skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...or we can just use SPARQL and dbpedia!(http://wiki.dbpedia.org/) There are questions where you'll have to scrap more than one page to get an answer and things could get really complicated with shell commands.

dbpedia is a triple-store that allows us to perform simple queries against wikipedia data like listing music bands based on a particular city:

SELECT ?name ?place
WHERE {
?place rdfs:label "Denver"@en .
?band dbo:hometown ?place .
?band rdf:type dbo:Band .
?band rdfs:label ?name .
FILTER langMatches(lang(?name),'en')
}

or queries that involve multiple subjects, categories etc.
“When I hear ‘culture’...I unlock my Browning!.” [Also translated as “Whenever I hear the word ‘culture’...I release the safety on my pistol!.”]

(“Wenn ich Kultur höre...entsichere ich meinen Browning!”)
Hanns Johst (1890-1978)
German playwright and Nazi SS officer

http://www.quotecounterquote.com/2011/02/whenever-i-hear-wor...
What do you think 'one man and one woman' is if not a biblical model of marriage?
Not a fan of VBR MP3 files in general. They're more complicated to deal with when writing a codec, due in no small part to the seeking problem. And VBR is one of those optimizations that only works on things that didn't need optimizing in the first place (i.e., low-entropy frames.) There's just not much point to it.

If you need VBR MP3 for some reason, chances are you really need a better format.
One cannot discredit a 'topic'
Audi’s cars will be able to tell you when traffic lights are going to turn green
Why the SaaS Business Model Has Been Bad for Marketing
​CoreOS continues to bring Kubernetes to the private cloud
> Why does it have to be common?

The post I was responding to claimed a belief that it was a common view among gay Christians; I was asking whether there were facts on which that belief was grounded.
The chart at the bottom (now that it's fixed; thanks!), if you remove the Google outliers, shows that there is little correlation between the market share of a given SASS within its category and the number of YC startups that use it.

As a result, the conclusion is that YC companies just use whatever the hell they want, not what is "best."
Gah, thanks!
If you're looking for something with UI, smartgit in cross platform and make git for me usable.
Tor development sprang out of a US Navy project. The US government has probably been able to intercept Tor for a long time if it's important enough; they just have to have more than 40% of all nodes (IIRC) and they win. There's only ~10k relays + bridges in the entire network. 4000 computers is utter pocket change compared to the NSAs hardware budget.
"Human wants are unlimited, but resources aren't" - and markets are a pretty good way of allocating things. Sure, not everyone can afford Palo Alto, but a functioning market would likely provide for more people than the artificial scarcity they have now.
GNU is not an OS either. GNU/Hurd is. GNU/Linux is.
OK well I'm not pregnant but I've been downing tonnes of these things for a sprained ankle recently. I don't like doing it as they are hepatoxic to some extent, and would prefer codeine, but the authorities make it too hard to get your hands on in most countries. Grr.
It would be interesting to have also information about the frontend. Are they using Bootstrap/Foundation/etc? What other JS libs are they using for the presentation layer?
A hypocrisy charge is not an ad hominen.

An ad-hominen would be: "what he says is wrong because he is stupid/bribed/corrupt/a hypocrite" etc.

Saying: "What he says is hypocritical" is not an ad-hominem - it's not an argument on the content or the man, but the relation between the two (what he says and what he does).
A.k.a. paracetamol, Tylenol. If validated, the implications of this finding are potentially quite troubling.
Probably because you have 10 years of experience?

Git is a mess, but popular tool and many peopled are forced to use it instead of some sane system.
some good data on best in class saas
Surprised this hasn't gone to front page yet. This is serious stuff.
That's a good point – I was just going off of public figures who have stated similar views. I'd like to see that data actually. I know a grand total of one evangelical and maybe 5 non-agnostic Christians, so I can't say for sure what the set of 'gay Christians' believe. Maybe that speaks to a larger problem?
I don't believe Amazon officially pays for security flaws. They ended up sending me a free Kindle (pretty funny) and got an interview out of it. That didn't end up going anywhere, but I got a heck of a lot further than the black hole that is most job application processes these days. Seemed like a fair trade considering the market for Kindle 0days is somewhere near $0.

It's a neat project to talk about during interviews. Nothing more.
Azul Wasi orphanage needs new bathrooms
Unless you have something specific to say regarding Peter Thiel's specific contribution to Facebook's current or past stance on privacy, I think you are being far too alarmist with an entirely unsupported position.

For example, it's entirely possible that Peter Thiel is part of a losing faction of the board that values more privacy, and has actually been a force for the better with regard to privacy at Facebook? Is that likely? I have no idea, but it's supported by just as much evidence as you put forth.

Keep in mind, by the logic you've used so far, if we ignore the voting history of congress, then every congressperson must obviously have been in favor of invading Iraq, since that's what the US did.

Note: If you take this as a defense of Peter Thiel you've entirely missed the point. I have no evidence as to how Peter Thiel truly feels about privacy in general, and more importantly that's irrelevant to the point I'm making.
I used this starter kit (v2.0.0-alpha3):
https://github.com/davezuko/react-redux-starter-kit

I paired it with a Rails API backend.

Auth handled by Auth0 and use JWT to communicate between back and front (soon to be fronts as I will be adding in an app).
Snapchat is acquiring mobile search app Vurb for $110M+
>And, to the people who will say 'Obergefell is simply antithetical to Republicans because it's a states' rights issue,' you're not fooling anyone.

You shouldn't just dismiss the most important argument with a snarky comment. The federal government's powers are enumerated and very clearly do not include marriage. If you believe that the primary role of legal marriage in a society is to encourage child-rearing in stable homes, then it's a totally logical position to believe that there is no Equal Protection violation that would warrant the intrusion of the federal courts into a state matter. (edit: Because the professional offense-takers are apparently on the prowl, let me clarify: I am referring to the raising of children by their biological parents. Yes, research proves that gay couples are just as good at raising children as straight couples, which is another reason why I support gay marriage. I'm explaining the legal reasoning argued by one of the parties in the case.)

Now of course, the only reason that there was a legal case to begin with is because some states didn't recognize gay marriage. But believe it or not, American political parties do not represent totally coherent strains of thought. The two-party system requires both parties to be big tents that accommodate different interests. The Republican party is an overlapping and often uneasy alliance between evangelicals, social conservatives, libertarians, defense hawks, and nationalists. There are plenty of Republicans who support gay marriage, plenty who don't, and plenty who don't care.

One data point: I consider myself a Republican and I support gay marriage. I actually agree with the court's decision as well. I know many people who share my political affiliation and feel the same way.

As an aside, marriage law is so broken that I'm surprised anyone, gay or straight, even wants to have a legal marriage.
I was just discussing what other people believe. I completely agree that the government should be out of the marriage business anyways.
I agree (which is why I live in a single-family), but to be fair, the HOA/condo fee also typically pays for things like the outside maintenance, snow removal, common area maintenance, roof, painting, landscaping, pool/tennis court/gym/what-have-you, trash removal, insurance and other expenses relating to the shared/public areas.
Why Apple isn't talking about virtual reality just yet
I don't disagree with your general point, but the paid version of Hulu had ads (and still mostly does) until recently.

They have a paid version that's a few dollars more without ads, but that's relatively new and still has ads for some shows.

If ad supported free content isn't great, it's at least reasonable - ad supported paid content is absolutely terrible. I think people should categorically reject ad supported paid content or we might end up with another cable tv situation.
Count Yours In– The Power Of Collective Prediction
http://www.metaculus.com/questions/231/apple-virtualaugmente...
Ask HN: Is there a “technological solution” to the Kashmir problem?
Yesterday midnight marked the 70th anniversary of the independence of India and Pakistan from the British Raj.

Key features of the problem [1]:
- In 1947 British India is partitioned into India and Pakistan. The rulers of ‘princely states’ are to choose whether to accede to India or Pakistan. The Maharaja Hari Singh is the Hindu ruler of Muslim-majority Kashmir.
- The Maharaja accedes control to India. The case is referred to the UN which recommends holding a referendum/plebiscite in the region, after a ceasefire has been reached.
- The plebiscite was never held. India maintains this is because Pakistan did not withdraw its troops from the region, as the UN resolution required. Pakistan believes that India's claim to the land is invalid and a plebiscite should be held.
- There are three main wars that form the conflict (1947, 1965, and 1999) and estimates of the death toll sit at around 80,000+.
- Read more in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_conflict

In tech, we often lament about how many start ups seem to be working on trivial problems (e.g. on-demand food delivery apps, web scraper/aggregators), rather than difficult, long-standing, real world problems. I've also heard people implicitly or explicitly express the idea that technological innovation will be able to solve almost any problem on the planet.

Given these two premises I was wondering if we could here collectively brainstorm possible ways in which the kinds of technological progress made over the past few decades could make a difference in a present, concrete, real-world problem that exists in the world today - peace between India and Pakistan.

Of course, this is a highly complex, diplomatic problem that doesn't have a "solution", but given the kind of access we have to "disruptive", "ground-breaking" technology, is this something we can make progress on, and if so how?

References:
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Kashmir-Case-Freedom-Arundhati-Roy/dp/1844677354
I was hoping it was a list of the tech stacks they used to build their software, like Node.js, C, Clojure, Redis, etc
"He left prison in August 2010 after being sentenced for five years for defrauding investors, in a $1.8 million scheme through misrepresentations tied to the renovation of a Las Vegas casino. The Ukrainian immigrant was sued by the SEC in the 1990s for orchestrating a $12 million penny stock scam. He was ordered to pay more than $21.6 million in disgorgement and penalties for selling unregistered securities from 1993 to 1996."

Why isn't this guy on the bad actors list?
If you get a fixed-rate loan, you don't have to worry about that.
83% WordPress usage among CMS users seems high, but 22% using a CMS at all seems low. Presumably most using a CMS just want a blog and a few pages? Any kind of complicated content structure goes straight to custom development? Does this account for static generators like Jekyll or CMSes that don't provide information about themselves?
Trading was just halted in Neuromama (OTC:NERO), a startup with a $35 billion market cap. They have a search engine (https://neuromama.com/), a social network (http://vica.life/), and claim "heavy ion fusion" and oceanfront property in Mexico. The CEO got out of prison 6 years ago.

WTF?
The correct response would be to ignore you and only listen to people who should be trusted. Regardless of your subsequent fact listing.
I understand that but most people are only concerned about the presidential elections. The turn out on the off years reflects this.
That is literally what it says, however, most here seem to be questioning the subtext and authenticity. I have trouble interpreting this as an apologetic introspective look at the evolution of privacy and more as a self serving rant.

Theils crusade against gawker killed what I think was a shitty trade rag focused on gossip, at a very steep price. Too much in my opinion.

I had trouble taking his speech at the RNC seriously.

I deeply respected him, probably naively, and I still do; just in a much more narrow context. His intellect and knowledge of technology and macrotrends is amazing, however I find his philosophy in contrast with some of his actions
One can actually derive the Euler product for sine perfectly rigorously quite quickly, in just the manner Euler did!

(Euler is often said to have glibly moved from "sin(x)/x has roots at nonzero integer multiples of π" to "sin(x)/x = the product of (1 - x/(kπ)) for each nonzero integer k" in solving the Basel problem, simply ignoring the problem of the fact that many other functions have precisely the same zeros.

But Euler was not, in fact, always so glib in presenting this argument! For example, in Volume 1, Chapter 9 of his Introductio in Analysin Infinitorum (translation by Ian Bruce available at http://www.17centurymaths.com/contents/introductiontoanalysi...), we see that Euler argues for the product formula by noting (what would in modern notation be) that sin(x) = the imaginary part of e^(ix) = the imaginary part of (1 + ix/N)^N for infinitely large N, so that a factorization of sin(x) can be extracted from a factorization of the polynomial Im[(1 + ix/N)^N] for large N.

I'll write out in modern style the extraction of that factorization, but all the ideas are already present in the Euler:)

Let us denote Im[(1 + ix/N)^N] by f_N(x). Note that f_N is a polynomial of degree either N - 1 (if N is even) or N (if N is odd), whose degree 1 term is 1. Furthermore, its roots occur where x/N is the tangent of a multiple of π/N. Putting these together, we get that f_N(x)/x = the product of 1 - x/(N tan(kπ/N)) over the nonzero integers k in (-N/2, N/2).

As N approaches infinity, N tan(kπ/N) approaches kπ. Thus, we have that sin(x)/x = the product of 1 - x/(kπ) over the nonzero integers k.

[This last step is slightly glib, in that we've commuted limits without justification. We can rectify that by bundling together the factors where k differs only in sign, saying f_N(x)/x = the product of 1 - (x/(N tan(kπ/N)))^2 over k in (0, N/2). Now we note that the movement of the factors toward their limit is monotonic in N (considering the k-th factor to be 1 when N/2 <= k), which is sufficient justification for commuting the limits.]
We Need to Literally Declare War on Climate Change
So where's the part with the cow, again?

That was the political objection to a video about the viability of hyperloop that you're so reluctant to explain to us.
please, i'd love to know specific companies (seriously).
This has nothing to do with online privacy or the internet, stills and transcripts could have just as easily been published in the Enquirer (where they probably would have been protected), and an article outing somebody could have been in print anywhere. This "Gawker Law", has little or nothing to do with the Gawker-Hogan case. In the courts, the privacy of public figures has always been dealt with differently; if anything, this law will blur that distinction, and you won't be able to publish things about your Senator that you wouldn't be able to publish about your ex-wife.

Also, it's another sex law. If anything, the publication of the video without the consent of the people who made it was a copyright violation, and we already have laws for that that levy tens of thousands of dollars in fines on private citizens for republishing an albumful of music to dozens of people. Peter Thiel is a terrible person who made his entire fortune from knowing the right rich people at the right time. I hope he doesn't find somebody who thinks I may have slandered them in the mid-90s and finance a normally hopeless legal case in order to make sure that nobody who has less than a billion dollars in the bank says anything he doesn't like about him, or anyone he likes, or anyone he may be considering doing business with, ever again. We can call it the Peter Thiel Line of No Good Reason.
See also an interesting typed regex implementation by Gabriel Gonzalez: https://github.com/Gabriel439/slides/blob/master/regex/regex...
Show HN: I created HN profile widget
>That's kind of what ad hominem is... Discredit the argument by discrediting the arguer. The thing is, that has zero effect on whether the argument is valid or not.

In real life the content of an argument isn't the only think that matters. The motives of the arguer are also important --
what they're trying to achieve/sell by using it etc.

That's because people don't only offer their arguments to have other people discuss them and assess their merits, but also to use them to influence people towards other stuff, often unrelated to the argument.

E.g. "listen how right and eloquently I speak in favor of privacy -- and thus forgive my enormous contribution to privacy violations, or the fact that I killed an online outlet out of spite".

>The fact that I state 10 wrong facts about bananas does not mean that the next fact I state is wrong

No, but it means that pragmatic persons with limited time spans should do better than spend time listening you on bananas -- and thus are more right than wrong to dismiss anything else you have to offer beforehand.

Sure, they might commit to a false negative this way, but it's statistically more likely that they wont (and being quick and mostly right to access stuff is more important than being 100% right but slow, again for people with limited life spans).

Besides a hypocrisy charge is not the same as a "he is wrong" charge.
Good point. I hadn't considered that possibility.
A couple of years ago, I would have answered the same way. Now, at least in the SF Valley area, these types of things are largely ignored and instead we're asking a lot more CS questions (algorithms, data structures, design patterns, etc). In fact, I'd say about 99% of interviews for a front-end position don't ask ANY CSS questions at all - they're all JS-based.

For example, in a recent string of interviewing here for a couple of large SF-based companies and startups, I've encountered questions like re-implementing jQuery, doing the JS for the game Snake, palindrome checkers, longest chain of ascending numbers in an array, shortest path, matching node (given a node in one tree, find the same node in an identical tree), and basically a whole bunch of other questions where only JS skill were assessed.
The Goldwater rule removes the strength of your statement regarding him being a sociopath.
That was also what I thought this article was going to be about. Still pretty interesting, though.
Who honestly believes this company is worth anywhere near $35B?
2x playback speed helps a lot I find.
That's median household income. Median personal income is $32,000
Implying that objections to Trump's narcissism and probable sociopathy amount to "culture war" is a staggering re-framing of reality.

How about this? The degree of disconnect between the lower middle-class and below versus the upper middle class and ruling economic elites in the US has become a rift large enough to drive a semi-truck through. So how were we surprised when in comes Donald Trump's semi-sized narcissism and sociopathy?

The thing to ask yourself, as a member of the educated elite from either the left or right side of the political spectrum in the US: Have I understood and served all of those who have lost ground economically, or only "my side" while declaring the "other side" to be somehow unworthy and deficient? Trump and Sanders both demonstrate that for many in the US, the answer is the 2nd choice!
I am pretty sure they published the paper on the implementation before even starting Google.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#History
Agreed, but the movie theaters are in a tough spot here.

They're dying - they make almost no money from the ticket sale since the costs of showing movies is extreme. Most people don't go that much anymore because streaming services are quite good and in home TVs are a lot nicer now.

A lot of the money they make is from concessions - which is why I usually buy some when I go.
A couple of suckers who got conned into buying in at that price.
http://stackshare.io/stacks might have what you are looking for. Although not all YC companies are on there, some of the more well-known companies are.
Gawker obtained a sex recording and published it without consent of the people in it. That's what was presented at trial and the jury ruled it was an invasion of privacy.

It's that act (and very poor representation of themselves at trial) that has landed Gawker in the position they are in now.
Robots won't take all our jobs yet; apparently they're aiming for the low-hanging fruit.
True, but that just points to the fact that ad hominem should not be dogmatically a logical fallacy.
> I mean if we toss around incentived claims then you can't trust literally anyone in a capitalist society.

Only if you fall prey to logical fallacies. Noting that not all engineers are motivated to be maximally honest doesn't require that you completely mistrust literally everyone. False dilemma.

> If you are really concerned with this

What is it, exactly, that you think I'm concerned about? And how concerned do you think I am?

I can't help you with your chemistry/STEM straw man.
I would think that many of them don't expose plainly the fact that they're powered by WordPress or only use it as a backend/authoring solution with a custom frontend.
Another good example is RE2: https://github.com/google/re2

It's pretty fast too. I don't know whether you can compare the performance of Ragel to regex libraries like RE2; they look like they solve different problems.
A great template is the Heilmeier questions[1]. I will read and respond to any cold pitch that answers them.

[1] http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Heilmeier_Questions....
... there's an API making half of this superfluous. You can do pretty much any MediaWiki reading or writing through it. (All Wikipedia bots are required to use it, for instance.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

The article text is a raw blob of wikitext you have to process, but you don't have to go to stupid lengths trying to parse HTML without a browser.