skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fills me with 1990 nostalgia of IRC being ddosed and no one being able to trade ccs or dcc them 0daywarez. Ah the sweet chaos and drama.

Fun times, glad to see people are still having fun :0)

The part about childporn though... That's pretty abhorrent. Nearly half. I just don't understand child porn. Why? I wonder if there are child porn "Hunters" that go after these scum. (by Hunters I mean White hats)
People claiming the internet is free...well its not. In the US the carriers like comcast make money hand over fist selling expensive plans for a pittance of bandwidth. That's where a huge chunk of the money is going.
The first 5 books of the Honor Harrington series, I'm on the 6th now and planning on re-reading all 13 the whole thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honorverse#Honor_Harrington_se...
India textbook lists 'ugliness' as cause for dowry
Goodbye, Obama
CONIKS – Bringing Key Transparency to End Users (2014) [pdf]
OR are they? Its always problematic to take Chinese scientific claims at face value.
The greatest minds in computer science worked out the math and theory long before the tech became practical.

There is value in the theory and I think some of us enjoy it, even if it's not practical.
From China.
I still want a midi tool that lets me re-do the timing manually:

Have a melody, discard all timing info, place/record melody by just tapping on the spacebar.

I wonder how synthesizer music sounds when it's all human timing.
Snowden.ppt – Snowden in the style of leaked NSA powerpoint slides
No, the statement contains one fact and one opinion. The fact is bullshit.

"Notwithstanding the decline in economic fortunes since 2009, [34%] is too many."

Here's US GDP per capita. Notice a "decline in economic fortunes since 2009"?

World Bank:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita

St. Louis Fed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA

A stronger case could be made for median income, but even there, we're better off than we were in 2009. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
Was this expensive education as helpful for you and other folks from the relatively lower economic class as for private island hopping students (in terms of career opportunities)?
Exactly. Amazon's total years revenue was $107B in 2015. The fact that they spend $16B on shipping while charging $9B for shipping is just the statement that they shift shipping costs into the cost of products and prime memberships. As is well known. So sbierwagen's comment does nothing to dispute msandford's claim.
Admittedly I did not look at any profile information. That is certainly very odd I agree. This was not at all how I interpreted your original post. Maybe inform the moderator? If this is true it would certainly be a disturbing development.
There used to be this game called Colobot, pretty fun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobot

Now it's open source: https://github.com/colobot/colobot
Check out coins.co.th or coins.ph. Create a local bank account and trade your BTC there.
Sounds like my country...

It leaves me wondering if it's the same country or it's the same issue
The "constant leaking" on the ground gets overblown a bit. The primary reason for the immediate refueling is that they would take off with a minimal fuel load, because the plane performed very poorly one engine. Fully loaded with fuel they would have basically no chance of recovering from an engine failure on takeoff.
It seems like what these parents really want for their kids is enculturation, but they don't realise it. A western education on its own is still rather limiting when it comes to career and life success.
https://github.com/facebookincubator/beringei/blob/master/PA...
I think I suffer from the same symptoms, but weirdly enough, if I'm at table and I got food, there is no problem.

Even if I finish first and the other are still eating, it's really only when I didn't eat / not eating that it infuriate me.
Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

https://www.amazon.com/Schiit-Happened-Worlds-Improbable-Sta...

Goldmine of information about practical things you have to deal with when starting HW startup.

All the content of the book + extra chapters are available in forum format and you can read it here: http://www.head-fi.org/t/701900/schiit-happened-the-story-of...
A similar post on Halite.io listing some interesting games:

https://halite.io/
http://vindinium.org/
http://theaigames.com/
http://www.rpscontest.com/
https://www.codingame.com/home
https://leekwars.com/
http://russianaicup.ru/
http://dev.generals.io/

Link to the post:
http://forums.halite.io/t/other-ai-contests/925
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It's an exaggeration. But aeroplanes have gotten much, much more efficient (and quieter) --- this suggests an improvement of 55% since 1950: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft

Looking at actual figures:

Concorde got about 5MJ per passenger-km.

A modern 747-400 gets about 0.9MJ per passenger-km.

Meanwhile trains vary enormously but US trains appear to get about 2.7MJ per passenger-km, while Portugese ones are about 0.07MJ; but I don't know if that's comparing like with like (the data is unclear). Cars seem to get about 1.2MJ per passenger-km. A big cruise ship seems to get about 5.9MJ per passenger-km, plus you need to spend lots more energy on, essentially, life support because they're so slow.

These numbers were brought to you by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport... and the 'units' command, which is awesome. Also, someone who isn't me needs to overhaul that page to use consistent units everywhere.
So it's like BT now since OpenReach is still under their thumb and they bought EE a while ago.
The biggest reason Concord wasn't successful was that it was banned from flying over continental US.

How much that was because of the sonic boom is a matter of some debate.
By "radio OS" I assume you mean the baseband controller firmware?

It would be nice if it was open source, but it's a bit more understandable than the Intel ME. The baseband firmware often has regulatory requirements the rest of the phones doesn't have. It comes from a different vendor, and is compartmentalized. I too would like it to be open source, but it seems like a different situation.
"Every keystroke is sent over the TCP connection. This is why you might notice lag in your typing."

Isn't that an opportunity to predict what someone is typing?
Cool toy, but be sure to read that too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8828543
Totally right. I've been building a skill and you quickly learn how un-magical Alexa is. Most of the effort is engineering in fine detail to achieve some degree of natural interaction for your users. For example, adding in state and awareness of what the user said before to influence the skill's behavior and response. It feels like I'm inventing all that from scratch rather than the alexa platform helping achieve that.

If you want to see how well I've done, enable "NextSubway" :)

https://www.amazon.com/Matt-Sahn-NextSubway/dp/B01N9MO4DT/
This very hack was undertaken by those "hunters" you're asking about. There was also Operation Darknet, an Anonymous-driven takedown of Lolita City (one of the worst child porn onion sites) and the original Freedom Hosting, back in 2011.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/operation-darknet
I ran into it on some Reddit stream and thought it was funny as he claims AGI and he is everywhere asking/pleading for buyers. In the Netherlands we had Sloot[0] who claimed a similar impossible feat in another field. Well Sloot was actually claiming something 'more impossible'; I do think strong AI will happen but we are far off while Sloot claimed something impossible (Kolmogorov complexity is a good book about that). Sloot was believed by many and invested in. Also by people who should know better.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Sloot
> We are posting on a website run by a venture capital firm, maybe you can explain why the market is not relevant here.

I can help with that: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Pay special attention to these sections:

Show HN is a way to share something that you've made on Hacker News.

Be respectful. Anyone sharing work is making a contribution, however modest.

When something isn't good, you needn't pretend that it is. But don't be gratuitously negative.

If you're looking for polished, commercial products with a laser-focus on satisfying the needs of a market, please be aware that's not what Show HN is all about.

Yes, some of those do show up here rather often due to the nature of the community, and in those cases, comments like yours can be considered fair game, and they might even be helpful in some cases.

This particular Show HN, however, is very clearly just a passionate engineer sharing something they've built in their spare time for fun and learning. Those guidelines I highlighted earlier are precisely in place to protect the rather significant portion of the community here who, like the author of this Show HN, happen to enjoy building, sharing, trying out, (constructively) critiquing, and learning from these kinds of projects.

If you don't share that mindset, that's perfectly fine, but if you're going to comment on a project like this, please just be more mindful of the context next time.
Sorry to keep shilling this, but it seems to keep coming up lately - exhaustive pattern matching library in pure C# https://github.com/Jagged/OneOf - https://www.nuget.org/packages/DiscU
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If you don't have strong guarantees on that table (usually with high volume comes less requirements, ie. you can loose few rows here and there and it's not the end of the world) then you may want to try unlogged table (new versions of postgres do support it). Also make sure you're using BRIN index (if any) on that timestamp column.
Looks very inspired from SourceTree, but with some little improvements. Great work, will continue testing this.
How to backup InfluxDB running in a Docker container
It has to be the receiver because otherwise you're then sending a unique video feed to every set top box. It makes far more sense to braudcast 1 video feed and let the clients manage the unique watermarking.
So, using their numbers, over 5,000 legitimate tor sites are being held hostage. That's not justice (vigilante or otherwise), that's just greed.
I'm not sure if such games can help to learn programming. For example, Robocode is very dynamics-based and requires knowledge of control theory (which involves partial differential equations) and decision making under uncertainty. I'm doing software development for almost 10 years and yet such games are too hard for me. These games can help you to learn "AI" but not programming. It's simpler to create your own Robocode game from scratch than to master creating bots for it.
More detail: https://www.axios.com/ubeam-finally-shows-off-its-wireless-c...
Watching my own children go through the education system here in the UK I have noticed how much more of a qualification system it is compared to when I was at school/college in the 1970's & 1980's. Education seems to be something you try to get along the way to qualifications.
While I agree with all the pros of SSH, the only issue for me is that you're spawning a remote shell which if not properly maintained / configure _could_ be a security risk, not because of ssh / key based authentication which are both great - but because you're one layer closer to the underlying OS - again which is fine if it's configured and secured properly but from what I've seen it's becoming more and more prevent for people to deploy servers / instances without truly understanding platform operations to a level where they choose a sensible OS distribution, keep SELinux enabled, run services in cgroups, automate patching etc... etc... and I think that's fine from the devaluing of operational experience and the whole replace one (modern) ops engineer with 5 devs mentality without considering that it may be more efficient to hire people and create roles based on their skill set and passion where they'll thrive best.
Until you realize that the pre-paid phone service doesn't exactly work well for that and is rather expensive, and your refurbished phone doesn't work too well with modern websites.

I should also mention that not everywhere has access to a public library that is free to use. I lived next to one of those districts - the next township (and town) over didn't have one. Since they didn't pay taxes into the library, they had to pay a yearly fee. Only pre-school children were exempt.
Not hosting child pornography doesn't mean legitimate :)
Some great suggestions in the top comment. Also try talking through the causes of the depression and what they can do to resolve it or improve on it. I once had a friend who was depressed and considering taking medication to treat it. We talked for a little while and it turned out that she had an abusive father while growing up, and her depression had started ever since she moved back home with her parents. She is now in the process of moving out and putting more distance between her and her father.

Depression is often like physical pain. Sometimes it's worth treating in and of itself, other times, it's your body/mind's way of telling you that there's something wrong, and that you need to go fix it. In such cases, you always want to make sure that you're treating the cause, and not the symptoms.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/magazine/28depression-t...
I've used the `co` library at work to extensively trim down and simplify a lot of server-side Node.js code recently. It's worked out very well compared to the very Promise heavy code we had before, especially since so many database libraries now make use of promises. I would highly recommend it if you're going to be stuck using Node v6 for the next 2-4 years.

On the front-end, we're using TypeScript 2.1.5, so we've been able to make good use of async/await there. The only tricky parts are dealing with AngularJS, due to the way it handles change detection via scope digests.

Both solutions still require the use and understanding of ES6 promises, especially when dealing with code that only works with callbacks.
Why don't UPS drivers turn left?
Tetris in 73 line (Python)
Being open source is quite measurable:

* Is the OS, OS? [Y/n]

* Is all software OS? [Y/n]

* Is all firmware OS? [Y/n]

* Is all hardware OS? [Y/n]

You can easily count a percentage of open source in your laptop. If your goal is for instance avoid backdoors/surveillance, I would say this is a "very good" laptop, while a COTS laptop would be "bad". As the parent says, good or bad depends on the metric.
If a sufficient number of tor nodes decide that a particular onion site is undesirable, could it become filtered and basically unreachable?
Nice use of the blink tag.
Thanks for the link. That's great!
These types of rankings are as good as the data they are fed. Here, the data is pub count. This is clearly useful to see - for example, if you want to go somewhere and study operating systems, but the school has not published a paper in that area in the past decade, well, you might want to rethink your decision.

That said, we need better data. Imagine top programs each doing a detailed survey of exiting graduate students to learn things like (a) how easy was it to find an advisor? (b) once you had an advisor, how much did you feel like they helped you in your career development? etc. etc. If there was a serious effort to evaluate the outcome of graduate school -- the graduate students themselves, and how much they improved while in school -- we'd have a new data source and deeper way to evaluate which school one might wish to join.
> “[N]o seizure occurs if a package is detained in a manner that does not significantly interfere with its timely delivery in the normal course of business.”

Even crazier.
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Neither online nor free, but the Cambridge Latin courses are justly acclaimed as classics in the Classics.
Thank you all for the downvotes for asking a serious question that was really bugging me. I even bet the ones who downvoted didn't even took the time to answer. Cheers!
> Wine 2.0 is out, ready to disappoint you once again

Well, it now allows me to use the same Office version (2013) that I have to produce and share documents with, so I am far from disappointed!
Trekkie Peace message getting down voted on HN ?

... You guys need to get out of deep nets and go back to your classics

“Without followers, evil cannot spread.” - Spock
Indian IT companies need to stop using H-1B visas: Narayana Murthy
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It's official: Apple will make iPhones in India at Bengaluru facility
How viable is this, since author said he wrote it in 2012? To me it looks okay, but I am willing to take opinion from someone more experienced with Go.

Edit: typo
true but there are routes that are mostly over water, say, London - NY and Tokio - Los Angeles.
I'm not talking about a tournament. And yes, it could indicate collusion. But most of the time, it's just a friendly low- or mid-stakes game and the players are tired of thinking.

My point exactly about the unlimited bankroll. The experimenters may not have realized that an unlimited bankroll would significantly affect the strategy.
Well, there is another aspect to it. Having 2.000.000 clients connected at the same time is much more important scaling factor than we need 1M req/s. Usually people scale services on multiple dimensions (also financial aspects). On the topic of we are just benchmarking the framework, sure, but I would like to also add the test when we tested for other requirements as well. Visualising the results with p50..99.99 latency also would be meaningful.
I was never able to break top 60s in rank because of lag. I asked several players who could move much faster (it sometimes felt like they were cheating), and they said they were near NY, closer to the server. It was unfair that they dominated, but the update has leveled the playing field. Thanks devs!
Maybe, but the native environment would have to be as prosperous.
Also on Windows, macOS and Wii U.
The regulatory requirements are bullshit. I can build out of spec transmitters in my garage. If I use one, I get in trouble with the FCC.

The requirements as they stand are nothing more than an excuse for shitty networks to spend less on reliability and security while providing a convenient backdoor for state-level actors.
Have you read the graphic novel?
This is a great point. As I've noted a few times, our surveys were conducted with different question sets for every browser that made note of different features and warnings. We also took that into consideration when aggregating the results into one whitepaper.

We wanted the whitepaper to be browser agnostic, this isn't about blaming specific browsers or actions. We wanted to highlight the larger issue that there is a gap in privacy education for a mainstream user and that it is something that members of technical communities can all step up and help with.

As for a special note for the warnings, I would say it is akin to the Terms of Service for websites. Perfectly visible, but never really read and understood.
I find that list to be missing Elevator Saga http://play.elevatorsaga.com/
Sometimes it is not only about results. It is about the journey (Takes off my philosophical hat). The fact that Tetris was built is not that important. Show HN is about showing and doing something creative even if that means building a 1984 game.

Plenty of take aways from this Show HN for me. I can look at the code and understand how React was used to achieve this. Sure, this could be done with 100s of other frameworks or even plain C++ but thats not the point. But again, you missed the point.
Yes. Your experience might be different, but I have a limited capacity for the number of people I can remember basic facts about to be polite, so when I was keeping track of 100+ people on Facebook I didn't have the mental space to keep track of people who I met in my day-to-day.
I went to school in the UK in the 70's/80's and it was shit, I'd have given my right arm for what my children have had (from a state school).
Surprised Code Combat [1] isn't on the list. I think it's also completely free/open source [2].

[1] https://codecombat.com/

[2] https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat
SE Asia is a rather big place but I suppose it's a combination of:

- low cost of living

- pleasant climate

- decent infrastructure

- interesting, diverse culture

- being generally welcoming to foreigners (to those with somewhat big pockets at least)

You get some of those traits in many other non-South-East-Asian countries as well but all of them combined is a pretty rare occurrence.
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>So the only "upgrade" path is to replace the entire PCB.

Except that it's not a tightly coupled design so there's enough space to add more boards.

Somebody that only want to play with gadgets shouldn't review something he has no understanding of.
It's probably against the law to annoy residents with audio ads from blimps and for a good reason.

I bet rednecks would shoot their rifles at would be audio ad blimps passing over their property without thinking twice - like they do now with drones. And I don't blame them, because I'd do the same any day.
> The worst offenders however, are the ones that require a payment to use, and still completely overwhelm you with the ads (Public transport in my case)

I'm with you on the concept, but public transit is just about the most wrong example you can come up with.

Every system that I'm aware of either loses money directly, or would do so if they lost government subsidies. Advertising revenue isn't something that any of them can do without.

You may be able to afford to pay a rate that would obviate the need to rely on advertising, but those who most depend on it could not
Most notably, Blood Meridian. It had probably been more than fifteen years since I last reread it. What was unusual was that as soon as I reread it, I turned around and reread it again.

[edit] Among programming books: How to Design Programs...I've got a print copy. There's a lot of sophistication and relevant experience behind its programming fundamentals content (e.g. tests and documentation before (2002) tests and documentation became the new black).
this has been happening since the 90s. there were at least 2 or 3 of these kids at my high school in california.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telia_Company#Controversies

> In the past TeliaSonera has been accused of indirectly supporting dictatorships, allowing them to do man-in-the-middle attacks on their citizens. This was disclosed in the Swedish TV show Uppdrag Granskning in 2012.[14] TeliaSonera responded to these allegations with: "This is happening every day in all countries and applies to all operators. We are obliged to comply with the legislation of each country."[15]

> Further allegations have been presented in Swedish media and elsewhere that TeliaSonera may have illegally, through bribery, acquired licenses in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. As a result of internal investigations on these and other potential violations to the company's policies, several senior managers have been dismissed from the company.
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I see you already have a pull request for TIS-100. That's the first that came to mind.

Does it make sense to break down the list by categories? For example:

- New to programming: Lightbot, Spritebox

- Reverse engineering: https://microcorruption.com, many of the Zachtronics games

And so on...

Also, here are a couple of other lists of games I've been going through:

- http://steamcommunity.com/app/375820/discussions/0/481115363...

- https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/09/best-programming...