skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to see this continuing and growing. I remember making a comment a few months ago. I noticed one thing,that might not be YOU... "Weekend in SF" was priced per week. Is there no weekend pricing?
When it comes to business even scientists start judging too much and perceiving too little.
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This issue happens on 32 bits builds of PHP and nodejs : The language switches to a floating point representation when the result of some operation exceeds INT_MAX.

In 64 bits PHP builds, the computation is done right.
This program apparently predates the post-9/11 NSA programs, and we don't know that any of the intelligence generated from i.e. the wholesale capture of Verizon's call database under "business records" exemptions in PATRIOT fed the program at all. We still don't know that much about this particular program.
I agree here. Anyone who has ever seen more than 15min of Top Gear knows that it is not what you would call "journalism", but more "entertainment". What's more, they are not like those American car shows, which get their revenue from ads, and thus never have anything bad to say about any car review ever, and thus the programming is just drab and droll...

edit: I also enjoy the fact that top gear is much more opinionated and un-PC than anything else out there. It's keeps it interesting. Yeah, so Clarkson hates EVs, hates Ford, and hates "caravans". Once you can get past this and accept you and him very well may have different viewpoints, he's hilarious.
My parents are vegetarian, and I've had a similar experience, except for one product: Beyond Meat. Their chicken is unbelievably realistic; I could tell it apart in a direct taste test, but in the context of something like a burrito, I don't think I could.
I've read many complaints by EV owners that state the range really isn't nailed down... it's usually "it depends". Something as simple as temperature changes can cause the car to lose many miles range.

That being said, the problem is that EV battery technology is still young: Most manufacturers state the upper-limit instead or something realistic. For an example: smartphones nowadays usually go past their claimed battery life despite that before it was hard for them to stay on for an entire day.
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It's not, that is why the ATV2 goes for as high as it does on eBay/Craigslist/etc (It can be jailbroken). AFAIK there is not anyone actively working on a jailbreak for ATV3, anyone saying otherwise is probably lying to you.
Can you expand a little on why the result of this made people unhappy? At a guess, something relating to significant differences in salary for similar jobs?
Could you offer arguments or anecdotes about why you think Google is terrible at support? Snarky, four-character comments like yours do not add much value to the discussion.
Where "reality" is evidently defined as agreement with you?
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I keep a high level of protein my diet. I've tried veggie burgers and other substitutes and enjoyed them a lot, but I can't replace all my meals with them because they're just so damn high in sodium. Any suggestions?
How much energy was consumed making synthetic beef? And how much in total materials?
A little confused here.

So you have components server side that need to be in your application. Are they a functional part of the Angular app or just "static" markup that is complimentary to the dynamic pieces?

Worth noting is that unlike other front end frameworks, Angular allows you to have one (or more) elements within a page dedicated as the application container, you don't need the entire page for that.

Front end frameworks such as Angular are certainly geared towards service oriented application development. If that doesn't make sense for your project or architecture, well, square peg round hole situation :-)
Oh Please. Is OLPC kind of idea good for science fiction? Is it transformative enough? How about Khan Academy? How about Square's idea of empowering small businesses? How about Henry Ford's idea of mass producing cars? Or for god's sake, how about Google's original idea of "searching the web"?
> I would say it would be difficult to get the same quality as you had in 1970 as health regulations have increased

Which "health regulations" have increased the "quality" of treating a basic non-compound leg fracture since 1970? And which "health regulations" does the US alone have that uniquely increase its costs?
You might be reading too much into the comment.

For both your and parent's anecdote, screen size was the primary determinant for this user. I wouldn't be surprised if that's common.

It's a good reminder that many people don't buy a device based on the topics we discuss a lot like openness, lock-in, carriers, and fragmentation.
I posted this before, but at some point LinkedIn asked to invite people from my gmail and I clicked "Uncheck All" then checked two or three people on the page and hit Request (or whatever). I wasn't aware, but it was a paged interface and uncheck all only worked on the first page. I sent invites to a ton of people unintentionally, got a good number of "Do I know you?"'s. Might not be your problem, but thought I'd throw it out there.
Huh? Isn’t this about privacy, not security?
So basically admitting that they completely failed pre-9/11?

> the NSA had identified threats that were the most serious for years and akin to levels of "terrorist chatter" picked up before 9/11.

At that time it wasn't enough to cause any action, but now the same information is enough to close multiple embassies for a week? There's just no way to frame this news in a positive way for the NSA.
It would be hugely better to actually have details.

Water, aka H2O, doesn't activate so it is not radioactive, it can however carry radioactive isotopes in solution. Is the groundwater flowing from the neighbouring area? (implied) then the it is carrying cesium from the environment away (good thing if you want to move back into the neighbourhood) is it picking up new contaminants from a broken reactor vessel?

I wonder if anyone has a better source for data here.
Introducing foauth.org: OAuth for one
The source article explicitly stated "I'm not exempt, I was also guilty of this," and during some particular sections more specifically pled guilty and apologized.

So, "I think it's easy to blame other people for problems, but the path to self-improvement is internalization" doesn't sound pedantic. It sounds worse.
Most of the services still don't work for me. Can't generate certs/profiles, no forums. I get redirected to the maintenance page from most of the links with very few exceptions. Also no response from customer support so far. Based in Ireland, if that matters. No, it's not a browser cache issue and no, I'm not a new subscriber.

I seriously don't understand why would a security breach take weeks to fix. Complete re-write (if that's what they're doing) is never a good response to a security breach. Let alone that you keep a whole army of developers and their businesses almost totally paralyzed for weeks.

This is wrong on more than one level.
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They used a clever exploit to blatantly infect and gain unauthorized access to a blanket set of machines...which may or may not have been doing something illegal.

The FBI hacked PC's technically, and with no inkling of due process...they should be held liable for it.
This would strike a good balance between an open and invite only community. I also think this would help with rising number of the negative comments made on new accounts.
>if all the early design decisions were made in secret

Sounds like any other language or any other piece of technology. No one starts with standards. This always happens some time after 1.0.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History

first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995

In June 1997, Ecma International published the first edition of the ECMA-262 specification.

> you can fork Dart if you want

You don't have to. The tools and the VM will continue to work. In the late 90s, I used a compiler from 1989. It still worked fine and it still works fine today (e.g. via DOSBox).

I really don't know why everyone here seems to think that these kind of tools will self-destruct if left alone. They really don't do that.

> How are you going to get your Dart fork into a browser?

You don't have to. You can still compile to JavaScript. You can still use the VM on the server, for command line stuff, or on Android devices (there will be an ARM VM soon).

It would be only a problem if you wouldn't be able to use browser with native Dart support for client-side web development, because compilation takes a few seconds and because you wouldn't be able to debug from within the IDE.
Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893022
Uncrackable? New Cryptanalysis Challange
Python is gold
Yeah, and even for experienced editors, it's an easier tool to use for typo and grammar correction, since you can see the error in the same visual context as you first spotted it.
Like the other domesticated animals that once had a vital purpose in human society, there will be people who will continue to raise them simply because they view them as companions and not a commodity.

That's a noble goal, in my opinion.
follow up post- Firework Project Screenshot evert two-letter Domain: http://linkpeek.com/blog/firework-project-screenshot-every-t...
Which proves his point beautifully. I have no idea what version the silly names refer to being an iPhone user. I do know them by their numeric identifiers though.
Sites that don't let in new users are as bad as sites that that themselves go completely to pot.

It's possible to have civil political discourse, but it takes a lot of effort, much more than maintaining the entire rest of a site. You can't do it by tweaking things here and there, you need active moderators who can maintain cool heads themselves about topics they are passionate about.

I don't think it's worth HN spending that effort, and what's more important it doesn't look like HN wants to spend that effort.

If you want a swimming pool, you have to maintain it. If you can't, fill it in. HN should either invest a lot more maintenance on political posts, or take a very very heavy ax to them.
In my experience, the best alternative (in terms of retaining the virtues of diamond without the inflated costs and human rights abuses) to natural diamonds is ironically not artificial diamonds, but moissanite. It looks a lot like a diamond, but more fiery.
I applaud your effort, but I think you've made an incorrect assumption about scaling up your farming.

>Someone with mechanized equipment and a few acres could produce much more organic produce than I do in the same amount of time, and meat, cheese, and eggs. Enough to supply dozens or more families with food. And because internet access is available, they are not disconnected from the world and could even run a software business like I do (or be an artist, or accountant, or mechanic, or virtual assistant, chef, or any number of jobs).

People do this, they're called CSAs[0]. When I was younger, my family belonged to one, and I can guarantee you the [awesome] people running it did not have the time on their hands to run a significant side business on the internet.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agricultur...
Seems to be throwing an error when I try to start a conference. Sounds interesting though.
Introducing Zephir, a DSL-to-C for PHP
FRAMES are BACK!!!
take it away and give her some prison time, in this case. The problem is, of course, that in the prison she will be taught how to steal professionally, so an ideal rehabilitative prison should prevent any contact between inmates.
...which is why I build simple Tcl <--> C shims to C libraries and get on w/ enjoying my programming environment/experience.
http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/2009_ADA_position_paper.pdf

"It is the position of the American Di-
etetic Association that appropriately
planned vegetarian diets, including
total vegetarian or vegan diets, are
healthful, nutritionally adequate, and
may provide health benefits in the
prevention and treatment of certain
diseases. Well-planned vegetarian di-
ets are appropriate for individuals
during all stages of the life cycle, in-
cluding pregnancy, lactation, infancy,
childhood, and adolescence, and for
athletes."

Also, http://www.journals.elsevierhealth.com/periodicals/yjada/art...

Just breastfeed! Breast milk is the ideal infant food after all. Crown Shakra was fed just apple juice and soymilk.
I don't agree. Google may have spent a lot of money, but that hasn't kept them off of the PRISM list and so far I've not read any really convincing explanation from anyone at Google about why they're on that list.

I think in the post-Snowden world it's game over for the idea of expecting reasonable privacy or data security from the likes of Gmail. Once someone can routinely exfiltrate 100% of your data without a warrant - particularly if you are a "non US person reasonably believed to be outside the US" then the security model is not just a bit wonky, it's utterly destroyed.
It shouldn't really matter if it's only for personal use, it's not a whole lot of extra effort to follow basic security guidelines.
Makefulness
(Co-founder here.)

138 days ago, we posted a Show HN [1], and the feedback was so massively encouraging that we doubled down on building the best possible responsive design platform imaginable. Thank you HN for playing such a big part in the first chapter of our young company.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5407499
Follow up | Screenshot every two-letter Domain
Very true, it could be, but you're right, it's unlikely. The amount of coordination required for an embassy attack is fairly significant because most embassies in those countries are fortresses, especially in Kabul. In this case, we're talking about over 20 embassies! The man power and communications requirements for such a coordinated attack makes that a threat of almost insane proportions. The likely actual threats (assuming there are any, which is still up for debate) are likely against soft targets. Let's not forget there's a worldwide travel alert as well; threats against specific embassies rarely prompt blanket travel warnings or alerts.

I even received a warden message from the Seoul embassy warning potential "danger." Most travelers don't hang out at the embassies, but closing the embassies is a highly public action that gets more headlines than a non-specific worldwide travel alert.

It's likely this is a public relations/propaganda move, however if there's a real threat this was exactly the wrong way to handle it. A terrorist doesn't even have to do anything to force the United States government to close over 20 embassies. It's embarrassing. It would be like closing down New York city because of a threat. Interestingly, given such a "serious" threat, no messages have been sent suggesting non-essential personal and family evacuations, which would be one of the first things they would set in motion if the threat were so serious.

However, that being said, I hope I'm wrong.
Something I've always wondered about regarding synthetic meat:

for say synthetic pork, would it be necessary to mechanically 'exercise' the muscle fibers in order for them to taste the same as pork from a pig?
Wow... impressive and scary, 20 days is nothing, and the worse is that sometimes the debts can show up way later...
One of the efficiency issues is the relatively large percentage of cow that isn't edible if you're using it solely for meat. Of course, there are uses for the other bits - pet food, bonemeal, leather, and gelatin are all things you can do with it, and no doubt more.

But there are huge costs (monetary and energy) in scaling "breed, fatten & slaughter a lot of cows", and in intensive operations, they're largely fed on pre-prepared feed from corn or whatever.

Things like feedlot construction/maintenance, feed delivery, waste disposal, transport to slaughter/butchering all contribute above the feed costs.

I'm not sure how the artificial alternative would stack up, but most of those other factors can be eliminated or reduced, and (depending on feedstocks to the clone growing) bypassing the energy costs of growing, harvesting and processing of the vegetable feed.
Ruby

(1..1000000000).inject(:+)
Why should anything scale to feeding 7 billion? You realize we are at 7 billion now because of previous scientific food efforts, like hybridizing wheat / GMO / toxic insecticides?

All science is doing is making the problem bigger and bigger. Stop subsidizing population growth.
>Explain how a technology 100% designed and controlled by a single company is good for the open web.

Are you talking about JavaScript? ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History
Great feedback. Really appreciate that.

The screenshots section was actually a last-minute addition this morning so definitely needs some work. I agree 100%.

We haven't experimented with the order here on Temper, but we have on our other product (PopSurvey.com) and the sad-meh-happy order of the smiles for rating things has been what most customers wanted.

Something to look in to in the future (or possibly offer as an option down the road).

Again, thanks for your feedback!
Fast food chains will switch over when it becomes profitable to do so. It will be in consumer's hands long before they ever buy it.
I prefer being able to debug it. (Or maybe more accurately: not spending hours upon hours trying to debug it)
I think I am. Can someone verify that I'm doing this correctly? I'm running "tcpdump not host [my ip]" and all sorts of packets that aren't related to my VM are showing up. Doesn't seem to be full connection streams, though, just a leaky packet here or there.

Example: 17:27:43.293749 IP [not me] > [also not me]: Flags [S], seq 324665288, win 65535, options [mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0

I'm in SFO if it matters.
Ask HN: What web services should exist that haven't been developed yet?
List any top ideas that you have. It is an interesting exercise to come up with startup ideas.

Back in 2005 Fred Wilson said "Last year, when Brad and I were on the road raising our fund, we used to talk a lot about web services that should exist but don’t." http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/08/indeed.html

This exercise helped them target indeed.com as a potential investment and potentially others.

What services are missing from the internet these days?
Instead of comparing the market for child porn with the market for drugs, let's compare it with the market for porn.

Free availability of legal pornography featuring adults on the internet (apparently over 10% of all web pages) hasn't exactly discouraged people from making porn for profit motives (it's a $5bn dollar industry, and growing).

Moreover, it seems to have encouraged an avalanche of people making and distributing porn for non-profit motives, often successfully preserving their anonymity whilst doing so. It's not merely conjecture that people make and distribute pornographic videos for "fame in the community", it's well-established fact.
http://takimag.com/article/guns_and_race_steve_sailer/print
The "lies" they're talking about are willful fabrications, not speculative analysis.

Fox News deliberately aired lies about the contents of milk in the US. They went to court to defend their right to lie.

http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html
And Python's integer type is gold-plated.
First, I am in no way pissed off.

Second, I actually really enjoy talking about these things with you on HN.

Third, we both get emotional about things we discuss - I recall a thread between us ~2 plus years ago where we were in heated discussion!

And C) - these items are political - but entirely germane to HN as the whole thing is enabled by tech and techies "just following orders" and tech companies "just making more sales".

We are on a very slippery slope; nobody wants to live in danger, but everyone is in danger of government abuse with these programs.
> Newspapers don't talk about which big city is the carjacking capital of the U.S.

Well, except that they do [1]. And do similar things for other non-murder crimes like robbery [2].

[1] http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/03/newark_carjackings...

[2] http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_23191897/oakland-robbery-...
If you don't want to go full-vegan, whey protein isn't bad. But you shouldn't rely on any one source exclusively.

Full-vegan options include quinoa, beans, lentils, and nuts. But I agree it's hard. You have to eat a lot of these things.
The purpose of imprisonment, indeed, of the whole justice system, is to replace what would otherwise be mob justice. Of the various academic characteristics of the justice system: retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, the former is arguably the most important one, or at least the one that most directly animates the existence of the justice system.

From that point of view, what is most relevant is peoples' perception of crime, and peoples' perception of the criminals, not necessarily actual crime rates. When people see sky-high murder rates, a crime that is considered the most grievous one possible and the kind of crime that becomes a focal point for the public discourse, and when they don't feel a social bond with the people convicted of crimes, they will not be satisfied by the kind of more lenient prison sentences and conditions you see in European countries.

The middle aged suburban voter is not interested in the rehabilitative aspect of the justice system, the aspect that reintegrates criminals into society, because that criminal was never part of that suburbanite's society to begin with. That voter is merely interested in retribution. At the same time, the criminal doesn't see the situation any differently. He has no faith in the institutions of society. He knows that he will never be considered a part of the broader society, so his incentive to really try to be rehabilitated vanishes. So the recidivism rate in the U.S. is double or triple that of places like Norway: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/25/277771/norway-is....

Contrast Norway: http://blog.nj.com/perspective/2011/07/crime_and_punishment_... ("As Norwegians view it, if you’re going to better yourself within a collective society, then you must work within the collective. When it comes to crime, it’s not about the individual. It’s about what — as a society — they did wrong, and what they can correct, and how they can address this politically.")

Now, to circle back to my point: what creates these attitudes? Are Norwegians just better people than Americans? I don't think that's the case. I think the root of the difference is that Americans don't think of everyone as being part of the same collective. Partly because of cultural reasons, and partly because of historical reasons. The lack of homogeneity and social cohesion is a major part of what creates the attitudes. Segregation, in particular, has left an indelible imprint on modern American society. After all, much of the country was forcibly desegregated just two generations ago. To put it bluntly, when a black (or hispanic) kid in inner-Baltimore commits a crime, the white voters in suburban Maryland don't ask themselves, like the Norwegians do, "what did society do wrong? How can we correct the problem?"
So, so many times I have wanted to do something like this—I'm glad someone else already has! Any chance you could add St. Louis, MO to the list? :)

I've rented many cameras both locally and via BorrowLenses and RentGlass, and had a lot of great experiences. But I know there are hundreds of other photographers within a few miles of me that have the same lenses and would love to rent them out when they're not using them.

Unless you're a full-time pro, there's no way to justify more than one or two workhorse lenses like a 70-200 2.8, but there are many times when such a lens would come in handy.

P.S. I'm getting an SSL certificate error when I click the link to your blog page.
Python:

sum(range(1000000000))

:)