skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have their home address, perhaps you could mail a plainly written letter to the account holders and let them know that their email addresses are incorrectly registered, and that they have every right to be upset with OnStar? Also, that they should correct their email address.

Beyond that, I can't really think of anything short of picking up the phone and biting the bullet on the costs.

Curious though, I thought toll free numbers were free internationally too - are they only free within the US, or are you concerned with per-minute outbound call fees or something else?
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Also based on resource cost, you're probably not laser cutting a highly figured maple slab...
We emailed them for permission to make a custom server a while back, and they said it was ok. We haven't contacted them specifically about the MMO yet though.
A Simple Minecraft Clone in Python
There's a valid philosophical objection here, and I found the article illuminating about the nature of Asm.js.

The strategy of making a static subset of a language that's easy to compile works great -- if it's targeted at humans! RPython, for example, means you can write the Python VM in Python, and the SmallTalk VM (or Squeak?) was written in SmallTalk using the same approach. The point is part of your code base is in this restricted language instead of C, and you can bootstrap that way.

If this language is just a compiler target and not meant to be particularly human-friendly (RPython has classes and mixins) then making it a weird subset of JavaScript is a little more dubious and without precedent that I can think of.
Well, I don't know what you really mean by "future proof". JavaScript will probably remain the lowest common denominator, for years to come, so from that perspective, there's no safer bet.

However, for people who want to have an edge, as developers, working in their language of choice is one sure way to get it.

There are many different developments to make that happen, like languages that compile to JavaScript, or binaries that run in the browser via NaCL; I think there's a lot of potential there.

... JavaScript was not a language designed with software engineering in mind; that much should be clear. If you can choose the proper language for the task at hand, instead of simply being forced into JS, you'll be ahead.
is this just marketing and twisted words or do you mean it?
world needs peace -> people love -> let them do what they love-> let's make an app for tiny businesses ... I don't get yet how this will bring peace
> decrease in convertible note deals

Why is that necessarily bad?
My main issue here is that people here "parallelism" and "a lot faster" they automatically think "scaling." But just hardware threading doesn't get us anywhere near that goal, even if we write our C-style multi-threaded code by hand very carefully.

The PL community is still not having honest up-to-date conversations about parallelism; they are about 20 years behind other fields.
Were up to $65 and around $11 in bitcoins.

If anyone else has an idea of how to raise money, we still need a bit more!
One less than perfect alternative is to use the Shift-c shortcut which will give you a compose window in a new window. Its not the same as your bookmarked compose view but it'll block most of your inbox. I'm with you though . . .
All algorithms are theorems. All theorems can be represented by unique numbers (Gödel numbers). In the abstract sense they exist at all, all numbers exist prior to their use. Therefore all algorithms are discoveries, not inventions.

Ok, this argument sounds clever at first but is actually trite, being excessively reductionist and ignoring that some intellectual creativity occurs in most discovery. Most obviously it motivates a better proper definition of the term "invention". Patentable inventions should always be applications of technology, not the technology itself.

The whole purpose of patents is to encourage more innovation that benefits economies as a whole, by granting a temporary monopoly to entities to benefit from the process and expense of invention. Standing to sue should be on that basis; transference of rights to another entity should not whitewash that socio-economic responsibility. Everyone with distate for the NPEs understands this.
Tinfoil hat time... Does anyone ever reverse gcc binaries to verify? I mean it seems that many eyeballs on the source code actually provides a negative effect to people examining the binaries, because why do it when the source is right there?
I use extension methods in a MonoTouch app for different purposes.

* adding useful hacks to Apple classes:

UIView FindTitleView (this UINavigationBar bar)
string GetDeviceName (this UIDevice device)

* keeping formatting consistent across the app:

string FormatViewCount (this Document doc)
string FormatCommentDate (this Comment comment)

* sometimes I really want to separate the class and some functions operating on its data, or providing useful helpers on top of this class:

string SuggestTitle (this Document doc)
Uri [] GetResources (this Document doc)

Because they live in different namespaces, I only see UIKit and formatting extensions in UI code, data analysis in business layer, and so on.
I don't think I would resign from a job because somebody from the company invited Techno Viking to dance at some party.

Feminists really should man up and stop crying over everything. One can't take them seriously.
Actually, assuming this is using only dollar bills, this is likely following the movement of poor humans. Credit and debit and large bills are typically in the hands of the middle to upper class.

To me this is an excellent map of how "trapped" people are in the situations they are in. The motility of the poor is something that has been restricted for thousands of years, and something we're supposed to be improving.

I understand this likely resembles a map of how far people will travel from major economic centres, but having grown up in an area of extremely high unemployment in the UK and having moved to an area of extremely low unemployment, making the poor willing to move has recognizable economic benefits. I know in Canada, where I now live, EI (unemployment) will pay moving expenses for someone to move to a lower unemployment area.
Thanks. I hadn't gotten around to learning about these yet, but this was a very nice read.
i would say it is discovered.
Same day shipping is not that hard to handle if you only sell what you hae in stock ready to ship. It is same day arrival that we all dream of, like we get with shops. With that shipping the same day is fine as long as it gets to the user quicker, they don't care if you shop the next day as long as it arrives the same. With that it is worth noting that shopping the same day just means it got processed and into collection and even then they could have hourly trucks and count that as dispatched.

Now as long as they provide a tracking number(AWB) or the like you can see the progress with, then that does help greatly. If you can even have GPS tracking the last part and notification when hour away or within 5 minutes, well that would be great.

So that is why I don't get too excited about same day shipping. It is the hubs inbetween and there cut-off times that divide up the day so you could ship at 11pm and miss the 10pm cutoff for the hub transit and have to wait until the next one at 10am. In that case for you it makes no difference if 11pm or 9am. Though anybody who has had tracking information will know how weird some routes can be and wonder why they sit for almost half a day at some locations. Then there are customs if different countries are involved and more fun.

For me better item tracking would win over same day dispatch. I'd take a 5 day delivery window over a 1 day one if it meant I could refine the delivery time to a hour and not AM/PM. Though that may just be me.
I'd imagine that you have some sort of spreadsheet to keep track of your predictions, both positive and negative.

I'm curious if your educated conclusion beats a random walk (similar to mutual fund managers for example)
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I feel like there was a time when gender politics wasn't so abrasive in computing. It wasn't healthy, but it didn't make you constantly feel mired in some swamp of unsolvable problems. I preferred the swamp of (un)solvable problems that is computing.
You know its bad when paying employees in bitcoin sounds more sane than using the local bank.
Kat, take this:

1.
Average WP audience is spammer, player, lousy useless blogger (80%) or wanabe affiliate for someone else.

2.
WP is a platform to support, but not a platform to be based on.

3.
Target people who sell stuff, not people who use wordpress.org blogs. Then % off sale starts to make sense. But then these people start not liking giving up % off their sales either.

4.
Whats your USP? My wife sells high end dog collars through ECWID. Make me an offer. Don't just be "Yet Another".
Be a "Wow!"

5.
You email is a win. Keep doing stuff this way and people and businesses will turn your way big time. Why? Because anyone else is ignored by everyone else. People (businesses) LOVE personal attention.
Let me suggest that this is an impossible problem to solve.

Here are our options:

1. Require a strict dress code for booth babes as to not offend anyone with scantily clad women. Result: we can't tell booth babes from technical females.

2. Require everyone working at the conference to be an active and knowledgable employee of the company which has purchase the booth space. Result: number of females on the show floor drops precipitously.

3. Require a 1:1 ratio of males to females. Result: booths are understaffed or companies don't even bother showing up.

4. Wait until ratio of males to females in the given industry is 1:1. Result: conferences cancelled.

If I was a female, and I'm not, I would be insulted that other females were trying to stop me from getting a job. I know a lot of girls who work as "booth babes" and they are busting their asses just as much as any of us are. It's not easy traveling around and standing all day long in uncomfortable shoes for pay that is slightly better than peanuts.
Mint Analytics has been around since 2005 [1], while the Mint finance software started in 2006 as 'MyMint' and bought the Mint.com domain name in 2007 [2].

[1] http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2005/06/13/overwhelming_re...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20070526095931/http://startupsqua...
Just knowing there is a preauth RCE in the code base buys you very, very little. Statistically speaking there are probably quite a few unexposed flaws right now in any compact, core linux distribution. The fact that no one yet knows what they are is precisely what prevents the exploitation. Security holes are numerous and the ones that have escaped detection generally continue to do so - the rate of co-discovery is very low in the field.

Warning ahead of time is thus often very useful - it allows the infrastructure to prepare to make the changes quickly. This is the same reason that folks like Microsoft consolidate most patches into standardized cycles.
I plan on open sourcing it and trying to foster a community of modding/contributions, but first I would like to clean up the code. Also, we want to figure out our business strategy.
Head-on collisions of proteins create mutations
We'll use this mailing list for anything interesting on the project, like open-sourcing it, even if it's not directly related to the MMO.
Task parallelism was something used to work on 20 years ago when we thought it was the solution to scaling. But then we found that the supercomputer people were right all along, that the only thing that really scales very well is data parallelism. So the focus in the last 5/10 years has been finding data parallel solutions to the problems we care about (say deep neural network training), and then mapping them to either a distributed pipeline (MapReduce) or GPU solution.

> It is within recent memory that if you wanted 20+ CPUs at your disposal, you'd have to build a cluster with explicit job management, topologically-optimized communications, and a fair amount of physical redundancy.

You are still thinking about concurrency, not parallelism. Yes, the cluster people had to think this way, they were interested in performance for processing many jobs; no the HPC people who needed performance never thought like this, they were only interested in the performance of one job.

> As many of the applications requiring low-end clusters tended to involve random numbers or floating point calculations, we also had the annoyance of minor discrepancies such as clock drift affecting the final output.

Part of the problem, I think, is that we've been confused for a long time. Our PHBs saw problems (say massive video frame processing) and saw solutions that were completely inappropriate for it (cluster computing). Its only recently that we've realized there are often other/better option (like running MapReduce on that cluster).
I've watched this, and it was pretty interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or_rksDBssw
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We've received a lot of great feedback already and even several pull requests. Speaking of, we want to express a emphatic "Thank you" to everyone who has submitted pull requests!

We're hoping to post a follow up in about a week with revised numbers based on the pull requests and any other suggested tweaks we have time to factor in. We're eager to see the outcome of the various changes.
Well, I'm logged in right now and there's no lag with many players. Try it.
Do you know how to distinguish attention from horndogging? Hint: attention is that which is paid to the subject of the conversation. If all you can remember afterwards is "bow chicka wow wow", you're doing it wrong.
Can Firefox Nightly be supported too? I couldn't tell if it worked.
Surely a one bedroom place is the least efficient way to live? Also, bear in mind most people live in couples, so if there's two of you, a combined income of $100,000 is very reasonable, and you should be able to live anywhere here.
Very interesting thesis. The more the ratings and demand dropped, the more news agencies have to sensationalize to compete with other options. However, in terms of the polarization of politics, I'd have to say that stems more from the concept of echo chambers. The polarization doesn't stem from the competition with cable, etc. A lot of it comes from individuals only consuming information and opinions of one side, which in turn pushes each group farther towards those positions.

edit: Another interesting comparison is how a news site like Hacker News (or even Reddit) reaches a decline in the content being provided. Reading the commenting/posting guidelines offers an interesting insight into how HN tries to prevent that decline from happening.
zero installation.
It's not too simplistic, you hit the nail on the head. My knee-jerk reaction to this post was to roll my eyes (mainly because of the title), because it seems like the OP is just stating the obvious - you have a lofty goal, and you reach that goal by breaking it down into bite size problems that you know how to solve.

It's easy to forget, though, that my job as a software developer is to solve small problems all day in order to tackle a larger problem, and that not everyone has this day-to-day experience. So outside of our tribe, this article may not be as 'common sensical' as I first presumed.
Ask HN: Why is someone scamming people with fake version of our website?
Hi folks,

So we discovered a few weeks back this total ripoff of our product website (https://www.everpix.com/) located at http://www.pixanyday.com/landing.html. As you can see, it's totally non-functional but can be potentially deceptive to average users.

It's all kind of funny except it seems to be used to scam people. We know of least 1 person who got charged on their credit card by this pixanyday pretending to be Everpix and then complained to us.

Of course, we're checking with our legal counsel what options are available, but I'm really interested in discovering what's the masterplan of whoever is behind this?

PS: My best theory so far is that it's used to test stolen credit card numbers. They charge a few bucks to them, and if it works, then know the card is valid. If the user notices the charge soon enough and visits the website, it seems legit (and cheap too) and then possibly thinks the spouse did it and leaves it at that.
He's a great read and self-promoter, and I mean that in the best sense of the world. That said, I would find an unauthorized biography interesting.
This might have come up on HN when it was released, but here it is anyway.

A minecraft server written in php.

edit: updated repo
https://github.com/shoghicp/PocketMine-MP
I'll add another one:

Email users stick around.

I've seen a lot of web companies fail because their retention sucked. Even users that absolutely love your products forget about you because they are being bombarded with noise from everyone else.
Thanks for your pull requests, knappador. We will try to get a revised post out in roughly a week or so with as many of the tweaks we've received (as pulls and tips) as we can muster.
That's not really good for the booth babes or the technical women. The booth babes all get thrown out of their depth repeatedly, while the technical women have to deal with every single conversation starting out by getting quizzed live to make sure they belong in the club, which sounds totally stressful.
Show HN: What about a Google Chrome Phone?
I would assume the main reason is to share Kindle books.
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Excellent article, but it needs a title change.[0]

[0]: At the time of writing the title is "US citizens to report BitCoin accounts over $10.000 to the IRS"
A Minecraft MMO? Would Mojang allow you to do that? Would Redstone still be categorized within the scope of a mod at that point?

Either way, I logged on for a bit, and there was no lag whatsoever with a ton of players online. Fascinating stuff.
This looks really interesting! I look forward to reading through it tonight.
How to not write Virtual Machines for Dynamic Languages [pdf]
> but MIMD is more easily applied. Almost any application can be refactored to spawn lightweight threads for many calculations without any explicit knowledge of the π-calculus.

MIMD hasn't been shown to scale, and its not locking that is the problem, but I/O and memory.

> To your point and for a well-understood example, make -j doesn't always result in faster compilations. It may if you have the ability to leverage imbalances in CPU and storage hierarchies, but you can also kill your performance with context switches (including disk seeking).

When Martin Odersky began pushing actors as a solution to Scala and multi-core, this was my immediate thought: the Scala compiler is slow, can this make it go faster? It was pretty obvious after some thought that the answer was no. But then we have no way yet of casting compilation as a data-parallel task (a point in favor of task parallelism, but it doesn't help us much).
Now that I WON'T remove. I am tired of this shit.
Not exactly a todo list, but what about Leanspecs? https://www.leanspecs.com
I like this one (discovered via Civilization):

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs." - Henry Ford
The building is the new server
Holy Shitsnacks! Did I really just read that? We can't fucking win.

Last year: Holy mother of God we have so many hookers at this event. This has to stop! Now!

This year: Holy mother of Dog... we have too many regular looking people. This has to stop. NOW!

I can't keep it all straight. I'm pretty sure the only solution is for everyone to wear the same colored body suit that masks all indications of gender, a mask to cover the face and an auto-tune device to cover the voice. And everyone will just have a number badge so names are not a hint. I guess we should probably have a different color suit for the non-technicals?
The headline is entirely speculation. The article itself is heavy on the ideology and light on facts.

Edit: The edited headline is STILL inaccurate. It's not a "law proposal". It's one tax lawyer's speculation.
But they aren't exactly targeting online shopping via Google. They are using established retailers that aren't exactly known for showing Google ads on their sites. So, I don't quite see how this fits.
> The problem of me not being the starting quarterback for the Patriots is not going to be solved by following this advice, sadly

i think the point is to apply it to things you know you can accomplish but don't know how or feel overwhelmed by.

flying to pluto is also impossible, let's not use this as a counterexample as to why you shouldn't start a company or change your car's alternator or build a bookshelf.
I would disagree on that. For their physical products they've actually had very good customer support - When I had questions about my Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 coming in I was able to get a support rep very quickly and have my questions answered. A friend of mine just had to send back his Nexus 4 and had the same result - Great service and a new phone sent within a day or two.

Obviously their track record for their online support is definitely subpar, but it will be interesting to see how this plays out in the physical field.

Although, I will admit - If their shopping experience is anything like that of the Nexus 4 launch this will be a laugh.
I volunteered for two above the intro one. Above and beyond prepping for interviews? Maybe... It is hard to say where one learns to think precisely and algorithmicly. (If algorithmicly isn't a word, it should be) Maybe it comes from logic classes. Maybe math. Maybe theory. Maybe even genetics. I do find that this type of precision carried me well in my career, well above and beyond just programming.
One of a couple of glaring examples today of how biased and emotion-driven DF is.
That explanation works for C# 3, but there have been two major releases since, which added relatively little to the language. They could have rounded out the LINQ-only stuff by now.
A song isn't an invention so you would have to copyright it not patent it.
> Science Based

How do the experimenters pull off double-blind trials?
It's definitely not "just a compiler target," not more than the assembly language in which people still write some code by hand when there's need for that. The real world example:

https://github.com/srijs/rusha

(see the benchmarks -- Firefox 21 uses asm.js) and the source

https://github.com/srijs/rusha/blob/master/rusha.js

I don't see that the code got ugly. The calculations needed are the same, the most obvious differences from the "non-asm.js" code is the "asm.js" and a few |0 marks. And some of such |0 constructs can improve speed even on the browsers which don't do full "asm.js". So the engines will get smarter by recognizing such constructs even without the full support of "asm.js" segments. It's a win-win already.
http://checkvist.com is great for this.
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>His awesome points:

Can we stop putting 'awesome' everywhere?
> In order to have individual rights, you have to be capable of understanding what individual rights are

That's ridiculous. That's like saying children or people with Down syndrome have no individual rights because they don't understand them.

On the contrary, since we have a superior intellect, we are capable of making moral judgements, and since we are capable, we are morally obliged to.

> The choice is clear: either humans are first, or they don't live distinctly human lives at all.

You have the right to live your life as you choose, of course, but not at the cost of destroying everything else. At some point, we need to consider the aggregate consequences of there being 6.9+ billion people all demanding to live "distinctly human lives". Unfortunately, for coming generations this idea may be a luxury.
I suppose thinking about it, as long as they're hashed and salted, it's less of a problem... but it's still crazy that the system could fail that way.