skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does get addictive. One of my earliest memories was doing assembly programming on MS-DOS 3.3, when I came across Ralf Brown's interrupt list.

My best result was a version of life that ran in about 100 bytes.
If you achieve said shrine, can you post photos?
If discussions had to add significant value, the world would be a very quiet place.

Noise can have social value. Half the comments on HN have little value on their own, but they create a sense of community, a sense of place and belonging. They're part of the identity of a platform. How many of us would care much about HN if it was just links and anonymous votes? There wouldn't be an "us" to begin with, and without an "us", who cares about HN?
The Government (prosecutors at State and Federal levels) but to the best of my knowledge the Courts have always upheld defendants reasonable expectation of privacy as to landlines in the home.

I suppose pay phones are landlines, but reasonable expectation of privacy is more complicated - originally courts upheld reasonable expectation of privacy when there was a phone booth, but not when the pay phone was in the open - this varies from state to state but I would not be surprised if this expectation of privacy has whittled away in the majority of states.
Easiest way to make money using a bot net: mine Bitcoins
If you're interested in these sorts of calculations then I can recommend this book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Bad-Are-Bananas-everything/dp/18...

I found it a really good read and to geek it off it's written by the brother of the inventor of the web.
>Pitch symbols are obvious, barely requiring memorization. There’s no need to count lines, and treble and bass clefs are the same.

First, why not just put A, B, etc inside the circle? That's easier than these hanging-chad symbols. But mainly, do musicians read music by translating the symbol (position) to a letter and then the letter to a fingering (for example)? I expect instead, they translate directly from the (relative) symbol (positions) to a fingering. That's what I did after just a few days while self-teaching piano.

>There are multiple cues to the same information. Everything has both a symbol and spatial element, for all kinds of thinkers.

Generally, I think this kind of redundancy is a bad thing. While programming computers, we usually agree that there should be one and only one clear way to accomplish base tasks in a language. When storing data, consistency is essential.
I've been giving the nightly builds a real shot at replacing the main browser I do my development in, but I've been sorely missing a shortcut to clear the console output, ie ⌘K in the webkit inspector. As far as I know, the only way to clear the console is either clicking "clear" or invoking clear(); in the console itself.
This is excessively literal and ignores the actual technical problems and circumstances in a global context related to ASCII and unicode. North Korea calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Does that mean South Korea is, necessarily, part of the DPRK, since that's what its acronym suggests?
It's going to grow hugely (at least as long as punters keep using bitcoin); there's an expectation that clients will switch away from using the full history sooner or later, and there are mechanisms prepared for remaining reasonably secure with shorter histories.
Here's an interesting (and controversial) proposal and discussion:

"Decentralised crime fighting using private set intersection protocols" - Mike Hearn

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=157130.0
Nerdy Strutting: How to Put Women Off the Tech Industry
pure unadultered hatred of.... clothes shopping websites?

I may be too nerdy for this, but how can anyone have such passionate feelings about how some web shop doesn't make you feel manly enough? It all makes the whole story feel terribly insincere and immature.
Can't you add another remote for it? One for GitHub and one for Heroku, then just push to both when you want to update.
Its amazing that this was done with a regular board. I would have to imagine with a longboard it would have been much easier.
I'm not seeing comments on Medium, although I did hear they were implementing a custom comments system. Do I have to register to see them?

If so, that's still not good...
It'd be neat if there was a way for people to highlight their 'finds'. You could then have a randomizer option similar to www.mapcrunch.com
This is deeply true, and one of the major underlying problems is that the shift toward non-tenure-track teaching positions is much more about cost cutting than it is about providing teaching opportunities to those who just weren't talented or hard-working enough to make tenure. It's a racket.
> We usually agree that there should be one and only one clear way to accomplish base tasks in a language.

You are obviously not a Ruby programmer. ;-)
How Entrepreneurs Can Push Through Procrastination
Apropos of nothing, I went to Business School with one of the girls listed as a "specialist wardrobe augmentation technician". Lovely person.
Your startup idea may not be douchebaggery, but that was.
That’s my line. It isn’t a balanced life, but historically, it gives me the best chance to succeed. And since I’m going for a home run, that’s the line I need to walk.

I guess the important question to answer is: why are you going for a "home run"?

Is it because your life-consuming ambition, the only way you'll ever feel accomplished, is by having a bank account with a LOT of digits in it?

Is it because you have a burning ambition to change the world in a massive way via technology, like Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg, and you just don't see any way to do it other than building a mega-company?

Or is it because you're letting your environment and peer pressure dictate that a home run is what you should want, even though what you really want is financial independence so you can spend more time reading books, travelling, and painting watercolours?
Computer Sales in Free Fall - Quarterly Shipments Drop 14%
And the alternative is to keep using ICE automobiles? Our very existence impacts the "environment". We're either using up a finite amount of oil, or a finite amount of materials to make electronics. This argument against electric cars makes no sense.

http://greenmonk.net/2010/01/07/what-if-we-create-a-better-w...
I think this is old news. Tenure as a whole likely costs the system more than it brings in intellectual freedom benefits. It's a fallacy to think that more experienced tenured teachers are better educators, when it's research success that got them tenure.

Jeff Selingo (http://www.jeffselingo.com/) writes extensively about how colleges are reacting to changes in demographics and technology. He doesn't think Yale or Harvard will need to change, but the public and private schools a tier below will need to. His book (http://www.amazon.com/College-Un-bound-Education-Students/dp...) is a good read for parents.
Shakespeare - A Tax Dodger?
>maybe skipping over over the really boring monotonous parts?

You mean the entire Midwest?
If you make PCs and you’re not Lenovo, you might be in trouble
I don't think this needed passionate feelings about web shopping to be immature. I use "douchebaggery" to refer to things colorfully in casual speech; I most certainly wouldn't use it while discussing my startups.

Granted, targeting different audiences means taking different approaches, but I don't see this hitting its stride with any of them.
Nemo propheta in patria: Italia protagonista del China International Boat show
The ISO-8859-1 ASCII-based character encoding contains an Ö, too. That's not even Unicode. It may not be in the first seven bits of the ASCII alphabet, but it's so widely implemented that not supporting it is just as ridiculous as not supporting the apostrophe.
Amen! Too many people have forgotten what it's like to code in anger. It's an important ability to have.
"But there’s different classes of success."

Two tips for life:

Never ever let anyone else define what success means to you.

Never be arrogant enough to attempt to define what success means for other people.
The startup in question is here: https://www.getbrandid.com/#/

And boy do I hate the copy:

SHOP. LIKE A MAN. Get someone else to do it.

Godspeed to these guys -- I agree that the mens' clothing space is definitely lacking -- but this seems like a bad alignment of marketing and target audience.
Airline pilot here, with experience with both systems, but not technical knowledge of the inner parts or how much they are capable. I have to leave right now, I´ll be expanding this comment a bit latter.

By now just tell you that both systems are capable of creating great troubles if they can be accessed as easily as he claims (and I think they are).
>but I want to say $21MM is the pool that the exchange has to puke to the "plaintiffs".

This is actually back in the news. And the value that the banks are looking to recover is closer to $500MM.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/UBS_unimpressed_with_Fa...
So to steal things you must steal their brains? This is how the zombie apocalypse starts...
Depends on what you mean by with the brown removed It isn't bleached white. It is like they sold white and brown potatoes at the store, where a white potato was a pealed brown potato. Just as with potatoes, apples and others, the nutrients as well as the harmful stuff tends to collect in the skin.
It loaded fine for me after a little while, but not every site can handle sudden and drastic influxes of traffic from places like HN.
I do hope regulators take into consideration the source of these complaints. Microsoft is investing a fortune on lobbying groups and PR campaigns attacking Google and this is just another cynical attempt to cripple their main competitor.

(Edit: not sure why this was down voted)
I do believe that the reaction to this will be to double down on the banning/shutting off electronic devices.
Trap Analysis 101 - Distil Networks
Is that a dot-com "personal shopper"? It's a legitimate career, I suppose, why the less relevant title?
Farmers have iPhones with no apps. Change it
FarmLogs is on a mission to invent the future of farming, and we are looking for someone to help lead our mobile team. Agriculture employs over 36% of the global workforce and we want you to build the first truly great mobile experience for it.

The average farm has vast amounts of underutilized data because they don’t have the software tools to help them analyze it. We provide incredibly intuitive ways for farmers to get all their data in one place, and then extract meaning from it. In the process of doing so, we can deliver innovative new approaches to boosting productivity on the farm, and we are able to gather mass amounts of statistics on the agricultural market.

If you can find a passion for bringing innovation to the industry that feeds the world and want to get in early at a YCombinator and VC backed startup, then this job is for you. Building for the world’s farmers isn't going to be easy, but we think you will love the challenge. You will be joining our team of 6 in Ann Arbor, MI, and as an early employee, you will be rewarded with equity on top of salary. If you aren't already in Ann Arbor, we are willing to cover relocation costs or consider remote work for the right person.

What we are looking for

Requirements:

-An in-depth knowledge of iOS development

-Experience with offline caching and synchronization

-A strong desire to constantly challenge yourself and learn

-Demonstrated ability to create clean, and, testable code.

-The experience to know when to throw that out the window and just hack ;)

Bonuses:

-Personal or professional work published in the app store

-Grew up on or have a connection to the farm

-Significant contributions to open source projects

-Proficiency with using git in a team environment

Farmers want modern tech. Help us deliver it by emailing Jobs@FarmLogs.com to join us.
This makes a lot more sense now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5530247
They keep saying they're not douchebags, but boy do they sound like them.
Don't forget --no-preserve-root
I'm from Belgrade, Serbia.
While it's true that a smart grid environment could provide additional benefits, the major benefit of electric cars is, and will continue to be, the increased energy efficiency on a personal level.

The biggest problem with renewables is that they're less convenient. Gas is an extremely convenient energy storage mechanism. You put it in a tank, and it stays in a more or less usable state for decades. We don't have usable batteries that do that yet (Edison NiFe batteries notwithstanding).
I think this may have been possible due to the purported Java exploit mentioned in the post:

"I then discovered that the site is loaded with a java script which, based on an initial analysis by my java programmer friend, is a 0 day java exploit with a cross site injection attack, which automatically started."
Without addressing the copyright issue--I think what we've been seeing out of WIPO recently, along with ACTA, etc, is really a vindication of conservative concerns decades ago about participating in these sorts of international frameworks. Congress may be a bunch of boobs, but at least they're our boobs, and a stupid law out of Congress is better than a stupid treaty out of some unelected international organization.
Comments sections improve blogs because they are a place where readers can point out errors in the parent article.

Sending an email or tweeting the correction is more difficult than making an anonymous comment, and would then need the author to both concede their mistake and take the time to correct the article. Until they do that, everyone who reads the article risks being misinformed.

I can see an argument that comment areas are less necessary on purely opinion blog posts like this one, but on technical blogs they are much more useful, and even on opinion posts I think giving space for dissent is probably a good general rule to follow. For example James Shakespeare seems to base his opinion on the belief that everyone has the same "blog reading algorithm", which I don't think is the case. If there were a comments section I'd post that suggestion, but because of the increased overhead/social investment needed to send an email or tweet I'm not going to bother, and he will probably never read that dissenting opinion.
I think of the headers which identify an oncoming comments section as the online equivalent of a bleached skeleton - a final warning to turn back.
You've have a point. But then, it's a bench mark and it would not be the first time that a bench is done using different settings than in production. Like I said, that lmdb is used in OpenLDAP doesn't automatically mean it is used with the exact same configuration as in the benchmark ;-) Nor did I say a memory store is bad, it's just you're not comparing the same things. Redis could be added to the bench for instance.
I signed up for GoDaddy $9.99/month hosting and after the first month this went up to $14.99 without notice.

What is worse, is I called GoDaddy b/c my website is so slow to load (see: www.ommageo.com) and I wanted to know if they could recommend one of their VPS that would run my website faster - instead they said they would look into my current hosting and openly admitted there was a known issue with the shared server I was currently using. I asked if they would take my domain off the "known server with problems" and they said no, so I asked for a discount since I am paying for a service they knew was defective and never notified me - the rep. said I would get a 15% discount but that is when my price jumped from 9.99/month the first month to 14.99/month for the past 3 months.
I think it would be lovely if we lived in a world where gender roles and stereotypes and all the things we're mainly trying to take out of the tech industry didn't exist but…Brandid absolutely nail their brand placement for their target audience.

If you're not that target audience - fine, but lots of men are.
> This shouldn't be a hard question to answer if the Bitcoin economy is indeed "currently undergoing" a deflationary spiral.

It's not happening, because there is no Bitcoin economy. Bitcoin is a trivial factor in the overall economy, not the dominant currency in any particular definable economy.
If you distribute jar files yes, there are however Java compilers that generate native code, if you are willing to pay for them.

Even Sun, nowadays Oracle, sells them as part of the Java SDK for embedded platforms.

That the JVM from Oracle, that most people think as the only way to run Java, does not offer that option out of the box, does not mean other vendors don't do it.
Awesome - thanks so much for sharing! Beautiful and useful - this is really going to come in handy for me!

Just FYI, the pagination on the search results page for http://pltts.me/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&hex=8eafa4 seems to be broken.
Why should you be the only one to keep on topic on an HN thread? :-)
KickBorn andriod app
I've been at the office until the wee hours of the morning.

I don't know how people can still write coherent code at that point. My mind starts tripping under its own weight at the four-five hour mark. I usually can't make it past 2 or 3 hours without a break. Those times when I was hacking away like I was doing something so important that the world just couldn't wait for it... well I'm pretty sure I was at that office so late simply fixing the stupid mistakes I was making just hours before because I was too bleary-eyed, tired, uncomfortable, and frustrated to be effectively working.

In a few years you may or may not realize that there's more to life and that you won't get your youth back.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on consumer services with non-traditional domains
We have a non-traditional domain (.at). When I'm talking to possible customers I often have to repeat "dot at" and then spell it out. I'm native so it's not an issue of them understanding me.

I'm hoping that this is just an issue because at this stage all of the communications are happening over the phone or in person. I'm just concerned that it will persist when people are telling their friends about it or worse, they just completely forget it (because it's not common).

What are your thoughts or experiences with non-traditional domain extensions on non-geek consumer services? Have you tried it? Did it work out? Did you change domain names or ride the wave of confusion?

For us, there is hope in that the .com is being squatted and maybe we'll be able to buy it eventually. On the flipside, the longer we wait and the more unintentional traffic we send them, the more the domain will be worth. Worse if they were to sell off to someone wanting to build a competitor.
How Open-Source Software Could Help Save Endangered Animals From Poachers
Anyone here use NSQ in production (https://github.com/bitly/nsq). If so what are your thoughts in comparison to the article?
Yeah. I too dislike shopping, and I could probably use someone with better taste than me picking out my clothes.

But I also do not enjoy contributing to the "hurr durr men are Neanderthals" meme. The messaging here seems to be the personal shopping equivalent of Axe.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/04/urgent-fix-for-zero-day-m...

Macs get it too.

Linux theoretically can get these problems, but because every Linux machine is different, the malware would have to be written to be cross-distribution. (ie: One may work in Debian, but not in Fedora / Red Hat... depending on how things work out).

Nonetheless, some people write viruses for Debian specifically:
http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?id=1.3.6.1...

It won't work on Red Hat, but the x86-specific 64-bit Debian was an attractive enough target for whoever wrote that one... I'm sure I can find a Red Hat Virus, Fedora Virus, Ubuntu virus, etc. etc. But they become increasingly rarer and rarer the fewer people use that specific distribution / OS.
Mackup keeps your dotfiles and app settings in sync using Dropbox
Your view of Iraq's military capabilities and of it's military potential in 2000 is badly wrong. Iraq, by 2000, was a shell of its former self militarily speaking. The sanctions, no fly zones, and complete domination of its military in the early 90s ensured this.

Saudi Arabia, after the first Gulf War, was not in any way threatened by Iraq. Saudi Arabia supported Iraq in its war with Iran.

It is most interesting that you point out Iraq's usage of mustard gas. Said usage occurred during the Iran/Iraq war. The usage was supported by the U.S. until it was applied to Iraqi Kurds. Then there was some moral posturing but the weapons, support, and money kept flowing to Iraq so that they could continue the fight with Iran.
> ...(there are no small electrical cars)...

Huh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_i-MiEV
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/2013-fiat-500-ev-featur...
It's a Bitcoin concept. It's where your actual bitcoins are stored.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Securing_your_wallet
Different fonts, right?
I was under the impression that rice in Uruguay is similarly lead-free, using water from the "Guaraní" aquifer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarani_Aquifer

I worry about the mushroom imports (I buy Chinese champignons and other stuff), maybe I should stop buying those.
I visited your web site and now I am a little full of hatred as well due to your record breaking stereotypical/conservative/sexist/gendered approach. I would like to know if there is a website that pays people (people of all gender identities) to choose clothes for you while it does not make you feel unwelcome due to the fact that you are not a "bro". (Why dont you make the girls choosing the clothes to have nude pictures as well, i am sure it would make the whole experience 12000% more manly!)
Interesting. American Airlines just purchased a bunch (33K) of Android phones to deploy to their flight crews.

http://www.talkandroid.com/153753-american-airlines-cto-talk...
I would rather see number of processes varied.
I think they are trying to call it a false positive. They happen from time to time.

I wouldn't try to convince someone else they had a false positive without positively identifying the files in question though.
I've played with this and am not getting anywhere near the -Xmx set for the JVM and producer flow control isn't kicking it. Load on this broker isn't very high either, 5k to 10k messages/day, all messages << 1KB.
Shouldiusephotoshopforwebdesign?
Questions Never to Ask a Candidate
"Also, I'm not 100% sure if that hibernation trick is actually possible, I've never really seen it on multi-boot systems and I wonder why, but from what I understand about hibernation (RAM gets saved to HD, restored next boot) the components are there?"

It is possible, I've done it. If you're on a multi-boot system with Linux and Windows, you can freely hibernate either and boot into the other, as long as they completely don't touch each other. Neither can even mount the disk images of the other, let alone start changing things, or you face effectively-guaranteed corruption. Be careful with shared SD cards too. (I had it so Linux would never auto-mount those anyhow, so it was OK.)

The biggest objection I'd have to your plan is mostly that you'd also need some sort of backup plan, I don't think USB sticks are generally designed to store thousands of dollars' worth of stuff on them.
My Nexus 4 arrives this week... :)
This counts as free fall? Somebody show these guys bitcoin.
Google adapts what is kosher to match unethical behavior, yes. "When they please" makes it sound far more arbitrary, disconnected, and unnecessary.
I know someone who just retired from a career of software development and is in his late sixtys. He has never stopped learning new tech and innovating on behalf of his employer. He, even in retirement, is well compensated, respected and sometimes even consulted.

Watching him, I think the key is being bright and choosing where you make your career carefully.
Maybe a better word would be hypocritical, given that it looks like the author submitted it to HN to ignite discussion. It makes me think of the Mango character from SNL.