively for free. It wasn't even roaming, because I was in the US! I didn't have to know how it worked, and in fact I still don't. It certainly wasn't a laggy satellite connection. Amazing how times change.
A bit unrelated, but I'm curious how GoDaddy is so big. All their products are overpriced and they don't sell anything you can't get somewhere else at a better price. Their tools are just as user-friendly as any other service as well.
I think this is a great proposal. Even so, I'm curious why there needs to be a formal process for the use of many sources in localization. It seems to me that anyone making a localization device (i.e. Apple or Samsung making phones) could add inertial information, cell tower locations, and more to give great location info.
Well, it is the subject matter of technical CS. Which means it’s also part of what many universities teach in CS.

We have a mandatory course for all CS students at my university where we have to design a full DLX processor in VHDL and run it on a simulator. Just so we can understand how these things work.

So, the average CS graduate from the uni where I am should be able to do this.

And this is just a normal university, I’d expect that the universities with better reputation are doing this on a completely different level even.
a) please do not delete & repost, it's against HNs rules

b) You can't maintain a 1:1 mapping and anonymity, if I know your algorithm it's trivial to try all IP addresses and get a mapping to do a reverse look up. You need to throw away data to make it ambiguous, e.g. in probabilistic data structures like bloom filters.

I don't know what a snooper would want with the HTTP referrer information.
That probably varies from country to country or even university to university, but we did quite a bit of hardware stuff - from simple 7400 series stuff and op-amps, over PALs and CPLDs to simple processors on FPGAs and dimensioning circuits for ASIC fabrication processes.
Twenty year SF resident here, and property owner. I am consistently amazed at how selfish a lot of people here are. They'll talk about how pro-housing they are, until someone bulldozes a teardown home on their street and _gasp_ builds infill development.

I am one of the last single family homes on my street, and as much as I would like it to remain a quaint little street, it needs denser development, so I've never complained about the condos going up. My property rights end at my property line (simple concept but one that confounds weak minds who can't be bothered to read the fine print when they bought their place).
>we don't know what the authors considered; they apparently have done a lot of research on the subject

That's true we don't know what they considered but a cursory search doesn't find any primary research on 2x audio acceleration performed by either Rebecca Treiman or Jeffrey Zacks. As for reading text, it looks like RT's commentary on speedreading is based on meta-research[1] and not primary lab research. (It's also possible they published primary research in an academic journal that google doesn't index.) It looks like their comment about speech acceleration is anecdotal instead of being based on rigorous research.

>what you list aren't data

Why not? If an audiofile has speech content, one can count the total words, divide by total minutes, and hence, calculate a words-per-minute. Why is wpm not data? The average reading speed of adults is also well-documented: https://www.google.com/search?q=average+reading+speed+of+adu...

In any case, HN readers can try it themselves on a bunch of youtube videos.

For example, the Scarlet Letter novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnfaAZu0fNE

Another example from a news show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTSr07u8gow

Apple presentation with Tim Cook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zbAFSJCPSI&feature=youtu.be...

Change the playback option to 2x on those videos. Can it really be impossible to understand the meaning as the authors assert?!? For listeners whose native language is not English, perhaps they require the slower 1x playback speed. For most others, I'm very skeptical that 2x speed is impossible to extract meaning.

[1]http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/s...
I enjoy seeing vintage computing posts on Saturday at HN.
I visited once, and loved it.

Of course, my expectation was that it was more dense than SF, so when I found a source that confirmed it, I was all too willing to trust it. But in retrospect (based on your protest on the matter), the housing itself was quite dense in many areas, but there were many parks and large spaces of open areas between the housing blocks.
The European Origins of Economic Development [pdf]
How would those low income people be determined? Lottery? First come first serve?

I think that this solution in actually employed in Russia, and it kind of works in half-assed way, but does not produce any miracles.
Its also in uber's best interests to charge more money if possible.
It's not common, but the product my work makes uses it as a cross-browser, cross-platform (Windows and OS X) way of embedding video into a web page with good scrubbing and multitrack audio support.

We're replacing it with native HTML video, but comparing the number of workarounds and shims needed to get feature parity across browsers and platforms, Quicktime is certainly the easier choice. It's just not future proof.
Not Google, but maybe a new Alphabet company.
Disks can buffer, disks can have firmware bugs, disks can fail both catastrophically and subtly. Even the fanciest battery-backed RAID controllers have firmware bugs and dead batteries. Those are just ways your storage hardware can fail you even if the kernel and libraries are bug free and you follow the right mystic incantations to sync data.

While there's no excuse for bad documentation or poor APIs, you can never consider data written to a single local disk "safe". It never is.

It's a shame making a best effort at safety is nontrivial, but it does force developers to write more defensive and crash-safe code which is all that can save you in the end.
Realistically, backups need to be based on atomic snapshots, like `zfs`.
They make up for it with Superbowl ads.
I think his point was that SQLite still has to work around the durability problem described in the article. As such, SQLite isn't a solution, it's a middleware API. I'm not trying to knock it, but solving a problem by adding a new layer isn't good design.

Also, middleware shouldn't be needed in open source because you can simply patch the underlying API. That the middleware is the best solution in this case says a lot about the problem.
I also highly recommend the book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BW4VEGM/ref=dp-kindle-re...

Can't wait to watch this when it comes out.
Plenty of Passengers, but Where Are the Pilots?
For a few years, I've been challenging people when this discussion comes up to give examples of situations where increasing housing supply resulted in falling prices. As far as I can tell, without a fundamental demand drop, this rarely if ever happens.

And you've hit on one of the reasons: the investors who want in want into a market where real estate commands the prices it does.
Is there a reason to prefer "the next big thing" high growth companies over incremental growth companies? With incremental growth new workers can predict what industries to get into as they enter uni whereas if you have high growth companies, the lucky kids will experience demand and the other kids will feel left behind as they chose a major which ended up not having as much demand because it's difficult to predict demand (ahead of time) when you have high growth.
What podcasting app do you use?
Three reasons the Bitcoin community should be happy ShapeShift was hacked…
> legal reasons

Keep in mind that AARP is excited about driverless cars because for millions of seniors, losing their ability to drive means losing their independence. Also, by age 50, everyone knows somebody killed by a human-driven car. AARP's members vote at very high rates even in non-presidential elections, so they are a very powerful lobby.

http://www.aarp.org/home-family/personal-technology/info-201...
So the reliability and storage semantics bottom out at the filesystem after all. It's not as simple as 'I'll use SQLite: problem solved'. Not for the authors of SQLite, for sure.
If you use windows, I think Microsoft still has a DDK somewhere that contains the final version of MASM, their macro assembler. I assume there's a gnu option out there too. Get one of those and look on google for a hello world tutorial. Write some user mode stuff. Then try a boot sector / boot loader. Use a VM for testing and development. Get a book like The Ultimate PC Hardware Guide and start writing a hardware abstraction layer for your new OS...
You can't say something like that without giving at least one link to another of the examples you mention!
Show HN: Dotmatrix – Go app to encode images as Braille art
That's the problem with these sorts of laws attacking crypto. If math is illegal, what other "hidden" messages are potentially contraband?
Fair enough. I'll try to keep things more on-topic!
Audacious plan? That would be getting their 1.2 Billion people reasonable access to fresh water and indoor plumbing.
You can use HMAC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authenticat...
Take a Look at the New BART Car
You can pick a spot between two extremes...
I have a similar story. After taking a not-unusual academic path from Math through Linguistics to Cognitive Science, I eventually got started in programming to support my research. I had previously avoided programming largely out of fear. When I thought of the effort it took me to produce a half page of correct mathematics, I blanched at the thought of trying to write thousands of lines of working code.

When I finally delved into Perl, Python, C, etc. and reading open source code (mostly C, mostly greenfield projects), I was flabbergasted to discover how much coding is by guess and by golly. I am genuinely unable to grasp how a person with the intelligence to master the technical details that programming requires could be so lacking in ability to elegantly conceptualize a problem domain and produce suitably organized code. I have come to wonder if it isn't a psychological inhibition. Like some people keep their desk obsessively neat but others work amid a filthy messs, not because they're too lazy to clean but because they're more comfortable that way.

Once in a while, I see a programmer demonstrating the clarity of analysis I'm accustomed to seeing in science (and even the humanities). This is the kind of programmer who will produce a shorter and clearer solution in C than the average programmer will produce in Python. It's rare, though, so I'm constantly amused/irritated by the frequently stated assumption on HN and elsewhere that programmers have superior analytical skills.
You Don't Know Africa
The comment at the end about this being acceptable leaves me wondering. I started programming in 2013 and doubt there was once a time where "bad" coding was ok. Surely there was always someone on the other side of the fence. I suppose when it comes down to it, there is getting it done and getting it done today.
My property rights end at my property line (simple concept but one that confounds weak minds who can't be bothered to read the fine print when they bought their place).

Zoning is a bit more complex than that. And isn't simply about "property rights."
The article addresses this specific point in two places even more bluntly than just through workers' comments:

'Members of the team quickly showed signs of stress — anxiety, drinking, trouble sleeping — and eventually managers brought in a therapist. As moderators described the images they saw each day, the therapist fell silent. The therapist, Mora-Blanco says, was "quite literally scared."'

And:

'Beth Medina, who runs a program called SHIFT (Supporting Heroes in Mental Health Foundational Training), which has provided resilience training to Internet Crimes Against Children teams since 2009, details the severe health costs of sustained exposure to toxic images: isolation, relational difficulties, burnout, depression, substance abuse, and anxiety. "There are inherent difficulties doing this kind of work," Chen said, "because the material is so traumatic."'
If birds descended from dinosaurs, why are they warm-blooded? (2010)
I think this is a bad option from a concurrency point of view, but why not one of the relational database alternatives for maintaining a hierarchy? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4048151/what-are-the-opti...
Could you elaborate? I'm going to Logan soon and was going to try Lyft
The big lead developers of the 90s (I'd add Sid Meier and Peter Molyneux to your list as a start) defined game genres, mechanics and in some cases just purely the concept of 3d game engines. Nowadays most big titles use similar 3d engines, use well-developed game mechanics, often follow (though sometimes with a little variaion) well developed genres, etc. Plus its big business so decision making is much more corporate rather than visionary. Thats why personalities don't stand out on the big titles, although there are a healthy number of indie game programmers who are doing the individual vision thing (Jonathan Blow et al).
Many would disagree.

But if you think it's ugly, that's fine -- you don't need to visit or live there.
I'll disagree with the fact that multinationals like Unilever and P&G start producing and marketing sachets in India. This was pioneered by an Indian entrepreneur Chinni Krishnan[1]. These firms just ended up copying their business model.

[1] http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/mar/22bspec.htm
Τελευταία αγωνιστική στην Σούπερ Λιγκ
As far as I know, they don't bench many different architectures.
Agreed on On The Media. It's basically just meta-news, but stepping back and looking at the narratives being presented is really interesting. Their recent show about this history of political polling was fantastic.
Looks like they're getting rid of a ton of seat-space so they can add a third set of doors? Huh?
Because it has almost nothing to do with actual life and passion of Alan Turing, who was infinitely more interesting person than that cliché Asperger type depicted in the movie.
It sounds appealing to have no building limits. How about if I want to start fraking on my land near your land? Cities in Texas like Dallas don't like this, so they passed laws saying you can't have hydraulic fracturing on the land in the city, because it causes small earthquakes and could cause pollution. Guess what happened, the state legislature passed a new law saying cities couldn't pass laws against frakking.