skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dont know, but somewhere i think it has an unethical side to it, and i mean donating money for charity as a whole.

Basically people buy themselves peace of conscience by donating a small amount of money that doesnt hurt them to feel good about helping somebody (yay, 2% of my yearly income saved a life!). Then go back to surfing the web on their made-in-china-under-miserable-working-conditions macbook pro. You get the idea, i am guilty of this myself.

I mean of course its a wonderful thing that somehow we can help these people and it has to be done (i do too), but we shouldnt forget that many of these sufferings are symptoms of our excessive lifestyle in the western world.
It's very pretty BTW. That was a genuine question, not meant to be disparaging :-)
> The concept of the public seeds is clever though

It's what all the other bitcoin gambling websites do. I can't hotlink it, but visit here[0] and click "verification" in the top right.

[0]: http://satoshidice.com/#
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we hear you.

however, historical payouts dont effect the veracity/authenticity and fairness of the game.

they are displayed to highlight some recent payouts more to establish initial credibility than anything else.
Andrew Mason Fired At Groupon (GRPN), His Exit Letter — Being Unordinary
When I first tried PyPy I got pretty bad slowdown as well. Apparently PyPy wasn't really good with long strings.
TED Video:Who Controls the world? Mathematical analysis
We build products for startups.  This is our process.
Champions of Regnumm, first free MMORPG for Linux (and Mac) on Steam
Stripe launches beta in the UK
I gave it a shot with 0.1 BTC. Funds were available to start using a few seconds after I sent them. Went up a bit, got a 10, decided to cash out. Funds can't be withdrawn until the initial transfer has been confirmed 6 times (standard w/ bitcoins).

Fun, simple. GJ.
Symfony 2.2.0 released
Movie Color Analysis - Part 1
More like: Jan 2015: Sales in masks skyrocket.
I'm with gandi, there's a few things I don't like but overall they've been super stable with very little headaches. I think in the 3+ years I've been with them I've had one slight issue that was dealt with in <24 hours.
The significant problem with long-lived domain registrations is not the price, but the potential that people tend to forget about the renewal date, move email address and credit card number over that 10 year period, and lose the domain when it comes to renewal time.

If you're talking "forever", or at least a lifetime, a 10 year cliff is a long time but not that long.

You could do things, like actually turn off the domain service after 9.5 years, giving people a 6 month retention reminder of the blunt sort, but there's not much clever that I can think of.
The question I still don't see answered is — are you proposing to charge based on the value you might deliver, or the value you actually deliver?

If Apple ask you to bid on creating the iPhone, how would value that? (The world hasn't seen an iPhone.) If you're capable of designing the iPhone and the best your competitor is capable of is creating a Galaxy, would the two bids be equal under the assumption of ideal value pricing?
Startups should spend more on marketing than engineering
Your use case is exactly what many of us Debian users have been doing for a long time. I use Unstable on my laptop and Stable (+ backports) on my VPS for those exact reasons.
In Firefox OS, the browser is the OS. It'd be like saying you can't replace Dalvik in Android.

It's not about replacing the browser, it's about being able to replace things that you should be able to. There is no good technical reason to not let people replace Safari on iOS.
if you're at all interested, I can't recommend (http://learnyouahaskell.com/) highly enough.
And do you think algorithms is a good subject to start this more theoretical CS learning?
I wonder if they do a cash/equity split for startups who are accepted to accelerators and may only have, say, $25k or so to last them 4 months and 3 people. $30k for a product isn't bad, but unfunded or bootstrapped startups will never be able to afford that.
Attn. John Gruber, I'll save you 3000+ words:

Shorter Tim Wu...

(1) Apple is the most successful and profitable company in the world today.

(2) Apple is one of the most closed companies in tech.

(3) Ergo closed is bad.
I more meant that a ruby program will be less predictable than a static XML file. Easier to reason about, mainly due to one being a list of dependencies, whereas the other is a turing machine.
I think my concern is that more of us should just follow the standards and build a minimal document for the users. Obviously, those of us that need efficiency should know what we are doing. But, just as the vast majority of programmers today have high zero understanding of cache impact on algorithm performance, the vast majority have little understanding how browsers do their thing.

Is it worth knowing for other purposes? Well, I think so. It is worth knowing just to know, if no other reason. And it is also worth knowing in the cases where you are building something highly specialized. However, when I see things like the template tag making it in to webkit, we are no longer treating it as a blackbox where we focus on inputs and outputs. Instead, a growing number are getting to muck around in the internals.

Is this bad? I honestly can not say. However, I do know that from my perspective web apps have not been getting more impressive. Nor do I feel I am missing something from them. Seems if folks want items that are as efficient as you are alluding to, you should be doing a native application.
What editor do you use? With vim I think I've always been able to select comments and "gq" them to autoformat them to whatever the linewidth is set to.
Hush, don't let the bad man's lies scare you. Lassie is still alive and she's with Santa's Little Helper in a doggie spa in the maldives.
Why delinquent student loans are the fuse on America’s next debt bomb
Ephemeral third ring of radiation makes appearance around Earth
R 2.15.3 Released
Stripe Launch UK Closed Beta
Immediately after the Morris worm hit, somebody posted a patch to edit the sendmail binary, to keep it from switching into debug mode, and that was to patch the "DEBUG" command by replacing the "D" with a null. It certainly stopped the worm, but at what cost?

Well in my usual day-to-day mailing list administration, I telnet'ed to sun.com 25 to validate some email addresses, and pressed return a couple time to clear out the telnet protocol negotiation characters. Then I EXPN'ed an email address, and it dumped out a shitload of debugging information!

Turns out that "patch" to sendmail just turned the "DEBUG" command into the "" command, which I had entered by pressing return a few times at the beginning of the session!

I reported it to postmaster@sun.com and they closed that particular hole. Lesson: Don't just blindly apply binary patches you see on the net to system programs, without thinking about them first.
nothing technically stops us but again i see payout history as a 'soft credibility booster'

the games are random and can be verified to be so. we publish the payout table. if you win we pay, if you lose, we don't.

other peoples historic results have no bearing on the authenticity of your game.
Uncopyright
source: http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz

or you can wait for it to be mirrored at a CRAN site
10 tips about responsive website design
It was more like "The Adolescence of P-1": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adolescence_of_P-1
http://javascriptweekly.com/ if you use javascript is a great way to end the work week for me.
stop calling it apps
Actually the gemspec is simply a Ruby DSL that is used to generating a YAML-based definition file.
Dear Apple, Amazon, Google: Here’s Why Chinese Consumers Hate Your Ecosystems
Have been waiting a long time for this :)

When announcing it onstage Patrick said anyone interested in participating in the beta should email him:

patrick [at] stripe [dot] com

I hope he's ready for the email deluge !
HoodieHQ, JS lib (with server component) to build full client side apps
Well parsing the vimrc might be too much as it would require a full compatibility layer and I highly doubt it'll ever happen. Using vanilla lighttable config wouldn't bother me, even if I have to rewrite most of it. It's a different editor after all.

But yeah, all the "vim" layers around are basically just the bindings, in normal and insert mode which just half of vim. If we can't change buffers with :b, :A or anything, it's just painful as a vim user. Same goes for what you listed.

I have great respect for the guys at code mirror, it's just that I view it as just a quick hack to add vim bindings that a real vim like solution. If LightTable advertises about being vim friendly, there should be an implementation that keeps the vim workflow, not just small bindings.

As a vim user, I'll just skip the "vim" mode if it's done like that (and sadly I'll stick to Vim even if I really crave for a modern "vim" with a decent scripting language).

Is there any plan to address that in the future ?
What Do Women Want? At Work, That Is...
How long did it take you to recover?
@paulirish FYI the link to CoreFoundation is invalid

http://developer.apple.com/corefoundation/%3Cbr%20/%3E
Yeah, security fixes are the one thing that prevents using testing for real world stuff.

Ubuntu is probably going to take care of this in their rolling model.
YAJ0: Yet Another Java Zero-Day
The Intellectual Gravity of Brilliant Baseball Players
Hi John

We do have partnership arrangements where a cash/equity split comes into play.
Our real strength comes in being able to iterate on a product, responding to market feedback and usage patterns to provide product direction. So, we often get to work with startups who have received funding and are looking to make the most of it.
Show HN: Should I modify an Learning Management System, or create from scratch
tl;dr :

Chose to modify moodle. Can be checked out at http://moodle.edupristine.com/demo.php

Please read the long answer on quora and comment.
This is one of the best things that's happened to the UK in the payment industry in years.
Have you seen: "The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hlkcq

Amazing stuff!
You're must be one of those people that likes to apply common sense and do what is easy.
may be related...?

I was part of the 'startup weekend' in raleigh last april. Our team came in 2nd out of 20 (actually, there was a 3 way tie for 2nd).

Most other teams had somewhere between 4 and 8 developers or related technical folks. Our team had 1 - me. I know other teams got mired in arguments about what version of Rails to use, which gems, and various other technical trivia, I had just me to answer to, and I got quite a lot done. Other teams got a lot done too, no doubt, but one person just hacking with some non-dev minds to bounce ideas off of was just as effective - perhaps moreso - than a team of developers.

At the halfway point we chatted with another team. I showed what we'd (I) had done, and one guy smirked some. He then showed their system - a mobile app that did XYZ, had some neat features, and was pretty far along. Someone on my team said "but we've only got one developer", and the guy changed his tune, and became visibly impressed in what I'd been able to build in... at that time, around 12 hours. They'd had a team of, I think, 6 devs.

The point is not that I'm some super coder, but that focused concentration and time blocks with a handful of people can get a lot done quickly.
Awesome. Here's hoping Denmark/Scandinavia is next.
It doesn't matter what path you take -- it is a long road to competence in any endeavor.

Without a foundation in CS theory, you are likely to fail to recognize the truly monumental blunders as they're taking shape.
Moderation is the key. If you attend hackathons often, it really has negative impact on your health, just like spending all weekend nights in a disco, drinking alcohol until morning also does (and allot more people do the latter).
Google have many more ventures and customers - but Apple make a lot more per customer; some estimates [1,2,3] estimate multiple hundreds of dollars per iphone and ipad sold. Google makes what, a few dollar a year in adsense revenue?

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/apple-makes-big-bucks-pro...
[2] http://gigaom.com/2010/02/01/apple-makes-at-least-200-per-ip...
[3] http://www.thestreet.com/story/11718458/1/heres-how-much-app...
The number zero wasn't itself the big thing, it was the introduction of a positional numeral system, which needs zero to represent quantity in a given position, so you can note numbers such as 101 to mean "one hundreds, zero tens, one ones")

Many cultures had at least a word for zero/nothing in the context of numbers, but didn't have a positional numeral system, and in many cases didn't have a numeral notation for it either.
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> I don't know about UK bribery laws

As of 2010, more or less the toughest in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bribery_Act_2010 (which has been criticised as going too far for effectively criminalising e.g. corporate hospitality).
Just curious, how this link was posted anew, since there was one on HN previously?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5293812
Ask HN: What should I call my game where you run a tech startup?
Suggestions please!

I'm developing a game where you start and run a tech startup (think Championship Manager meets ThemePark) but I've no idea what to call it - help me HN, you're my only hope!
Obama Administration: Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional In Prop
or are more likely to have grandkids at an earlier age
Interesting point. I wonder if you can flip that around and ask if there are any otherwise obvious inventions we don't have.
Isn't this how some browser recently started treating cookies? I believe so and makes sense to me as well.
I like corporations. I am the opposite of a leftist.

Please, use my stuff -- I want it widely used, especially in corporations.

Today, we do not think old school. FaceBook does not charge users a fee, like old school businesses. They make money in other ways.

God is just. That's all you really need to know in life.

Niggers don't know God is just and do crime and shit.

----

Having class is a real thing.

The Bible says it's an abomination when a slave becomes king.

GPL people are drunk on a sense of power.

They snicker to themselves, "Who should I let use this?" "Whine, and I laugh as I dance on your grave. No, you can't use it." "This person, I like, you can use it. "No, I don't like you. Na na (like a homo) you can't use it."

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I've been too worried by Google banning me to get an account. I send tongues and many think it is spam.

I got banned on reddit.

Youtube hasn't banned me yet, but gave me one strike.

Google values free speech. Reddit is low life scumbags.

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Bush said of people protesting outside. "That's democracy."

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Jesus found it futile to argue when He was judged.

There are Don Quixote reality distortion fields/enchantments.

You can be in the process of saving a soul, but God steps in, and ruins it. You just have to realize God has power to save souls and you cannot save someone if God doesn't want it.

Many times I almost save a soul and ... groan... as a distortion field springs up. I usually say "fuck-it. I'm lazy" Jesus was lazy--could have talked his way out.
It's 4am and I'm reading hacker news in the play yard.

I guess without kids it's be 4am and I'd be debugging something.

In only one of these scenarios am I not covered in vomit.

I'm hoping for one of those "what'll you remember later" moments, but right now I'm remembering a particularly nice day with gdb and otool -tv. Darling little otool!
I concur. The options in Denmark are at the moment pretty limited.
This is also possible using the FileWriter API (currently only supported by Chrome: http://caniuse.com/filesystem).

Oddly enough, Google Chrome prompts you to grant file system access, but doesn't explicitly tell you how much space is being asked for.
Technically, Debian unstable is close to what I want, but I don't want to be using something that comes with 'at your own risk' warnings day to day.

I think the expectation is the important thing: if an update breaks something, the response I want to see is 'sorry, we'll fix that ASAP and try to avoid doing it again'. I get the impression that Debian unstable (and to a lesser extent testing) is only intended for people who're willing to put up with things breaking often.
I like the idea, but I could not even see the menu! I had this annoying video overlaying the menu: http://pbrd.co/Z60dPK
It seems like it stuck in place.
Cool, I hope Switzerland won't be last. 7m people isn't interesting enough for many companies. :(
Perhaps look into small claims court? You shouldn't need a lawyer for that.
So what were your thoughts when comparing the films? Will part 2 have a discussion?
There are a lot of problems (not merely "quirks", but outright problems) with JavaScript that have absolutely nothing to do with past or present browser-based implementations. They're problems that are inherent to the language itself.

I'm talking about things like its extremely broken equality operators, its extremely broken array handling (especially the behavior of the length property), semicolon insertion, its broken scoping, its lack of support for proper class-based OO, its lack of support for proper namespacing and modularity, its lack of proper typing, and so forth.

These are far worse, and in many cases much stupider, than any problems we see with C, C++, Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Erlang, Perl, Haskell, Scheme and whatever other mainstream or semi-mainstream language you want to choose.

PHP is perhaps the only widely-used language that exhibits the same kind of idiocy when it comes to many core features. But at least it has been moving in the right direction, with its much more sensible support for OO and namespaces, for instance. We keep hearing about how ECMAScript 6 will finally bring at least some sensibility, but this is still very much up in the air.

It's incorrect to say that JavaScript is an "objectively good programming language". It's objectively terrible, and all of the evidence proves this very conclusively.
heh, it seems one has a trailing slash and the other doesn't. I knew the dupe detector could be tricked by a trailing #, but this is new to me.
Really good news. Can't wait to start taking payments by stripe for our "Stripe for Magento" extension, how about that for meta?
i guess because things like 888casino are not provably fair you just have to take their word for it that it really did come in as red 8 times in a row taking all your money, at least with provably fair you can see how red or black are determined and then confirmt hat you were not screwed becase you dropped a big bet on the table but you were screwed by random chance.
I had high hopes for perl 6. When the hoopla about versioning perl 5 came about I "remembered" perl 6 again and went on to read about its current state of development. My conclusion: it's a pharaonic project and these IT projects die more often than not :-( I'm afraid perl 6 is doomed...
Amazon SQS and SNS Announce 50% price drop for SQS
There's already a daily ISO of the development release, so I imagine that would carry on under a rolling release.
Americans Live Longer and Work Less
Not exactly. It means, you can check two things after you have played:

1. The random number was generated before you even started. So the house could not change the number depending on the actual bets.

2. Distribution of random numbers over time. E.g. if the rule is "win when uniformly random number 0..1 is greater than 0.5", then you can check the history of all random numbers played (at least with your bets, if you don't trust the house to show real bets for other players) and calculate the properties of actual distribution. If it does not contain a significant offset, then it's fair. (Small deviations can be seen simply as part of the fee.)
Now if whole music, movie and gaming industry could think like this:

"If people buy my ebook and then distribute it to 20 people, and each of those distributes it to 20 more, and those to 20 more … I’ve lost $76,000 in ebook revenues. Perhaps. That’s if you agree with the assumption that all those people would have bought the ebook if it hadn’t been freely distributed. I don’t buy that. In this example, thousands of people are reading my work (and learning about Zen Habits) who wouldn’t have otherwise. That’s good for any content creator. Also: I’ve made more money since releasing copyright, by far, than when I had copyright." -From the page.

Love his viewpoint about copyright and piracy.
can you clarify what was said above, are bitcoins held in the same way instawallet does?
What are developers bad at?
JavaScript Interactive — a console crash course
I have always enjoyed those Rollercoaster/ Zoo Tycoon gaming concepts - so I guess my first instinctive answer would be Startup Tycoon
Case Study: Halo 4 + Big Data + Analytics
I wonder if the Zero-MQ guys knows that the letter Ø is almost identical to the symbol Ø and that it is pronounced "uh".

To people not using these letters on a daily basis, I'm sure it looks cool, in a bork swedish chef way, but it probably doesn't internationalize very well.
Seeing how Switzerland isn't a member of the EU, I'd say don't get your hopes up anytime soon...
A fairer (in my opinion) comparison, with minimised jquery:

92629 jquery-1.9.1.min.js
32666 (35.26%) gzip -9
31691 (34.22%) zopfli with standard compress
31688 (34.20%) zopfli with max compress
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Mailed, thanks.

For the benefit of others in the UK, if you sign up right now, the only countries on Stripe.com are US and Canada; so this step is a necessary one.
The UK judiciary is famous for setting aside judgments when there's even a hint of the possibility of conflict of interest, certainly compared to other countries. E.g. the House of Lords in 2000 set aside its own ruling on the extradition of Pinochet ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinochet_(No._1) ) because one of the Judges was on the board of an arm of Amnesty International, who submitted an amicus brief in the case. Florian Mueller's 'lax British practices, this would never happen in the US' insinuation is amusingly ridiculous.
I looked at Restricted Boltzmann Machines for a while when searching for a topic for my master's thesis. One very interesting use is to train an RBM with animations, and then use it generatively to create new animations - Hinton and one of his students, Graham Taylor, wrote a paper about it (http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~hinton/csc2515/readings/nipsmocap... (PDF)). Imagine if it was expanded, so animators could train an RBM with a body of animation from a character, then simply specify "go from here to here" and the RBM would create an interstitial animation. Afaik a lot of animation work is just boilerplate like "line the character up so we can fire the sit down animation".
C's array and string handling is extremely compact and powerful in many ways. It does, however, require at least some understanding of pointers. But once you understand how it all works, you can do significant string manipulation with relatively little effort, while still retaining exceptional runtime performance and minimal memory usage.

That said, if you're the kind of person who doesn't understand pointers, there are numerous libraries out there that'll provide a variety of functions for working with arrays and strings more easily. C itself doesn't prevent you from using these alternate approach, but rather it enables them.