skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, still need to get rid of browser check and cache the DOM elements.

Thought about using jQuery first, but then questioned myself how many people who use the blink tag actually use jQuery :). Still, cool piece of code!
"The story of one man is the store of the entire world".

I think it's easy to talk down to someone who has admitted failure, but the truth is we've all been through it, although some of us hide it better than others.

My custom web-development business tanked last year after customers refused to stop asking for changes. Insomnia & anxiety were frustratingly close friends of mine too.

Maybe the site is shutting down and maybe you could have done something different that would have succeeded more, but super-kudos for trying!
The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan... Stalin Did
Or the barometer.
yeah, so, I was rushing. I edited the previous post: what matters is all the things that go along with cheaper schooling, not that fact that it's cheap.
Was this point downvoted for a good reason?

I will reiterate my point. There is no point in comparing suboptimal C++ to optimized asm.

Rather than downvoting me, the author if the study ought to rerun the benchmark with optimized C++.
We're going to mass commerialize VR just in time to hide from the reality of the consequences of our police state. /s
Is it just me or would the material strength of 3D printed items have to become exponentially better for them to become a success for any kind of serious use?

I mean they mention car parts in the article - that would require more than an evolution in part endurance, it would have to be a revolutionary increase?

I guess you can use them to make molds for stronger parts but you cannot make the strong part itself.

Would you trust a 3D printed bolt or fastener in this current generation of material?

Maybe one day there will be a material you "bake" afterwards to make the atoms bond at a molecular level and make it as strong as if it was cut from a solid block of metal.
Organize a Successful Charity Event
Ties Fraying, Obama Drops Putin Meeting
This absolutely does not meet pg's guidelines for HN-relevant news, but I think it's important to remind some members of this community that there are other issues in the world besides just PRISM and Edward Snowden that may affect international relations.
I'd frame this as: "You get to choose 3 between: work, spending time with your children, exercising regularly, maintaining a house, domestic duties, having a social life."

And I'd totally agree ...

I choose work, children and exercise ... but am lucky enough to be able to offload these other tasks
> There are days when I wish that Hacker News was divorced from Y Combinator.

These days I think Y Combinator is the one thing that keeps Hacker News from falling too far off track. Reddit is a good example of a website with a purely agnostic mission goal, and it's changed to a more mainstream audience over time. Since YC uses HN as a promotional platform, the audience here will typically remain rooted to a specific culture.
> your comparison is stupid

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Network transparency: How future mobile networks could be built in glass windows
This is actually a problem for some people. E.g. they receive some property (usually a family farm) but can't pay taxes on the value received. There are various complicates and work-arounds in the tax code to deal with this situation, but sometimes they just end up selling the farm.
How about smaller Mom and Pop style retail.

I'm picturing the scenario where you're waiting for the sale rep to get free to ring you up and poking around the store in the meantime.

Can we generate a heat map for the sales guy so he knows what you were looking at in the display racks? That would be pretty awesome.
I buy it.
It's never that clean.
Post Yahoo, Tumblr censoring adult website links
Schneier on Security: Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
Demanding leakers: US doesn't do extradition either
Sorry, the system is still in beta and the current sign-up page is temporary :)
laser sintered metal.
In case the author is reading.

Kudos for finding the courage to stick with it, and the courage to quit. Those who have been in this position know what a heavy burden it can be. I hope you can find it within yourself not to turn cynical, and to use your skills and experience to make a positive change in the world. (Or, if you choose to just live your life, my hat still goes off to you)
A privacy accessory for mobile phones to block all signals
Firstly, he is a legend. Having the guts to pull off a move like that is admirable and unique.

I think it's a shame that regardless of if he wins or loses, many people believe that "fine print" is a tool that only big institutions like banks or insurance companies are allowed to use in their favor.
An iPad app for speed-reading ePubs: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/velocireader-ebook-reader/id...

I made this because I wanted to speed-read on my iPad but I couldn't find any app that had even the bare bones of typographic practice in place. I just launched a minimal viable v1.0 a few days ago and am now polishing up some UI and interaction edge-cases.
Hmm, I see what you mean. But it seems like that could be solved by more sophisticated virtual memory management, although it seems like it would essentially take an entire other layer of virtualization to make it work, which might have other performance consequences.
Forget about politics. Forget about rich people. Most change comes from artists and science/technology folk.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.
"For instance, seeing things about parallel composability, I have a hard time fathoming how multiple instances of something couldn't be secure in parallel."

A good, intuitive example is this: I personally cannot win against a Chess grandmaster or even play to a draw; if I play two games in sequence, I will lose both times. However, I can guarantee that I can either win a game or draw two games if I am allowed to play two grandmasters simultaneously, one as white and one as black. I can simply copy the moves from one board to the other, and each grandmaster will be forced to play against another grandmaster (but they will be playing against me, and I can claim to win half the games I play against grandmasters -- much better than I can do I my own!).

"In order to have a currency (fungibility), we need widespread agreement as to what constitutes value."

At a basic level, what we really need is a definition of validity for our money. In the case of gold as currency, for example, validity is defined in terms of chemistry -- weights of a particular element are valid as money. For fiat currencies validity is defined via the law, by a government. In the digital cash systems developed by the cryptography research community, money is valid if the bank will accept it for deposit.

The problem with Bitcoin is that validity is not well-defined and can change without warning. There is a vague notion that money is valid if everyone agrees that it is valid, but that agreement can be invalidated by a single party that happened to have done a lot of computation. Security in Bitcoin is equally vague -- you use terms like "double spending," but what does that even mean (rigorously)?

"If we aren't going to have a trusted party handing out limited identities,"

It is worth mentioning that in online digital cash protocols (like Chaum's), there is no need for an authority on identities, or even for identities. The withdrawal protocol involves blind signatures, without a need for identities, and the bank could simply accept a cash payment for the digital cash. The payment protocol requires that the merchant verify the validity of the tokens with the bank, but rather than deposit, the bank could engage in a withdrawal protocol with the merchant trading the deposited tokens for withdrawn tokens, allowing the merchant to spend the money further. Sure, it sucks to have to be connected to a payment processor, but that is not much worse than being connected to the Bitcoin network, or to a Bitcoin exchange.

"If you compute twice the hashes, you count as twice the nodes for purposes of quorum"

More important: if you can compute hashes twice as fast, you get twice as much of a vote. If you can compute hashes asymptotically faster, your power in the network will keep increasing. There is no reason that you cannot compute SHA2 hashes asymptotically faster than I can -- nothing about the security of a hash function requires that all implementations have identical running times.

There's the rub, in a nutshell: you are relying on the inability of the adversary to compute lots of hashes, but simultaneously demanding that the honest parties compute lots of hashes.
The government pretty much exists to protect middle-aged, upper middle class women like my mom.

Glad I'm up late reading comments. This is one of the smartest, most astute political commentaries I've ever read.
2. sounds interesting. Something similar has been fermenting in my notes for a while, so I'd be interested in your thoughts on why it didn't work for you.
IMO it's not so much a question of performance, but of shaky browser support (especially on mobile) for things like real-time audio, video, vector graphics, and socket communication. Thankfully Adobe Flash / AIR really shine in these areas. It's sad that Adobe doesn't seem to realize it.
>The weight is known for a given model of device.

By "known", I assume you mean "known, assuming you want to track down (an trust!) the specs of the ~4,000 different Android devices", correct?
This article is so confused, I don't even...

> The ruling represents yet another attempt to regulate Bitcoin transactions

Frickin' awesome. Finally they're going to get acceptance from the mainstream, and my investments will be worth something...

> Bitcoin was born on the idea that nobody could regulate it.

Really? I always thought it was born on the idea of making its creator rich. Either way, its value comes from the inability for players to unilaterally (and meaningfully) increase the money supply.

> The only real value of a Bitcoin comes from its users

Kinda like every other currency, then?
I think you just proved tzs's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6177335
I meant "He was", not "We was". Argh. I must have read and missed that ten times, and of course now it's too late to edit it.
This is false. I studied Maths at Cambridge and learned some courses completely on my own.
Ensure Plus contains 350 Calories, exactly the same as Ensure Complete.
This is the first impression you want to make on your candidates? You're the busywork company?

These are the kind of candidates you want? The ones who are willing to have their introduction to a future employer be an annotated answer to a "fundamental skills" problem? Instead of, say, a five-minute chat that touches on such issues as "who am I?" and "who are you?" and "what's the job, really, because the recruiter obviously doesn't know?" and "why might I be unusually happy and successful in this job, and also fun to work with, and therefore worth a lot of your company's money?"
What features do these languages offer that make it worth watching them? Neither of them seems to offer anything novel.
It's false that any of what I said can be true for some (or many) students? How do you determine if you're one of those students?
By far the best web app I have ever used. Period. How did you manage to make it so fast? Also most web apps I pin to my home screen (not many) open in safari. how did you manage to get this to open it is own 'app'. It's not a part of safari, it has it owns icon in the app switcher.

+1000 KUDOS

I WILL be using this app a lot.

edit: More kudos for being a Wolverine like myself. Go Blue!
Tell lifehacker or other popular blogs about your app?
There is something to be understood about modern Russian culture - being successful cheater and uncaught thief considered a virtue, praised in a folklore with an iconic characters as Ostap Bender or, on a lower level, untouchable criminals, so-called Thiefs-Above-Law.

The unprecedented level of corruption in Russia is in a large extent due to this cultural beliefs. Being a successful bureaucrat or corrupted official is a dream of millions, be it a student of Academy of Government Service, or just a novice applied for a job of a traffic cop.

Most of so-called businesses are based on a fraud, designed and set up with the fraud in mind, as an exit strategy, based on exploitation of minorities, cheating of naive and uneducated and banal brute force.

Of course, such thing happen all over the US or other countries, the difference is the percentage. In Russia cheating and fraud are dominant strategies due to lack of any real economy or production.

The dream of easy money makes us the world largest porn producer, malware manufacturer (nothing very clever, just primitive deception) and a world's leader in drugs usage. We are deliberately copying, adapting and sometimes creatively enhancing all the possible ponzi schemes, corporate frauds found in US, without trying to mimic anything decent.

So, nothing to see here, yet another punk inspired by the cult books about Ostap Bender.

btw, these cards of Tinkoff Credit Systems was a nice cheating in itself - in a small print there was whopping 35% interest rate, huge fees for cancellation and inability to pay back ahead of schedule.)) So, they worth each other.
Or they win a bunch of stuff on a gameshow, but can't pay for the taxes on the "income".
The bank sends you an agreement that you did not ask for. Why would it be different for the customer to send back a signed contract the bank did not ask for?

Customers are always cautioned to read the fine print. I would not know why this would not be valid advice for banks (or any other business) as well.
God says...

C:\TAD\Text\QUIX.TXT

bravest that I have,
All trimmed with gold galloon.

O for to be the happy fair
Thy mighty arms enfold,
Or even sit beside thy bed
And scratch thy dusty poll!

I rave,--to favours such as these
Unworthy to aspire;
Thy feet to tickle were enough
For one so mean as I.

What caps, what slippers silver-laced,
Would I on thee bestow!
What damask breeches make for thee;
What fine long holland cloaks!

And I would give thee pearls that should
As big as oak-galls show;
So match
I think you have the gist of it. The cliche is that it's easier to great a government program than to kill it.

Further, there have been numerous prior attempts to rein in people like Poindexter and Hayden. The champions of the surveillance state have been remarkably tenacious.
There was a bit on NPR a few months ago about someone who inherited some artwork from a parent who died. There was an extremely valuable piece of art which was made from some something like elephant tusk or something that is banned now, but wasn't when the art was created, and so now it is illegal to sell the piece.

The IRS wanted to be paid for the value of the piece, but the people who inherited it were trying to argue that since they're not allowed to sell it it has no value. And I don't think they could just afford out of pocket whatever the IRS was claiming was owed.
Looks like a post-production quick fix for some smaller hardware problem. Perhaps even one applied in the store, since this is a Canadian quarter in a Montreal-bought MBP and the linked video shows an American quarter in an US-bought MBP.
agree completely but my point is two fold. first unless they were willing to pay the asking price, why would you do it. second you're better off having your opponents start as far back as possible unless they again make it worthwhile
Perhaps, then, you should rather just say that "when you have children, each additional hobby you want to indulge in will cost roughly $1mm/yr in opportunity costs. In order to Have The Time, you must first figure out how to make that much money."
If it is a profitable/good idea - surely someone out there would buy it from you for some small amount of money. Or is the monthly income not worth someone buying?

Wouldn't everyone win in that case?
And a later and lesser thinker said (according to article):

"Trust but verify" - Ronald Reagan
I brought up gay rights to support my other point that today's conservatives have read a lot in to Reagan that was never there.

I suppose his, or any President's expressed views on the drug war would be much more influenced by public opinion while holding office than as an ex-President. It was after leaving office that George Shultz became the first prominent Republican to call for drug legalization. People's opinions are slowly changing and there is overwhelming evidence that the drug war is failing and inimical to so many other values that conservatives (especially libertarian-leaning conservatives, which Reagan arguably was) There's certainly a big contradiction between where we have gotten to now and a man who promised to "get government off our backs" -- isn't there?

But, as I said, it's a little silly to speculate and thinking about his positions over the years I can't come up with any major changes, so you have a point. I know what I would like to see, though.
The major point is that you can less trust your hosting provider now when you're aware that there are practices where the provider becomes an order which affects even all the clients and that he is obliged to never say to anybody about it, and also that the interpretation of the 4th Amendment was secretly changed so that the meaning of "unreasonable" is redefined, the meaning of "search" is redefined... It is earth-shaking all together, and it should be.
Which organizations do you trust?
> To me, it's a step below invoking the Illuminati,

Ignoring or rationalizing the abuses of government while invoking the Illuminati is no way to go through life, son.
Ask HN: What web technologies should I learn before entering the field?
I haven't done web development in 5+ years and am anticipating re-entering the field shortly. This could mean writing any web site from e-commerce, to basic company landing pages, to a complex javascript/html5 app, etc.<p>I assume I'll need to know jQuery for client side stuff, and I've heard Node.js is really useful. But what other frameworks are gaining traction today that are worth knowing? It seems like there are so many frameworks, each with different advantages/disadvantages that I have a hard time figuring out where to start!
In docker's defense, it does much more than simply wrap lxc. It also handles logging, port allocation, container versioning, building containers from source code, data persistence, etc. Shipyard will have to re-implement all this (and probably already has, at least partially), and we're definitely not talking about 50 lines.

Not that there anything wrong with that. Docker is quite recent, so it was probably very unstable when shipyard was started, if it was usable at all.

And frankly, even if it weren't: "let he who is without NiH cast the first stone" :)
Why you should use json over pickle for object serialization in python
Some of configuration setting has been removed or burried deep in about:config. Now I can not find TLS 1.0 checkbox, because I am hoping this release support TLS 1.1 and 1.2. But, there is no sign of this support.

Beside that, I love FF. Thank you for this release and everything.
Hands down, the best HN browsing app I've ever used. I really don't see the need to go native either. Its pretty responsive on iOS when I add it to the home screen. Great work!
>The fat in the milk minimizes the impact of the sugar in the milk when it hits your body.

You guys, this sounds like some pretty hard science.

Also, the study mentioned about children and skim milk was a longitudinal study, and in the conclusion the authors recognized that it is likely that parents give their children lower fat milk because they're obese, not the other way around.

Edit: Also, the list of "disguised corn" is hilariously misguided. Those are predominantly highly refined compounds that are produced from corn (except for some like lecithin, which mostly comes from soybeans, but I digress), and there the resemblance to corn ends. Saying propylene glycol is "disguised corn" is like saying that paper is "disguised sunlight".

Is the author trying to convince us that corn contains some kind of pig-fattening essence, and that essence is somehow passed to any product derived from it?
I've worked at BMW, Mercedes, and Hyundai dealerships. BMWs are just straight up nicer to drive than Hyundais. People who work at dealerships bounce around from lot to lot pretty casually, and the people who love cars do their best to bounce onto lots that have good cars. Salesmen are out to make money either way, but if you go to a BMW lot, you're much more likely to find a guy who has earned a place at a high end dealership because he likes the cars. So he's not JUST going to be after your wallet.
Really great interview. Its good to know thoughts of Slashdot founder. I think hacker news is perfect the way it is.
The current trend in the web industry is obviously ruby on rails and node.js. You may stick with both these and also client side technologies as well.But the basic thing you want to keep in mind that, "right tool for the right job" is the key.If you want to do some serious web applications, you may go with ror and node.js.Node is really handy and it is getting some respect as well.

Good luck :)
"And then it will hit you. You spent 150k on an education you could have gotten for $1.50 in late fees at the public library" - Good Will Hunting
What you're saying is true for Hacker News, at least until now, but have you seen the discussions taking place on YouTube? Every time I end up reading comments on YouTube, I lose a little faith in humanity.
node.js is a server framework. You should consider learning foundation and bootstrap. If you just want to go for jobs then php is the way to go otherwise you should consider learning python or ruby for web development as there are a lot of jobs for it in the field as well.
I very much doubt Paine would be in favor of what's passing for government at the moment.
Vendors using Estimote beacons will use the SDK to make entirely independent apps available in the App Store.

Only the specific apps that you choose to install will be able to communicate with particular beacons, so if one starts to annoy you with spammy behaviour you can easily remove it from your phone and forget about it.
I think it only works if you have an Nvidia video card. I don't have one =/ I'd also rather spend $300 on a video card.
I remember the Beach Boys kerfuffle. It resulted in the best letter to the editor (you know, printed in an actual newspaper) that I ever read. It was one sentence:

As a sex-crazed, commie drug-fiend I resent Secretary Watt's implication that I listen to the Beach Boys.