skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is random, but true:

"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people." -- Jawaharial Nehru
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Are you saying that if Bacon gets flagged because he takes part in a peace protest then all the quarter million or so actors (i think it's just actor these days, not actress, women's lib and all that) who played in television films or major motion pictures will have their numbers run by you know who? Thanks a lot Bacon.
I signed up for beta and will provide feedback once I can spend a bit more time looking a it. And you should be proud of yourself for getting this far.
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"poetess" has been more or less eliminated from the language, and "actress" and "policewoman" are on their way out - at the behest of feminist groups. So it seems your compatriots disagree with you?
> Counting time up to 1.0 days is a lot more intuitive than counting up to 8.64 myriaseconds. The second is a unit of time which isn't tied to anything intuitive (actually, it's entirely arbitrary). If we're going to shake things up, let's at least use days instead, yeah?

No. The length of a day is not constant. The size of a second is defined based on the length of the day in 1900.
They're proposing changing the second and you're correct that it will mess up a ton of other units. The problem is they think the day is the base unit when it's actually the second.
Sounds vaguely similar to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

Also, I may be wrong, but it looks like you haven't read about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time
Hey guys, author of the course here. Would love to hear your thoughts/ideas on what you would like to learn about Startup Sales.

Here is the kind of feedback I've been hearing from Founders/Startup Sales people who have signed up for the course so far (we launched it a week ago):

"I don't think I've ever been so engaged with a mailing list content marketing before. Good stuff, and I can't wait to get more :D"
I hear you mental power peaks at about 22 and begins to decline after 26, but that's pretty depressing

That seems... odd, and doesn't reflect my experience. I'm doing the best and most creative work of my life right now, I wouldn't have even been capable of any of it at 22.
I understand that's your legal theory. The article says, however, that remains an "unanswered legal question" in the United States, according to Jennifer Granick at Stanford's CIS.
What do you do when the length of the day changes? Earth is slowing down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuations_in_the_length_of_d...
Yep, this is why "Stranger Danger" fear-mongering is counterproductive. The kidnappers are usually familiar, and Strangers are really one's greatest chance of help.
Anonymous group installs bike buffer on Seattle street, city makes it permanent
Is there a way to seed /dev/urandom and /dev/random from it?
The problem with days and years is that they change as the Earth's velocity varies over time. You can't use days and years for scientific work unless you define a specific unchanging length for them, but if you do that they will soon get out of sync with the Earth's rotation.
Why not just switch to seconds? Our lab works with signals in the millihertz. After a few months, 3600 seconds is as intuitive as an hour.
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Whoa! Thanks for linking that! I like how they use the day as the base unit.
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Jarring background. More jarring information.

Interesting fact: being a 1-percenter in the US ($370k in 2010) makes you a .02-percenter on the worldwide scale.
UGT is way better, and works regardless of timezones and many other time issues.

http://www.total-knowledge.com/~ilya/mips/ugt.html
Intel's RDRAND is mentioned in the article as well, near the end. I suspect this article is doing so well because of the recent realization of Intel's involvement with the NSA, and the high potential for backdoors to be included in such a technology.
Hmm... a sort of witch hunt in across the entertainment industry for commun^W terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.

Why does that seem familiar?
I found the link on Reddit. They're asking similar questions.

So far Reddit hasn't got any answers; someone posted a link to a mailing list. Here's a similar link. (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/24/144)

> This adds a driver for random number generator present on Broadcom BCM2835 SoC,
used in Raspberry Pi and Roku 2 devices.

Here's a github for the blob source (https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-3.6.y/drivers/...)

It's a frustrating lack of information. :-/

(I posted here partly because of the Intel RdRand stuff the other day, but also RPis are fun and this could be a fun experiment.)
Ask HN: Experience with "white label" licensing?
HN crew:

We have two potential partnership opportunities pending, both of which could involve an element of "white label" licensing, where we would license our product to a partner and have them sell it under their own brand name. This is not something I've ever been in a position to negotiate before, and could use some help with understanding all the various parameters of such a deal and the implications.

If anyone here has been involved in deals of this nature before, and would be kind enough to share some of what you consider the "high points" to focus on, it would be greatly appreciated. Or if someone is open to having an offline discussion by phone or email, that would be rad as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service
Nice and simple. Slow down the fading text. Consider a carousel. I know they're cliched, but people understand them.

Edit: Too much text. Show some screenshots. What are the benefits? Weird logo. My brain spent too long trying to piece it together, which bothers me from a design perspective. Having the logos of your integrations (like AWS) is great!
It's essentially the same as switching to seconds. It's much easier to say "It's 4.3" (with myriaseconds assumed) when referring to midday than it is to say "It's 43000."
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One of if not the best resource on all thinks bike. Unfortunately Sheldon passed away a few years back. They have people updating the pages.

Sheldon was married to Harriet Fell, my finite state automata professor. I think she's doing some of the page maintenance.
> If the mass of everything — including the official kilogramme — has been growing proportionally over time, there could be no way to find out.

?! Actually the gravity would increase. Quadraticly, cause you mass would increase and Earth's as well.
Right-click -> Inspect element -> Delete key -> Done.
Bring the keyboard under the blanket too? You do now how to touch-type, right?
Oh yeah?! That sounds awesome. Your profile email is NOT public, though.

If you could let me know what it is I'll get right to you. My email is kriggen@gmail.com

Thanks,
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i can't enter my debts. i can't have a negative home equity. you should be able to supply your debts on both the income and wealth pages.
I saw you got press in TechCrunch today, congrats!
The author is sadly deceased and while this is a great resource it's worth noting that a lot of the technical stuff on here is not very applicable to newer bicycles which use threadless headsets etc.
Signed/unsigned conversions and conversion to/from pointers of functions and arrays cause real, production-code confusion. In terms of how much mental overhead the language takes up - how many edge cases you have to keep in mind to read code in the language (because if you're programming right then you spend more time reading than writing) - no, it's not simpler than Java, because classes, generics and memory language are more straightforward and less confusing than C's typing rules.

Languages have a complexity budget, and C blew its on a squillion different kinds of integer and a bunch of arbitrary-seeming rules to minimize the amount of typing needed to change between them. That was a good tradeoff in its day, where hand-optimization was practical and program source needed to be small. It's not an appropriate language to use now outside of very specific circumstances.
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There must be a big disconnect between the tech team & the product team. Time to first tweet takes several minutes because the user is forced to follow multiple accounts upon signup. The latency is not the tech. I wonder how much $ goes into shaving off a few milliseconds, despite the fact that even latency zero still results in minute long signup?

*I'm sure it's in twitter's interest to keep the on-boarding the way it is, but that's a separate topic.

[edit for clarity]
Let's not mix metric with decimal. Thes are two different concepts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
No, I would say you are better able to understand the big picture, but less able to see it ;)
The Python Language Reference is only 100 or so pages. I'm not sure how different the PLR is from a "real" spec, however.
Ah, you're quite right, thanks for making me look this up.

I found some Toms Hardware article that goes into "a few GPUs in a desktop" all the way through "renting 20 machines with GPUs from EC2 for a while for <$20 USD", and it seems like a password that is long (>=12 characters for now), doesn't have dictionary words, and uses more than just [a-zA-Z0-9] will be safe from undedicated adversaries for a number of years (probably the life of whatever router you're using).
Apple's poor performance ? You do realise that Apple siphons the majority of the profit from the market and on every metric (except market share) is doing extremely well.

If you want to see examples of poor performance then take a look at the Android ecosystem. It consists of effectively one player: Samsung and a bunch of other companies whom are either exiting or perilously close to bankruptcy.
It should be an easy negotiation - the money just goes back into the company, less the taxes you would have to pay on the additional compensation.

In practice, you need to be a fairly significant employee to drive this kind of abnormal transaction.
If the wireless situation doesn't resolve itself in the next few years, I suspect that it will drive software defined radio deployment to the masses. One phone with one antenna and chunk of silicon that can speak on any network, software permitting.
There has been some work around integrating docker iwth Openstack floating IPs already. Check out http://github.com/dotcloud/openstack-docker
Yeah, it's almost like most people replace their standalone music player every 2-3 years.
This couldn't have happened at a better time for the apps we're working on in the coming months! Congratulations on launching and all the best for the future :)
Thanks for the upvotes and testflight signups, folks :) I'm hoping to release 1.1 by the end of the month and get some adwords out there to figure out if people like using it or not.

The landing page is http://streetscoutapp.com - it needs a re-do before 1.1, I know, but any general feedback would be very welcome. Thanks!
I would really like to so a correlation between the quality of a article, and how much edit warring that been done. Looking at the list, some of the corresponding articles have even been marked as GA (like #1 with most edit wars).
Not really a problem... does "app" conflict with "home" in your case? If so, then there's also an issue here... if not, then why not? Also, if not, then why not take the same approach to query strings.

var querystring = {};
//add actual querystring (prior to #) parameters
//add hash's querystring, overwriting any already defined keys
return querystring;

It's not that hard.
It seems to me, you'd need to redefine the second such that there is a nice round number of them in a day. Say 100,000 to the day. They you could subdivide into hectoseconds (new minute, 86.4 old seconds), kiloseconds (14.4 old minutes), myriaseconds (tenth of a day, 8640 old seconds). Noon would fall on a nice even boundary.

(Of course, this ignores the fact that the day length is not constant, but we have that problem with the present system, too.)

The myriasecond would be the new, lower-resolution hour, much as the Celsius degree is lower-resolution than the Fahrenheit. This would be mitigated by writing decimal times (e.g., 3.75 myriaseconds on the clock would correspond to 9 am).

You'd also need to come up with less clunky names than myriasecond, I would think.

Edit: Why it'll never happen: Redefining the second would screw up too many things other than time of day references. E.g., frequencies and other physical measurements based on the second.
I'm 17. I found HN last year when I searched "Hacker" in the iOS App Store, or some similar query. Found an app, which I no longer use, and started frequenting the site.
The article is a bit vague about what exactly they're trying to say. What was unexpected? I read it three times before I decided they're comparing a lousy homegrown software RNG to the Pi's hardware RNG, which turns out to be good. Yes? Why would that be unexpected?
Thank you very much for posting this list. I'd cast about a while back looking for similar stuff, but not found much I enjoyed. Looking forward to giving these a try.
I imagine he was being sarcastic.
OK, I read the article wrong. The article is talking about viewing.

My comment refers to user signup & composing first tweet.
This is a silly and possibly stupid idea, and calling it "Metric" does metricification a huge disservice by associating it with these kinds of foolish notions.
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A monitor that's not glossy. A big one!
I'm still young so I can't say for sure, but I reckon the brain's baud rate peaks in a similar fashion as the heart's peak BPM. That being said, I think more efficient cycle clocking, a.k.a wisdom, makes up the difference.
I always wondered on the legality of private license plate scanning. With just a bunch of people cooperating one could pretty much map out all the troop movement throughout the city.
Check out http://www.entropykey.co.uk/
arrogance you mean?
Great app. Too bad a 1 percenters like me can't calculate my apparent wealth however.

Income works fine, but when I put in the data for wealth (no house, minimalistic materials, and meagre bank accounts) it gives me the error code: "Are you sure about that?"... Apparently, you cannot hold less than $1,500CAD of wealth, nor can you be classed within the bottom 22%.

The income bottom limit is $400CAD, which is much better. It's kind of funny how the stats don't feel so guilty when entering the lower limits. For a $400CAD yearly income: " In 1 hour you make $0.21 Meanwhile, the average labourer in Indonesia makes just $0.50 in the same time. "
One of the best sources on the net for cycling esoterica. I practically lived on this site when I was putting together and fixing up older bikes.

Especially good information on practical fixed gears and three speed hubs.

Before he passed, I sent an e-mail asking a few questions and Sheldon responded personally, with fairly detailed responses. It was pretty rad.

There's a lot of really useful information on there.

Some of my favorite parts.

The three speed hub with a fixed gear:
http://sheldonbrown.com/asc.html

The section on frame fit (semi controversial topic depending on the crowd):
http://sheldonbrown.com/frame-sizing.html
The easiest way to figure this out is simply to look at the founding members previous work. It's no different than hiring an employee. Past work is the best tell against future success.

Granted this is tougher with higher level dudes, as it's hard to ascertain credit in success, but it usually works.
Sorry guys, I meant "cooking over an open fire." Setting campfire smores and charcoal grills aside, this is a pretty primitive way of cooking. If you came from a place where this was your only option for heating your food, you'd be astounded at the cleanliness and ease provided by any modern gas or electric range.

For most of human history, the vast majority of people cooked their food over open fires. Cooking with anything more advanced is an aspect of modern living that is only a very recent development, especially given that the time scale I was addressing is a billion years long.
things like this rub me the wrong way. you cannot compare income levels between countries with vastly different costs of living.

sure, first world countries will have a higher standard of living overall, but putting $25/hr in US up against $0.08/hr in Ghana is a misleading comparison of purchasing power.

case in point: in Ghana you can probably buy a castle full of servants on 80 acres for $25/hr.
The only use for a binary blob that purports to a be a secure RNG is to feed it to /dev/random.
A Meter was defined as one ten-millionth of the distance from the Equator to the North Pole. [1]

And everything else followed from there - even volume measurements like a liter was based on this, because one mL was defined as a cubic cm.

...So to do the same thing with time, it probably makes sense to base things around a day or year (so it's based on the Earth going around the Sun) and just divide that amount of time by some nice base 10 number (1000, 10000, whatever).

A day currently contains 86400 seconds.. why not just shorten how long a second is until there are 100000 of them in a day... Of course then there will be 36500000 in a year, which is not so fantasic.

There is no reason we couldn't re-define hour and minute to be base 10 divisions of this "100000 per day second"

Leap days and seconds are still an interesting problem.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#Meridional_definition
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This is pretty interesting, but I wonder if it's just a one-off problem with the http library.

It'll be interesting to see if someone familiar with Go has a response to this, but from the blog post it doesn't appear that this contract is being habitually violated, only that it can be, which is still a problem in practice.
HEAD also means the server as to do everything but send the data to make sure it does not need to sent it

Not at all. If you have the RSS as a static file - and that's the best way for a resource that is much more often read than written - the web server can just stat() the file and get the modified timestamp instead of having to open and read it.
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Anyone proficient in GO would care to provide the minimal code that illustrate that extremely weird behavior ? I find that post so disturbing that i still believe i've missed something.
What do you mean? For a living?
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I feel conflicted about donating to charity, Kiva(.org) is my money-for-good vehicle of choice but sometimes it feels as if my money could be better spent donating to charities that help people that can't afford to eat, eat. Long term spending of money to help people better themselves and those around them is the more sustainable model but short term helping people that are starving have access to life essentials has a greater impact and is more compassionate. If only it was simple as "I have $xxx, how can I have the greatest positive impact?".
I feel like the author missed a great opportunity. "Stopped by Go"
I think that is mostly because you would have had to have been an early adopter to get in before that age. 30+ is BBSs, modems...no real internet at that point.
This isn't about the most controversial topics, it's about which ones are tactically up for grabs. Many very controversial topics have a well-ensconced dogmatic view on Wikipedia (just not outside).
>"The government is an accomplice to companies that harbors and supports terrorism."

Got it.
I don't think the point is to "profit" as much as it is to fund the project. Notice these aren't "customers" but sponsors. Maybe the mindset of "money is being left on the table" isn't quiet the right one for this sort of project ...
Wow, this is pretty unfortunate. Also a very good example of why so many people maintain that Go is not nearly as statically typed as languages like Haskell or OCaml: casting (essentially subverting the type system) is very common, and limits most of the type system's advantages.

In large part this is because Go's type system is not very expressive. I would just like to point out that OCaml did the same things as Go (i.e. structural sub-typing). But with (global) type inference. And variants (including structural subtyping for those too). And generics (parametric polymorphism). Years before Go was developed.

In OCaml, this sort of thing probably would be much less likely to come up. After having used the OCaml object system a bit (but still more than most people!), I am actually very happy with it. It certainly has issues--oh boy, does it ever--but the issues are superficial. They are the result of very limited manpower in the project, not fundamental shortcomings of the design.

In OCaml, the compiler can figure out what methods you used without your telling it. So it would automatically realize that the function called the close method, and infer the appropriate type. You wouldn't even have to write an interface (called a class type in OCaml) for it. If you did write an interface, but it did not expose a close method, the code would give you a type error.

I suppose you could try to do some sort of runtime casting and duck-typing, but I am not sure how. It would certainly not be a common thing to do, at all! Instead, the type would reflect exactly how the object is used in the function. It would be more explicit, more predictable and safer.

And, harping back on the same theme, it would be fully inferred for you.

The best of both worlds, really.
Here are the NIST recommendations referenced in the FIPS 140-2 approved RNG appendix:

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-90A/SP800-90A...
I'm pretty sure any semi-serious biker knows about Sheldon Brown by now. His site usually tops search results.

I like to use his gear calculator to remind me why I spin out on the top end: http://sheldonbrown.com/gears/index.html
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About (Nikola) Tesla's invention of the (electronic) AND logic gate
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Honest question, if you earn so much (1% you claim) where does all your income go? You're supporting others? You're paying off student loans? Your rent is really really high?

Anyway. If you've no accumulated wealth just enter your income and then marvel at the disparity between you and the 99%.
Sounds like a listener to me.