skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just disabled the 'promotions' tab, and it also disabled it on my android client. If they start sneaking ads in as real email, I'm gone. If I can disable the ads, I'll probably hang out for a bit longer, but it's time to start evaluating alternatives.
My Dell Mini 9 still has some killer features that I can't seem to find on the market:

1. < $300

2. No fan

3. SDD

4. GPU

5. x86

Because of the need to support Windows a lot of netbooks are missing the SSD and add the fan. A lot of the Chromebooks are Atom. The one Samsung one maybe fits this bill, but I think it is on its way out.

I had hope for Haswell, but turns out it may break #1.

Anyway, I guess I need to start thinking about Atom and what kinds of OpenGL ES kinds of things maybe, and forget about OpenCL or some such, which is probably appropriate anyway.

The point of how awesome the machine is that it is small, quiet, and an amazing terminal into the various clusters I utilize.

Thanks Microsoft, for killing them off.
Google finally acknowledges that PHP exists
I can't find the Any Drone!
Wikipedia through the Looking Glass
>Desktops should be evolving toward immersion.

Disagree on two points:

1. The innate immersive quality of desktops nicely illustrates why desktops are out of fashion.

The trend is for people to be less immersed in a single point of focus: while people are watching tv, they are also checking social media on their tablet/smartphone.

Sure, desktops are immersive and probably they should play to that strength, but - on the other hand - this is why people are leaving them on their desks.

2. I personally have absolutely zero interest in a high-density monitor: my eyes can't distinguish HD resolution anyway. I would value a faster frame rate/shorter display lag greatly more. Paying a significant premium for screens which are no-better-and-maybe-worse on these fronts doesn't interest me at all.
I've been waiting for this for so long! Any word on when it will be available for Github Enterprise?
What do you have in mind? I'm not seeing a good use case.

There are already really good ways to do that which don't involve making connections to remote servers.
Isla... Isla Nublar... Jurassic Park... "This is a UNIX system, I know this!" It all makes perfect sense now...
I don't understand what you're trying to say, but I was describing a common and useful pattern.
Unfortunately Congress seems to be full of a bunch of ineffectual tools right now. Even if the right were to legitimately push for impeachment, it would turn into a clusterfuck of party loyalty and race-bating. Also, good luck getting the votes required to knock him out in the democrat-majority Senate.
Looks like a good opportunity for someone to build something tumblr-like strictly for NSFW content that encourages people to build connections like tumblr does (or did)
From the article:

"Adult and NSFW content will be visible to anyone who has opted-in via their Settings page."

Seems reasonable...
Totally true, sometimes someone doesn't make for a good student.

But I don't think it should be up to a bad teacher to decide who is a bad student.
Microsoft’s shares sink by more than 10%
There is a option in the settings:

Browse tag pages in Safe Mode
Hide content from NSFW blogs.

It works exactly like it says on the tin.
I didn't see that. thanks
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Mongo is a different beast, because the mongo client has a GPL exception which allows your code, that is linked to the mongo client, to use a different license. This is a friendly exception, that the mongo developers allowed. Without that exception everything using mongo even over the Internet would automatically also be AGPL licensed.
I like the identification of the problem, not sure if this is a solution to it (for me). Since it is a journal, I imagine privacy is a concern so: Where are your servers and how do you plan on mitigating the wrong people from trying to read customers journals?
The big question though is if sales are falling because people are switching to tablets/smartphones entirely or because they are buying tablets for a subset of their use cases. I'm a big PC fan and I would never replace my laptop with a tablet as my primary computing device. However, my next purchase will be a tablet, because I don't have one at the moment and it's great for surfing the web from the sofa. The marginal return of purchasing tablet is therefore higher. That doesn't mean my PC is going anywhere soon.
Apple's Answer on Upgrade Pricing
https://github.com/KlausTrainer/dtgcaa
"Personally, I see "team player" often being confused with simply being subordinate to the established team."

+1
I know I've seen that quote before, but I forget where.
Wait, your not comparing JS with C are you?

No, seriously with all the respect, I love JS.
Really? I remember picking up LOGO in Kindergarten. Can't even imagine working with a real language back then. How old were these children and how did you go about teaching them?
>The exercises in TLS can be programmed in pretty much any one of the mainstream, dynamically-typed and lexically scoped languages (beginning with Ruby, which I have partially done).

That's spurious. Anything that can be implemented in one Turing complete language can be implemented in any Turing complete language. The question is how easy it is.
I find this is very hard to screen for by looking at resumes, and almost as hard to detect in interviews. Even with an interview, sometimes people just talk a good game. The only reliable methods I've seen are "Hiring people you already know to be good team workers" and "Watch them over a 10 week internship."
New Nexus 7 to have quad core, 4gb RAM, Jelly Bean 4.3
Not Every Child Needs to Learn How To Code
Yes, but the point is that you cannot opt into being able to search for adult blog content.
Your competitors will most likely not survive
> The difficulty here is that no one who is even mediocre would ever do a "contract to hire".

this is absolutely not true. good people will simply demand a high hourly billing rate during the contract phase to compensate for the opportunity cost, which you have to be prepared to pay.

sure if you're dicking around with $20/hr "contracts" everyone decent will tell you to kick rocks.

have you ever worked with people who are used to getting paid $100+/hr? i.e. top people? it doesn't sound like it.
great tutorial! definitely a must read when learning Grunt
Calca takes ideas from Soulver and super sizes them:

* Soulver allows free text editing within a line of computation; Calca allows free editing in the entire file

* Both update as you type

* Soulver understands arithmetic; Calca knows algebra, calculus, and algorithms

* Soulver requires that all variables be defined; Calca does not

* Soulver does not support user defined functions; to Calca, everything is a function

* Soulver has no programming constructs; Calca is one step away from being a general purpose programming language.

* Soulver does not support matrices; Calca does
Please note that every European country also falls into the will be happy to spy on someone camp.

Privacy laws vary a lot within Europe - even within EU - and while I'm sure every country in the world is "happy to spy", as you put it, I can't think of any European country save for the UK whose spying is as intensive as NSA's.
I would guess it's mobile/tablets. I rarely see tasteful advertising geared towards that space, and "regular" pages shown on a mobile phone force me to zoom in on content and scroll past ads.
I wonder if we'll even need trucks. Instead of large trucks carrying lots of goods, what about having more vehicles each carrying less stuff. Something like a cargo van.

I wonder if the reason we use large trucks is so that we can have only one driver and not pay for more. I wonder if having multiple vans instead of a single truck uses a similar amount of fuel (per pound of cargo).
Safer web always wins.
The article makes it seem like they removed the content from search unilaterally. If they merely hid it under a setting, I don't see what the problem is. It's their playground, they can set whatever rules they like.
This is just wrong. Roughly speaking, P is the set of problems that are easy to solve. NP is the set of problems for which it is easy to verify that a solution is correct. There are problems which can be solved by brute force but which are not in NP.

For example, the traveling salesman problem.
"Life" is like "species": different schools/universities/professors hold different definitions.

Example in this context: a (bio) virus. It has no metabolism, without a host cell it's completely static. The academic world is kinda split when you ask someone in the field whether a virus is a living organism or not. According to one school of thought it's as much alive as a rock.
> How are their women treated?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaPYwlXOTzQ
Just fine it would seem
I think that seeing it as a physical place helps conceptualize a virtual world.

I'm neither a programmer or a developer.

When I go online, it's like I'm out on the street. I'm exposed to others. I can interact with others. I can walk into a shop or a bank and conduct business. I can walk into a theater or an arcade. I can walk into someone's place, an open house or a private house. But it's not physical, it's all virtual, it's all built with code, data and information.
Looks like somewhere between 2k and 4k is a retina display for a 22" monitor two feet away.

I don't really want a monitor bigger than 22" - although multiple monitors are definitely great.
That was a hilarious article. I really want aliens to be here on Earth right now, that would be SOO cool and would answer a fundamental question that has intrigued humanity since we realized that were just on an unremarkable rock floating through space.

The sad part is that there is never any solid evidence for these claims. Of the hundreds and thousands of people who must be involved in keeping a secret like this under wraps, how come nobody has leaked anything? Why hasn't any definitive proof ever been released? Why are the aliens here? Why did they automatically build contact with the U.S. government? Why do these shadow governments always involve conspiracies with other supposed corporate evils like oil companies? What evidence is there that any modern technology is alien derived? Why do aliens look like humans? Why do aliens not reveal themselves? Why would aliens come to Earth? How did they master interstellar travel? Have they mastered intergalatic travel?

So many questions, so little evidence.. I do really want to believe but it's unfortunately still a fantasy.
It is a bit like the two statements I've seen about the UK government having accessed information via PRISM: they have both denied using it at all, and stated that when they did use it such use was within the law.
Here in London the tubes aren't air conditioned, but are still exceedingly hot. I'm told that new tunnels are cool but over thirty or so years they gradually warm up, and so there's a noticeable difference between the older lines and the newer ones (less so at the moment as we haven't built a new line for thirty years, but that's another discussion). It also causes some interesting engineering challenges as the clay slowly dries and bakes around the tunnels.
While I understand macros are frowned upon on HN, I feel somehow obliged to post this classic: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me7rj8c01t1qz4jt5o1_500.jp...
Backups every few days on a DO server like that costs about $1/mo I believe.
What's interesting about these "Tall White" aliens is they appear to be similar to the ones described in the book "The Cryptoterrestrials"[0]

The hypothesis of the book is that "aliens" aren't really aliens at all, but an indigenous lifeform to planet Earth and merely disguise themselves as aliens in order to freak people out.

So if that's true, it means that Canada's former defense minister is being duped, along with all the other extraterrestrial researchers.

But aside from all that, why the heck is this on HN?

[0]http://www.amazon.com/The-Cryptoterrestrials-Meditation-Indi...
This is great! Keep it up! Grown ups have tons of languages to choose from, so should kids.
So ... you're complaining that a service you don't really use has changed and your old understanding of it won't help you to find your way now?

I get frustrated when I go back to my hometown and am confronted with new streets and missing landmarks, but it certainly isn't their fault.
"We decided to charge upfront for Narrato Journal because we wanted to make it clear that we have a business model that doesn’t involve advertising or selling your data. You own all of your data and you have full control over it."

I like this. I wonder if they also include an option to export all data in a static HTML page with photos and videos in a directory sitting beside it. I'd love to have something like this.

I stopped sharing and posting on fb a few years ago, but still have a ton of valuable 'content' (photos and the comments on them). I'd use Narrato to purely 'download' and manage my data from fb in such a way that I own and control the data.

Overall, looks very promising. Best of luck folks!
This is great stuff. Now who is up for a kickstarter? Feinstein definitely deserves a few NSA billboards of her own!
>> Dude, you're presenting parody-fiction

gonvaled shared his interpretation of the context and his opinion whilst you are engaging in the personal attack.

I just wonder what would be Sarah's reply to your style above [dude, brain-mouth filter for trash talk...].

>> Sarah and I do not think ...

Are you Sarah's colleague, by the way?
"Granted there are cheaper UAV out there"

In other news, there are smaller ships than the Queen Mary 2...

"Generally its unlikely they could carry a payload sufficient for the level of surveillance necessary for traffic enforcement."

Having been nailed with a speeding ticket from a Cessna: All they need is a camera with someone watching it that can say "blue car, coming from half a mile away". You don't even need radar or any sort of speed tracking, you just time the car between to landmarks (the same way that local police do it in states that only allow state police to use radar guns). The type of drones your local hackerspace whips up for fun on a weekend are damn near sufficient.
Actually? Can't tell if serious or joking.
Didn't David Karp say jus the other day on Colbert he wasn't going to censor Tumblr? What happened?
The impression I get is that major Linux distros will work on almost any laptop, but if you want it to work well (good battery life, flawless suspend/resume, no issues with graphics drivers), you still need to think about your hardware.

I don't believe that Linux can ever go mainstream through just being installed on Windows machines: for most people it's just too much effort for too little reward. And for reasons both practical and principled, I want Linux to be a mainstream option. So I support people selling computers with Linux.
If no one rocks the boat, it comfortably goes over the waterfall.

Hiring everyone with the same mindset is a great way to limit innovation and creativity. You also run the risk of being blindsided by upcoming challenges because everyone is so eagerly agreeing to the plan.
I hope they're right in fixing this. The overemphasis on whole #s is counter to much of reality and how math is applied.
Not quite the same question, but related - XKCD did a "What If" on whether, if everyone on Earth shone a laser at the Moon, it'd be visible. (TL;DR: No.)

http://what-if.xkcd.com/13/
5 'Essential' Things One Start-up Launched Without
The TV show was cheek. The ex-Mormon, I've known for 12 years.
Btw seems like the service costs $5/year. Totally reasonable, but not mentioned until you get the app. Would also love it if I could view local temp in Fahrenheit. Otherwise very cool approach.
I have a habit of not drying my (substantial) hair when getting out of the shower; it's a great cooler in summers like this.
Winter is Coming: Dragon Skull Appears on Beach
I think we're going to have to disagree here.

> have you ever worked with people who are used to getting paid $100+/hr? i.e. top people? it doesn't sound like it.

I saw this and wondered if you were trolling. It's certainly a rude and undeserved comment, but I'll be charitable and bite:)

My main point is that "good" developers, always have options.

My assumptions:

1) the developer wants full time work, otherwise they would just do contracting and not contract for hire.

2) jobs are plentiful for good developers.

Why would the developer assume all the risk with contract for hire, unless they had no other options? Why not just take the full time job instead?

Basically my point boils down to two points...

1) How would a company convince me to do contract for hire work when I can work somewhere else without that risk? What's my upside to doing this?

2) As long as most companies don't' do contract for hire, a company is putting themselves in a position that excludes most talented developers. ie if you aren't facebook, twitter, dropbox, etc. my contention is that the top developers will laugh at your contract to hire request.
And yet no Soulver for Windows... wink
As my friend said: "I love watching Yahoo spend nine figures on things only to offhandedly gut them like a child playing with sharp knives."
Could make a great API where users can either compose a short letter or donate for the postage.
NetCat: Forgot How To Cat?
But the physics (mass of the load/center of mass of the truck load system, their moments of inertia, N on each of the tires , etc) can be factored into the equations and solved in real time, no?

How far is the line of sight for google self-driving cars?
Ah, I see...the 'Adult' column is rather sparse...

http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/nsfw
This Teddy Bear Has Sensors That Measure Your Kid's Health
FACE recognition software set to replace bank cards
The system doesn’t require a wallet, bank card or phone - instead a camera is positioned at the checkout and takes a photo of a shopper's face when they are ready to pay.

It then scans a database for the face and matches it to stored payment details in order to complete the transaction.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2370333/We-soon-paying-shopping-using-just-FACES-recognition-software-set-replace-bank-cards.html#ixzz2ZVcR04F0
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Yes. If you draw a bell curve of all first year students, say at schools where the entering avg Math SAT is 500 or above, then the shaded area of those who struggle with Calculus would, in my estimation, encompass .9 or more of the area below that curve.

This is despite hundreds of years of effort by well-meaning, perceptive, and hard-working teachers and students to refine the presentation to make the subject as clear as possible. Because most teachers and most texts are not the dipshits of the world. In short, Calculus is hard.

The thing about massive courses is that they are massive. When you get big, you cannot help but get average. In my experience average students (say at the schools I mentioned above) need support, including reasonably intensive personal attention from an experienced and knowledgable teacher. I don't believe the typical person in my course can pick it up on their own. (Not to dismiss the potential; I think there is a lot of exciting stuff happening that can help people learn. But I've seen nothing that would make attention unneeded.)

I do perceive that many HN readers could just pick Calc up, and frankly so could I, which is a good reason to read HN. People here pique my interest every day. But often in the discussions following articles like the one here missing is an understanding that you (speaking to a typical reader) are not average.
Another alternative is http://www.runbox.com/ - hosted entirely in Norway which has strong privacy laws.
He must have gone to school the same place as James Clapper. He didn't "censor" anything by removing the content. He simply removed all search index references.
So the opt-in setting only controls direct access to the content, but there is no way to opt-in to having it show up in search?
Sadly? Just because there are free options, it does not mean you have to use them. Personally, I'm quite happy that it works like that, it does not bother me in the slightest, and I get a good service in change. I realise this might not be ideal for everyone though.
Looks great! I really like the ability to pull socially shared content into the journal.

Another journaling app I'm a fan of is Day One.
Pretty funny. Buy the new cool thing all the young people love, then start isolating and hiding the sex appeal that got it where it was.
Obligatory will it come to android question? I've longed for a journal that will keep my interest and attention. Loved Oh Life...for the few months I used it, have tried many things, would be on this in a heartbeat if it hits my preferred platform.
It's a great experiment. Sometimes you have to shake things up to keep the importance of an issue alive. Of course things take a life of their own on the internet and Facebook.
Not at all. I'm simply pointing out that without details on the bullying, it's entirely possible that @throwit1979 has little or no experience with the sort of viciousness that causes psychological problems for those verbally abused, resulting in the seemingly ignorant opinion that everyone has the power to fully control their emotions and behaviour.
Oh, they aren't censoring it in the strictest sense of the word. They are just making it so they can't be found. Censor carries a lot of negative connotation, and they are trying to distance themselves from that on a technicality.
I can confirm that turning safe mode off still produces decidedly uncensored tag search pages. It is now back on.
This is a false dichotomy and an unfair one. Firstly, fastmail is a paid product that may show you graphic ads if you are using their free tier. (https://www.fastmail.fm/help/advertising_web_interface_ads.h...)

To those who are arguing about advertisements not showing up in the Fastmail's paid tiers should also realize that there is the Google Apps for Business accounts, where you don't see ads. It also beats the popular 'if you are paying you are the product meme'.
As I've just learned, the way tumblr categorizes content, there's a difference between 'NSFW' and 'Adult'. 'NSFW' (occasional adult content) still gets indexed and is searchable (provided the profile is opted in), but 'Adult' (substantial adult content) is never indexed and/or searchable, regardless of your profile settings.
My point is that they don't need drones for aerial enforcement. Its been going on for years and in some ways, the "do it with a drone" element is a bit of a red herring.

The very real question that needs to be considered is whether or not law enforcement should be doing aerial enforcement at all. How they do it is less interesting to me than the question of whether or not they should.
I second brudgers re: noble motives and hard work. :)

Follow up question: Have you stuck it in front of kids to see how they take to it?

Without being based in theory, I'm curious how the language works out in practice.
I'll wave when they send a bigger camera.
They take up more conscious space. You have to parse them more carefully if they are right in the middle of the content that you actually want. Those big blocks of in your face adverts don't require any attention at all and they it's trivial to use your brains inbuilt adblock to filter them out.

So, if one must have adverts, the usual form factor is vastly preferred. Especially if the alternative is trying to masquerade spam as legit content.
Along with the fact that if your blog is flagged adult they set robots.txt to noindex on your whole subdomain, so you're nuked from google (and there is nothing you can do about it). Now you're out their internal search engine too - They're doing their best to hide away the porn as much as possible without actually removing it.