skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
196! The key is to recognize that there are a limited number of words you type. The first one is always "drop", and then it seems to randomly choose from "harmony", "eternal", "gnostic", "clean", "universe", "fractal", etc. Once you play enough times, you'll start to recognize the words before they fully appear.

Also, try to press enter every 4 words for the biggest bonus possible. If you've gotten a lot of short words recently, you can probably enter 5 words before encountering the overflow error.
Site will be going live tomorrow with retraction executions. Care to take another look and let me know what you think http://go.rtrt.co/
Hey thanks for the suggestion. I was also thinking of doing something along those lines. However, dont have enough content presently. Some kind of sentiment analysis would be useful.
Ah this one actually works. Thanks. I just wasted a good hour placing the nicks of every one in the irc channel I frequent into jpg.to. Hilarity ensued. Productivity diminished.
From the research I've read, that seems unlikely.

This study was unable to detect any environmental contamination from nicotine: http://clearstream.flavourart.it/site/wp-content/uploads/201...

"Among all, the most interesting aspects we observed was that nicotine was not detected in air during the e-smoking session, although liquids used for experiments contained it. On the other hand, 34µg/m^3 of nicotine were found during the smoking session."

I remember another study I'm having trouble finding that was able to detect some nicotine in the exhaled vapor using a different method (capturing exhaled vapor in a glass chamber), but at an extremely low concentration. Nothing I've found leads me to believe secondhand nicotine exposure from e-cigarettes is a significant hazard.
Language is a doable barrier to overcome, and so is harmonizing various regions on a regulation level. Remember that in Europe those cultural differences exist within countries and have for centuries. Hell, Brussels itself symbolize that.

If you think they don't easily move from country to country, I suggest you visit London, Amsterdam or Berlin.

Harmonization is a political issue, and what hampers it is selfish and corrupt politicians.

Making it a cultural issue is dangerous nonsense. An average Greek would be quite happy to live under German style regulations, if he could trusts the authorities to play by the rules. Ordinary people and their cultural differences are not the problem.
"Web-based"

"install now!"

No. Stop it.
Here's the twist for me: Can I design my own?

I've been reading some books on embedded design or making your own PCBs and they had tutorials in eagle.

I took digital electronics courses and...is doing a schematic really as easy now for SoC design as it was for putting TTL chips on a breadboard? There's the routing that needs to be done, and I am SO SERIOUS about doing this, I will buy the full version of Eagle (Orcad is $10,000 or so).

I still feel like I don't know what to do, though.
Wildfire.py - Self-modifying Python bytecode
I'd be interested to see an anime category (it's pretty much all I watch nowadays :/)
True. Americans can't understand it without traveling and living abroad.

It is very easy for them to make business.

Also, lot of people here are in "paro" subsidy earning 400euros a month and working in the black, 600 or 700 euros. There are also lots of other subsidies like PER witch is part of the "social net" that make Social Security so expensive(a millennial is earning more than 2000euros before taxes make it 1000).

If they report they are working, they lose the subsidy.
Nicotine is not a carcinogen, i.e. nicotine does not promote cancer growth. The carcinogen in cigarettes is the "tar", which is absent from E-cigarettes.
In 2007, at the peak of the property boom, I was working in Barcelona as video games programmer earning around 1700€/month after tax.

I felt lucky since most people I knew there ( including other programmers ) earned around 1000€ per month.
But I couldn't understand how the economy functioned when highly educated people working in Barcelona earned so little in comparison to living costs and still property prices kept on rising at double digit percentages.

Then I met a young guy who worked on building sites mixing cement and laying bricks. He said he loved to play videogames and he wanted to be a tester. When I told him how much I was paid he looked at me in disbelief and said he got 2500€/month and that I should man up and demand more or quit.

I guess in his trade at the time you could do that...
They spent the last ten years building houses no one wants now and creating a property bubble. It wasn't deficit spending it was just excess borrowing. Sure it created jobs for a bit but then they went away just leaving a lot of debt. Somehow you need to actually build a sustainable economy.
Politically-Okay discrimination against a cultural group not ones own.

I would say that the OP is one of the very serious reasons for the problems in Spain : that he considers 'a fucking cani' does not deserve 1200 euro's a month.

Socially inbred discrimination against other workers/classes in ones society are a key cause of economic disaster. Since there are whole classes of society who don't 'deserve' what they get all over the place ..
i know, http://hnshowcase.com 's provides more info than what i have done.
but, i wanted to build it anyway as i have been a thinker and not a doer for a long time. :)
> Being backed by a large company that isn't going away anytime soon makes Parse a viable option for larger businesses

...except that's not the case at all. Look at face.com - once they were acquired by Facebook they all but shut down their API several months later.

I'm not suggesting this will happen with Parse - but it's naive to think that being acquired by someone means existing customers are even more secure than they were before.
It is the American in you; both Spain and Greece are known for agriculture and tourism. You won't see them advertise in the USA because they have plenty of people closer by to sell to.

Spain exports plenty of citrus fruits, wine, and olive oil and also somewhat is the Florida of the EU in that elderly people move there after retirement.

Greece is a bit similar. It has plenty of tourism, and exports wine and olive oil. It also has attractive rules for merchant shipping (Wikipedia claims the Greek merchant shipping fleet is the largest in the world).
Pity they make such awful coffee.
Nope. all those "reforms" were cosmetics. As long as public workers cannot be fired -which they cannot be, de facto (show me one)- there is NO reform in Spain. Really.

And firing people is as expensive as it used to be, more or less. This govt has done really nothing relevant in this area.
Is this a joke? I remember this kind of application has been available for android since the G1, in fact when Google hosted some app contest to have some apps available on the launch of android one of the winners was that kind. That was 2008: https://developers.google.com/android/adc/adc_gallery/
All I see is a white page...
Unity has an Google Native Client target which runs on Linux Chrome. They also recently got Unity compiling to asm.js, so as soon as that's more widely supported, Unity will be "web-based" in the more ideal sense.
Ever played a shmup (e.g. Gradius, Touhou)?
Exactly. I'm in that boat.

I had heard of Parse via Hacker News, but didn't ever pay attention to what they did. After the news of the purchase I looked at their offering and said, "This is exactly what I need for my next project."
and also, the user has to send the cleartext (unhashed) password to the website to login every time, in which case it can be intercepted.

Whereas with public key authentication you don't send the private key, you 'prove' that you have it by performing a challenge typically.
Do you have any evidence that e-cigarettes harm people around their users? The few studies I've seen seem very positive.

Not that I mind if their use indoors is banned… but I find this claim interesting because it contradicts the (admittedly little) evidence I've seen.
Well, there is always the html5 <keygen> tag?

http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/keygen.html

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Element/keygen
All the best science is.

Sadly, most of the worst pseudo-science is too, which makes it largely useless as an indicator.

Ah well.
> I hear you can actually run Linux on it if you put some effort in

Some time ago there was someone who decided to hook a RAM chip up to an 8-bit micro-controller---like one of the ones in the various Arduino models---so that they could run Ubuntu on it. Their write-up (http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=07.%20Linu...) is actually quite interesting, though watching it boot is less so ;)
Not sure how the title has anything to do with Atlas Shrugged or John Galt rallying the world's thought-leaders and getting them all to take their respective balls and go home.
same here. Tried using both chrome + firefox on xubuntu 12.04...
"Web-based [...] using Unity3D"

If you didn't have a Flash player and the game was made in Flash (surely that would meet one's expectations for a "web-based game", or at least until very recently) and you didn't have a Flash plugin, would you complain as well?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine#Toxicology

Indirectly, nicotine increases cholinergic signalling (and adrenergic signalling in the case of colon cancer[77]), thereby impeding apoptosis (programmed cell death), promoting tumor growth, and activating growth factors and cellular mitogenic factors such as 5-LOX, and EGF. Nicotine also promotes cancer growth by stimulating angiogenesis and neovascularization.[78][79] In one study, nicotine administered to mice with tumors caused increases in tumor size (twofold increase), metastasis (nine-fold increase), and tumor recurrence (threefold increase).[80]

It may not cause cancer directly, but it does sound pretty toxic and does help cancer growth. There might be a "safe" upper limit at which inhaling secondary smoke from e-cigarettes would have an insignificant impact, but we need more studios.
Because I don't want to develop a program for a VM. I want to run it on my OS.
If Internet access and a power outlet are what you need, pretty much any café or restaurant in any developed or developing country can take care of your needs these days.
Language Perils: The Joy of Joy
More than coffee; tax evasion too!
Except he was wrong and well managed austerity does work. When it's actually employed. Cutting government 1%, or holding spending the same, is not austerity.

The ideas of Keynes are responsible for the last decade of economic disaster around the planet.

Austerity has been proven to work over and over again.

Just ask Sweden, they're a proof case that managed austerity works exceptionally well.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-06/booming-sweden-s-fr...

Or ask Latvia, a recent case of successful austerity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/02/world/europe/used-to-hards...

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100558455

However, Latvia employed REAL austerity. They cut deep. Not the slow motion - we don't really want to cut anything - train wreck that people like Krugman are claiming is austerity (see: Greece or Spain).

Over the last 30 years China has radically reduced its public to private spending ratio. It has been one long managed austerity process. No surprise it has boomed accordingly as private capital was left free to be invested to actually grow the economy, which is not something consumption based Keynesian policies can accomplish.

Most government spending doesn't create wealth, sustainable jobs, and it doesn't produce anything. It's consumption paid for by production. The more you tip the balance toward government consumption, the more disastrous the consequences. Greece, Italy, France, the US, Portugal, Spain, Japan, Britain, etc. are all obvious examples of following Keynes policies the last few decades. It has led to destruction.
I like Opa (http://opalang.org/)
Camping in Epping Forest - Walks And Walking
I wasn't comparing them, I was responding to the OP.

I own radio stations and I have insight into the fees paid by radio stations for licensing.

And of course I can compare them.
The guy in this video is actually Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln) starring as Obama.
You ought to try out adwords. You can reach millions of people looking for a job. Test out dozens of catchy phrases.
And see what keywords are driving a positive ROI. You might want to also do some display advertising to drive traffic; the clicks are cheaper, but the conversion rates can be lower.
This could be said for McDonalds, Coke, or any other brand you personally prefer, or are looking for. The most fun, i've found, are youtube videos showing americans living abroad and finding american food in the ethnic food sections [0][1].

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywCX6znxUWQ

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmmZ6q8vjeU
> But that requires sites to not be bozos, to deal with a more complex cryptosystem. If we could achieve that then we could just get them to do the damn hashing right.

Not quite.

If a site gets the damn hashing wrong, a successful attack means that your password is now open on the streets.

If a site gets asymmetric crypto wrong, a successful attack means that particular account/site is now compromised, but your pk is still completely private, because you never send it over the network in the first place, bozo site or not. (now if the client is a bozo and allows the pk to be sent across the network, then yes ..)
There are only two of us, and in UK prices, 5 large apples is £1, you get 3lb to 4lb potatoes for another £1. Bananas £1 'a bowl' (about 5 large ones). Cabbages (savoy) two for £1 when in season, or broccoli. A few courgettes, peppers, and an Aubergine another £1.50. Carrots/parsnips whatever in season £1. Tomatoes £1 a bowl and OK I'm over budget. Add in rice, pasta, tinned tomatoes for cooking, tinned pulses, cheese &c bread and wine and we eat ok.

The market is significantly cheaper than the local supermarkets in Birmingham, I suspect because of proximity to the main wholesale market for the region and because the stuff might be 'grade 2', i.e. not pristine looking and all the same size. This is not a farmers' market (in the UK farmers' markets tend to have organically grown or very high quality produce from specialist growers sold direct). It does have organic stalls (I buy kale and lovely onions from one of them sometimes, but they are more expensive).

I'm a teacher on good hourly rate but currently working half time for family reasons so I am watching the budget a little.

PS: I can't edit my original post any more. I meant of course that I agreed with user fpp's point that it is unreasonable to expect people to live on emergency budgets for long periods of time.
Show HN: While waiting for connecting flight, made this JS game
TLDR; http://veerasundar.com/rock-paper-scissor-lizard-spoc/

Today I had to wait at Singapore Airport for my connecting flight to Chennai. So, used the time to make this little JavaScript game in ~3 hours.

Here's the source code: https://github.com/vraa/rpsls (of course, lot of cleaning to do :) )
There are a lot of comments touting using public keys for this.

So, you have one laptop and one mobile phone. How do you set up your "password" on both? Assume you're not "technical".

Next: your car (or apartment, etc.) is robbed. You lose both devices. OR: water damage. Whatever. You're away from home with one device, and its battery dies, wifi fails, whatever.

No worries, your brother/friend/colleague lends you a device. But... you're locked out of EVERYTHING on that device. All of your accounts require your public key, and you obviously don't have that at an internet cafe, or even at your brother's house, on a computer you're comfortable is safe.
A - You sometimes get a whiff of the smell. 90%+ of the time a nonsmoker is going to like the smell because people vape things like cake and fruit flavors. Even smells people might find objectionable dissipate quickly. The stench doesn't hang on the users' clothing at all like regular cigarettes. I'm not sure what sort of situation you would have to be in to be bothered...

B - Got some proof that secondhand vapor causes harm? Here is reference to a published indoor air quality study showing:

"Comparisons of pollutant concentrations were made between e-cigarette vapor and tobacco smoke samples. Pollutants included VOCs, carbonyls, PAHs, nicotine, TSNAs, and glycols. From these results, risk analyses were conducted based on dilution into a 40 m3 room and standard toxicological data. Non-cancer risk analysis revealed “No Significant Risk” of harm to human health for vapor samples from e-liquids (A-D). In contrast, for tobacco smoke most findings markedly exceeded risk limits indicating a condition of “Significant Risk” of harm to human health. With regard to cancer risk analysis, no vapor sample from e-liquids A-D exceeded the risk limit for either children or adults. The tobacco smoke sample approached the risk limits for adult exposure."

http://www.ivaqs.com/

There's more and more very positive research all the time. Ecig users shouldn't have to prove that it is 100% safe. It is pretty clearly far safer than smoking and a great benefit to the health of people who are unable or unwilling to quit.

C - "that very well may result in an increase of smoking."

Pure speculation on your part.
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Python. I use it for making web applications with Google App Engine and Django.
I'm aware of it and went down that route. I couldn't get cabal to use the library. I tried for at least 3 days.
McDonalds, More Than Fries

Duh. This is what the franchising is all about - providing consistent branded experience across all outlets. And, yes, one of the prime benefits is that it provides a sense of familiarity regardless of location.

(edit) Another take on the title though - Starbucks main problem is that it does in fact try to be more than coffee. I really wish they weren't publicly traded and didn't have the pressure of growing revenues. I was a loyal customer for several years (2 visits per workday, $10 a pop), but then they started venturing in movie promotion (remember the "Spelling bee" bullshit printed all over the cups?), then they decided that Copehangen danishes were less preferable than overpriced ready-made paninis, after that - low-cal mystery-ingredient polymer-based sweets took over a quarter of the pastry space. Then, finally, they dropped Coffee from the name in preparation for being much more than coffee, i.e. booze. It went downhill so rapidly that it was painful to see. It used to be a nice place with an ugly logotype to visit, but now it's just the logotype.
"How does declaring bankruptcy help creating more jobs?"

Iceland is the answer. Jobs are recovering superfast after they declared bankruptcy.

You start over again. You face your problems, instead of delaying it. There is a sense of relief when the storm is over and you survived. When all lies are clear by the (horrible)truth, when fraudsters are on everybody's eyes.

Credit is harder to get, and this IS GOOD, when you came from an over indebted economy. Interest rates grow, and savers are fairy compensated from their work.

"From an admittedly fairly uninformed position it appears to me that cutting spending is only going to further erode businesses positions and tax revenue, leading to an even worse position."

Cutting spending is going to erode government position, not business position. On the contrary, when governments prints money the Gov gets free money, and big business get free money, but small business and tax payers are taxed to death.

Inflation over the official levels is the biggest tax on society. If declared inflaction is 2% but real one is 10%, they are taxing 8% of the society's wealth. And you will have to pay taxes to the gobertment in the 8% of "benefit" you have if you manage to not lose your wealth.

Money is better spent by small business and people that by big governments and big corporations. We are lending those entities so they can get money at 0.2% interest rate while I have to pay 17%.
I think many small changes - each of them incremental, and rather innocent in and of itself - to maximize "market appeal" (where the market is some kind of faceless statistical blob), can also lead to this. If you don't know what you're doing and why you're doing it, and/or if it's not something you really can believe in, it will show, in some form or another.

Sure, I can't blame anyone for not believing in their job of photoshopping fashion pics.. but what I find much more unsettling is that young people do get influenced by this stuff, wether they know/want it or not, and wether the people pushing the stuff believe in it themselves or not. But it's not just fashion, our societies are half-assing a lot of things on a massive scale. Too many hustlers, too little pride in work :(
It's not surprising with his unique story...sensationalism sells, especially when it's true.
They are just different.
This is not true. In Japan Starbucks is one of the few coffee shops chains that offer free wifi, and they only started doing that recently. Reasonable coffee is relatively thin on the ground in Japan as well, Starbucks is really the only chain you can go to and know you'll get a decent coffee.

As far as I can tell they are the only coffee shops that are completely non-smoking too, which might be important to some people.
No, we just measure variation according to some algorithm. The beauty is subjective based on standards, and the results would definitely be biased by that subjectivity.
This isn't about code ownership, this is about micro-management: a manager that likes to know and control who works on what, because god forbid programmers might do something Wrong(TM) or Inefficient(TM).

Collective code ownership doesn't exclude stewardship or experts working on the code they are most qualified to work on. In a healthy team this comes natural.

Assume these people are grown-ups, who can figure out for themselves that a change X to code Y can best be made by Jim (the senior expert), but it may also be helpful if Johnny (the talented junior) makes the change after which Jim reviews it.

Any ownership model other than collective ownership takes these decisions out of the hands of those most qualified to make them and shifts them to hierarchy and regulations.

Management's job should be limited to addressing those that undermine the team's functioning and remove them if necessary, not facilitating it by imposing code ownership levels.

The Martin Fowler example the author links to speaks of "undisciplined programming by a couple of developers" and "sub-par producers". Geez, guess what the real problem is here?
I'm curious how this works on iOS in the background? I admittedly don't know that much about it, but my understanding was that apps basically couldn't run code that constantly monitored things like this in the background on iOS.
Do you really want prison times to be completely flexible? There is a lot of potential for abuse there.
You'll be hard pressed to find anything stimulatory/anabolic that does not stimulate already existing cancers. The simplest example, protein consumption can also promote cancer growth (I can find a ref if pressed, I'm just lazy right now).
Council House[1] And Violent

This is not the original etymology (see other replies) but I have heard it explained thus many times.

[1] Council House - A UK property owned by 'the council', a regional administrative and legislative body, and let to the disadvantaged.
Does anybody know if there is an extension of run-length encoding to volumetric 3d data?
Hey, unfortunately Starbucks is what passes for good coffee in Japan. I know they're not great, but if it's that or Nescafe...
I guess there is a problem with math.random(), since every time I played I either won or was a draw. A better seeding, maybe?

Sweet little game/code.
hey fabrice_d, and thank you for your input :)

have you tried our system? i would love to get as many points of view regarding our system :)

thanks,
Sharon.