skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Mike!
Thank you for your honest comments! I've received a couple of comments already about the name - too similar to bufferapp. Unfortunately, I decided to go with the name i've chosen before I did a better research of what's already out there. But I agree, I need to change the name before I proceed further. Lesson learned: do an extensive research beforehand, always. Thanks again!
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Not yet, but will be soon.
I feel uncomfortable attempting to derive any conclusions from a comparison between these two groups. It seems to me that since technology and technology presence is advancing so quickly that the way children of different ages view technology could very likely depend on what sort of technology they were exposed to their entire lives. 15 year olds remember dumb-phones/feature phones; do 9 year olds?

An interview of the 9 year old children in 6 years that you could compare to the interviews of the currently 15 year old children would be very interesting.
Also, if you check out the link, you will find that there is already a movement to stop this, but we have found ycombinator and Hacker News has a more unique power system as seen in SOPA. Hopefully we can organize something here as well.
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Chrome limits setTimeout() to 1 call per second when the tab loses focus. I haven't gotten a chance to look at the code, but if three.js uses requestAnimationFrame and the physics uses setTimeout, things might get out of sync.
The rich not only pay far more in taxes by virtue of making more, they also pay more in relation to how much they make. The top 1% earns 17% of the income, and pays 37% of the taxes.[1] It's complete BS to say that Bill Gates following the tax code is unethical.

[1]http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/top10-percent-income-e...
There are quite a few game projects on Kickstarter that will never ship, or a boarding on scams that have been successfully funded by developers that are mostly unknown. Dead Linger and Takedown are both (imo) promising way more for the $150K and $210K they raised. They are also both relying on later funding or sales to raise more money. Starcommand has already publicly acknowledged that they've burned through most of their money and are $50K in debt. I played the game briefly at PAX East, and although it has potential it's nowhere near ready to ship by their promised date (August).

Some of these games will deliver something, but that something will disappoint most of the backers. I think in many cases, even if you deliver a good product, it will never live up to the game the backer imagined when you first pitched it. All games have this problem to some extent, even wildly successful ones like Minecraft or Elderscrolls, but I think it will be exasperated by the fact that people are selling game ideas, not actual games, with a few exceptions (FTL had a playable pre-alpha during their campaign).
When a group of thinking minds create a thinking mind, I wouldn't know what else to call it.
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I disagree with such punishment system. If a society deems something indesirable, it should be punished very harshly. Or not at all, if it's desirable.

I personally, along with a significant portion of the society (and the majority of youth) view copyright infringement for personal use desirable, but copyright infringement for profit undesirable. I would not punish the first at all, while the second should bear the fine of, say, 20% of yearly profits of the company (punishment for the owners), + jail time for the responsible persons (e.g. the president/CEO, or a lower employee if they are proven responsible).
Yippy, the more the goverment tries to control the internet, the more it will go underground, and the more tor will gain in strength.
"Lycée Louis le Grand" => nice.
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That's full of crap. What they'll respond to is changing the law!

They're just following the law. Beg off the companies, and change it.
> If I cut a part of your brain out, your mind is impacted.

This is not necessarily known. What is known is that it impacts the way the mind interacts with the outside world...
Football wisdom for design
Ctrl-D will switch between path and file modes.
Here's a post about it from Kevin Montrose (API dev @ SE): http://kevinmontrose.com/2012/02/01/stack-exchange-api-v2-0-...
Their earnings have likely increased recently, but with their switch to magnet links, they have to have saved an obscene amount of money in terms of bandwidth costs, so their costs have likely gone down significantly. However, the point still stands that, yea, nobody is getting rich off of this, but there is likely a decent amount of profit being made.
Maybe Intel can buy XScale/PXA back. This is just sad.
> But this really is one of those "Don't Hate The Player - Hate the Game" kind of scenarios.

You've got it wrong. There is no "game", there are only players. For YOU there are game rules. However, when you are as big as Microsoft or Google or Apple or Boeing, you spend millions (or tens of millions) to change the game rules in your favor.

If you're Chris Dodd, a former senator who was chairing the financial oversight committee at the time everything crashed and burned (how's that for track record?), you later head the MPAA and you can threaten - on live TV - to stop bribing politicians. Where's the referee who is supposed to enforce the game rules? Ergo, there are only players.

Not that hating them is going to help. But the blame rests squarely with the players, who get to redefine the game as they go.
Can't help you figure out what engineers and entrepreneurs dream about, but I can racont a story from when i was a kid that lit some lightbulbs re: the destination. I knew this guy who was a complete dick, but had a couple of decent businesses and would give me advice when I asked. Once, when asking about what I should do with my life, he said something that made a lot of sense. It sort of went like this:

"Think about what you want to have a whole lot of laying around and do that." He had a car lot and repair shop because he liked having a lot of cars. His collection of british sports cars was unbelieveable. Not because he was loaded, but because he was immersed in cars 24/7 and when a deal came up, people would call him. He said, "You want a lot of nice furniture? sell furniture. You want awesome computers? work on computers. You want a lot of jewelry and random crap? open a pawn shop. you want women? sell shoes."

I, being 15, said, "That all sounds great, but what I want is a lot of money."

He said, "It's the exact same thing. Work in venture capital or finance. You're immersed in money. When good deals come up, people will call you. I own 73 cars because that's what I do so I'm surrounded by other guys who do car deals, too. If you work in money, you'll have cash laying around because that's what you and everyone you work with will do."

I wound up choosing code instead and, yep, i'm awash with code and algorithms and surrounded by people who can make computers do real things. I know a young guy in finance. You know what? He's awash with money.

I guess this is just one more thing to think about when trying to clarify your destination. What kind of stuff do you want to have a lot of laying about?
That biologist is foolish - not unlike a biologist friend I had in college. All about numbers and "physical reality" when the psychological, mental and spiritual reality can be far more determinate for a person's behaviors and outcomes than pure biological data.

Mastery of music gives you keys to people's emotions. Likewise, code gives you the keys to the world of information.

They are both powerful and profitable if you know how to use them.
Thanks. I edited my post after re-reading it assuming someone would make the argument you just have. :)
Anyone with any experience using Play?
The inconsistent substitution of 'with' with 'w/' confuses me. Why do people even do that? On qwerty I know I find '/' to be much harder to strike than 'ith'.
Kickstarter smartphone-watch project tops $7 million in weeks
This is a great story! I'm in Chicago too. Care to hang out?
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My guess is that the missing periods at paragraph breaks indicate he wrote this on an iDevice. Space-space: period added. Enter-enter: no period added.
Tangential, but you might like vundle (if we're looking at replacement plugins already) instead of pathogen.
It looks fine to me. "Gorgeous" is a bit of a stretch, but so is "terrible."
I think this was a hard decision and I really believe that you're trying to protect your business, but I also believe this is the wrong decision.

- Not being able to handle 100s abusive requests is an indication that you can't handle rapid growth. You're going to (want to) host other websites that can grow big and will catch a lot of wind. Although there is no direct revenue for you Pastie.Org was good practice for this it seems also this wasn't a sudden problem (you yourself indicate here that the problem was slowly growing) so this should be no factor in the decision to terminate the hosting so suddenly. Of course if it's more hassle than it's worth you and Pastie can come to an agreement (like stopping next month) but it now sounds like that decision should've been made months earlier or not yet at all.

- Although it's extremely hard to protect yourself from DDOS attacks you've now openly indicated that you're vulnerable and that you will drop things you are committed to do if there is some pressure in order to save the rest of your customers. This will make other customers nervous since they can now be easily threatened and might even go down for the fun of it (I personally don't think it's fun but some people apparently do)

- Even though pastie.org was not generating any revenue and was not a 'customer' you still had a commitment to them and tbh it looks pretty bad that you've one-sidedly decided in an instant to break that commitment, this is really costing you cred.

Of course what's done is done now, but I just wanted to voice my opinion in this debate. Say I'm a devil's advocate here because by the positive comments here mostly you guys seem to be doing mostly good!
I'm really excited about this; three.js brought 3D graphics to the casual developer in a painless process, and now they'll get physics too. Great work everyone!
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Understanding and interpreting traceroutes
While I agree with most of this article, Adida says that a "full-strength, randomly generated, user-managed key" implies that "Enabling a new device requires coordination with an existing device". This is typically the case with current systems, but it is not necessarily the case. It is eminently practical for a human being to memorize an xkcd password with enough entropy to resist brute-force attacks into the foreseeable future.

http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-hacks/2012-April... demonstrates encoding an 80-bit random number (which is plenty secure with a reasonable key derivation function) as each of "point pleased intense de maybe fairly arms", "bejuso jejigi nububi bidoda gahano", "ADD DOTE BID HILT LAUD MAIN CALF CITY", and "仴薦肨縨猯鹽", any of which is eminently practical to memorize. I use this program to generate my login passwords these days.

(80 bits is not enough for a key for something like AES, because you can try a lot of different keys per second. It's plenty if you have a decent key derivation function to add a 25–35-bit work factor.)

This is different from a user-chosen password because users are often highly predictable in their password choice.
It reads like a speech, rather than a letter.
>Corporate taxes...do not decreas [sic] wages for employees

Given two companies, one that pays no taxes and another that pays 10% of profits in taxes, the former will have something between (a) cheaper access to capital (assuming equal expenditures), or, (b) more cash for R&D, employees, etc. (assuming equal returns). Saying that corporate tax rates have no effect on how much money a company has available to spend is absurd.

>Under the time-value of money theory, if a tax can be deferred for 7-8 years, it is as if the tax was never owed

Assuming AAPL is a AA credit (pessimistic) it would pay an 80 basis point spread for a 10-year borrowing [1]; with the 10-year Treasury at 190 [2] Apple's discount rate by these assumptions for 10 years is 2.7%. The present value of a $6B tax liability 10 years from now would thus be $4.6B, not zero.

[1] http://www.bondsonline.com/Todays_Market/Corporate_Bond_Spre...

[2] http://www.bondsonline.com/Todays_Market/Composite_Bond_Yiel...
Show HN: Sinatra-Param — Design by Contract for Query String & Form Parameters
Heartbreaking and infuriating. My only consolation is that I suspect an epic John Peel torrent will pop up a couple years after the archive goes live. Without the bits, the online 'collection' strikes me a hollow facsimile of the real thing.
Unlike BoxCryptor, it's not based on an encrypted volume. Instead, files and directories in a designated folder are individually encrypted (much like Dropbox).
'Travelling Salesman' movie considers the repercussions if P equals NP
saw this last month:

Daily Aspirin May Help Prevent and Treat Cancer.

Taking aspirin every day may significantly reduce the risk of many cancers and prevent tumors from spreading, according to two new studies published on Tuesday.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/health/research/studies-li...

http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20120320/daily-aspirin-may-...
Oh I'm sure she has, but she probably had a door she could close.
Why You Can't Trust Tech Press To Teach you About The Tech Industry
(1) The tax system is very simple if you're not trying to game the system to (EDIT: changed from "or") minimize your tax burden. Almost all of the complexity arises from the allowance for deductions and the related regulations necessary to prevent abuse of those deductions.

(2). Worldwide, that is the standard tax practice. It is called "territorial taxation." Source-based taxation is the U.S. practice regarding foreign persons who are citizens of nations with which we have income tax treaties (for purposes of determining which country gets to tax them). The U.S. is an outlier in taxing worldwide income regardless of source. However, getting rid of the Irish structure would require (a) a change in other countries' tax policies or (b) a tax code even more complicated than the one we have right now.

Note that I mean "game the system" in the sense of gamifying the outcome. I do not mean game in the sense of "cheating."
Nothing unethical about following laws as they are written? That's a silly absolute. What about the nuremberg trials?

There's all sorts of unethical things you can do legally, and if you have a bunch of lobbyists working to change the law in your favor, there's even more.
Would be so cool if they could contribute to existing initiatives such as http://www.discogs.com/ with links to the specialized Peel collection interface. Let's hope there's an API.
You asked "how does it work?" so let me answer that. How it works:

Okay, so the black arrows represent adding one, and the white arrows represent multiplying by ten. The circle that you see represents the fact that after we hit 7 when adding by one, we "loop around" to 0 again, because 7 has remainder 0 when divided by 7.

So we are constructing (in their example) 325 by saying:

Instruction | Number | Remainder
start with 0. | 0 | 0
add 3. | 3 | 3
multiply by 10. | 30 | 2
add 2. | 32 | 4
multiply by 10. | 320 | 5
add 5. | 325 | 3

Now the only thing you really need to know is that "multiply by 10" is only a function of the current remainder, it can never depend on the rest of the digits we've processed before in any other way.

To see this, just write out the number. The number is 7 k + r for some remainder r. Multiplying by 10 produces 70k + 10 r. Taking the remainder when you divide by 7 is just... (10 r) % 7, because the first term is divisible by 7. So you only need to keep track of the remainder.

In fact, 10 r is really 7r + 3r, and the 7r is also divisible by 7, which means that the white arrows really just multiply by 3. That is why 0 maps to 0, 1 maps to 3, 2 maps to 6, and 3 maps to 9 % 7 == 2.
My first thought here was holy cow yes it should! My second though was ack, there's a lot to go over. Sounds like a good topic to cover in a second post. However if you see a way to nicely integrate into the current post in brevity I'm all ears and would be happy to update the post :) Thanks!
Please enlighten us as to what's the thing now and any internet radio stations playing it. I'm always curious as to what's current elsewhere.
> the US government is reasonable efficient given it's size,

Do you have a reference for that? Genuinely interested.

I've dealt only with a small part of the US and State government, and all of those were horrendously inefficient (e.g., refusing electronic filing of documents; turns out that I type it in on my computer, print it onto the pre-made form, send it by regular mail; someone at the other end manually types it all in. That happens with quite a few US government forms).
But then you're talking fraud and running a big risk.
Oh god no. Please keep in mind, Aspirin also kills over 20,000 people annually from both gastrointestinal problems and Reye Syndrome.

It might do wonders for the many, but it also has harmful side effects. Me personally knowing and feeling the anguish of those who has lost loved ones to Aspirin.

I personally will NEVER take aspirin opting for other forms of medication.

http://www.wddty.com/aspirin-it-kills-20-000-americans-every...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reyes_syndrome
Appeal to authority (or in this case the reverse) is a common logical fallacy.
Ethics and legality are not the same thing. For example, it is legal for judges to hit up parties before their court for campaign donations. However, it is not ethical for them to do so.
Wow Smartphone watch!! Can't wait to see this!!
>arguably

I dunno, some people could certainly argue that their source code is their most valued and secret intellectual property, if going by their insurance claims alone.
Munchery - Great food at my dinner table with great ease!
datetime is a data format problem, not a data structure format problem.
Sure, we go to a lot of meetup events...built in chicago, lean startup, different coding meetups. Chicago's really coming along as a startup city and the strong meetup culture is just one example.
That seems like a fairly sever oversight. Is there a reason for that behaviour?
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How Apple dodges billions in taxes: A concise guide
Anybody have an opinion on ctrlp vs LustyExplorer? http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1890
I can't remember who it was, but there was the one guy who managed to get inside the code and deface a whole bunch of people's profiles. He was so impressive that Facebook hired the guy. This was in their early days.
I didn't make it, be sure to give props to https://github.com/kien!
Why an iDevice? Does Android add periods by default? (Space space doesn't on most Android devices, neither does Enter enter).

He could have written this on any mobile computing platform.

That being said, he did use short hand texting "speech" with his "w/".
I was at 3 Day Startup San Antonio this weekend and used Play to prototype a platform for e-learning. Deployed it to Heroku and I was happy with it.

It wasn't my first time using Play but I'm still getting a handle on it. I'm about to place a pre-order for this book as I think Play has a lot of promise but is still missing a few important features. It's also severely lacking in documentation.

I also used Play to build the front-end for my thesis project. My thesis was about taking a set of related Wikipedia documents, running them through Stanford's NLP library and using that to construct a semantic graph. The front-end for traversing that graph and integrating with Google Maps was all built in Play. By the time I was done it could show and justify a connection between the string "Britain" and the sentence "The Allies met at the Tehran and Yalta conferences to [...]" and place those connections on a map.
Myth of Decline: U.S. Is Stronger and Faster Than Anywhere Else
That's a pretty big stretch of what I was talking about going from taking a deduction to murdering people. Would you feel better if I said there is nothing unethical about following our current tax laws? As it is the rich pay far more in taxes than what they make relative to the total so I have no problems with them working to minimize their tax bill just as I do. They simply have more resources with which to minimize their bill. They still pay far far more in taxes.
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I would go so far as to say that we may one day be able to take away the legs, arms, organs, torso, head, everything that will eventually break down. Then upload our brains into a virtual, (dare I say) MMO world and not even notice the difference.

Of course, we'd have to get around the problem of parting with "self" when transitioning to the virtual immortal life. And therein lies the philosophical problem of the conscious.
If I were going to say something that sounded like that, it would be this:

We think of a lightbulb as a device which generates light, but it isn't that intrinsically; the filament glows only when electrified, and the bulb is only a small part of the light-generating system which includes an electrical generator (and, presumably, a burning fuel source). The bulb is the place where the light first becomes visible, but it makes less sense to say that it is the place the light comes from.

Similarly, we think of the brain as a thinking machine, but it isn't that intrinsically; it is only a small part of a much larger thinking system which includes functions of respiration, circulation, ingestion, et cetera. So we can say that the brain may be the place where thinking first becomes noticeable per se, but it makes less sense to say that it is where thought is created.

Which is all well and good. I'm not sure what part of it is supposed to be a hard question about neurology rather than a PHIL100 essay topic, though.
Bit.ly service disruption
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If your average college lecture was an interactive experience, sure, smaller sizes are better. I don't know about you, but that's decidedly not how my college lectures were - it's the prof talking down to a room full of people madly scribbling.

So in that context, since the experience is entirely one-sided, why not scale it up?
I think it means revenue should increase faster with time.
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I didn't write it but I thought HNers would be interested.

Send praise to https://github.com/kien!
I hate the whole ethical argument when it comes to copyright infringement. The fact is an unenforceable law is pointless and should not be law. I don't know what the solution is -- and I wish people would spend more time debating and talking about a workable solution rather than complaining, but blocking sites that link or illegally host copyrighted content will not solve a thing. Remember when illegal music downloads stopped after napster got shutdown? Oh wait, a hundred more files sharing clients just took it's place.
I do not understand how UTF-16 could be better for this reason. wcslen works exactly like strlen but on wide chars instead of chars.
This "dropoff" coincides with a change in management philosophy in favor of "lean" organizations

Can you describe what you mean by "lean" here?

I'm a little confused since the organisations I understand as following lean practices don't have the attributes that you talk about. Possibly this is a US/EU thing though...