skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No offense, but you sound like someone who doesn't really understand the technology.

A TX record is signed, which proves that only I wrote it. It does not immediately have to become part of the "consensus ledger" i.e. blockchain. All I have to do is not spend the same money twice, and I can keep local records. Once the net comes back up, everyone can enter in their TX records manually and let the network figure out the rest. Any attempts to spend the same money twice would be prevented unless you somehow managed to spend from the same wallet in both fractions of the bitcoin network, which seems like it would be hard to pull off.
Even if an individual tries to do it for coolness, and is passionate about it, the rest of the guys around him are not. And that can be a significant cultural influence.

You're living in a bubble, if you can't see that.
Of course it's possible that the original comment is sincere, but given how objectively nonsensical it is - and the same user's follow-up comment [1] is even more hyperbolic - it is far more likely that the comment is either a) a troll, b) some kind of performance art or c) so hopelessly dogmatic that it might as well be a troll.

And for what it's worth, I consider myself reasonably capable of considering arguments in favour of opinions that differ from my own. On many occasions I have changed my mind about an issue based precisely on arguments that persuasively challenged my assumptions or beliefs. I just have an expectation that those arguments should not be ridiculous.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5674857
And yet somehow you think that the existing currency/banking network (which is still a network, and still travels over either telephone lines or the Internet, mind you) would somehow be immune to the apocalypse. Dream on.

Your best bet then is probably gold.
"morally conscious people.."?

What? A banker? Morally conscious? You believe that I got a bridge to sell you.
Sorry, and you guessed right, `pn N` is just my shorthand wrapper for `awk '{print $N}'`.
I don't think you're reading that properly.
I recently found out that the guidelines explicitly say, "[barring exceptions] please use the original title". (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

I'm still sympathetic to the title-change complaints, and I think HN is leaving a source of creativity on the table to the community's detriment. But the guidelines are theirs to setup and enforce.
Yes, there is more than one way to do it:-) Had I read the git ls-tree manpage more patiently, I should have wrote:

git ls-tree HEAD -r --name-only
Thankfully it must not be Western Washington, because I've never heard of it, and order Amazon several times a month (several subscriptions).
or it will be superceded by the Trans Pacific Partnership. But I can't tell since the text hasn't been officially released. Leaked drafts don't look good though.
>Then there are other people who see unethical behavior and, for whatever reason, can't "just get over it" like normal people. They end up taking some immensely energy-consuming moral stands that often aren't in their individual interests.

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela fall in that category to name a few. It is no coincidence all three suffered similar injustices to the extent they did including subjugation by the Government (Powers that be)not limited to incarceration, but when most would give up their spirit prevailed and they never waivered in their sense of justice.
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Perhaps, but there certainly was (and still is) a not-insignificant amount of people interested in hacking both Nooks and Kindles. Sell a hackable version at a big markup to please the nerds and make some money; regular folks will find them useless or too difficult and stick to the standard offering; meanwhile the nerds will evangelize the hardware for you.

I think their big fear is people buying a hackable version and setting it up to be a generic epub reader instead of a walled-garden sales point, thus losing money on the hardware or perhaps support costs for people who messed up their devices. But hacking hardware, even if it just means transferring a .deb and restarting, is utterly beyond the kind of people who would rather just press "buy & download" and forget about it, which of course is 90% of the market anyway.

In either case a premium hackable ereader would be an interesting (though perhaps not profitable?) direction for anyone, even an indie company, to pursue.
Is nationalism a good thing though? By thinking your own country/people is great, aren't you creating a dichotomy where you think less of another country/people. (i.e. racism...)

Maybe I'm over thinking it.
All in the name of "providing liquidity"...
Hey, I wrote HNKit.

I'll admit I haven't had time to write documentation. However, most everything follows Cocoa conventions, and the headers should be pretty readable. Absolute worst case, there's an existing app using the framework as an example. :)

You can also combine ARC and non-ARC code in one project. HNKit was written before ARC (although I still prefer manual memory management), but there's nothing keeping you from using HNKit with an ARC-based app. And unless you're modifying HNKit itself, you wouldn't ever need to see or write any retain or release calls as a client of the API. Apple did a pretty good job making ARC and non-ARC code interoperate well.

I'm happy to help with any HNKit questions — feel free to open issues on GitHub if there's anything confusing. HNKit already supports most of the things you are hoping to implement (logging in, commenting, voting), so I would hate to have all that effort duplicated. If you have any specifics about things that could be done better, I'm all ears.

Performance-wise, HNKit hasn't been optimized, but it does do parsing on a background thread. In general, a bit of extra local parsing is almost always going to be faster than additional network fetches. I haven't had any performance issues, even on older devices, so I doubt that part will be an issue at all.
Probably the last 6% either hold patents or really don't quite get the issue. Lots of folks work in closed source/proprietary only and have no problem with the idea of making everyone license every little thing.
"If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer, you're the product." would seem to explain the complaints made here.
Thousands of dollars of computing resources thrown at users of a free service would definitely make it better.
wow looks very cool. never heard of it...

http://mosh.mit.edu/#techinfo

How Mosh works
Remote-shell protocols traditionally work by conveying a byte-stream from the server to the client, to be interpreted by the client's terminal. (This includes TELNET, RLOGIN, and SSH.) Mosh works differently and at a different layer. With Mosh, the server and client both maintain a snapshot of the current screen state. The problem becomes one of state-synchronization: getting the client to the most recent server-side screen as efficiently as possible.

This is accomplished using a new protocol called the State Synchronization Protocol, for which Mosh is the first application. SSP runs over UDP, synchronizing the state of any object from one host to another. Datagrams are encrypted and authenticated using AES-128 in OCB mode. While SSP takes care of the networking protocol, it is the implementation of the object being synchronized that defines the ultimate semantics of the protocol.
I agree. There was a recent time - maybe a few months ago - where Linux with nvidia hardware and their binary driver blob would instantly panic the system when I visited a page in firefox that used webGL shaders.
You monitor your DNS latency, but you don't monitor your delegations?
This sounds suspiciously like a government that works for its people.
Thanks! I go into that here: http://spencerfry.com/introducing-uncover
“If China customs found a syringe, even if it’s just one, in a bale of plastic, it’s considered medical waste and the whole shipment would get rejected,”

and just how many used syringes does this guy think you need before you should refuse the bag? i mean honestly, a syringe here and there is just par for the course, surely?
I've been looking for a reputable one for this for a few months now.. hard to know since I have no connection. Can you give a recommendation?
Content licensing. Nook has got a nice big ebook library, and negotiating content deals is hard.
What does this mean for software companies in New Zealand? If they sell software in the US (and who doesn't, with the internet and all), I assume they're still on the hook for US patent law?
50% of the registration fee for teaching kids how to program games course run during school holidays
building on this: the feature set for paying customers (recruiters, internal/external) seems pretty solid, from the few articles I've read; so it seems to fit the saying exactly.
>What is the reason behind making works of art?

For fun. But no one is forcing me to fund their bullshit on Etsy.

>What is the utility of music?

For fun. But no one is forcing me to fund their EP on Kickstarter.

>Alcohol is a waste of resources.

It isn't a waste if people enjoy it. And no one is forcing me to help get them hammered.

>Climbing mountains is a needless risk.

Its fun and no one asked me to pay for their fucking climbing ropes.

>I'm sure the egyptians didn't have to build the pyramids.

You're right, they didn't. They were a fucking useless piece of shit built by self appointed gods for ego stroking. They were a huge waste of human labor and resources. They provided next to no utility and the only reason they are worth anything today is because people think they are cool. If the pyramids existed today in a first world country that had something going for it besides tourism the land would be worth more by tearing down the shitty stone structures of oppression.

>Why not take part in something grand?

Because I have limited time on this Earth and I would rather my money go to things that I derive utility from:

* Research into living forever.
* Making currently uninhabitable land habitable.
* Getting drunk.

I derive no utility from some dudes putting another guy on Mars. There may be some incidental research that I benefit from in the long run, but I have a feeling much more utility would be gained by not spending money on jet fuel to launch something at a fucking rock miles and miles away.

>I understand that there may be yet better alternatives, perhaps you could present some?

There are infinite possibilities. 99.9% of the population of Earth will see absolutely no benefit from someone visiting Mars. In fact, some may even be worse off for it due to the pollution created by blasting shit off into the ether to reach a place that has absolutely nothing of value on it.

Here are just a few different ways you could spend that money (164 Billion dollars):

* Give every person on Earth an ice cream cone.
* Research Phage therapy further.
* Invest in internet infrastructure.
* Invest in transportation infrastructure.
* Give out research grants.
* Clean up the ocean.

All of that will get way more utility for the vast majority of people than flying to fucking mars.
I get the best HN mobile experience on Android either with the stock browser or Chrome Mobile since both have an automatic text reflow (or so called automatic word wrap). This feature is one of the most I miss on my iPhone which let a lot of classic websites top every native app on mobile devices. Reading HN and commenting is as fast as on a desktop. I tried several HN apps on iOS (I have both an iOS and Android device in parallel operation) and none of them got close to HN on Android's mobile browsers in terms of convenience and usability.
My 2c:

Divide and conquer

Learning this stuff can get overwhelming pretty quickly if you try to do it all at once. Especially when the new tech you want to learn has dependencies on a million other things that you also discover need learning.

Start with a high level overview of what you need to learn to get the picture in your head, think 'shallow but wide'.

Then pick out the main concepts (eg MVC) and learn about that, so you have an idea of the reasons for the way things are being done how they are.

Next pick the specific framework - start with the basics for the -dependencies- for it; there's no point in working through a tutorial if you don't have the assumed knowledge. And then move on to progressing through learning the actual framework.

Don't forget Stackoverflow - you'll be able to find answers there. Any most of all, good luck!
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> The majority of people don't have access to it

Schwab supports after hours trading from their accounts.
>Also, an extension of our country on another planet would probably be the first move toward humans getting past statism entirely. But that's just a guess/hope.

So... have a state settle on Mars instead of a company of people mutually coming together will help us get past statism as a species? Brilliant. Truly brilliant.
>You already have welcomed your robot overlords, and they’re building our financial system.

Enough said.
I wanted to see daily and weekly top 10 stories and also ask/show hn stories. So I wrote a HTML5 webapp that works on all browsers including ios/android.

http://premii.com/hn/

There are still few bugs that i need to fix.
As someone who's not too familiar with economics, how is HFT supposed to be good for the economy?
And the exchanges are making a killing off of this volume. You can thank the SEC and FINRA for this.
New Zealand seems like such a sensible place.
How can anyone support legalized extortion like software patents? Hopefully this will change in global scale, when new decision makers will replace the old farts who don't have a clue what software development actually is about.

Respect for New Zealand for embracing the change!
The test is about download performance and cacheability, though Apple's Network Link Conditioner is useful.
IP is of course transferable.

Not without a signature on a document itemizing the IP being transferred.
A lot of people pay for LinkedIn...

Regardless, why is this such a common response to these types of posts? I understand the angle of "don't be entitled to a free service," but there's also the alternative interpretation of "here are some fundamentals your business is missing, and my humble suggestions."
Is the 'Go to College Message Overdone?
[partisan alert] I wouldn't go too far on that. If you're poor and unemployed here you probably don't feel like the govt. are working for you all that much.
This happened to me! I had to apologize to so many people.
Thanks for sharing, I'm sure your brother is better for having you there to support him.
search for 'incompetence' and 'naivete' in my post.

second of all, law firm client lists and VC client lists are not complete. you think they put all that shit on their website???
This must be the money that MS bribed B&N with, after they they realized that their patent litigation against B&N was falling apart, and it could threaten their protection racket against other Android vendors. I guess B&N didn't have guts to reject the bribe and to fight against the troll to the end.
I personally think its typical Microsoft stuff. Too little too late. C# is/was a delight to work with but Microsoft has built themselves into a corner with their platform. They are always 6-7 years behind and misjudge. We had to wait how long to get a decent shell?? Why couldn't they make the damn thing posix compatible?? Or how long we had to wait for a package manager???? I will admit though that if I was still stuck in miserable ms land I would program in f# exclusively. The way it does oop feels like an improvement over traditional languages which is paradoxically bizarre and fascinating at the same time. I don't know but in retrospect leaving .net was the best thing that ever happened to me personally. It broadens your perspective on software dev when you don't constantly constrain yourself to viewing your world through entity framework or nuget or whatever other precious few technologies that run well on windows. That's all.
I liked how you chose to represent the hierarchy of comments.
I also liked the fact that you are showing the articles within your web app rather than redirecting, but it got me worried about how reliable that may be.
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> Can every student in the USA who is willing and capable of being a doctor get into med school?

No, but it's not because they aren't good enough. In grad school, I TA'd a physics class for pre-med students, which were widely considered to be one of the most miserable and obnoxious groups to teach. Each student felt entitled to an A, even though the department mandated that only 25% of students could receive an A. In reality, probably more than 80% of the class earned an A, and I would have felt comfortable that most of the rest were smart enough to one day give me medical advice.

Yet, less than 45% of people who applied to one or more medical schools [1] are admitted (and this is a self-selected group: those without 4.0 GPAs, three extra-curriculars, and a side-business of helping old ladies across the street generally don't apply). I would estimate that only about the top 15% to 25% of the class actually applied. So, from undergrad pre-med to MD, there is about a (hand-wavy) 90% attrition rate of people who are probably smart enough and probably willing to work hard enough, and who have the desire to become doctors.

> Increasing the number of doctors produced locally would seem to me to be a much easier way of increasing supply.

I agree, but the medical profession is not willing to allow this to happen. Each medical school has a quota, and nobody wants to rock the boat. The trouble is, there isn't really any way to force medical schools to admit more students.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_school_in_the_United_St...
Harry Chapin has a song called "Flowers Are Red" that is essentially a retelling of this poem.
Mine :) I don't know whose is sleeker since I don't have an iPhone to try yours out, but mine is definitely winning on the more-open-source front considering yours is missing a license.

https://github.com/bishopmatthew/hackernews
It is... sometimes.
He's been making the same rants in the comments here for a long time... and he hasn't found many sympathetic to his cause. I can't imagine suing YC (frivolously) will gain many friends.

His username is thinkcomp.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thinkcomp
Well, I think there is a lot of confusion in this thread: confusing people who genuinely have serious problems with those to whom the author was referring, those who are simply differently suited than the majority.

I'd like to think that I'm the latter overall, so, frankly, I didn't fit in, and I didn't do terribly well, but its mostly a non-story (with regards to anti-authoritarianism - in other ways I have plenty of stories). I was average, I mostly tolerated the authority because the threat of not doing so was a little more than I could bear, and I got the hell out as soon as I could. Then I was lucky enough to be a smart guy during the original dot-com bubble and found my way back into the company of people I was more comfortable with.
Except when you need to head for the hospital, no?
We just setup a CI process for this app on cisimple here:
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Includes a Kickfolio embed so you can actually run the app in-browser. Enjoy!
there's even a term for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
Then I'm a battle royale optometrist, doing "a or b" an killing the weaker candidates.

Oh yes, I do that to a fault. That is, even of something static I will take at least 5-10 shots at least, just to get the one where the autofocus hit the nail on the head, and especially with hand held shots in low light. Multiply that for living things, which means hunting for the combination of good crop/focus and situation.

I am not pro by any means, but I am "vicious" about selecting and editing simply because it makes photography so much more fun for me, and the results pleasing to myself. It makes me feel okay instead of bad about the glass I bought, too ^^ I don't mind going back to old photos and changing tweaking the RAW conversion parameters either, and this way I don't have to obsess too much about getting it just perfect on the first go (because as you know, when you stare for too long at a specific set of things, you loose perspective, I find it rather more productive to step away from and then revisit things, but of course that's a luxury of not doing it professionally!).
Have you tried out mine? It's open source, and if you find something lacking I'd love your feedback.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
I'm continuously amazed by all of the major political parties here in New Zealand who keep using logic and facts instead of merely political stances. Our process of making laws is open, listens to the people as well as lobbyists, and yet allows room for policy differences.
Really good news. Now, can someone do the same thing in US please?
You know, if one person, just one person clicks on that link, they may think he's really sick and they won't arrest him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both trollin and they won't hassle either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people clickin on the link. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day clickin, downloadin, and readin. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

And that's what it is , the Aussie download anti-massacre movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar.
I really like this. It's super easy to use and the dark theme looks great. My only comment would be that the header text (e.g. comments, setting etc.) can be hard to read on the default (HN orange) color scheme. Nice.
News site via an iOS sim, so I can read more news in the browser. Turtles all the way down.
Now that's a beautiful interface!
There is a universe of terribly unsafe open source software. The notion that Wordpress is somehow more secure because it has a different license than phpBB is wishful.
Yeah, I was wondering at the time why someone didn't set up a site like that for "checking passwords" but really uses it to build up a database of good guesses for offline cracking when you've nabbed the hashes.
I think he fails to answer whether it is legal to download it in say... my country, Denmark. And I am not even sure, but I think it might be.

Still, going through every copyright jurisdiction might be a bit over the top. But reminding ourselves that it is possible in Australia and Canada are a bit of a few choices. Oh and; his third option doesn't really seem to be much value to me either; I know which jurisdiction I am subject to, just not its exact rules.
You think anyone in in research and academia has a clue what real 'authoritarianism' is?
Have you tried writing Haskell in the repl? I would argue that just omitting the types (essentially var:ing everything) would still make a repl very valuable for trying stuff out while you write your code. When I worked at citrix I would debug constantly in ironpython and I would find and fix bugs 5 times faster than my coworkers that would write clunky command line programs.. A repl is a very powerful tool that any nimble dev should take seriously.
I found this extremely humorous (John Stewart Show on gun violence and politician motives): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T...

@ 2:00 it speaks volumes about US politics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T...)
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