skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't pull my hosting from Linode because they got hacked, I pulled it because they were hiding this from me. I even went as far as replacing the card I used to pay them and dealing with the massive headache of updating payment info with a new card number because I didn't know if I could trust their assertion that CC numbers didn't get released.

If I can't trust you at your word, you no longer have the privilege of holding my data or my CC info. Two breeches with a lack of communication really does spoil overnight the trust that has been built up over years of wonderful and reliable service.
>>if working a different time slice is neutral or better for your job

If that is compatible with your job, great! That is the simple and most logical solution, job permitting. I never said otherwise, so I'm pretty sure you are reading words I never said...
I started a project in SVG a few months ago, and searched for a library to use. Dojo's GFX is a great library, with comprehensive support of the native features (Text, etc).

That said, I'm planning on switching to good-old DOM, the performance of SVG was underwhelming to me. Also, the lack of text-wrap.
micro$oft has jumped the shark
if you're afraid of associating your contact data with your startup you're either running an illegal site or you're ashamed of your own idea.
Digital Ocean has more on their status site: http://digitaloceanstatus.com/
This is the world stage, so objectivity is hard to find, but there is a substantial amount of posturing from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that shows a pretty aggressive stance toward Israel, if not open contempt [1].

That's really besides the point though. Anyone who seeks to boil "right and wrong" down to a simple principle that applies in all cases is holding simplicity above practicality. "Simple principles" are no more sustainable than utopian ideologies. The reality is that right and wrong are subtle and contextual. Bringing Stuxnet in to the Linode discussion is just an effort to sidetrack the topic.

Any way you slice it, HTP has dragged "innocents" in to the fight. It's not right when governments do it on the world stage. It's not right when thugs and gangsters do it by terrorizing neighborhoods with gang violence. It's not right when crackers do it during their internet turf battles.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_and_Israel
The ability in 2.3 to use multiple filter backends is partly intended to address queryset permissions adequately. It means you can setup a filter backend to deal with any permissions-based filtering, while still including client-determined field filtering/searching etc...
"Illegal" is probably the wrong word to use here, since the iron ring is not governed by any municipal, provincial, or federal law.

I have a B.Sc. EE and yet work mostly in web/mobile software. I don't consider or present myself as a "practicing engineer" but I still wear the ring as a reminder of the obligation I have towards anything I create for other people to use. I probably wouldn't give it to my girlfriend to wear, but to each their own.
http://docs.python.org/2/library/ast.html

http://golang.org/pkg/go/parser/
(See also gofmt: http://golang.org/cmd/gofmt/
and gofix: http://golang.org/cmd/fix/ )
> These issues are exactly what people refer to as "first world problems." On the one hand, we want everything regulated

You need to re-read the article: the core theme is that there isn't a monolithic “we” requesting regulation but rather that the regulatory framework most of the public wants to assure safety, pollution, etc. has been captured by a smaller group of industry incumbents who are using it to prevent competition.
Isn't your criticism of DSGE a little too easy? I don't see the silliness.

Here's my understanding (I am not an expert): DSGE is designed to give an approximate response to exogenous shocks for NL models. For that, it needs to start from an equilibrium.

You seem to say that shocking from an equilibrium is silly. Can you explain me why? I wonder what alternative solution you have in mind that could improve DSGE.
All these bundled game packages are turning games into something like trading cards rather than games.

People I've heard from say that they never get around to playing the games, but they buy them in bundles like this because they can get a bunch of games cheap, and maybe someday they'll have a chance to sit down and play them.

Like a Baseball card. You buy them up when you have some extra money, or got them as a gift, and you store them away, maybe someday they'll have value. Right now, their only value is that they are in your collection at all. (Pokemon/Magic/Whatever)

I'm an indie game developer myself, and it's interesting to me because it seems like people have become accustom to buying games because they heard about them instead of because they want to PLAY them. I'm totally guilt of this myself. I've spent many bucks myself on iOS titles just because of the hype, play them once, and that's it. Most times I feel like a real sucker for falling for it. Rarely do I get a gem.

I'm usually the edge-case for stuff like this, don't really expect anyone to agree :)
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I don't know if it was, but I'm not concerned. What I took away from the original article was: We have a theory for how solar systems form. That theory assumes that our solar system is typical. The data we're finding does not agree with our theory, because the data indicates that our solar system is not typical.
Income and wealth are not the same thing. Wealth is a measure of total assets, while income is annual wages and investment income. A lot of high income people carry huge student loan and housing debt and are not wealthy.
For people still in school, I'd recommend taking econ classes to fill up the social science requirements.

In that case they have to pay for some course anyway, and econ is much more practical than classes like sociology and anthropology.
Viber for desktop
I know a handful of electrical engineers with scars on their fingers from getting these things too close to a hot board.

It's a beautiful idea, but sometimes you don't want a high wattage resistor on your dominant hand...
We are the only platform that is 100% focused on kids. Kids have challenges that are not being addressed by the other crowdfunding platforms.

1) Kids under 13 need stricter privacy controls and need to give parents access.

2) Kids oftentimes don't understand how best to tell their story and engage their audience. We help them with that.

3) Kickstarter is fantastic for pre-selling products. While we do have a few young entrepreneurs on our site, most of the kids are not selling anything. We encourage them to give low-cost, high emotional value gifts like signed photographs of their team.

4) We are one of the few platforms that is built from the ground up around teams. The team leader has special abilities to coordinate the team members and can poke them and motivate them.

5) Kids also need a bit more prodding than adults do, so we've built in a bit of light gamification to make it fun for them.
Show HN: A new photo sharing community in early beta. Looking for feedback
The International Space Station's laptops are moving from Windows to Linux
This page as well:

http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/info/faq.html
Wikipedia is not accepted as a source by universities.
http://library.williams.edu/citing/wikipedia.php
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/26/wiki
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/wikipedia-founder-dis...
http://theminaretonline.com/2007/04/19/article1475
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/paperref.htm

In fact, Wikipedia had a scandal recently. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57514677-93/corruption-in-w...

Not only that but they get some facts wrong and refuse to correct them:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/09/an-open-...

I don't really see why Wikipedia is considered a valid source of anything in academia or learning things.

I don't think it is 'easy' to write an article, in fact I know it is hard and difficult without making mistakes and having logical fallacies bad grammar and other things. I was a computer programmer and became sick and disabled and took up writing. I don't have the money to continue my college, so I have to rely on what is on the Internet. But I often find what is on the Internet is either, wrong, has errors, uses logical fallacies, is inaccurate, make nonsense, or leaves things out.

I am starting to find that books are better and more accurate and easier to understand and read than your typical collection of articles at Wikipedia, or posts on Reddit or anywhere else for that matter. The best responses I got on this thread is to read some books that the various computer science courses offer, that is the best advice I can get. Instead of links to stuff I already read or watched and got confused by.

I understand the downvotes, I don't understand something, and since I am questioning one of the main parts of computer science I am seen as a threat and in order to discourage me from asking more questions and drive me from HN, my comments will be downvoted by dupe accounts until I am no longer asking questions or participating here.

I think I have valid questions, valid criticisms, and I am being honest in that I am confused and don't understand it. I am not pretending to be an expert on the subject and faking stuff, I am trying to learn but it is very difficult.
One thing I don't understand though - how can the people in Atherton afford their houses with "only" $200k income? (yea $200k is a lot, but those houses cost a freakin' lot more!)
Try setting it up, walking away for 5 minutes or so (clearing your mind of the original English), and then comparing the translations that aren't English.

The idea is that the fact that we understand English gives it a different quality, and you want to subtract that from your analysis.

Don't know if it'll help, but it might.
All the YC founders I know are the same type of person.

And I'm not talking about genders, age or cultural backgrounds.

They are intelligent (obviously), unexited (by my standards), determined and tent to listen more then to talk.

They move baby steps instead of trying to make huge jumps. They all also seem to be very scared of losing (which is different from wanting to win).
Finally managed to get it launched in beta, if you fancied taking a look! http://photographer.io
I believe you are confusing the spoken sound of a particular cognate with the semantic meanings of the word that have remained consistent across different languages.

For example, "fire" has a very direct translation in a large number of languages. Historically, it was believed that the evolution of word-use would preclude such semantic stability, but the words these researchers identified are perhaps suggestive of a common proto-Eurasiatic language. The fact that less used words like "flow" and "worm" remained consistent legitimizes this theory.
How to Learn (The lesson you never got taught in school)
Does it have a good story for doing precise GC?

When I looked at it some time ago, it appeared that I'd have to understand and write a lot of C++ code ... which I very much don't want to do.
True, but in the case of startups with limited dev resources, bloat adds to development and maintenance cost. Poor management of resources like that could mean trouble for a startup.
Wow, the most striking is the sudden jump between Redwood City and Atherton on the Local Caltrain route. It jumps from ~30K straight to ~193K.
I've always had that problem, and I find taking melatonin to be really quite helpful.
First off, gravity is a fundamental force of the universe. The internet is a construct collectively developed by a limited number of our society. One we (as a species) have influence over and understand, one we do not.

A better analog for this may be monopolies. Monopolies are created by humans and arise somewhat naturally but are bad in general for society. Some people in the early 1900s decided to do something about monopolies and created laws/regulatory bodies to identify them. If in the 1890's you said "Monopolies are a problem, the rich own so much of a needed item that they can detrimentally impact members of society. We should do something about monopolies."

The statement says nothing about the solution, only identifies the problem. At that time the idea that there would be a solution to the problem was somewhat absurd, how can you stop rich people from doing what they want when they control everything? Government intervention. Which, unsurprisingly, is exactly what Schmidt indicates is necessary.

It may not be that he has a disconnect from how the internet works more that he has a better idea of how to change society than most people... Food for thought.
This sounds like 2-phase sleep caused by sleeping too early.
I agree, I do have sympathy for someone really suffering from a condition, but they must be open about it and make their life work. Maybe that means treatment or just a honest conversation with their employer or both.

What really bothers me is: Sleepy Hacker: "I get shitfaced every night and go to bed at 2 AM. I can't seem to get up at 7:30 AM for work ever! I set like 5 alarms! I must have Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder." rolls eyes

If you think you have Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, get tested, get treatment, communicate.
Yes, that's well said, and probably the most important part of being part of something greater. Thanks.
>Am I fundamentally misunderstanding something here?

Perhaps.

For one, Google translate is not very accurate, even for simple stuff.

Second, the translations it picks might no be the form that has survived from the old times. Newer words might have put the use of the older form in disfavour, but it can still exist in the language. If something was the same in a language from 15,000 years ago up to 500 years ago, it won't be picked up in Google Translate, which will pick the current vernacular.

Third, they probably give an exact table of the equivalencies they found in the actual paper. It would be easier to check that if they have it available for free.

Four, they speak about how words sound, not how the look. So you have to take pronunciation of each language into account, which often can be quite different from what is written.
This is probably as hard as removing a drop of ink from a glass of water - not entirely impossible but quite hard. Furthermore you have do find a mechanism that enables you to prove that the information you want to delete refers to you and that it therefore is you right to do so. Failing on this may easily turn the thing into means of censorship.

On the other hand it is probably sufficient to remove the easily discoverable instances of that information because not many people will try really hard to come up with something. And the ones that do will probably also do so outside of the internet.
Some very annoyed Adobe users.
http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2010/02/404-firetruck.jp...

sorry, i couldn't resist
This is a discussion forum, so the better way to ask for evidence is to present a contrary opinion backed by evidence. That will draw out a meatier response, or if not, still edify the reader. Fearless added absolutely nothing to the conversation in content or in style.
You keep getting buried because you've hitched your wagon to the wrong horse. Your core argument seems to be that punishment for hacking is often disproportionate to the crime committed.

For example, poorly written laws make even simple port scanning a risky activity. I agree that this is ridiculous, but you needn't defend HTP here in order to take that position. If anything, HTP are to blame for the overreaction from policy makers. They are having a very difficult time distinguishing between mischief and mayhem.

The law should take context in to account. If you were caught exploring an old, abandoned warehouse, you might end up with a misdemeanor trespass charge (hopefully), but if you're caught probing a corporate server, the current climate seems to dictate that you'll land a felony in short order. You've got groups like HTP to thank for that because of their extortion activities and willingness to leverage the well being of innocent people in their trivial games.
All valid points -- especially the last one, which in all honesty does make me giggle every time. Every word I write, Anonymous NSA Guy, I write for you <333

On a sincere note, breck, I truly do appreciate the thoughtful feedback and will certainly act on it if I come to perceive that the benefit of doing so will outweigh the difficulty of parting with the conversation starter that is my Twitter handle. I'll be the first to admit that this kind of shock value appears to have a high risk of backfiring (which, mind you, wasn't a very relevant concern 5 years ago when no one but close friends knew my online persona), but somehow -- and even I don't know how, really -- it has led to overwhelmingly positive interactions over the years, especially as people become familiar with my personality and sense of humor.
Satire can make money, e.g. the Onion
Yea -- this is advertising for the 42floors brand. What they're saying doesn't have to have anything to do with their product or brand, merely seeing that they're saying stuff puts their brand back in front of our eyeballs.
Staples Brings 3D Printers to the Mass Market
Tablets weren't a business before Apple got involved.
Gamua - Consistent Game Development across all Platforms
Your reply and the one below assume that the choices are mutually exclusive. That was not implied and is an unnecessary assumption.
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Drivers are not the only people who live in a city: if you walk, bike or use public transit, does it make sense for a parking space to go to a single driver (with no benefit to anyone else) or a food truck patronized by hundreds of people over the course of day?

The main problem in Manhattan is that street parking rates are kept artificially low – as much as 40% of the traffic is due to people driving around hoping for a savings over garage parking.
On Firefox (20.0/Mac), your homepage http://www.getchute.com/# also seems broken. I can't use the scrollwheel / gestures to move down the page.
"I worry that an initiative like this could potentially extend to laws where only large companies such as Google are allowed to store any public user data because only they can demonstrate reasonable compliance with deletion orders."

If you're careful about the scope of whats protected, its maybe not such a bad thing. I'm open to a limited amount of oversight if it means I'll have a more protected experience on the web. As much as I love the freedom the web provides, It's also a bit of a dangerous place where it can be hard to tell who you can trust. As techies its pretty easy for us to know who to trust and who we cant. But your mother probably can't.

Additionally, it opens up the possibility for opportunities too. Its not unreasonable to believe that if I'm regulating the storage of personal data that I can also slip in a requirement that allows easy mechanical transfer of that data. If we can use laws to build up walls, we can also invent laws that break down other artificial walls.
DigitalOcean 'tries to' take a snapshot of every server before it is destroyed. As a result, you should be able to see those images now.

Thankfully, they were able to restore all of my servers. I sincerely hope it's the same for everyone else.
Yes, Oakland is poor. Thanks for sharing.
cars, bridges, building structure

Those three things right there commonly have embedded software monitoring or controlling them. As far as levers and bolts go, a lot of them have sensors monitored by software for stress.

I really don't think most people, even software developers, realize how pervasive software is in their lives.
Any comments from the HN crowd on Brutal Legend (the beat-the-average bonus)?
I can't figure out which comment to reply to, so allow me to stick this comment here...

If we're going to perform all these pedantic semantic antics (did I really just do that?), then allow me to ruminate a moment: I do "develop" software. "Develop" has this connotation in my mind of a slow, meandering, possibly goal-free path. You "develop" skills over time - are they ever fully developed? Also, you "develop" film (and its prints) which certainly takes time, but is also kind of a curated, artistic process. Although I do feel that, at times, I sculpt, craft and develop a bit of software, I do this with ideas that are not quite formed; goals which are unknown; a kind of "I'll know it when I see it" project.

I do "architect" systems. I have to decide on a backing store and the shape of the data in the store: RDBMS? KV Store? binary blob on disk? I have to decide on a communication method between the app and the data store: local, native API? Network socket using the store's client libs? HTTP CRUD? I have to consider the ways the user will use this app: touch? mouse? keyboard? does it need new gestures? "hot keys" or "chording"? I'll admit the user interaction is a bit more art, but there's usually some kind of specification for it.

I do "engineer" systems. This feels more like implementation to me: I implement that data design; I implement the communication code (APIs don't plug themselves in to my project); I work around pitfalls and shortcomings continuously ...

I am an artist, a sculptor; I am an architect and engineer; I am a handy-person and problem solver. Hi, I'm delinka and I create software.
Ok, HN, I'm obviously missing something so please enlighten me. Why is this on the front page? I thought that it might be a joke as some people suggested , but it's not, there's an actual app that you can download on iTunes. So... I just don't get it. Why is this important?
Ask HN: Need a good podcast catcher for Android phones. (And a bit of a rant.)
Hello everyone.

With the imminent closure of Google Reader, I need to replace my podcast player, Google Listen, which uses the Reader API to manage feeds and track what I've listened to.

I've downloaded a handful of alternative apps, but they all lacked a feature I find essential - The "In the order I want" sort criteria. Not sort-by-name or sort-by-time, but sort-by-what-I-want.

For context, I drive to work, around 45 minutes each way. There's no-one in the passenger seat and there are very few places I could safely pull-over. Pushing buttons on the display while I'm driving is right out.

With Google Listen, new episodes start at the back of the queue. Often, there's one episode I want to move to the head of the queue. Sometimes, I won't be in the mood for the next episode in line so I'll shuffle something else ahead. Google Listen does this by showing a menu for each episode with a 'Move to the top of queue' option.

Once I'm happy with the next hour or so worth of stuff at the top of the queue, I hit play and drive off. As the first show finishes, its taken off the queue and the next episode I had queued up starts playing, all without any interaction.

The few alternative apps I downloaded did not offer this.

Some people reading this, I'm sure, are thinking "He wants a playlist manager". No. Create Playlist. Add episode to playlist. Play Playlist. Delete Playlist. No. Take those away.

All I want is a button on each episode labelled 'Move to the top of the queue'. That's it. If I have to perform some ritual every day to create a new playlist or whatever before I can get that button, I'm not going to be happy. Life is too short for pointless ritual.

So, follow-HN-peeps. Does anyone know of a good podcast catcher that works this way please?
Argued like a true economist...