skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a somewhat related note, as far as animals go, jelly fish are nuts. I mean they're barely animals at all. From wikipedia: "Most jellyfish do not have specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or circulatory systems." and, "Jellyfish have no brain nor central nervous system". No brain? I mean come on. Jelly fish are floating piles of goo with absolutely no purpose or delight in life other than being floating piles of goo. It's made weirder by how big some of them get, "Jellyfish range from about one millimeter in bell height and diameter to nearly two meters in bell height and diameter; the tentacles and mouth parts usually extend beyond this bell dimension." Giant brainless animals roam the ocean looking to sting and absorb prey without ever really knowing they're even doing it. They're pretty much ocean zombies.

They're nuts, and are a great example of how evolution cares about nothing but survival.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish
There are plenty of tequilas that are eminently drinkable on taste. Try some top-shelf anejo tequila, it will surprise you.
Yet.

As with many things, the slippery slope isn't apparent until you've started the slide.
If Noah had to build the Ark in 2006(how government works)
No Internet For One Year: Tech Writer Tries Life Offline
Adds up to 60%, but yeah, feel free to adjust those as you wish. Some businesses have a lot less risk than that (ones that have been profitable for years) and others are probably higher risk.
People will complain, and the vast majority of Twitter users will continue to use Twitter, albeit via first-party clients.

It sucks for third-party devs, and it sucks for us power Twitter users who like our third-party clients, but look at every time Facebook introduces major changes: people huff and puff about switching to something else (Google+, etc), but the status quo doesn't actually change because the value is in the relationships they've formed on the service, not the way they interface with the service.
Iraq, and Afghanistan are also apparently "terrorist nations"... but not Pakistan? Or Yemen? (Despite Al-Qaeda having proven links to both).

But why is NK having nukes a problem? There is no proof they want to use them. Just posturing... Very similar to India and Pakistan.

Edit:
Did the CIA get upset when France developed and tested nuclear weapons? Do some countries deserve trust while others don't? What has North Korea done, that caused the mistrust?

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>However, soon it's going to be first-to-file. Meaning that even if you invented something first you can still infringe on a patent if somebody else is able to get to the patent office and pay them off first. //

This is how it is in the rest of the world.

If patents are about giving information about inventions to the public domain in exchange for a limited time monopoly; which is the best form IMO. Then it is right to put pressure on inventors to either publish their inventions or patent them, their choice. If you find the invention valuable then you can patent it - submit a minimum sufficient disclosure to get a filing date and go on from there. If the invention is not so valuable or you want to merely protect from others filing then you can simply publish the invention.

The whole idea is to get new inventions published as soon as possible with enough detail to enable skilled practitioners to recreate the invention.

In the UK it is free to file an application; but you need to pay to get it processed, searched and examined.

WRT your last argument are you saying that you'd rather that patents take up more court time and attract more legal expenses (which ultimately get paid by consumers)?
>Sum up the premiums on your insurance

Nah, sum up the premiums on what your insurance would cost at retirement age.
Looks awesome, can't wait to see it. Will personally wait until after beta though.
This problem has multiple solutions, as demonstrated by the HN comments. It's not asked to find a solution, instead to figure out your thought processes. You could come up with a comp sci solution (analogous to a data structure or algorithm), or a mathematical solution, or a physics solution or something different.

You'd have to shape your answer to the position you're applying for. The article would be perfect for a programming position, above and beyond what I could ever hope to achieve.
Good to see I'm not the only person who plans on using .rs domains! The application looks great!
In one way it is, and they will run into problems if they need to deal with german burocrazy. ;)

But on the other side I find it encouraging that you can come to Berlin and different to many other cities of this world can live here without being forced to speak the language fluently first.

And if you speak and think in english all day, it becomes more problematic to get on board with the language around you.

Plus many 'normal' people do start speaking a bit of english and at least understand it.
Recent event in Ocala FL.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/national-international/71-Year-Ol...

Although apparently the robbers had an unloaded shotgun.
Australia is a very urbanised, and gun ownership rates were very low anyway. Recreational shooters feel the laws are unnecessarily restrictive. Most of the population doesn't care. A certain segment of organised crime still has guns, but I think most of the populations desire to be involved in shoot outs with them is pretty low.

I'd say most people who choose not to have guns in first place feel more free when others are similarly disarmed.
Marissa Mayer's looming hormonal crisis
The Apollo 11 Journey in Photographs
Some of those are almost a time-capsule of our own (hey they had instagram in the 70s!)

I wonder how and why some of those were chosen.
Some feedback: I get a message telling me to change my browser on iOS. You should display your normal front page with whatever value proposition, features, etc you have there so I can at least learn if I want to use your site whenever I do work on a normal PC.
As much as I'm using Compass to auto-generate sprites these days, this will definitely come in handy at random times in the future. Calculating coordinates and dimensions is such tedious work, I can't believe nobody came up with something like this 5 years ago! Great idea.
Is this reflected in earnings and unemployment rates?
Been a fan of Joey Skaggs for a long time now. First discovered his work in the RE/Search Publication "Pranks"... Definitely check that publication out.

As far as this article is concerned, this guy rubs me the wrong way right off the bat.. but I agree that the reporters should have done some fact checking, probably would have been apparent rather quickly something was up.
Is this limited to Apple PCs and the iPhone? The image makes me think that's the case, but I don't see any mention of platform.
The point is that we never were even given the OPTION of paying for Twitter.

Everyone else has "Pro" accounts - think Reddit or Flickr. You get those, and you get a few nice perks (no ads, higher upload limits, etc.)

If Twitter offered a $5/month service offering that allowed your account more API access, deeper history, a "Pro Member" badge on the account, and the ability to turn ads on and off, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
How much dalton caldwell spam is HN going to allow?
Thank you for responding. For some reason I have always thought or just assumed that linus's tree was the tree people referred to when it came to versioning. HN clues me in yet again...
I was planning on using .rs too, small world!
They should charge for verified accounts, I think they have passed a critical mass where the big names on Twitter aren't going to leave because of a cost.

I would also charge a smaller amount for business accounts in general but give them some deeper analytics.
This app has its place for the web, it will fit nicely, give it some time
Implementing Fast Interpreters
Ask HN: Marketplace for swapping
Do users want a marketplace which allows them to buy stuff/articles for a price (like existing marketplaces craigslist...) and by swapping articles that they don't want

Following is the use case for a swap marketplace:

1. User A searches for a something (say Article X) that he wants, and he finds that User B is ready to swap Article X.

2. User A finds User B’s list of “Wanted Stuff”, which includes a list of articles User B wants.

3. User A decides that User B wants Article Y, which has approximately same value (in $ price) as Article X that User A wants.

4. User A makes an offer to User B for Article X in exchange of Article Y.

5. User B seals the deal.

This marketplace allows transactions by exchange of articles and not just by price
I can't speak about everything because I don't keep up with most of this.

But frankly, the situation is shaky. Pakistan is fairly developed considering the region it's in. It's also unstable because of the military from what I can understand. So it's reasonable not to label them as a terrorist nation and possibly pushing them into a more unstable state. That's the analysis that I've heard, but I don't know much about Pakistan.

We have problems with North Korea having nuclear weapons because they are extremely volatile. Their interactions with the South prove it. Those tunnels into SK that they used to send commandos in an assassination attempt? Or maybe the sinking of the South Korean warship? The shelling of an island? The list is LONG and a cursory glance of their Wikipedia page will prove that.
Can you honestly tell me that you'd feel safe if North Korea had nukes?
Reading the comments here, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking we (the side of rational thinking and intelligence) have lost. The question you should ask yourselves is whether the CIA, or even a big chunk of our government are working to protect us or working to protect their own interests. They do these things in our name. Murder civilians and call it collateral damage. They make up fake dossiers and our media swallows it whole. What have we come to? We used to be the shining city on the hill. We didn't need to invade people to "protect" ourselves.
and strangely, we are hearing about this from a journalist, so do we trust the Forbes story too?
You sound quite certain for what appears to me to be equally ambiguous; Can you elaborate if you have some evidence which points to the hazards of standing far outweighing those of sitting?
Stop Being a Recruiter and Start Being an Entrepreneur
>you want to profit from all novels that are ever written //

Patents are time limited so that's out.

If Trinity, nor anyone else had seen your novel (as described in full in the patent application he fails to mention that he submits - this is key as copyright is an automatic right but patents are not) would they have come up with the idea?

If they would then why hadn't they?

How long would it have taken them to come up with the idea? More than 20 years?

Suppose the idea of a novel was so revolutionary that it never would have been created by anyone else ... is it worth a monopoly on the idea for 20 years to ensure that you open up that idea and share it with society for the rest of time?

Trinity of course can research your idea freely. She can use your idea. Indeed when she does use it privately she has an idea, based on yours, of a trilogy. Now, you're kicking yourself, Neo, wondering why you didn't think of that. Of course if Neo hadn't submitted his patent application in the first place then she never would have had the details on which to build her idea ...
Twitter would be empty if you paid for it. Nearly all the content is generated by people who simply wouldn't have the money to spare. And the people who do, would see no use in talking to an empty room.
Blogger VS. WordPress. Which is better?
I've successfully used this CSS Sprite Generator quite a few times: http://spritegen.website-performance.org/

For example, I had to generate a 100+ icons sprite (24x24px, 48x48px and 96x96px). All I had to do was:

1. Zip these icons

2. Upload the file

3. Define the offset (in this case 2px in order to have round numbers)

4. Choose a CSS Class prefix (using the icon size is quite handy)
I can't believe this is an issue, and I can't believe all the people tearing down Mayer are women!
Consumer debt is an individual personnel choice, government debt is not.
> Yes, weave is unmaintained, ugly, and hard to debug
>

What is this bad mouthing of scipy.weave? I am a big fan of this approach. Nympy for everything + a simple weave inline for the inner most loop.

Maybe it is not maintained simply because it works?
I love the idea and not just for blogs. Think about this button's application in learning environments like Coursera lecture notes or a Now You Lost Me! button that allow users to append their thoughts to specific parts of a lecture or video. Or what about a button you can press in a physical classroom? It's really quite wonderful.

I agree with some of the comments though, my first reaction was, "Don't leave it at where they got lost, let them tell you why." Maybe when users click the button a text box can fly out (gethopper.com does this really well) that allows users to append notes. In some cases admins will read all the feedback, but if you want to get really fancy you could parse the responses for common themes, keywords, etc to identify the most common points of confusion.

Looking forward to seeing this develop, this is great.
"highschool shootings" and other categories have for some reason been separated out of the regional list and put in to their own categories. So as I say, there doesn't seem to be a decent list already compiled.
>Reagan forcing the issue by spending the Soviets into insolvency because of the arms race

I agreed with most of what you said but you're wrong here, the Saudis forced the Soviets into insolvency because they didn't like the Soviet actions in Iran and Afghanistan. The Saudis were able to sell oil at a lower price than the USSR, took advantage of that and broke them. Any extra spending incurred by Reagan is a drop in the ocean compared the complete destruction of their revenue source.
When Bad Theories Happen to Good Scientists
Slightly offtopic, I read a comment somewhere that asked what would have happened if the killer had been an Arab. It is interesting. When the killer is one of our own, we are able to quickly switch off group-think and acknowledge that the killer was insane. In contrast, when the killer is of an outgroup, we instantly assign group blame and then exact group retribution.
I understand that, although the quantity and level of argument with the others doesn't appear to be anywhere near the same. My point here is that, if you think it is indeed a fundamental human right, you have to actually demonstrate that, not just say that any attempt to take away the second amendment is no better than taking away the fourth.
Am I the only one who finds simple english wikipedia articles about highly technical subjects absolutely adorable? I can just imagine a wide-eyed 7 year old thinking it's the coolest thing they've ever read.
Columbine is on there. They break it out into the sections, its under the school massacre section. It's listed by city as Littleton, CO as I don't believe Columbine is actually an incorporated entity, just an area of land.
He wasn't talking about what "a lot of therapists" do but rather the modern understanding of depression and its causes and solutions.
Sitting is correlated with fat metabolism issues, but standing for periods of just 10-15 minutes is correlated with vascular disease; standing was shown in studies to correlate with increased stress hormones and increased blood density.

[Citation needed]

This isn't meant as a threat, either: I'd be quite interested in a comprehensive literature review of this stuff.

It reminds me a bit of the brouhaha around barefoot running: some decent evidence suggests barefoot is "better," while some suggests that forefoot striking is really the key. Expert opinion is split.
This is exactly why people are skeptical of science. They view it almost exclusively through the mass media filter. When you see massively conflicting stories on a monthly basis it's easy to conclude scientists are just 'making it up as they go' and believe what you want to believe.
AFAIK, Talisker is run by Diageo. A lot of Scotch whiskies are owned by bigco's, just like the American ones.
I used it so much, I took an Ubuntu VM in VirtualBox, added LAMP and installed it so it can be used for larger sets.
https://launchpad.net/css-sprite-generator

Set the VM's network to a bridged adapter and can easily access it from my browser.
Urgh you're right, forgot about that...
"..if users are supplying the majority of your content, it seems churlish at best to charge them for the privilege of doing so."

I thought the point of app.net was to provide a real-time syndication service between developers. Even if the functionality is superficially similar to Twitter, this isn't a content play at all. Right?
Ask HN: How Much Would You Pay for Google to be Ad Free?
All Google services. One flat fee, with the ability to turn off ALL Ads if you want to
< $100
"There may be no shortage of commentators ready to decry pay-to-win grindfests as 'evil' design, but what’s still needed is a code of ethical game mechanics that provides a yardstick to measure which games and which game designers can be trusted not to unduly manipulate their audience."

Couldn't agree more. It's easier than ever to get games in the hands of eager/bored people via mobile and Facebook, and companies are thus capitalizing on these users by building shallow experiences while optimizing for revenues instead of fun.

Additionally, I think more game devs need to speak out against the "evil" design. I hear a lot of tech-savvy people talking about this stuff verbally, but is the common person really aware of the amount of time that is spent trying to engineer them into being addicted? I realize that as developers, we don't necessarily benefit from spending a lot more time building something just to end up making less money, but the line needs to be drawn somewhere.
$100 - $200
Isn't it obvious that sitting for prolonged periods of time is completely unnatural? We have evolved to run, jump, climb, not spend 8 hrs a day compressing our spines - it is only in the last 100 or so years that sedentary occupations have become the norm
Personally, I'm more worried about getting blown up because somebody has ended up incorrectly killed by a government contractor.
I think that works in theory, but you have to look at what will draw users to care about applications. If the network effects aren't there, there's no reason why a user would be drawn to using a given application if the underlying service just isn't worth it. Users have a high tolerance for bad design and I think not paying for a Twitter that displays ads is well within that range of tolerance with the current Twitter app offerings.

You'd have to not charge users to get the network effects to kick in, but at that point, you're just a more open Twitter clone and you'll have to scramble to find a revenue source eventually.
$201 - $300
> $300
Our Positivist Bias
Looks great! The design and typography are quite nice! I hate to be "that guy," but have you seen pen.io? Your site seems very similar. Also, what is the reasoning behind eventually removing articles. Is there an option to disable this feature?
This has been around for quite a while, I distinctly remember it doing the rounds on Twitter. Still nice, though.
Not at all. What distinguishes "business process" patents from other patents is that any specification strict enough to be on par with traditional patent matter are largely useless; they are uniquely vague in their specification because that is what makes them useful. This allows an enormous amount of scope creep simply based upon the subjectiveness of the interpretation.

Computer algorithms are "math" in the same way that chemical process patents are math. By the criterion upon which you deem computer algorithms to be math, you can prove that all subject matter is math via algorithmic information theory. To make the distinction, you can patent a specific sorting algorithm (legal, there are an infinite number of such algorithms) but you cannot patent the idea of sorting (illegal because it is a mathematical concept). If the argument that computer algorithms are invalid because they are mathematical concepts is going to be made, it needs to be applied consistently which would exclude all currently patentable subject matter.

In fact, computer algorithms have always been considered patentable subject matter around the world because they strictly specify the design of an electronic circuit. Electronic circuit designs are a traditionally patentable subject matter. A mathematical concept has no such specification.
> If the web is so moribund that its health relies on convincing individual hackers not to do things they think would be cool, then the web is doomed. I don't think it is; I think your argument is self-defeating. It makes me want to make a LuaJIT plugin more, not less. LuaJIT is seriously cool.

Well, hack all you want (not like you need anyone's permission ;), my concerns were not with that part, but with

> a strategy to do an end run around vendors [..] drive installation of such a [LuaJIT] plug-in

Hack it up if you want. But if you make a serious effort to drive adoption of a new plugin - that I have a problem with.

> Perhaps I underestimate how many tricks the V8 people have left in their bag. I hope so. But at some point they're going to reach a wall caused by JS's design limitations that simply can't be drilled through. I take the existence of Dart to be a tacit admission of that wall.

I also take Google's focus on Dart as partial admission of not being able to get V8 performance to where they want. But (luckily for the web), V8 is not the only game in town.

Competitors to V8 have introduced new approaches that show a lot of promise - background compilation in IE, full-program type inference in Firefox - with many more ideas remaining.

So I really doubt there will be a LuaJIT killer app. Lua might be faster on some benchmarks now, but it likely loses on others (like on any language comparison), and in any case the difference will become smaller over time.
80-20 software
Which patent?

I like the idea of a rebellion by the people whose names are on patents, where they help with the invalidation. It could be a reasonably successful prioritization strategy.
per month, per year, per lifetime?
Depends on how the data is stored. If privacy mechanisms are high and a client sided encryption option available maybe $10/m.
Swiss Freeports Are Home for a Growing Treasury of Art
Who says they don't have programmers? I would wager that almost every YC company has at least 1 and generally more than one programmer on the founding team.

I also think you're being far too presumptuous about the comp packages these startups are offering. You seem to imply that they're being too stingy. Do you have any evidence for this?
Lua won't complain about this:

function example(x)
print(X)
end

Because of the subtle bugs that can arise from Lua's undefined variable behavior, I prefer Squirrel:

local a = {}
a.x = 5 // Throws an exception
a.x <- 5 // Assigns the value, creating the slot if needed

Squirrel also supports JSON syntax for table creation.
What "m/f" or "m/w" mean in these job postings?
Last year I went to a conference and met an American Express guy. To make a long story short, he was telling me Amex (and other credit card companies) also sells information to 3rd parties. For example, you like Italian food (they can tell by multiple purchases in Italian restaurants) and fly on Airline X? The airline might be interested in that data, so it could change its food offering on the plane. This is just ONE example.... So, I'm not surprised.
$0. Ads don't bother me.