skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is basically SOP at any reasonably large organization. The difference is that Github tells you about it.
Thanks. Some interesting links and an interesting approach.

Having looked (very briefly) into markaby, as far as I understand, the problem is still there to some extent though:

"When you call helper methods inside Markaby, the output from those methods will be output to the stream. This is incredibly handy, since most Rails helpers output HTML tags."
you already dont/wont have naked tld records because of local addressing: http://www/ becomes http://www.mydomain.com/ inside my os as directed by my dhcp server.
> I am sure there are also other similar examples fore mainstream languages

For Python, there's Genshi: http://genshi.edgewall.org/
Safari on OS X has some good mitigation a these days, such as running the web content in a separate sandboxed process, which Friefox does not do. I suspect attackers either failed to find or did not want to burn their WebProcess sandbox escape.
Thank you! I wish I've been more thorough when I was developing everything and keep a journal. The progression is very interesting. I do have older versions though, I may use them to illustrate some points in future blog posts (when I figure out how to setup a blog :)).
I don't play chess :(
kannada jocks
But that would kill all the cool/gimmicky sites that don't make any money (like zombo.com etc, not to mention all the world's blogs...!)
Jerry, of course it is unfair. But life is rarely fair. This is more about barriers than fairness. Being a woman in a male-dominated field is rough. There are a lot of barriers to overcome along the way. This grant is simply removing one barrier in that path. Has removing this barrier made the path fair now? Definitely not, the path is still very unfair to women. We have a long way to go, but like I said, life is rarely fair, we can only strive to try to make it fair along the way.
Yes, totally clear. Except that when the server is not available your game crashes. How is that any different from the game depending entirely on the servers being ON?

The game depends on the servers, either for DRM or for game saves. But when they are off-line, it doesn't matter the true reason for game crash.

The fact is - the game needs the servers being ON.
A retina display has to render 4x the pixels of a regular display, so the slowdown isn't too surprising. Same reason why drawing operations were actually faster on the iPhone 3GS than the 4 after the latter came out.
Django-fancy-cache - Django’s cache_page on steroids
What does that have to do with H.264?
Without checking the link, and assuming you are correct, I think Hacker School would be advised to make the grants from Etsy known, and leave it at that.

Make them known so that students who are accepted can apply to Etsy for the grants, but otherwise have little else to do with it. And that puts responsibility for the discrimination on Etsy.

And perhaps ask Etsy if they can't make their grants available to need based students regardless of sex and gender identification.

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Angst means fear or anxiety (anguish is its Latinate equivalent, and anxious, anxiety are of similar origin). The word angst was introduced into English from Danish angst via existentialist Søren Kierkegaard. It is used in English to describe an intense feeling of apprehension, anxiety, or inner turmoil.

I think it's prejudicial and bullshit to describe my protest against a sexist discriminatory grant as somehow an expression of angst.
The majority of HN won't like me for saying it .. but the major factor in NoSQLs "popularity" is not needing to learn SQL. Which is a crying shame, as it's one of the corner stones of computer science.
Installing an app is a lot less of an adoption hurdle than purchasing a new piece of expensive equipment and provisioning a new dedicated landline was back in the 1960's. Back then there were even some legal hurdles to connecting non telco owned equipment to the phone system.

C.f., today's social networks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#Telephone_transmission
Ask HN: how did you learn the command line?
Is there a great book or online tutorial for all things command line?
There is a clear hostility toward digital products. If a physical product that shows up a screen in the air (holoscreen) to Skype another person, all people would suddenly scream: OH, that's innovation. Yet Skyping through an LCD screen gives the same result.

If BMW or Tesla design a futuristic looking key for a car, we call that innovation and cool. But a nice designed interface, is just another interface.

If some scientists burn a whole lot of money* to analyze DNA data, we call that innovation and science. However, when app ABC tries to connect people and do some social work, we call that another social app and a Facebook clone.

Please stop the hostility. Creating a new API library or writing code that does something new is indeed "Innovation". It's certainly not getting to the moon, but it's still a very little bit of innovation.

The new Internet enabled me, from a small third-world country to create a sizable income (at least comparing to my country per capita), learn a "LOT" and build a viable business.

Internet put aside, I have no chance of making even $1000/year in my country. That, and the fact that I started from exactly nothing (family computer) is for me this decade "miracle". The innovation in payments, digital products, advertising... have improved access to wealth and mobility.

I guess, the problem of the majority of people is access to wealth. There is too much wealth around (look at the majority of jobs, they are about moving wealth and not creating it e.g. doctors, lawyers, gov., traders, brokers, middle men...).

Access to wealth will improve the life of the average person more than accessing the moon. The Internet offers an unmatched opportunity to access wealth.

Please innovate in HTML, JavaScript and Servers.

* I'm not nitpicking on data scientists or any body, just to give an example.
Absolutely fascinating write-up, and the demo is very nice. A quick question of if the code closed-source?
I think everyone on this thread would agree that people can pick winners, but some would argue that the government has been inefficient about picking those winners in the past. I personally think that there is a lack of scientifically literate people in our government, outside of Steven Chu, compared to the VC community who can pick winners.
Revolution in Mathematics: What Happened 100 Years Ago and Why It Matters [pdf]
I guessed twice as high, and the number of US air travellers you cited doesn't even account for foreign airlines flying in and out of US airports.

$8.1 billion is a lot of course, and I find the TSA to be a useless bunch, but compared to the defense budget, this is a steal. It's also providing work to 47,000 Transportation Security Officers, most of whom would otherwise be unemployed if the article is to be believed.
"Random control logic"
Oxymoron?

Is the control logic really random in some way? That sounds impossible. Or at least, very highly inefficient.
Fleksy + Leap Motion = Type in the air. Minority report style
Bulgaria, el fracaso de la economía de “libre mercado”
For shits and giggles, I snagged a vinyl rip of Simon and Garfunkle's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in 24-bit 96KHz FLAC format online, just to see what all the fuss was about. Some guys who do serious vinyl rips spare no expense, using pristine vinyl on high-end rigs, washing the disk before the first play, etc.. I don't pretend to understand all the jargon.

Now I obviously couldn't perform scientifically sound listening tests on my own. But I did do repeated back-to-back plays (of snippets and whole song) comparing the 16-bit 44.1 KHz FLAC rip I performed on my S&G's "Greatest Hits" CD to the 24-bit vinyl rip. And as skeptical as I was, the sound is a little warmer and seems to have more spacial volume (I'm no audiophile, so my terms are probably making people wince) on vinyl than on the CD. I am using a low-end $60 Sony head-set and all audio from my PC competes with background clicks and chirps from my built-in audio jack due to bad poor grounding in the motherboard (I assume).

I can think of 3 reasons the vinyl rip sounded better to me: 1) It is, in fact, a better sound; 2) The master used to produce the vinyl source was better than the one used for the CD I have; or 3) It's all in my head.

I mostly ruled out #3 because I snagged a few more 24-bit vinyl rips to see if they were any better then my CD sources, but I deleted them due to poor sound.

That all said, regardless of the technical details, I am quite fond of my new 24-bit 96KHz copy of "The Boxer". This song is amazing in its musical layering and depth, and the ever-so-slight improvements I personally hear from the new rip was well worth the bother.
Can you say anything more about this tendency to want to be "philosopher lords"?
What makes you say that Meteor does "endless polling"? It's reactive.
Javascript is our field-marshall
Thanks for the anecdote! I may actually consider it.
Basically, it's the internet equivalent of "You must be _this tall_ to ride".
Mixed declarations and code are absolutely essential in a modern C programming style. It's all very well to declare things like "your functions should be shorter" or "you shouldn't use temporary variables in macros", but it's just not practical in real world code. In fact, it's so impractical they amended the spec 14 years ago.

Then there are things like the portable integer types - which you decided aren't necessary because everyone is writing Win32 code (???), the designated initializers which I use every day to make my struct initializing code safe from changes in the struct itself, for loops, a consistent bool type ... heck, I could go on all day if you hadn't already dismissed the rest of the standard as "stuff that no one uses".

I really don't mean to come across as aggressive, but this kind of ignorant and dismissive attitude is so rampant in the tech scene at the moment. And it's getting us nowhere.
While you’re at SxSW, we’ll be working hard to get your customers.
Sprinkling the 'net on a bad business model doesn't magically make it a good one
The problem with "deterministic optimism" (other than the obvious silliness of attributing one mindset to the entire US), is that it doesn't change the nature of reality. You can invest more in certain areas and yield a return on that investment, but you can't reliably call your shots. Life doesn't work that way.

Nearly all of the fruits of government research have been as a result of "stochastic" investment (i.e. nearly everything done by the NIH and NSF and DARPA), or second-order effects from "deterministic" investment (e.g. the space program and velcro, or radar and military spending). Other than wars and (maybe, debatably) the space program, we have a pretty spotty record of saying "we're going to do $X amazing technological feat in $Y years", and then making that happen.

Where we have successfully called our shots (and I'm thinking mainly of the space program here), it's only happened after decades of stochastic progress got us to the point where a politician could reasonably say "let's go to the moon" without sounding like a lunatic, and have some realistic hope that it would happen during a four-year term. Politics, as a societal force, is not particularly forward-thinking.

If you're looking for something governmental to blame for lack of innovation, you don't need to assign the entire political system a mindset, or compose elaborate pseudo-philosophical lectures: you need only look at the number of science PhDs who can't work in their fields, or the declining number of smart kids who go into research. When you gut government (and industrial) research, you don't get any returns.
Indie games might still be around even then.
Any attempt to alleviate the gender inequality within the industry should be applauded, not derided. The current deficit of women programmers is because of our culture's discrimination against women who program. People in software development encouraging women to participate are simply fighting against this cultural discrimination. If you really flagged this post because you think the grant is unfair, I would advise you to rethink your philosophies.
AOL Keywords ;)
I don't think it's difficult to draw a line between a dude keeping a list of movies he watched and a "This domain may be for sale, meanwhile search for shoes and mortgages" clone page.

We shouldn't be afraid to call things out for what they are. The dude with the movie list is doing it because he enjoys it, so what if only a handful of people in the world ever read it. The clone squatter page on the other hand, provides nothing of interest to anyone and exists solely as a means to extort money.
Django SSL Server, a SSL-enabled development server for the Django Framework
This is the key to Bootstrap (or similar css frameworks). It's not intended to be a theme. If you want to just have the css/html ready for you to do some documentation or a project that has no need for any visual differentiation, then go ahead and use vanilla.

When used to build something that should be visibly unique, the visual design and appeal is something that should be created aside from bootstrap, maybe with the grid in mind, and delivered as mockups or pattern guides.
Yes, only here the "corruption pressure" is applied by the "free market", not by a bureaucracy. This vital detail pulls the rug from under those who claim that less government would decrease these distortions.
For what it's worth, in my experience the people talking about big innovation, actually ARE extremely supportive of genuine, plausible efforts at producing planetary scale improvements. In our case, we're trying to solve the economical energy storage problem (lightsail.com)

These folks put their money where their mouth is, and helped out greatly when we needed advice or funding or connections.

Particular people who helped us out and are known to publicly call for and support big innovation include:

Vinod Khosla, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Bruce Gibney, Patrick and John Collison, Michael Vassar, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Matthew Nordan, Nathan Myhrvold, Bill Gates

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By contrast, most of the other VC firms, and all of the banks, were much less receptive and we did not get anywhere with them.

So I think people are at least trying to act consistent with their philosophy. Generally, these folks will try to support great groups doing potentially great things, if there is good chemistry. They can't do it all, of course. There are not that many of them. But they try!

I think more of the blame should be on entrepreneurs and scientists who can and want to work in these areas but choose not to, and instead go into the hot software field of choice, or worse, undifferentiated finance. They should be encouraged to make some attempt at making the difference in the world that they want to see. It is not someone else's duty.

If you can do something important, and you have the resources to make a good attempt, you should try, because you may be in a very unique position to do so, and it's incredibly thin on the ground in many important areas.

There are incredibly few companies genuinely trying to make energy storage economical. There's only one, that I can tell, that's trying to make reusable orbit class rockets. There are very few trying to redefine personal computing. There are very few going after cures for cancer, broadly. There are very few effectively trying to make solar economical. There are very few well managed plug-in auto companies. There are very few trying to provide clean, low cost, distributed water. The list goes on.

People working on these major problems keep bumping into each other socially. It does not take long. The population of such entrepreneurs and innovators feels like that of a small high school. This scares me, because there are many, many problems to solve, and many reasons not inherent to the problem or solution that any one company or effort could fail.

There should be more efforts, more ideas, more entrepreneurs, more competitors. That would make me much happier, and feel much safer. At the moment, it feels like if the wrong few people are depressed, sick, or distracted, major world problems are just not getting solved, and the world is set back by as many days.

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I would welcome any hard data to the contrary.
Why a contractor?

I'm a contractor for two reasons: (1) money and (2) because I don't buy into the corporate PR. People who work in these places have to buy into the corporate values system.

I look at corporate values with great skepticism; perhaps I'm just cynical but in big companies it always seems to end up (in performance reviews) as being a way for the company to come back and justify why your bonus, increase, etc. will fall short of expectations this year.
I think the answer will be 'no' as solving a chess problem is a learned skill and not as innate as reading and understanding text and the time delta of comprehension between two similar text passages << time to solve chess problem distributed between users of low and high skill.
Whatever the python socket module supports, we can support.
I played with it more and the UI windows seem to make a huge difference, with them all open it drops to around ~25-30fps or so. I probably had only a couple open to get the original 40fps number. With all the windows closed on the air it actually gets right up to 60 fps. I'm leaving everything at the default settings, enabling 'flying mode' and just leaving it flying straight.

I also tried it on my 'mac' desktop with is an i7 920 @ 4.1Ghz with a nvidia 660Ti running OSX, also using chrome and with all windows open it only does ~40-45fps but pegs at 60fps again with them closed.

Resolution probably makes a big difference also, on both machines I have the chrome window 'maximized' but the desktop has 1920 x 1200 monitors vs the air's 1440 x 900 screen. I'm not sure how webgl handles retina resolutions, it's also possible the nvidia gpu isn't kicking in for some reason, assuming your on the 15" rmbp.
> The couple of times I've gone on Grindr, all I saw were things like: http://www.douchebagsofgrindr.com/ and http://www.reddit.com/r/lolgrindr

Isn't it like twitter in that regard? Sturgeon's Law is universal.
Awesome! I'm happy to go on at (much) further length about why it's so awesome and why you and any hacker absolutely should consider it.

Feel free to shoot me an email @gmail.com if you have any questions!
Apologies in advance if my comments below sound a bit harsh but I consider your arguments for using checked exceptions non-sense.

"It forces developers, who are often hurried, and who often make mistakes, to think about things that could go wrong, and deal with them"

Checked exceptions won't solve your problem here at all. If you need an instrument to force developers to think about things that could go wrong your team is screwed anyway.

"Much less time is spent reading and re-reading API documentation to make sure you've caught all the possible exceptions ..."

You are never ever going to catch all possible exceptions anyway (runtime exceptions and errors are still there even if you'd prefer to have checked exceptions only).

"Unchecked exceptions are a production run-time nightmare."

And you have to deal with them even if you use checked exceptions (again runtime exceptions and errors are still there). You have to have proper (unchecked) exception handling in the right places in your software.

Are you actually properly producing tests for your code before deployment-time ? Otherwise I would not get it why it would be nightmare.

"The best argument I've heard against checked exceptions is that they "bloat the code". It's true: checked exceptions requires more code.

Bloat causes development drag and makes the code more difficult to understand (more scrolling, jumping to different locations in the same file, etc.).

"But I'm writing code, not poetry."

I think you produce both.

I'd compare here checked exceptions to unchecked exceptions like what staticlly typed languages are to dynamically typed languages. And I've seen a lot of developers "loving" statically typed languages because the compiler tells them all their errors (at least they think so).
It's an NYT blog, not an article. And you probably mean 'disconcerting'.
Leading Neuroscientist Says Kurzweil Singularity Prediction A “Bunch Of Hot Air”
I need feedback for my website.
I have created s-crit.com and I do get some traffic. However it does not convert into sign ups. I posted a few links here on Hackernews, on reddit, and on some relevant websites, but the traffic does not convert well.

I understand that most people that come in are here to consume content, but on my website, at least in the beginning I need user generated content.
It would help a lot to know what i can improve or what I am overlooking or what makes no sense at all.

Please let me know what you think.

Thank you.
Sounds like this guy made a lot of money selling a business, and went on a shopping spree, then decided he did not need all of his crap. Not a cocaine, yachts, and hookers spree, but a bigger house than he needed, felt the need to hire someone to do his shopping, etc. A display in excess and lack of self control.

While likely well meaning the article comes across a bit preachy. The whole "stuff does not make you happy" things is getting to be a bit too trendy lately. Some people may indeed be happy basing their life in work, but not everyone is. Just because some people can't sanely manage the rewards of their own success, does not mean material things are somehow "bad".

I bought the equivalent of the turbo Volvo, not because I sold a company and suddenly was awash in cash, but because I kept my prior vehicle for 10+ years, and wanted to reward myself with something fun. I am 20 years into a tech career, and work too much at times - as a necessity, not an addiction - and felt I had earned something extra.

> "Does all this endless consumption result in measurably increased happiness?"

Only intelligent yet immature people who lack self control ask questions like this. Your income is the reward for your effort, and using or not using a portion of it to enjoy life is an individual question. I for one want to enjoy my time on Earth, and for me that means having some toys.
CDs use 44.1 kHz and 16 bits. There is just no way you can tell if it is anything better than that on earbuds, no matter the price.
"Work for hire" should be abolished, both in creative industries and in software.
Amazing. How long did this project take you?
I very similar view on advertising was expressed by David Copeland not to long ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832538
> I guess the idea here is to aggregate Circus events in a multiserver environment.

Yeah that's the basis for it. We're planning to add a cross-server feature, so a single CLI can handle processes across several boxes transparently

There's a branch but we've lacked of time to finish it yet. Soon I hope.
> depending on who you ask

Yeah. Personally, lens flare drives me nuts. It's like instagram - you can show me a perfect picture, but instead you're applying a can't-see-shit filter.
We can agree that it would be good to increase gender diversity in the industry. But you are making a leap without enough evidence to say that the reason it exists is because of "our culture's discrimination against women who program."
The right solution would be to get women interested in technology from an early age, not by raising the numbers artificially by creating a sexist scholarship.
Vinyl sounds better however I will admit that digital converters have become really good in the past 5-7 years. If I had the money and the space I would start buying vinyl again just because I find it more fun to mix then mp3's.
If you're new, start here: http://cli.learncodethehardway.org/book/