skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clickable:

http://www.quoteroller.com
If your speed doesn't allow you to get a block at least every few days, then you should use bitcoin pool,

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mexico to tacos, right?
None of the anti establishment types I know are stupid enough to use this. They dont even have smartphones, for the same reasons.
I stopped buying overpriced Sony tech sometime ago, about 10 years ago. After I bought a Vaio from them and they couldn't even provide proper drivers for it on their website. How difficult is it for a company to provide some drivers on their own website? When it came to deciding between a PS3 or XBox, we bought a Xbox.

My Sony purchases since then have been some CDRs (on sale) and an auto time setting alarm clock (couldn't find any other, and I need one that day).
I've lived most of my live in Belgium, with mum and dad living apart. Home was the house I was living in that week.

I've also lived for longer periods of time (over a year) in Greece and Brazil. At first, home is the place you've left behind and all the people that live there. But then as you spend more time on your new location and get your life sorted there (things like local friends, language, culture), it starts feeling like home.

Leaving that place again is where it gets really hard. You leave your new home and go back to your old one, which feels different.

But in the end you have familiar places and faces where ever you leave, a home to come back to.
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Very interesting question. We've been thinking of offering something like this at the back of:

http://www.RapiDefs.com

Will post more on this later today.
With all this excessive photo-sharing going on, I think we'll soon find ourselves wanting to counter the adage "A picture is worth a thousand words" with its opposite.
It looks like it is a modified version of normal emacs highlighting for shell scripts to me; the colors are different from the defaults on my computer but not wildly so.
using the app without providing your location would make you a voyeur, which is not cool.

the fact that they force you to disclose your location to use it is the first thing i've heard about this app that i like.
Can't upvote this enough. If you want to protect content, make the checks server-side. Security must be server-side first, no exceptions. Doing anything else is asking for tech savy people with debuggers (or "view source" in this case) working around it.

You can get into a race with your users renaming javascript variables or changing CSS classes, or implementing the most advanced javascript obfuscator that exists today, but this is a waste of time.
I like the Swedish approach:

Certain restrictions on freedom of speech exist, notably regarding hate speech against any group based on ethnicity, race and creed, and since 2002 also against sexual orientation. Some notable recent cases are Radio Islam and Åke Green.[citation needed]

Saying that all speech has to be completely free no matter what is a bit fundamentalist. Stuff in the real world is grey, not black or white.
Add something descriptive to the headline or at least your app's name, or why would people click on it? This is not the best time to post either, so maybe you should try in about 5-6 hours.
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Maybe I'm missing something here, but how is "Let all the people you know find out all about your current surroundings" a selling point?
Same thought happened to me... "Code or it didn't happen"

If you're interested in this you could play with some other graph-based databases though, for example http://infogrid.org/, or see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database for an overview. Many open source implementations exist.
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you're trolling, but this is a good time to quote cory doctorow:

"everything is derivative."
It depends where you go and what people you hang around with.
If they don't talk English there is only one way: learn the local language. I lived in Brazil in a small town and every small interaction forced me to speak a little bit of Portuguese. After two months I knew how to get around and talk to people. I had learned Spanish before but still, if you haven't got an option BUT learn the language, you will manage.
I don't but if I did I certainly wouldn't pay that much.

A penny an article is fair enough and ensures they actually have to make each and every article worth paying for.

This just screams "old media", we can't innovate.
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I'm always amazed at the capacity people have for yelling at you when they are asking for a favor. What is going on inside someone's head? It's like "you need my help, don't make me hate you!".
He doesn't necessarily own a video he made using someone else's equipment, especially if he didn't compensate the owner of the equipment for its use. If you don't produce intellectual property on your own time and with your own equipment, your full ownership of what you produce is not a given.
Admittedly, this is of no use to the average Internet user, but there's a Firefox addon called Certificate Patrol. It alerts you when an SSL certificate changes. It shows you the old cert information along side the new cert information. It tells you if the old cert was due to expire, and also if the signing authority has changed.

There's also Perspectives.
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This looks very interesting, although it seems like they are relying on a very high speed network to get around the latency issues inherent in sharding a graph database. (They mention partitioning, but not whether it occurs online).

Related, my Third Year project is a graph database that loads its data lazily from configurable back ends (databases, caches, APIs, written in Clojure). Now I have more evidence for my dissertation that this kind of tech is useful.

I wonder what their language for queries is going to look like, the only main graph language I've found is Gremlin, which used to be XQuery derived, but recently switched to chained objects.
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With pleasure. Pls send me invite to: zalew7 at gmail

Pozdrawiam ;)
An interesting angle of a chatbot's style can be seen if we initiate a conversation between two instances of tha same bot. (something like an eigenvalue)
jabberwacky is a bit 'meta' (his thoughts are centered around the concept of intelligence), splotchy is a bit more 'cool', but none of them is too intelligent:

*
* jabberwacky vs. jabberwacky *
*

Are you intelligent?

Yes, I am intelligent.

Yes. Who do you think is smarter?

I am.

What is the square root of a can of pringles?

I don't know.

How am I supposed to know? You're the one that asked me first.

What is the square root of 5?

I don't know. Do you know?

Yes.

I did not wish to know that. I wished to know the square root of five.

Then you should have asked me that.

Well you think that I'm boring so I just thought...

*
* splotchy vs. splotchy *
*

Do you like the movie Matrix?

I just LOVE the movie matrix

I love cheese

I like cheese too

What do you like about it?

what difference does it make what I like about it?

yea, that is cool.

cool!

neat-o

that's interesting

interesting? You don't get out much do you?

interesting? You don't get out much do you?
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note: a child can't give an informed consent to waive the right

I don't think the consent argument holds water. We force children to do things without their consent all the time. We make kids go to school. Corporal punishment of children is legal in most states, both by parents and teachers. Children usually don't consent to such things, but we do it them anyway.

Sorry for nitpicking one thing out of your comment, but the "children can't consent" argument really gets to me.
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But either way humans are learning beings, and everything we see and hear is filed away and used as reference later. It is almost impossible to turn this off.

Although that's true in a general case, you're making a false dichotomy. All in or all out. However the people who want to ban music are not making claims about specific general moods. They are saying "These words cause people to be killers". They are taking your preposition "music affects feelings" and turning it up to 11.
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'Home' is where I have the most memories of my childhood. In my case it where we lived between my ages 9-23. Everu once a while, I talke a drive there to relive the home feeling.

I do not think I can experice that home feeling again until I have my own family and we have our own experiences in a house long enough.
I'm baffled and frustrated by the level of funding these guys are getting. Yes there are some interesting and smart people involved but the initial idea smacks of a solution to a non-existent problem.
I'd better get my mint copy of SICP off the bookshelf then. Being a SE able to dissect frogs and not faint at the sight of blood apparently doesn't mean anything these days ;-)
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It is pretty staggering that they got $41M for this. Is this is a situation where you would argue that the investors are investing in the team rather than the product?

Must be a pretty bloody awesome team.
This is a great idea I think. It has the potential to fundamentaly change the way people use photos, and because of the all media exposure they will get (41M..) it might actually work.
The only thing that's sad is that about 6 month ago I met a guy who had been trying to raise money for his idea, which was very very similar, and all the big funds turned him down.
So there's again the repeting lesson of the value of who you are when you raise an idea and money.
Hope it'll work anyway - sometimes it's nice to know that your idea was really good even if you're not the one who made it in the end.
I find it understand how a company that released some of the most creative advertising of the past decade (Sony Bravia adverts) could simultaneously be so PR-self-destructive.

Is the leadership of top companies really so blissfully unaware of the impact of social news?
Well done. And she's certainly creative, intelligent and incredibly talented at what she does. Hope she gets the job!
So in order to prove that the PBMR's claim of using passive cooling is incorrect, you dug up some docs for a completely different pebble bed design?

Eskom specifically claimed 'walk-away' safety for the PBMR, due to the fact that when the reactor was in an idle mode the temperature within the pebble bed core could never rise high enough to melt the fuel. Here's one such claim from their website:

The PBMR is walk-away safe. Its safety is a result of the design, the materials used and the physics processes rather than engineered safety systems as in a Koeberg type reactor.

The peak temperature that can be reached in the reactor core (1 600 degrees Celsius under the most severe conditions) is far below any sustained temperature (2 000 degrees Celsius) that will damage the fuel. The reason for this is that the ceramic materials in the fuel such as graphite and silicone carbide - are tougher than diamonds.

Even if a reaction in the core cannot be stopped by small absorbent graphite spheres (that perform the same function as the control rods at Koeberg) or cooled by the helium, the reactor will cool down naturally on its own in a very short time. This is because the increase in temperature makes the chain reaction less efficient and it therefore ceases to generate power. The size of the core is such that it has a high surface area to volume ratio. This means that the heat it loses through its surface (via the same process that allows a standing cup of tea to cool down) is more than the heat generated by the decay fission products in the core. Hence the reactor can never (due to its thermal inertia) reach the temperature at which a meltdown would occur. The plant can never be hot enough for long enough to cause damage to the fuel.

Whether the claims about the PBMR were accurate or not is an open question that won't be answered until somebody else manages to commercialise this technology. But it's at least important to question the actual claims made for the PBMR and similar reactors, rather than dismissing them out of hand because some pebble-bed designs rely on a certain level of active cooling.
That's the whole idea behind David Allen's "Next Actions" in the "Getting Things Done" book.

Sure, the goal might be "Lose 50 lbs", but the "Next action" is "Do 20 min of exercise today". Often turning your "to-do" list into things you can actually DO is all it takes.
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This product reminds me of cue-cat, in the sense that it fails to solve a problem that doesn't exist.
I think it's gotten to the point that it's about a little more than Sony just disabling his PSN account.
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These driver problems on laptops aren't uncommon, specially regarding graphics card drivers.
I'll let you know in about 100 years.
Apparently they had a 3am push it get it up and it has just been made available for download in the last few minutes
I prefer Google. What about you guys?
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Were you able to ascertain what line of work they thought they were in? Municipal fund raising perhaps?
> The question, for me, is even if we only save ONE child from rape or attempted rape, or even just lots of uncomfortable hugs from Creepy Uncle Dave, is that not worth leaving a couple naked bodies out of a comic?

And on the other hand, what if leaving these naked bodies in a comic saves TWO children? Would you trade one for two to satisfy your dislike of pictures on paper?
I searched the site for a 'Buy a print version' link until I realised that this is 'just' an online version.

The magazine would look wonderful on some heavy, high-gloss paper.
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Imagine bots being made to learn the basics of logical arguments. AI for politics!

(on second thought, thats possibly a bad idea)
I was thinking about doing something similar for myself to use, I'd love to beta test: hugows at gmail.com
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How's Apple for a name? Does exactly what it says on the tin, oh wait...
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In a book I read more than two decades ago now, Computing Across America, Steven Roberts wrote: "Art without engineering is dreaming; engineering without art is calculating."

Roberts current blog is http://nomadness.com/blog
Palm/HP uses JavaScript/Node.js in WebOS and I've heard some rumors that they're hiring. Also, any JS related to HTML/CSS is always running in WebKit, so that's a job where you can ignore IE completely.
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That doesn't really work for me - my parents left this country for Australia, and I've visited them but it sure doesn't feel like "home", it feels a lot more like home when they come visit me here in Sweden - so there's definitely something to say for environment playing a role.
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Thanks for all the emails I'm getting right now! Please please please if each person could give me a short info about the company they are working for:
- how many employees they have?
- which industry?

It would help me a lot! Thanks in advance!
That's ...err.. apples and oranges. Apple got its name before there was a web, before search engines. Plus, Apple isn't a term that is used frequently when working with computers. What do apples and computers have in common? Nothing.

Color is too generic a term and it's already used in computer lingo. This company might be able to make Color their brand, they might be able to one day own it like Apple owns apple, but it will take years if not decades.
well, since everything is in the comments, this could really be a gist of any language... I have seen job opportunities written in code, and some are very impressive. This one misses the mark. There is nothing to it, unfortunately.
"When you buy a car, do you insist that it has manual windows and no power steering?"

But when you are learning how a car works and trying to build one, you would start off with one with manual windows and no power steering.
I agree.

Any decent professional should know when to keep his mouth shut. And it should know that leaking privileged information would potentially get him fired and marked as unreliable. No NDA required.

An NDA not only keeps an employee quiet, but it makes him liable long after the employment relationship has ended.

I, for one, would not work for any company that would force me to sign an NDA. Besides being insulting, it's just not worth it.
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Burst bubble burst! Just saying....
The success of the Apple logo, and why your startup needs to copy it.
^^ this. I didn't known about MSR until I became a grad student in comp sci and started seeing the name pop up time and again in the literature whether it was graphics, computer vision, AI, etc etc.

If you like computer science, you like MSR. (Plus, they gave the world F# and C# which are an oasis in the world of enterprise development)

http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?q=microsoft+research...
The inner core is very sweet, I have always looked at them as a sweet snack. Plus as a child I was told they would help me see in the dark better which I thought was a kind of super power.

When I was younger my Dad actually OD'd on carrots, he ate so many that his skin went orange.
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"...and you will have still better returns doing actual networking rather than hoping someone on the Internet will stumble across your hidden potential and give you a shot."

This is such a retarded market inefficiency. Someone here should do something about it.

Open programming contests for job seekers? Open Source awards for job seekers?

I don't know enough about how the hiring process works, de facto.
Thank you for suggestions, I'll be more descriptive next time.
I didn't know about the one-per-line option, so thanks for that.

Commands I use regularly instead of using ifconfig:

# link up/down
ip link set dev eth0 up|down

# add a new address
ip addr add dev eth0 172.16.43.124/24

# to clear all IP addresses from eth0
ip addr flush dev eth0

# delete an address
ip addr del dev eth0 172.16.43.124/24

# add default route
ip route add default via 172.16.43.254

Edit: I fail at formatting
Yes, I always wondered why most time the hackers able to perform tricks which would create potentially mass profit, come from those strange places.

I suspect that it has to do with traceability. Imagine you are able to create a certificate for amazon.com and spoof the dns in order to get traffic from some percentage of users in order to steal their credentials, credit card whatever. If you host that service in the US or EU or whatever, your ISP will be promptly contacted and they will cooperate.

On the other hand if you tunnel the traffic through non cooperating countries, it will be more difficult, if not impossible, for law enforcement to track you.
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Isn't it fantastic how a company can sue someone for using something that he bought in a way that was not intended by the company? This make 'ownership' kind of a funny thing since Sony still has rights on a product even if it does not own it any more (you bought it!).

I know that some other countries (e.g. Germany) allow anyone to do whatever he likes with something he bought as long as he does not re-sell it. But if he bought it, it belongs to him, and he is free to do with it whatever he wants--be that using it as intended, destroying it, or hacking it.

What if Sony would declare it illegal to destroy your Play Station? Would they be able to sue you for throwing it out a window? Would they be able to sue you for indadvertedly breaking it during a power surge?

Seriously, this is very close to what is happening to Hotz right now. US law is fucked up!
> Ugh. Fuck Sony - I'm used to anti-hacker attitudes from companies but this takes it to a new level. Not only have they decided to sue someone for doing something entirely reasonable to his own hardware (this after Sony retroactively removed advertised features), they are running a dirty campaign of defamation and mud-slinging.

Which is surprising... how? Sony has been a pretty crummy company for at least 15 years, and actively anti-people for a decade if not more. This is just the latest episode, but I'm interested in why you were still supporting them before this.
I too am curious about these schools. My three younger siblings were homeschooled through high school and attend/ed well regarded public and private schools. I think their hack was to get a G.E.D. but I'm not sure if that was even necessary in the end.
Probably MSFT. I think Apple and Google are stronger companies, but I think they are over valued(not that I know anything about investing.)
Are you joking or did you used to be a phreaker? That is hardcore! +1
damn. I just lost 3 hours.
I was about to make the comment that it was midnight west coast.
This is where vb6 shines. With vb6 you don't have to worry about anything! :)
Is there a download link somewhere? Couldn't find it.

BTW, will it run on Linux?
One thing that's definitely missing from that list is the "undo" feature of bash which is bound to Ctrl-/ by default. It reverts the last edit you did on the command line. (The keybinding invokes the undo action also in emacs.)
If they show you the code, you may get exposed to a lot of proprietary Microsoft IP and your work may be forever tainted by that.

Do you really want it?

BTW, that's why many companies won't allow their engineers to read patents from competitors.
You know, I work at the command line all day, and I'm always happy to learn a new trick. But for writing actual scripts, I'd much rather write in Ruby. I don't want to have to use awkward syntax like case statements ending with "esac."

Yes, using Ruby introduces a dependency beyond Unix. But I already use lots of libraries (Rails, Rspec, etc) and tools (ImageMagick, Ghostscript), so I don't see that as a problem, just part of the job.
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