skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> i barely even understood your response to be honest

- IMDB & TMDB are collections of movie data.

- XBMC (aka XBox Media Center) is a piece of software that plays videos and will grab information about those videos from IMDB or TMDB to display to the user (e.g. when you're watching a movie, it will show you a synopsis of the movie, boxart, etc grabbed from the web).

- This post is just about a program that will allow you to say "I want information about a movie called A Christmas Story " and it will fetch that information from the web, and display it. The only real benefit of this, is being able to do the query/view the response from a text terminal, instead of just going to the website.
Does the site turn pink for valentines day?
Ev Storey: Inventor of OpenAll and CellFood. The Truth.
<p><pre><code> Nu Science Corporation is the world's number 1 selling oxygen & nutrient supplement manufacturer, claiming $350 million in annual sales. Nu Science is also the officially documented extortionist of Ev Storey's "Original Hand-Written OpenAll/CellFood Formula" from my family. Michael J. Saltz is a name partner of the Los Angeles based firm Jacobson, Russell, Saltz, & Fingerman LLP, representing Nu Science Corporation. Mr. Saltz, who formerly worked for the LA County District Attorney's Office, is presently threatening me for advocating on behalf of the public and CellFood customers in civil matters, as well as on behalf of my brothers in their ongoing battle for justice, vindication and reparation.<p><pre><code> Numerous public, legal and governmental documents that support Robert and Michael Henkel's claims in this blatant case of corporate terrorism have been silenced and simply can not speak for themselves. While I am neither a lawyer nor an officer of the Henkels, who produce a deuterium sulfate based solution formerly known as DeutroCell and currently sold as Choice O2, I am now compelled, by threat of imprisonment, to defend myself, my family, and our right to speak to the truth of these matters.</code></pre>
I imagine that's a factor, but it's primarily the fact that sea water is really hard on the delicate parts of the rocket due to corrosion and mineral deposits.
> "Well, you can't deny that it does stop the abuse."

Unless he is pointing out that liver failure induced death puts an end to any addiction, I am absolutely denying that it puts a stop to abuse.
I'm not a Rails guy and I use Sass exclusively. I agree with its design decisions and functionality more so than Less. I've found that most people who install and run Node for command line tools usually also have Ruby in their stack.
Withdrawing an abusable drug is not the same as deliberately poisoning people. I know they are in the narrative you wove for yourself, but I just wrote a post about how I don't buy that narrative.
Our production site has been down for an hour (a separate staging site on heroku is still up and running), and it does appear to be Elastic Load Balancer-related from what I can tell.
Gah! I hope not
cool job right there, but just curious, why this is php >> python and not php << >> phython ? does that need a lot more work?
I think the point jetti is trying to make though is not that Flash isn't dead as a platform, it clearly is for mobile. The point is that it may be dead for new projects, but there are still millions of existing ones that use it. So, if you don't support it with your mobile device, you're basically saying please have a difficult time using our device if you are a regular user of that service/site.
So ask Beatport to use a different technology or ask Adobe to make Flash work on WP8. Adobe is the one who has abandoned Flash.
“Neuristor”: Memristors used to create a neuron-like behavior
Highly recommend listening to all of Seth Godin's Startup School podcast that is mentioned.
UPDATE: Fill out this form and PublikDemand will complete the Instagram Arbitration Clause Opt-Out procedure for you. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEl5UEJ...
Its more common that wealth buys you enough knowledge to avoid most tax burdens. Or if you are the Koch brothers, you can simply sponsor new tax regulations that benefit you.
Gnotty 0.2 Released
I've read two of the books on this list and both, while having their faults, were very useful and helped jumpstart my programming experience in my teenage years. The things this person is complaining about are limited to a tiny minority of pages regarding unspecific topics that changed significantly over time and were not necessarily incorrect when written.

Overall, the website comes across as bitchy and pretentious. especially considering how their own HTML comes across as flagrantly hideous.
The acetaminophen dosage that you get when you abuse many narcotic pain killers is poisoning.

We're not talking about a bittering agent, or something that makes you throw it back up. We're talking: if you abuse it, it will kill you.
Nice! Thanks so much for doing this.
Fly to Mars (or anywhere else in the solar system), land, unload passengers and cargo, refuel, take off again, fly to Earth, land. Refuel and start loading for the next flight.

That's the end goal. And since not all bodies SpaceX may want to land on have a comparable atmosphere to Earth, parachutes are not part of the plan.

This isn't the vehicle that's going to do all that, but they have to start somewhere to build the tech that eventually will.
Well, to be fair, Instagram stopped being the best tool the moment they proved they can't keep their lawyers on a leash ;)

(Or went evil, YMMV)
MKV file sizes are outrageously large. MP4 is a great alternative (less than half the file size) that doesn't sacrifice resolution. With that said, not sure if it supports multiple audio tracks, subtitles, etc.
No offense, but I used to work at a DoE lab on data-taking from the Large Hadron Collider CMS detector.

It's not as expensive as you'd think. We were dealing with hundreds of petabytes of data, and customers much more demanding than your consumer paying $16/month to stream movies.
jrockway, we know that google does things a certain way that blows up the costs of simple storage. It's not necessary to make 12 copies worldwide to get bare minimum redundancy required for this case. The data that needs to be replicated (video files) and account info is not realtime transactions. The video files can be transferred by fedexing a bunch or hard disks on a weekly basis (take a reasonable guess at Netflix catalog growth and compute the per week growth of data... it's indeed trivial).
While I find it deplorable, I don't find it surprising. There have been people offering crazy treatments pretty much since the beginning of time. The risks to patients are extreme, and the risk to science is that someone will have a bad outcome that is attributed to something that didn't cause it. That said, information is developed in these programs, and scientific or not that information can inform actual scientists. It was true of prisoners being experimented on in POW camps and it will be true of these poor folks in the Ukraine.
The danger posed by abusing narcotic painkillers is disputed by nobody. The issue being discussed here is the practice of making the abuse more dangerous to 'discourage' abuse.

I know it is hard for a lot of people to identify with drug users/addicts/fiends, so imagine we tried to apply the same sort of 'solution' to, say, speeding. Make all cars disable driver-side airbags once you go, say, 15% over the national speed limit. Speeding sometimes results in the death of the driver, news at 11.

How does that sit with you?
AFAIK worst book on C Programming Language in existance is "Let Us C" By "Yashavant Kanetkar"

http://www.ksetindia.com/books/let-us-c

Ironically this book is quite popular with students in Indian Universities (I guess mainly due to ignorance)

Even the wikipedia page for the author admits this fact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yashavant_Kanetkar
I believe that everyone is helped out by a hefty dose of luck across their lives - being in the right place at the right time often serves us well.

Admittedly, it often comes down to hard work and preparation in the daily struggle, but that day where you needed to guess a few test answers and got them right, or you posted a job offer to a company you didn't think would notice you and happened to catch a random recruiters eye, or you happened to perform well on the exact day your boss wanted to promote somebody to an empty senior position they wanted filling.

Life is a series of hard work, intermingled with sprinkles of luck, sometimes good, sometimes bad.

True, having the IQ at a young age to go to a private school on a scholarship is fortunate and not the kind of advantage most people have, but I'm sure it still wasn't easy at some points, the author simply had the ability of self preservation to survive their trials.
> ... but it still rubs me the wrong way

The thing is you have to take it context. People that work with Linus know how he acts, and know how to interpret what he does. Linus's tendency to (temporarily) go ballistic very often rubs those unfamiliar with it the wrong way, but you learn after a while that he really isn't some kind of mega-aggressive jerk.

I don't like (and won't stand for) "abusive" control-freak type-A bosses, but Linus isn't one of those.

Points one knows after being on the LKML for a while and seeing a few Linus rants:

(1) He doesn't do this every day, but he does it periodically so it's Not Just You.

(2) He almost always does it For A Good Reason; it's not just because he's in a bad mood, it's really because you did something stupid. If you didn't do something stupid, and he's just confused, see points (4) and (5).

(3) Even if you think he's got the volume up too high, it's generally fairly proportionate to the stupidity of the original act (subtle confusion is less stupid than knowingly breaking huge numbers of apps), and proportionate to the "you should have known better" factor (i.e., his direct lieutenants are held to a much higher standard that Little-Joey-the-first-time-driver-author).

(4) He usually Calms Down Quickly, and gets more technical; really it's not personal. He wants to solve the problem, not argue. However ranty his initial message, it's not just an insult; it says what you did wrong and why.

(5) If you were really right, and he was wrong, he'll quickly admit his error after being presented with a good argument, and will start calling himself an idiot. He doesn't hold grudges. [Judging from the exchanges I've seen, though, he's usually not wrong; he has very, very, good instincts, and I suppose that's one reason why he so confidently goes off ranting...if he's not sure about something he'll ask a question instead.]
I've lived in the South and Midwest US my whole life. Reading the title and the article I had the reaction "Is this study a joke, air conditioning keeps people cooler?" Reading the comments here I see that many folks are, in fact, surprised that the heat and humidity can be (literally) unbearable.

Florida for example, was largely considered largely uninhabitable until the invention of refrigeration and pesticides to control the Malaria-spreading mosquitos.
Not too late to remind: if you use AWS for big things, you should have worldwide region redundancy.
Thanks for the plug :) Here's another one: I'm looking for some top-notch software engineers if anyone is interested.
Narcotic pain killers containing acetaminophen have a lower risk of addiction than the equivalent opiate. That is the whole reason why they're so readily available. A dentist prescribing Vicodin is unlikely to create another addict. As a person who has had two root canals, one for a severely infected tooth, I am glad that this is the situation.

Oxycontin, as a time-release opiate, is another drug intended to maximize the painkilling:abuse potential ratio. You are implying that things like Oxycontin OP are an attempt to poison drug users. I reject this weird-ass conspiracy theory, and submit that perhaps things like Oxycontin OP are designed to do exactly what they say--lower risk of abuse. Nobody wakes up one day and says "I am going to become an addict today", it happens in cumulative moments of weakness.

Edit: now people are saying that the point of Vicodin is to kill people who overdose on it. Nonsense. It's an effective painkiller with reduced addiction risk; reason enough for its existence if you care at all about consumer freedom. But whether or not Vicodin should exist is not even what this subthread is about. I give up.
I think that if we want to have more John Scalzis in the world, we need to lower taxes. I am glad his mother could get him into private school. There are many parents who could if they did not have so much withheld from their paycheck, did not have a large property tax bill, or did not have to pay rents inflated by taxes. We don't need to pay for such an expensive military just to give military moms some help. We could give free healthcare to so many more poor women and still save money if we reduced our military budget.
Look up Nancy Reagan's astrologer some time.
Sowing Scarcity
This really sucks for the engineers. Not a fun way to spend xmas at all.
Very strange, I'd like to see more evidence.

Is there some analogous adaptation for birds? Flying / non-flying birds?
This is a Java library that handles regular expressions in a new way. The regular expression can be run on a large character string and it supports changes to the string without having to recompute the entire expression.

The supported changes to the string are concatenating two strings, or cutting a string into parts. This allows for adding/removing characters from a string.

Best use for this (imo) is in doing a regular expression over a large user entered document. As the user types, we can give regular expression updates in real time as we do not need to recompute everything.

Limits: "we only have character classes, braces and the operators +, *, ?, |", so only basic expressions.
I was heavily influenced by books and podcasts. Where I was living and working there it was next to impossible to find like-minds, so I went to books. They were like a lifeline to a better life. I actually think it was a handful of podcasts in 2006 (Internet Business Mastery, Venture Voice, and others...) that convinced me it was even possible to be an entrepreneur. No small thing for a kid from central PA.

Many times I've put down a book and immediately started implementing stuff in my business that made a big difference. Books that stick out in this regard are Purple Cow, The Ultimate Sales Machine, Getting Things Done, Work the System, Four Hour Work Week, many of Dan Kennedy's books, Getting Real, and so on.
We actually talk to other people in the industry sometimes, imagine that...
The problem with #1 is that it won't be me, alone, whose life will be rent asunder. (Dementia is part of my condition, and though it is currently well-controlled, I am aware of a steady, gradual decline, the emotions that flare up out of frustration, and more than a little irrational thinking. I've watched my family and friends go through this before, too many times.)

My current hope is that when I've gotten too stupid to live, I'll do something so spectacularly stupid that the problem is largely self-correcting (and, if all goes well, wins me a Darwin on the way out). There is no comfortable way to lose a loved one, but some are far more damaging than others. I hate even the thought that the people who care about me will still care about and be hurt by me even when I am no longer myself in any real sense. I might not chase obvious quackery, but anything that's an experimental coin toss might not be out of the question,say, this time next year.
When we did our startup, we didn't think of anything like that. We didn't even start with the intention of doing a startup. We made a tool that solved our own needs. Eventually others found a need for the same thing and adopted it because of a want or need for what we developed. Respect wasn't needed.

Later, respect was earned through the commitment to improve, the excellent customer service, and numerous things we did to engage with the community and help users out. Don't focus on getting respect. Focus on solving a need or want for the users.
I might be inclined to charecterize things in the opposite way: life is a series of lucky opportunities that you work hard to take advantage of.

Anyone who has the test scores to get into the University of Chicago is very likely in the top 1-2% of IQ's. It's hard to say that everything doesn't ultimately stem from that initial stroke of luck.
Quora is down Edit: back up, for the moment

Our game is on Heroku and it's up http://warsocial.com
No problem, glad to see people taking advantage of it!
I love seeing how other people express and communicate the things they are passionate about. I fully support people geeking out about whatever they please, as long as it makes them happy :)
> I had no ideas these guys were that far along.

... with what, like 0.0001% of SpaceX's budget and other resources...?

Maybe SpaceX should hire Armadillo...
Hello! I have applied to Blue Origin in the past but have not got very far. I have been working very hard to improve my skills, I recently interviewed on site at SpaceX (but didn't get it) and I'm trying my hardest to write the best code I can in order to improve my chances at helping people build space ships.

Do you have any advice for my next application to Blue Origin? My strongest points are my unending passion for spaceflight, science and desire to better myself. My code and software engineering skills improve by the hour (...it's Christmas in two hours and I'm working on pressureNET and reading HN). I have some excellent projects under my belt but I have no experience working on spaceships or related systems.

But I'm not sure what else I can do. So if you have some advice that would be fantastic.

Edit: And yes, I'm a US citizen.
Study better
>submit that perhaps things like Oxycontin OP are designed to do exactly what they say--lower risk of abuse.

They do so by attempting to deter abuse via threat of poison. People die from acetaminophen poisoning from this tactic.

>Nobody wakes up one day and says "I am going to become an addict today", it happens in cumulative moments of weakness.

You don't know what you're talking about. The Vicodin comment was bad enough. It's widely known to be abused and it often leads to abuse of other painkillers.

edit: I'm worried I've misunderstood. I got the impression from the context that Oxycontin OP had acetaminophen in it. If it doesn't, why are we even talking about it?
> No, compilers that accept "void main" do not necessarily produce executables that produce an exit status of 0. I just tried it with gcc on Ubuntu, and the exit status was 1.

Interesting. I wonder why gcc does it that way.

> And the validity of "void main" doesn't depend on whether the system uses exit statuses. An implementation may accept forms of main other than the ones defined by the language, including "void main()" -- but if it doesn't, the behavior of such a program is undefined.

I don't think we're disagreeing. I'm saying that "void main" is never preferable to "int main", and the only time it's equal to "int main" is if you're writing code specific to an implementation for which "void main" is not undefined and which lacks exit statuses, making any return statement in "int main" equivalent to returning from "void main".

> But for hosted implementations, there's no advantage at all in using "void main" vs. the correct "int main(void)".

Agreed. That's why it makes no sense for textbooks to teach void main.
Sounds like stalkers paradise!
"The team found that metals also accumulate in the excretory systems of termites. The termites then actively rid their bodies of excess metals by excreting little stones, much like kidney stones in people. According to Stewart, these excretions are "a driving force in redistribution of metals near the surface."

Aussie termites crap gold. Learn something new everyday.
The localization should be fixed, to be honest, since a few version.
Can you tell us what the "... or otherwise able to review all export-controlled technical information" point in the qualifications means? How would one be able to determine if he/she is able to do that. Is it nationality related? [I have no knowledge of this space, so excuse me if this something obvious.]
Despite the assertions of low abuse potential, the reality is that people do become addicted to narcotic pain killers. Vicodin abuse is massively widespread, you are entirely ignorant in this subject if you think otherwise.

When the original, "higher abuse potential" (read: safer) Oxycontin formulation was replaced by Oxycontin OP, addicts were driven to abusing high-acetaminophen narcotics anyway (attempting cold water extraction if they knew enough), or to more dangerous sources of a fix: black market original formulation Oxycontin or, often, street heroin.

No addict wakes up one day and says "Oh, my painkillers have acetaminophen? Guess it's a good day to quit".

Why? Because they are addicts.

Creating slow-releasing narcotic painkillers to reduce accidental addiction is fine. Removing all safe narcotic painkillers from the market damages addicts and is unethical. Oxycontin OP was not invented in a vacuum, it replaced the traditional Oxycontin in a misguided attempt to stop deliberate abuse (the differences are not merely limited to slower release).

Creating narcotic painkillers that are purposely deadly when abused is never fine.
Get your face out of the eggnog and listen for a minute
Roku too
TL;DR Always work hard, keep your eyes open, and be helpful.

On the point of luck, yes there is a whole lot of lucky circumstance which you have no control over that puts in you in a lucky position. But I believe you pass a point in your life where it goes from being purely lucky to being just plain prepared. If Scalzi didn't work at his craft or his networking, the opportunities that availed themselves to him probably would not have happened.

I think a lot about where I am and where I'm going. There's lots of things I do now that don't have immediate payoff. Rather, I think of everything as just training for something else down the road. So I try to get good (or at least passably decent) at a breadth of things and specialize in a few. Hopefully then when luck swings my way I'm prepared to go after that small window of opportunity with full force.

I'm also a big fan of paying it forward, like Scalzi. Not everything is money---often it's just time. Giving someone honest feedback, lending them a hand, or supporting their efforts is all good karma. When you help others in a way you help yourself: growing your community of interest, raising the overall standard of living, moving groups of people forward.
mkv is only a container format. As such, given the same audio/video encoding, the file size would be very similar.
Taxation is not equivalent to charity or 'giving back.'

This is sadly an incredibly common conflation.
Show HN: Android version of board game Baghchal
Nearly a year ago we launched real time online baghchal game in HN. [1]

On Dec 21st we launched its Android version [2].

Please check it once and do provide feedback.

Happy Holidays !

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3437535

[2] http://goo.gl/UDZ3R [play store link]