skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you - I was just beginning to wonder if the other side was actually right, when you reminded me there are two games - market share and free speech.

You don't have to rule the world before fixing it.
These are hackey kludges that nobody uses though.

Who cares if you can run Quake or Skype in a browser? Nobody wants that because browsers suck. They're just so, so, so limited compared to native tech. Mozilla should be working on getting us the fuck away from Javascript, HTML and CSS and severely limited browsers.
I understood that large criminal transactions were generally done in CHF - larger-denomination notes available, and it avoids currency conversion costs when you're withdrawing from one Swiss account and depositing into another.
Pump.io a social server with an ActivityStreams API
Incorrect. TCP/IP is the universal language that the Internet speaks.

HTTP merely rides on top of it...just like SMTP, FTP, SSH, IMAP, DHCP, POP3, IRC and BitTorrent.

Take a look here - http://www.sandvine.com/downloads/documents/Phenomena_2H_201...

"Web browsing" is only one piece of the pie - far from universal.
>It paints the screen bright red and then hangs.

Well, it's a start, I guess. :) (The project is literally only half an hour old.)
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Aw c'mon - perfect HN faire for a long weekend

Astronomy has always pushed humans onwards and its great that these things are within reach of a school or kids budget and its what we their parents need to be boneing up on (as well as phonetic spelling and new ways to learn arithmetic)

Fantastic stuff, didn't understand one word in three. Please do a MakeMag special
Genetic Algorithms Part I- Chromosomes
Ask HN: What language should I pursue during summer?
Currently, I am a freshman in High School and I do frontend development and user interface design (HTML, CSS, PS)

I am looking to learn about backend programming over the summer. I currently have a working knowledge of Java (1yr), and basic knowledge of Javascript.

I'm debating over learning Ruby, Python, Javascript (Node.js), or PHP.

My goal is the ability to build web applications, such as a content management system, todo list, etc.

Can I have some suggestions on what to learn? I'll have about 3 months to gain knowledge on the language.

Thanks :)
For places, could it be cheating and peeking at GPS positions in the EXIf tags?
ASK PG: Look like New User from India are Banned from Posting New Content
Look like you banned users from India from posting stuff when the account is new. This is very discriminatory in nature, while you allow users from other countries to post without any such restrictions.

I created new account to post some anonymous stuff , but I was shown message "Sorry, your account is too new to submit this site"

I tried searching it on google, look like country specific banning

https://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/What-should-I-do-when-I-get-an-error-Sorry-your-account-is-too-new-to-submit-this-site

-Hemant
Ask HN: Port my number to Twillio or GV?
GV has that weird 50sms limit, and it looks like you need to register a new carrier number to get it working, based on their porting faq.

Twillio looks perfect.. I could forward twillio to GV and get calls in my e-mail.
Or even google picasa!
I saw zero.rs and said, "Hey, I know! I'm going to make a kernel!" Then after showering... came back and saw this.

Well, in any case, great work! (Perhaps I'll use yours as a starting point.)

EDIT: One question. When I try to compile it, rustc gives me these errors:

error: no item found for `modulo`
error: no item found for `durable`
error: aborting due to 2 previous errors

If I had to guess, it would be due to the fact that I'm trying to compile it on OS X but have i386-intel-linux set as the target, but your screenshot shows (at least it being emulated) on OS X. Did you have to build a special cross compiler version of rustc?
>> It's not "The universal operating system" for nothing.

+1

>> completely n00b question : how does Debian compare with Ubuntu ?

http://www.ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu/ubuntu-and-debian
Probably a good time to invest in bitcoin, although my poor and quick analysis of bitcoin charts doesn't seem to indicate much activity in reaction to this that couldn't be attributed to bitcoin's usual volatility. Webmoney, another shady online payment processer will probably be the greatest beneficiary of this. It's funny that bitcoin isn't used more by botnet owners and their ilk. They seem to be slow adopters of new technologies (notice how they dont use tor either).
Or, if you have a small budget, you can just use this: http://www.insideview.com/
> (The project is literally only half an hour old.)

That's one of the funny things about starting your own operating system; it's not some sort of herculean task. Especially once you've done it once or twice.

While you're right that this isn't particularly feature-rich at this point, it does get the annoying bits out of the way. It's a starting point that anyone doing this task would have to do, and do in the same way.

It's also a proof of concept that this kind of thing does actually work; see the other thread on zero.rs where people were speculating if this is possible. Now we know.
Do you feel like you could talk about that to your current employer ? "I wan't to leave, so let's plan something to make it painless for both of us"
It's better than just tell them "i'm leaving in two weeks, that was great", and you still have the option to do it that way if things go wrong with the first way.

Note : i've only worked in the valley for a few months and it was a long time ago, so take my advice with caution.
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder...
webmoney seems to be alot more popular among these types than bitcoin
A language that can be statically parsed won't allow runtime redefinition of itself, like Lingua::Romana::Perligata. http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata....

As Tom Duff said in the "Duff's Device" post, I'm not sure whether this makes an argument for or against this feature.
I'm mostly peeved with the whole theme licensing issue that's popped up recently. Mostly the idea that if you don't do things their way, you're doing it wrong (and can be banned from speaking at a WordCamp).
That isn't a kernel
Sample Rosetta Stone on your Android device 
Rosetta Stone touts itself as one of the fastest and easiest ways to learn a new language. However, its learning system also carries a rather steep price tag: $300-$500 for the complete set. Of course this price is without any specials/discounts the company may be running at any given time. Still, if you’re going to spend that kind of money on a language course, you might want to try it first...
I don't have a high IQ, but I've found that if I wilfully depress myself before doing something mentally tasking I usually perform much better than I would have otherwise.
How to Give a Killer Presentation
In the game against Facebook, Amazon and Apple, Google is winning
I think the idea it's now so hard to think of one means the way most people online find out what's going on is no longer one portal - but a wide variety of different portals, soon to become just a organic process of discovery with weird sudden herd-like mentality (that might be a Dan Brown)
Incorrect. IP is the universal language that the Internet speaks. Technically.
Already tried using it, setup was a breeze, and already reporting to my Librato metrics.

Nice job
The 405th[1] and therpf[2] are the forums you want. The 405th has more schematics like you mention but therpf has a wider scope.

1: http://www.405th.com

2:http://www.therpf.com

Example: A gillion pepakura schematics for skyrim weapons and armours : http://www.405th.com/forum/armor-uniform-and-prop-making/noo...
Personally, I don't want every forum interaction I have to be a formalized debate, but that's really just my perspective and preference.

Again, my preference: I come to forums for the side-tracks and interesting derailments, most of the time. It's sort of like going to wikipedia. Most of the time my enjoyment of the interaction isn't exactly about the topic, but in what other things interesting people bring to the table that I wouldn't have thought of.

That said, I think there's definitely a place for debate-style forums, but I wonder how much that would be enforced by the tooling so much as by the tooling giving the user-base a lot of leverage and dynamic control in the way of enforcing the culture that is intended by the forum.

In that space, I think a lot of these tools are trying to go down that path.

Discourse has forking and branching for going off topic without derailing, and Vanilla has free form tagging that allows users to vote for things in a way that's consistent with user culture.

I've never used vanilla, but I'm assuming you could also use the gamification aspect to promote users that interact in a way that's consistent with the interaction-style that the culture dictates, and maybe give them the ability to further or more staunchly enforce the culture (points/badges/whatever else for providing good sources, staying on topic, giving notably clear explanations, etc, etc).

I also think that kind of thing gets difficult, and is as much about really being careful about outlining your expectations as anything, as well as adapting as there are new needs. I think of Stackoverflow when I'm talking about this, or on HN, where post titles will be changed sometimes, in a way that seems to adhere to the letter of the rules, but not the spirit, and sometimes seems to remove information that's relevant.

My two cents anyway.
You're not very good at that, are you?

/s

just trying to help
To transfer bitcoin anonymously and without adding to the immutable & public blockchain history, couldn't one just exchange the wallet for an account containing exact amount of BTC, "out of bounds" (via email, pgp, whatever), instead of performing a BTC transaction on the network?
Just out of curiosity, may I ask you how did you find that out (considering that you were able to post)?
Article link (paywall for full-text): http://www.cell.com/chemistry-biology/abstract/S1074-5521%28...
Just as the majority of new languages tout features that were available in Lisp 50 years ago, all of this new forum software recreates Usenet, poorly.

A compelling offering would build on netnews, not ignore it. In particular:

- Threading. Real threading, with subtopics, not the impossible to follow simplistic nested comments currently offered.

- State. Remember which comments have been read and only show new content.

- Killfiles. Let the user decide which topics and other participants to read rather than requiring the forum owner to act as a censor.

- Multiple clients. Allow the forum to be accessed by each user's preferred forum client.

Perhaps there is a commercial opportunity for a company to provide the nntp protocol and manage storage for fora that want rich discussion capabilities.
I'm not associated with HN apart from being a user, but your comment has aroused my curiosity. I've seen no evidence for what you're suggesting, so I was wondering if you could provide some. What have you tried to submit, and why do you think it's specifically users from India being targeted like this?
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Uptime Robot: Free Website Uptime Monitoring
I'd adver that "stupidly late" really is now "never", with rare exceptions that prove the rule like Facebook---which was mispriced but otherwise doesn't deserve its bad reputation (their IPO, not the company), and that's going to further dampen tech IPOs going forward for some time. Why was it mispriced??

Turn it around, to cash out, is your objective an IPO or acquisition by another company?

Further, the sharp decrease in VC returns means less in the pockets of founders and early employees, and therefore less smart money in the game. Heck, you mentioned Elon Musk's Tesla and SpaceX, his money to get them going comes from PayPal, which was bought by eBay in 2002 (by then it was already getting very bad---granted, that was when the dot.com and post/911 crash was playing out---but SarBox is generally viewed as the last nail in the coffin).
I'm increasingly worried that the features of crypto-currencies sought by cypherpunks (like me) are basically identical to the features ideal for money laundering.

Maybe we need to ask something fundamental (which might sound absurd): "Should money laundering be considered illegal, or a natural human right?"

As loaded as that sounds, I don't think it's that easy. There's a pretty clear prima facie case to be made on each side.

An avid fan of Satoshi could reasonably abandon unregulated currencies in fear of the social ills they enable (a la the argument from the author of "The End of Money" that we stop printing 50s and 100s, since they are disproportionately used in support of crime, while the rest of us use plastic for large transactions [1]).

On the other hand, I could see someone concluding that the world would be better off on net if we don't worry as much about crime, but simply ensure there's a simple way to quickly and anonymously transfer value across long distances.

It would be a serious blow to police (and the Woodward/Bernstein's out there) to lose the ability to "follow the money." But there are also compelling economic arguments that lubricating capital flows makes everything better [2, 3].

I remain a skeptical fan too, but the mounting cognitive dissonance is not for the faint of heart.

1. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/cashless_society/2012...

2. Ferguson's Ascent of Money, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Money

3. Maybe various stock European Community arguments pro-liberalization of capital flows, though some of them look weak right now, and it's odd to use these to argue for a new currency...
It's completely unusable given the size. In 30 seconds it streamed 120kb and it probably never stops streaming (until the countdown ends)
Your second paragraph is freaking me out a bit. I don't want to believe it, but it makes sense, and history seems to support it. My theory, though, is that the smart, courageous, creative, curious, passionate people with a strong "EQ" aren't as subject to mental illness. It's one thing to be a recluse who scorns "normal, social people" and stays in his cave doing pretentious, so-so, slightly-creative intellectual work just to spite others, perpetually repeating to himself, "I am smarter than those people," and it's another thing to be a genuine, smart, creative, curious, passionate dude who can actually deal with being isolated from others when he needs to be, and who has the social skills and empathy to socialize when he wants to. I think it also matters whether you're a natural introvert or extrovert, because I theorize that introverts can better cope with the inherent solitude in a creative process. But to be relatively safe from mental illness, you've got to be one of those introverts who could, with some effort, fake it as an extrovert -- one with exceptionally acute social awareness. You need some serious emotional capacity and social understanding to distance yourself from depression if you're a bright, passionate, creative powerhouse, unless you're on the other side of the fence: a natural extrovert who possesses these qualities. In that case, you just have to fight the urge to socialize in order to get your creative work done (or perhaps you are creative while socializing).
This is one of those odd corners of the python ecosystem

I have written at least two dict differs, and I suspect they are like web frameworks - everyone has written a half working one.

However we need good tools that get polished and standardised - this looks nice and I like the full circle ability, but in python's own version of Catch-22, until it succeeds I will stick with writing my own.

I hope it succeeds - my meware sucks
You keep getting downvotes because you are wrong. Alternative currencies -- digital or not -- in no way threaten fiat currencies. The reason is well-understood by economists: law-abiding citizens and businesses have frequent interactions with the government, which demands payment in a fiat currency. The vast majority of businesses that accept Bitcoin payments, even on the black market, do so only because they ultimately convert Bitcoin into fiat currency (hence the popularity of Bitcoin payment processors that do this automatically).
I'm not wrong because of the above example. Nation states have begun coming down on digital currency and this trend will only increase.
Not really, it´s based on Swing. Fonts are going to look horrible.
Consider that git is a database of snapshots-in-time with an interface to append your own snapshot(s), and a protocol for distributing the revised timeline to others.

`git fetch` is how you retrieve those changes from a remote (like github). `git pull` takes it a step further and attempts to merge your changes in automatically. Think of it as two separate "download" and "sync" operations, depending on your workflow, you may want to download, but defer the sync. Eventually, you will need to sync before sending your changes upstream (`git push`), but you have some flexibility in deciding when.

For example, if you are travelling, you may want to fetch your remote(s) so that you have access to a relatively recent copy of the remote, but you aren't ready to apply those changes to your current source tree. Or, you may want fetch the remote(s) and compare the differences before applying the changes locally in case there's risk of incorporating a breaking change that could disrupt things.
Here you go :

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20937654
Why People Hate the Google Bus
So being blind and using Google Glass would equal playing Zork all day?
That's different from my experience in Silicon Valley, although I've never worked in NYC. As an employee at a post-Series A company in an industry I knew approximately fuck-all about (Internet advertising for Facebook), the CEO introduced me (and other engineers) to VC partners and press whenever they visited, and if I'd had anything interesting to talk to them at the time, could have (and that same guy is happy to introduce me to people now, years later). This was at a ~25 person company. I could see it being less common at a 400 person company, but probably more common at a 5-10 person company.

I've seen other companies with a variety of weirdly dysfunctional ways of treating employees, but what's the Tolstoy quote? "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." If you have a decent network in Silicon Valley, and/or are willing/able to bounce once a situation seems bad, it's pretty easy to stay in "Happy families" only.
I feel that statements like that belittle actual depression, which best to my knowledge is not something that you can pop into or out from that trivially.
And you don't understand what the index is. And because of that you are confusing people instead of helping them.

tednaleid already explained it in his reply to you.
Hope for Cure of HIV / AIDS
No, don't validate email addresses with regex. It's more complex than that.
I've personally been pretty happy with SalesForce's Desk.com, it offers a great interface, one agent is free and you have the option of flex agents ($1/hr) instead of paying for a full seat every month when you just need an occasional helper.
Look how things work out in places with a working social safety net, state unemployment benefits pay for rent, public healthcare and gives enough money for food and basic comforts.

Basically it works pretty well, people want to feel like productive members of society and do something for a living, and employers end up having to treat employees with more respect since the threat of unemployment isn't so terrifying.
That was included in my answer. Technically :)
JDK 8 calendar builder
Digitalmars do this with their forums. I remember it being open source, but I can't seem to find it now.

http://forum.dlang.org/
>> "so those with an overdeveloped math functional unit in the brain also have an overdeveloped linguistical unit. This leads to treating every problem as a linguisic problem, because that is what their brain is best equipped to solve."

Seriously, math envy much? Where is it that people formulate these absurd conjectures about mathematics and people who understand mathematics, because every time I hear one it sounds more like defensive attempts to disarm one's feelings of inadequacy by making another group seem inferior or "different" in some way. Furthermore, mathematical capacity and linguistic capacity have no strong links that I know of, so I'm going to need a citation before I swallow that claim, sir.
Your answer explains well why so many people in this thread do not understand the Mozilla mission very well.

Mozilla sees the Internet not as a bunch of bits and bytes and protocols but instead as an integral part of people's lives. As a way to enrich people's lives, to enable innovation, to give people opportunities, to let people communicate.

Sure Mozilla contributes heavily on the technical side in many forms. But, the real value, and this is outlined very well in the mission statement, is about empowering people.

And the single biggest channel for that is the open web. Hence the large focus on web technology.

TCP/IP in itself does not provide any value. It is just a transport. Web technology does all the interesting things, this is why I dare to call it the universal language that the internet speaks.
The problem is that some people are trying to re-create "The Office".

Want to build the perfect tool, the better alternative? That's great, but why don't you start with a single product, say, a word processor, or a spreadsheet?

Start small, iterate, get feedback, and so on, and then expand.

If you were able to beat MS Office in a single product, you must be doing something right, and chances are you will get far more resources (developers, testers, etc.) to build other products.
Finally! This story has been submitted so many times over the past few weeks, it's nice to see it finally get some traction.

Other sources may have different levels of detail, or different takes on the story, so in case anyone is interested in reading the story from other sources, here are some of the other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5668312 (zd.net)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5669927 (zdnet.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5677045 (linuxfoundation.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5680490 (extremetech.com) (4 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5686586 (gizmodo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687720 (readwrite.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5689142 (venturebeat.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5695447 (telegraph.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5711378 (vice.com)

Interestingly, very few comments or upvotes on any of them.
"Money laundering" is a very recent crime. Didn't have it 40 years ago. Back then people just moved money around as they wanted.

I don't know about others, but I find it very difficult to get upset about a crime that's new, that doesn't impact me, and that the world got along just fine with for centuries.

(Of course that doesn't mean that I support crime in general. I'm just taking a side: the social benefit to money-laundering laws is not as much as the social downside, at least in 2013. In 1995 I might have easily weighed it the other way)

You have to ask yourself a serious question: are these laws being used to protect us from crime? Or are they being used to protect the financial system itself from us?
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