skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) that's factually incorrect, 2 of the top five Wall Street firms failed (Lehman and Bear Stearns).

2) the other 3 (Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch) would have failed after Lehman, the entire financial system had to be backstopped by the government. (If you look beyond pure securities firms, the largest insurance company (AIG) failed as well as the largest bank (Citibank - it effectively got nationalized and shareholders were wiped out, look at a stock price chart (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=C&t=my&l=off&z=l...)

The lesson learned is that the financial system can't survive a failure like Lehman without a government backstop.

So, pick your poison, either 1) permanent government backstop and some regulation to go with, it, ie don't let bankers run leveraged hedge funds on the public dime, take all the profits in good times and stick taxpayers with the bill when it goes south.

Or 2) smaller banks that can fail without taking the whole system down.
They say next to nothing about their underlying techniques. All they seem to be getting at is using "context" (which could easily be as simple as n-grams) instead of just word-bags - not exactly a new idea.
Ironic that we're only seeing collective action now, when it's too late to help him. Though we can, maybe, move the needle a bit and make such things less likely to happen again.

I feel as if the tech community is still trying to figure out the collective action thing. Maybe it's because we don't have the history of unions* like many workers in hollywood/entertainment industry do. But when the tech community did act collectively to stop SOPA, it made a big difference. I hope we can do more of that.

(* which is fine -- I don't think you can make the economic case for having them in the highly competitive tech job market. Unionization is more strongly justified in cases of bad working conditions, or a single employer with an effective monopoly on that type of job in the region)
The OP could have included their age in a comment on the post.

By including their age in the post title they have, inadvertently or not, 'gamed' the system.

If this is right or wrong isn't really the question, but neither the title nor the top comments have told me anything about the game in question, except that it was by someone claiming to be 14.

To that end, titles like this I believe add little to the community. I would much rather see some information about what exactly is being shown, beyond the age of the author.

Aside from that, well done to the OP for finishing something and getting it published. That is something many never manage to do.

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Maybe I lack vision, but I think there's still interesting programs that will never achieve startup success.

For example, I'm currently writing a Lisp program that uses an LSTM neural network to compose Scottish fiddle music. As a Scottish fiddler (and composer) and AI enthusiast, this is an intensely interesting project to me. And it's certainly an insane idea with a tiny market and no way to monetize. And that's how it will remain. Scottish fiddling will always be an obscure niche, even within that community there will never be much demand for new music (and there's so many buried gems from the 18th century that this will virtually never change), and any existing demand can be easily fulfilled by the scores of people--including myself--who compose fiddle music the old-fashioned way.

Unlike Altair BASIC, this isn't a case of somebody creating a product in a growing industry people don't realize they need yet. Even I--the "founder"--don't see any potential and realize I'm providing free labor. I'm just in it because it's a great hack.

tl;dr - Distinguish between "anticipating public demand" and "doing something only for yourself".
More features than you could possibly want: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/sample....

But you'd be better off creating your own private repository than messing with free-floating jars.
Unless of course you're planning on using Windows 8 as your only OS.
It did, and probably still does to a lesser extent. It doesn't cost any real time or effort to scan most port ranges these days - especially with EC2 and other big cloud vendors and super fast multi-gigabit network connections.
Thanks for your contribution! What do you think of the course so far? I had too much fun doing the first homework.
This is a godsend, thank you! I've been having a tough time using `sml` and `gprolog`, but this fixed every single issue I found. Thumbs up.
Nothing in PushBullet should fire up your Twitter client. :? Very strange.
Great work! I really like the art in this game. Did you create it yourself? What tools did you use?
> A person's knowledge is the result of his own mental and physical effort.

A person's knowledge hasn't been the result of his own mental and physical effort since the stone age, and probably earlier. We all gain our knowledge by studying the words of those before us, and then we may be able to contribute a tiny piece to that giant interlocking puzzle ourselves.

The 'ownership' of those new pieces now belongs to publishing houses that themselves did not contribute to the knowledge.

Restricting the free flow of knowledge is unethical.
If I understand correctly, he was actively involved in the collective action against SOPA.
It's not surprising, it's retarded.
I wonder just how hard it would be to take it and extend it for Scala. Just my musing 'cause I'm learning Ruby atm and plan on learning one of Prolog, Haskell, or Clojure next.
I tried to be as genuine as possible. My wording revolved around unsophisticated individuals who makeup a majority of Facebook. "Impersonation" perhaps isn't the proper word to use, but it certainly encompasses the general concern about promoted content.

To the eyes of an unsophisticated friend, I like penis waffles. For the record, I don't. I never liked anything similar, but Facebook re-posted a "like" (VICE) under my name, and attached a related article to attract more people (Penis Waffles).

Facebook doesn't make it clear that promoted content posted under your name is advertisement. On top of that, advertisements posted under your name is hidden from you, and visible only to your friends.
If you opened a clothing altering retail shop called "Taylor Shop" WRT your HN name, you'd have to expect a large fraction of the population to write your establishments name as "Tailor Shop"

Likewise there's only one Arial font but tens of thousands of girls named Ariel, so odds are your font is going to get spelled Ariel an awful lot by people who think Ariel first as either a human girl or a movie character.
Not at all, there's built-in protection against the type of takedown that occurred last time.
Faking the Apollo missions was not technically possible in 1969. [Video]
I don't get anything, but sometimes I'd like to show support to some particular effort/product that I think is worth my time.

Also, I think it used to be an "interests" section in Facebook, and all of those interests somehow got systematically migrated to "likes", I think. Those are the sketchy ones that I think I now need to go back and curate.
Liftoff: a CLI for configuring opinionated defaults for new Xcode projects
Be careful, people will claim you are supporting racism ;)
Hey! I use that! Thank you for validate.js. validate.js + humanize.js works very well (but this morning I was considering using parsley.js. I'll evaluate it over the weekend I guess)
Everything you say is correct, at the very least technically. I still feel meetup can do better here. Why not just disable the group? To everyone else it looks as though the group is gone or at least indisposed, but admins can still log in and see things while the issue gets resolved? This would also give meetup a chance to indicate to the admins why the group was disabled and options they can do to fix it. Potentially a win/win for everyone, as the group could evolve into a profitable one with a little bit of coaxing/aid.
The commonly accepted metric for "worthwhile" articles would be the number of citations they have received from other articles. One could conceivably figure out, through some clever parsing, which articles have been cited the most.
>I wonder just how hard it would be to take it and extend it for Scala.

That would be insanely compelling.
I agree I'm wrong in the context of history of the civilisation, but correct in terms of "the history of communism, and capitalism".

If you want to include feudalism in there I'm happy to have the discussion on what feudalism is closer to: Communism or Capitalism.
Great work nshen! Do you have a site up too, or just the app? Good job finding a control scheme that works really well on mobile.
Vint Cerf on Interplanetary Internet [video]
Perhaps, then, you should reconsider the people (like me) who are saying that the application of copyright to academic publications must be ended.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5025852

I've been on board for some time now. However...

expanding access to knowledge and to education is crucial for maintaining a just legal system in any democratic society

Yeah, that sounds good, but realistically an open JSTOR doesn't stop five poor black kids in NYC or a shitload of poor kids in Chicago from facing jail time forced on them by aggressive prosecutors via coerced confessions.
Right. But in the real world almost nobody actually reads the TOS and even fewer understand it. Expecting people to read and be sufficiently informed by what's written to deliberatively agree to TOS is unrealistic in most cases.
http://googleblog.blogspot.nl/2005/11/vint-cerf-speaks-out-o...
News at 11'
You've seen that bit where the user-agent is fairly unique to a particular user, right?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/01/tracking-by-user-agent
Oh really? So this is not the same as the ten posts before were about?
Most people in the financial sector do not think Goldman, MS, or JPM would have failed without the bailout. Lehman and Bear Stearns did fail, but their failure was largely handled within the banking system itself (a lot of Lehman being bought by Barclays and Bear Stearns being absorbed by JPM).

It's the smaller banks that struggled the most and continue to do so: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/06/business/la-fi-banks...
Flash Forward seven years - tsm is now the CEO of the world's largest machine-generated entertainment consortium, with their LISP generated performances routinely topping the charts across the planet.
"Are you sure that that kind of autokilling is by user, rather than by site submitted?"

If you look at his submission history, you can see that every single one of the 18 articles he submitted in the last 154 days is "dead". This includes articles from sites like cnet.com, wikipedia.org, serverfault.com, etc. from which many other articles have been successfully posted recently. This would suggest that the user is banned, not the specific content he posted.
> I am confident, this confusion is intentional on Facebook's part.

How can you be so confident about someone's intent?

I disagree with your assessment but didn't downvote your comment because I want to understand.
HN needs less cynicism, not more.
The privacy policy contradiction is more concerning than the actual MAC address transmission.
Um, what kind of use case do you envision?

(Confession: I have had too little sleep and mostly want to remember to come back to this later but am trying to not just make a comment that is pure noise for other people. If it's a stupid question, never mind and carry on.

Thx)
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A Murderer’s Weapon of Choice
Where there are a preponderance of guns and a lack of effective gun laws, there are more murders. Guns are the problem, not mental illness or violent games and entertainment.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/civitas/
Please read the article before commenting on something.
Serious question here. What's the point of all this?
It's like megaupload, but more space, client-side file encryption/decryption, and no video streaming service (right now).
SELinux itself is a tool for Mandatory Access Control. As it is a tool, it needs to be used correctly. The SELinux policy which is deployed on most OS's by default now is indeed a band-aid. However, when developers and system admins understand how to create correct and secure SElinux policies, it does indeed approach bulletproof.

With SELinux root can build systems which are so secure that root himself cannot hack them.
re point 2.

I don't see a problem with using a regex to validate email, unless you get false negatives. Rejecting anything that could be a valid e-mail address is bad and will cause frustration for someone at some point.

I don't think allowing validly formed e-mail addresses that don't have corresponding accounts (or even domains - consider a web app working in offline mode) is a bad thing, especially when taken with point 1, as surely the point of client side validation is a heads up to the user that the data is wrong, rather than actual validation?
The Journey of Brotherly Love
It is the same, but it seams that people are so excited about it that all articles about it are getting upvoted to the front page.
Silicon Valley goes to the Super Bowl
probably gonna get downvoted, but our team's going to the Super Bowl! Well done 49ers!
For the rlwrap gurus in the thread, is there a way to use rlwrap to better deal with multiline expressions in the repl?

For example, when using a clojure repl and entering a multiline expression, I might err on one line and want to go back and correct that line before evaluating the expression. Unfortunately, the only option I have right now is to terminate that expression by entering in a bunch of closing parens and then trying to enter in the entire multiline expression again. It'd be great if multiline expressions could be modifiable and if you could up arrow to load a previous multiline expression.
If you do that you're still subsidizing banks. The simple act of telling creditors that if the banks gets into trouble the government will step in, wipe out shareholders and keep depositors and creditors whole, makes credit more available to them. Of course I'd rather lend to a bank with that kind of backstop than a small savings bank/credit union.

And then if I'm a bank manager, I'm going to borrow as much as possible, and do a lot of high-risk, high return type trading, if it works out I make a ton of money, if I lose it's the government's problem.

Finally, it's not that likely for a Treasury official to tell a TBTF bank they're taking it over - it's an administrative nightmare, and the banks have captured the regulators.

So if a bank gets weak, markets will keep extending credit as long as there's a government backstop, and it won't get taken over, and management will keep playing double or nothing with taxpayers' money.
Thanks. You just made my day :)

This took me around a year.
also turning off "Third Party Sites" which is dangerous in the same way.
ocaml has an awful default interpreter repl, so most people use it with emacs. Alternatively, my default rlwrap is this:

rlwrap -p"0;31" ocaml -init _init.ml

the -init allows me to preload, set directories aso.

As a remark on the side. A lot of people complain about a lot of things without even bothering to improve the quality of their working environment.
Yup. I used blender for all of the 3d models.
It helps me to find out how big my Twitter range is. If there are people with lots of followers following me, the chance to reach 'important' people is higher.
every well-informed person in the financial sector knows what I said is true.

of course there are always some people who believe whatever they want to believe.
Care to share more playlists? Brazilian here too
Indeed. Plus the graphics where too intensive for older devices like the iPhone3GS.
The solution to medicare isn't to remove younger, cheaper people from eligibility, it's to remove older, more expensive people from eligibility. The math is shockingly obvious on this point.
Chipmaker Races to Save Stephen Hawking’s Speech as His Condition Deteriorates
Gary Vaynerchuck's Advice to Young People Today - Smit Patel's Blog
Find ways of getting the government to steal money on your behalf and call it enterpeneurship.
Yes but then we need all the different validation methods that come with it. I use phoneUS and the like, I don't want to give that up.
A noble exercise I guess but I really wish people world use some of their Objective-C skills when building these sorts of tools for working with Xcode instead of making me deal with ruby and ruby gems. If I really wanted to be a ruby dev I'd be a ruby or rails developer. How about a native port of this and CocoaPods. I'll help... email in profile if there is real interest or if you want to tell me I'm full of it :)

ps. Tabs for life.
Stopped reading at:

> "The ISP is just a dumb pipe to connect the user to a server, nothing more."

What OP means is:

> "Ideally, I would like the ISP to act as a dumb pipe..."

The reality is that ISP's can do whatever the heck they want, subject to the regulatory environment and the level of ignorance of their customers.

ISP's are a lot of things, "dumb" they are not.
Nice! Last time I looked, the set created for OpenStreetMap [1] was the only freely licensed icon set I could find, so it's nice to have more options. The OSM set is also not manually designed to be pixel-perfect at each size (the SVG form is canonical, and specific sizes rasterized from that).

[1] http://www.sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/introduction
From a research standpoint this data set is much less interesting than a bunch of students/faculty/bots/apps clicking and surfing their way around the whole Internets.
The title is deceptive—"The Business Roundtable" is just doing simple math, because the fundamental issue is demographic: people are living longer and having fewer children. In the next 30 years, it simply won't be economically feasible to support a huge number of old people if all of them retire or attempt to retire at 65.
IIR there is no database. Just files.
Microsoft charges to use Internet Explorer
For the first time in months I fired up my 360 to test the MS SmartGlass App. For those that don't know SmartGlass syncs your device with your 360, the feature I was interested in trying was the "remote" which turns your device into the 360 controller (it works...but not as cool as it sounds).

To my surprise I found Internet Explorer was finally released on the 360 so I downloaded the app. To my astonishment the App failed to launch because I do not have an Xbox Live Gold (paid) Account. Microsoft is really sick, its one thing to charge for the Gold Account for online game play and for access to certain content (even when your main competitor offers similar service for free), but to disable the web browser unless you have a paid account is really disgusting corporate behavior. In short, cost to use IE on 360 is $5 to $10 per month depending if you pay the year upfront or month to month - and it looks like it will be another couple months before I turn my 360 back on.

Can anyone think of another hardware manufacturer that creates a device that limits your access to the internet to only their browser, and then charges you a monthly fee before you can use the browser, even though your already paying third party service provider?
Paul from SoundCloud here. Definitely think about shipping a version that uses a web keyboard. The app is too good not to show off to everyone!

Also, got a video of your demo. I'll be posting a blog post on developers.soundcloud.com in the next couple of days. Great work!
But all of the intelligentsia are cynical, therefore, to appear to be part of it, one must be cynical. Constructive criticism is so passé.
How is this even a problem, when you can turn it off? It's under the following link: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&section=social...
$1000 per month for your servers seems really high. Where are you hosting this?
I remember reading this when it was published. I think whomever dumped it either had no idea what it contained or made sure it would never be traced. I am a bit curious to find out if they ever found out where it came from.

Since I have not heard anything I'm going to assume they never did, which is not surprising.
I took a train from Shanghai to Urumuqi once, took 2 and a half days; China is just freaking big.

Beijing Pyongyang is/was open to tourists at least a few years ago, they put you in a special car while everyone else gets off somewhere in Liaoning.
It is not. It can be turned off... https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&section=social...
"But Mr. Dotcom believes the site is fully compliant with laws globally."

Why is this his problem? Must any website now adhere to every country's laws, globally?

Or phrased differently, if the US objects to any content of a foreign website why is the onus is not on them to block said content?

Or maybe all US websites should be subjected to Iranian, Saudi Arabian, or Russian laws; with these nations requesting extraditions to stand trial.
Cracking Android Passwords: The Need for Speed
I'm not a CEO by any stretch of imagination and I want people to work till 70. I want to be able to work till 70 (from a physical standpoint). I mean, unless, everything becomes robotized, automated and we all get reverse taxes.
Yup, I was inspired to work and make money because of this.
The interesting thing is how he says "Airbnb, for example, sounds like a crazy idea" - when I heard about it I did not think about it as a "crazy idea". It sounded as a great idea - but hard to execute (hotels, regulations, fraud control, etc.).

But they were not doing one more social network, so it had to sound as a "crazy idea" for any VC.

It seems definition of "crazy idea" for VCs is "not doing the same thing as other startups are doing".
Here's the link: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&section=social...
Learn something new every day. I've always used Helvetica on all my web pages at the behest of my design co-worker. He's a print designer so it makes sense now.
I took it more as an absurd joke... I don't think he was seriously suggesting that someone would do this.
The proximity of populated areas of South Korea, and the touchiness of China over intervention in the area, are particular problems. If it weren't for those, the U.S. would probably have bombed the North at one point or another, especially once the nuclear tests gave a plausible excuse to do so. If anything there was a better argument for attacking North Korea than for its fellow "axis of evil" member Iraq (on either humanitarian or "WMD" grounds), but Iraq was a much easier target. It wasn't really for any lack of interest on the U.S.'s part: for a few years, very pro-intervention neoconservatives had a strong role in the Bush administration's defense policy, and they investigated North Korea options, but presumably couldn't arrive at one.
Kindle fire hd
It does have `std::async`, which is in the general direction of being close.
The interesting thing you'll find, as you continue to grow your capabilities, is that you can eek out more performance where you thought there wasn't any in the past. Keep up the learning and the great work.