skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general, it depends on where in the world they are, and in general (if we're framing this in terms of the same women for whom a hackathon might be accessible), they are driven by characteristic/ psychological factors (Sexually Transmitted Diseases:Volume 26(2)February 1999).

That's also pretty demeaning to women whose choices deserve to be respected, rather than pitied ("poor, silly women!").
TDIL, thanks!
Exactly - the denominator is missing. But still a cool little project.
That is a sexy parser generator you got there. Pity it seems to be limited to use in a Clojure environment.
I will expand on that comment. DC is a mess because its municipal government is very much restricted, and the final say is in the hands of Congress.

If you think lobbying is the problem, check out the license plate: Taxation without Representation. This is an ironic snipe at the state of affairs for the district. [0] I encourage to read, as those in DC know damn well it is Congress stonewalling on many issues. The Congress still has the right, even after 1973, to overrule decisions made by the municipal government, which did not exist prior to that date! [1]

So, thank your elected officials. When people complain about their misfeasance, ineptitude, and inability to run just about anything, DC is a prime example of how they are incapable to run a city, even by delegation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_voting_ri...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_dc#Government
I think that's not the only way to look at things. Death may be a "bad" thing, but its a natural event that, for the most part, happens on a regular cycle. The fact that these posts get up voted so much isn't an indicator of morbidity, but a sign of how much the community appreciated a person's accomplishments.

Why should Show HN posts dominate this list? By their very nature, things shown in their alpha or beta state should have a select, limited base of fans..they are at the starting point, with no full accomplishments at that point.

By when someone dies, the fact that they merit a news post, and then an HN submission, signifies that they had accomplished very much in life...the up votes are well-deserved and come out of genuine appreciation as much as remorse.

The most up voted obituary posts should be up voted the most, as they, by their nature, are about the most accomplished of our peers, idols, and mentors.
Looks really fun! Expensive, for sure. But I like that he was able to measure the effects in terms of noise reduction, signal power, and error correction. This is the sort of thing that is normally a "I have a buddy who swears swapping out this part for another makes it faster" kind of endeavor. Sure, in theory there should be an improvement, but you never get to actually detect it. It's awesome that he's able to measure the increases, though I'm sure the design team responsible for the devices felt those increases weren't substantial enough to warrant going all out on component costs (edit: though according to his buddy at Cox the increases were "dramatic").
> Not only did he lose his $197,000 house, but he also was stripped of the equity because tax lien purchasers are entitled to everything, trumping even mortgage companies.

That's not "obscuring this simple fact", that's stating clearly and unambiguously that your "fact" isn't true. The person you initially responded to was creating an example, based on how liens usually work. The reason the profit margins are so high in this case is that it doesn't work that way.
The number of "terrorists" -- or at least persons of interest -- could be much, much smaller. The NSA would ask for most of the people the person of interest had ever emailed or phoned, and everyone they ever emailed or phoned. I don't feel up to doing the math, but clearly a quite small number of actual suspects could easily explode to 47K.
interesting never seen http://www.snptz.com/ before, did it work pretty good?
So do I. At least I will be, any minute now.
They are implicit, though, as the copy about small sample sizes is paired with a photo of a nervous child.
To answer the questions around source and weighting etc:

1: I'm using https://www.hnsearch.com/api, which the page itself seems to indicate is used by HN for certain views.

2: The url is http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?prett...
The API won't let you fetch more than 1000 results in total (using limit and start in tandem).

3: I'm fairly certain the API is fairly new because I never came across any results older than 2010 while fiddling with it.
As such the couple of suggestions of weighting by active users might not return the desired balanced result.

4: I'm fetching the results at one go (all 1000) from the API through a cron the runs once every 48 hours.
i agree and am also a big believer in the notion that your product usually needs to be 10x better to displace the competition. however, sometimes there is benefit in not being a "domain" expert. naivety can drive an entrepreneur to do what industry insiders have been conditioned to believe is impossible. while young entrepreneurs are inexperienced, their age also works to their advantage in certain situations.
It would be great to have data available in "card format" so that information could be aggregated by users, other apps, or websites as they saw fit. Maybe as an alternative to "mobile" versions of websites, for example. I've toyed around with some ideas here: http://ghn.cloudapp.net - you can right-click to flip, or swipe left/right on each "card" if you are on a touch device.
I would add that Project Euler (www.projecteuler.net) is a fun place to practice.

To your point, many of the best solutions are done in Haskell. They make it seem so easy!
It has Henry Kissinger in it... jesus.
Arctic ice melted, cooling the oceans. This was modeled and expected. Stop reducing 'global warming' to a catchphrase, its a complex system and its crashing.
We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
There really is no comparison between the number of products and divisions Microsoft has compared to Google or Apple. For goodness sakes, Microsoft Studios probably has more video games that it developed than Google has products.

Put another way, Microsoft makes alternatives for all the products that both Google and Apple combined make plus a gaming division and enterprise software.
I'm guessing no senator called them "moral pygmies" for giving in to those requests.
I guess that is quite expected. I for one, do no care about LightTable or Meteor and haven't used either yet. So I probably wouldn't bother looking into such a link when it comes on HN. But on the other hand, a loss of a person important to tech community is something that probably affects everyone equally regardless of their technology preferences.

I would only expect this pattern to remain this way.
I was so impressed with OMeta when I read about it the first time that I decided to write my own implementation for Python. I got a first version released[1] but I sort of ran out of steam before I could take it any further. Luckily, there's another OMeta-based parser library for Python called Parsley which seems to be better-maintained (it's already hit v1.0!)

[1]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-omega

[2]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Parsley
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Front-end because my work is immediately visible.
We wanted flying cars. Instead we got cards.
It's remarkable how sensitive these things are. I had to do some really gnarly stuff to deal with some voltage backfeeding into my modem from a PoE on a wireless AP. It helped a lot but ultimately I had to get a tech out (Charter in SoCal). The guy installed what he referred to as a spider, which was a hand-made mess of filters and grounding adapters on the coax.

Google "high upstream power level" and there are bazillions of people suffering from this problem with all kinds of different solutions.

I'm in VA now with Cox instead of Charter, but dealing with a very similar modem and now, very similar problems. I'm gonna order another one (fairly cheap online) and see if I can do some of these modifications to improve performance and upstream power levels.

That or i'll cave-in and switch to Fios.
That'd be an interesting exercise.
Here's the fetched dump: Might be quicker to use:
http://lab.varun.io/hn_all_time_top_links/top.json
I reckon $1-2 per month is way too low if they already have paying users at the $5 per month rate. ...but perhaps they could offer discounted pricing of say $4 per user if it was paid annually ($48/user/year instead of $5/user/month).
None really anymore.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography#Current_...
http://www.xanthir.com/document/document.php?id=6e54a9d38b4a...
First world countries have near or below replacement birth rates. So help the rest of the world develop to that level of wealth.
Thank you - you saved me having to bust out an ad-hoc web scraper. :)
The writing is horribly obfuscated. What it means to say is that the original bill was $134. Presumably he received dozens of notices and warnings that it needed to be paid, before it was sold as a lien.

The lien holder would then have sent notices and warnings that the debt needed to be paid. Eventually after no response, it filed foreclosure proceedings in the court (at some significant cost). At that point, the son decided to pay the original tax bill, however the holder of the lien presumably wanted its legal costs paid before it would surrender the lien.

What happened next was very unjust. But would make more sense if the article was clear on the timeline of events.
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I would have voted front end but then I remembered that I intentionally avoid any work that needs to support old browsers because they are so much of a pain in the ass. So in the end I would say it's a mix of both. Front end is fun because I actually get to build what user will use and back end is fun because I get to make the plans or extensive stuff that will decide how efficient the code is and how much flexible / future proof it can be. OP can you add an option of "both".
Apparently she was on twitter @ https://twitter.com/kkjordan/status/376792617553362944
Depends on how they do it . Dual_EC_DRBG is a secure random number generator if no one can solve the discrete log problem on a large curve. That's true w/ or without the NSA backdoor, since the NSA backdoor is just cheating and generated the curve with a known discrete log.

This, of course, doesn't make the backdoor a good idea, and back door or not, if someone does get the discrete log for the Dual_EC_DRBG constants, you are screwed.
Still waiting for DOCSIS 3.1 to bring Cable up to speed.
"The Dennis Ritchie of this generation was just born."
Front-end work. The advent of great frameworks and environments, such as LiveReload and grunt, has made JS programming a lot more fun.

edit: And to add to that...browser fragmentation is still a PITA, but not nearly as bad as when I was in college and IE6 was dominant. I originally got into programming years ago because I wanted to design games, but it's only been recently that I've had a hankering to look back into it. The awesomeness at Ludum Dare has been an inspiration and I'm kind of excited at the thought of building something quirky and fun that, for the majority of people, can be experienced just as easily as any web page. What you lose in pure power and features, you gain in more universal accessibility. I even bought a book on ImpactJS the other week just to try it out...which yes, means I'll have to fork over $99 for ImpactJS, but well worth it if the programming is fruitful
I implemented jwz's algorithm for my now defunct email client (http://betterinbox.com)

It was fun and worked extremely well, though it did give different results than gmail on some instances.
Backend because my work is immediately deployable; I can add a feature on a server and use it straight away, no waiting for graphics elements or UX approval.
DNI James Clapper has issued an official statement: http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/60712026846/statement-b... or http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/191-pre...

He manages to twist it into a matter of defense against terrorism:

> Our collection of information regarding terrorist financing saves lives. Since 9/11, the Intelligence Community has found success in disrupting terror networks by following their money as it moves around the globe. International criminal organizations, proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, illicit arms dealers, or nations that attempt to avoid international sanctions can also be targeted in an effort to aid America’s and our allies’ interests.

> As we have said previously, the United States collects foreign intelligence - just as many other governments do - to enhance the security of our citizens and protect our interests and those of our allies around the world. The intelligence Community’s efforts to understand economic systems and policies and monitor anomalous economic activities is critical to providing policy makers with the information they need to make informed decisions that are in the best interest of our national security.
This. Steve Jobs dying is a bigger event that effects more people on HN than just about any Show HN ever will.
Also of note there: claims that NSA does routine MITM attacks on SSL/TLS. The relevant programs are "Hush Puppy" and "Flying Pig", mentioned around the middle of the article; the description is a little garbled (I suspect translation artifacts), but the basics are clear enough.
Props to the illustrator who came up with the graphic at the top... a broken window... brilliant!
I feel like GUIs these days cater too much to novice users. Obviously the old-school terminal/no-graphics style is pretty dated, but I have yet to see a nicely integrated solution with the advantages of GUIs and the power of the cli.
Meanwhile, economic development leads to dropping birth rates. The entire first world is below replacement birth rate. So it's not a Malthusian catastrophe, it's just a question of increasing yields and developing the rest of the world into a higher standard of living before we run out of runway.
No, he doesn't, because under Swedish law he can't be indicted until he's confronted by prosecutors.
In addition to some of the other issues people have noted, it's mysterious that someone would think the prisoner's dilemma is a "master lesson" in political strategy. Probably more interesting and relevant would be a more complicated example explaining why both strong and weak political players are rewarded by voting in coalitions.

(I didn't watch the video)
"The NSA actually called the program and said that none of their spying was used to give unfair advantages to American companies but they wouldn't comment further."

Nobody goes to the NSA and submits an RFP for insider information. Such information flows through informal, undocumented channels, e.g. an agent moonlighting at a bank or speaking freely to a friend.

Given (a) the value of the information and (b) the level of integration between information industries and the NSA, I think it improbable that this information hasn't leaked. Presuming the prior, it would be expected to dis-proportionately benefit firms who are closer to the leaky source, i.e. U.S. firms, a benefit which increases proportional to how quickly said information goes "stale". One may argue that Brasilian firms similarly benefit by being closer to the ultimate source, the Brasilian government. But that, in turn, is similar to the old Deutsch logic that bribes paid to foreign governments should be tax deductible to German firms - it's fighting fire with fire.
For what it's worth, I submitted this link to HN a month ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6187176
Did the NSA secretly make a major math breakthrough?
Linus: ...documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire...
I don't see your point. If you don't want to do something, then don't do it.

My point was you'd be free to create your own reality, limited only by your imagination.
Welcome to the wooooorld of tomorrowww.
18th most popular HN story ever... w00t :)
Backend. It tends to be easier to read, write, understand, test, debug, deploy and operate.

For one thing I find far fewer places where I am dealing with abstraction leaks caused by sticky-taping together the vestigial organs of a document format interpreted in wildly conflicting ways.
< "I think there is a large opportunity to impress the market by shaving off the amount of time to find quality devs and firms". >

Elance could make it easier to find top providers if search results could be sorted by skills test results.

For whatever reason they choose not enable that feature.
Did you really think there were parades and celebrations held?

For comparison, in the United States there are secular holidays for a variety of positions such as Administrative Assistants Day, Boss's Day, SysAdmin Day, etc...
RedBeacon did not have a massive exit.
You can find lots of great looking ones here: http://www.reddit.com/r/glitch_art
3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo
For what it's worth, Balsa (http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/) implements this as a threading option.

Edit: pointed to correct URL
Well your reality might conflict with other people's, so you're not 100% free.
> I find context-free lexing to be a serious limitation on parsing.

What is this supposed to mean? Context-free and context-sensitive are well-defined terms in formal language theory, but OP seems to be using them in a non-standard way.

In any case, when we talk about lexers it's normally understood we're parsing a regular language, which is simpler than parsing general context-free languages (let alone context-sensitive) [1]. If you're doing something that cannot be expressed with a plain regular expression, then it's probably not lexing in the first place.

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Maybe I'm dense, but I can't see this would be problematic. If OP said what did he try, and why it didn't work, it would be nice.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
Maybe a 2011 in the title? Some of the stuff in the table is out-of-date. For example, oDesk no longer sends 1099s.
I dunno...I think Exchange and Office (outlook) work OK together, but that is probably the exception that proves the rule.
I think a much better solution would be to not charge per user, and to make it tiered. This is the type of thing that could be useful to teams of different sizes, but it doesn't add more value for more users really. Paying $25 a month for 5 users seems ok. Paying $100 a month for 20 users seems absurd.

Just do 3 tiers for like 1-5, 5-20, > 20 users on the order of $19, $29, $49 or something.
Apparently, there is a subreddit for everything.

(Actually, now I remember there was a subreddit for pictures of dead children. I don't know if it's still up.)

edit: oh yeah, it's still up.

http://www.reddit.com/r/PicsOfDeadKids
Will people ever tire of writing articles about whether the web is dying? This Google search for "is the web dying" gives 34800 hits:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22is%20the%20we...
It leaves the specifier of the parameters free to pick ones subject to arbitrary non-disclosed criteria, subject to the limitation that criteria happen frequently enough relative to how many times he can afford to run SHA1.

E.g. If he can afford to run SHA1 2^32 times as part of preparing a curve, he can pick curves that have non-disclosed strengthening or weakening factors which tend to be found at random 1:2^32 times or more often.

Basically it shows that the parameters are random subject to a computationally bounded attacker. But the bound is unrealistic: They're only random if the attacker tries only once. As the attacker tries multiple times, he gains selection over the parameters proportional to his effort.

E.g. he could pick curves that have twists with particular structure, or which are have pairings to extension fields which he could solve the discrete log problem in. (This is only mostly speculative: Certainly there are weak curves which occur with this frequency, the procedure itself directly excludes one type: supersingular curves. If we didn't know that the DLP problem was trivial over super-singular curves then this exact procedure could have selected for them or excluded them without revealing that the selecting party was doing anything non-public.)

This wouldn't be alarming to me except for how trivial it would be to provide a higher level of assurance in exactly the same framework: Start with an initial sleeve provably specified after the framework with no control over it, and increment it one at a time and take the first set of parameters that pass. Failing that, a very low entropy set of parameters (like starting at zero and incrementing) would produce good evidence that the parameter selecting party wasn't selecting based on hidden characteristics.

I note that the brainpool curves (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5639) come much closer what I'd expected had been done here.
Here, take this: http://www.murata.com/products/catalog/pdf/c39e.pdf
Clearly some price point is too high. Why do you think the current pricing is below that threshold?
A Journalist-Agitator Facing Prison Over a Link
Could you extend JTAG to provide verifiable hardware?

I'm thinking of something like Vernor Vinge's "trusted computing" stuff in his SF book _Rainbows End_, where a flipflip took 20K gates to implement. You spend a lot of circuitry on attestation.

It's probably a circular problem (who will attest to the attestors? etc.), probably devolving into digital signatures of chip layers and stuff, taken before installing CPUs an peripherals... :-/
Both. I write small business custom databases, previously in Access (Office) Basic and now in Django.

I enjoy both UI design as well as database/business logic design.
Anyone else expect this article to incorporate Go (language) into his transition?
I certainly grant that things are not perfect here.

Regarding your particular questions, in May 2003, 79% of Americans thought the Iraq war was justified, so the majority clearly didn't oppose it. Most now believe it was a mistake. Only 41% of citizens agree with the president's plan to close Guantanamo. A majority of Americans think the TSA is doing a good job. I think the majority of Americans are wrong on all of these things, but they are undeniably popular opinions.

I, personally, am not being robbed. I am also not being tricked into obedience. Your insistence to the contrary, entirely ignorant of my actual situation, is arrogant foolishness. I've lived on four continents, and I'm quite happy with what I have here.

Could it be better? Sure. Is it at risk from powerful interests? Definitely, especially at the federal level. But I also see many causes for hope.
Spam scanning can be thought of a continuous stream without a given email assigned to a user whereas contextual scanning for the purpose of advertisement necessarily ties emails to you.

Maybe it's just a semantic difference but I would argue that that is a sufficiently big differentiator.