skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got that as a gift, and I have to unfortunately state that it's a negative. It does not help. Actually it helps even worse than cracking the windows down a little.

I do realize that the problem needs to be approached two fold - expelling hot air outside to reach ambient + cooling air that's being taken in some manner.
If you dislike their service so badly, why would you continue to use it?
A veteran had it I think, it was on a battlefield 1/4 of the screen to the right from the village, IIRC.
Secret European deals to hand over private data to America
Ask HN: Best command line Usenet clients?
Any suggestions for good CLI usenet clients? I currently use Thunderbird for Usenet, but 90% of my other activites are performed on the command line (IRC, web browsing, XMPP, etc.)

I may end up moving my email to a command line system as well, so if you have a favorite email+usenet client that works too, but simplicity is more important. Working well with tmux is a plus. Binary support is not a necessity, but would be nice. Also, as a matter of personal preference, Vim-like is better than Emacs-like.
I think this is less "Lyft is awkward", more "I am not Lyft's target market and am (inexplicably) upset about it".
Every time I've used Lyft, I've had a fantastic experience. I have great conversations with the drivers and we can connect for those few minutes we're in the car together, then we go our separate ways. I do treat the drivers like a friend, albeit a "single serving friend" (a la Fight Club).

I'll always use Lyft when it's available; it's just a great way of getting around, and having fun while doing so.
"I think WikiLeaks, if you've looked at past history … their focus isn't necessarily the constitution of the United States."

Which is truly remarkable, seeing how they are based in Sweden.
Medium vs Svbtle
This is awesome! Although it's designed for the debug version of your app, this could be really useful for open source apps release builds as well. Built in bug reporting for iOS is a great idea for opening the channel for developer/customer communication.
It depends on the channel lifetime movies fit that stereotype where HBO runs shows like OZ that are far less simplistic. However, one of the positives of cop shows is jurry's now want hard evedence like DNA where they used to be far more willing to rely on circumstantial evidence which resulted in a lot of false convictions.
Except a pink haired 20 something designer in SF pretty much is Lyft's target market.
Does anyone know what this article is about?

The author writes as if everybody knows what Lyft is. Or the Marina, for that matter. Am I just living under a rock, or is this something local to SF?
Turn you bike into a roaming disco [light] and control it from your phone
You'd be hard-pressed to find an emacs user who agreed that it took more effort than other options. Which is a good illustration of why we have more than one editor: different people have different affinities to various editors and IDEs.

In theory that sort of thing ought to be true for search, too. For example, blekko (new UI as of 3 weeks ago) focuses on clustering results. Here's what it does for pride: https://blekko.com/#?q=pride That gives you the answer you wanted, without personalization, and gives other people the answer they wanted, too.
What's an example of a tough CS question? Maybe you're getting shot down because the interviews you've been getting are unreasonable, or maybe you're getting shot down because there's a real deficit, at which point you'd need to make a decision between a career in software or something else. Both are equally plausible scenarios.

There's nothing intrinsically meaningful about your CS grades, so let's not interrogate those.

You're too young to have anything "completely destroyed" by a GPA and a couple bad interviews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_%28TV_series%29

Homeland sticks out. Someone else mentioned hurt locker and others above.
Booster clubs have never really taken care of the poor, as Sinclair Lewis eloquently observed.
Ask HN: How to get rid of a bad gut feeling / co-founder?
One year ago i had an idea and decided to found a startup. But i made a big mistake. A got a co-founder on board while having a bad gut feeling.

He is a business guy and we already worked a few years together as agency (he) and freelancer (me, designer). He still runs his agency full-time while i am working on it 30h/week (while studying and working). I have 2/3 of the shares. He has round about 1/3. But we wrote nothing down and the company is not founded yet. He is round about 10 years older than me (i am 21).

There are a few things which makes me nervous: i have had a bad gut feeling from the beginning, i do not trust him and it blocks and demotivates me to have him in the team. He is lazy (regarding our startup) and it feels like having a shark on board.

First i tried to get rid of him six month ago. It didn't work out. I told him by phone that i can not do this with him. That i have a really bad feeling and do not want to do this with him. That i like to work with him but that we have two different views on entrepreneurship and how to build a startup. He threatened with a lawyer and said that he promise to "destroy" me when i would do this.
He added two persons to the team, tried to create a partnership and wrote round about 20 lines of the business plan. Nothing more, in one year.

Now, six months later i begin to struggle again with the fact to have him in the team. It blocks me mentally. It demotivates. It feels bad. We are two months away from our launch and i really need some advices how to handle this. Should i contact a lawyer? Should i just say "Goodbye" and hang up the phone?

What do you think? The best thing would have been to listen to my gut and havn't let him on board, i know.
This would be pretty cool if I could play around with the range.
When you have leftist democrats that are statists and country-club type republicans that don't really believe in limited government, and these two groups make up the majority of congress then there's really no hope until the people wake up to the tyranny that is happening.

But the people are ignorant and all the statist politicians and government officials have to say is "security" and the majority of the sheeple fall right in line - "what do I have to worry about, I'm not doing anything wrong. I dont' care if they're spying, if it's protecting the country".
Exactly.

Too often I hear people say "I don't mind personally." But it does affect everyone, since it chills political speech which hurts democracy.
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Indeed. I'm American by birth, and definitely love "America" as a people and a set of ideals and a culture... and I mostly abhor the (current) US government as it's practiced. In fact (and NSA, if you're listening, go ahead and take note) it would be quite appropriate to label me about as "anti government" as they get. I think our "leaders" are mostly scum and I don't consider any of them as "representing" me, and especially not my supposed "elected representatives" from North Carolina (Richard Burr, Kay Hagan and David Price). The only members of Congress I really have any respect for are Senators Ron Wyden, Rand Paul, and Mark Udall.

Our system of government started out with nobel ideas and it's served reasonably well for a long-time, but the decay and corruption are really starting to set in. It may also be the case that the divisions in this country are becoming so sharp that it's not even possible to talk about one government that truly represents America as one cohesive whole.
The politicians might say nasty things and express outrage in public but nothing will change. EU is still in a recession hell and they're nothing Washington can't soothe over with a few checks.

Cash rules everything around me. CREAM get the money, dolla dolla bill yall.
Also, there is the decription part. The browser would need to auto-decrypt on the fly all the encrypted messages that are meant for your eyes only. Without asking for a password every time. And without having to open a new application. Rendering pages might prove difficult, as the page can only be rendered properly after decription.
by his criteria, an honest analysis would conclude: neither has government.
It sound like YOU might need to talk to a lawyer before making any decisions. Hacker news is probably not an appropriate place to get information regarding this situation.
Put this in phones to charge them when you aren't using it?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lyft
Should have been ousted just before Obama's rather tame speech in Berlin - That would have made his speech a bit more interesting.
The articles coverage of stop and frisk is bizarre, the police talk about how effective it's been despite halving the rate at which they do it. This would indicate that stop and frisk has a near zero effect on the murder rate.
Perhaps some experiences
How is this news and why are people surprised at this?
May I ask a simple question as a reality check? Granting for the purpose of discussion that the current revelations about NSA in the United States appear to show a slippage to worse conditions from the legal restrictions that originally governed NSA's activities related to Americans living in America, is it genuinely correct, as the article claims, that "idealists have, as the Washington saying puts it, 'nowhere else to go'" besides supporting one major United States political party or the other?

My observation of history is that third-party political movements in the United States have never won the Presidency or a majority in Congress since the fragmented election of 1860 that began the current "two party" system, but the two parties have changed everything about their positions on policy while keeping their names the same. The Democratic Party and Republican Party went through a complete role reversal with each other on many issues from the 1890s to the 1990s, and third-party movements in the United States continue to nudge the parties to respond to popular discontent. United States political parties are not ideological, and have no ideological test for membership. Political parties in the United States are coalitions to aid the efforts of individual candidates to win elections. My state has been governed by a third-party governor quite recently, and I have voted for candidates who are genuinely independent of any party, and candidates endorsed by SEVEN different political parties, in state and federal elections since the 1970s.

As for a broader question about where freedom is available to the common people, what do immigration patterns tell us? The United States is a rare example of a country that has consistent, sustained population growth irrespective of natural increase through immigration. Tens of millions of people around the world have responded to public opinion surveys to indicate that they desire to immigrate to the United States. The United States gains population on a net basis in comparison to almost any other country. If there is a freedom problem here in the United States, where is there not a freedom problem?
Ah, that's right, good point. I actually campaigned for Ron Paul myself, but, like Snowden, believed in Obama as my second choice.
Junk like this:

http://dx.com/c/flashlights-lasers-999/led-flashlights-901/a...

will make quite a lot of light using a single NIMH AA that has been out of a charger for weeks (pushing ~ 1 volt...). It doesn't get you to 0 batteries, but it does a nice job of making light when you happen to realize you need it (without thinking about it in the interim).
Is it accurate to say the device would perform better in cold environments than warm environments, then?
I used to use elm, and pine. alpine is pine's modern incarnation. I think alpine probably rivals mutt for rabid fan enthusiasm. I've used both and prefer alpine. It does usenet too.

https://www.washington.edu/alpine/faq/whatis.html#2.1.1

alpine, via pine (and imap) has very respectable parentage: https://www.washington.edu/pine/overview/credits.html
Well, you made through three quarters of the comment before typing 'sheeple'. That's gotta count for something.

Your first statement I tend to agree with, though 'tyranny' is a strong word often implying rule by a single person.
Scala as template language is totally optional. There are severals options: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.0.3/Modules
NSA reportedly bugged European Union offices in Washington DC
It was also brought to my attention from that article a few days ago about the secret dance party: NY has a law disallowing gatherings of more than 50 people without a permit.

That to me is just as constitution-breaking as free speech zones (though note: not an american, have never read or studied your constitution, may be completely wrong).
The clock is ticking, and I'm getting a little nervous because my primary use of Google Reader is maybe slightly unusual.

What I really need is something that's going to let me manage podcast feeds with a web interface, and sync those feeds to an Android app automatically. Any suggestions? I'm still using Google Listen even though it was abandoned ages ago, just because it gets this particular feature right.
Blogger.com and Wordpress.com traffic post the end of Google Reader
Stealth Wear Aims to Make a Tech Statement
Yes Europe, what is wrong with you?

Because we all know that France, Belgium and Germany represent all the 47 countries in the continent. Just as Florida, Alaska and New York represent the entire 50 states.

This reductionist articles are very, very, lame.
> newer snprintf

Also see C11's sprintf_s() and similarly-named friends.
I can see this being used for security. Imagine replacing passive IR motion detectors in the home with this!
The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out
From Whistleblower to Apple Store Employee
Sometimes you can think something could be better and become something you'd enjoy.....
IE11 Gives Microsoft A Shot At Browser Redemption
Thanks, I'll check that out; I've heard of Pine (mainly from using Pico for a while before learning Vim), but forgot the two went together. There are some great names on that list, so hopefully it's good!
Well, you made through three quarters of the comment before typing 'sheeple'. That's gotta count for something.

It's weird that your offended by that.

Your first statement I tend to agree with, though 'tyranny' is a strong word often implying rule by a single person.

No, it doesn't imply rule by a single person.
The 10 Megabyte Manifesto
HBO is the new hollywood, same with other adult only cable networks. Lot's of directors are looking to make mini series and getting the money to do it because studios currently won't allow anything deviating from the standard money making model of superhero flicks.

With more and more people not showing up to theaters anymore because they have home theatre, I can see HBO and similar adult networks overtaking the profits of major studios eventually because they don't have to submit to the ratings board for censorship or studio execs.

I was referring to ABC/NBC/FOX type banal cable shows but you're right there is some criticism and dissent showing up in those programs but the overwhelming theme is warrantless surveillance saves lives, torture by good guy's is always good, and alternative behavior out of societal norms still leads to doom.
I use Digg for feeds and soundcloud/youtube for podcasts. If the podcaster isn't using those mediums, I don't listen to them because there is a lack of a good audio podcasting listening service. Although... I have tried to use digg yet
Hey, I'm the creator of this. Feel free to tear it apart or give me whatever criticism you want. Email me at dan [at] danturkel [dot] com if you want and check it out on github [0]

[0]: https://github.com/daturkel/10mbmanifesto

edit:

The basic idea here is sort of twofold.
A) You can make a really great website that can still be hosted on Neocities.
B) Sometimes that's a better idea than a site that requires things other than the basics.

I want to add a section on lightweight frameworks and tools for building sites that could be put on Neocities (skeleton, foundation, etc.) but I'm hoping that the creator will add subdirectory support so I don't have to write instructions on how to mod all these frameworks. Also thinking about designing a little widget/button to put on your site's about/colophon page to advertise that your site is 10-m-m compliant. Thought that would be kitschy but cute.

second edit: Another section I'd like to add is tools for slimming your site down. Things like HTML/CSS/JS minifiers, PNG/JPEG optimizers, etc. I pretty much wrote this thing up in a day so there's plenty to do.
Scripts from over 10,000 movies
seems like something the CIA science directorate could have come up with, but never released to the public
Birth of Hashtags: Groups for Twitter
> the more you constrain the outcome and guide the player along a small number of paths, the more effectively you can tell the story, but the game becomes less interesting by equal measures. Maybe there's some art to finding the right balance.

It's a fascinating idea, to have a story that is shaped by the players actions, incorporating them as significant plot points in a story - so that whatever the player does is given meaning in the story. Sounds nice... but to do it, you some kind of a "grammar" of stories, and a way to recognise player actions (not to mention actually getting it to generate a story, a sentence of the grammar).

Perhaps one way to recognise player actions is with a constrained world, such as a point and click (or text) adventure, with pre-defined nouns and verbs.

So, you pick something up, and it becomes the solution to a puzzle; whoever you meet becomes a mentor, ally, enemy, depending on what the story needs at that point; you do nothing, and things come to you; you go somewhere and it becomes a threshold to a special world; you do something difficult (e.g. it takes a few steps to get to it), and it yields a greater reward. The player seems to be trying to achieve something (how to detect that? Things seen in the distance, or mentioned, or written or implied, with directions, and the player goes that way), you make it more difficult.

Such things usually turn out obviously cookie-cutter, because it is by definition without creativity. But perhaps with a sufficiently large database and orthogonal grammar, it would be no more derivative than many popular films/novels.
RF and EE here. This is nothing new. Or at least a motivated junior/senior in college would stumble upon this simple application of wave propagation theory pretty early on.
Listen Up[1] (free version[2]) team is working on integrating it with gPodder.net[3] which, unfortunately, seems to be folding under the new load[4]. It's down right now, actually, and I don't remember their webUI but the desktop client[5] is nice so if you want to manage subscriptions from your computer, that's a way to do it. Not currently but in general. This is what I'm going with anyway.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.codepimps....

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.codepimps....

[3] http://codepimpsdotorg.blogspot.com/2013/05/listen-up-gpodde...

[4] http://codepimpsdotorg.blogspot.com/2013/06/listen-up-gpodde...

[5] http://gpodder.org/
why can it detect humans and not other moving objects?

knowing how many people on the other side of the wall will change our sense of privacy
Technically, the US is supposed to be allied with most of those EU member governments. Violating the security of your allies isn't exactly a friendly move.
slrn is nice.
Former NSA contractor warns of “murky” interception arrangements
So make the successes public in full detail.
In fact, that seems preferable to me.
Very good game! I refrained from cheating for a few hours but got bored waiting for furs n things. Poked around JS for unlimited ammo and just completed the game minutes ago. Glad I cheated because otherwise I know I'd be playing it for days on end.
| the US is still very much better in these
| regards than many of the other first-world
| nations.

Should the USG continue to push the envelope until such a point as this is no longer true? How far should the envelope be pushed before it is 'too close' to the edge?
UIImage-PDFColoredImage - export a vector, use it at any size, in any color
Hands up: who had heard of "docking" in the sense of http://x86.cs.duke.edu/~brd/Teaching/Bio/asmb/current/Papers...? For me, that didn't even come from the same ballpark. And that is after I accepted that CSS cheat sheets and type theory were in the same ballpark.
In the interest of encouraging development of modern websites just as good as any non-neocities site, I made a little thing called the 10 MB Manifesto [0]. I also submitted it to HN [1] as I'm looking for discussion.

[0]: http://10mbmanifesto.neocities.org
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5963671
numexpr (a tool used to optimize performance of numpy code) has support for parallelizing operations. See http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/wiki/MultiThreadVM
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/
You can mimic selective receive using a router process. Essentially, you could generate one channel for every branch of the pattern match, then generate a process which reads from the input channel and deals the message to the appropriate branching channel.
Here's David Simon (creator of The Wire) explaining how crime stats are 'juked'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRt46W3k-qw#t=19m00s

I'll try to paraphrase a key part:

He did acknowledge that while you can use various tricks to hide crime (turn robberies into larcenies), it's very difficult to massage the murder rate numbers since a state medical examiner usually classifies the death.

So how do you bring the murder rate down? They basically instilled a curfew in poorer neighborhoods, and swept the streets every night. Baltimore cops locked up something like a 100,000 people, in a city with about 650,000 people, most never charged with anything.

Definitely check the video out.
So what ? This is to for the terrorist thing, as they claim.
Yeah, these codebase-gurus are often bottlenecks. I personally think they should invest time on documentation and walkthroughs.

They could also answer some questions on the condition that the newly-enlightened person must document the answer. (Kind of like caching.)

The problem is that many programmers have little training in effective communication (that is, the skill of somehow transferring/inspiring a mental representation from your mind into someone else's). It's like pulling teeth to get them to document — even if they desperately want to escape being pigeonholed as the only one who understands the crappy legacy system. (Even when job security isn't an issue.)
> What?

I disagree with your notion of equating types with tests. They are fundamentally different. Types provide substantially stronger guarantees without having to execute any code.

> The type system does need more information from the user to allow the same kind of flexibility in a type safe environment.

Did you have a look at Haskell? Or any other language with type inference?
The connection you are trying to establish between "untyped == no need to specify types explicitly" and "typed == necessary to specify types explicitly" is patently wrong.

Having a helpful compiler doesn't mean that the language has to suck. I don't want to offend you, but your comments create the impression that you are lacking experience with a modern, statically typed language.
Awesome, works like a charm.
Functional programming is notoriously slow. It might be better for abstracting multicore programming but please show me the advents that avoid copy flow of data and unnecessary procedures?
I cant tell if this is a legitimate response or if you are being obtuse.