skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you just mirror CPAN. This is already done in lots of shops I know of for PyPI. IME, I've only ever had PyPI down on me once, and there are mirrors (that are usually up) if that is ever the case[0]. I think localizing dependencies as you say is a waste of time.

[0]: http://jacobian.org/writing/when-pypi-goes-down/
Isn't LLVM already faster than asm.js in most cases?
Man, you really are confused! If a country is serious about national defence then it really needs universal health care, because it needs lots of healthy soldiers. Soviet Russia did a lot to make sure there was at least basic medical care available to everyone for exactly this reason - they needed millions of soldiers!
Finland is doing the right thing when it takes care for it's citizens.

Also, news flash for you: socialism in Russia ended some 20 years ago. Now they have a pretty ruthless form of capitalism in there.

When I read what you have to say about Poland I start to think you are from some kind of alternative universe. It's just bizarre.
This is pretty great. As a developer looking for a job, I want the inverse of this. Something to track all the jobs I am applying for. Right now I just use http://www.streak.com/
Kickstarter is not an investment, you get no equity.

An investment is risk, you are risking losing your money, but at the chance of making lots of money. That's what an investment is, in theory anyway, right?

Kickstarter tech projects, you are risking losing your money... for the chance to get a product that's worth about what you paid for it anyway? Where's the possible reward that's worth the risk?
You've mentioned a lot of my favorites, it's a shame your comment is rooted in negativity and therefore not upvote-worthy.
Links would help your case but seriously: You'd invest in 1980 Pyongyang rather than Seoul? You are a crazy person, even without the benefit of hindsight.
Yes we can. Spam produces good results too, for the spammer. Even if the every-day email volume tested well in the short term, it will still likely have long-term business consequences. And even if it works well for them in the long term, it is still a net negative to society.
I do wonder sometimes how such choices pan out in terms of users won (hey, they talk like me!) vs. lost (well, not showing this one to my boss).
Kickstarter tries very hard to backpedal on that perception when it's about to blow up in their face. They made that "Kickstarter is Not a Store" blog post and the associated policy change after the press showed interest in the seedy side of Kickstarter; I forget what the exact catalyst was because it was some time ago.
I didn't flag the link or anything (can't even flag if I wanted to, probably not enough 'karma'), but read the article and wondered why it was posted here at all. It pretty much told me nothing except that a Windows 8.1 was coming - doesn't even tell what features to expect.
Noam Chomsky calls himself a libertarian-socialist and explains why it is not a contradiction in terms:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wriQGI5NGOM
"But don't get trapped working for a startup and kidding yourself that their success is your success"

I hear this line a lot on HN and frankly, I have to call bullshit on it.

A real startup (which I define as "a currently small business with large, untapped potential market") with a real business, (which I define as "make something you can sell to people for money"), is a great place to find work at with a real chance to make significant amount of money (which I define as, "I can take 1/2/3 years off to do whatever I like without worrying about paying the rent") in case of success. And the odds of that level of success are not bad if you're smart about choosing your company carefully.

How do I know ? Personal experience on multiple occasions.

(btw, note that my definition does not include "this website/mobile-app we hope will catch Marissa Meyer's eye for a quick $X0 Million flip.)
"Those people are just looking for a reason not to get exercise, and are better off dying around their mid 50s."

It's a ridiculous statement. Life expectancy, even among those who do not regularly exercise, is greater than 50. My mom is 70, and the most exercise she's ever gotten was from walking (and not for fitness, just around the block, or meandering through the mall). She certainly would not have been better off dying in her 50s.
This is called a IRD (Improvised Rhetorical Device). You drop it aside a seemingly reasonable argument so that you can later hijack the entire conversation to talk about what you really wanted to. It's effective in it's primary function but also makes it easy for those on the other side of the argument to paint you as a wild radical.
Video services chug half of US net capacity
Restaurant Freaks Out Online After Epic Meltdown On Kitchen Nightmares
Their FB page hasn't been updated since 2011, and their Twitter account is deleted.

There isn't anything even resembling progress updates.
Samsung’s Tizen: Is Ditching Android an Option?
There's actually a fair amount of this, we just don't hear about most of the projects that go silent or otherwise implode.
I do not click on ads, unless it's that 1 in 1 million chance I want to see their product.

I also don't block ads.
I'm writing from such a phone. It has stock Android 4.0 and just works, usually enduring 3 days without recharging.
Whoa. I just peeked at that and was astonished to see:

├───68.22 MB (28.62%) -- window-objects
│ ├──41.12 MB (17.25%) -- top(https://twitter.com/, id=55)/active
│ │ ├──39.86 MB (16.72%) -- window(https://twitter.com/)
│ │ │ ├──18.17 MB (07.62%) -- js
│ │ │ │ ├──18.13 MB (07.61%) -- compartment(https://twitter.com/)

Just to run Twitter uses a ton of memory?
Do you have further documentation of this? There doesn't seem to be anything other than hearsay which demonstrates that they do end-to-end encryption, and some anecdotal evidence that they don't (a new device brought online will receive messages from before it was initialized, for instance).
A genetic freak doesn't need to do anything to be strong, they just are.

The fact is that any given person will be significantly stronger after N months of training using "optimal" barbell training than using "optimal" bodyweight exercises assuming an appropriate diet.

You will get stronger using bodyweight exercises or P90x but it will take longer and you will never get as strong as using barbell training so why do it?
Occasionally I will disable adblock on a website that I like, so that they atleast have a chance of making money off me. But having said that, I generally dont click on ads.
Yeah, not sure why people are being negative. I would understand that it would be selfish to direct Google funds to this research. Don't we all direct a large amount of our personal funds though to things that benefit us?
The Problem for Facebook is that it's an app, not a platform
Although he did say he doesn't feel comfortable recording his own manufacturing process as he feels it's an intellectual property violation. A time-lapse wouldn't be as revealing, but there's a chance etsy might reject it, I guess.
I have seen certain running web apps that leak memory across any browser they are run in. Firefox can't do anything about poorly written Javascript.
Talk to Noam Chomksy, then. It's the label he was identifying with last time I heard him interviewed.
It's not even using a HTTP GET request that a browser would. It's a HTTP HEAD request.
No worries! I block spam accounts too, haha.
I saw an account that had tweets that sounded a bit off. After reading them carefully, I realized they were most likely fake 'real' tweets. Incredible what the spammers are doing these days.
What Will Google Announce At I/O?
The trouble is that, particularly with physical products, being overfunded often means the project does need more money up-front than originally estimated. For example, they may need to change their production process to one that has higher upfrunt costs but allows for higher volume.
The US is in fact providing a defense subsidy to it's allies AND to it's enemies.

EVERYONE gets their weaponry from the US (they bought it back when they were allies, now their enemies), and/or gets weaponry developed with US military R&D.

It's certainly good for the US defense industry. You've got to buy more better weapons cause your enemy has bought more better weapons, and both sides buy em from the US defense industry.

When the US gives another country military aid (or actually most any kind of aid), 100% of the funds 'donated' need to be used buying military goods from US companies. So military aid goes right to US defense companies too. (I think Israel is the one special exception, who for some reason only have to spend 50% of their military aid on US goods, and can spend the other half on Israeli-made goods).

The US spends more on the military than every other country _combined_.

So, yeah, I'm not sure this state of affairs could really be described as the US keeping the planet _safe_ by spending so much on military. But it is true that the US equips the entire rest of the world militarily.
I see a ton of moleskine cashier notebooks on etsy with nothing more a rubber stamp inked on the front. I know it's different than etching a logo on the back.

What's the criteria for modification. How much must you change an object before it passes. Maybe if he covered it in fake rhinestones he would have been OK.
Announced at some no-name conference which just happens to be the day before Google I/O. This is just a marketing attempt to get their name in the news when the wave of Google stuff comes out. They like to do this for Apple too, though I never quite understand the point.

Stay classy Microsoft.
apparently the author hasn't heard of a little thing called the Facebook API?
In my opinion, it revolves around the idea that Capital in the Marxist sense intrinsically represents a restriction on the liberty of others. In a moderate sense, this mostly means that the accumulation of Capital can and should be restricted, counter to conventional Libertarian thought which holds this as an unassailable right. HTH :)
Maybe you're talking to the wrong people at Microsoft. My conversations with MS are usually focused on architecture and how I can use their products to better solve my specific problems. Ask to talk to a developer evangelist for starters.
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When human weakness is targeted(unintentionally & uncontrollably) at such an unprecedented scale, users loose. people loose.

And like the housing bubble, "at the end", everyone is going to be looking at one another and saying don't blame us everyone else was doing it too.
My single largest issue with Firefox stability is constantly running into the 32bit memory barrier. Either split tabs out into multiple processes, or enable 64bit support already.

My browser crashes on average twice a day due to running out of memory and FF just giving up. It doesn't even crash gracefully, it just up and quits.

(I frequently have ~100 tabs open, and I am quite thankful that Firefox lets me search across my tabs! Very useful feature)
"It appears to me that money goes directly to the project owner's Amazon Payments account"

Interesting I didn't know that.

"Even if Amazon lays the blame for the chargebacks on Kickstarter, they're probably safe."

Given what you have said though what would be the scenario where they could even do that? If someone is setting up (as you've pointed out) an account with amazon payments then where does amazon have standing to do anything with kickstarter?
Technically, so is the inverse.
Depends on how good he is. I built a circuit board with over a thousand solder joints; at the start, you could easily see it was soldered by hand. By the time I was done, it looked like it was dipped in solder.
The problem is always bad apples taking advantage of the system. It feels like you're making the argument, "If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn't be worried."
That's not what they want to see.. they want shaping and staining wood, free boards and wires, etc. They want nothing => something, essentially.
That is because while it is easy to get your money back for most transactions if there is a disagreement, wide range legal battles are a much bigger threat.

Heck if you don't have the right TOS you could get sued by someone who never purchased from you in a court on the other side of the country.
Tindie is awesome, but most of what it sells are parts or subassemblies, not finished products which appears to be what this dispute is over.
It didn't. Off-hand, HanFree and Lockpicks by Open Locksport are both confirmed to have taken the money and run by the project creator, and ZionEyez and a whole bunch of others have simply gone silent.
> You can't simply suggest that addiction/mental illness is "self inflicted", give them $10K and say "You're on your own, bud." That isn't solving anything. Solving homeless is the same as solving mental illness and/or addiction, and those are massively hard problems to address.

Not true. You know how you can solve homelessness without solving mental illness and addiction EVEN IF (let's accept for the sake of argument) most homelessness is caused by mental illness and addiction?

It's really quite simple. You just give housing to mentally ill and addicted people. They are still mentally ill and/or addicted, but now they're not homeless, because you gave them a place to live.
> That is, it's harder (and slower) to start, and you can only go so far.

That's a strange definition of "same benefits".
As soon as I saw how much over the minimum it had gone, I too had the same thoughts.

However I am not so sure about a kickstarter imposed maximum, as certain projects (say non physical goods) can grow indefinitely (in terms of the quantity of the product given out) but have a minimum amount before they are able to bring the product to market.

I think it is more useful for the creator of the kickstarter to set a minimum and optional maximum.

I also quite like the idea of holding some amount in escrow until progress has been made (maybe anything over twice the minimum or similar).
I don't see how they would not, or how they'd adequately deal with resellers. It'd be like github trying to ensure all people pushing code up to github have the proper rights to that code.
Many proofs are in some sense proofs by exhaustion. For example, to prove that no square of an integer ends in a digit '3', the typical proof I) makes the search space smaller by working modulo 10, and II) exhausts all possibilities.

In the end, it all boils down to aesthetics: going from infinitely many cases to a small finite number, as given above, is acceptable because the number is low, and because mathematicians are convinced the remainder is about as simple as it gets.

Going to about 2000, as in the four color theorem, is not, because 2000 is a lot, and, I think more so, because mathematicians aren't convinced that it is necessary to handle each of these cases individually.

And of course, mathematicians would agree that using 5 instead of 10 in step I above leads to a nicer proof. It requires less tedious work in step II and leads to a stronger result (squares never end in 3 or 8).
Human Asteroids with Nolan Bushnell [video]
There is a bit more to this. Wikipedia has a good summary of the indictment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Dollar
A federal grand jury brought an indictment against von NotHaus and three others in May 2009 in United States District Court in Statesville, North Carolina,[24] and von NotHaus was arrested on June 6, 2009. Bernard von NotHaus is charged with one count of conspiracy to possess and sell coins in resemblance and similitude of coins of a denomination higher than five cents, and silver coins in resemblance of genuine coins of the United States in denominations of five dollars and greater, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 485, 18 U.S.C. § 486, and 18 U.S.C. § 371; one count of mail fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 and 18 U.S.C. § 2; one count of selling, and possessing with intent to defraud, coins of resemblance and similitude of United States coins in denominations of five cents and higher, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 485 and 18 U.S.C. § 2; and one count of uttering, passing, and attempting to utter and pass, silver coins in resemblance of genuine U.S. coins in denominations of five dollars or greater, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 486 and 18 U.S.C. § 2.[24]

He was minting coins that looked like US currency and was involved in other charges that look like they are related to fraud.
There is an mzscheme language mode, but it specifically does not include set-car! and set-cdr!.
"Why it works" is a very subjective notion. A very good example of the difference between proving something is true and showing why it's true comes in the undergraduate Real Analysis textbooks by Walter Rudin and Charles Pugh.

If you look at reviews for Rudin's books, the word "magic" is used quite frequently. Rudin will cover the minimum amount of theory necessary and prove each theorem in a highly specific way. He tends to achieve the minimum number of words necessary for a proof.

In contrast, Pugh focuses on building up the surrounding constructs and techniques to the point where you can apply the same tactics to a wide variety of problems. To me, this gives more of a sense of "why" each theorem is true.
So it is a $299 plastic ipad stand with about $5 worth of magstripe-reading tech attached. My point is that this is being represented as a 'register reinvented' when in fact you still have to add on all the things you listed that make a register.
> Electronic warfare is not on the same level as real warfare. Nobody will die if the internet is down for a few weeks.

The economic devastation would be huge. Banks could not process payments, utilities could not be managed in some areas, software companies would basically lose all productivity.

Heck even many hospitals would be unable to access medical records.

There would be serious wide spread repercussions that would leave a lasting impact on, if nothing else, our economy.
> I think the fact that every Go proponent attacks the developer of the game is one thing which keeps me from using Go.

Nah, not that I like Go very much but while reading this article I was like "oh, and how is this Go's fault?". It is like I'd depend on some library and then the library gets pulled from the internet or updated in an incompatible way, how is this a problem of the language that I develop in.

I might as well blame my text editor for allowing me to do stupid things.
But, both of your driving factors, affected patients, and price to treat, are in turn driven by other factors such as competition, targeting symptoms, and the cost of research.

While perhaps not blockbuster, orphan drugs for rare diseases can turn quite a profit for pharmaceuticals.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2012/05/02/how-com...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732392610457827...
This is really interesting. Have any theorems been proved or at least conjectured based on a probabilistic model for primes? Do you have any suggested resources for learning more about the Cramer model?
Let's see.

"Cognitive strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not. As humanity has developed throughout history, individual intelligence has become less critical to our daily existence, but no less important to our lives. Our intelligence, more than any other thing we possess, still determines the quality and the quantity of our time here in these bodies. Whereas previously our intelligence determined how much food we ate and how warm and dry we stayed, it now merely determines how well we function in these new surroundings we have crafted for ourselves as our culture has accumulated. But we are still animals - our cognitive existence is, in the final analysis, the only one that actually matters. A stupid man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were smart. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the physical or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their ability to do math goes up." -- some ranting fool

Or try the experiment with "visual acuity". Or with "a strong family connection". Or with "memory". They all work just as well as "strength".

Individual sentences in the Rippetoe quote are true (like "strong is happier than weak" and "strength is less day-to-day essential than it was, but still very important to overall life" and "it's instructive to see what happens as you get stronger"). The overall package, with the superlative phrasing exemplified by the first sentence, is total utter bullshit.

Replies like hoelle's, below, about "play with kids" and "get up stairs".... that's true of strength, but it applies to things other than strength, too. Again, "visual acuity" is a drop-in replacement, and so is "short-term memory".
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My friend's Russian father lived in Serbia with his mother when he was a young child. He was entitled to a wage in rubles - he was employed by the Russian government - and he had a nice little triangle going. The Russians had pegged the ruble to the US dollar (or close enough) to avoid looking weak, so the ruble was artificially inflated. Yugoslavia didn't do that, so it had a much weaker currency. He would make his paycheck go ruble > USD > yugoslav currency (can't recall the name) and he made quite a bit of 'free' money that way.
When looking at the map that was posted two things are clear to me:

1. Blocking 3/4 of one of the lanes under the bridge is a danger to both motorists and pedestrians.
2. I highly doubt there are many pedestrians at this intersection. It is basically an industrial park and the road dead ends a block away.
30 min of average-intensity running will not get you anywhere, body adapts quickly.

this is a good set of exercises to mix into your home (next to the chair) routine. and the point of the article is intensity level while touching most of muscle groups.
It turns out that this system was, fittingly, developed by a special effects company.

http://www.laservision.com.au/page.asp?lid=1&sec=Project...
How else do you deal with all the import invocations in the source code files with outdated versions?

M4? Make + C preprocessor? Perl generating Perl? I tried to guess the least-absurd option for updating a library.

Please inform the rest of us what the standard tooling for handling this in the Perl community is.
> The use of the word "libertarian" to describe a set of political positions can be tracked to the French cognate, libertaire, which was coined in 1857 by French anarchist Joseph Déjacque who used the term to distinguish his libertarian communist approach from the mutualism advocated by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon.[26] Hence libertarian has been used by some as a synonym for anarchism since the 1890s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology
Etsy is pretty aggressive. Try contacting any of their members with a request. They'll shut down your account without warning.
That's what libertarians thought. Libertarian socialists generally have ignored Bitcoin.
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Hello! SEO masters of hacker news, I need your expert advice. I am starting a blog about a certain hobby of mine, and I thought this would be a great opportunity to start practicing SEO!

The biggest question that I have is: how do you pick your keywords?

I understand you must find relevant keywords, but how do you determine that it is worth pursuing?
How do you determine the competition level of a keyword?
Is using tools like SEOMoz a must?
Can we start getting concrete examples of how mutable states blow up code? Because in the end programs work with data, and if this data is represented by a mutable changing over time or 5 immutables being passed from function to function it's more a philosophical problem. Maybe I obviously do not understand the matter, but no one gave me concrete examples or a VERSUS so far. Please enlighten me with code and not thin theory.