skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh for the days when Western governments had to invoke the threat of terrorism with weapons of mass destruction in order to suppress academic speech.
Famed hacker Barnaby Jack dies a week before hacking convention
In Miami I know of at least 5 companies doing this, none are really tech companies, or even logistics companies. One example is https://www.deliverywow.com/
I think 3rd party restaurant delivery could be disrupted in just about every metropolitan or college town. If your town is host of awesome restaurants but no unified delivery service, then make it happen! (Disrupted might be the wrong word here unless you're trying to do this in the Bay Area; most cities don't have any 3rd party delivery services so you'd be starting something new)
You're probably the only one to visit the New York Times 10 times. I'm still at zero.
semi-related: I saw the trailer for Jobs before Pacific Rim and it was cut to be laughably bad, like a Daily Show or MADtv sketch. I have low hopes for the movie, but the trailer seemed almost intentionally terrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nryTz9iBqEI
Chevron doesn't have council in house?
It's called lifting because it's moving something between levels. In the case of liftM, it's moving a function that operates on type a and returns type b, to one that operates on a wrapped type a and returns a wrapped type b. Since a monad should be a functor, and the types are the same, I'm pretty confident that this is the same thing as fmap - though in principle there could be a monad with no functor instance defined where you would have to use liftM (for now: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Functor-Applicative-Monad...).
I don't personally care if you smoke, but I think you are doing yourself a disservice by attempting to rationalize your choice to continue smoking and down playing the harm you are doing to your body.

If its just the nicotine you crave perhaps using an E-Cig could be helpful.. although nicotine is still harmful I think cutting out the smoking would probably help a lot.
You generally can't boycott a particular producer of a commodity like oil.
I have seen lately advertisement for electronic cigarettes. Are those better, worse for one's health. I don't smoke but was just wondering. They are hailed as a non cancer causing cigarette. Is that true? What about just a nicotine patch. Would smokers just prefer that so they can save money but still get the nicotine boost.
What part of "privacy is dead" do people not understand? You think multi-core processors in your iPhone or android is to make the calls more clear? How many people here can say they haven't integrated a "smart" Apple or Google phone into their lifestyle? Someone with more HN love should post that poll.

Everyone needs to reconsider their worldview and a few important definitions they hold. One of those is privacy.

My definition of privacy: anything I relay to ANY one person is no longer private. What's the old saying about three people keeping a secret? Information wants to be free and privacy is not its natural state. It's always been this way, but the physical barriers to diffusion have been completely decimated in the past two decades.

This is not a mere blip in a long term trend, it is fundamental, IMO.

That being said, I believe there are new values we can all embrace to make the most of the state of the human experience today. Perhaps someone should can a thread on Internet values for the 21st century and beyond.

PS - Anyone ever wonder how MSFT got an anti-trust pass in the US, but not in the EU?

"In the interest of national security..."
About The New York Times (and other subscriber only content)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6111453
Maybe he voted last and wanted to show off to his constituents.
Church should consider pulling money out of Google, government adviser says
One often-overlooked side of these votes is that there is an element of horse-trading with party leadership.

Let's say the party asks you to eat your hat 5 times and vote for crappy stuff; in exchange, you'll ask the party to be left free to vote against the grain a couple of times or so, when you really need to show off with the electorate or your conscience won't let you sleep.

It's perfectly plausible that Moran voted for the amendment because he had built up credits on other votes, had info that the amendment was unlikely to pass anyway, and so he obtained permission to showboat for his own electorate. He might have done that exactly because he knew he'd be attacked for being in the pockets of BigDefCo -- he's a Dem, after all. This is a very likely scenario.

Or maybe he could be a good guy and I'm too cynic to expect good from people. Good guys in politics are very rare, to say the least.
I wouldn't hire you just based on the fact that you smell like shit.
Association with Tim Ferriss would not be a point in his favour IMO. http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/08/5-time-management-t...
One of the reasons is that people don't know what to do with themselves after they make passive income? Therefore you shouldn't aspire to make passive income? LOL.

Passive incomes means financial independence and freedom to make life decisions independent of monetary compensation. Financial freedom means having leverage in the business of life. That's hugely valuable and worth aggressively pursuing in my opinion. You can always find and pursue your passions after that.
Nice work, this is important stuff. Next step... sparse linear algebra!
Indeed. Thanks for posting the original request as well.
Tasks are still OS threads, though they get lumped into a threadpool so a lot of the overhead is mitigated (in most cases).
> It's true that Tufte's pioneering work was done in the age of paper, but that simplicity and clarity of purpose is even in greater need today.

His principles aren't infallible. This 2007 study found that a group of students preferred a graph with "chart junk" to Tufte's minimalist style, although the study does note that this may have been caused by the students' familiarity with "chart junk" graphs.

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1362587
Myles in fact does have a small one-person low-intensity startup off which he claims to make 5 figures per month. And don't you notice how he makes his lifestyle sound really good, and the startup guy's judgments seem silly?

The funny part here is that you read this and actually agreed with Startup Guy for almost all of it. (From the rest of the comments it seems like a lot of HN did). That's part of his point, I guess.
It is often unhelpful when people who have "never touched" a piece of software comment on it. If you had touched ScaLAPACK or Elemental, you would realize that the algorithmic know-how and performance engineering from ScaLAPACK has been absorbed into Elemental. However, ScaLAPACK was being hampered by the conscious decision to maintain interface compatibility with LAPACK. One of the most valuable things about Elemental is that it can dispense with this antiquated API. Moreover, Elemental has a modern configure and build system, I/O support, and a vibrant development community. I would recommend that you investigate the community resources to satisfy your strong curiosity in this area.
The comment was a snarky dismissal of the political process and Obama as well. There are some truths to it but doesn't add to the conversation.

I don't think the answer is necessarily technical, e.g., more encryption, because having an encrypted channel is meaningless if the data is going to sit on some server unencrypted.

It has to be a "hearts and minds" issue of having everybody care that this is happening. When I talk to people about this the common response is "I have nothing to hide" and they therefore don't seem to be all that bothered.

Edit: replying to fotbr below

Voting for Obama did matter because the other option was McCain/Palin. That would be different. Just like if Al Gore had been elected we would have had a different experience than we did with Bush. Not saying utopia, but if you don't think there's a difference then you are blinded by your cynicism.
Most crypto bugs seem to end up being a case where any useful description of the vulnerability is sufficient for a competent attacker to reproduce the problem. In other words, if it came down to just the "codes" (i.e., secret keys) making the difference of whether or not the system was secure in general, then the crypto would probably be strong.
Sharing Economy: Are You All Done With That? Leftover Swapping
What relevance does that add to this presentation? It's interesting by itself.

What do the presentation (or our discussion) gain from the fact that Brad is a super smart guy "much more capable than the 'typical' programmer"? Why are we even bringing up that point? :)
There is no such patent; no patent assigned to Nike contains the word "maize", and Google finds nothing to corroborate this story but an opinion piece in a Michigan newspaper about a rumored copyright being the reason the team changed its colors. Neither copyright nor patent can give ownership rights in a color.
#4 particularly stands out to me. I always feel sorry for people who make statements like, "my work isn't my life" or "I work to live, I don't live to work". Considering how much of your life you dedicate towards working, why the hell aren't you making damn well sure it's doing something that gives you at least a sense of fulfillment, if not outright joy. Even passive income takes a good deal of effort and time to generate, albeit with the goal of minimizing the continual work. Also worth considering is that, in the slim number of ventures that will generate sustainable passive income, and even smaller number of them will be something that generates that income for the rest of your adult life. So the likelihood is, even if some app you wrote is passively making you 5 figures now, in a few years it's quite likely it won't be, particularly if you're neglecting it. So you will likely work again. And if your mindset is always that all work is bad, how are you ever going to find real meaning for how you've spent your life?
Thanks! I actually work on a lot of fast/sparse linear algebra. For example, see Clique:
http://github.com/poulson/Clique
You could always move to Windows 8.1

I'm grateful they took security so seriously.
They were, ostensibly, rebuilding the entire shebang which would involve lots of testing
Ubuntu Edge, nice idea, but too much too soon?
I read the first few chapters of the 4-Hour work week, it's written like one of those cheesy, scummy, get rich quick commercials. Is the rest of the book worthwhile? I got sick after about 50 pages of the author describing how awesome he is at literally every single endeavor that humans can participate in.

There have been maybe five times in my entire life that I've failed to finish reading a book that I've started, this was one of them, and it was by far the easiest to put down.
I second that.

Try e-cigarettes, etc. to replace the cigarettes. Exercise also gives a cognitive boost. Get an exercise bike (or real bike) and do 5-15 minutes of interval training on it. Cut down on the sugar - coffee instead of soda, nuts instead of candy bars or donuts, etc.
I'm currently working my way through "Basic Category Theory For Computer Scientists" with a local meetup group. I don't have enough to compare it to, to say whether I'd recommend it as a book. I've been enjoying it, though. If you're in the Bay Area, join the meetup group - we're only just starting chapter 2.

As for background, I think some familiarity with set theory would be most useful, groups and rings and such a bonus. Calculus won't be of much help. Linear algebra might, depending.
You possess the most dangerous form of ignorance. You think you have it all figured out. You're little better than the heroin addict that thinks, "it won't happen to them."
Maybe it could lower energy use.
Back in Bulgaria someone got the idea to use the taxi fleet for food delivery - the delivery charge is still fixed, it's just that the car is a taxi. I always thought this was very clever.
They are likely much healthier than cigarettes because it doesn't have all the nasty components in the smoke. Patches aren't going to give the satisfaction of manipulating a "cigarette" and the feel of inhaling the drug.

I hated being a smoker but enjoyed the smoking part....
Xeon Phi Coprocessor (Intel) Codenamed Knights Landing Unvieled
I don't think there's a difference between what you mean by "talked about" and what I mean by "visible". I am convinced that the perception is there - I perceive it. I am not convinced that the reality is present - though I am not entirely convinced it's absent, either.
This is your question:

> Why is it that submitting content that requires a Google or Facebook sign in is so frowned upon

A New York Times article does not require a sign-in. The article in question is not subscriber only-content. You do not need to sign-in nor be a subscriber to read this article.

The NYT allows 10 articles a month to be read for free. So your question should be phrased as: "Why does HN allow links to sites on which I have exceeded the amount of free content that I am personally allocated?"

But you don't even need to go that far. You can turn off the JavaScript in your browser, which, for many of FB-login type websites, would not work.
http://examine.com/supplements/Nicotine/
If there's anything begging to be fixed, it's the benefits administration process. After using the traditional vendors for my last company, I'm ecstatic to find something better. Think I'm going a little overboard over back office software? Then you've never had to add dental coverage to an existing employee.
Show HN: Ideya - Never forget your ideas again
And for good reason. Otherwise the entire Foreign Corrupt Practices Act would be unenforceable, as the bribery takes place overseas. Similarly, one could evade US law on insider trading or criminal conspiracies simply by moving overseas. If there's a nexus with the US, you can be prosecuted here.
Firefox and Chrome have a cookie whitelisting feature. You can let non-whitelisted sites set whatever cookies they want, but have them cleared on browser exit.
RapGenius is a YC-funded (and VC-backed) company that lets people annotate rap lyrics. BUT rap is just the initial theme that helps them fine-tune the product. It's increasingly used as a general annotation engine.

So here's a high-profile investor demonstrating exactly that point, that it can be used beyond rap.
Nicotine itself is safe (that is, it a neurotoxin, but so is caffeine; the dosis makes the poison for humans). The carcinogenic substances you inhale from smoking are mostly a by-product of the combustion process. Electronic cigarettes work similar to vaporizers and should be safe (pending research).

Also see gwerns articles on nicotine:

http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#nicotine
Bob Kocher, who led Venrock’s investment, was a key player in helping to write the Affordable Care Act

Disgusting. Another bureaucrat seeking personal financial benefit from regulations he helped to write.
Is it really so horrendous to consider that there are only so many people in the world? I've yet to see a place on earth where the majority of the people don't work for there living, so the probably of doing something that requires less effort than everyone else and having a better lively hood than them seems well unlikely. I mean houses just do not build themselves...the real path to success is finding a way to live the life you desire. I mean if you like sitting in fine restaurants ordering people around, then probably you should find a way to own your own restaurant, etc. Just my 2cents but all these schemes are just that schemes!
Show HN: My first iOS app, WriteDown - a Markdown text editor
Hello everyone,

I taught myself Objective-C late last year, and relentlessly working my first, real, production app since then. My app has been approved for sale last week, it is now on version 1.1, but I still very excited day by day since the launch day. :)

About WriteDown, it is a Markdown down editor specifically for the iPhone. You can write your text in Markdown or just plain text.

Syncing: It support Dropbox syncing. Optionally, you can upload your pieces of writing to Google Drive or Evernote as well, so you can keep it in your favorite Cloud service(s).

You can email them to yourself, or to your family member, or your colleagues. It is a .writedown binary file that includes all your current note(s) so that you can restore and or add it to current note list in the app.

Ofcourse there are many many features, to learn more, visit its landing page [1] or the iTunes link.

Important Note: WriteDown is NOT iOS 7 compatible at the moment, but I'm working on this. Works well on iOS 6.x

Check it out here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/writedown-markdown-text-editor/id670733152?ls=1&mt=8

Let me know If you have any question. Thank you!

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Sure! If you need anything just send me an email and I'll be glad to help :D
> I consider him an expert.

What do you make of this Wozniak's comments [1]:

"It's so awful and atrocious," said Wozniak,
who said he got access to a copy of the movie's script.
"Unlike the way Steve and I really dealt with each other.

"I didn't want to have much to do with that movie."

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/30/tech/innovation/wozniak-jobs-m...

news.yc discussion of [1]:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5157396
Much like any drug, it is very difficult to know a priori without doing the experiment. It would be unethical to administer cigarettes or e-cigarettes in a randomized, controlled fashion, but we will probably observe over the coming decades the epidemiologic impact (much as we did for the consequences of cigarettes in the 20th Century).

Suggestive studies could be performed in whatever animal models have been most instructive for studying the effects of smoking.
Clickable links:

+ Landing page: http://vinhnx.github.io/writedown-site/

+ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/writedown-markdown-text-edit...
So just buy pure nicotine, as gum or patches, or liquid? The smoking part is completely unnecessary to get the effects you want.
e-cigarettes replace the habits. I used to smoke in the car. It was a stupid habit. Things like patches wouldn't help with that because I couldn't avoid being in the car.

It's not so much healthy, but dramatically less unhealthy. I think it's referred to as harm reduction, if you want to google that for more info.

It's like using stevia or splenda instead of sugar in your coffee or tea. In that case, you're still going to crave sugar. In the e-cigarette case though, you'll crave e-cigarettes perhaps instead of real cigarettes. I tried a real cigarette again after two months of using an e-cigarette and it tasted awful, burned my mouth.
Funny to note, the study cited by the NYT was published by PloS, which was founded as an alternative to subscription based scientific journals and allows articles to be republished under Creative Commons.
This article has way too many words and not enough math. There is, in fact, nothing scary about big O notation once you dissect it, and it's a shame that so many people seem to think otherwise.

Here's the definition: if f and g are functions (let's say real-valued functions defined on the positive reals), then we say that f is big O of g, written f = O(g), if there exists a real number y and a real number K, K > 0, such that

f(x) <= K * g(x)

for every x > y.

If that makes sense, then done.

Else:

The first thing to do when meeting any mathematical definition that you don't understand is to throw away parts of the definition until you do understand it, then add them back in one by one. In this case, let's forget about the constant.

New definition: For functions f, g, f is blorb of g, denoted f = blorb(g), if there is a y such that

f(x) <= g(x)

for every x > y.

"f is blorb of g" actually just means that there comes a point after which g is never smaller than f. This gives us the first ingredient of big O: we are concerned only with asymptotic behavior. f could take on immense values for small x and still be O(g) as long as f eventually becomes always smaller than g.

The reason for caring about asymptotic behavior is that we often don't care about the time complexity of an algorithm for very small problem sizes. Even the traveling salesman problem is solvable on Raspberry Pi for very small problem sizes.

Okay, I hope we understand the above definition. Now we add the constant back into the fold and see if we can make sense of it. From what I can see, the constant is there for computer scientists who want to paint with broader strokes. There can be a huge practical difference between f1(n) = 2n and f2(n) = 2000n (the difference between a computation taking a day and taking 3 years), but they're both O(n) because complexity theorists are more concerned with O(n^2) versus O(2^n) than they are with O(n) versus O(5n). (Also could be because in practice algorithms with wildly varying constant factors out in front are rarely seen?)

For an alternative to big O notation, you should check out Sedgewick and Wayne's Algorithms, 4th ed. They use something they call "tilde notation" which preserves the leading constant factor. (See: http://introcs.cs.princeton.edu/java/41analysis/)
Well he did not ask you to hire him, did he? Why you felt the need to say this?
There are no skeletons in the Clojure world: beautiful language and solid infrastructure. My point is that JavaScript, Node, Meteor, etc. seem a bit more practical for some things I have been working on.
He's not saying it won't happen to him. In fact he's explicitly saying he expects it to happen to him, but he's willing to forgo long-term health for immediate pleasure.

It may still be flawed logic, and also ignorant based on he may be underestimating how shitty stuff like COPD is to deal with, but not in the way you're describing.
>>I wonder if it will always be called RapGenius for non-rap content, or if they'll come up with a more general brand name

They appear to have decided to keep it all on the rapgenius.com domain but are calling the different verticals "_____ Genius"

If you hover over 'rap' in the navbar you see a dropdown with the following:

-rock -> links to rock.rapgenius.com

-poetry -> links to poetry.rapgenius.com

-news -> links to news.rapgenius.com

On those subdomains the logo reads 'rock genius' 'poetry genius' or 'news genius'. I checked and they own the .com for each of those as well, which redirect to the subdomains. They also have corresponding Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Tech Genius next please!
Without reading your comment to its end, I am confident that it would be a waste of time since you didn't RTFA.
I just took a look at this and ordered on Grubhub after looking through 5-6 restaurants. I really like the choices Grubhub gives you, more flexibility over a dish. This looks nice too but I'd really like to see some more customization options.
Sounds like people are scared of passive income in the same way that they're scared of immortality. Lacking imagination, they cry, "but wouldn't you get bored?"