skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't even read this on my iPhone. All of the text is forced into a tiny column so small that it wraps after nearly ever word. A lot of the text is pushed right off the right edge of the page.

Please don't alter the viewport, you're doing it totally wrong.
Ask HN: Thoughts on The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5805460

I originally posted this back on June 2. On June 6 the Guardian released the Snowden leak.
Looking back over the comments is ... interesting.
So... taking this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, if you don't trust RDRAND, then you should also not trust _any_ of the hardware the OS runs on. I imagine there would be much easier ways for Intel to implement backdoors to the system than through the non-deterministic random number generator.
A WYSIWYG editor is much, much more accessible to non-techies than Markdown.

After switching my blog from Wordpress to Octopress, I've run into a lot of stylistic problems that Markdown can't handle intuitively. (such as alignment and image links)
In the ~10 self defense classes I've attended, warning shots have been nothing but soundly discouraged. Any discharge of a weapon is inherently dangerous and could be considered deadly force, even independent of intent.

The exception was in ROE/ROF training in war zones, where warning shots were explicitly part of the escalation continuum (although, in practice, if it was dangerous enough, the warning shots were generally fired into the driver, or at least into the engine block -- lasers and frozen bottles of water and such were used before that rather than warning shots, if possible.)
What's important is that we're starting to see movement in high-end resolutions for the first time in quite a while. The arrival of 1080 HD screens created a long term set point in the market that brought progress to a bit of a halt.

But I'm paid to look at text, not watch movies.

It's nice to have real estate, but my eyes are crappy and I would dearly love resolutions to start getting denser again so I can use smaller font sizes without going crosseyed.

It used to be that monitor resolutions trickled down from the top. Now, thanks largely to Apple, they're trickling up from the bottom. But this is movement at the high end. In a few years I can imagine buying a 4k ~27-30" monitor to replace my current 30" monitors.
This interpretation is entirely possible, however there are two issues I have with that.

The first is that even in medieval times parchment wasn't cheap. It wasn't like anyone could get there hands on enough to make 200 pages of gibberish unless they were a relatively wealthy doodler.

The second is that were it in code, the sophistication of ciphers in the 1500's was hot high, and generally quite susceptible to the sort of forensic analysis that is covered in the ISI paper linked in the comments. As far as I am aware, the only cipher system, known at that time, that would not succumb would be a one time pad. And in the case of an OTP cipher it would reveal itself in other ways (lots of entropy in the words).

If it isn't clear, I do agree that it 'being in code' is the most likely reason it has not been deciphered, but that the cipher of that time is not breakable given what we know of 'plain text' of those times (the various languages it could have been written in) makes me wonder how we would fare against an alien communication (should we ever pick one up).
As others mentioned it, wouldn't air pressure compress it as well and thus make it not be able to take off.
Are you guys a platform or do you do the printing and packaging in-house? I hear most social photo co's outsource printing.
I wonder if libraries from Wine or Reactos could be used to run IE9 on XP.

I seriously doubt the reasons Microsoft gave for not supporting it are valid. Even if the sandbox mode could not be used there is no reason why the browser and rendering engine could not run on XP if the proper system DLLs were present, and these could have easily been included with the install as Microsoft does in many other cases.
Just like most PHP projects.
Can someone explain why the material isn't floating in the air? I watched the video and it just sits here?

edit: I understand that air is in the space between the nanotube fibers. But I still don't understand why the material doesn't float. Why doesn't the air inside the material average out with the material itself to result in a space with lower density (thus causing it to float) then the surrounding air?
Real time analytics is tricky due to API limits. (unless you can accept a "real time" of minutes/hours per update)

Example: Twitter's search API is limited to 15 queries of 100 Tweets every 15 minutes. Do you query 100 Tweets every minute, or 1500 Tweets every 15 minutes?
I think it's very easy to imagine that a real human wrote this book, since it's right in line with the materials available in the period. It's not written with some futuristic material like say... laser printer toner. Just because we can't translate something (which may just be gibberish) that doesn't prove the existence of aliens.
Why Behavior Change Apps Fail To Change Behavior
I've been thinking along these lines for a while. For python-based, I think your toolkit is a good stake in the ground.

I think Lua-based is very interesting.
openresty is a great choice for replacing the simple glory of what Apache/PHP once was.

Although, Lapis (moonscript/Lua) adopts "Web-MVC", the way its coded is a toolkit of un-opinionated libs. You can skip the MVC stuff and just have a clean set of libs for throwing things in a directory and getting your bang for very few bucks.

http://leafo.net/lapis/
http://moonscript.org/
http://openresty.org/
I imagine that along with the price tag the main issue for this thing is software support (or lack thereof).

How is HighDPI support in Linux these days?
http://blog.coinbase.com/post/43285532179/unconfirmed-transa...

In this case we fell far short of that goal (some transactions were delayed for a number of days), and for that I am truly sorry

Uhhh... you were saying? If you fail to understand the technical aspects of the technology you're building a business on, be ready for it to bite you in the ass in obscure ways.

Any implementation of Bitcoin will have "leaky abstractions".
I totally agree with this.

Similarly, Socialists can point to most European countries that get superior service for much less cost, while Capitalists (I lean this way) point to amazing efficiency innovations that happen in countries with less regulated systems like India's[0]

What's clear is that our system has somehow found a way to be the worst of both worlds, very expensive, bad service, not universal.

[0]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125875892887958111.html
Ah, you're using the Go TLS package? That makes sense ;-).

As it turns out the latest version of Firefox still connects to servers which don't indicate secure renegotiation; the parent poster caused the problem by mucking around with the TLS settings in about:config.
> The reality is that healthcare is anything but a free market, and costs aren't going to come down until it becomes one.

So the solution to our costs being higher than every other first world country is to make our system less like any of them?
I looked at Clojure at one point and fell in love with the lispy but not too parenthetical syntax. I left it behind after a while because I couldn't deal with the awful exception tracebacks which were supremely unhelpful when debugging. Most of the more arcane messages had to do with fundamental syntax errors, which was probably not as big a deal for an experienced programmer. However, it made it very difficult for a bigger to debug when you couldn't so much as see the line number on which you made the mistake.

They may have fixed that recently, and this CSP implementation is really cool, so I may take a look back at the language.
The solid material is denser than air. It does, however, form a structure which when evacuated of air has a lower average density than air.

Letting the air flow in fills in those gaps, raising the interstitial density enough that the average is greater than air.
Direct Djvu link: http://ia700305.us.archive.org/6/items/TheVoynichManuscript/...

They use some Java wrapper which is pointless if you have a native Djvu plugin.
fuck harvard, what a joke. lol. They're the epitome of corruption, money, and everything wrong with education today.
Saying sugar is healthier than HFCS is sort of like saying morphine is healthier than heroin. It may technically be true, but both will kill you eventually. That said, I agree that if the cost of sugar and HFCS were higher, it would no longer be cost effective to put it in bread. I think everyone can agree that HFCS and sugar probably shouldn't be in bread.
It's a refinement of the fellowship's description: explore the intersection of security, technology, and people -- with a particular emphasis on power https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/2013_2014_community
Nice. Here's a present for you https://github.com/ricardobeat/fuqit/issues/1
http://www.templeos.org/images/Machine.jpg
I've had two failures out of three of these we ordered. RMA is a huge pain as well.
The article also mentions they needed to enable DisplayPort 1.2 MST for the full 60Hz refresh rate, so I'm inferring that the monitor might be detected as two screens (a left-right split). If someone has more info on 4Kp60 and displayport, please chime in.

Note that both nVidia and AMD support MST on their major products, including AMD APUs if the motherboard has displayport.
Yup, and expose any file on the file system.
5 growth hacks you didn't know about
Was expecting a sftp interface so that i could edit posts directly from vim netrc or similar...

The demo felt pretty much same as github pages
What about binge eaters? I bet they are athletes too
going to try this out myself, does anyone have a good tutorial for a newbie on python GUI programming? something i could use for things like the ftp program, chat app etc...

as far as my background goes sophmore in college self taught python.Know java, some c from classes but i've never done any GUI work.
I guess you took a survey of black american parents. Is that why you know what black american parents need to be taught? Can you think of other things that black american parents need to be taught?

Before this you think black american parents were not concerned about kids coming home? Did black american parents miss the "lesson" of Amadou Diallo?
Google Latitude is shutting down. Here's how to get your location history out.
Not really. Opening sentence:

"Verizon Wireless may end up owing Apple Inc. (AAPL) as much as $14 billion in purchase commitments over time if the mobile carrier fails to sell an agreed number of iPhones, a report from Moffett Research LLC said."

Verizon's problem (if true) is that it agreed to pay Apple for more phones than it can sell. In the short term, that's a Verizon problem. Only in the longer term might it be an Apple problem.
I've built two printing companies (sold the first one). Feel free to contact me if you have any questions on scale or anything else. cm@printsmart.co
They mention that at the end of the article

>One other limitation will be creating aerographites that can support themselves with the air inside the material “pumped" out of it (to truly achieve being lighter than air). In practice, getting a real blimp to work will probably be made out of a future version of aerographite or another aerogel that is super strong and light, one that could self support itself without collapsing in on itself if the air between the meshes of nanotubes is pumped out. A partial vacuum will have to be created inside the aerographite structure without crushing the aerogel. This may be the fatal flaw to the idea or at least the next problem to solve (i.e. given that the material is superhydrophobic, maybe a thin shell of water could be put around the aerogel or some similar exotic solution).
Nothing like a bunch of comments tearing apart a website built by people who, presumably, learned to code a few months ago and threw it together over the course of a few weeks. Yeah, it has a few issues, but it's significantly better than the first things I ever built and sent off to the world.

Keep it classy, HN.
The mass of the material with air in the pores is 1.2 times the mass of the equivalent volume of air. Due to buoyancy, if you were to weigh the material in a sea-level atmosphere, you would find that its weight was 0.2 times the mass of an equivalent volume of air (which is where the 5x comes from).
The only way to make it float would be to evacuate the air from between the fibers, which would make the mass 0.2 times the air volume, and would allow it to float.
PerlCritic for coding standards tests was very helpful for the projects I've adopted it on.
French: The Most Productive People In The World
It's extremely complicated. One reason for keeping prices high this season is to prevent loan defaults from the farmers/producers in the fall. So one part of the federal government may spend another $40mil affecting the sugar market (high prices this season) to prevent a loan default of $100mil to different parts of same federal government and all of the fallout to those small businesses. Bankruptcy threatens families keeping their farms... as big of a deal as foreclosures for suburbanites.

The loans are based on a variety of factors and have a variety of goals from ensuring that family farms exist (and don't get gobbled by mega-farm corps) to ensuring that we grow certain kinds of crops in this country to ensuring we build better combines. It's very complicated and any 'narrative' that has a single cause or explanation is likely incorrect.
>(and HNSearch's API limits make it infeasable)

I searched around and couldn't find information on API limits. Are these documented or just found via experiencing them?

The Hacker News karma tracker posted this past January seems to be able to get the information that would be necessary for writing something like this.
My high school AP CS class's end of year project
Great job on this. I've always had an issue with doing yy or dd from an arbitrary position in VIM. this tool is great-thanks.
They've released a good bit on linux thus far as a hedge against the demise of windows as a gaming platform. Go do your own reading on the topic.
> You might ask yourself, how are you going to come back down to earth if you cannot release some of the hydrogen/helium?

If the material can be compressed to 95% it's size and reexpands, you just compress your tanks and lower back down, expand tanks to rise. ( all concerns of other comments having been solved with the standard wave of the hand )
It's fundamentally horrible. The whole design approach is horrible. It's the contemporary equivalent of GeoCities, just using more recent but equally mindless design cliches.

In fact, it's so horrible it makes PowerPoint look good.
"...Personally I feel that the sale of exploits should be outlawed...to governments that are intent on conducting clandestine/offensive operations..."

You expect governments...

to outlaw the sale of exploits....

to themselves?
wow......nice
You meant your interpretation not refinement?
Because it does not really have much to do with technology.
What's the point in submitting this to HN if not to get feedback?
I can't believe the smartest people on the planet here are arguing about this.

HFCS is cheaper than sugar because of the tariffs, but it is an equivalent substitute. No better, no worse.

Americans are getting fatter these days because the food industry (McDonald's as well as prepackaged foods) can make desirable, filling foods for a dollar or two.

If they needed to use sugar instead of HFCS, it would be about 10 cents more per dollar - big deal.

People like corn dogs and cake - it tastes good. So businesses have mass produced it enough to make it affordable to everyone.

The potatoes and beans of yesterday are cheap as well, but nobody wants them. That's why people are gaining weight.

Absolutely nothing to do with HFCS vs sugar - the food designers can use either one with the same effect.
Not true (as you noted in your reply), unless you mean in some very limited sense that ignore the ratio of benefits to that cost.

Health care will never be a free market, it is too complex a good (it is a whole set of complicated products that take a life time to consume), and is packed with externalities relating to insurance premiums and emergency care.

There is no simple answer for high-quality health care.
Because hacker news isn't reddit and has no business caring about a murder case that's only notable because the mainstream media wants to blow it up for ratings.
Certainly you could additionally consult an attorney, but that's still no excuse for leaving the system broken as-is. Did he plan on just leaking evidence all the time in the future and hoping that he doesn't accidentally violate a judge's legal order in the process?
A top speed of 20 mph seems dangerously slow for public roads.
'System has failed': Crowds react to Zimmerman verdict
Progressive-minded providers, the ones who want to "do well by doing good", understand that they are providing a valuable service for a fair fee, and they want to cut out the middlemen as much as the patients do.

I love doctors who say, "I charge $X. If you have an insurance policy, that's great, tell me where to send the invoice, but YOU are my customer and you are responsible for making sure it gets paid."
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May I ask TempleOS (Who is better known as Losethos and is hellbanned due to having schizophrenia.) what that is a picture of?

EDIT: It'd be really nice if I could reply to hellbanned users, even if only they can see it.
HNSearch has a limitation of 1000 maximum results returned (see [1]).

You can take a snapshot of the Front Page / New Posts every so often a la [2], but it's limited per the robots.txt. It's possible, but more time intensive (as in the linked post)

[1]: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=med...

[2]: http://mayank.lahiri.me/writing/hackernews/index.html
seems to me like a good styrofoam alternative/competitor, but for floating like properties, it to have vacuums in the tubes right? That is certainly the difficult problem to make this truly be better than helium for some applications. On the other hand, maybe with the structure each small tube is under or is a vacuum.
Not sure why you point as far as NZ when Texas basically eliminated it by capping pain and suffering awards at $250,000.

Medical malpractice insurance (which is the tort system manifested as a cost to doctors) is not the most expensive part of healthcare though so your point is not really correct.
As much I detest ambulance chasers, it is ultimately juries of uninformed laymen who decide the malpractice cases. If the ambulance chasers stopped winning, they would stop sucking money out of the system.
It could mater if the system of ranking on HN is being gamed here, like how the US Military has IP addresses that change the ranking of Reddit posts.
Rasmus Lerdorf on XSS-handling in Kohana (2.x)
This is the best explanation of CGI I've encountered so far.
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Apart from the fact that most "Western" (ie: Non Korean) players who dream about becoming the next major eSports hero will never make it, due to them not practising enough.

The reason why Koreans seem to dominate eSport games such as Starcraft 2 (SC2) is that they practice 12+ hours a day in a tiny apartment chockfull of other players.

The winnings are good: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Winnings , and the top players receive salaries but it's very cutthroat.

I don't follow League of Legends (LoL) (which the OP is talkin g about), however they really have paved the way for this as they fought extremely hard. LoL doesn't have as many open tournaments as SC2, however the main tournament (LCS) is run by Riot, the company who made League of Legends. Their typical viewers for livestreaming on sites like Twitch surpass atleast 100,000+ viewers. It's a crazy world out there.
Maybe I should have phrased it better, a 27" 1440p screen is only around 110 PPI. Hell, a 32" screen like this is still only 140 PPI. I'm waiting on either a 1440p screen at 19" (which is over 150 PPI) or a 4k screen at 29", those have pixel densities I don't notice greater precision at at around a meter / yard.
Why wouldn't you just deploy the compiled js as a static asset? If you want to autocompile it while developing, leiningen + cljs-autobuild handle that well.
Hey, I wrote something similar my Senior year in HS. Learned a ton doing it. Had my friends do level, graphic, and sound design. It was a multiplayer networked shooter but it wasn't anywhere near perfect. Here's the link!

https://github.com/bowmessage/Cantro
What do you mean by "stir the pot"? The purpose of this site seems to be data-driven analysis of reddit. If the conclusions being drawn aren't rooted in that data, I don't see the point.
Yep, it's a crapshoot, but I think I'm going to pull the trigger soon on one of these anyway. Can you tell me which of the usual suspects (green-sum, hulustar, bigclothcraft, etc.... you went through?

What exactly was your problem, completely dead panel or massive backlight bleeding?
From the Hacker News guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. . . . If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The way users can respond to off-topic stories they find on the new page is by flagging them, by the way.
Spending all your time playing games at the expense of your education is about as good a strategy as spending all your time playing sports in the hopes of becoming a professional athlete.

Only a few people become good enough to get paid to play sports, and of those people even fewer can get paid enough to turn it into a viable career. Banking your life on getting lucky like that without any kind of fallback plan is not a particularly sound decision.
How did the system fail? They got their arrest, their charges, and their trial. The jury is and always will be out of everyone's hands and that is how it is supposed to work.
Be careful! Raising the price of a cheap good can drive consumers to buy less of a more expensive competing good, and therefore buy yet MORE of the now-less-expensive cheap good.

If corn gets more expensive, and that may mean that people need to squeexe their food budgets and buy fewers expensive foods like vegetables, and instead by more corn sugar, which is still cheapest per-calorie.
From the Hacker News guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. . . . If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The way users can respond to off-topic stories they find on the new page or front page is by flagging them, by the way.
On org structures, goals, and metrics
I doubt Google is getting any useful analytics from their CDN. CDNs are optimized for static content, and in particular are hosted on domains that don't have cookies set (because cookies break caching). All Google would get is

* an IP,

* a referrer from the first page on your site that included the script (no subsequent pages, because now the client has jQuery cached).

All in all, a pretty poor source of information compared to AdWords, Google Analytics, G+, hundreds of millions of Android users, and running the world's most popular search engine. At most they could crunch some browser stats or jQuery usage stats, but they already get that and more from their own services + crawling the web.

And even if this tiny amount of info were somehow a boon to Google, so what? It doesn't hurt you as a site owner.