skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got 25 days old for a beta of Firefox, which is either a lot older or a lot younger than that, depending on how you want to count.

(My profile is easily an order of magnitude older, my browser binary is substantially younger.)
Thanks @mparlane, turned off prime debugging but was still routing all requests through a WebError handler prior to hitting root. You can otherwise find the rest of the code here: https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge :)
Geez where do I start? I'm not sure this is an appropriate medium to share arbitrary personal notes about myself.

I will say that I've done some coaching and it isn't uncommon to run into men bitter about women due to their past break ups. The very first thing I teach em is its not healthy to do this if you hate women; not to mention you will probably have a better chance if you appreciated them(even their flaws) than walk up to one with years of built up bitterness.
We're not going to play that game.

Pick up artistry isn't about sex, its about power exchange with total strangers. Sex is the socially acceptable prize you win for manipulating someone you hate or resent at least as much as yourself into spending time and attention on you.

It comes from a place of isolation and frustration, it has flying fuck-all to do with appreciating women or integrating them into one's life, and it doesn't solve a goddamn thing.

Thinking you aren't worth someone else's time is the goddamn problem.
Until there is a distinct change in driver attitudes, riding without a helmet in most of the US is just nuts. Sure, there are places like Portland with dedicated bike lanes and an overall emphasis on pro-bike culture, but it is a rare spot.

In the bay area, there is a very large biking community -- road, mountain, around town, etc. The problem is, the infrastructure isn't there for bikes compared to Amsterdam. We have "bike lanes" that any vehicle can enter within, say, about 150' to make a turn onto another street. Vehicles don't look for bikes. The bike ways in Amsterdam, certain parts of Munich, and other towns are often separate from the roads. When not, people expect them and are courteous to them much more than here.
IRC channel startups currently serves this purpose.
It bothers me that we are O.K. with this, militantly O.K. with it, so long as the spin confirms our biases.
eh, i honestly always thought the rails community had a pretentious streak running through. can't defend them too much. same goes for python, and many other communities too.

there's a lot going on there. however i think most of what the post is talking about is how as a community grows it's cohesiveness wanes.
The problem quote appears to be this: "Commercial exploiters of new technologies should be required to convince Congress to sanction a new delivery system and/or exempt it from copyright liability. That is what Congress intended."

Perhaps I should note that vicarious liability[1] was invented by the courts, so worrying about whether or not they are creating new policy here seems a bit ironic.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_liability#Vicarious_l...
A judge has to determine that the product is solely intended to infringe, just as they've had to do since the Betamax case.
Acronym nitpick: LLVM originally stood for low-level virtual machine, not little-language. It doesn't really have a connection to the little-language or domain-specific-language communities, but instead originates in a desire to provide a compiler target that was lower-level than generating C code, but less platform-specific than directly generating machine code (C-- is another project in that space). But it's since been renamed to just LLVM, a brand that doesn't officially stand for anything.
I've been there many times, it's quiet as a tomb in there. Definitely one of the best places to go to for some peace, quiet, and amazing architecture.
IPv6 Must Be Enabled On All US Government Sites By Sunday
After experiencing a significant moment of inability to conceptualize while watching Graham's number be described, I think the brain might have some kind of stop-gap to stop your cognitive functions from failing. Either that or I need more practice in imagining large numbers? Do mathematicians learn special tricks to holding large-number concepts in their minds?
Yeah, it's more about how easy it is to get the credit. Applying for a business credit line tends to be a relatively formal process and often requires a personal guarantee anyway so there's often no liability advantage for a business credit line, at least if you actually need one. In fact it may be worse if you eventually fail and you happen to be less broke than your partners since likely you'll have jointly taken on the guarantee. I think you could keep your interest costs down by playing the 0% balance transfer game and pay only transfer fees.
Although it adds another piece of software on top, I've been using Python with Redis a lot lately, and it's wonderful.
Here's a 'base' for building the larger program. It doesn't make a single python instance multithreaded, but it easily allows me to connect other computers on my network to join in the processing fun.

filePath = "/home/user/file"
p = Process(target=readFile, args=(filePath,))
p.start()

numProcesses = 6
for x in range(numProcesses):
p = Process(target=mapper, args=())
p.start()

So I have a file reader to prevent a seek storm on a large file, I read something (like separations between tags that I want to process more), I put the binary data in a "ready:NAME" key, with "NAME" going into a "readyList", and things go wonderfully. It makes my data persistent without writing to files or pickling, and I can easily share data between process instances.

My question is - what advantage does a multicore programming offer that my take wouldn't? I can import process and chain things out over my 8 cores, but why would I do that if I can have persistent data with the ability to more easily add processing power when I want to?
You Don’t Need A Prototype To Raise A Seed Round
This article is great but it does itself a pretty big disservice by pretty much ignoring a lot of why many of the European cities which have successful programs are successful. Namely they have made significant investment into infrastructure to make bicycling safer, many times prioritizing bike traffic over auto traffic.

I ride quite a bit, live in Berkeley which has numerous "Bicycle Boulevards [1]" and I'm pretty comfortable riding sans helmet. I happily rented a bike in Amsterdam and never even considered using a helmet. Riding my bike to work in SF (or to the articles point NYC)? You're damn straight I'm wearing a helmet.

[1] Bicycle Boulevards are streets (open to bikes and cars) that tend to run parallel to primary traffic arteries that tend to have fewer Stop Signs and every 3 or 4 blocks auto traffic isn't allowed through (usually big planters in the middle of the street) so it keeps the auto traffic down.
"Trading can be great because there is no BS of politics and you can measure what you've contributed every single day. You're out playing games for money, sometimes you're grinding, sometimes going on a raid..."

Proprietary trading is a pain, especially if you have no investors. You take on all kinds of unimaginable liabilities if you set up a self-clearing BD. Life is very stressful, because even problems with external agencies can cause problems. For example, suppose you were spread trading (buying one thing and selling the other, expecting the prices to converge) and one trade was broken. You could wake up the next morning with millions or billions of dollars in liabilities (this happened to many people in 2010).

The real problem is that, for most people, finance is interesting because they don't share in the downside. If you have a job as a trader for a bank or hedge fund, and you blow up (assuming, of course, you were not doing anything illegal) you merely lose your job. You aren't in the hole for the liability.

Most of finance operates in that mode, dealing with OPM (other people's money).
Not too surprising. Your iPad will have an OS image from [insert time here] ago that doesn't have a relation to when you bought it.
The problem quote is taken out of context. Oman is saying that vendors should be required to convince Congress to amend copyright statutes if they expect the courts to defer to them in copyright cases. He is specifically not suggesting that vendors should petition Congress for permission to launch new products. What he's saying is that if your new product harms someone else's rights, the statutes that protect those rights apply. This seems like common sense.

Vicarious liability is a basic principle of common law. It was not "invented by the courts". You can be vicariously liable for all sorts of things, not just copyright infringement. People mix this up because they've only heard of vicarious liability in terms of copyright infringement, and then in the context of famous court cases.
I find this the most important question. They aren't expensive (£15) and if you're going to bike then you're going to get sweaty, rained-on, etc with or without a helmet.

So I guess if you're put off cycling by a simple helmet then I really cannot seeing you sticking with it through any kind of adverse weather either.
This is the exact opposite of my experience working at a very technology-focused hedge fund [1] for the past 5 years.

[1] http://www.twosigma.com
Adeo Ressi’s Theory of Quantified Entrepreneurship (All Things Digital)
relevant study from the UK: http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1231.html

"HEAT suggests that a law making helmets compulsory for cyclists may result in an overall increase in 253 premature deaths – 265 extra deaths from reduced cycling less 12 deaths saved among the reduced pool of cyclists receiving fatal head injuries."

"The overall cost of a law would be between £ 304 million and £ 415 million per year. In addition, there would be a one-off cost to the remaining cyclists of £ 180 million to equip them with helmets"
well it allows you to share in-memory, mutable state between processes. if you have problems that don't need that then yes, parallelization is easy (the python-only version of the above would be to use multiprocessing). but maybe i've missed the point (seem to be making error after error at the moment...)

[edit: to clarify a bit more, the example given in the article linked is making each execution of a loop run in parallel, even if the loop affects some variable. so you would hope to get speedups in code that isn't written explicitly to be executed by multiple processes - without messaging etc. in particular, it guarantees safety while giving the chance (sometimes it doesn't work out) for speedups.]
I use an NFC card to get on the trains and trams in Dublin, I remember scanning it with my old Galaxy Nexus.
0 days for Opera! woo!
I think right associativity was "chosen" because left associativity would be redundant (since (a^b)^c = a^(b*c)), and so it saves on bracketing and generally makes things slicker.
That's a really good idea, thank you.
That your friend keeps a literal spreadsheet of the pussy he gets is a pretty arbitrary personal note you've already shared. Zoom into the breach! Tell me what is good about the women you've dated. Just one thing, even. Be as floral as you like.
I think the "socially acceptable" is the key here. Men who get lots of women earn social credits from both women and men (while women get slut shamed). These are relics from highly oppressive societies. So, in a sense, the PUA is a victim who uses mischievous means to earn societal status.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#releasenotes/General... (referenced from the article) states

"WebKit on iOS now supports the requestAnimationFrame and cancelAnimationFrame methods in JavaScript, as described here: http://www.w3.org/TR/animation-timing/*

That link in turns states:

"script-based animations are most often performed by scheduling a callback using setTimeout or setInterval and making changes to the DOM to effect the animation in that callback.

A disadvantage of this approach is that the author of the animation script has no idea what the ideal frequency for updating their animation is. Instead, the easiest way forward for the author is to simply call setTimeout with a very small value, which in practice will be clamped to some minimum time like 10ms anyway. It likely won’t be the case that 100 updates per second are required for the animation, especially if the page is in a background tab or the browser window is minimized."*

So, it looks like setTimeOut is discouraged in favour of this (draft) standard. Given that, I would understand that Apple would optimize setTimeOut for minimal power use, rather than maximum update frequency (not that I have the faintest idea about how one should go about that)

Also: have you tried your claim about Chrome's performance in a similar amount of memory as what iOS has to deal with?
Go for it! Theres more than one way to skin a cat, and at the end of the day you only need one person blogging to be considered a website
Show HN: The Daily Lore (the undemocratic front page of the internet)
Hey everyone,

I made this lightweight news aggregation website as a side project. I wanted a way to easily survey the news without using an RSS reader (information overload). I'm a big fan of Reddit, but I wanted more variety in the sources/articles that I'm exposed to. It was also fun to learn CSS and Javascript and use HTML for the first time since middle school. Thanks for checking it out.
There's no Scala runtime. I think you're either mistaken or using the wrong term. Do you mean the standard library? If so then what's the problem with adding that to your classpath?

I get that some of the Scala constructs (e.g. traits) may be unweildy to use from Java, but I think you're unlikely to have a large and growing surface area for that. On a case-by-case basis I think you could just provide a Java friendly interface from your Scala code.
Just because you use a browser for webdev doesn't mean you use it for browsing. In fact, I like the idea of separating the two.
Check out - startupguild.net. This is group of developers (initially) from hacker news doing pretty much what you're after.

In practise it hasn't really worked out for me, but may just be the thing for you.
There are loads of companies the make money off open source software. Same principal.
Laser-wielding snake robots for airplane repair
Folks in the US need to start demanding bike lanes from their elected officials. They're super cheap to build and so it's more of an issue of simply having the political will to remove a lane of traffic from exclusive car use.

Such political bravery can pay off. Vancouver BC's Gregor Robertson (and his councillor slate) has been elected twice with strong mandates in large part because of his commitment to bike lanes.
Thanks. Applied, will see if it works for me.

UPDATE: Now I'm in, and I can see why it didn't work out for you. I think the activity I'm looking for requires splitting up into small groups (about 10 people?); the Startup Guild is too impersonal, even though it's nice to be able to share Yammer with like-minded people.
Sub - a delicious way to organize programs
I'd encourage you to have an open mind for the idea that most guys into this are in it because they are bitter and hate women. Personally it doesn't really impact me what you think and I can see how if I was expose to the same mainstream coverage and asked to form a view, it'd be similar to yours.

Reading your perception of what PUAs are is similar to hearing someone describe hackers as evil people and Hacker News as a bad place.
If someone consents, it presumably means they deem the exchange to be mutually beneficial, so I don't know how you could determine some cases to be "taking advantage."
A good choice however you are not allowed to consume your own food/water/coffee there. So if you have something you need to do in two hours or less with no breaks, then this is a great place.
Couldn't find anything so far, although a Google Hangout does sound like something that might work.
I really appreciate it when someone takes the trouble of writing a more informative, non-sensational, non-editorialized headline like this. I often read the HN comments before reading the linked article, and a better headline sheds more light on those comments.

I really don't appreciate it when a more informative headline is reverted to a less informative one. Who does that serve?
Funny enough, you can't have :before and :after pseudo-elements on <input>s, since <input>s have no content and the pseudo elements need to be placed before or after the content of the element.
How? It's a challenge/response protocol with the processing on the NFC chip/card/object.
Groovy has a lot of interop issues. The dynamic resolution of overloaded methods being just one example. Xtend is much more interoperable as it binds at compile-time just like Java does and uses the exact same type system.
Yes, not all complexities are created equal.

Haskell, and to a bit of a lesser extent Scala, have a lot of their complexity arise from combinatorial explosion of interactions of simple features.

Also, relentless abstraction (particularly in Haskell). Yes, you can think of lots of things as arrows. But does it necessarily make it easier to write a particular problem to do so, or does the cognitive load required to maintain the abstraction <-> problem mapping outweigh the benefit of casting it as the abstraction?
I actually just took the subway over to check this place out in response to this thread. Some cons for Ace Hotel:

* The wifi might be free, but you need a passcode. Do you get this by ordering something?

* The prices are pretty exorbitant. Coffee, tea, and sodas are $4, and $20 for a glass of wine.

* Pretty dark inside. OK for working on a laptop, not so good for writing anything by hand.
I agree, but it's unfair to blame slashdot for HN's failings.
http://www.moo.com/blog/2012/09/27/the-business-cards-of-the...
Nothing against Clojure, but I'm curious what you read that made you think Clojure has better Java interop than Scala?

Using Java code from Scala is literally the same as using Scala code from Scala. Same thing if you replace Java with Scala and Scala with Java (with the exception of some Scala constructs that aren't present in Java).

This is not true of Clojure..
As a developer, I would be happy to no longer have to deal with iPad 1's. They really have little memory to work with and it tends to constantly run out. Particularly when you try to pre-render things in memory to have them smoothly scroll into view.

As a reminder, iPad RAM amounts (from Wikipedia):

1st generation 256 MB DDR
2nd generation 512 MB DDR2
3rd generation 1 GB DDR2

So I can't blame Apple for feeling the same way. When they originally released iPad 1, they probably didn't quite anticipate how graphical and visual the user interfaces would eventually turn out to be.
I think we can solve this with a bulleted list:

* Scare people off from using bikes
* Uncomfortable
* Supply excuse to not make biking safer
* Expensive
* Don't actually make you any safer
Im going to get downvoted for this but whatever: the 24 hour apple store, when you need a clean well-lighted place past midnight. It's close to the yellow line and there's always a food cart outside.

There's seating and the light isn't too harsh for being fluorescent. I've seen people go there without their own computers and basically look as if they're editing video for a project...and the staff pay no mind.

Don't know what they'd say if you planted a dell laptop on one of the unused Genius bat areas, though

While I'm on the topic, the Apple stores in SoHo and in UWS have comfortable theater seating. I've planted myself there and even if you don't have headphones, the Apple Genius giving a walk through of how to use Keynote/iCloud/whatever makes for decent background noise
Most people have little or nothing to lose at that age.

I disagree. As someone who spent all of his 20s building businesses, I can definitively say that I lost the most valuable thing anyone has: time. Sure, the experience is good, but its not as good as having focused myself on other more productive things.

Contrary to what you may hear on TV or here, businesses are not made of candy. It requires sacrifice, hustle, and a huge amount of time. Time better spent living life. Young adults don't get that. They think its like Hollywood portrayed it in the Social Network. Nope. It is pretty shitty actually. Even if you join something as good as YC, you still have to hustle a great deal without any guarantee whatsoever. Problem is that what you are gambling here is your life, investors just gamble money. Money comes and goes. Life, not so much.

Then why am I building a startup at age 33, when I already have a successful business? I'm a flip floppin' paradox. Sometimes we do what we do because thats what we know how do to. I'm too dumb and old to do anything else (best guess).
If I could monetize them I would!!
And here is previous discussion on big numbers:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539538

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024576
Thanks. The channel has a frightening number of members, though; I would imagine this kind of activity would require splitting up into much smaller groups.
Before I edited it, I said checkboxes, which would be an even worse choice...
My experiences growing up in the USA contradict the author's sentiment that helmet-wearing is taken as a given and that there's social stigma against going helmetless. As a kid, my parents had me wear a helmet, but once I was comfortable riding, the helmet was never an issue. The only people I knew that wore helmets were those who regularly commuted on their bikes (and thus rode on busier and faster roads). This was in my small hometown (12k people) in Missouri, but the experience continued in my larger college town (100k people). A lot of students biked to, from, and around campus, not to mention riding downtown for the nightlife. Again, helmets were the exception, not the rule.
See also the time when the RIAA guy said unauthorized CD rips are unauthorized, which the interweb hate machine transcribed to illegal.
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drop me a line at lukas.hartmann@spacedeck.net and we'll get you access.
Kurzweil is retarded. My penis is doubling in length every year. Does that mean the singularity is coming?
Would a disclaimer that a commenters views are not you own suffice?
Not sure; I'm looking for peers, and these guys seem to be offering information and training.
Message passing is usually a "better" method of IPC anyway. The situations that genuinely require shared memory are rare.
I use Android Beam fairly regularly. Sharing contact info, transferring files, etc. is all delightfully easy now.

I hardly ever use NFC to interact with anything other than other devices, but I suppose that's because those other things aren't very prominent in the U.S. yet.
Then what if the story was submitted under the title "Is there anything that may stop solar power exponential growth from reaching 100% of our needs in 20 years?"

If you think that the answer is still 'no' while it completely reverse the conclusion, maybe this law isn't a "law" in the scientific sense - not even a theory, and shouldn't be cited (karma whoring?) any further on HN?
Built this in the last few hours to render tiny charts for devices that don't have canvas tag support. I'm thinking this might be nice method to generate/precompute tiny charts.