skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks -- helping with a Scala wrapper would be great. Only a few weeks left until the new API is out. I wish we got it right on the first release, but hey, better late than never (there was a lot we learned from the first version).
Clean, if generic, layout.

About the headline: I think it's too long. I suggest summing it up so it's more catchy. Don't make me go through a list of features on the headline. The blinking thing seems a bit distracting as well.

Congratulations for your effort, don't take the terseness of this feedback the wrong way.
I was more annoyed that he didn't see immigration as the answer. If we can't expect more immigrants from Mexico, we can still welcome millions from India and Africa.
Being just on an Android tablet and looking at it, I'm guessing this is coming somewhere with crapping out, with a payload of composing diacritics, Mac OS X's forced (and idiotic) Unicode normalisation to NFD. This is just me judging from seeing what I'm seeing. But that would also explain why only iOS and OS X are affected.

Theoretically, but almost certainly not practically, this could also be the beginning of a buffer overflow.
This is Drew with Memberful. Good question. Here's how we're different:

* Integrate with your Stripe account. You get to sell with a processor you love (Stripe) and we act as a nice layer on top of that. This means you don't ever have to worry about us touching card data or storing that type of information.

* We're not venture funded. We built a real business on this software (see http://thethemefoundry.com). We depend on it everyday. We plan to build this service the right way (even if it takes a little bit longer) and stick around for the long haul.

* Completely customizable. Memberful uses Liquid templates and a theme editor to give you total control over the checkout and account screens. You can tightly integrate the design with your own site (again see http://thethemefoundry.com) and customers will have a completely seamless experience.

* Recurring billing / subscriptions. Sell monthly or yearly subscriptions quickly and easily. Customers can view their account, update their card, cancel / renew their subscription, etc.

* Simple WordPress integration. We built a WordPress plugin to sit nicely on top of our API and provide point and click integration with WordPress. Customers are automatically signed in to your WordPress site and your products and subscriptions are synced up with WordPress and ready to use. Protect specific content or entire posts and pages.

* Use your own email service. We'll send emails for you by default, but you can use your own SMTP server or service (Postbox, Mandrill, etc.). Emails come directly from you, giving your customers an even more consistent brand experience.

Hopefully this helps. Happy to answer any other questions!
Year by year evolution of privacy on Facebook
You may never know - if it teaches you some things and makes you more productive, then what of it?
We intentionally aren't supporting any other payment gateways and have no current plans to change that.
> "the video says so itself"

The video says "all stages of design and build .. are complete".
Wonderful Life With the Elements Imagines the Periodic Table as People
Kelly Criterion exists to manage volatility and risk of ruin.

It says what size of bet to make, not whether or not to make a wager. This is no different from a startup, where you might take investment, pay yourself a salary, or sell shares to reduce your personal risk.

My original point was that yes, if you believe startups offer much better outcomes than a regular job for you, you really should do startups and ignore everyone telling you not to. However, if the startups you join fail over, and over, and over, and over, at some point you should stop and try to figure out if startups are really not a good idea for you. It may be that the startups you choose to join are bad, or it could be that only badly run startups would hire you, or it could just be a string of bad breaks. Pretending otherwise is pretty foolish.
Sure it's not a biography but the issue is that it will be perceived as such by regular movie goers. That's the power of Hollywood as a propaganda machine. People will be referencing events from the movie as if they were 100% accurate. They will make character judgements; and on the long run those judgements will transcend from the movie to reality.
Show HN: Youtube playlist to Spotify
The comment by btilly is ok as the mathematicians are trying to communicate in a highly efficient manner which is not the same as communicating with us mere mortals.
Thanks for your feedback! It was really important to me, =)
It's a shame. The truth of their relationship is entertaining and fascinating in itself. I suspect it would be even more so if Woz wasn't such a humble mensch and would rather be polite than talk trash. It's just a shame that he doesn't get more popular respect so that more people aspire to be like him...for every Jobs, we need someone as good as Woz
> Are they trying to convince their own people that the military is all-powerful?

Yes.
There is a Python ORM already (https://github.com/nviennot/nobrainer) but no Ruby one yet. I suspect it would be pretty easy to port Mongoid to rethink, so I wouldn't be surprised if a port pops up soon.

Thanks for your interest -- we'd really love to get everything out ASAP, but the team has limited resources and we have some more low-hanging fruit to take care of first.
The question is: "Why are women still wearing them?"

TFA talks about it a bit but, basically, it's sexier because of the curves it gives to the women wearing them (I apologize for being rude here but it gives them what many men consider a nicer looking ass). But IMHO it only started to make sense once women started to dress with fit/slim clothes. Which may be related what TFA mentions: that when they first started appearing regularly it was on nude or kinky postcards in the late 19th century.

Why do male like them, because, from TFA:

natural courting pose found amongst mammals, with an arched back and protruding buttocks
There are certainly cases where it is not permissible notwithstanding Safe Harbor. For some clients, data can't leave our country. We drill data protection into our people and encourage everyone to ensure everything they do with personal data is ethically and lawfully sound. That means asking questions.
Looks pretty good and works really smoothly! Still, I prefer the HN RSS feed and Mr. Reader. For some reason, I like to see what I've read already...
I'll be honest - I'm not terribly familiar with functional programming languages.
The Bro Java to native bridge
Yes, it's one thing to develop the industrial scale needed to field and effectively utilize aviation assets, it's another thing entirely to adapt and maintain that base as long as the U.S. has been able to.

Right now the U.S. has the institutional knowledge within the military, the industrial base to build craft, repair those craft, make custom tools/mods to those craft, well-trained and very experienced pilots, well-trained and very experienced aircrew, aircraft maintenance techs, etc.

The latter means that the U.S. has a ready base of available personnel to use as expert instructors, as policy makers (in and out of the military), to feed back into the industrial base, etc.

So it's not at all that other countries can't do it, but the investment needed to do so efficiently is just so massive nowadays.
Don't think that would be so great in practice.

* The IR part would be vulnerable to countermeasures ( flares etc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CH-46_Sea_Knight;_Flares.j... )

* The communication between the telescope and missile would be vulnerable to jamming.

* The communication between the telescope and missile would have to be very fast to make the missile catch up to fast manuring jets.

* If you IR telescopes would be space based they would be more expensive then jets, meaning you probably want have enough of them.

* All high altitude and space based weapon system are very vulnerable to a nuclear weapons. When a nuclear weapons is detonated in low earth orbit there are almost no atmospheric pressure to compress the explosion and little gravity to lower it. Instead the gravity will bend the explosion around the earth, radiating near earth space and high altitudes. Because of this just a single nuclear devise can take out must the world satellites and high altitude airplanes. (This is one of the reason last resort type nuclear weapons don't uses GPS/GLONASS/Galileo satellite navigation. Satellite navigation is amused to be destroyed early in a nuclear war). While a full nuclear war is not very likely, detonating a single nuclear devise like this maybe be more acceptable if attacked.

Fighter jets on the other hand is a proven and efficient weapon against other jets.
Show HN: Five in a Row Game (Tic tac Toe)
I am making a small game for Tic Tac Toe.
Hosted with one small server. Please play and let me know what you think so I can fix bugs and improve.
I use SSl to overcome transparent proxy issues when used with WebSocket. Please forgive the SSL warning as I use a test certificate now.
Supported browser: FF, Chrome, Safari or IE 10.
Yes - most projects we run are geographically distributed. So if you find a project where the team and you are passionate about each other then there is a lot of flexibility on which office you work out of.
Those are platforms rather than high heels. If you take away the thick sole (ie make it the same thickness as under the instep) and reduce the heel by the same amount, it's not that high relative to current norms.

Also, consider that while platforms were fashionable in the US during the disco era, this is a BBC article. They didn't catch on over in Europe at all. Thinking of 70s movies, I'm not sure that platforms were even that popular outside of the youth culture, and the disco culture at that, whereas high heels are ubiquitous among adult women of all ages except the very old who are unable to wear them in comfort.
Sure, because people have many kids as an economic strategy. If you believe you'll need your family to take care of you in your old age, you'll have more kids.

Of course, the reason why people don't believe they need their family's support in their old age has a lot to do with government spending on programs like social security - which requires a lot of younger taxpayers to sustain, taxpayers we're no longer producing.

Eventually something will give, since situations that can't continue forever won't. Our social safety net will weaken, and fertility will increase accordingly. I hope this happens smoothly, and not all at once.
Rakuten, Japan's 'Amazon,' launches U.S. brand, the former Buy.com
Are you familiar with Pierre Sprey's critique of the F-35, and if so, is he credible?
The nature of programming is that any consensus solution can be automated. That's a good thing.
Agreed with the cold water.

I boil em up. Drain the water. Use a spoon to lift one and run it under cold tap for a few seconds, then give it a good little whack to get it started and then just go for it.

If I hesitate it all goes wrong. Just have to believe that egg shell is coming off :) Run fingers all round it before it gets too hot to hold again.
I was there this summer. martinced's comment made me laugh out loud.

For martinced's information, about a third of the population of Argentina lives in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area which has a nice bright dot. Uruguay is not fine, it has almost nothing. I think you're confusing it with Brazil hahaha.

Of all the people I met in Argentina, if they didn't use twitter it was because they had better things to do. They all used facebook for example.

If you're going to glean any political ideology from this map, you should get off this anti-socialism fetish and look over at Africa...
What's exceptional is that the Institute for Justice http://www.ij.org took up Mr. Caswell's case pro-bono (after Caswell had spent $100k he'd borrowed to fight the case on his own). Standard legal procedure has the motel being taken possession of by the Govt., sold, and the proceeds being divided up amongst State and Federal law enforcement agencies. "Should the government win its case, it will sell off Caswell’s property and give the Tewksbury Police 80 percent of the take." http://www.wbur.org/2012/11/14/tewksbury-motel-owner-fights-...
Minecraft can suck hours away without even trying. That's all I'm saying. Foosball or ping pong fill that same void.
Sure. We had a number of Rails apps running in our production environment. The recent weeks have been a very stressful time. A critical Rails or Ruby related vuln is discovered, and then we have to make emergency changes to try avoid the app or server getting compromised.

Of course, given the large number of these critical issues, the business decided to pull and rewrite the apps based on input from the It Security team who described the current Ruby developer culture as being immature, ignorant of software engineering principles, unaware of secure coding, too enamoured with shiny/magic/convenience to care about longer-term implications in their design choices, thinking that constant band-aid fixes are the right way forward rather than acknowledge and fix poor design and implementation, and basically a liability for the company and it's data.
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Wages have not risen in proportion to the worker:retiree ratio, nor have revenues since things like payroll taxes are capped. Many productivity gains are the result of capital investment and automation and are thus captured by the employer.
Clay wrote a book about RubyMotion (a Ruby compiler for iOS), not a book that teaches OOP. His knowledge about polymorphism is not so relevant for this book (I think he "knows" what polymorphism is but he was genuinely amazed by the way you can use it for this particular case).
Variants of large scale Passive Radar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_radar
was supposed to beat first generation stealth.
I suppose it's a closely guarded secret if it still does for the more modern systems.
This also disrupts the standard tactics of taking out the radars first to let non stealthy planes follow.
Pivotal Tracker vs Asana
> You start to run out of letters and start using capitals and noncapitals, and even worse is that there are some "globals" that are not really variables but well-known constants.

Fair enough, but don't forget the Greek alphabet, both upper and lowercase. There are plenty of math notation issues, but a shortage of symbols isn't on the list. I don't think anyone in physics thinks multiple-character variables solves any real problems. Practitioners are more likely to craft a new symbol, like h-bar (ℏ) for the reduced Planck's Constant, at the point where ordinary h wasn't adequate:

ℏ = h / 2 π

> There really is no logical reason to do this, other than established practice.

I can think of one logical reason -- it works for people who don't think very much about the symbols because they're thinking about the math.

> Don't even get me started on the mathematician way of explaining things, where instead of explaining the concept and filling in the gaps, you take a 20 variable equation and start by describing all the variables one by one.

I won't try to excuse every example of this, but in physics, explaining each variable and constant is a very good way to approach an understanding of the equation as a whole.

> By the time you reach the end, you can't remember what the beginning did, so you have to go back and forth all the time.

That's temporary, it only lasts until real familiarity sets in, until the relationships become instinctive. It's like the old joke about prisoners who tell jokes by number.
So, let me see if I get their recommendations right: gut social security and medicare, gut education and build more roads? Brilliant.
I disagree. I had to parse the sentence three times to make all the pieces fit. :\
I think that the second most upvoted answer is right on spot: variables that a short lifespan should be shorter than the ones having a long lifespan.

Of course when you're working in a functional language you basically only have short lived "variables" (they're not even "variable" but whatever). Even better yet, in some languages you don't even need that many variables.

The recent voted article about the guy refactoring Java code to Clojure was precisely an example of that.

So why even have "variables" when you can very often do without!?
Looks nice, but slightly buggy

1. https://www.docracy.com/doc/versions?docId=0b0kbmmpoon

version 1 looks pretty wrong (https://www.docracy.com/0b0kbmmpoon/local-com-privacy-policy...).

Wayback has versions from Jan 15th and Jan 16th (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.local.com/privacy/) around the same time downloaded, and they look more normal.

2. Edit and download seems to pull the wrong version in some cases:

http://www.docracy.com/0xk2nizy6sk/fidelity-com-privacy-poli...

(It says version 1, displays version 1, Click edit and download, you get version 2)

3. The diff engine doesn't seem to try very hard in certain cases:

http://www.docracy.com/doc/diff?revisedId=0razhem25wh&or...

(The first paragraphs of these documents are a lot closer than it makes seem). It seems to have a bunch of stream alignment issues, which makes me think you are using a line based diff here, and post-processing the result.

Anyway, besides the above just found playing around, it looks otherwise nice.
Thanks -- I've opened an issue for the new build system https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/286 and posted this info. We'll try to take it into account as we develop the new one. Please comment if you have feedback/ideas!
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Variable name length should be inversely proportional to scope visibility. Names in complicated math should also be kept very short. I like to get the best of both worlds by renaming just before the formula:

var G = Physics.Gravitational_Constant;
var M1 = Physics.Mass_of_Earth;
var M2 = Simulation_Constants.Mass_of_Asteroid;
return (G * M1 * M2) / (r*r);
Design patterns are, admittedly, workarounds for language deficiencies, but the book is still recent because far more people program in Java and C# than Clojure.
And people in Silicon Valley look at me weird when I say the thing I want most is to leave SV, move back out to the country, and start a family.

Yuppies. Pfah.

Edit:

This subject dovetails into the thread about remote working (for me anyway). There are a few number of people that would like to work with me but if they're not willing to do so remotely (previously my main way to work) then it's no dice.

My freedom is the cost for my labor.
But you don't need endlessly growing population. If the fertility rate stays around 2.1 (IIRC) then eventually you end up with an equilibrium, where gains in lifespan can be offset by gradual increases in the retirement age. You don't need endless growth; if you look at the paper I linked to you'll see that they expect things to settle down to a steady state.

World population is expected to stabilize at around 9bn by 2050. The UN's millenium development goals are succeeding extremely well, eg a 50% drop in under-5 childhood mortality (from 12m/yr to 6m/yr) over the last 20 years. That sort of thing is a great constraint on fertility.
There are a few ways to deal with this issue -- contribute to the PHP protobuf library, or have an alternative layer on the server that accepts a more portable but less efficient serialization format. It's a little frustrating, but wouldn't be too difficult to solve.
> You mean a comment header like http://futureboy.us/frinkdata/units.txt? No matter how clear and detailed, there comes a point when nobody is likely to remember much of it.

Yes, but I'm not sure that's a very good example. There's a lot going on there -- things not really soluble using multiple-character variables.

> There is an upper limit to how much state we can stuff into our head.

Yep. It's why we have computers. :)

In case that seemed flip, consider this -- if I want to verify that I am using some program variable X in a consistent way, all I need to do is globally search for it and evaluate each case. Modern programming editors will happily list every instance of that variable's use, so I can make sure I'm being consistent. In such a case, a multiple-character variable would likely tend to obscure the issue and complicate the search.
Dude, every one of your posts on HN I've seen has been about how Ruby sucks and should be thrown away. Either you're a troll or you're a very angry and upset person. Either way, I feel sorry for you.
Used for a bit and appreciate the effort. Always felt the navigation wasn't a good fit because of the way it pulls up the pages (non full screen). I prefer just heading directly over to HN via my iPads browser.
It's not possible that Pidgin causes it directly: this private address range simply will not be routed. Moreover, my private networks use the 192.168.0.0/16 range. This 10.0.0.0/8 range could never have been from me. It also makes sense for Facebook, given the size of their internal network, to use the larger 10.0.0.0/8 range for internal addressing (though it'd make even more sense to use IPv6).

Perhaps Pidgin (or any xmpp chat client) triggers some event that does this, but I don't know what or why.
The neatest part of this article is where Woz talks about Aaron Sorkin's upcoming Steve Jobs film, which he is consulting on and says will "play out in three extended scenes, shot in real time, that depict Jobs at three product rollouts: the Macintosh, Jobs' non-Apple product NeXT, and the iPod."

Now that's something to look forward to.
I think GNU needs to re-launch. Not re-invent itself, or re-do things. Just re-launch.
> So why even have "variables" when you can very often do without!?

In many of those cases, as often as not, the problem of variable names is replaced by the problem of function names, and we're back to square one.
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Not really a criticism, but wow- that's a lot of orange!
Do you really come here just to flame people? That comment was so useless like you being here ..
I also did this several times initially.
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Unrelated to this article but more based on what I've read elsewhere - to me, this movie just doesn't seem very innovative, unlike the subject. It feels like the producers wanted to cram Steve's whole life into a one and a half hour film without any compromise. On the other hand, I love the idea of Aaron Sorkin's movie, with three scenes of Steve getting ready for important product announcements. I think that's a great compromise and much more in the spirit of Steve Jobs's work ethic.

Of course, I have not seen the movie, just basing this off of articles I've read :)
> I do wish that I could use a programming editor that could look like a TeX output on the screen though ...

For other readers (I suspect you already know this), Mathematica and Sage (and other environments) do a pretty good job of providing TeX-like feedback on what you've just typed in (but not keystroke-by-keystroke, which would be nice).

For those unfamiliar with Sage:

http://www.sagemath.org/

My Sage tutorial:

http://arachnoid.com/sage